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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
WILL FIGHT THE CASE
Miss Nellie Northrop Suing Trolley
Company for 5000.

Company Tor S0,UOU.
The Connecticut Railway and Light
ing company intends fighting the case
brought against them by Miss Nellie
Northrop for injuries she claims to
have received in a collision on North
Willow street last summer. Miss
Northrop claimed $4,000 through her
counsel, Judge Peasley. She alleged
very severe injuries. nervous prostra-
ton. inability to speak, temporary par
alysis, all resulting from the collision.
Counsel for the company CLAIM to have
made investigations and that they
have found Miss Northrop was always
of an extremely nervous and emotional
temperament, that she is and has not
been sicker since the collision than be
fore, and they further claim to have
received from herself statement re-
garding her physical condition as it
was prior to and after the collision,
and in consequence of this they have
offered to settle the case for as much
as it would cost them to bring their
witnesses together. Miss. Northrop's
counsel has refused this offer, so that
the case will be fought out in court
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
MINERS WE'LL PAID.
Answer of Independent Operators Il
Mitchell.

Answer OF Independent operators 70
Mitchell.
SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 13.-The an
swer of the Independent operators OF
the Lackawanna and wyoming region
to the statement of President Mitchell
of the mine workers has been made
public.
In response to the demand for an in
crease in wages they say that the
present wages are such as to enable the
diligent and skillful miner to earn more
per hour than any class of labor, skilled
or unskilled, in the towns in which
the mines are located and amply suf-
ficient to allow him not only to main
tain an American standard of living
and educate his children, but to lay
aside something for his old age. That
some miners wages are small, 1t is
stated, is because they choose to ex-
ercise their option to work only few
hours day.
In answering the contention that
mining is extremely dangerous and un-
healthy and tends to shorten life the
operators set forth a petition recently
circulated in the interests of candi-
date for mine inspector, which con-
tanned the names of ninety-fve employ
ees of one mine, sixty-six of whom had
worked in the mine for twenty years
or more and twenty for forty years or
more and five for fifty years or more.
The demand for the weighing of coal
and payment by the legal ton Of 2,240
pounds instead of by the fictitious ton
of 2.750 or 5000 pounds is charac-
terized as a thinly disguised effort to
secure 40 per cent increase in wages.
The answer asserts that 2, $50 pounds
of coal as it comes from the mine is
barely sufficient to produce 2.240
pound ton of prepared coal.
Regarding the declaration Of the min
ers that labor unions improve the
morals and discipline of their members
this comment is made: '"This may be
true when applied to some organiza-
tons. but when applied to the miners
union we enter most emphatic de-
NAL and propose to introduce evidence
showing that prior to the advent Of the
United Mine Workers of America it
was considered bad form to kill or
MAIN a citizen who attempted to ex-
ercise his constitutional right to sell
his labor and that the vast number of
brutal murders and beatings during the
past five months show that the teach
ing of the United Mine Workers of
America has brought about such moral
obIiquity that its members believed
themselves justified in these acts; also
that officers of the union justified this
course by furnishing bail and counsel
for those who have been guilty of these
atrocious acts. We believe we will be
able to prove such tremendous losses
of life and money as the direct results
of the methods of this particular I'M
ion as to convince your honorable COM
mission that it is inexpedient to do any
act which may contribute to its con-
tinued existence" :. ~
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
Dared to Fight a nneI,

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 13.-Colonel Moses
G. Wetmore, the millionaire, former to-
bacco magnate, member of the execu-
tive committee and bosom friend OF
William J. Bryan, Senator George Ora
ham Vest, Senator James X. Jones and
Ex-Governor William J. Stone, has been
challenged to duel. Peter Arlund of
Louisville, KY, dares him to test of
skill: with swords, knives, guns or pis-
tolls on next Sunday night. Arlund all
legss as his reason that the colonel had
followed Mrs. Arlund to her room a
few nights before and insulted her dur
ing the absence from town of her hus-
band.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
Mascagni Complains to rome.

ROME, Nov. 13.-According to the
Tribuna, Italy purposes to make an in
ternational matter of the arrest in Bos-
ton of Mascagni. The Tribuna says:
..Mascagni has telegraphed Premier
Zanardelli, requesting the Intervention
of the Italian government to protect
him from the vexatious treatment of
which he says he has been a victim in
America. Signor Zanardelli replied to
the musician, assuring him of the inter-
est taken in his case by the govern
ment and informing him that he would
request Signor Prinetti, minister Of for
eign affairs, to take up the matter. ST.
gnor Prinetti Immediately took up Mas
cagni's case''
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
NUTMEG GRATINGS

James Nugent, who was accidentally
shot by his brother-in-laW, James
LangWorthy, Sunday afternoon, at
Wequetequock near Norwich, while
returning home, from cunning trip,
died Monday afternoon.
Herbert Pye, an employe at the Hill
lard wooden mills at Manchester, was
very badly injured at the mill late
yesterday afternoon. Pye was found
about 5 o'clock by fellow Workmen
unconscious and bleeding from wounds
about the face and head.
The West Lane school at Kensing
ton is closed this week on account of
scarlet fever. A child of James Hill,
brothel3of William HILL who is engi-
neer at the American Paper Co.'S fac
tory, is ill with the disease and a Sec
3ond child has a mild attack.
Robert Carney, 43 years old, EN-
ployed by the National Steel and Wire
corporation at New Haven, slipped his
arm between the blades of shears
used for cutting steel bars early yes
terday morning and his arm was near
~ cut off, The bone was cut in two
and the wrist and hand hung by a
strip of flesh.
Theodore, the 2-years-old son Of Mr.
and Mrs J. w. Rogers of Midd1etoWn,
was badly burned yesterday morning
by carbolic acid. The little fellow
was at play on the floor and he got
hold Of bottle Of the acid. Child
like, he tasted the stuff. His screams
attracted the attention of his mother,
who had just stepped into another
room, and she did what she could for
him at once. His mouth, face and
hands were burned. DR. McDougall
was called He does not think that
the little one swallowed much of the
acid, but the child was last night in a
critical condition.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
INCIDENTS OF Il TROY WEDDING
Students Draw Bride and Groom From
Church to Brides Home.

Church to Brides Home.
Troy, Nov 13.-Half hundred stu
dents. members of the senior class at
the Rensselaer, Polytechnic institute.
drawing through the streets a gaIy-
bedeeked carriage containing the prin-
cipals in the most fashionable wedding
OF the year, formed a striking specta-
Gle here yesterday afternoon. The
occupants OF the carriage were Palmer
Chamberlain Ricketts,, president and
director of the institute, and Miss
Viera Conine Renshaw, daughter of
Mrs William Renshaw of Baltimore.
Nd who were married at st Johns
church at noon in the presence of a
large and fashionable assemblage. in
cluded in which were the students of
the institute
At the close Of the ceremony the
students passed out. and as the bride
and groom entered their carriage the
seniors detached the horses and one Of
the students, jumping upon the box,
threw out about 200 yards of satin rib
bon, red and white, the colors of the
institute. The ribbons were seized
by the seniors, who drew the carriage
from the church to the residence Of
the brides brother, Alfred H Rem
shaw, several blocks distant, where q
reception was held. The lower class
men fell in behind the carriage and
marched to the house.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
ST pArR1oK,s PARISH FAIR.
a Fine Stage Program Has Been Ar
ranged for Tonight.


ranged for Tonight.
The best crowd yet was present at
st Patrick's parish fair in the Lyceum
last night and enjoyed the second per-
Torrance Of the ladies' minstrels. The
minstrels scored even a greater hit
than on their first appearance last
week. A number worthy of special
mention was the singing of little
Esther Quigley. About seventy five
suppers were served last night and
Everybody was pleased with the bill
of fare 1t was the best paying crowd
of the fair. Don't forget to visit the
dining hall tonight and have some of
the extras.
A fine stage program has been ar
ranged for tonight. 1t will be under
the direction, of Miss Sadie Cronan and
will be as follows: Singing by sex
tet, consisting of the Misses Della Lar
kin, Katherine Luddy, Laura Drayer,
Mamie Lang, Howard Lang, Harold
Blakesley, Raymond Cronan and Carl
Gilmartin; duet, with musical BELLS
Regina Donahue, Mabel Collins; tenor
solo. Master Blakely.
The entertainments furnished durgl
ing the fair have been very fine and
have been pleasing to the audiences
each night. Much praise is due to
Mother Gertrude of the Sisters of st
Joseph, who had personal supervision
of the entertainments presented on
several nights during the fair.
All returns of books. money and
tickets for st Patrick's fair must be
In by tomorrow evening at 7:3O.
The following people did the st Pat
rick's fair last night or the night be-
fore: Michael Casey. Charles street;
George Gibson, North Main street; w.
J. Spain. South Main street; DIR Dwyer.
South Main street: Christopher Cow
ley. Charles street; Thomas Quinn, AL
der street.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
Wagner Home Dentrnrea.

FORT PLAIN, N. z, Nov. 1s.-
What was commonly known as the
Wagner homestead In the town Of Pal
atine, opposite this village, has been
destroyed by fire. The house was erect
ed by George Wagner, soldier of the
Revolution, and 1t was owned and oc-
cupied at the time of the fire by
Chauncey Wagner, eighty-two years
old, a grandson of the builder and
cousin of the late Senator Webster
Wagner.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
The REID & HUGHES DRY GOODS co
Telephone 41O.
Special Offering in Thanksgiving
Linens

We Import All Our Own Linens. We save the Job
bers Middlemans profit Therefore values must be
better than any other house in the city offer you Before
purchasing your Thanksgiving Linens this year look through
stock Our stock consists of Scotch and Irish Linen
Table Damask, Napkins, Towels, etc.
Extra heavy all linen silver bIeached half bIeached and
full bleached Table Damask, Price 46c per yard
Extra heavy full width beached and half bleached.
Price ooc per yard
Our regular 81 per yard Beached DamaSk full " inches
WIDE extra heavy and full, Il Special Doc per yard
We are showing full line of Bleached Table Damask
Cloths in all sizes. These are priced very low
Tray Cloths, 18x27, all linen, hemstitched.
Extra value. zoe each
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
sentenced to Life imprisonment.

WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. 13.-Carl
Torno of Webster, who In July killed
his eldest son, Rudolph, in dispute
over the boys wages, has retracted his
plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to
murder in the second degree The plea
was accepted by District Attorney
lockwood Hoar and by Judges Hardy
and Watt. and Torno was sentenced to
life Imprisonment. The trial consumed
but three days
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
FOR SALE.
WILLIAM J. SCTILEGEL,

foe this and other bargains in Water
pury real estate. in the Lewis building,
No 65 Bank street.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13
VaDtS-FOr Sale 70 Rent

r OST-A small sum OF money on North Main
- street or in the Center. The finder Will
please return to this office. 1t
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13

EOR RENT-O half double house. No. 9
Union street; 9 rooms. ALI modern i'm
provements. Large yard. In frst-class con-
1l-11-6
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13

In Suits and Overcoats
in all the latest styles and
cuts, if you cannot be
fitted at any other place.
come to see us and we
will convince you that
this is the place where
the best mechanics in
their line are employed
and where everything is
as our firm name and
T z Terms imply.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13

DOR RENT-Four-room flat, 165 South Main
street. All modern improvements In
first-class condition. Apply J. o. Howe, 34
Mitchell avenue. 11-ll-6
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13

"ANTED-By manufacturing house rel1a-
BILE person to travel calling on retail
merchants and agents. Local territory. Po-
Sition permanent. Business successful and
rushing. Salary 81, 024 year and all expenses.
Previous experience unnecessary. Address
Standard House, Caxton Bldg. Chicago. 9-l3-tf
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-13

w perienced New York mill1ner will trim or
remodel ladies' hats. 63 Center street, suite
55 top l1-11-3
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15
rHr TOAD IN FOLKLORE.

No animal could be more unlike swan than a toad yet the latter also has a prominent place in folk lore. Per haps such honor is primarily due to the very ugliness of the creature, just as it has been affirmed that next to per sonal beauty a reverse aspect may ma favor with the fair sex; the main polht being to impress the memory. At any rate, We find the toad distinguished In poular tradition, and that in its most permanent province in local worship and belief. The survival is so strange in itself, and so well fitted to illustrate the primitive character of fairy mythol- ogy, that it may be accorded particu ar attention According to the statements of Dr. G. Pitre, contained in his excel lent account of Sieilian tradition, the faith of that island still recognizes su- pernatural beings known as Dome dl Fuora, Ladies from Abroad, also en- titled Patronesses of the House who have attributes in common with the fairies of England. Like the latter, during the night time they enter houses where they expect to find everything in order; among mortals they have their fayorites and enemies; fortune is con- sidered to result from their kindness, sickness and poverty from their perse- cution. It is peculiar feature of their habits that they visit the domicile not
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15
NOAH WEBSTER BIRTHPLACE'
Quaint Old House is Still Standlhg
 Near West Hartford.

Quaint Old House is Still Standing
 Near West Hartford.
 The old house is still standing one mile south of West Hartford on the Newington road, in which, in 175S, was born Americas greatest leXlcographer'
 His father, 8 descendant m lhe fourth generation from John Wooster, who previous to 1860 was governor or Connecticut, was militia captain m the time of the revolution, and the son. who had already begun his studles which were to fit him for his toll as a linguist abandoned them for a time and served in his fathers company
 The house of the Websters is on the west side of the way, and, "frontlnS sunrise" and the city of Hartford, com mands fine view of the surrounding country. It is shaded by naples and elm tree, which later tree, as the easily believed tradition runs, was planted by Captain Webster when his scholar son was boy.
 The house stands with the side to the street and the front door, in keep ing with the style in vogue of yore, IS onamented with knocker TWO stories high in front, the house mas two large front rooms on the first floor, one on each side of the front entry.
 Tn keeping with the old style, these rooms show the large sheathed beams lower than the plastered ceiling. In the story above two bedrooms cores bonding to the square rooms below.
 The back of the house is but one story high, the roof sloping down unbroker from the ridge A huge chimney in the center of the house affords three fire places, one for each of the front rooms and one for a large room on the west side of the house. This latter was the living room of the Websters, The encyclopaedia says that pr Webster was born in Hartford, whici statement was true, for Hartford once included the territory which is now West Hartford.- Connecticut Farmer
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15

High water to-day, 2:3S a. m.
 Miss Ethel Dunbar of this city, mas been a guest of Miss Ruth Greene Ill North Goshen for several days, In the meantime they visited Torrington' Winsted and Waterbury
 St. Joseph's Ladies' T. A, B, society or westville met in the T. A. B, hall on Fountain street last evening and elect ed officers, committees and sub-commit- tees. who were installed by County Di- rector O'Connell.
 Mr Loveridge, of York street, who Tor years conducted Loveridge's Business college. and who has been very ill at Grace hospital is much improved and was taken back to his home in West Haven Thursday.
 Chairman Cronin, of the democratic town committee, has called meeting of the committee at the Tontine motel next Tuesday evening to name date for the democratic primaries. They will probably be held between March "A and April 5.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15
CREASE AT LAUNCHINGs.
Big Cost of Getting Battleship Into
 the Water


 the Water,
 "The mere act of getting a war yes sel into the water costs a lot of money, time and trouble" said an engineer, speaking of the recent launching of several new torpedo boats. 'l spent a year and a half in the designing room of the Cramps yard, he continued, and happen to know what l am talk ing about Of couse the launching of a little torpedo boat is comparatively easy, and the cost is not over few hundred dollars including flowers and souvenirs and even the bottle of cham pagne used in the christening, But when 1t comes to a big armored cruiser or first-class battleship 1t is a horse of a different color, and the actual eX- pense seldom falls below four or five thousand dollars. I've known it to go as high as eight thousand dollars.
 "The building of the ways for the ship to slide down over is the main item, and then comes the greasing Every inch of timber over which the vessel slides must be covered with a lubricant. Different firms use different SuDSldnCeS, put Sudp anu ldllpN ltl III the main ingredients of them all At the Cramps we used a layer of beef tallow and layer of soft soap, and taken altogether, between one and one and one-half tons of the stuff were re- auired to put q move on the average battleshp. The talloW is spread on first to the depth of about three fingers, and the yyOrkmen use big fiat trOWclS to make the surface as smooth as possible. Then they pour over the soft soap, which is just thick enough to run, or about the consistency of tar.
 As general thing, the double coat ing answers the purpose admirably, and the ship glides into the water as IT it was sailing on air. If 1t SUCKS as has happened in few cases, it is like ly to spring some of it's plates and ac- cidents of that kind are so costly lhat nothing is spared to avert them, New Orleans Times Democrat
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15
BRITISH NAVAL EFFICIENCY.

Rear Admiral Charles Beresford on the
 Shortcomings of the Service
 London, March 14.-In an address to- cay before the London Chamber of Commerce on the lack of administra- tive efficiency in the British organiza- tion for defence, Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford remarked that initial naval resersess similar to the military reverses experienced in South Africa would cause disasters which would be irreparable and eternal in their effect. It was a lack of organization which led to the remount and other scandals. His plan for insuring naval efficiency in cluded the addition to the board of ad- niralty of a naval war lord of the ad- miralty. who would be responsible for placing before parliament the full re- quirements of the navy.
 The government Lord Beresford add ed, ought to purchase coal fields at home and in the colonies. All war ships, useless for fighting purposes or valueless on account of lack of speed, ought to be abolished. The reserves ought to be abolished, and, as early as possible, the whole war fleet should be mobiized to test it's organization and discover it's weak points.
 Instancing the shortage of coal at some of the principal stations, Lord Beresford said he had succeeded, after much obstruction, in finding out how in adequate were the supplies at Gibral- tar and Malta. He represented this state of affairs to his chief but he had to threaten to haul down his flag and publish the whole business in the news papers in order to get the matter rem ndied
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15

on any evening indifferently, but only on Thursday, making their entrance py the keyhoe or by cracks of doors. 1T day surprises them before they leave the cottage, they change into toads ana in this state remain until the toll0Wlhs eve. when they are once more at liberty to resume their proper shape Of beautl- ful women During the interval the toad is sacred because it is impossible to be sure that any particular one may not in reality be the Lady of the House, Legends abound in which are related the reward or punishment consequent upon the good or ill-treatment of Fri day toad: on this day, therefore, the usually unpopular animal is safe from abuse and secure of attention, more especially if it chance to belong to a species possessing a particular arrange ment of the cutcle reminiscent Of lady's head of hair. Any person who occupies himself with folklore becomes accustomed to remarkable survivals: vet it does excite astonishment to find so perfect an illustration of prehistoric thought in central Europe of the 2otb century.-From the international Monthly
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15
 GREEK ODE CHORUS.

The Greek ode chorus will give sec ond rendering of the Greek festival hymn in connection with the eighth or gan recital which will be given by Professor Jepson in Battell chapel next Monday The ode was written by Thomas Dwight Goodell to be given during the bicentennial, but because very few of the undergraduates were present it was decided to give the ode again that they might have the advant- age of another opportunity. Prepara lions have been made under the direc- ton of Professor Jepson. l.. $. Tyler '04 will be the baritone soloist, and w. $. Moyle the tenor.
 The programme for the recital will be az follows:
 Eugene Gignot-Grand Chorus Dia-
 lOgue.
 Caesar Franck Pritre.
 The programme will begin at ?. m.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15

like trunk and bring down few of the giant nuts. You open one end or the cocoanut with your penknife, or DICK d hole in it with a hat-pin II you are woman; lift up the green giooe lo d proper angle and let the cool beverage glide down your throat. At ilrst you will say it is too sweet and that It tastes like condensed milk diluted' pu. you are sure to want more and more oL it, and presently find yourselI ape to dispose of the contents of several cocoa nuts at sitting By that time II you have come here as an invalid you a'e ready to go home completely cureu' or rather you have fallen so deeply ln love with the isles of Eternal summer that you are ready to uproot the nome ties and replant them here
 FANNIE B. WARD.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-15

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