Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-28
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 The large boarding house on North Main street, East Hartford, owned by the Wilbur J. King estate, was nearly burned to the ground early this morn | ing. The fire was discovered about o'clock by Robert E. s. Olmstead, who lives opposite, and the fire had made great headway when he saw the | flames.
 Two more cases of smallpox devel- oped Saturday in the Grove street house, New Britain, where the news boy, Coffey, was taken ill about two weeks ago. The victims are Mrs Johnson and her young daughter. Both were removed to the temporary hospital.
 l Several days ago the arnaory at Put nam was broken into and various parts of ten uniforms taken. a number of caps, two rifles, and several other articles. The thieves gained an Ien-- trance through window on the east door of the quartermaster's room with a jimmy.
 About TOO members of the Hibernian rifles from this state and 800 of the Irish volunteers of Greater New York had field day at Avon park, Bridge port yesterday. There was a batta1- ion drill, sham battle, and dress pa- rade and later the members of the two organizations had dinner. The Volun- |. teers returned to New York last night. 1 There was short strike Saturday among the stone cutters employed in re-building St Mary's Roman Catholic church, New Britain. William O'NeilI of Hartford is the contractor and his l stone cutters insisted that they should 1 have more laborers to aid them in handling the heavy stones. The de- mands were granted after the men had l been out half an hour
 With the best half ~of the .sun1hner l season gone, it must be admitted that the hotels have had a very bad time and even if August and September prove warm, there will be no chance to make profit as so many are then bound for the mountains and other places than shore resorts. The season at Watch Hill and Block Island has been very bad indeed
 William J. Bryan left Bridgeport late yesterday afternoon on board a yacht owned by Lewis Nixon of New 1 York, whose guest he will be for the next two days The yacht will put into New Haven harbor tonight and will cruise to the eastward through Long Island sound today. It is expect. ed that on Tuesday MT Bryan will land at Block Island, where he will rest for several days.
 I Rev1C. H. Hands Q Baptist minister of Andover, was arrested on a civil afsuit at Andover on Friday. The shit r was brought at the instigation of the Congregational society of Andover and the papers a1Iege that on May 9 Mir Hands, then of South Windsor. contracted with the society for the pur- chase of farm owned by the society, took possession of the place and occu- Ipied it for about six weeks, but re- fused to carry out the contract and pay for the farm.
 Edwin Hills, well known rnanufac- turer of PlamYille. has lost diamond ring valued at $500 When retiring for the night a few days ago he put the ring in the pocket of the vest of the
 summer variety. The next day Mr
 Hills did not wear the garment and for
 got about the ring. A servant sent the
 vest to New Britain laundryman to
 be done up. When Mir Hills looked for
 his ring a few hours later. he could
 not find it and concluded it had gone
 to the laundry. He inquired at the laundry about it and was told nothing
 had been seen of the piece of jewelry.
 Donald Dawson. the two year old son of MT and Mrs James Dawson of Thompsonville. was killed about noon
 Saturday on South River street by a heavy ice wagon owned by P. A. Crom-
 bic and driven by Michael Sullivan.
 Donald and his brother were walking down the hill near the hand car house
 when he saw a piece of ice that had fallen from the wagon, lying in the road. He started to get the ice just
 as the ice wagon was coming down the
 hill. MT Sullivan saw the child and
 attemDted to stop the horse but his
 feet slipped from the footboard struck
 the horse ana the animal started , quickly forward, knocking the child
 down.
 Thomas Early, 31 years of age a ], motorman on the Fair Haven & West 7 vile railroad, died at the New Haven
 hospital last night. Early became
 violently insane about two weeks ago
 while under treatment at the hospital l and escaped from the attendants and ? ran about the streets in his night 2 clothes, creating a disturbance. Early : had been Respondent over the deatI Iof his wife which occurred year ago } The strike of the po1ishers at the l Emanufactory of Sargent & Go. New Haven, has assumed the phase of. $ fight to the end. Propositions anC counter propositions have been made {, {, by both sides and no agreement has | been arrived at. Saturday mornins : the firm issued an ultimatum that af , ter Tuesday the places left by the !, strikers would be filled by the first ap.