Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-21
NUTMEG CARVINGS.
Interesting Bits of News Boiled Down
 for the Benefit of Busy Readers.

Interesting Bits of News Boiled DoWn
 for the Benefit of Busy Readers.
 Papers were filed in the superior court Saturday in suit brought by Charles Skeeles, 70 years old, of West Haven, against his wife, Emily l.. Sackett SkeeIes, aged 40, for the an1ul- ment of marriage and reconveyancc of property, alleging breach of ante-nupi- tai contract.
 Joseph F. Brown, mechanic, aged 3S, was found dead in bed at his home, No 63 Foote street, New Haven, yes terday. The medical examiner decid- ed that death was due to carbolic acid taken with suicidal intent. Brown had been Respondent over the death of his wife several years ago.
 Receivers John M Hall and George B. Stiles of the Dime Savings bank of W1iiimantic appeared before Judge Shunway in the superior court at Putnam Saturday, and obtained an or der for a final dividend of 13 1-3 per cent, payable on or before October 10. This will make a total payment to depositors of 6S 1-3 per cent.
 John, Breen, son of Mir and Mrs Da- vid Breen, of Linden street, South Manchester, a brakeman on the High land division freight train, No 163, local between East Hartford and Put nam, was instantly killed Saturday af- ternoon at what is called the east switch, about a quarter of q mile east of the Hop River station. Breen was seated on car with another brakeman and fell off.
 There is something doing in animal life at Woodmont much of the time. On Wednesday Mrs Daisy Foote Of Burwelrs Beach saw a good sized black snake in the brush at the road side, and she was so terror stricken by it that although the snake ran away as fast as 1t could the woman went into mysteries. and 1t is said that she did not come out of them for near ly two hours.
 Joseph Roach and Edward Haden- helm were sent to jail Saturday and Asher Levy and Albert Ledena were paroled in the custody of officers on Q charge of violating the internal rev. enue laws ill not filing a bond or se- curing a certificate from the internal revenue department granting them the right to peddle cigars in New Haven. They had been peddling cigars madc by New York concern.
 There was a very peculiar spectacle at II o'clock Thursday evening in Nor walk when, with the moon shining | brightly and nearly all the stars out and scarcely a cloud to be seen, there I was most violent thunder storm. The lightning was incessant and vivid and the thunder long and loud. All of this time the moon shone clearly. After the thunder storm had passed a big black cloud could be seen Tn the east
 Lottie Wakeman, the 9-years-old | daughter of Charles B. Wakeman, efn- | ployed at the Winchester Repeating Arms company, New Haven, was sto- ] len from the home of her grandparents at No S9 Henry street yesterday fore noon by her mother, Mrs Frank F. l Porter, who came here from West l Mystic for the purpose. Mrs Porter l was divorced from Wakeman. the cou- I pie having been separated for about five years.
 There were startling developments in the West Haven Christian Science case Saturday. Clarence Northrop and his wife, Alice Northrop, the par ents of little Gladys Adele Northrop, who died last Tuesday, were arrested on the charge of manslaughter. Hu- bert R. Allen of New Haven went bail I for them to the extent of $2,000, the amount being set by Prosecuting Att torney Charles K. Bush, who issued the warrants.
 Keepers of shore resorts and several Il IIa <yfy p surprise yesterday when Samuel P.
 Thrasher. secretary of the Law and Order league and five other agents of the league paid visit to three of the best known places. They raided the South end resort kept by John Smith. 1 John Bartlett's hotel in Mansfield Grove and the Momauguin of which | James Poole Is the lessee, and took al! quantity of liquor and beer from each place.
 The decomposed remains of child | were found on the shore at Thomp-
 sons Point, Milford, yesterday. Med-
 icaI Examiner Heady believes that the
 body had been in the water at least
 three weeks. Apparently the child
 was about one year old. Decomposi-
 lion had progressed so far that the
 face of the child showed no outline of
 features and several portions of the
 body were missing. The medical ex-
 aminer ordered the remains to be bur-
 jed near the spot where it was washed
 ashore.
 A woman entered one of the An
 sonia dry goods stores Saturday after noon, with a little girl, around whose waist was attached chain, the other
 end of which the woman held ill her
 hand. The woman, who lives in the
 lower end of the city, explained to the
 proprietor that the girl was her daugh- ter and had come home the day be fore with five chatelaine purses, which she said she had procured at the store in question. The goods were identi
 fled as belonging to the firm and as the clerks were positive that they had not sold them to the girl, they were taker fsno oly