Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-11
NUTMEG CRAVINGS.
Interesting Bits of News Boiled Down

Hldn1a yesterday, Inflicted a severe cut ill her throat, and it is feared that she may not live. Mrs Crooke has been Respondent for some days.
 Dwight Russell, prominent Wood bury farmer, died yesterday of blood poisoning, due to a wound received by stepping while harefooted upon a sharp stick of wood which penetrated his foot. He was 55 years old.
 Final vows will be confessed at Mt st Joseph's convent in Hartford next Thursday at 9 o'clock by Sister M. Rosafil, Sister M. Rose Geneyieye, Sis ter M. Ricardia, Sister Maria Monica, sister M. Vincent de Paul, Sister M. Teresa Agnes, Sister Maria Gertrude, sister M. Baptista, Sister M Fredrica Sister NJ, Athanasius.
 Daniel Stahler the station agent and telegraph operator who was said to have disappeared from Saybrook Point, returned last night. It was alleged he was short in accounts with the railroad and telegraph company and was re-
 leved. No action has been taken in the matter as Stahler says he intends to make settlement of all his obligations.
 Principal |. l.. Whipple of the gram mar school of New Britain, instead of taking summer vacation, is remaining i'll the city coaching several pupils who failed to make the high school at the recent examinations. This resulted yesterday in causing some little excite ment. Added to this was the state. ment that Principal Whipple was open ly edfying the health authorities and conducting summer school in the Bur ritt school.
 A young man named John Clark met with a bad aeident at Myrtle and Railroad avenues, Bridgeport, yester- day afternoon through his own care lessness. He deliberately jumped from the railroad track to the hard ground beneath and struck with such force that the left leg sustained com pound fracture. The bone protruded from the ankle. and there is a. possi- lbility that he may lose the foot by amputation.
 Thomas Quinn of Marlboro was ad- mitted to the Hartford hospital yes- terday morning with his right leg broken. Wednesday night he dreamed that burglars were in his room, jumped out of bed and then fell out of a sec. ond story window before he awoke. He found that his leg had been broken
 and doctor advised him to go to the hospital for treatment. Quinn is 25 years old and unmarried.
 Governor Odell of New York gave a hearing this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock on the application by the Con- neetieut authorities of the arrest and extradition of Mrs Frank Jennison for Kidnapping her child, which had been in the custody of her husband. the two having separated. Mrs .Tennison is the wife of wealthy Wall street Droker. and the motion for a warrant is but a continuation of the efforts on her hus- bands part to secure possession of the daughter, whose name is Alice,
 The son of Edward Hadden, jr, of Kelsey street, New Britain, who was taken by his father to the isolation hospital, is q boy eight years old. His father concluded yesterday the child had smallpox. Without notifying the authorities he took his son by the hand and walked to the institution. Leaving him there he returned home. The peaele along the route are very in- dignant and the authorities have quar- antined his house The child has varioloid and it is the secoid case to break out in the family.
 A powerful combined sixty-mile system of street railways that will di- reetly connect Worcester and Norwich including the Worcester & Webster, Webster & Dudley. Worcester & Con- necticut Eastern, Peoples TramWay and Danielson and Norwich lines. is soon to be organized and the title of the great combination will be the Wor- cester x Connecticut Eastern Railway company. controlled by the Sanderson- Porter company of New York. Another railroad will be built extending be- tween Danielson and Norwich q dis tance of twenty miles.
 Because his aged mother would not give him 9 cents, James Ellison att tempted violence at their home, corner of Spruce and Oak streets, South Man chester, on Tuesday evening. Mrs Ellison sent for Officer Thomas, who found the house barricaded. There is but one entrance to the house, and this was the back door, which Ellison had nailed and secured on the inside. The officer forced his way in, but not until fiat irons, dust pans, etc, had been hurled at him from the window by Ellison,
 There was a runoF started yester- day that Frank Ruff. who killed him. self in the jail at Hartford on Wednes- day, was a member of the so-called suicide, club of Meriden. The police take no stock in this, but instead say that Ruff was undoubtedly planning an even greater crime when he was ar rested It appears that he had made several attempts to kill his wife and that she was in constant fear of him. The last attempt was made shortly be- fore he was arrested, when he chased Mrs Ruff about the house trying to n4u her with a large butcher knife.
 An early Sunday morning car has been decided on by the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Go officials which will leave the barn on Stratford avenue at 6:30. Walnut Beach at 6:50, and Milford shortly after z o'clock, going as far as Chapel street, Wood mont, when the return trip will be made at 7:35 a. m.. and Milford at 8 a. m. This is done largely that cot tagers at the various shore resorts may have chance 10 attend the ear ly morning mass at St Mary's Catho- lie church. If well patronized the car will be run during the remaindpr