Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-29
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Interesting Items Boiled Down for the

Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
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 The body of Frank Ward, a Scotch man, about 30 years of age, was found about 6:30 yesterday morning in Middle town by William Welch, track walk CT, on the Valley road, lying in ditch near the old silver mine creek. l Diphtheria has become epidemic in New Hartford The schools are closed, but new cases of the disease develop every day Anthony McMahon of Pine Meadow has lost all of his three children, the oldest one dying yester- day.
 During the heavy thunder storms in | Norwich last evening lightning struck the frame barn owned by Israel Cha put at Taftville and burned it to the ground. A horse, three cows, eleven tons of hay and several wagons and harness were destroyed.
 Joseph Cline of Hartford, a brake man employed by the Consolidated railroad, was struck by the bridge in Berlin yesterday afternoon. His nose was broken and he received a number of bruises He was brought to the Hartford hospital in the ambulance. 1 The first Yale man to go to China | in connection with the new Yale mis- sion in that country, J. Lawrence Thurston, '99, was given farewell re- Eception at a. meeting of the directors | of the mission yesterday afternoon. MT Thurston will be accompanied by his wife and will leave for China to- day.
 l An incendiary fire early yesterday morning burned the ell and gutted the rest of the house owned by 0. F. Phaln, on the Haddam road in MiddletoWn. Mrs. Phain and their child escaped i'll i their night clothes. They were aWak. ened by the cat The cat slept in the l hallway and when the fire broke out | jumped into the bedroom and scratched Mrs Phain on the fAce.
 Floyd Andrews, the young son of MT and Mrs George Andrews of East | Hartford, was shot and badly wound ed by Frank Brainard, young son of | MT and Mrs, Samuel N Brainard of l Burnside avenue. Saturday afternoon. The weapon used was 22-caliber rifle, owned by Lacy Cobb, a colored boy, and it is the old story of didn't know l it was loaded"
 Peter Saunders, CT years old, a col ored barber of New Haven, was struck 1 by a north bound train at Gregory street, on the tracks of tLa Northamp- 1 ton division of the Consolidated rail- road, at II o'clock yesterday morning. 1 He was taken to the New Haven hos pital, where it was found he had suf- | fered several broken ribs, besides in- l ternal injuries, from which he died. Patrick Crotty, employed by Sargent & Go at New Haven, was probably fa- | tally injured at the factory Saturday afternoon. While working on an ele- vator the man became caught between | the elevator and the floor and his back was. broken. He was immediately taken to the hospital, where it was said that he could not live. Crotty is about 30 years of age and leaves a wife and several children.
 Coroner Mix has filed his finding in the inquest into the death of HaSold Bailey of Meriden, who died Wednes- day from a rifle bullet wound received at the hands of George Kane, a com panion on August 30. Coroner Mix finds that the death of Bailey was due l to the criminal negligence of Kane, and he is now charged with manslaughter. | Kane is IT and Bailey was 12 It is alleged that Kane fired at Bailey ill re sponse to criticism on his skill as a | marksman.
 Mortimer Avery of Newtown, 20 years old, was accidentally shot by his l brother-in-laW Eugene Miller, Satur- day. The wounds are serious, but are not believed to be fatal. The men were l on Miller's farm, both carrying guns. Miller shot squirrel and Avery started | forward to pick it up when the gun was accidentally discharged. The buk l let entered Avery's heart. Miller was mortified at the accident and picking up the boy. carried him over a mile to 1 the house. where Dr Gordon dressed | the wounds.
 William 1. Toetser, aged 2S. of Sound each, died yesterday afternoon as a re- suit of an attempt to drive a bad horse 1 and the refusal of friends to move him to the hospital after the injury. Toet- ser was watching a veterinary subdu- ing horse suffering with distemper He asked permission to drive the horse. He had been driving but few minutes when the horse plunged l through a plate glass window. throw ing him heavily to the pavement, caus- ing concussion of the brain A doctor was summoned and he advised that Toetser be sent to the hospital to be operated upon. The doctor returned in about an hour and found that Aas ai- vice had been disregarded and the nfan mad been taken home. 1t was then too late to perform an operation and Toet- l ser died short time later
 
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