Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-12-01
NUTMEG GRATINGS
News Items Boiled Down for the Ben
eft of Our Busy Readers.

News Items Boiled Down for the Ben
eft of Our Busy Readers.
Cora Floreo, 4 years old, died in
Grace hospital, New Haven, on Satur-
day as the result of burns received
while she was playing in an open lot
with some other children. The chill
dren started a bonfire and while romp-
ing around it Cora's clothing caught
fire. 49,.
The Dayville Wooden Co at Daniel
son has sold the plant at auction for
$62, 100, 500 above the mortgage to
Frank S. Jerome of Norwich, who pro-
poses to reorganize the company and
to run the mill at it's full capacity.
The product of the mill will be sub
stantially the same as it has been,
wooden cloth.
James e. Donnelly and Willis e.
Wiser, the Yale campus cops whose
authority as special constables was
taken away from them by the New
Haven police board on Friday night,
| continue to do campus duty as watch
men, the only change in their position
being that they have now no authority
to make arrests.
AS William r. Stewart, a Yale stu
| dent, was returning to his room in
| Durfee hall Saturday night he met
Charles ?. Geyer coming out with
Stewards overcoat on his arm. Stew
art held him and he was arrested. A
search Of his pockets brought to light
number of articles that had appar-
emily been taken from some other stu
dents room. i
The Berlin Real Estate corporation
has been organized with capital OF
| 81 900 authorized, and OF which $4,000
has been paid in. Its officers are:
| President. r. O. Peck; vice president,
julius e. Woodruff; secretary and
treasurer, A e. Viets. All are resi-
dents of Berlin. The Delohery Hat
| Co has been incorporated to do bust
ness in Danbury. It's authorized cap
ita1 is 100000 III
Acting Governor Keeler has appoint
ed Frederick D. Griffin OF Southington
a railroad policeman, on application of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Co. Walter Atwood, f. A.
Brown, George Fisher, Charles Gull
mette, William Hinchey, Martin Rig
ney, II. L. Shannon, B. J. Streeter and
| W. A. Watson, all Of New London,
have been appointed railroad police
men on the application OF the Central
Vermont railroad.
Three centuries for school children
will probably be granted by the Fair
Haven and Westyille road at their next
meeting of directors on the 18th Of this
month. The question which has SO
long been agitated has at last received
4 such recognition that President Hem
! ingway announces that the matter will
\ be brought up. Plans as to what form
/ the application of the rule shall take
are not yet perfected, but it Is likely
that if the directors vote for the 3-cent
fare that it will be put into effect by
the beginning OF 1908.
i Mary Connors, an Ansonia young
woman, identified the young man who
! was killed on the railroad near the
Merwin Provision Cos plant in West
Haven. as her brother Frank Connors
She tainted when she saw her brothers
body stretched on the bench in West
Haven town hall. The father was
Killed by the cars some time ago The
mother recently died. Miss Connors
said that her brother had been working
on odd jobs about New Haven and
probably had started to walk to An
sonia.
49, OLlO N0llSOH.s driver Tor Andrews
/ & Peck of Hartford, was nearly
drowned in the Connecticut river
about 1870 o'clock yesterday morning.
He usually goes rowing and fishing on
Sunday and has some eel pots III the
river. He took two boys with him
yesterday and attempted to get into
his rowboat at PooIe's dock. AS Neil
son started to step into the boat the
boys pulled it to one side, as they did
not know he was going to make the
attempt at that time The result was
that instead Of stepping into the boat
Nelson stepped into the river end
went down. He is very heavy man
and from the way he fionndered about
in the water 1t was thought he would
4 drown. Joseph Buckley and some
other men were fortunately near at
hand and they threw ropes to Nelson,
who was pulled out by that means.
He went home and changed his
clothes The ducking did not deter
him from trying his luck with the
fish, for after he had dried out he re-
turned to the river and this time he
took more care when he stepped into
the boat