Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-27
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Interesting Items Boiled Down for the
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BeneGt of Cur Busy Readers.
 Sunday is to be big day for the Polish people of New Britain. The cornerstone of their new church is to be laid by Bishop TieTney.
 Wesleyan university this year will have the largest freshman class n It's history. Registrations were held on Thursday. It is expected that there will be nearly 150 in the class.
 Edward l.. Smith of Hartford, who was held up and robbed by tramps after he had a stroke of paralysis while fishing in the Connecticut river, is at St Francis hospital in a serious con dition. 1t is not thought that he will recover.
 The Derby authorities were notified yesterday afternoon that Mrs K. ID. El- vington was held up in the East Derby cut about noon yesterday by a man who pointed revolver at her and or dered her to stop. Instead she ran and escaped.
 The Connecticut Asbestos company is being organized to mine asbestos in Nepaug, New Hartford, from the de- posit found on the farm of H. c. Butt Ter a few months ago. The promoters are +. B. Skiff of Hartford, o. E. Gil lett of Winsted, and H. IT. Eggleston of Pleasant Valley.
 William McCarthy of Hartford will said to-day from New York for Ger many, where he will commence his clerical studies at the seminary at Ich- stadt. William Regan of Kensington will accompany him for the same pur- pose. Both young men graduated from St Thomas's seminary, Hartford, last June.
 Mrs Mary Alexander of Derby, aged '7S, was found dead in the woods, half mile from her home in Huntington, yesterday afternoon by her son-in-law, Alexander Marshall. Mrs Alexander disappeared from home Wednesday af- ternoon.i The medical examiner said that death was caused by exhaustion and exposure. lseICe OCT ufeiasitia yi Walter SmalIing, the Norwallx youth, who was handed over to the Connecti- cut authorities Wednesday by the New Jersey police officials to answer to a charge of burglary, rroke jail in Dari- en and made good his escape. He pried open the cell lock with broom handle and got out of a window. Smalling is about 22 years old.
 The Y. M. c. A. of Middletown has passed two very important amend ments to the constitution. The first does away with the words, Protestant Evangelical and now any member of any church, Protestant or Catholic, can join. This cuts the Middletown asso- citation off from utilization with the other associations in the state. The second amendment provides that not more than one-quarter of the board of directors shall belong to any one church.
 Andrew Clancy, one of the men em- ployed by the Berlin Construction Go. at the Coe Brass works in Ansonia, says he was held up Thursday night, by four men, who tried to do him llp because he did not quit work We'd nesday. Clancy, who lives near Da- yid's Meadow, in the eastern part of the town, says he was on his way home and had reached the corner of Central and Factory streets, when he was met by the four men. After up- braiding him for going to work on the job, Clancy says the men tried to
 do him up and an interesting time was the result He defended himself as we'll as he could, and escaped with scratch or two on the face.