Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-10
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 Interesting Items Boiled Down for the Benefit of Our Busy Readers.
 The twenty eighth annual convention
 of the Woman's Christian Temperance
 union will be in session at Trinity Methodist church. New Britain. next Tuesday afternoon and evening, all day Wednesday and Thursday morning. The Ideal Machine Go, which waa established in Hartford three years ago, and has been doing good busi-
 ness on Asylum street, is to locate iu Portland. Work of preparing the ma
 chinery for shipment from Hartford has already begun.
 Henry Decker, aged 47 years, q brother of John Decker who was ar rested while lettering around the White House at Washington few days ago. died at his home in Norwich yesterday Of brain trouble Decker was na- chinist by occupation and leaves a
 wife.
 The comptroller has awarded to Stephen Maslen of Hartford the con- tract for furnishing a new statue of Ceres to replace the one now on the dome of the Capitol and which has been found to be defective. The fig ure, which will be about nine feet high. will be an exact counterpart of the present one.
 "The Jersey Lily" after being bat tered and torn all day yesterday in Hartford by attachments and other financial levers and chills, hoated away last evening to New York on the steamer Hartford At least the greater part of 1t did. A few rnenn- bers of the company took an afternoon train for the metropolis.
 It has been decided by the no-license voters in Winsted not to contest the recent vote This is because the an- nulling of the vote would leave the town still under a license vote as 1t has been during the last year. The lol license leaders still claim there Is q grave irregularity and that all attenpt- ed explanations do not satisfy the facts that nine ballots are unaccounted for License was voted by only D.
 Charles H. Fairchield, aged 27 years, was found dead in bed yesterday at the home of his father with bullet wound in the breastiand revolver clenched tightly in his right hand. Fairchild was a molder and until three months ago was employed in Port Chester. N. Y. At that time he left work and entered sanitarium suffer ing with mental trouble. A short time ago he was discharged, as 1t was be- lieved that he was completely cured.
 It is expected that a purchase will be made shortly by the state of land in Westviile for the location of state rife range. The property where the state range has been located for a num- bera of years was held under a lease, but the owners did not desire to rer new the lease after this year. The proposed site for the new range IS about half mile further north than the present range and near the base of West rock. When the range is laid out it will be equipped with targets at POO, 800 and 1000 yards distances.
 As a Montowese farmer was driving into New Haven yesterday with two horse team, one of the span died of old age on State street, near the Cedar Hill station But the farmer sized up the remaining steed as capable of mn ishing the trip alone, and unharnessing the dead one and leaving 1t where 1t fell. he logged unconcernedly on. The dead horse lay in the street all morn ing. Az the farmer evidently had no silIy sentimental ideas about giving 1t an honorable burial, the Grand avenue police notified Fair Haven blue fac tory The ruthless farmers identity is unknown.
 Loss of money and property by req. son of incendiary fires is believed to have mentally unbalanced the mind of Cephas Roberts. an aged and eccentric citizen of Winsted. Yesterday appli- cation was made in the probate court to have a conservator placed over the old man and at the same time an appli- cation was made praying that he be sent to the insane asylum at Middle town. Last night MT Roberts was In inc custody of Chief Wheeler because it was feared that he would commit suicide if an opportunity presented itself. Last Wednesday Mrs Roberts left her home under police protection. having claimed that her husband would kill her and himself also.
 Deer are creating havoc in J. IT. Hale's orchards in Glastonbury and it is reported from another part of the town that two deer have been killed recently. Two I.eer, doe and last years fawn have taken up a residence in the east part of the town in the neighborhood of Chestnut hill. where MT Hale has a lot Of young apple trees growing. Awhile ago it became evi- dent that some animal was eating the tops of the trees. which were set out only this year, and the blame was laid on cattle But within few days men working in MT Hale's orchards have seen two deer ca1snly walk into the