Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-09
NUTMEG CARVINGS


 Benefit Of Our Busy Readers.
 The Grand lodge of the colored Ma sons of Connecticut is holding it's an- nual convention in Meriden.
 The 600 or more operatives of the Wauregan mills were notified yester- day that the mills would be shut down on Friday for two weeks because of a shortage of cotton. The Quinebaug will also be shut down.
 The three men who were arrested in Bristol the day Of the great parade by New Haven detectives, and whose eases were adjourned a week under a cash bond of $10 in each case, did not put in an appearance yesterday and the bonds were declared forfeited.
 Cornelius Donovan, IT years old, of Sound Beach, was bound over to the superior court on a charge of mayhem. He and James Sullivan, 30 years old. of Reading, became involved in quar- rel Saturday night and it is alleged that Burns chewed off Sullivan's left ear.
 George w. Taylor, one of Danbury' s prominent citizens, died suddenly yes terday afternoon about 4 o'clock. He was talking with friends in the office of his warehouse when he dropped to the floor unconscious and death fol- lowed in a few minutes. Heart disease was the cause
 The tobacco and farming committee of the state commission on exhibits at the St Louis worlds fair will hold ,a conference, to-day in the commissions office in the Capitol. They will meet T. K. Bruner, superintendent of the special agricultural exhibits at the ex- position, who will discuss with the committees Connecticut's exhibits of that kind. .*
 The woman who committed suicide at Beardsley park, Bridgeport week ago was yesterday positively identified as the wife of Cyrus G. Conant, 9 ship broker. of Boston, Mass. MT Conant, who made the Identification, was not inclined to discuss the suicide further than to say that his Wifes nina became impaired last February through grief over the death of child. All the girl shoemakers at l.. Candee & Co.'S rubber works, New Haven, who struck recently against a new schedule that called on them to make sixteen pairs for a set, resumed work yester- day under an agreement to try the new schedule for three days. If they are unable to make that number at wages equivalent to those earned before the new work was introduced, the com pany will make a set number fourteen pairs and will pay the girls for all pairs in excess of fourteen during the three days trial.
 A successful raid was made at Mil ler's Casino at Savin Rock shortly be- fore z o'clock Monday night, when gambling slot machine which was be- ing played by big crowd was confis- | cated. The ostensible owner of the machine John Smith, said to belong in New Haven, paid a fine of S100 and costs of S11 in the West Haven court yesterday morning after pleading gull l ty before Judge Bryant The machine was returned to him on condition that he take it out of the state.
 l Morris Calvin, aged 21, well known young man of New Milford was arrest. l ed at the Wilson house at Lake Wara- maug yesterday charged with theft Of $1OO worth of goods which had been l missed by the guests of the house. He was taken to Washington and as the owners of the property stolen did not wish to appear against him the case was dismissed on payment of the costs of the arrest, about $25, and Calvin sent to his home. He had been em- ployed as assistant at the hotel. Yes terday an overcoat valued at $55 was found in his room and a search of his trunk by an officer resulted in the dis covery of a sweater and large quan- titg of silverware, some chatelainc bags and small jewelry.