Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-17
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 There are three more cases of small pox in New Britain. The victims are MT and Mrs Edward Hennessey and their two-y -years-old son. MT and Mrs Hennessey live at 80 Grove street and 1t was with them that Timothy Sham nahan, who was taken down with the disease three weeks ago, lived.
 Harvey Lindsley, a freight conduc- tor, was accidentally killed shortly be- fore s6 o'clock near New Haven last night at Cedar Hill station. Linds- ley was doing duty for the first time as a conductor He stepped across the track to secure orders from the dis patcher and as he passed back of his own train he was struck and instantly killed by a west bound Shore line ax- press.
 About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the skeleton of a man was found in a vacant lot near the center of the town of Torrfngton by Louis Moss, school boy. Dr w sL. Platt examined the bones and said they were of man about 35 years old. The bones were thoroughly bleached and looked as though they had been dumped on the ground. There was no evidence of any injury or fracture to any of the bones. As Medical Examiner IT. S. Hanchett was out,of town, Selectman James A, Carpenter ordered the bona~ removed to an undertaler's.
 Lena Mellilo, 17-years-old Italian girl, who works in the Bristol Manu- facturing Co.'S factory on Riverside avenue in Bristol, was arrested yester-. day noon in Hartford. on complaint of her father, who said she had stolen $26O in cash from him early in the day. Chief Arms of Bristol telephoned the Hartford police to look out for the girl and gave them a description of her. She was in the station soon after the message was received and Policeman Steele had no difficulty in capturing her. When taken into custody she had just bought a ticket for Boston. Chief Arms came to Hartford and took Miss Mellilo back to Bristol.
 As result of eating apples which had been poisoned with paris green to kill rats, two children of MT and Mrs James Weldon of Bridgeport are dead and three others are critically i'll. The children while playing last Friday in an. un0ccupied house found the apples and ate them. All were taken III at the same time. A physician who was called said they had scarlet fever, as there is an epidemic of that disease in the southern part of the town One of the children died Saturday night. Then two other doctors were called in and they recognized the symptoms as those of poisoning. Another child died yesterday morning.
 During general fight late yesterday afternoon in the yards of the New Ha- ven Gas Light Go. in which several la borers engaged, Patrick Coffee, a young man, was struck in the head with q length of gas pipe which the police say was wielded Uy Michael Terrible. Both men were shovelers at the coke bins. A number of Italian .1aborers were on a platform and some of the men below, one of whom was Coffee, amused themselves by throwing pieces of coke at the men above. A fight fol- lowed, with the result that Coffee was struck in the head, his skull fractured and other injuries inflicted. Hc died on Iue WdV CO Lue uOSplLhl. ItTriD1i8 fled from the scene, but was tripped up by passerby block from the gas works and captured by Policeman Lon ergan.
 The industrial problem confronting the state has been further complicated by strike of the men employed in the Hebrew bakeshops of Hartford. Eight men are involved, three having worked in the shop of Jacob Bronowein, at the corner of Village and Pleasant streets, three in that of Nathan Katz, at No 127 North street, and two in the shop of Nathan Baggesh, at No 211 Front street. The men form union of their own and are not affiliated with any other labor organization. They were employed under contract which was supposed to be binding until next May, The trouble arose over the hours Of work. the men desiring the work day to begin at p. m. -and to end at 4 a. m., while the bosses wanted the hours from I D. m. to 1 q. m., the Hebrew bakers being obliged to work two hours longer than their gentle neigh .bors, as the bread of the orthodox rises snore slowly N v