Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-11
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 As John Parsons and Morris Butcher were in Parsons's bicycle repairing shop in Winsted last evening, a twen- ty-two caliber rifle which Parsons was handling was accidentally discharged and the bullet struck Butcher in the stomach, causing a wound that it is feared will result fatally.
 Edmund 0. Milner of Richmond. Va, who had been judge of the superior court in his native state and who had served on the confederate side during the civil war, died in Norwich yester- day-from Bright's disease. He had spent the summer at Intervale, N. H., and had stopped off for treatment
 The two-story house of O. A Hart, a farmer who lives about mile and a half from Pennington on the road to Cherry Park was burned yesterday afternoon. The building was total loss. All the furniture was saved. The fire got good start and all efforts to save the house were without avail. Quite a number who were driving to the races stopped to see the house burn.
 A. U. Elliott of North Grosvenordale was run into by train at Attawaugan crossing yesterday and was instantly killed. He was driving in a top car riage which probably prevented his see ing the train. His horse was killed and his carriage badly smashed. MT Elliott was about 70 years old and had been a successful carriage maker in North Grosvenordale for the last thirty years.
 Miss Bessie Palmer of Shelton has started for 'Constantinople, Turkey, where she will resume her duties as in- structor in the American college in that city. Miss Palmer will avoid Bulgaria on her return trip, sailing from Rou- mania direct. She is accompanied by a party of teachers and tourists, also bound for Turkey, who have been as- sured that the press reports of the con- dition of affairs in Turkey are some what exaggerated.
 While on the way from the Hotel Garde to the County National bank at New Haven Wednesday afternoon, a beIIboy at the hotel lost $150 in bills and checks which he was to deposit in the bank for William Garde, the pro- prietor The boy did not discover his loss until the bank was reached. He then hurriedly retraced his steps, bu. the money was nowhere in sight. There was $7O in bills and two checks. one of $50 and the other $3o-
 During the trial of James McMolton of PhiIadeIphia in the superior court at Bridgeport yesterday for the theft of jewelry in the latter city some weeks ago, States Attorney Fessenden offered in evidence a letter written by the prisoner to Lawrence McCrossin of Philadelphia asking him to secure a dozen saws strong enough to cut through one-inch steel bars and to bringthem there, his intention being to use them to make his way out ot the county jail.
 That the Naugatuck bridge is not improving with age can be plainly seen when a heavy load crosses the 1 structure. Yesterday morning one of the Derby trolley cars crossed the bridge, closely followed by the big ex- press car, and in the road was team 1 with a heavy load of sand. The bridge shook and quivered fearfully 1 while the load was on it. and man | who was walking across E it at the time said that it swayed back and l forth at least 8 foot and he thought every minute the bridge would give way.
 Fifty members of the State Bottlerss Protective association gathered at l Savin Rock yesterday for their annual i meeting According to the report of President T. F. Williams of Ansonia the membership has been greatly in creased during the past year. The president recommended that in view of | the fact that the central exchange, which is located in New Haven, is not serviceable or profitable to all the I members, sub exchanges be formed in Bridgeport, Waterbury, Meriden and I Hartford. The recommendation was l adopted
 T M. F. Freeman and Fred A. Smith, clerks, and George H. Fournier and J. H. South, special delivery boys at the Hartford postoffice, had a narrow .es- cape from drowning in the Connecticut river yesterday morning. They were out in Freeman'S canoe and were drift ing slowly down stream when a squall struck the boat. It did not take long T for the canoe to upset and the four young men were in the water. Free 7 man, South and Fournier swan to } where the water was shallow and : reached the shore. Smith kept hold of the boat until rowboat came along
 
 } and rescued him. ; James Lewis, six years old, was drowned early last evening in the raceway leading to the factory of the , Morgan Silver Plate Go at Winsted
 The boy and several companions of his own age, none of whom could swam were playing or the stone work of the Clifton mill bridge, which spans the raceway. Young Lewis tumbled backward off the bridge into the wa
 ter, which was eight feet deep. As
 soon as possible the water was drawn
 off and Arthur Brim2zseDof Torrington
 who was some distance away when the accident occurred waded the
 stream for three-quarters of an hour searching for the body until he found it