Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-16
NUTMEG GRATINGS.
nteresti ng Items Boiled Down For
the BENEFIT of our Busy Readers.

The comptroller paid yesterday
$47.73 to Beacon Falls and $177.05 to
Cromwell for high school transporta-
tion.
The reunion of the Fourteenth regi-
ment g. ", will be held September
II at New Britain, and not at Meriden
as has been announced.
Alfred Alderman, who has been an
instructor in the Yale School Of For
estry, has been appointed forester for
the state of Massachusetts by Cover
nor Bates of that state and will begin
his duties on August /.
At yesterdays session of the reun-
ion of the Blue and the Gray, held in
the Hall of Congresses at st Louis, an
address was made by Major e. r.
Lowell of Middletown, Conn.
John O'Hara of Salisbury, while
blowing on Tuesday, took refuge from
an approaching thunder shower under
large tree. Lightning struck the
tree. killed one Of the pair of horses
and shocked Mr. O'Hara so that one of
his arms was paralyzed. A hired man
who was with him was slightly
burned.
The home of Mrs w B. Fasig,
whose husband a few years before
his death was secretary Of the Char
ter Oak Park association. was burned
early yesterday morning and Annie
O'Brien, % years Old a housemaid,
was burned to death. The house was
about one and half miles south of
the village of Brewster.
The summer meeting of the Connec-
tfcut Editorial association will be held
at Lake Pocotopaug, East Hampton,
Monday, July %. DINNER will be
served at the Lake View house at
o'clock. e. s. Ella of the Manchester
Herald will entertain the members at
his cabin on an island in the lake.
Henry B. Miller. the crank who has
threatened Mayor Henney Of Hartford,
was taken to the almshouse yesterday
from the police station where he was
locked up on Thursday night He is
being kept in cell in the insane ward
there. The board of charities will try
to find where Miller's legal residence
is in order that Hartford will not have
to bear the expense of his care after
he Is placed in some institution.
George Brereton of No 8 Baldwin
steret, New Haven, has written a let
ter to Governor Chamberlain enclos-
ing an account of the gallant rescue
by Miss Leila Darlington at Madison
Beach on July 6 of nursemaid from
drowning. The governor has turned
the matter over to Secretary Miller of
the Connecticut Humane society, that
the society may determine whether
Miss Miller is entitled to recognition.
Coroner Mix will conduct an inves-
tigat1on of the shooting of Morris
O'Connell, 4 years old, who died last
night in the New Haven hospital. The
boy was a son of Mr. and Mrs Daniel
O'Connell of No 256 James street. He
was playing In a yard in the rear OF
his home on May II when he fell to
the ground unconscious. His mother
ran to pick him up and found him
bleeding from a wound on the head
When examined by physicians at the
hospital, 1T was discovered that his
skull had been pierced by bullet.
After twice being postponed on ac.
count Of sickness, first of the bride
groom and then of the bride, the mar
riage Of Miss Marion Irene Brady OF
New York city and William Tierney,
New York. formerly of Hartford,
nephew of Bishop Tierney, was per-
| formed Thursday morning by the
| bishop. The wedding was held In
Holy Rosary church, New York. Bish-
op Tierney was assisted by Rev Dr.
Wall, pastor of the church. The orig.
| inal date of themarriage was June 10
but two days before then Mr. Tierney
fell i'll and was taken to the Willard
Parker hospital. When he had recov-
cred a new date was set, but post.
ponement was again necessitated by
Miss Bradys illness.
All traces of the recent epidemic OF
diphtheria at the Middlesex county
temporary home for children are
about gone. The children who went
through the sickness are rapidly re-
covering health and strength and Su,
perintendent Towle is congratulatine
| himself upon the fact that he has not
only stamped out the disease but has
discovered the cause. He was Ger.
tain that it was the drainage that
made the trouble and he had been at
the institution only a few days when
an offensive smell that constantly
came into the building whenever the
wind was blowing from the west
started him hunting for the origin
| He followed the main sewer and a
| few hundred feet away from the
| building close to the track of the Con
necticut Valley road he found the
drainage from the house had flowed
into a natural basin and formed a
pool Of putrid matter at least ten feet
deep.