Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-07
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The truck team owned by Henry Kinne of South Glastonbury, loaded with two tons of feldspar. broke through the ice at Rocky Hill yester- day morning and both horses were drowned.
 About fifty moulders of the Landers. Frary &s Clark Go at New Britain went out yesterday over wage difference with the company. 1t is said that the company proposed to cut down the wage scale small amount or else drop five of the men.
 Alice Friday, IT years old, employed as domestic by Frank W. Fuller of Torrington, was found dead in the kitchen yesterday. Medical Examiner Hanchett was called and decided that the girl was taken with cOnvulsions, to which she was subject, and that death was the result.
 John Tracy, who shot his wife on the morning of November 1T, 1903, as she was leaving a church in New nayen. was yesterday acquitted of the charge of assault with intent to murder, and was sent to the state hospital for the insane at Middletown for ten years by Judge shumway, at whose request jury had acquitted the prisoner.
 Two fires within a half hour called out every steamer in Bridgeport last night. At s:23 o'clock Frank Miller's lumber yard was found to be on fire The shaving room was ablaze, but after two hours of hard work it was extinguished. The loss has not been determined. At S:53 o'clock fire was discovered in the building occupied by the filling Rubber Go on Main street. fr a icft nn and spread rapidly. Damages to the building amount to about $2,0O0.
 The New Haven board Of United States steamboat inspectors are inVes- tigating the sinking of the steamer Erastus Corning of the Starin line, of Norwalk harbor, on the morning of De cember 24 All the officers of the steamer who were on duty at the time have been summoned for examination. From the report of the Corning's Ofti- cers to her owners, it appears that the cause of the sinking of the steamer was not due to striking on Copps Rocks. as was at first understood, but to striking a hidden obstruction sup posed to be sunken wreck.
 A shortage of oysters. with conse- quent rise in price, is threatened as ! result of the cold weather, owing to the thick coating of ice covering the beds in New Haven and at other points on Long Island Sound. Dealers say 1t has been impossible for steam dredges to reach the beds, and that almost the entire stock of oysters held by whole salers and growers will soon be ex- hausted. The openers in many shops have been laid off indefinitely. New Haven growers estimate that the loss to them through failure to i'll con tracts by reason of the ice blockade will reach $10,OO0.
 Newell Goodwin of Blmwood was found dead in a windmill near his house late Tuesday night Death was caused by heart disease by which he was attacked while at work repairing a water pump. He went to the build ing earlier in the evening and when he did not return members of his house hold became anxious. A search was made and the body was found partly frozen on the floor of the windmill, Medical Examiner Mcknight was called and decided that heart disease was the cause of death. MT Goodwin was years old and was treasurer of the Goodwin Bros Pottery Co.