Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-12
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the Benefit Of Our Bnsy Readers.
 Mrs Algernon Morse of New Haven took dose of laudapum in mistake for some other medicine yesterday morning and died last night.
 Mrs. Emeline Enc Bassett of New Britain observed yesterday the 9Stl anniversary of her birth. She was able to be up and around the house and received relatives and friends.
 The American DeForest Wireless Telegraph Co of Hartford expects to have a station in operation by Febru- ary and give Hartford people all op- portunity to send aerograms to cities where there are stations
 The infant son of Mrs Hannah L. Chase. born in the state prison two weeks ago, was taken away from the institution Saturday by his grand
 mother, Mrs c. M. Hull of Beckett, Mass.
 Henry Wheaton, while driving to his home in Putnam, was struck and killed by an express train Saturdapa night. He was a son of Edgar Wheat on, president of the Wheaton LumBer and Board Go, and was graduate Of the Pratt institute.
 John Fritz of Stonington, z years old, was accidentally shot and killed yesterday morning by his brother, AL bert, aged 12, as the boys were on their way to hunt ducks. The elder brother says he stumbled and that the gun was discharged, killing John in stantly.
 The rays of the sun passing through window at Old Saybrook yesterday and striking q glass globe containing goldfish, were focused upon a porti- ere in the house occupied by the fam l fly of W. s. Lewis with such effect as to set fire to the drapertes and en- danger the building.
 For nearly month the city Of Mid Edletown has been suffering from a scarlet fever epidemic. The public schools have been closed, libraries 1 have discontinued operations, Sunday schools have shut their doors, and quarantine signs have cropped mp ike mushrooms in a night. A ludicrous discussion has arisen during the cpl demic as to the proper place for the quarantine card. The disease appear ed iIl a doctors family. and the card was put on the back door for the sole benefit of the butcher boy. A profes- sor's children were taken sick with the disease and his back door was likewisS adorned with q quarantine card. IF scarlet fever appeared in the family of the non-professional classes the lit tie white card was sure to make it's appearance on the front door. This matter became noiSed abroad until one woman became so indignant that she tore the quaratine sign from her front door and destroyed 1t as soon as the health officer had driven away.
 The Hartford aImshouse hospital now contains a human sermon, npus ually strcng of the horrors of Slavery to drug habit. No man ever looked weaker, more enaciated, more nearer dead without being in his coffin, than does this man, who fifteen years ago was one of the strongest men in the country. ! So strong was he that for three years he was one of the chief ar- fractions with Forepaugh's circus He could lift hundreds of pounds eaRiIy. and even with his teeth he could lift a barrel containing 300 pounds of wa ter with two men on 1t, Now he has to be helped into and out of bed. Wil- liam Mcdonnell is the victim of al- most every sort of drug. Anything 10 deadem his nerves he uses with ayid- ity and, in great quantity. He took morphine in hypodermic injections and through the stomach and cocaine as snuff. The latter drug had affect- ed the membranes of the nostrils, de stroying them partially. For ten years Mcdonnell has seen scarcely an hour with his natural senses. Eight or ten grains of morphine is said to have been his usual daily consump- tion.