Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-13
NUTMEG GRATINGS.

49, &4S0 MANIA j 4&v G0e
ntere sting Items Boiled Down For
the Benefit of our Basy Readers.
Admiral Sch1ey and Mrs Schley are
visiting at the home Of j. j. Asche
in Saugatuck.
Burglars entered the postofice at
Montowese Monday night, blew open
the safe and secured $3.50 in money
and stamps. 1t is believed that the
theft was the work of experts.
A fragment from a broken shaft at
the Slater mills at Jewett City yes
terday struck a workman named
Bras, knocking out one eye and in
fi1cting severe cuts on his head.
Mrs Alice G. Tilton, 48 years old,
wife Of Arthur f. Tilton a New Ha-
ven paper hanger, died Monday night
from the effects of an overdose of
laudanum taken to induce sleep.
Medical Examiner Bartlett Of New
Haven has decided that the death of
Lewis Mangler, whose body was
found on Monday in a vacant lot, was
due to natural causes, and will not
investigate further.
What Is said to be the largest cleo
tro-magnet in the world has been in
stalled in the Bridgeport hospital It
will be used for extracting pieces of
iron and steel from the eyes of ma
chinists and other metal workers who
may be injured.
Samuel T.. Clemens mark Twainl
and his two daughters, bringing the
body Of Mrs Clemens who died recent
" In Italy, arrived in New York yes
terday on the steamer Prinz Oskar
MES Clemens body was taken to FL
mira, N. T., for burial.
John Conklin, carpenter, who liy-
ed in Ivoryton, committed suicide in
Essex yesterday morning by shooting
| himself with a gun. His aunt, who
lived in the house with him, heard the
report and found Conklin dead on his
bed with a gunshot wound in his face
Two more automobilists were arrest
| ed in ThompsonVille yesterday. r.
Ball. giving residence as Hartford and
riding machine No 4,63S, Massachu-
setts, was one, and the other was G..
| d. TaIcott of Talcottville. Each put
UP bonds of $25. Ball said that the
| town was known from Boston to New
not an automobile come near It.
1 The new state normal school at Dan
bury will open September 5, although
1t is not expected that the new school
building will be ready for occupancy
before March. Until the completion of
the new building the sessions will be
held at the Danbury high school. The
state board of education has received
more than fifty applications for the
pr1ncfpalshfp of the new school and
has chosen John r. Perkins, principal
of the Danbury high school.
Miss Kate Ellis Adams, daughter of
Ellis D. Adams and Mrs Harriet Ad-
ANS of Wethersfeld, was married at
I her home Monday afternoon to Rev
Warren ID Wheeler, principal of the
American Missionary Association acad-
envy of Pleasant ELL, Tenn. Miss Ad-
ans has been suffering from diphtheria
and was still confined to her bed when
she was married, but she was on the
road to recovery and as the date for
the wedding had been fixed it was de-
cided to carry out the original program
The body of a man was picked up
in the Sound beyond the Bridgeport
light yesterday afternoon. It was bad
4 ~ 0GCOLnpOSCQ duu AdQ UGsu III Lie
water apparently many weeks. In the
pockets of the coat were found a mum
Der of papers which may lead to iden-
tffcation. One was letter dated at
Washington. May 81. 1904. In the
right corner of the envelope was "Ex-
ecutive Mansion, Official" The en-
elpope was addressed to "John II.
O'Connor, 48 North Eleventh street,
Paterson, N. J."
/ State Highway Commissioner James
/ FL. Macdonald, president of the Ameri-
can Roadmakers, has received recruit
from the far east, K. Kobayashi Of
Toky, Japan. Some time ago he wrote
to the highway commissioner for high
way department. literature and when
sending 1t Mr. Macdonald informed him
that he would be glad to make him a
member of the American Roadmakers
upon receipt of the small sum Of So
That amount has just been received
Mr. Kobayashi writing that he will
''fnd it the greatest honor to be made
a member of the association. He is
the only member living in a foreign
land.
4 Robert GriswoId the S-years-oI6
son Of George Griswold, who lives or
Beaver street and Philip Ross, years
old, the son Of Edward N. Ross, also
of Beaver street, were buried by the
caving in Of sewer excavation In
New Britain yesterday 3 afternoon
The mother of the Griswold boy saw
the accident, though she did not know
that her child was involved in it, and
running to the trench, saw the top OF
the Ross boys head. She moved the
earth away from his face and gave
the alarm and he was soon released
While rescuing him one of the men
found her son, who was buried out OF
sight.