Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-21
NUTMEG GRATINGS.
Interesting Items Boiled Down For
the Benefit of our Busy Readers.

Warden Rodenbach of the borough
of Naugatuck, who is also president of
the school board in that town, has
given his salary of 5000 as warden for
the establishment of scholarships in
the Naugatuck high school.
Lawyer James p. Woodruff OF Ltch-
field has filed notice in the court of
common pleas for Fairfield county that
he will defend seventeen suits brought
by D. Preston Atwood against resi-
dents of Litchfeld and vicinity.
Officers in Wallingford and Meriden
are searching for Mary Delaney, 16-
years-old girl who has run away from
her home in WalliDgford. If caught
the girl will be sent to the Industrial
school at Middletown.
New London seamen are asking that
the breakwater at Point Judith may
be extended, as at present it is made
quate to furnishing necessary protec-
ton during southeast gales. Govern
ment engineers are to visit the place
and will report on the matter.
Mrs Dora Schmidt and her adopted
daughter, Miss Alma Schmidt, were
each fined So and costs and We're SEN
fenced to jail for ten days in the New
Haven city court yesterday on each of
twenty-four counts charging them with
shoplifiting. Mrs Schmidt is the widow
of a former police sergeant.
A default was entered in the SUI
perior court at New Haven yesterday
in a suit brought by the Ansonia Saw
ings bank against ex-senator Sturgis
Whitlock. The suit was for foreclos-
ure on property in Shelton mortgaged
as security on a note of $4,000 drawn
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1t was announced in the superb"
court in New Haven yesterday that an
agreement had been reached between
Mayor Charters of Ansonia and the
board of street commissioners of that
injunction restraining a member of the
board from acting as superintendent
Of streets would be withdrawn.
An unusual sight in Hartford G.. A.
r. day was that of confederate flag
flying from window on Garden
street. The incident was SO rare that
very few who saw the flag recognized
it as the stars and bars of the confed-
eracy. Those who did are certain that
the flag was not unfurled in spirit of
defiance to the veterans who Thursday
celebrated the reunion of the survivors
of the conflict of two score years ago,
but as spontaneous tribute to the
memory of the, boys who wore the
gray, that they were remembered even
in the hour when their conquerors were
celebrating the victory of battles fought
and won.
A sad sequel to the Grand Army pa
rade in Hartford was the finding of
the body of Peter Kelley early yester-
day morning beside the railroad track,
about three-quarters of a mile south
of the North Haven station of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford road.
The body was discovered by the en-
gineer of a north-bound train. The
head was nearly severed from the body
and It is believed that Kelley, who was
in the parade in Hartford Thursday,
fell from the train when returning and
was run over. The North Haven med
ical examiner was sent for and the
body was afterwards taken to the
rooms of a New Haven undertaken
Kelley was 76 years OF age and during
the civil war was member of Com
pany A, Thirteenth regiment, @. v.
He had for some years been an in,
mate of the Soldiers home at Noroton.
He leaves daughter. Mrs Mary Hoff-
man, who lives in New Haven.