Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-30
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 The New Haven Gas Go paid it's taxes for this year to the city of New Haven on Saturday. They amounted to $23, ,999S6.
 The veterans of the Twenty fourth | c. V. will hold their reunion at Mid dletown this year on October 20, when the reoimental monument erected in that city will be dedicated.
 A barn in North Stonington owned by B. Ripley Park was burneA early | Sunday morning with it's contents, including sixty tons of hay and nine horses. The loss is estimated at $2.00O, on which there is no insurance. The fire is thought to have been of in- cendiary origin. A WestDort farmer named Hawse 1 found a wounded doe yesterday in the | fields near his farm and asked permis- sion of Deputy Sheriff Member to | kill it. but the dennty was unable to give him any authority. Dr Rutland of the WestDort sanitarium then took charge of the animal, but 1t died in a short time. The animal had been badly torn by dogs.
 | Mrs E. Frechette started to take a | boy named Henry Paut1in from Willi. mantic to a family in Putnam yester- day. but when she had left, Clark S Corners she missed him from his seat in the train. He is F years old and came from St Francis's Orphan asy- lum, New Haven, and was going to live in Putnam family. He had 1 jumped from the train at Clark's Cor Ders and had made his way back to | Willimantic and found his relatives.
 Martin Lfllis, who owns a farm in the town of Newtown, has brought suit apainst the New York, New Ha- ven & Hartford Railroad Go, claiming $35O damages on account of a fire communicated through the spark of locomotive of the defendant corDor. ation. MT Lillis states in his com. plaint that soft coal spark set fire to the underbrush and vegetation on the land of Julius Beers. and that the flames spread to his land. E
 The Consolidated railway has awarded contracts for the cons~ruc tion of thirty double-truck vestfbule cars, to be delivered this fall. One half the roads new equipment will be made by the Jewett Car Go of New. ark, Ohio, and the other half by the Stevenson Gar Go of Elizabeth, N. J The new cars will be of the most modern make and form an important acquisition to the roads rolling stock They will cost about $100.00O.
 Word was received in Norfolk yes terday from Coroner Caulkins of Mil lerton, N Y. that he had decided thai Hiram Woodin. the farmer who was found dead at Millerton on Saturday was not murdered, but had been run over by a vehicle, wheel of which had broken his skull. Woodfns daughter, Mrs Frank Searle of win sted, says that she does not think that her father was robbed or that he had much money with him when he went to Millerton. He was well-to-do farmer, but had, she thought, little money with him.
 The scratching of a pimple on his | head caused the death of Frederick B. Geisler. late Friday night, at the home of Sinner Hoffman, of No 29S Derby avenue, Ansonia. Geisler was resident of Ellenvil1e, ". J., and came to Derby on visit to his sister, Mrs Hoffman, about week ago. He had not been in particularly good health, and the scratching of the pim, pie developed blood poisoning. Later a complication of troubles set in. in cluding brain fever, spinal meningi- tis and other diseases. He was 23 years old.