Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-30
NUTMEG CRAVINGS.
Interesting Items Boiled Down For the Benefit of our Busy Readers.


 The home of Mrs William Post, just over the line in Ivorytown, was robbed yesterday afternoon, every room being ransacked. About $25 in cash was taken.
 Highway Commissioner J. H. Mac donald has awarded the contract for 3,99O linear feet Of grading in the town of Branford to Vito Freda of Meriden at 79 cents linear foot, making the total amount $3,15210.
 The house of Charles A. Christian sen, milkman, who lives in the east ern art of the town of Bloomfield, was entered by burglars some time between o'clock Tuesday night and o'clock yesterday morning and over $150 was taken.
 Judge Roraback yesterday granted motion for non suit in the ease of D. Sherwood Thorpe against the direc. tors of the Bridgeport Business Mems association. The suit was brought by Mir Thorpe to recover $5,OOO damages alleged to have been sustained through the action Of the Bridgeport Business Mems association in placing his name on so called black list for the purpose of discriminating between those whose credit was or was not good.
 Frank Hinde, a grinder employed by the Meriden Cutlery Go, has brought suit for damages of $1,00O against Chief Police Edward Bromage of ThompsonyiHe, alleging the abduction of Hinde's 2-year-old son, George. rom his house at South Meriden on June IT. Hfnde alleges in the complaint that his wife, who lives in Vermont, brought an action for divorce against him and se- cured Chief Bromage to serve the pa pers. The chief, Mrs Hinde and con- stable drove to the village on the day in question and while the constable went to the factory to serve the papers Bromage and Mrs Hinde went to Hinde's house, took the child and drove off with it.
 Gus Yost of No 164 Curtis street, New Britain, has been missing since 12 o'clock Saturday night. Yost, with a friend whose name is John Menus, started from there at 8 o'clock Satur- day afternoon to go to Hartford on a fishing trip. They arrived according to the statement of Merus, about o'clock in the afternoon and fmmedi- ately went down to the river, where they started to fish near the coal dock, just south of the steamboat wharf. Merus says they fished till about IF o'clock at night and then, being tired, they lay down to sleep. Menus says that when he awoke nothing was to be seen of Yost. He was unable to lind him and returned home alone.
 Christopher James McDermott, broth CT of Policeman John F. McDermott of Hartford, is back from an extended trip through the west, in which he had a number of exciting experiences. He was taken with a number of other men fromNSt Louis to Tennessee to break strike in a mine and, as the courts de- cided that the men were taken under false pretenses, each man obtained Judgment of $250 against the mine owners. MT McDermott was not long at the mine before he saw guard kill three men and wound five others, and he is a witness in the trial for murder, which is to come up next month. MT McDerrnott said yesterday that he had not heard from the authorities since he returned to this city and he did not think he would be needed to testify as there were enough witnesses with out him.