Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-22
NUTMEG CRAVINGS.
lntere sting Items Boiled Down For
 the Benefit of our Busy Readers.

During the heavy storm yesterday a dory owned by Philip Roberts, which was at anchor on the east side of the breakwater at Saybrook, was
 blown ashore and was considerab . damaged.
 Walter c. Gillette of Hartford was drowned Saturday night in the Con- necdcut river opposite Wethersfeld cove because, on account of darkness
 his friends were unable to locate him and pull him ashore.
 The tenth annual meeting of the
 Wine, Liquor and Beer Dealers as
 sociation will be held at Sayin Rock
 tomorrow and one of the speakers
 will be John c. Long of Hartford, whose topic will be 1.-The Dealer as a
 Citizen.'
 Antonio Maurizio, aged 26, was ar rested in Hartford early yesterday
 morning on the charge of forgery, al
 legged to have been committed in
 Pittsburg Pa. Maurizio has been in
 Hartford three days and is willing to return to Pennsylvania without pa pers.
 The bids for registered package, registered tag, official and dead letter envelopes were opened in Washing
 ton Saturday afternoon at o'clock
 The Hartford Manufacturing Co.'S bid
 amounted to $171, ,764.75. They were the lowest bidders and will get the
 contract.
 Despondent because of illness from
 a disease which his physicians had pronounced incurable, Julius Brown of Hartford committed suicide Saturday
 morning at his home by inhaling illu- minat1ng gas. He was found at 9
 o'clock by his daughter, Mrs Andrew
 Keefe, sitting upright dead, in the
 bathroom, under. a gas jet which had been opened wide.
 There was to have been race yes.
 terday morning at Saybrook between the auto boat, the Rocket, owned by
 Daniel s. Morrell, and the Buffalo, owned by T. H. Smith. The bouts
 were to run from the club station to the railroad bridge over the Connecui- ! cut river three times over the course, but when near the bridge the Rockets cylinder head blew out and the race was declared off.
 Michael Mcdonald went to Tony Bersetger's store in Hartford yester- day afternoon and when Tony wasn't 1 looking filed his shirt with onions, potatoes, a few pencils, sticks of candy and other articles of merchandise, just as the woman of the shirt waist does.
 Tony caught on, however, when he
 saw how much latter Mike was when he went out than when he came In
 and had him arrested.
 Frederick Benson, an engineer on the Highland division of the New York. New Haven and Hartford rail-
 road, was probably fatally injured yes terday afternoon by striking his head against a signal as his train was ap- preaching Hawleyville. He dropped l to the floor of the cab and the fireman | stopped the train as soon as he saw the condition of the engineer. Benson
 lives in FHshkill, N Y.
 James Nelson, who was serving a 1 light sentence for drunkenness in the 1 jail at New Haven committed suicide l yesterday morning in his cell by hang l ing. He made a rope out of cord he procured in the chair shop and a 1 handkerchief and tying 1t to the top | of the door climbed up on the bars and after tying the rope let himself i fall. He strangled to death. He was l Respondent over his drinking. 1 John Speirs died yesterday at the 1 Hartford hospital as the result of in- l juries received in runaway accident
 Thursday morning. He was the driver for DIT. D. Blanchard, the
 city physician, and while waiting in
 the doctors carriage on Ward street
 the trap was struck by another rum
 away team. His horse also started
 to run and MT Speirs was thrown 1 out and his skull fractured. He was 1 52 years old and leaves two children. Policeman Dunn of Hartford did a clever piece of work early yesterday morning when he arrested Patrick Sul. 1 livan and John Loomis. He saw the
 men take a gum box from in front of an American Row drug store. He was some distance away and on approach ing the men saw him and throwing the box into an alley hurried away. The
 policeman pretended not to have seen | them and hid himself in the alley, waited a half hour until they re- turned and arrested them both.