Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-12
NUTMEG CARVINGS.
Interesting Items Boiled Down For the Benefit of our Busy Readers

the Benefit of our Busy Readers A fire of unknown origin yesterday | morning in the factory af the Peck Eur company, of Danbury, caused damage amounting to about $2,OOO. One end of the building was burned and the stock was damaged by water. The steamers of the Starin line will.
 until further notice, carry freight only l on account of the ice foes in Long. Is 1 land sound, which has forced them to abandon their regular schedule. The ice blockade in this harbor is the wors b for many years.
 Judge Elmer, in the superior court at Bridgeport yesterday morning,
 heard charges preferred against Law yer George W. Carey, of Stratford, by the grievance committee of the Fair
 field county bar. Carey is charged
 with forgery, perjury, misappropria- tion of trust funds and false pretens- eS.
 Richard H. Condon, first selectman of the town of Pennington, an ex- representative of that town in the gen. eral assembly, and member of the democratic state central committee, died at his home yesterday afternoon from the fleets of an overdose of 1aud- anum, taken, it is supposed, by mis- take. Js
 | Edward s., Skinner's sudden disap- pearance has caused his. family and frineds much surprise as well as anxi-
 ety. He lived in East Hartford and for about eleven years has been freight agent at the transfer station in that town. The Hartford police
 were notified yesterday that he was
 missing and they were asked to look
 for hinlt
 A meeting of the Connecticut daily
 newspaper publishers was held at the
 New Haven house yesterday. J. M.
 Emerson, owner of the Ansonia Sen-
 tinel, acted as chairman. Fourteen
 daily papers were represented and as
 surances were recieved from other in the formation of an Organizat ton. A committee was appointed to formu- late plans.
 A large number of. embargo notices have been received lately by the New Haven road from nearby railroads asking that the shipping of perishable freight be stopped on account of the inability of the other roads to deliver
 the goods. The cold weather has clogged up freight facilities of the Central Vermont and railroads in Mas sachusetts and has caused more en- bargo notices to be received than for some time past.
 A coasting accident on Richmond hill, Stratford, last night, resulted in the probably fatal injury of Daniel O'Meara and the serious injury of Daniel Gates and James Delaney. The young men were coasting down the hill when horse and carriage driven by George Murphy came out of d side street. The, sled struck the car
 riage, throwing l the coasters off.
 O'Meara was picked up unconscious
 with a fractured skull while the other
 two were bruised and lacerated from
 head to foot.
 A certificate of organization. of the
 Westerly Railroad and Lighting com pany, of Stonington, was filed yester- day in the office of the secretary of the state. The company is organized to construct and operate railroads, street railroads, electric light plants, power
 
 authorized copital stock is $40O, GOO, di- vided into 4,OOO shares of $100 each. The common and preferred stock will be equally divided as regards the num- Der of shares. The company will be- gin business with $2O,O0O. The tn- corporators are Frencello G. Jillson, of Providence; Nathan B. Lewis, of South. Kingston and Joseph NJ. Kiln gelsmith, of Stonington.
 As the S.3O third-rail car in from New Britain and west-bound freight train on the Highland division that left Hartford at TAB yesterday morn ing were passing mile or so south west of Newington, piece af timber swung over to one side from one of the cars on the freight train far enough to strike the third rail car about the middle. The stick hit and of course smashed sort of tran som just above the window of a seat in which man and a small boy were sitting. In rapid succession the next four or five. transoms above the win dows farther back in the car were smashed, the woodwork about them being damaged, and some of the cur tains torn. but the projecting object then either fell from the train or swung back into place again, for no other windows were damaged and the conductor of the freight later report ed inability to find anything that could have made the tronble.~ The pas sengers in the seats on the side of the car where the glass was smashed were covered with pieces of it, but none of them was hurt.