Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-04
NUTMEG CRAVINGS Interesting Items Boiled Down For the Benefit of our Busy Readars.

Charles A. Spencer has been ap-
 pointed postmaster at Glasgow.
 The concussion from the discharge
 of the cannon of the Hardware City
 battery at the close of last nights pa
 rade at New Britain blew out the win
 dows on the Church street side Of the
 chapel of the First church. An elec-
 tric light was also broken.
 Miss Lulu Harrison of Bridgeport,
 who has been the guest of a relative
 in Schenectady, N. Y., attempted sui ranged, by jumping into the Erie canal. She was rescued after strug> gle by man who witnessed her act. The rafters in the foundry at Russell
 & Erwin's factory in New Britain. caught fire at midnight in some man.
 ner not yet known The factory fire brigade and the city department were called out and soon extinguished the blaze. Little damage was caused by fire, but the water did some.
 \ The sophomore class at Wesleyan has rigged up an ingenious contrivance whereby they may be warned of any attempt on the part of the freshmen to take the Douglas cannon. The cam non is used in the annual "cannon scrap'' between the two classes on the eve of Washington's birthday. The cannon is kept at the Douglas shop and some time before the date of the scrap the freshmen take it and try to keep it concealed from the sophomores, and then, on the night of the scrap, rush it to the campus and hold it there for half an hOur The sssophs'' have con- nected the cannon with an electric
 alarm at the college to warn them if any attempt is made to abduct It. The fact was brought to light by proper l ty owner noticing wires crossing his property, whereupon he investigated and found out what was the matter. The Hartford police think that if 1 they had not had the help of Detective Sergeant McAIullin of the New York police force yesterday, pickpockets | would have s.eaten them up,' which means that many persons would have had their yaluables abstracted from their pockets by lighting men, As ] it was, one man, M. F.. Leghorn of New Britain. complained that he had been robbed of $60 while in the crowd at the opera house. Detectives Butler and Dietrich, with McMullin's assist ance, got their eye on fourteen pick pockets yesterday afternoon and even l ing. Eight of them were locked un
 over night at the police station, five)
 were shipped away during the after
 noon and one escaped from the officers
 when they were arresting two of his pals. None of the pickpockets was
 caught in the act, nor was any evi- dence of thievery found on them. They
 were simply locked up on suspicion, as
 is customary.
 For a few hours yesterday morning l Detective Butler of Hartford guarded I q small basket ill lot on Albany ave-
 nue, near Williams street. The basket
 was covered with papers. Everybody l who went near the basket was warned
 away and not even dogs were allowed ! near it. The basket contained enough l dynamite to wreck a block. It was l fortunate that the police secured the stuff as q number of small boys ill. 1 tended to have bonfire of the dyna-
 mite, and if they had 1t would have lbeen thet end of them. The police l learned that the boys were going. to have a big bonfire tomorrow night oh Albany avenue. They were going to
 use half of their supply of dynamite then and they were to reserve the rest l for q celebration after election. None | of the boys realized how dangerous the stuff is and they supposed it would flare up like gu11powder and make q
 noise. Preparations for these onfres
 have been under way since Sunday,
 when the dynamite was taken from an
 old slaughter house beyond Keney
 park.