Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-02
NUTMEG CARVINGS.
Interesting Items Boiled Down Fol The Benefit of Our Busy Readers.

Darius Drake, the oldest resident of Hebron, celebrated his 10Sd birthday yesterday and is almost in as good health as last year. He has, however, lost his hearing to a great degree and is almost totally deaf.
 Game Protector S. A. Peckham went to Scotland yesterday, where he ar rested Eugene Skinner, who was i'll the fields with gun and two loaded shells. Skinner was taken before Jus t;ce of the Peace Smith of Scotland and fined $10 and costs, amounting i'll all to $33.65
 Mrs Lillian Bindloss, wife of George Bindloss of New London, has been held under a bond of $10,000 for sho"t- ing Stephen Crocker at her home on Sunday last. The bond was furnished and the case was then adjourned until October 2S and Mrs Bindloss left at once to enter sanitarium.
 It is announced by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co that John K. Punderford, who has been general manager over the New Haven lines, has been made general manager of the entire Consolidated railway trolley system and will have his office in New Haven. F. P. Harlan has been appointed acting general manager of the New Haven system.
 The guests at the Irwin house, Willi- mantle, were frightened Saturday evening by the discharge of four pts- tol shots in the hotel. One young wo- man who is employed as a waitress was so badly scared that she had hys- terics that only ended when she faint ed. The trouble was caused by Albert Patterson, a telegraph lineman, who fired four shots from revolver down one of the railways without hitting anything but the wall. Patterson had been drinking heavily for a week and was on the verge of delirium tremens.
 The automobile owned by ". F. winslow of winsted. superintendent of the William L. Gilbert Clock Go, rolled over an embankment on Cottage street at o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mir Winslow. who was in the machine alone, attempted to turn around, but got too near the edge of the embank- ment and the auto fell to the swamp below. turning a somersaulr and bury ing Mir winslow beneath 1t. The ma chine caught fire. Mir Winslow was only slightly injured. The machine was valued at s1,2O0 and was com pletely wrecked.
 An old-fashIoned golden wedding anniversary was celebrated at the home of MT and Mrs ]. ]. Taylor of Coventry Saturday afternoon and ev- ening when friends from Bolton. Manchester and Coventry and a few from Rhode Island assembled at the Taylor home to share in the joy of the occasion. The Taylor farm Is located' on one of the hack roads of the town close to the Bolton line. The old floor creaked under the feet that danced to the music of q left-handed fiddler and the cider of this year and some of other years helped 10 drive the dust from the throats-
 Five persons were burned more or less seriously Saturday at Stamford. when a steam automobile owned hy Fl. 0. Jamieson of Montclair. N. J.. caught fire. The injured are Joseph MechaIey. Walter Greeney. Lester Parker. Bertram necamp and Walter Wagner. The Mechaleys and Wagner are Stamford men who were endeav- orinE to repair the machine. They were at work at 1t and a young wo- man. who is a cousin of Mir Jamie son. was holding sn electric torch 10 aid them when fhe gssoleae in the tank took fire The young woman leaned frnru tfp machine and rn1fsa on the ground until her dress. which had taken fire. was extfnxlzlrhed- None of those who were bznued were seriously injured but the machine was a total Ioss.