Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-28
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A Syrian laborer employed upon the estate of Prof NJ. I. Pupin of Columbia university at Norfolk, was buried by the cave-in of a sand bank yesterday and was killed.
 Major and Mrs David H. Miller of Georgetown, a suburb of Danbury, eel ebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage Tuesday, and entertained about POO guests. !,
 A Danbury dry goods store was swindled out of $50 worth of furs yes terday afternoon by man who regis tered at local hotel as Frank P. Chen ncy and who claimed to be an advance agent for theatrical company.
 It is now said that Charles E. Grif- fin of New Haven, clerk for Snedley Bros, who is charged with embedding $2 100 from the firm, may have taken as much as $20,000. His wife, whc has been an invalid, is in a critica condition, suffering from nervous pros. tration and may not recover.
 Despondent over continued i'll health. Herbert Spencer Worthington. one .. the best known drug clerks of Bridge port, committed suicide yesterday morning by firing bullet through his brain at the residence of Charles flaw ley, in Stepney. where he had been for a month seeking better health.
 The tooth birthday of Mrs Mary Sperry Northrop was celebrated at the home of her son, Charles Northrop, in West Haven yesterday. Mrs Northrop received many remembrances from her friends and relatives. Five generations of the family were represented. Mrs Northrop was born in Bethany, Sep tember 26, 1905.
 Mrs Mary Fischer of Red Mountain avenue, Torrington, was fined $15 and costs in the borough court yesterday for assaulting her neighbor, Mrs Mar garet Long. The evidence was to the effect that Mrs Fischer found one of her hens dead in the yard yesterday morning. She assumed that 1t had been killed by one of Mrs Longs boys and threw the hen into the Long house. When Mrs Long came out with the re- mains Mrs Fischer attacked her, beat ing her terribly.
 By vote of the executive board of the Connecticut State F1remen's asso- eiation the sum of $500, as a death benefit, will be paid to Mrs Catherine Bodenstein of Hartford. widow of Her man Bodenstein, member of Engine Go No 2, who died on July G, 1904, from illness resulting from over-exer- tion in answering alarms of fire. The committee also voted to allow $2 week, dating from the time of his death, for each of four children in the family under 15 years of age.
 The New Britain town auditors have refused to sign the report of Charles H. Moore, tax collector, for the fiscal year ending August 31, but they say that they have completed their ser vices to the town for this year and want their money. The reason for not signing the report is that there is an alleged shortage of S1,299.10. The col leetor denies and shortage except about SS0 for interest. which he says was caused by holding checks to accommo- date people. He is willing to pay that amount. AS for the rest he has the money, he says, on deposit to his ac. count as collector at the Mechanics National bank and only desires to know to whom to pay it before turning 1t over.
 Thomas H. Terhune of Hartford. brakeman employed by the New York, New Haven and Harford railroad, was run over and killed by solitary car about o'clock yesterday afternoon. James Ryan, conductor, was the only. witness of the accident. According to his story a freight car had been dropped from the rear of a train and he and Terhune were on it Terhune was holding on at the front of the car and Ryan saw him lose his hold and fall. The car was slowing down and was not going very fast when Terhune fell on the track ahead of it. Ryan says that the first pair of the trucks passed over Terhune, but that he man. aged to crawl out to the side of the track before the rear trucks reached him. Terhune died soon afterwards, without gaining consciousness.