Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-28
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Lyman Hayes, a carpenter, fell from the roof of building in New Haven yesterday afternoon and died an hour later. He was 54 years old and had a family.
 Patrick O'Connell Of Hartford, a yard brakeman, employed by the Con- solidated railroad was injured at o'colck last evening and will lose his left leg as the result.
 The Connecticut Woman Suffrage association will hold it's twenty-fourth annual convention in Hartford next Wednesday when there will be a busi ness meeting in the morning.
 John Mahoney, an employe of the Edwin J. Blake Go, brass founders, fell fifteen feet from a roof yesterday afternoon and died few hours after ward at the Hartford hospital.
 The democratic city convention at Bridgeport last night re-nominated Mayor Denis Mulvihill and the follow ing for city officers: Clerk, E. r. Buckingham: treasurer. Fred W. Hall; collector, John M Connolly; clerk, William S. Schreiber.
 When a side-show s'giantess." a girl of 16 came to Norwich hotel the other day, the proprietor was in a di- lemma as to furnishing bed for her, as she stood feet 6 inches in her stocking feet Finally he sent out and had bedstead built especially for his novel guest.
 The cornerstone of the addition to St Francis's hospital will be laid at Hartford tomorrow afternoon by Bishop Terney. The services will be gin at 2:30 o'clock and many of the clergy of the diocese are expected. Rev Maurice F. McAuliffe of St Thom. as's seminary will preach a sermon
 c. H. Williamson of Tariffville had occasion to have some morphine tab lets in his house which he did not need. He put them on shelf and Thursday morning one of his children. years old, found them and put them into the mouth of an infant. months old. who swallowed them. The infant died soon afterward.
 Albert Scherman. a Swede, about B years old, employed by the Pratt & Selus NO- IdSudila ulFh h revolver from his pocket yesterday af- ternoon. while sitting on bench in Bushnell park talking with a friend. and committed suicide by firing a bui- let into his head, just above and a lit tie in front of his right ear.
 Andrew Jackson Curtiss. an old res ident of the part of Bristol called Polkville, thinks that somewhere in the range of hills in the copper mine district there is vast quantity of lead. Mir Curtiss's authority for this belief is what his mother told hin many years ago of seeing Indians gn by her house laden with native lead. and he has always remembered the story.
 Rev Dr William Short, former Connecticut man, died last night at St Louis,y He was born in Litchfield, Conn, in 1S45, son of Rev David H. Short, and was graduated from Trinity college in 1S69 He gained national prominence by leading the fight against divorce in Episcopalian con ventions md by writing Christian Science; What Is It?' an attack on Mrs Eddy's doctrines.
 Benjamin Gillette, bartender in Da- vis's saloon fin Bristol, was consider ably surprised yesterday morning when he opened the cash drawer and found little animal in it that he did not recognize. He soon found out it was a full grown weasel that had ap- parently chased rat into the drawer.
 The judges of the supreme court c: errors met in conference yesterday af- ternoon with the judges of the super for court at the court house at Bridge port. It was said, after the confer ence. that the session was for the pur pose of formulating new rules of pro cedure. but no information was given out as to the nature of the changes.
 City Clerk Patrick o'Leary died yesterday morning at his residence on Woodstock avenue. Putnam, at the age of G4 years. He was born in Ire. land. his father dying about month before he was born, and his mother when he was about a year old. He was cared for and brought to this country by his brother Cornelius. at present a resident of Putnam. He was in Cleveland. O.. at the opening of the war. He responded to President Lin coln's first call for troops, enlisting April IS. 1881. as private in the Eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry. He had the enviabfe and honorable dis tinction of having served continuously fin every battle. march and skirnish in which this famous regiment was en- gagged.
 Residents of Seymour are excited over the reported finding of consider able amounts of ancient bank bills by wOrkmen engaged in demolishing an old building. years ago the home of Hiram Randall a merchant half a century ago and for several years town treasurer. 4 woman who was idIy watching the workmen tearing away the rafters in the attic saw them staffinC hank bills into their pockets and then carefully peering in- to crevireS in search of more Since then the vorknen have found a secret vault in the cellar wall with an iron door which. it iz assumed. had been uzed by Mr Randall for storing vaIu- abies. as they would have been safe from fire in the event of the burning Of the building. It Is probable. also that he used this vault for the safe keesing of books and money DeIon-.- tn- fn the town it ia aid by tine old CT residents Of Seymour that it was a common practice many years ago to -o~sf~r1rt r,orar rarsffa in cellar