Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-17
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 Two newsboys got into fight at the railroad station in Meriden yesterday and one, Joseph Magnulo, aged 14, stabbed the other, Theodore Rose, aged F, on the hip. The boy was cap tured by Sergeant Thayer after jump ing into brook and having a revolver leveled at him.
 Numerous complaints of bicycle rid ing on the sidewalks having been made by Plainville people. Deputy Sheriff Gleason and Officer Downing watched East Main street yesterday from Blossom corner to the railroad crossing at Main street and arrested thirteen riders whom they caught on the sidewalks.
 Constable George Y. Hall and Select man H. c. Hills raided the Village Central hotel at East Hampton, kept by Eugene Markham, Saturday night and got two dozen bottles of whiskey and gin. Several men were in the Daf- room when the raid WIS made. The town is no-license and the place mas been under suspicion for some time.
 James Monroe fell from the middle span of the new railroad bridge at Warehouse Point on Saturday after noon and was rescued by a man Who put out from shore in a rOwboat The fall was distance of seventy.five feet and the strong current carried him rapidly down stream. After, being taken out of the water he walked a mile up the road and resumed his work with his vet clothes on.
 Two would-be teachers attending the State Normal school at New Haven cribbed in recent examination and as a result have been asked to leave school temporarily. They had the mis- fortune to copy from classmate who had made serious mistake and the three identical blunders caused sus- picion to be cast upon the pupils. The faculty will consider the case and suitable punishment will be meted out to the two young women, one of whom is said to be from Derby and the other from Arsonia.
 Sparks from a passing freight train on the Central New England railroad set fire to the grass opposite the RO- man Catholic church at Bloomfield Saturday morning and the high winO drove the flames with great rapidity toward the church and other closely buildings. But for the timely assist ance of Rev William M. Brown and his son Kingsley and force of men employed at w. J. Gabb's warehouse, who were summoned, a serious fire would have resulted. The fire spread all around the church and when put out it had reached the porch.
 On Saturday morning a middle-aged man with a sandy, full beard begged a breakfast at the home of Charles Piper in Unionville. After eating heartily he started for the town prop CT and secured employment as sec tion hand on the trolley line. At II o'clock he complained of not feeling well and went into lot adjoining the carbarns and laid down. His fellow workmen attracted by his unnatural quiet found him to be dead. They did not know his name but he had told them that he had worked for the Hart ford water board during the winter.
 The Danbury board of education has been nine months without president un account of . deadlock. The mem bers are evenly divided politically. six republicans and six democrats. and each party had a candidate for the office. The board was elected last June when the school districts of the town were consolidated. During the first few months a ballot for president was taken at every meeting and cois ferences were held. The republican candidate. Judge Howard E. Scott, has now been withdrawn and it is pre- sumed that president may be elected before the end of the year.
 John Stein, who is employed by Henry A. Kinne. of Glastonbury. while walking on the banks of the Connecti- cut River near Roaring Brook yeSter- day afternoon. found the body of a man lying on the bank of tine river. where it had evidently been left by the freshet. The body had apparently been in the water for two or three months and was badly decompose1. The body was that of man arpar- entb about 9 years old. smooth faced and of medium height. There was on it leather coat with fleece lining. a pair of overaIls. a suit of cheap under wear and a negligee shirt There were no shoes. but it could not be told there there were none when the body was first in the water. The skull was fractured. the lower jaw broken but the medical examiner said that these fractures had been made long after death probably by the ice in the river, and that death was probably by drowning. In the pockets was found S3-Z7 in change, . srewdrfver. . hsh- line and a small mempfandum book is- sued by the Connecticut Fire msurance company and containing several writ fen entries. hut none which if is thought gives tho name cf tse dead mau- I'm weFe written the wcr1s ~W1nhpr LoeA17 sna ~3lr LAtnnA n--r O