Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-11
NUTMEG CARVINGS.
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Timothy Devine of New London, 45 years old. committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself from the limb of tree in the rear of his house. He was Respondent over family troubles.
 At the meeting of the county com missioners of the state held at the west shore yesterday J. D. Walter of Cheshire was reelected president and Elwin Clark of Middlesex was elected secretary.
 Andrew Galoniwski, an 1S-months- old Polish child. fell from the third story window of his home at 259 James street, New Haven, yesterday morning and received injuries from which he died a few minutes later.
 Big Dan, the center rush of the sturdy trio that zip the big hook and ladder to alarms in Hartford was shot last night in front of the truck house on Pearl street The horse broke one of his legs in an accident and the vet erniary said that the only thing tc do was to kill him.
 The 1905 issue of the New Haven directory contains the name of at leaet one dog. The dog belongs to Lawyer Strouse and is in the directory as Lex Strouse, watchman. bds 143 St John street. The dog is regarded as good watchman and his name assists in swelling the population of the city as estimated by the directory count.
 Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, accom- companied by three of her children, Theodore. Jr. Archibald and Quentin, sailed into New Haven harbor yester- day morning in the Sylph. going ashore at the New Haven Yacht club. They went to the home of Commander W. S. Cowles in Pennington and re- mained there over night. Their visit was unheralded and even neighbOrs of the Cowles family did not know that they were in town. Mrs Roosevelt returned to New Haven today.
 The unveiling. as planned, in Sep tember of the Rodman gun at Jerry vile, loaned to the town by the gov ernment and to be mounted in Bald- win park as a memorial to Dorrence Atwater, is likely to be marred by un- pleasant feelings. The local war vet erans are indignant over the proceed ings and say they will not attend the exercises. They say that they were snubbed in not being consulted and the whole town was insulted by the action of a few who assumed the un- dertaking which was withheld from the public until the gun was in tran sit.
 ID hA .af l4 a. ven filed in the probate court yester- day the will of the late Mrs Jane F.. Welch, who died at her home in Blsh- op street a week ago at the age of So years. All her property was left to her family and her son. Frank D. Welch. was named as executor. Mrs Welch was a freethinker and at one time started a movement to erect a monument to fhe memory of ToD Paine. The following clause in her will is characteristic: T request my executor to conduct my funeral in il purely secular manner: that is. don's want any minister of any denomina- tion whatever to officiate at my fu- neral''
 George Frederick Gay. young man we'll known in willimantic. was killed Wednesday night. it is supposed, ny falling from a freight train on the Midland division of the Consolidated road. Gay was acting as fagman on train No 132. east-bound. which left willimantic at s;5D o'clock "Wednesday night and when the train left Woon- socket Junction il was discovered that he was not on board. although il was known that he was at his post vixen the train left Putnam. His body was discovered near East Thompson he tween 1 and j o'clock in the morning one leg being cut of and the body otherwise mutilsted.
 Prompt action on the part of Sec tion Foreman Cassidy of Plsinville saved the life of Frank Flynn of New Haven yesterday. Flynn was dis charged Saturday from the We~tfieh hospital after an eight months treat ment for injuries received from being struck bv an overhead bridge while he WAS hraking on the E. and A. road. Having no money he started to beat his way fo New Haven. and he made Farmington yesterday on a freight which stopped tO switch at PlsinvilIe. Flynn started to walk to Plainyilie and when he reached the spile bridge about three-lusrters of a mile from Plain vile. he had fit and pitched forward unconscious. lying between the rails where he was discovered by the sec- rj0n foreman who f1gzesi fast freight just in time to save him from