Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-14
NUTMEG CRAVINGS.
Interesting Items Boiled Down For
 The Benefit of Our Busy Readers.

August Ehlman, "a brakeman of
 East Hartford, fell from the top of a
 box car at the Manchester station yes
 terday breaking his leg just above the
 ankle.
 Mrs Frank Newman, aged B years, fell from the cellar stairs at her home
 in East Glastonbury about 9:30 o'clock
 Thursday evening and received frac-
 ture at the base of the skull from (which she died about 4:30 o'clock yes terday morning.
 The Plumbers union of Hartford
 voted to go out on strike Monday
 morning if the demand of the union
 to have the minimum wage rate of S3
 a day increased to $3.50, is not grant ed by the master plumbers in the meantime. The union has member ship of about 100
 Giro Benanto, aged % years. who is
 wanted for the alleged shooting of Gespare Virge of No 537 East Eighty SecotId strett,' New York, last Novem-
 ber, was arrested by Policeman O. Neil of New London yesterday. Be nanto was locked up and will be talk en to New York Saturday.
 In an open letter Rev c. B. F. Pease pastor of the Huntsville Congregations al church, and during his seven yearS' residence q prominent temperance worker, referring to the failure of the authorities to enforce liquor laws, says: Tt comes about that constables sometimes sit In saloons uttering no word of remonstrance when laws of sales are violated"
 Frank Sherrie who Is under sentence of death to be hanged on October 31, will pay the death penalty The su- preme court recently sustained the action of the superior court of Holland county which sentenced Sherrie, and Hugh O'Flaherty, who defended Sher- rie in the superior court and who ar- gued the appeal for him in the su- preme court. said yesterday that he will not take the matter to the board of pardons.
 The five republican candidates for grand jurors for the town of Chatham, Charles J. Rogers, T. W. Sexton, R. H. Hall, David B. Dickinson and I. N. Tibbals. declared elected at the recent town election are disqualified, as the HbhNhAto RAONthN Allatb llUA lCrB llhll LMO nor more than six shall be elected, whereas, with five on the republican and three on the democratic tickets. George L. Metcalfe, John 0'Neill and George k. West, eight were voted for when only three should have been nominated for this office by each par ty. Counsel has been seen regarding the question and while the whole re- publican ticket is not invalidated, the grand jurors cannot act because they were not elected: therefore the only grand jurors who can legally qualify, are those elected on the democratic ticket.
 The plans begun some time ago by the French Roman Catholics of Brfs- tol for a new church have SO far ma tured that they are now positively as- sured of having church edlfce in the near future. For some time past they have been desirous of having their , own church but when a committee of the leading French residents of the town called upon Bishop Tierney last summer he told them that first they must raise 5000 to assure him they l could support a priest of their nation 1 ality. Then they commenced work In ] an enthusiastic manner to raise the l money and one evening this week consisting of J. B. Landry. Peter Allaire and C H. Beaudoin, on I the part of the French-American citf- zens of the town. called again at Bish- op Tierney's residence and told him | that they had succeeded in raising the I stipulated amount The bishop told | the committee that be would send 6 French priest to them as the first pas tor of their new church on January 1.