Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-09
NUTMEG CRAVINGS
Interesting Items Boiled Down For
 the Benefit of Our Readers.

l ICc aI tue loNeT ESutIIoh IeSei NOh'
 St Francis's hospital. Hartford, re-
 ceived a gift of S1OO from Hartford lodge of Elks yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of fitting up room in the
 new addition to be known as Hartford
 lodge of Elks' room.
 A passenger train into Danbury yes
 terday carried large Plymouth Rock
 rooster. which stood on the cowcatcher and crowed Justify as the train rolled 1 into the station. The rooster's feet
 were caught fast in the cowcatcher
 A letter from President Roosevelt has been received by Wallace John
 son. son of Mir and Mrs E. V. Johnson of Southington, acknowledging a copy
 of AIr Johnson's latest composition,
 ''The Treaty of Peace," Japanese in- l termeZZ0.
 l Town Clerk r. r. FentOn of Willi- mantle, while having lunch of raw | oysters Thursday evening, found two
 very large pearls. Mrs Fenton had
 them appraised by a local jeweler and
 was pleased to find that they were
 worth about S10 each.
 Charles H. Hunt. spinner en-
 ployed in the yarn mill of J. Broadbent X Son at UniOnville, while going back of q spinner in the factory yesterday | afternoon, was caught by the carriage and crushed. His spine was fractured and he now lies at the Hartford hos
 pital with little chance of recovery. Fred Benson. the little newsboy who 1 was injured Wednesday evening at | South Manchester, died of his injuries | yesterday morning at II 80 o'clock. On | Wednesday evening he was at the mills
 selling papers and in running to one | of his customers to sell paper he was
 hit by bicycle ridden by Paul He'll wig. Bennett Morin, aged IA. and Joseph 1 Morin. aged F. sons of Frank MoriIl ] of New Hartford, narrowly escaped drowning yesterday in the Pennington
 river. Joseph broke through the ice
 and went down with a cry which at- 1 tracted his brother Bennett. who also
 went into the water as he attempted rescue.
 Rev David Pierce. pastor Of the ] Congregational church of SOuthbury 1 for many years, has become suddenly i and violently insane and was removed to the MiddletOwn asylum. Yesterday ] he threatened to shoot his wife and i daughter and was quieted only after ] long struggle. Mir Pierce is 6J years
 old. About three years ago he had all | attack of the grip and was afterwards moody.
 Edward L. Taylor. aged 9 years.
 the youngest grand knight of the | Knights of Columbus order in this | state. died at his home in TorringtoI
 this week after lingering illness with consumption. Mir Taylor was proml- | nent in Knights of Columbus and c. | T. \. T.. circles and had attended near 1 Iy all the important conventions of | these orders in the past few years.
 thus becoming well known throughout | the state.
 Arthur Willey's dog Jim has doubled ! in value since yesterday at East Hamp
 ton. Hearing cOmmotion in the hen
 yard Mir Wiley let Jim loose. thinking at first that some two-fOoted thief was | trying to lift a fowl or two. But the | thief proved to be a large red tailed hawk which was so intent on trying 1 tO grasp a tender bullet on the other
 side of a wire netting that h descend l ed within three or four feet of the ground. giving the dog bis opportunity. | Jim grabbed the hawk and the haxE grabbed Jim. but the dog held on and
 after sharp but short battle the | hawk was numbered among its fore | fathers.
 l Postmaster Eugene E. Merriman of ! East Hartford thinks he has found the ! person who has been robbing the letter | boxes the past two weeks and taken a 1 large amount of mail matter. The 1 postmaster suspected a young lad Richmond by name. and yesterday set ] q trap to catch the thief. Richmond. | who is r. years old. and freshman in | the East Hartford high school went | into the office about 12s30. during the | noon hour at the school. Another boz | was in the office at the time and the | Richmond boy asked him fl he could | open the boxes. The lad said he cOulc not and Richmond said he eouh He | tried several of the boxes which open | by combination and found one un- | tocked- There were seven Or eight let | ters in the box and Richmond. think
 ing there was no one in charge of the 0ffiee. be having previously looked back ! of the boxes. took them NIT Merriman
 was hack Of a door and out of view
 of the lad. He stepped out and spoke
 to the Richmond boy The latter broke 4 Eu