Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-14
IuTMEo GRATINas.
Interesting Items Boiled Down for ous Busy Reeders,

l0te1estlu8 StcWb OOA100 OvW& " 0us Busy ResderA Frank B. Knox and Edward Wal ker, rural delivery mail carriers, of Woodbury, are enjoying g fifteen days vacation. Their wives are act ing as substitutes during their ab- sence.
 Patrick Sheridan, tailor. of Hart ford, was, found dead in chair at his home yesterday afternoon from heart disease.
 Mrs. Aurora Cecelia Lindberg, wife of Andrew Lindberg. of Hart ford, died at her home yesterday morning at II o'clock from an over dose of morphine. Mrs Lindberg had been addicted to the use of the drug. | Ernest Caldwell, 16 years old, of Hartford, who was committed to the State school for Boys by Judge Garvan few months ago. escaped from that institution yesterday morn ing, but was caught by the Hartford police late last night at his home here.
 Several dealers in liquid refresh ments in Glastonbury are exercised over the fact that revenue of1cers are trying to collect tax of $2O year for the sale of beverage which goes under the name of XXX, or superior malt extract.
 Thomas F. Welch, judge of the Southington town court and a poul- try raiser of many years experience, visited his hen coops after Wednes- days lightning had shattered tree in his dooryard and done other damage about the place, to find one of his prize bullets dead on the nest, killed by lightning. In the nest were two eggs each with small hole through them.
 The strike at the Hopeweil Mills in Glastonbury has been declared on and the weavers went back to work l this morning MT Glazier has had several conferences with committee from the weayers in the last two days and an agreement was reached which is satisfactory to both sides. A new schedule of payment was agreed on which will so into effect October 1.
 The male members of the senior and junior classes of the Middletown | High Achool have issued mandate forbidding the male freshmen and
 sophomores to be seen with their | trousers rolled up at the bottom. Some of the verdant first year men obeyed the order with fear and trem- bling, but the more confident "sophs' | ignored the ultimatum, and as a re-
 suit there have been several tussles
 for the supremacy.
 An apparently delicate attempt to | wreck a trolley car was made at Tor
 rington last night when large boul- l der was put across the track between
 here and Winsted derailing car go
 ing from this city. None of the
 twenty-five passengers on the car
 was injured. Conductor Arthur Bur
 we'll of a car which had passed the point where the boulder was found | about half an hour before, reports
 that the track was clear at that time
 He also says that man who got on
 his car at Torrington refused to pay
 a second fare and vowed vengeance
 when he was put off the car.
 | The nude body of man was found
 floating in the Connecticut river at q
 point opposite the old pumping sta.
 ton in Riverside park, Hartford, al
 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
 body was that of a man about 40
 years old, feet tall, 175 or 1Sl
 pounds in weight, with black hair and
 mustache and blue eyes. There were
 no marks on the body except small
 scar on the back of the neck from ar
 old wound and slight abrasion over
 one eye.
 But for the presence of mind ol
 William Tennyson, probably Miss
 Lena Yaeder of Rocky Hill would
 have lost all of her hair at the factory
 of the Champion Manufacturing
 Company yesterday. Both Tenny
 son and Miss Yeager are employed
 at the factory and Miss Yaeder wal
 working at draw press, drilling
 holes in small iron castings, part ol
 skirt measuring device manufactur
 ed at the shop. In bending over hel
 work her hair caught in a set screw
 on the rapidly revolving upright o
 the press. and in an instant her heat
 was drawn up to the shaft. Mir Ten
 nyson happened to be standing neal
 the press, and hearing her scream
 instantly grabbed the belt. throwins
 1t off the pulley which stopped tho
 machinery. but not until a part o
 her scalp, nearly three inches In dia | -S l-I I-