Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-10
NUTMEG CRAVINGS
Interesting Items Boiled Down For
 the Benefit of Our Readers.

Yesterday Colonel Ellsworth \. Phelps of Windsor passed his S0th birthday. For years he has been one ! of the towns best known citizens and
 is still attending to his business duties
 and is still active in town affairs. A marriage license has been issued in New Haven to General George NJ. Harmon and Miss Jessie A. Chatter ton General Harmon served ill the
 civil war. He was adjutant-general of
 the state under General Bigelow. The
 general is 6S and his bride to be is A
 Friends of Thomas Sheehan of New
 Britain, who went up to Lakeyille a
 few weeks ago, will be pleased to learn
 that he is thriving in the cold climate
 of the hills. Mir Sheehan is taking the
 open air treatment and sleeps out
 doors. His cot is arranged on a veran-
 da. In letter home to folks in town
 "Tommie- said he awoke the other
 morning with an inch of snow on the
 blankets and the mercury aft s degrees
 below zero. Mighty fine writes
 Tom.
 Arthur ]. Monroe. the ex-captain of
 the base ball team at Wesleyan, broke
 through the ice at Pameachea pond Thursday night and was rescued by his companion, Thomas W. Coote. one of the Wesleyan football men. Monroe skated on to thin layer of ice. where the water was quite deep. When he came to the surface he clung to the edge of the ice until Coote was able to grasp his hands and pull him out.
 W. F.. Gates. postmaster of Glaston- bury, is going to bring before the gen eial superintendent of mails at Boston a case in which he says that during tine storm yesterday trolley cars made q few trips to Glastonbury and carried no mail. Letters and other mail mat ter due there at S:30 o'clock did no. reach the postoffice till ? o'clock yester- day afternoon, and in the interval trol- Icy cars were running. The postmaster of South Glastonbury confirms this state of affairs. and he. too. Is to bring it before the superintendent of mails.
 Francois Tatro of Saybrook. aged about 6 years, deliberately sought death at $40 yesterday afternoon by throwing himself in front of a fast ex pressed. which killed him instantly and mangled his body. Several saw Ta- tro's act and that it was deliberate is beyond doubt. He was walking along near the freight station and stopped to watch the train approach. When it was almost upon him he threw himsel. across the rails. Tatro had lived in saybrook for about fifteen years, hut was apparently without friends or rela- 1 lives. He had done such odd work as wood ehopping. He had been a hard 1 thinker. but those who saw him yeste.s day say he was not intoxicated and | that his death cannot be attributed to | that cause He had always been of a | Isiet. morose disposition
 Henry G. Demme. the foreman of | ihe Southern New England Telephone Co in Manchester who WAS arrested I n Hartford Thursday for the theft of | .JO pounds of copper wire from the -ompany. was fined s25 and costs. amounting in all to sa.Di. Demme's heft was discovered by Detective Ser ,eant Butler. who ran acrosS the wire md trared it to Demme. During his rial yesterday Dcmme did not attempt Q defend himself and acknowledged is guilt. saying that he had got into fix through drink and had yielded to The prosecuting attorney poke of his previous good reo0rd and a fine rather than a jail enienee. After the trial Dernmes fine ras pah for him snd he vrent into con nltation with the officials of the com sny. who have expre-~e-i their will ngne<s Co take him hack Detnme is n old and has been a trusted em- love.