Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-20
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 Mrs Ellen Riley, widow of Thomas Riley, died Saturday night at the New Britain general hospital of injuries that she had received a number of days before by falling out of d win dow.
 The Hartford employees of the Con- sOlidated Railway company have been ] notified of an increase of wages which will take effect next Saturday, and which will be the third within year.
 The 12-years-old daughter of 1 Charles Scoville of Bristol found an unused cartridge Saturday and while | playing with it it exploded mangling | the thumb and two fingers on, her right hand. They were amputated,
 Ralph. the 5-years-old son of Ed ward Standish of Wethersfield, was struck by an automobile owned by c. Edward Buckland, of Hartford Saturday. receiving injuries which re- suited in his death at the Hartford hospital little later.
 John O'Connor, 40 years old, who lived at Long hotel. Hartford. fell from the steamer Madeleine and was drowned near the "blow hole" at Rocky Hill shortly before 10 o'clock last night. The boat was bringing a large party of eXcursionists from Say brook Point and panic followed the cry, Man overheard"
 David Skeggs, 24 years of age, youngest son of MT and Mrs James ,,f x,-1fJ ;v, uvx-;n ,i,,or with party of young men, Howard Scholes. Fred Scholes. JamesParma- lee at Notts Island in the Connecticut River. Saturday afternoon, was taken with cramps and drowned in ten feet of water.
 The three-story brick building at No S4 Pratt street. Hartford. owned by Jerome E. Sage and occupied on the ground floor by his dry goods store and on the upper floors by sev- eral families, started to collapse at o'clock Saturday evening, and while efforts were immediately made to stop the settling of the foundation. there were continued signs yesterday that the west wall was still sliding out and that the building was in serious con dition
 Not in many years has there been seen such a large school of porpOises in Thames river as was seen Friday morning. The school worked up the river close to the Groton shore, some going close to the ferry slip. The DOT poises were unusually large and threw themselves out of the water much higher than commonly seen. Below the big drawbridge the school divided, some turning round by the New Lon don docks, while about half went along up the river. Old salts were undecided as to just wha- th" nor 'nises were after. Some thought that they were after school of blues, while others thought they were chas- ing up a school of menhaden
 Brown Brothers paper mill at Con- stock Bridge has shut down for lack of water. Salmon river being it's source of supply. The river is very low and this handicaps the East Had dam electric light power station at Leesville. The lights furnished are very dim and unless rain comes soon tUtI Uldl lidNt lO be uistolitiiiutu UT auxiliary power provided. Some of the old inhabitants who had predicted some time ago an early winter owing to the swamps and springs being full of water are now saying little about 1t. They will not give their final de- cision until they see how the wind holds on September 21, the equinox.
 Frederick P. Edwards of Hartford, 2S years old, was drowned in Weth- ersfield Cove about 11:30 Saturday night when dory in which were seat ed Edwards and Miss Minnie F.. Hunt of No 10 East street. capsiZed. when Edwards brother Charles. 23 years old. jumped into it from the launch from which all three were disem- barking. They were thrown into the water and Edwards exhausted in an effort to save Miss Hunt, sank and did not come up again. The other two were saved by Richard D. FaXon of No [ Congress street. who was just anchoring his said boat a few rods away.