Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-06
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Interesting Items Boiled Down fo | Our Busy Readers. The post office department hal
 ruled against the Bridgeport Even ing Post conducting lottery scheme in the mail editions of the paper foI the purpose of increasing its circu.
 lation.
 Twelve horses perished last night
 in the burning of large barn To.
 cated in the lumber yard of Josepl
 Brush of Greenwich. The loss is es- timated at $3,000.
 For many years pocketbooks and
 various kinds of purses have been collecting at the Hartford police sta tion, until now there is nearly halt bushel of them, containing sums ranging from 10 cents to $5 and $6 or more.
 The first consignment of winter strawberries from Florida has reach ed New York and it only costs $1 to own a rather small quart of small berries. Choice ones," as those a trifle larger are rated, can be had for an additional quarter!
 Mayor Willard c. Fisher of Mid- dletown has discharged two members of the street department for drunk enness. A short time ago the mayor announced that street employees would have to restrain from taking intoxicants while on duty.
 At the special election for the town of Groton yesterday Amos R.. Chapman, democrat. was elected first selectman against Judge Albert Stanton, republican, to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of Simeon G. Fish. This gives the democrats control of the town affairs.
 The coal barge from the tow of the tug H. A. Baxter, which was lost off New Haven during Mondays storm, lies 1,5O0 south by west of Suerry light on the breakwater. It is in three and a half fathoms of water at low tide and is an Obstruc- tion to navigation to some extent.
 The Southington selectmen have decided to order all dogs in town to be either muzzled or held in leash. The order will be passed as soon as the justices of the peace can be called together to pass the order. The mad dog scare of last Sunday in Marion is responsible for the order.
 Seward E. Cowles of New Britain is in possession of an old letter, which has been handed down in the Cowles family 161 years. The epistle is dated from Glastonbury, April 29, 1745, and written to Captain Sam uel Cowles of the Fifth company for Kensington parish by Thomas Wells, colonel. It contains an order to have his company in readiness for one of the colonial struggles preceding the French and Indian war.
 Assessors T. H. Root, R. w. How ard and Andrew J. Slater of Farm ington have been at work about three weeks going over all the property in Pennington and adjusting valu- ations wherever 1t seemed advisable. They started out with the idea of increasing the grand list about 25 per cent. or one-half million dollars. The town has been steadily running In debt and something had to be done to turn the tide the other way.
 Edward Shaw, an old man of dis tinguished appearance, who has been convicted under the names of Phil Howe, Phil Clark, Ed Hastings and other aliases, and has done time in several state prisons of the west and New York state, changed his plea to guilty in the superior court at yesterday afternoon on the charge of stealing $150 from An lrew Ferretti in Norwalk Septem- Der 20 last, and received a sentence of from one to three years in Weth- ,rsfield prison.