Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-17
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The star mail route between Col
 nnsville and Torrington, will be dls-
 continued November 24. The train Dlspatchers' union on tho
 New York, New Haven ( Hartford
 system has asked the road for 10
 per cent increase in wages. Ogden Mills Reid, son of Wrhitelaw
 Reid, the ambassador to England was
 in Hartford yesterday and assisted
 in coaching the high school football,
 team.
 Ex-Chief of Police Cornelius Ryan
 and Mrs Ryan of Hartford will cele-
 brate the fiftieth anniversary of their
 marriage Friday, November 23. They
 will keep open house to their friends all day.
 Arthur Madsen, night engineer at the rolling mill of the Aetna Nut Co, or Southington, narrowly escaped bleeding to death yesterday morning. Feeling tickling in his throat lie tried to relieve 1t by coughing. He broke a blood vessel and bled for nearly one hour.
 The recent Bailey murder trial win cost Middlesex county about x4,nOO. The bills so far amount to over S3, ,1OO and the stenographer's and juriey bills have not yet been presented. Most of the expense is incurred in the lawyers fees and medical services of experts.
 While returning to her home from her school in the Rattum district, at New Hartford, Catherine Hogan, the teacher, saw deer grazing by the roadside. The animal did not move as the teacher approached and waa so tame that 1t allowed her to pet 1t andi after short acquaintance the deer trotted away leisurely. not in the lenstl afraid.
 N. B. A. Carrier, while driving t0l East Hampton from Marlborough latol Thursday afternoon in the storm, was startled by something that winged by him passing between his body and the whipstock It sounded like bofnbi but proved to be big cock partridge of ruffed grouse bent on seeking shel-i ter among some cedars on the side Of the road.
 A Farmington car eastward bound jumped the switch at Quaker Lanel late last night and for a time tied up all the traffic on the line, dozens of having to be transferred at the switch. A number of students from the Hartford High school who were enjoying dance in the town hall in West Hartford were forced to wait in the square until long after midnight.
 Fire last night destroyed two large barns at the Hill Top stock farm, at Danbury, belonging to William Beck erie. The barns contained 100 cows, half of which were suffocated. There were several horses in one of the barns but they were saved. Large quantities of hay. grain. straw, farm implements and wagons were de- stroyed. The loss will be more than s1O,OO0 partly covered by insurance.
 A boulder marking the grave of Moses Cleveland, the founder of Ohio, and upon which a bronze plate has been placed bearing a tribute to the deceased, was to have been unveiled yesterday in the Can terbury cemetery, but as the ground was frozen and covered with snow. the exercises was held in the Congre- yational church. The exercises wcre of the tooth anniver- ,ary of MT Cleveland,s death.
 Mrs James Backus. who resides in he Rockland district of Durham, was brought to the Middlesex County hospital Thursday evening suffering rom horrible injuries inflicted from ierce encounter with n sow Tho low had litter of pigs and had kill .d two during vicious mood. Mrs Backus went into the pen to remove he dead pigs when the SOW savagely her. A terrible battle was ought. and only for a dog, which Ieemed to realize the danger of it's Mrs Backus would un- have been killed. One ear vas badly bitten and nearly chcwed ,ff and both arms were broken.