Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-16
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 For the first time in ten years, all the employees of the state at the cap itol yesterday received their salaries in gold.
 Mrs Evelyn Goodsell, 72 years old, was fatally injured in fall from a trolley car in New Haven last night. It is said that fuse burned out and that the car was dark when the ac- c!dent occurred.
 William B. Burke, motorman on the tramway, his sons, Clarence and William c. Allison of South Manches. ter went to Bolton fishing yesterday. They brought home a large amount of fish and among them were five that weighed pound and a half apiece.
 The Hartford & Springfield Street Railway company has made arrange ments with the bridge company of Thompsonville whereby transfers from all the cars will be accepted for foot passenger across the bridge af Warehouse Point, provided the trans fer ticket is used within within fif- teen minutes.
 The firm of Daniels Brothers, the milk and butter dealers of Middle town, have purchased the brick block at the corner of Main and Union streets, and will thoroughly renovate it, to be used for the sale of milk ant butter. Part of the building is now being used as tenement, and the other part is occupied by T. H. Bride The work will be commenced this fall.
 Charles Brainard, 54 years old of Haddam, was drowned in the Connee- ticut river about o'clock last night about a mile below Middle Haddam on the west side. He and a man named Butler, also of Haddam, were in power boat Brainard was stand ing up in the boat, and lost his bal ance and fell over. Butler tried to rescue him, but could do nothing. The Hartford Lodge of Elks tried some time ago to make arrangements with Pierce & Norton, proprietors of Lake Compounce, to go to Bristol and hold sheep barbecue. They made the arrangements all right, but they wrote Manager Pierce at the lake yesterday saying that on account of the high price of taking the crowd to Bristol from Hartford they would have to give it up.
 The work on the new building of the Malleable Iron Fittings company is progressing and the score of cleo tric!ans who are at Branford from Cincinnati are now installing the electrical part of the plant. The sea- son at the foundry has been a busy one and an additional large force has been taken on to get out the work ordered.
 Complaints are being registered in regard to the poor light service fur nished Plainville. The streets are lighted by Welsbach lamps and the town is powerless to act in the mat ter as the company has the contract for the year. An official inspector for the company visited the town yester- day and claimed that the fault is in the men that have charge of the
 lamps. Efficient men will be secured and the result will be closely watched.
 At At6is time of the year when snapper blues are running strong at
 Fair Haven the Middletown avenue bridge is a favorite spot The bridge
 Is lined every day with men and boys and some good catches are made. The fish are small as yet, but are quite numerous and last Monday one man
 is reported to have caught sixty.
 With the crowd of youngsters who
 bathe at the Camargo the section is one of the most popular along the Quinnipiac.
 Shore folks at Westbrcok are tear
 ing dictionaries apart to find suffi- cient and suitable adjectives to de- scribe the weather. It's great; so ex-
 hilarating, snappy, and makes one
 feel that it's really been worth while
 waiting for 1t. The sun has been
 blazing in fine style lately; and the
 cool sea breezes have tempered the
 atmosphere to a just right" degree
 The evenings are causing the West
 brookers to don their coats. Sleep X ! rus ID aiSt hoAC sOthiOi tabiC uhuCH
 blankets.
 Judge William Sydney Downs of ' Derby had narrow escape from be- ing plunged over 12-foot embank-
 ment with his automobile yesterday , afternoon as he was on his way to his
 summer home at Mapledale. just
 north of Derby. As he was rounding a sharp turn in the road the wind blew of his hat. and in reaching up
 to grab it. the judge twisted the [ steering gear. and the machine dash
 ed against the guard rail along the
 roadside which overlooks the Housa-
 tonic river. breaking the rail and
 stopping just short of going over the
 bank. When Judge Downs shut ofi , the power the machine was halt |, hanging over the bank. It was later , drawn back on to the roadway.
 The Southern New England Tele. phone company in New Britain is in. stalling 400 pair cables. having 400 } l wires. in the subway on Main street
 between West Main and East Main strests in place of fifty pair cables with 100 wires. The company is tc put new fifty pair overhead cables on East Main street through Hartford
 avenue as far out Stanley Quarter
 way as Allen street. In West Main
 street 400 pair cables have been in.
 stalled as far as Emmons place. 206 Il sA