Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-17
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Interesting Items Boiled Down for
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 Word was received in New Havel
 last night of the death of Franl
 Simms, 10 years old, who was kille,
 in Boone. o. The report says he wa
 crushed by q freight car, but the de
 tails are not known.
 | Twelve architects have been invit cd to submit sketches for the new twenty-room schoolhouse to be erect ed in New Britain. The sketches art
 due to be in by Monday noon. Edward Ashe, a we'll known char
 aster around the East Side in New
 Haven for the past few years, wal
 found dead by Policeman Frost yes
 terday forenoon in the yard in the
 rear of Max Roth's saloon at No 13C
 Front street.
 | A mad dog coming from the direc-
 tion of Turnersville made his appear.
 ance in Southington yesterday af.
 ternoon and before he was shot on
 the farm of Lewis Shelton, by the
 farmers son, had bitten four dogs
 two cows and calf.
 l William Harris met with a pecu-
 liar accident early this week. He
 was standing near the railroad tracks
 in TbOmaston when lump of coal
 fell from the tender of a passing en- I zine, striking him in such a way as
 to fracture his right leg below the knee. :. l. Bishop Tierney will lay the cor nerstone of Roman Catholic church
 for the use of St Mary's parish at Jewett City next Sunday. Most of the priests from the eastern part of the diocese will be present at the cer- emony. as well as many from other parts of the state.
 A trolley car crossing the Chapel street bridge near State street at I New Haven last night left the tracks and ran into a stone wall. The car carried two passengers, both of whom escaped injury. The motorman was slightly injured.
 Landlord Chauncey Hooker of the l Hooker house. Willimantic, leaves Monday on what will be his fourth vacation in thirty-five years. He will go to Lake Pleasant campmeeting, where Mrs Hooker is stopping at present. and both will then go to the White Mountains for a stay of two or three weeks.
 l Hornets have been very trouble some in Simsbury, nearly all the far mers having had considerable trouble with them during having. Luther Valentine lost a horse because of a hornets sting, the horse running and injuring himself so badly that MT Valentine was obliged to shoot him. Captain Richmond of Willimantic brought two prisoners to Brooklyn jail yesterday in an automobile. It has been the custom to hire a car riage and 1t has taken an officer an entire day to go and return. This means an expense of about $10 to the city. Yesterday Captain Rich mond made the trip to and from Brooklyn in two and one-half hours. Mrs Mary P. Robbins of Simsbury met with painful accident in the Adirondacks Monday. Mrs Robbins and Miss Genevieve Robbins were with George Phelps Robbins in his large touring car. The front wheels of the car struck soft place in the road and the car was turned com pletely over, giving all the occupants a severe shaking up and breaking Mrs RobSins's arm.
 The veteran corp of the Twenty sixth Connecticut Volunteers held their forty-third annual reuriion at Ocean Beach yesterday. Seventy-six old soldiers were present at the cele- bration. The following officers were elected: President. henry A. Tyler, Old Mystic: first vice-president, G. Moore, Putnam; second vice-presi- dent. Albert o. Reed, Middletown: third vice-president, Daniel Champ lin, Woonsocket, R. l.: secretary and treasurer, Nathan D. Sevin, Norwich: corresponding secretary, Benjamin F. Gates. New London.
 Thirty-six of the 200 looms of the Willimantic Cotton Mills corporation were in operation yesterday. None of the strikers was at work, with the exception of one old man. The looms were opeated by weavers obtained from Massachusetts. Superintendent Goodline stated that on Monday he would have the entire weaving de- pertinent in operation and would | have silk instead of cotton weavers. The manager of the company's New | York office was in Willimantic yes terday making an estimate of goods | damaged by the weavers. His inves- | tigation showed that between 30 and | 60 per cent of the product was spoiled.
 Egbert Bass of Scotland, father of Edgar Bass of the Windham National bank, was the vicfl Aof a fiim-flam game Wednesday. Two men, fake eye doctors, called at his home and after examining his eyes. told him to call at the office in Willimantic and collected $1O. Mir Bass's son was in later and suspecting some thing wrong notified Captain Rich mond of Willimantic who in turn notified Deputy sheriff Pitts of Hampton, who Is now working on l the case. Deputy Sheriff Fitts found |. that the men had made four stops at Hampton. and one of the stops was 1t his own home. Here they had of- tered to remove a cataract from Mrs Fitts's eye for SIS. and later ex- pressed themselves as willing to do t for s5. The older of the two vas hout 25 vaaru old