Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-18
Interesting Items Boiled Down for
 Our Busy Readers.

Jacob Hyatt, 16 years old, fell be
 heath a moving freight train at the
 Maple avenue crossing in Danbury
 yesterday. and sustained injuries
 from which he died shortly after l wards.
 Mrs Timothy Walter. aged 75 years
 committed suicide at Eastford yester
 day by jumping into Tatem pond and
 drowning. In the last six years Mrs
 Walter has tried to end her life three
 times.
 The Ravine Mills company owners
 of the Phoenix mill. at Rockville, are
 offering reward of $25 for the de-
 tection and conviction of persons who
 wantonly destroyed its property by
 breaking the windows. Eighty-twu
 panes of glass were smashed.
 George H Adams, for nearly twen-
 ty years keeper of the lighthouse at
 Little Gull Island, will leave the ser,
 ivce on August 31, taking from it one
 of the best known men on the Con-
 necticut coast. Mir Adams, who Is 6G
 years old.
 J. F. Carr, who conducts a clothing
 store in Danbury, and his clerk, P. D.
 Donahue, caught sneak thief in the
 store yesterday shortly before noon.
 After a tussle they held their man un-
 til Captain Richmond arrived and | placed him under arrest. The thief
 gave his name as Arthur H. Millikin.
 When found Millikan had a package
 of shirts under his arm and was about
 to leave the building,
 Nathaniel 1T. McPhee of Bridge
 port, a trained athlete, well known
 among lovers of aquatic sports, has
 announced his intention of swimming. across Long Island sound. The course
 selected will necessitate his covering over thirteen miles straight swim ming. Besides the distance east and west he will be carried, about four miles each way. by the flood and ebb tide he will encounter. Last Sunday. entirely alone, he swan from the public baths at Seaside park to Meadows End, distance of nearly ten miles.
 A Portuguese fisherman commenced work in the waters near New London Monday morning at 4 o'clock and in the afternoon sold the result of his labors for S23.75. The fisherman ex- plained that it was good day. but said that it was not unusual for him to make SIS and S20. This man has lobster pots in the sound and goes to them every morning when the tide Is right. Monday he made a good haul of holsters. He fished for black fish while he was waiting for the tide to turn so that he could haul the pots and caught seventy pounds.
 Henry w. Ferry of Elmwood dis trict, Bethel, has recently lost five cows of hydrophobia. The animals were supposed to have been bitten by a strange dog. which ran wild through that district several weeks ago. Three of the cows died in great agony three or four weeks ago, and this developed the disease and have died. The veterinarian who treated them pronounced the disease to be hydro phObia. hut to be certain he made a examination to decide whether or not they might have been pronounced the disease to be hydro cate any disease except hydrophobia.
 A herd of about five deer have near ly ruined the vegetable garden of Mrs Edward Gillon, at East Hampton. They are very tame and unless Mrs | Gillon stays in the patch with a stick | all the time the deer will raid it. She | lives somewhat removed from other | houses. Now she has complained 10 | Selectman F. II. Durham and he has | appointed commissioners to appraise | the damage which the state will be | called upon to pay. Selectman Dun- ham has already filed one other claim. | that of Henry Evans of Middle Had dam. whose grain was ruined by deer. The appraisers fixed his damage at | SIS.
 Before adjourning Its annual con- vention yesterday the International Association of Municipal Electricians voted to gather at Norfolk. Va. next | year. Officers chosen were as fol- lows: President T. C. O'Hearn of Cambridge. Mass: viccpresidents, James Grant. New Haven: Clarence R. George. Houston. Tex: John Barry. W IT. Bradt. Troy. V. r.: secretary. Frank P Foster. Corn, ng. \. Y.: treasurer. C F.. Diehl. Pa: executive commit 'ee. !. B. Yeakle. Baltimore: R. A. Smith. Norfolk. Va: William Crane. Erie. Pa: Jerry Murphy. Cleveland: William Pelty. Rutherford. V. l.: T. P. Almon. St Louis: \. s. Hatch. De- 'rOit; ". IT. Thompson. Richmond, md q. F. McDonah. Ottawa.
 Frank Miller. a 9-years-old South boy who is spending the 'ummer In Marlborough at the house ,f his uncle. A. B Miller had a tus- iie with a black snake while in bath ng this week. The lad was about to 'ome out of the water when hc spie,l he snake near his clothes evidently in ending to fight for possession of ev- .rything fin sight. With only stones he lad finally killed the reptile. II three feet and six inchs.
 z. s. whipple of LeffiiBgwelltOwn las been successful In growing for Norwich Chinamen's use the Chinese 'abllag-s and cJcumbers The Chin 70 cabbage never forms a head. it rows more like mammoth lettuce. Mr yhipple has grown cabhages of this -ariety that weighed eight pounds. The cabbage has a tap root all out of tO it's size. rpSembIing in hape the icicle radish or the saIsify. rhis cabbage is of a miIier flavor har Arncrirar. healing nahl.aruz nr,i ]