Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-08
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Interesting Itcms Boiled Down for
 Our Busy Readers.

Interesting ltcms Boiled Down fo
 Our Busy Readers.
 While driving Saturday afternoon
 In Litchfield, Miss Olive Willis collid
 ed with a heavier wagon. Miss Wnli
 was thrown, but was not injured.
 Actual work was commenced on tn
 new club house of the Veteran Cit,
 Guard association which is to be bull
 near Hathaway's Landing, Windsor.
 The old mattress factory near tn,
 Guildersleeve shipyard, Portland, wa
 burned the night of July 4. The fac.
 tory has been unoccupied for years
 but scrap iron was sometimes stored
 in 1t.
 The official call for the thirty
 eighth annual convention of the c
 T. A. 4. has been issued by Rev Johr
 Elty. It will be held in Torrlngton
 August 10 and 20.
 sloop containing three men, fol.
 lowing in the wake of the ferryboat
 Governor Winthrop last evening, was capsized near the New London slip
 A launch close at hand picked up the men and lowed the sloop ashore.
 The tug Isis had to go to the as- sistance of the steamer Edgemont yesterday afternoon as the latter was entering the harbor at Bridgeport, and had run aground. On board the Edgemont was an excursion party of 469 from New York bound for Bridge port.
 At midnight Saturday night an cleo tric car whizzing along from Wood mont to New Haven struck, dragged along and killed Harry Cooper, farm hand who was lying with his head on the track. The accident happened half way between the Colonial inn and Ry- der's Crossing.
 The heaviest thunder storm of the season visited eastern Connecticut Saturday afternoon between and 4 o'clock. The electical flashes were vivid, although little damage was done. In Vernon, two cows belong ing to George Dart were killed. Tn Poland, d couple of large trees were. struck.
 Attempting to get on a swing in Bay View park, New Haven, yester- day afternoon while it was in motion, Norman Hoffman, 10-year-old boy living at S1 Sylvan avenue, fell under the swing and was pinned to the ground by it. He was picked up some- what bruised but not seriously hurt.
 A dinky engine, such as is used be- tween Hartford and Bristol made it's first appearance on the Rockville line, Saturday afternoon, making the 1925 and 1105 runs from this city to Yer non, in place of the freight engine, which was of the iron" near Yer non, for the day. The dinky is just the thing for these runs, as only one car is used.
 Robert Burnham of South Man. chester was Saturday the owner of twelve ygung ducks. When the hail began to fall the brightness of the stones attracted their attention and soon they began to pick them up with their bills. The hail kept fall ing and they kept eating it until sud- denly one of them fell over stiff. An other son followed until all of them were stretched out dead.
 ' A scare was created in the vicinity of the Thomaston house about noon Saturday at ThOmaston when smoke l was seen issuing from the livery | stable office in the rear of the hotel. i The fire originatel in coat that had | been hung in the building a short | time previous in which a lighted pipe 1ad evidently been left The only danl- lge done was to the side of the office which was slightly charred.
 In Bloomfield the storm of Saturday Afternoon was attended with hail in portions north of the center. Hail. stones in large quantities and of good 'lze were picked up. A remarkable 'reak of the lightning was in strik- ng an apple tree in an orchard near George Mexcur's farm and burning ut the interior of the trunk. leaving 'nly shell. No serious damage was eported as caused by the hail.
 Thomas Levitt and other teamsters If Bristol are having the hardest ines of their lives of late in secur- ng men to drive their teams. Ih ears past 1t was an easy thing to ge, nen for s1.75 or less a day. Now tho henpest kind of labor demands s1.T5 [ day and even at that they as ule remain only few days. One eamster said Saturday he had been oslng money on account of the high wages. il After a nine months voyage around he world during which he participat- d in the jubilee in celebration of the ftleth anniversary of the Methodist lissions in India. and the centennial elebration of the Protestant church l China, Rev Frances T. Brown of be First Methodist church of New Iaven returned home Saturday even lg with his wife and 4-year-old son rancis Valentine Brown. All has q lost enjoyable tour and are glad, they to be back in the old Elm fly again. The treasury department of Yale has installed an addresso- rnph. labor economizer, which has capacity of turning out 10000 ad- resses in eight hours. The machine
 regarded as an immense help in II treasury office. since the work of 2