Connecticut western news., 1907-05-09
NEWS 0F THE STATE
JOHNNY O'THE WOODS BACKsLIDEs
Operation-A Seven-year-oId Pyro- maniac-Helpess and Alone for I5 Hours-Peach Crop Ruined.

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 maniac-Helpless and Alone for I5
 Hours-Peach Crop Ruined.
 Peach growers in Plainville complain that the fruit crop is practically ruined by the continued cold weather.
 Danbury's winter schedule of coal prices will not be broken this summer except for large lots.
 Fareily Osgood has resigned his posi- tion as general manager for the New Milford Power Company to take effect June 1.
 Roscoe Benjamin, Winsted, Conn.,, has purchased the grey pacer William l., 2.114, and the comple outfit of the estate of the late James W. Wheeler.
 Bridgeport has terror in the shape of a 7-year-old boy son of William P. Hopkins, in the South End, who is evil dently a born firebug He has at tempted to burn three barns.
 Accused of neglect and i'll treatment that caused the death of his wife, who died without the services of doctor and in the midst of filth and destitu- tion, Eugene Mosley of Ellington has been arrested. He is 70 years.
 Helpless from stroke of paralysis, Mrs. Thomas Wilson, an aged widow in Winsted, who lives alone, was found by neighbors lying on a couch with her head hanging over the edge, where it is thought she had been for fifteen hours.
 Fred Lake overseer of the Schaghticoke Indians i'll Litchfield county, has been sued by William Britton, of Danbury to recover $400 damages, on a claim that the overseer in April, 1905, sold 1,091 railroad cross ties belonging to the plaintiff and appropriated the money.
 Elwood F. Belden,a a Rocky Hill fisher man, had the best luck so far this season while fishing last week, about 20 shad and about 5000 alewives, or about 20 su- gar barrelsfull being caught. Previously he had caught but eight shad and he now thinks the run has begun.
 Weatherman Luman Andrews of Southington, who has kept the weather report for the past 37 years, says that this year was the coldest month of April in 28 years; also its record of 12 inches of snow was broken only once and that was in 1874. May 1, 1876, two inches of snow fell.
 Amendment to the constitution of the United Order of American Mechanics at the annual state convention in New Haven this week, making it optional with councils to reduce the initiation fee from $10 to $5, and another proposed amendment will be the admission of foreign-b born citizens to membership. This was voted down last year.
 Helplessly Drunk, John Brennan, the aged wanderer known all over the state as Johnny O the Woods fell on the sidewalk in Danbury and was taken to the police station. Brennan is an ec- centric, who wears half dozen heavy OV6TCOdUS dll the year TOunu, IrdVelS over the country and sleeps where night overtakes him.
 A Stamford doctor recently performed a difficult skin grafting operation. on Frank Millet. From the boys leg, circular section of skin about half an inch in diameter was removed and trans planted successfully to the palm of his right hand. Another strip, about an inch long and half an inch wide, was grafted on the top of the scalp. The op- eration has every indication of being successful.
 Ferdinand l.. Hall came across curi- ous assortment of musty old documents in a stone fence ill Stamford. They in- cluded two wills, several deeds and a number of promissory notes. The wills were of Lewis Northrup. The second was dated March 8, 1864. There were also a number of promissory notes but from these the signature was cut out. The signature was also cut out from deed.