Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-04
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 Torrington-The plant Of the Hotchkiss Foundry Co was burned Saturday night. The loss is placed at $5,0OO.
 New Canaan-Fire here yesterday destroyed the plant and part of the yards of the Irving Lockwood Coal & Wood Co and the plant of the Burchard Shirt Co with an estimated loss of s30,000.
 Hartford-Oliver H. Smith of Yale, l1911, the son of Dr o. c. Smith Of this city, has been awarded the sec ond prize in the Townsend English contest at Yale. The announcement was made Saturday
 Torrington-At special town meeting held Saturday night the school committee in conjunction with the selectmen were authorized to buy | site on the east side of the borough and build a three-story school build | ing.
 | Danielsonville- The Danielsonville Cotton Co has bought large tract of land in Pomfret Landing and will build a large dam to secure water power to run their large manufactur- ling plant. The company is going to erect another large mill in addition | to their two mills already located in Danielson.
 New Britain-A movement for the purpose of creating a workingmen' s free bed fund for the treatment of tuberculosis was started here yester- day a a mass meeting at the Russwin Lyceum over which Mayor George M. flanders presided and at which Gov ernor Woodruff, Dr J. F. c. Foster of New Haven, chairman of the state tuberculosis commission, John F. lGunshannon of Hartford and Horace Cheney of South Manchester spoke.
 Hartford-Andrew V. Potter. pres ident of the Trolleymen's union, was dismissed from the service of the Connecticut Go on Saturday. The mo- | tice which told of his discharge was posted on the bulletin board in the usual way but did not remain there long and no one around the offices of the company cared to talk about 1t yesterday. Potter has been in the | employ of the company for long I time, and has been running as con ductor on the South Manchester line
 Hartford-The Connecticut river shows just about the same conditions that have prevailed for the last three days. Yesterday afternoon the water was 16.9 feet above low water mark. while Saturday 1t was over the IT, foot mark. Beginning with April 25, the rise has continued with an ayer- age of half to foot day. Viewed from down stream the Capitol looks as if set in the middle of lake, and from below Naubuc it would seem as Tiff the water was just setting around the hill.
 Middletown-A petition signed by twenty citizens has been presented to the selectmen asking for special town meeting to pass vote that the town books be audited by experts. A similar petition has been presented tc the common council asking for sim. liar action on the part of the city lgoyernment. Ex-Mayor Willard C.
 Fisher is at the head of the move.
 ment He says he has no accusations lof dishonesty to make against any.
 one. He merely considers 1t good
 plan to have a thorough oyerhauline
 of all the public accounts.
 Thomaston-Edward M. Couch. 2
 blacksmith. Is the latest one to bs
 selected as a possible victim of ths
 schemers who have at various timel
 worked to certain degree of success
 the old Spanish confidence game. Re
 gently MF Couch received a letter
 similar in context to those received
 by Waterbury people and promising
 him great wealth if he would accep
 the charge of the daughter of rela
 tive of whom he had never heard. Tn, letter is dated Castle Fort of Valecia
 February 3, 1908, and Is signed Sr D
 Pedro BonIero. Castle Del Ma Province de ysIeneial. Gsndis. M 1 Couch reads the papers and will no ] even nibbie at the bait.