Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-20
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npera,e suicides that has taken place Tn thls locality for long time or- cured last night, when Celestina Leperanti. a housekeeper, ended her life by hanging.
 Branford--A skeleton, thought to be that of an Indian. was found at Indian Neck yesterday by men dig glng to lay water pipes in the rear Of the cottages there. The skeleton was in good state of preservation
 Canterbury-The fire which has been burning in the woods in the northern part of this town for the past three days, but which was sup posed to have been extinguished Sat urday night, broke out again yester- day.
 New Britain-Crazed by drink John Kempf, of No ? Cherry street, committed suicide yesterday after noon about 5 o'clock by shooting. Two shots were fired one in the ab- doWen and the other over the left eyeN
 Bristol-A fierce woods fire has been ragaing in what is known as the Hooper District" north Of Bristol, since Sunday, and men were called out to fight the flames. Sew eral hundred acres of woodland have been burned over.
 Winsted-This place was com. pletely enveloped in smoke yester- day owing to forest fires in this vi- cinity. An area, near the residence of Tunis Goodenough in Winchester was burned over, the flames at times reaching height of thirty feet.
 East Hampton-A forest fire start, ed by hunters trying to smoke out a squirrel burned over about forty acres of woodland owned by Henry Markham, Henry Strong and H. T.. Selley, Saturday night. Fire Warden Ernest Markham and about twenty men went out to fight the flames which were controlled about 3 o'clock.
 Bridgeport Il. Depatie, . tile worker, employed in decorating the cement covering of the iron girders on the Hotel Stratfield, fell at 3:3o D. m. yesterday from scaffold that was suspended opposite the windows of the upper story in the rear of the building, and after making several revolutions in the air, landed with a loud thud on the roof of the colon ade wing of the building, and was killed instantly.
 Hartford-The girl who was pick ed up on the road to Berlin by Mir and Mrs Edward Tanning last week and who gave her name as Edith Martin, has been found to be Bea- trice Lindauer. whose stepfather lives at No Home avenue, Meriden. The girl had been punished and ran away from home and, while Mir and Mrs Tanning are willing to keep her it has been decided that she shall be returned to her family.
 Stratford- Miss Amy W. Gaines of this town. who is a teacher at the State Normal school at Danbury is one of the three teachers chosen from the state normal schools to lrepresent Connecticut in the study, of schools abroad. She sailed with the other teachers who are from all parts of this country on the steamer Arabic" last Thursday. The teach CTS are to be gone six weeks and will | visit the school of Ireland, England and Holland.
 Winsted-Mrs Parenteau has | abandoned her husband and four children and gone with another man The Parenteau family live in the house in the rear of the tennis courts of the Wilson Tennis club or | Windsor avenue. MT Parenteau is
 brick burner, works for the Will.
 son Brick company and draws good pay. On Saturday evening, when he
 returned from his work he found g
 note from his wife. saying that she
 had gone away with another fellow
 New Britain-Louis Johnson, al
 Armenian barber, was found deat
 yesterday afternoon in the back room of Nish Moradian's barber shoI
 Sweeney's block, East Main street l Medical Examiner T. C. Wrigh 1 made an investigation and was O
 the opinion that it was case 0 1 natural causes. Johnson was abor l 3S years of age. He was somewha
 of an agitator of the extremist typ' and was one of the prime movers Il | the now famous parade of the un | employed here a few months ago.
 Bridgeport-Be Between 5 and
 o'clock yesterday afternoon some o
 the women in the tenement house a
 the corner of Knowlton street ant East Washington avenue entered th'
 apartments of Mrs Mary K. William , on the second floor and found he
 body reclining on bed fully dressed
 with the exception of her shoes. ant
 beside her a half emptied three
 ounce phial of carbolic acid. Notic
 was sent to the authorities, Medica
 Examiner Downs viewed the remain and they were transferred to tn
 morgue.
 Bethel-Fire Warden w. T. Mas
 son with large gangs of men ha succeeded in putting out two nre 1 in the neighborhood of the Putnam
 Memorial state park yesterday whic
 if not discovered soon after the
 had started. would have gone beyon l control. A big forest fire extendin T over several miles of territory pc
 tween Bedding and Ridgefield vii
 probably have to burn itself ou