Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-03
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 Bristol-Miss Addie Belden, who teaches in the Edgewood school is sick with a mild case of diphtheria at the home of Mrs Andrew J. Cur isis ,and as a result of her illness the school is closed.
 Danbury-Yesterday afternoon, George F. Ray, aged 17 years, while running foot race with compan- ion\in the woods short distance south of this city, was stricken with heart disease and fell dead. New London-The schooner Gen eral Torbett, bound from New York ! to Fishers Island with drain tile, went ashore on Little Goshen reef yesterday morning. The vessel was alter hauled off by tugs She does not leak and will proceed.
 Hartford-Despite all that medical care could do for Robert G. Merri- man, who was struck by an automo- bile owned by Appleton R. Hillyer and driven by William H. Phair Sat urday night, the young man died at 3:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home, 37 Lorraine street.
 Danbury-Mrs Hawley Patrick, wife of we'll known manufactures of this city, went from her home last Friday and has not since been heard from. The police of the state have been requested to search for her. Mrs Patrick is 63 years old and has sil- yer gray hair. When she left home she wore a brown dress and carried a telescope travelling bag. She is be- lieved to be mentally unbalanced.
 Manchester-Albert Shortman, a German living in the town of Yer non just over the Manchester town line has been missing from her home since last Wednesday and although a search is being made for him his whereabouts are still unknown. His boat was found Saturday noon in the upper pond of the Manchester Water Co overturned and there are fears that he may have been drown ed.
 Haydens-F'ire which started last evening about [ o'clock destroyed the house and all its contents belong ing to Rev Dennis s. White of Hay den's Station. The house was locat ed near the Methodist Zion church of that place, of which Rev MT White was the former pastor. The fire was caused by the over heating of the kitchen stove, which set fire to the woodwork of the house. It is reported that MT White carried no insurance.
 Hartford-Because of the extreme low water, the steamer Hartford, soon after it left the State street dock yesterday afternoon for the trip to New York, touched on sandbar into the Connecticut and remained fast until the tide had risen. Fortu- nately the tide was then coming up and in about twenty minutes the steamer was able to proceed, without and outside help being needed to get her off the sand.
 Higganum-What is probably the oldest campaign banner in the coun- try is on the roadside in Higganum on the old Hartford and Saybrook turnpike near the Catholic church. It is painted on a big rock and the work was originally done by the late James Cone of this place in the fla mout Fremont and Jessie campaign The flag has been repainted twice, but otherwise is as MT Cone made it. Several of the older residents remem- Der the time when it was first placed on the rock and they relate stirring stories of the campaign of 1856, when the republican party made it's first appearance on the national field
 Hartford-Samuel A. Miner of the Miner Garage Co met with an un- pleasant accident Saturday afternoon while running in his auto toward this city on the road two miles out of Southboro, Mass. Some one of party of boys about 12 or 14 years of age, who were in an orchard near the road, shot him in the hand with a small calibre rifle The bullet tore the sleeve of MT Miners fur coat, cut gash in the cuff of it, and passed through his glove, inficting a flesh wound in the back part of his hand. The youthful perpetrators of the deed took to the woods, so that MT Miner, who was unable to stop his car for some distance, could not find out who they were. With a wrapped around his in- jured hand he ran his car to Worces- ter, Mass, where the wound was dressed in a drug store
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