Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-12
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South Norwalk-George w. Bryan, who was serving his third term as postmaster at Rowayton, a suburb of Norwalk, died Monday night of heart failure. He was GA years old.
 New Haven-The inventory of the estate of the late County Commis- sioner E. Foote Thompson was filed yesterday afternoon in the probate court. The inventory shows a face value of S55,43S in the estate.
 Branford-Ellen, the ' years old daughter of MT and Mrs Martin Stueck of this place, was drowned yesterday by falling from the bridge over the Branford river into the water. The body was recovered.
 Bridgeport-On Friday, August 21, Mrs Deborah Staples Silliman, Easton's famous centenarian, will have reached the remarkable age of 10S F years, she having been born, as shown by the records of the town of Fairfield and the Silliman family Bible, on February 21, 1900. =,
 Hartford-In a quarrel over a wo- man at the corner of Grove and Front streets last night, George Kitchen, 23 years old Italian, drew a revolver and began to shoot at an- other Italian, who is supposed to be Mike Capute of Portland street, and hit Philip Crimmins, bystander, in the hip with one of the bullets.
 New Haven-Director of Public Works Foley will ask the board of finance of New Haven at an early meeting for S30,000 to save the elm trees from the ravages of the elm tree beetle, which is doing great dam age to both small and large trees throughout the city. According to MT Foley there are 16,000 elm trees in New Haven.
 New Haven-Walter H. Twins of 273 Orchard street has brought suit against the city of Norwich for $20,- 900 damages for injuries received by him. Twins was lineman employed by the Southern New England Tele- phone Co and on April 10 last, while he was at work repairing an over head cable in Norwich, he touched a supporting wire to the cable and got terrific shock.
 llingford-Charles E. Byram and Harry Garrepy, two Worcest&r boys, passed through here last night about S:30 o'clock on their walking trip from Boston to San Francisco by way of Florida and New Orleans They intend to make the trip in five and one-half months and in so doing break the record and divide a wager of $1,000 made between uncles of the young pedestrians.
 Milford-S. T. Velie of Bridgeport, while driving an automobile with a man and a woman in it last night to- ward Milford, struck a soft place in the road, turning the machine at right angles and causing 1t to plunge down a ten foot bank into the Mil ford reservoir. The occupants were assisted to the shore by a passing au- tomobile party, who tore blanks from fence and threw to them. None of the occupants was seriously injured
 Bristol-Pierce & Norton of Lake Compounce, who entertain all the men of Bristol, Southington and Plainville each year who have att tained the age of 75 years or more, announced yesterday they would fol- low their annual custom this year on September l4. At that time they will have the old gentlemen present and give them a fine dinner of bar becued sheep and fried corn. Last year there were about fifty present, whose ages aggregated about 1000 years. Elias Burwell, who will be 97 years old in October, will be with them again this year in all probabil- ity and will as usual be the guest of honor of the occasion.
 Hartford-As Policeman Dover stood on Main street opposite 11l7 at 3:3O yesterday morning, he saw a long white something swinging from a third story window. While in the darkness 1t looked like noth- ing more than curtain, he started across the street so that he could see more of it. When half way across the curtain" started earthward with a sudden dart, and he was startled to hear a woman's shriek. IL was Julia Watson. who, while walking in her sleep. had wrapped herself in q sheet from her bed, climbed out of the window. hung there for a mo- ment and then dropped. When she recovered consciousness she told the nurses at the hospital that she had retired in the third story room about 10 o'clock and recalled nothing more until she found herself in the hos pitaL
 East Hampton-Members of the Frog Catchers' union are up in arms against foreign invasion. Out of town boys coming here have cut the price and the local boys don't pro- pose to stand for it. They have been getting cents each or 25 cents a dozen for frogs and were satisfied, as were the people who bought. For though one may think it's cheaper to do the catching individually about one trip siekens the would-be frog catcher and he is glad to go back to the boys. The outsiders have been selling frogs here for ik cents each They are the meadow frogs known as green kings" while local young sters furnish chiefly the brook. pond or woods frog. which has more vital ity than the green or streaked varf- ety. fishermen say The union boys have adopted a green frog badge and each member Is supposed to wear one at all times in order to be in