Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-25

| Martin Sweeney resident of West 1 erly for forty-seyen years. died just in Mountain avenue. For the past l two months he has been afflicted with bronchial asthma and cardiac weak ness, which developed rapidly within death
 MT. Sweeney was born in Queens county, Ireland, November 10, 1S45, and canned to the United States in 1883, and direct to Westerly, where he has resided since that time For twenty-five years he worked at the
 trade. of stone cutting for the Smith Granite company, and for the past
 nine years has been manager of the
 Sweeney granite works, recently in
 corporated as the Westerly Quarries
 company. He was a charter member
 of Narragansett council, No. 21,
 Knights of Columbus, and for many
 years was trustee of the Church of
 the Immaculate Conception.
 Mir Sweeney married Mary Feeley,
 July Is. 1866, and she died August "A,
 ed him. He is survived by two sons
 and four daughters. Judge John w.
 Sweeney of Westerly. Eugene Sweeney
 of Fordham hospital, New York; Miss
 New York. and the Misses Catherine,
 Elizabeth and Helen Sweeney, who re- sided at home with their father.
 Assistant Attorney Harry P. Cross
 has arranged the criminal docket of the superior court of Washington county to be disposed of at Kingston next Monday. Among the indictments
 of local interest are those against
 Joseph s. Grills. for embezzlement. and Thomas J. Bannon and William 4 Among the complaints are these West erly cases: Cornelius Bransfield, chief of police. against Angelo Comparto, keeping liquor for sale; same against Joseph Ouray keeping for sale; same against John Dougherty. against Ncer- tair liquors and vessels; same against Charles Dutton.
 Claude Burroughs of Mystic, who, erly- high school in the championship l of the interscholastic baseball league 1 last season, is now a student at the l Mercer college in Macon. Ga, and is | the crack pitcher of the team repre- senting that college on the baseball | field. and is the shining star outfielder | when not on the mound In a recent | game against the Buffalo teaAn of the | Eastern league. Burroughs made four lits in six times up and he pitched | he first winning game against Geo. yia university.
 Last Tuesday Burroughs was in the ield in the second game against Geor- ,ia, which the Mercers won by score ] If to l.
 The Macon Telegraph. in reporting he game says: There was no run | ,etting until the fourth inning; Bur oughs, up first for Mercer in that l inning. swung hard, hitting the ball air on the nose. lifting it over left field fence for the longest home run yer seen on the local diamond. The 'al1 crossed the fence down in the l ield and cleared it by fully twenty eet, while the batter gaily trotted the 'ases.
 Tn the eighth inning Burroughs l gain hit safe, this time for three ases, and later scored when David on popped one safe over Shortstop. r led in the play all through he game He was at bat three times, lade three hits. two runs, and one ut-out.
 My. but Glen Curtiss would have nvied that ball that hit over the 1 ence. If Curtiss could only get the 1 barring qualities in his aeroplane as i. hat ball had, railroads would go out f business for a while, except to haul | reight trains Burroughs is a dandy. -ith three times at bat and a homer,
 three-bagger and single to his redit- Isn't that going some ?''
 There was a horrible fatality at the Westerly railway station Saturday aft moon when Angelo MeringoIo was teraIiy ground to pieces by fast xpress train that was speeding trough Westerly at the rate of fifty Iiles an hour MeringoIo was hurrying 'om his work to his home at 49 Pierce rect and wanted to get over the
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