Connecticut western news., 1910-01-27
NEWS ABOUT THE STATE
Personals and Other Items of Interest
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FerSOnaIS ana tuner items or interest
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 Fire last Friday destroyed the plant of the Silver Hat Go at Danbury entail ing 8 loss of $lOO, ,OOO. Night Watchman John Cothier was hit by falling Wall aud killed.
 An oxygen generator Ill the plant of the Standard Metal Works at Thompson vile blew up Friday afternoon and sent the top of the producer, weighing twelve building. In falling it caught in some machinery and was held until removed by the employees. The escaping chemi- calls slightly burned William Wood and Charles Burbank, who were nearby.
 John Leonard, who came to Hartford about six months ago from Jersey City, was found deadThursday afternoon in his room at Mo- 379 Trumbull street. He occupied a small bedroom, in which there was stove with a hot fire, that had heated the room to the suffocation point. In UI6 OPlulOl Ol hSulCdl GAdIulIISI H. O Fuller death was due to asphyxiation by impure air. The room was so hot that the woodwork had begun to blister. and it was the odor of the scorching wood that led to the discovery of Leonard's death
 More gypsy moths were found Saturday south of Wallingford, which will add considerably to the territory previously discovered infested by the moth.
 Jobn Cashin is in the city hospital at Hartford stricken blind in an unusual manner He was locked at police headquarters Friday afternoon and in the evening complained to the station house officers that it was dark ill his cell. It was soon apparent that Cashin had sud denly lost his eyesight, and Police Sur geon TO. Wilson was called but was un- able to determine the cause of his aff1ic- ton.
 The Citizen Printing Co.,, of Winsted, is moving into it's new home, building erected especially for it's use by l. E. Manchester, at 456 to 466 Main street.
 John Y McDermott, prominent in surance man of New Haven killed himself by shooting ill sleeping car near 5ask- atoon, Sask., last Sunday. He was 63 years old and leaves a wife and daughter.
 Michael Sanlia, mill hand, was drowned in the Connecticut River at Windsor Locks Sunday while trying to sail on 8 floating cake of ice. He was standing on the river bank when large cake of ice came along, and he jumped on it. It tipped with his weight, and he was thrown into the river and drowned,
 Rev. Dr. Love, who has been pastor of the Pearl street church in Hartford for twenty-five years, read his resignation last Sunday. He is also president of the Connecticut Humane Society.
 Burglars got into the station at New ington Saturday night and ritled the office. They failed to secure anything but tickets, and left no clnes behind them.
 The state capitol at Hartford is to have @ new roof. The contractor began work this week removing the old, leaky roof and replacing it with the new one.
 August Pohlman, aged 52 years, one of Collinsville's active business men, was stricken with apoplexy on the street last Friday ,and expired almost instantly. He wAs unmarried.
 The Ketohen & Hayes Tobacco Corpo- ration of Tariffville, began sorting and packing tobacco Monday with a full force of 85 hands. They have bought | 1 ,OOO cases of tobacco and expect to pick up another 300 in the valley. They packed ,000 cases last year and have sold it all at fair advance on the price paid | for 1t.