Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-30
HENRY JoHNsoNs ACCIDENT.
Must Have Been Struck by Locomo- tive-FathfuI Empoye of Railroad for 34 Years.

Henry Johnson of the local railroad yard force was seriously injured just after o'clock Thanksgiving morn ing. Mir Johnson, as was his custom, was working in the yards, near the north end of the freight station, taking numbers of cars, when he was proDa- blv struck by a locomotive passing on thc track next to where he was occu- pied.
 His right arm was cut off. three Of his ribs fractured, one of them plerc- ing a lung. g.his left shoulder inJured,an his head cut. The arm was later pick- ed up near the location of the accident: 1 The injured man was found by two or the Bradley employees as they were I passing along on their way to work | They assisted MT. Johnson into the l freight station. Dr. J. J. Russell at | tended MT. Johnson, who was later re- | moved to the Day Kimball hospital: | Mir Johnson was one of the oldest and most faithful of the railroads em- | nloves in this city. He has been with l the company about 34 years and IS en- | titled to retire from the service with | a pension, but preferred to go on "lth | his work. ,, l He is d veteran of the civil war, | where he saw hard service, and has | been Identified with and at the head | of military organizations in Putnam | for many years. rr,-,,
 old friends who talked Thursday
 abolrt the sad accident in which he
 was injured paid tributes to him in
 warmest terms, several of them pro- | claiming him one of the finest men they had ever known.
 Mir. Johnson has two daughters ana a son, living in Providence.
 | Claimed Norwich as His Home. According to a story that appeared
 in a Worcester paper Thursday morn
 ing Joseph Laroche, who claims NOT I wich as his home, badly used up
 Webster policeman and the conouctor of a Webster-bound trolley car ,rSn on 1 which I,aroche was a passenger. The
 tronhie arose over unbecoming conduct
 on the part of Laroche, both before
 and after an attempt was made to eject
 bi,, from the car, according 10 the
 story. I.aroche was arrested.
 prs;sss Burton Leavitt's Latest Opera.
 Putnam musician who has had the
 n,,iviIere of playing over the entire
 score of the yet unheard grand opera,
 Tea Tephi, by the recently deceased
 Rnrton Emerson Leavitt, describes the
 r,orlr az magnificent The Putnam man
 ,',bo nakes this statement is a musi-
 clan of high merit and one who has
 pIayed everything that MT. LeaVitt composed. He says that the new op-
 era copyrighted only three weeks be-
 fore MT. Leavitt's death, is infinitely better than any of the five successful light operas credited to MT. beavitt.
 Baptism at Woodstock. Seven persons, six women and one man. ane to be baptized at a service to be held in the Baptist church at south
 Woodstock Sunday morning. Rev. l..
 B. Curtis, a former pastor, Is to assist
 at the services; also Randall Petford of Boston, who will be heard in the } musical part of the service.
 Thanksgiving day was drea1y one , in Putnam. The streets were deserted , the greater part of the day on account of the snowstorm. the first real one of l the season,
 Poultry owners in towns in this sec. ton are shipping eggs to Boston and Providence. where strictly fresh egxs are sellirg for SO cents dozen