Connecticut western news., 1916-10-19

New Haven. severed his connection with the city department to go into business
 Edward R. Wooster. postmaster In Bridgcwater, has resigned his position on the school board, us no government employee is allowed to hold an cleo. tive office.
 Kitcharvaon council. Daughters of Pocahontas, Bristol, will go to Collins vile about Oct. 26 and work the de- gree of Pocahontas for the council of that town.
 The Mems union of the Union Con- gregational church of Rockville is plan ming for the annual banquet. which will be held in the dining room of the church Oct. A.
 William Pierce Cross. formerly of Hartford. clerk of the United States district court at Providence. commit tedssuicide by shooting. He had been in poor health.
 The strike of the holders and piece workers of the Sessions Foundry com pany of Bristol was settled when all the workers were given substantial in creases In pay.
 John Gerace. Wallingford. and Sam GloriOso, New York. are In bed suf- e1~ nF ture shotgun explosion while hunting ip Wallingford.
 Mrs. Rossano, wife of Joseph Ros- sano of Hartford, died of typhoid fever in the Hartford hospital, where her husband and two daughters are Ill of the same disease.
 Chief of Police Robert W. Kappen- berg, East Hartford, died at the Hart ford hospital from injuries received after being struck by an auto while regulating traffic.
 A pile of rubbish placed underneath a staircase in the basement of the New Haven hospital caused L fire which but for its timely discovery might have resulted seriously.
 Adolph Steinfield of 162 Norman street, Bridgeport, reported to the po- lice of that city that key workers en- tered his home while his family slept and stole $50 and a watch.
 Dr. David Gibbs, superintendent of Meriden schools, in his yearly reports asserts that two-thirds of the school children come from homes where Eng fish is not regularly spoken.
 A graphic account of the sinking of the Stephano by the German subma- rine U-53 was given by Oscar Hanson, the wireless operator on board the who lives in Broad Brook.
 Center Methodist church Cf East Hartford celebrated its twenty-fifth last Sunday, when Rev. J. A. Wood, who was pastor of the church from 1897 to 1908, was the preacher.
 The estate of the late Herbert Barnes of Fair Haven, which inventoried near ly }SO0,0O0, was the largest probated there in years. Harold H. and Herbert Barnes, grandsons, are the executors.
 The Rev. Edward T. Walsh will be the assistant pastor for Holy Angels yNo irJ, tn cIInnnn6 n Rev. Leo M. Finn, who becomes cu- rate at St. Peters church in Danbury. William A. Rice, a railroad engineer of New Haven. narrowly escaped drowning when his sailboat was dash ed to pieces against the southwest ledge breakwater of New Haven har- bor.
 vincenzo Cuseo, thirty-four years old, q wealthy truck farmer of Westport, was arrested in New York. charged with attempting to murder his brother in-law, Nicola Respineo. in Westport on Oct. '.
  was painfully injured when he was thrown from the running board of his auto, which was struck by an auto owned and driven by Rudolph Ander- son of Devon.
 Helen Kneen, daughter of Alderman and Mrs. Thomas Kneen of Ansonia, who was confined at the isolation hos pital, New Haven, because of infan- tile paralysis, has so far recovered as to be able to return home.
 The huge rock that Is being removed from the corner of Main and Kirkham streets, Branford, proves to be almost a quarry. Great pieces have been re- moved every day, but there are quan- titles still to be worked upon.
 The Employers Tuberculosis Relief association of New Haven, represented by most of the manufacturing and mercantile houses and representing
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