Connecticut western news., 1916-12-28

Charles J. York, president of the board of trustees of Gilbert school and for more than forty years superintend- ent of the Sunday S AGul nf the Meth Odist Episcopal church. died at his home in Winsted.
 A movement has been started to have a regular health board i'll Meriden. At present there is a health committee, composed of members of the city coun- cil and appointed by that body, and its powers are limited.
 The report of the receivers of the AIiddleseX Banking company of Mid dletoWn shows profit of about ST, ,000 as result of the operation of farm lands of the company in the west dur ing the six months just past.
 Rev. William Horace Day, pastor of the First Congregational church of Los Angeles, Cal, will be called to the pas torate of the United Congregational church of Bridgeport, which has long been without regular pastor.
 Suit for damages of $10,OOO has been brought by the parents of Giuseppina Aresco, the two-year-old Italian girl who was killed last October by being run over by a coal wagon owned by the AIiddletown Coal company.
 The congregation of the Trinity Ger 11th has called Rev. A. F. Keller of Lynn brook, N. Y, to the pastorate of the church, to succeed the late Rev. John A. Timm, who died last summer.
 The novelty shop of Charles Bonoff in Madison was broken into, and mer- chandise mostly cigars, to an estimated value of more than $125 was taken. The burglars entered by removing a section of glass from the front door.
 Found guilty of keeping a gambling house and of operating pool room without a license, Joseph Charnowski, saloon keeper of Bridgeport, was fined $25 in the city court. Nine al- legged frequenters were each fined $5.
 Three riveters working inside a new United States submarine on the ways at the Lake Torpedo Boat company's plant, Bridgeport, were overcome by coal gas emanating from an open forge. They were revived by a pulmo- tor.
 George A. Sweetland, Socialist can- didate for governor in 1904 and the i captain of a company of Connecticut men which took part in the invasion , of Washington by Coxey's army, died at the Hartford hospital of heart dis l ease.
 Tainted food and coal gas caused the death of Mrs. Relalia Ribotzardo, alias Moroto, seventeen years old, in her one room ''home" in Bridgeport and al- most caused the death of her husband, Felecia, and their three-months-old | baby.
 William Gage Snyder, yard brake man in the New Haven east end yards of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, was killed by freight train No. 1, Provi- | dence to Harlem, as he backed on the 1 track.
 Joseph H. Sanford, the siXteen-year- old son of D. $. Sanford, ,headmaster of ! the Sanford school at Redding, was found dead in the power house con- nected with the school. The medical examiner says death was due to apo 1 pleXy.
 Mrs. Howard l.. Elton of Waterbury received a telegram from the state de- ] partment notifying her of the eXecu- ton of her husband at OaXaca, Mexico, on Dec. 16. Elton, who was a mining engineer, was charged with aiding the l reactionaries.
 1 Found guilty of keeping a gambling 1 house at 90 Elm street, in the center of Bridgeports business section and with in q few hundred feet of police head quarters. Big Bill'' Smith of ITO hough avenue was fined $50 and costs in the city court. Cases against James A. Sherwood of Easton and Fred E. Harriott of Hunt ington, charged with violation of the corrupt practices law in not filing cleo tion expense returns within the time 1 limit required by the statute, were nolled in police court.
 Feeling that the comparative inacces- | sibiity of Danbury by train has some 1 thing to do with the city not growing | faster and attracting more industries, 1 tha Danhurv Chamber of Commerce is