Connecticut western news., 1916-11-09

l1aftford boy who C>"anct with three 'O.IpanionS IGo.l ,%n Connecticut school Fer Eoys 1T 'N,','nu. Saturday, ,W"& c:i';U:;., in !;>.t ..~i.
 LacCratinnH of fingers of enc hand were suffered l." Frederick Richards, thirtN-fcur yc::"; v,d, of Stratforl, when his hand accidentally was caught in q door of New IIa'-en train.
 The resignation fir, m the Conrecti- cut national eu"rl If Captain Mat thew l.. I0u&hlin nr orInpany r. First Connerti, ut infantry. was accepted by .Aljut,:&t General George NJ. C0!e.
 Eugene Callahan, thiIty. of Dan bury Was killed and his wife and three other persons WCT" more or less hurt when thc:r automobile Skidded into a telegraph pole near Wcstport.
 John Dc .Nn%CliuS. twenty years old. of RTid"Cpor5 WaS killed at North and Housat0nic avenues when run over by q motor trTck owned ny Silliman x Godfrey and operated by Louis Antonio.
 TwCnty-threc rc!s0us lost their lives ill automobile accidents in Connecticut during the month 0f October. accord ing to unofficial re ords of violent deaths in the state during that period.
 Captain Paul KOonig of the undersea liner Deutschland is the recipient of an invitation from the GPrman-Ameri- can alliance to a banquet which. in case he accepts. will be held in Bridge port.
 Fines of S2: and c"Sts. amounting to $42.GO and >41.90. were imposed ny Judge William T. Malone of Bristol on Carlo pellini and Frank Fa~leliO, respectively. for hunting without li- censeS.
 Charles Sterling. who lives just over the Weston line in Wilton, observed his ninetieth lirthlay hy entertaining at dinner his uino surviving children, twenty-five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
 Because her husband was thrown from a trolley car, suffering injuries which resulted in his death. Mrs. Mar garet C. Pagan of Bridgeport asks damages of $lU.nGO from the COnnecti- cut company.
 Governor Holcomb has appointed William r. Ealcs of the Travellers h. "urance company as q delegate to rep resent the state of Connecticut at the big insurance conference in Washing ton in December.
 The Rev. Nathaniel Lyon Garfield, believed to be the oldest Episcopal clergyman in Connecticut. died at his homo in New Haven after a short sick ness He was born in New Haven ninety-two years ago.
 St. Elmo commandery. Knights Tcmplar of MCvitI2n, is fifty years old. Three of it's surviving charter mcm- bers are former Mayor H. Wa!cS Lines. First S;electman George w. Mill Ter and Eli C. BirdsCy.
 Part of the business section of tho main street of nanbury was ill total darkness during the rush hours. when a fuse in the power house 0f the Dan- bury and Bethel Gas and Electric Light company blew out.
 Eli C. BirdSey of Neriden has com plcted a membership of fifty years in Center lud-c. No. 97. \. F. and A. M., and 'cllow members have hoHored him with gold headed cane bearing the square and compass and suitably in- scribGd.
 TO fill q position as fircman-laborcr in the Hartford postOfficc building. em- IlOyment to last from Oct. 1 to April at q salary of $GGO. the United States civil service commission announces an examination to he held at Boston on Nov. r..
 Rescued from beneath his automo- mobile, which turned turtle on Fair field avenue at Ash creek bridge Bridgeport. Joseph Droba. f0rty-thrcc years old. was found to have suffered nothing more serious than a fracture of an arm.
 4 bitter contest to break the will of Royal S. Norton of Meridcn has been settled In the distribution of his $25.OO0 estate the tcStatOr cut off three sisters. Mrs. Della A. Neal. Mrs. Nettie Johnson and Mrs. Sarah Underhill, with $100 apiece.
 William l.. Barnett. who has been attorney in the department of the gen cral attorney for the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad company at New Haven. has been appointed so- licitor for the state of Connecticut with office at New Haven.
 Eugene II. Callahan of Danbury is dead. his wife. Mir. and Mrs. William F. Henebry and Fred Signor of the Blue Ribbon garage, Bridgeport are in