Connecticut western news., 1916-12-21
NEVIS BREv|T|ES
 OF CONNECTICUT
Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State.

Happenings of Interest From
 Around the State. Events of All Kinds Gathered From
 Various Points In the State and So
 Reduced In Size That They Will Ap-
 peal to All Glasses of Readers.
 A spectacular fire i'll the buildings of the Wilson Brick company at Wilson did damage estimated at about $14.O0O.
 The state bar examining committee will meet in Hartford Dec 2S to eX- anime candidates for admission to the bar.
 Burglars who have a penchant for shoes, pens and cameras have been breaking into several stores in Dan- bury.
 Three burglars entered the home of Steve GronkOwski in New Britain and stole $12O belonging to boarders in the house.
 Ernest Reid, fifteen years old. of Hartford was thrown from horse and stepped upon by the animal, receiving fatal injuries.
 Oliver Vannasse, seventy years old, of Willimantic committed suicide by hanging with necktie in a cell at po- lice headuTarterS
 The Connecticut hospital for the in sane at Middletown is preparing to ob- serve the Christmas holidays with ap- prOpriate festivities. Connecticut river fishermen have found that the frost fish, after an ab- sence of more than d dozen years. has come back to the river water.
 At meeting of the board of select men of Stratford held in the town hall Charles F. Johnson was reappointed fire warden for the coming year Word was received in COlebrook of the death in railroad accident in New Jersey of Hartman Utter, forty-three years old, well known farmer Malvine Evans, one and a half years old, died at the hospital in New Haven of scalding suffered at her home. She fell into a boiler of hot water. Allen K. Talcott, aged seventy-seven years, senior member of the grocery firm of A. K. & P. Talcott, died at his home i'll Prospect street, Rockville.
 Mrs. Isaac l.. MacFarlane who was burned in a gas explosion in the house where she and her husband lived ill New Haven, died at the hospital of her injuries.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Norris of EaSt Hartford died at St Francis hospital of pneumonia. MT. Norris died at 6:30 d. m. and Mrs. Norris at o'clock in the evening.
 Assistant Superintendent of Police Charles H. Suckley of Bridgeport has | been detailed to act as censor of mo- ton pictures and may later be moral mentor of plays.
 Mrs. Susan Ross, sevent:-three years | old, who had been hOusekeeper for John and Jeremiah Cary at their home in Windsor, was found dead in bed | from heart trouble. The state board of finance met at the capitol to give hearings on esti- mates of appropriations by the state 1 librarian, schools for boys and state board of education.
 Percy l.. Waterman, superintendent and vice president of the Waterman his home after three weeks sickness 1 of spinal meningitis.
 Luigi Chini, aged thirty. was killed when a westbOund passenger train on the Central New England railroad struck his baker wagon at a private crossing near Canaan.
 The general contract for the erection of the New Britain Country club was awarded to Dohrenwend Bros. The amount of the contract is believed to be not far from $20,O0O.
 William P. Wilson, fifty-five years old, a switchman in the employ of the New Haven road, was run over by a train and fatally injured near the Wa ter street bridge. New Haven.
 Formal order was passed by Judge Shumway in the superior court at Hartford awarding custody of Dorothy Padmore, fifteen years old, to her mother, Mrs. Florence PadmOre.