Putnam patriot., 1916-09-01
Connecticut State Briefs
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 | ton Of the Catholic Total Abstinence union of Connecticut was held al the city hall T0rrngt5n, with I75 delegates in attendance.
 East Hartf0rd's first case of in. tantle paralysis had a fatal ending when Edia sHarla the four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Emil 5har.n ot Goodwin street. d.ed after few days Illness.
 large gathering of residents in. eludina taxpayers and number oi ladies interested fn the trade school establishment met q the town hall HamdeH, and unanimously favored Che adoption of the vocational de partment in the town
 Mrs Frank Scalasser of Hartford, who was visiting Her daughter, Mrs. II. C. Westerman. at New Haven. wan dered around in her sleep and fel down stairs. receiving injuries which resulted in almost Instant death. She was 75 years old
 A case Of lnfsntIe paralysis in the western part of saHeld has been re ported by Dr. William Levy to the health officer. Dr. William L. Cald. well The patient is d SpanIard, 40 years Of age. who came from New Orleans about three weeks ago and has been working for the Hathaway < Steane tobacco syndicate. He has been isolated and Is attended by a special nurse
 Carl Brose. aged Sl who for many years Was an expert shoemaker, with shop in the old Tontine hotel, New Haven, Is dead. He leaves a wife and one son. He had lived in New Haven for 47 years and was mem Der of the Harugari society and charter member Of Frederick Hecker Lodge, D. c. H.
 Iii connection with the story that the Colt Patent Firearms company. New Haven, is 10 erect another arm ory for the accommodation Of the rapidly increasing business Of the company, a rumor was spread that another s3.000,g00 order from the Rus sian government had been received, aud that neeessitated the building of the additional factory space.
 As a heavy thunderstorm broke over Lake Waramaug, iu New Preston, and d bolt nit and set fire to two build iHgs near the shore d squall upset q canoe in which were Paul Smith. twenty-four years old. treasurer of the Orange Bank and Trust Company, Of West Haven, and his fancee Miss Helen L. Hawley. twenty-three, of West Hartford. Miss Hawley was drowned
 Governor Marcus H. Holcomb an neunced that he would call a special session of the General Assembly dur ing the second week in September, at whieh action will be taken to allow the Connecticut militiamen now al the border to vote at the forthcoming Presidential election.
 One hundred and twenty-five years after the death of Roger Sherman. documents bearing his signature have just been found in an old cabizat in the to0n vanits 5f New Milford, buried m a mass of forgotten town documents They are committee re ports recorded in the various vol umes.
 P. F. Duffy. an official of the Inter national Holders Union of North America. who had been in the custody of three keepers, al Bridgeport, was released under bonds of S10000. Duffy was one of the defendants in suits brought by local foundries which de clare Duny and other union members were conspiring to prevent the opera ton of the plants.
 Paul Lorrain and his sister. Mrs, Edward McCarty of Canaan, went to Sandisheld. Mass. and recalled scenes of their childhood after an absence of ffty-eight years. They found the old homestead standing but given over to the storage of tools and grain. They explored the attic and the cellar and unearthed the remains of an old hand cheese press which was used by their father and grandfather.
 The Eastern Forwarding company Of Baltimore. the American agency for the German line of snbmersible merchantmen. has leased from the state of Connecticut a part of the new state pier at New London for SIX months.
 At a meeting of the tuberculosis commission in the capitol, Hartford, Dr. Edward J. Murray of San Luis Valley Hospital Almosa, Colo, was appointed assistant superintendent of the state sanitarium in Meriden. He Is Sl years old and has made study of tuberculosis
 The county jail in New Haven Is overerowded. Prisoners are doubled in cells. trustworthy ones sleep in the corridors. The institution now har. bors 406 prisoners, including 6l wo- men. The woman are now to occupy the jail hospital.
 Richard F. Lewis. of Mount Car mel. will get very little for his trouble in having a compensation hearing in his case. The commissioner has granted him S3S6 for an injury which resulted in his losing his finger nall.
 The old Glory. one of the fastest motor boats in Connecticut waters, has been attached to satisfy Judg- ment against her owner, c. r. Bon nell. of Greenwich. Papers in an ae- ton for Sl 000 also have been served.
 very interesting case In eompen- sation was disposed of by Commis- sloner George E. Beers in New Haven