Putnam patriot., 1916-07-28
Connecticut State Briefs

Sharks have appeared in New Haven hssrboz. Cue four feeS long was klled
 The directors of the New London Baseball Association decided not tO hold Sunday games at New London between league teams.
 Mrs Chnord B. Harmon. daughter of Commodore E. C. Benedict was seriously Injured when the horse she was riding at Oosoob ran away. throw ing her to the pavement.
 Maria RafTo, nine years old. was killed. and Ina, her sister, three years old. suffered a fractured skull when they were crushed against wall by runaway horses al Hartford.
 The first swordfish ever caught in Long Island Sound, fishermen at South Norwalk say. was brought In by Michael Englechard. l. weighed 200 pounds and was taken at Southport.
 Charles H. Bradley. formerly pnomi- nent in the steel business h Pitts bargh- Pa. died at his home in Bridgeport where he had lived since his retirement about fifteen years ago.
 Thomas Henry Ballan. General See retary for the New York Home for Homeless Boys for the last ten years, died in a hospital in Norwalk, after an operation for appendicitis He was in his thirty-sevenh year.
 Postmaster William s. Meaney who recently purchased the Lenox House, Putnam and Greenwich avenues, in the Boston Post road. for S70,oeo, has sold the first north lot to Judge k. Jay Walsh of Greenwich, who will erect a modern business building on it.
 Commodore E. C. Benedict who, aboard his yacht. the Oneida, reached Indian Harbor after ten days fish. ing trip to Chesapeake Bay. brought back with him ton of fish, on the return trip, when about ten miles of Cape May. some of his guests spied a man eating shark
 The objection of Marion Pemcroy Smith. young Hyannis Mass heiress. to the appointment of her Mass3chu. setts guardian. Charles C Paine et Barns5able as her guardian h Com necHeut was upheld by Juds L. P Waldo Marvin of the Probate Gourt h Hartford He named the Hartford Trust Company in that capacity
 The Board of Electrical Gammls saauers at %orwalk. has awarded I contract ta the ] G White Engineer Ing Corporation. new York for lae 3e- signing. engineering and construction work in connection with extensions and. improvements to the present eiae. tric light and power stations located al South N0rWalk also the installa. tion ef an ornamental street lIshting system in the Second Taxing district of Narwalk
 The Rev Silas J Viewer one of he most widely known Banizt eleHssmsH af Southern New EneHa died at East Lynne at Ere aE If aveHty-s sfx. Ills father the BaV. Ghff.es Weaver. Nas known al aFeI tba country as atha satla9 UrzzeHaE
 It is befie4d sHst tsa 'uEsins cent as been suaa Cair Andere an eHiaf anai1ear af iea Qasgi-la SaaE sarium t c7p Ter 8e#He 8 aE fzsa lt fH 54H =H duplicate af taa cent which s1 fa HIard Rider. ~ ff 2 Lev 0f eurtrTr- ruueat soma time go called n ae issue Of this cent and Haw E#5Q f5F either ot he two missing c9ias
 Carter D1fraae Inspector for the Stamford Gas and Electric Company. was killed in Atlantic Square before a crowd of hundreds of persons. Re. pairing a street lleht. a short circuit was formed and 22oo volts of cleo tricity eoursed through him.
 Charles W. Moody. eighty-fve, who did the steel plating on both the Con. federate warship Merrtmae and the Monitor. that defeated it, is dead at his home in New London He was a native of Nantucket Mass, and su- perintended work on the nations most noted vessels.
 William H. Field wealthy inventor manufacturer and farmer, who died at his home in King street, Greenwich, July 2 left real estate valued at SEQ. GOO and personal property estimated at S200000 in this state, according to a petition for administration fled in the probate court
 The State Board of Health. after conference with the eight county health officers. has issued a bulletin urging all local health officers in Con. necticut to see that children coming into the state from New York are re- ported for registration and examina- tion. and advising parents to keep their children away from playgrounds and theatres in places where New York children have recently arrived
 Howard C. Webb ex-city attorney and ono of the best known lawyers in New Haven, died in local hos pital, following an operation for in testinal trouble He was 55 years old. He was graduated from the Yale law school in 1895. He once was newspaper reporter.
 Bridgeport has been designated as one of the cities in the state expected to furnish recruits to the Connecticut National guard Men who enlist will be sent either 10 Nogales, Arizona, or to Tobyhanna, Pa An extensive campaign for men has been begun. Ii is expected that 1,250 men will be recruited within the next three months.