Connecticut western news., 1917-02-08

handlers of the New Haven road and the men brought in to take their places |, occurred in Meriden, but the police quelled the disturbance before any se- rious rioting had occurred.
 HailstOnes fell in large quantities in a brief but violent hail and rain storm which struck Bridgeport recent ly. Several heavy rolls of thunder. ac- companied by lightning flashes, gave rise to reports of explosions.
 Deputy Sheriff Edson A. Welch has | received word from the Hartford hos pital that Samuel Printz, who attempt 1 cd suicide at Wilson near the railroad tracks. is considered insane and must 1 be removed from the hospital. Assistant Fire Chief William c. Lu- cas, Lieutenant John Coleman and four firemen were overcome by wood alcohol fumes caused by the burning of excelsior at q fire in the Edward Miller x Go. factory at Meriden.
  bate court has admitted to probate the will of the Rev. Dr. James Goodwin. The estate, which is estimated to be between $250.OO0 and S3OO,000 in value, is left to the widow and children. More than S1,000 will go from Hart ford into the treasury of the national, child labor committee as result of the campaign held in connection with an exhibit in the old city hall building and a pageant held at the Hartford club.
 Superintendent John NJ. Crampton of the fish and game commission said he was very much gratified with the re- ports which he had received from all over the state in regard to the condi- ton of game birds during the winter.
 The distinction of being the couple longest married in Meriden is awarded to MT. and Mrs. George A. Parker, who observed the sixty-siXth anniversary of tbeir wedding. MT. Parker is ninety years old and Mrs. Parker eighty three.
 Sergeant J. T. Coughlin. dog and liquor agent, announces that owners of dogs in Bridgeport must obey the order to keep their pets muZzled. in accordance with the ruling recently is- sued by Cattle Commissioner Jeffrey O. Phelps.
 rl,o ,ror;o,,s oro f+s or, tba Nau uo ven road which are members of the sO called System federation affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. has accepted the offer made by the road of an increase in wages of a cent and a half an hour.
 An automobile containing MT. and Mrs. Frank Santinella and Fl. H. Ma tori of Norwalk and Salvatore Coli of Ansonia was struck by freight train near Branchville. The automobile was wrecked. The occupants escaped death miraculously.
 An unofficial record for the month of January places the number of violent deaths at eighteen for New Haven. Of this number nine were suicides, two using gas, three hanging, one electro cution. one poison, one shooting and one drowning.
 With a cigarette in his mouth. an employee on a coal barge in the South port harbor leaned over to look into a gasoline tank. The tank blew up. and AL q T ..aIr whose name could not be learned, es- caped unscathed.
 A complaint has been made to Gov ernor Marcus Fl HolcOmb by the Rev. J. E. Clark of Sutfield alleging that Joseph Berger of Waterbury. a patient at the Srify IoIu drln Samtanum, ued there because of lack of tact, intelli- gence and heart"
 Pleading guilty to passing worth less check. Bert McGuire of Chicago was sentenced to sixty days in jail by Judge F. l.. Wilder of Bridgeport. Me Guire who gave the excuse of excess sive drinking, presented a bogus check for S22 in the store of Meigs & Co.
 Miss Sarah Morton Pardee, a mem- Der of one of the most prominent of Connecticut families and daughter of the late Jared Dwight Pardee, who was a judge of the supreme court of errors for thirty years, died at her home in Hartford. aged seventy-three.
 A suit for $1O.O00 damages has been brought against the city of Hartford and the Connecticut company in the in- terest of Michael Goldman, father of David Goldman, the c'oven-year old boy who was strCci;. and dragged by a trolley car while crossing the tempor- sry bridge on Capitol avenue.