Connecticut western news., 1917-08-23

jail where he was awaiting trial be- fore the superior court. to the insane hospital at Mildletown.
 Inez Zeczhin of winsted, seven teen years old, was instantly killed | when a motorcycle sidecar in which | she was riding was struck by an auto- | mobile driven by Milton Katz, son of Isaac Katz of Hartford. Miss Clara Markle of New Haven, cashier at the Carroll hotel, died as the result of a fractured skull. sus- tained in an automobile accident at Stockbridge, Mass. She was touring with a party to Niagara Falls.
 Mrs Annie Frye Waldo, wife of George c. Waldo, of Bridgeport, editor of the Standardization, died at her home at the age of sixty-three after protracted illness. She is survived s by her husband and three children.
 Paul Marcoon, a sixteen-year-old boy. accidentally shot his sister, Sophia, aged fourteen, at their home in Wal 1ingford. The boy was playing with a revolver when 1t was accidentally discharged, and the bullet entered the | girls arm.
 Among the commissions awarded stu | dents at the, Fort Riley (Kan9 camp was one to Horatio Potter of New Ha- ven as first lieutenant of field artillery and another as second lieutenant of cavalry to Brenton c. Pomeroy of | Greenwich.
 Mrs. Cynthia S. Burnham, widow of Eleazer Burnham, died at the home or her niece, Mrs. Carrie A. Lull, at Hart ford Mrs. Burnham had fall recent ly. She was ninety-five years old, was born in Hampton and had lived in Hartford for fourteen years.
 Word has been received that John F.
 Randall. son of the Rev. Arthur Tru-
 man Randall, rector of St. Andrews
 Protestant Episcopal church at Meri-
 den, who is serving with the American
 ambulance corps ill France, has passed
 an examination for the aviation serv-
 ice.
 Michael J. Delaney died at the New
 Britain General hospital of injuries re : ceived by being struck by trolley cal in Plainville. MT. Delaney was ont l of the original members of the home
 guards and has two sons in Compan,
 E. First regiment, Connecticut infan try.
 e An order has been received at tn
 recruiting station of the regular arm. at Hartford authorizing the Connect 7 cut district to accept forty recruits fo .s field artillery. This branch has bee | closed for two or three months owin
 to the fact that it has been up to fin ' war strength.
 f Clark w Prrnham. treasurer of th . WiIlimantic Red Cross chapter, has II
 ceived from the Rev. John G. Murra,
 chancellor of the. diocese of Hartfort if a check for $330, representing tf z amount raised at the two WilIimant n Roman Catholic churches some tin
 ago for the ReQ CfoSS. c. Ralph Jackson of Glastonbury WI E. struck by an automobile driven Il e. Ernest V. Llewellyn. Jackson is co
 fined to his bed. MT. Llewellyn w;
 returning to Addison. He says he WI ;t- dazed by the headlights on an a & preaching car and did not see Jacks' | h;
 The body of Stanley TouzensI a drowned In the Connecticut river ne I'd the Glastonbury dock, was recover Ic- by Captain William H. Hills of the a Onrust <Touzensh was attending
 Lithuanian picnic and went to the T CT for a swim. He took dive a. 'n- never came to the surface. He " ed about twenty-five years>old. ly- . 7" Gerald Reynolds, a Meriden man "
 has become known in the musical he -. has sailed for France to aid In T r., nishing recreation for the soldiers na der the general direction of the Int . national Y. M. c. A. MT. Reynolds "' A son of NJ. c. Reynolds, a wealt
 Meridenite and member of the bot
 of apportionment and taxation. an. oA
 my .,.,, mn The First Congregational church mn Norwich town was struck by lightnl
 and set afire. The bolt struck the
 fry. tearing away shingles and melt os lead. Although the church is II no outside the city limits, Fire Chief Ht pc ,. ard l.. Stanton sent two companies ,.,a the scene. Prompt work by the '.n m men saved the church, and the loss
 light.
 An automobile truck loaded v