Connecticut western news., 1917-12-20
CONNECTICUT STATE BRIEFS

 a garage as a storehouse and fitted up an office in Boston to conduct the commercial end have been disclosed through the arrest of the three em- ployees of the company who are charged with conspiracy. Those ar rested and held under bonds of $3,000 each are Robert Lindsay, a tool in spector; William Gibbs, an assistant foreman, and Irving Block, driver of l one of the company motor trucks.
 Thomas Grant Thompson, retired l paper manufacturer, of Westfield, | Mass, and a relative of one time | United States Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts, died at New Britain l of heart trouble. He was forty-six years old. He became blind Saturday while on an automobile trip to see a daughter in New Haven and was talk en to a house, where death occurred. 1 Following a request from Deputy 1 Marshal Hayes of New Haven it is likely that this state will be redis- tricted and that a deputy marshall will be assigned to Bridgeport to as- sist in the work. Since the war the
  creased by leaps and bounds, and the services of another man are now re- quired if the territory is to be covered. A wireless station may be estab-
 lished on the Y. M. c. A. building,
 Waterbury, in connection with the te-
 legraphy and wireless classes if per mission can be obtained from Will liam G.. Redfield, secretary of com merce, of Washington. Mrs. Frances s. Harrington, who is conducting the classes, has communicated with MT. \ Redfield and is awaiting permission ! from the government.
 For the past two weeks John J. Casey, commissioner of the Depart ment of Labor, has been in Bridge port adjusting labor difficulties in q factories having government con- < tracts He made the startling state s ment there is no place in the United \ States as far as his investigations have led him where there are so
 many mechanics at work under as- stunned names as in Bridgeport, esti-
 mated at 1000. - Now that the United States has de-
 clared war on Austria, Torrington
 has many more alien enemies. The l German alien enemies, total only \ about 40, while it is estimated that s the Austrian enemy aliens will num- X ber in the hundreds. Only recently E quite a number of Austrian enemy \ aliens have gone to Torrington seek
 ing employment.
 ! 7Torrington people are going to x fn alyn < ,chases of sugar, even though in small \ Guantities. Merchants in those places \ either have more on hand than Tor < rington grocers or they are more will f ing to part with it and are opposed
 to hoarding their stock Torringtor 1 grocers maintain they are receiving no sugar, but every other place il i the valley is being favored to moH i or less extent.
 Word was received at New London -- that the cottage in the Neptune Parl
 district owned by s. B. Taylor ant occupied by Professor Bridgman o
 Harvard university was destroyed b. sS fire, with all it's contents. He and al v his family were in the cottage wbel 2 it started to burn, but escaped with \ out injury. The cause is not known ! Mis- Christine Kelsey, food agen of the New Haven County Farm Br S reau, who has been established + < Waterbury for the past few weeks . has mapped the city into district: S each of which has as center one C ' the public schools, and has given yer z successful demonstrations on foo ' conservation. Miss Kelsey plans 9 give such demonstrations all throug 2 the winter.
 ~I Mrs. Anne Maria Rathbun, who WE
 convicted in New Haven in 1900 ( . murder, has been ordered freed |
 the State Board of Pardons. MT
 Rathbun received life sentence af A er her husband died of a dose of DO #I soned coffee, which, it was allege
 had been mixed by the woman for s*. boarder.
 In recognition of the abnormal col NJ dftions brought about by the VI .1 most of the factories in Torringtc SSa are adopting a change in wages base ss on the following arrangement: F. S the first eight hours work the san sa hourly rates will be paid as at pre- s ent, with time and one-ha1f for g ,MM overtime in excess of eight hours I any one day. Most of the factori A announcing this change are engag' in manufacturing supplies and m S&i terials needed in the prosecution XXI the war.
 MM Governor Marcus H. Holcomb ] SS ceived from President Woodrow w
 son confirmation of the nominatio za'z made by the governor of physicia
 and surgeons to comprise the medic
 advisory boards in IA sections of t H state. The selections by Govern