Connecticut western news., 1917-01-11

castle cost $50O,000 to build and for years was something of a house of mystery
 |. Lloyd Hill of Naugatuck lost his life in the fire which destroyed the livery stable of John O'Brien. Hill went into the barn and probably fell asleep and may have been asphyXiated before the flames reached him. He was sixty years of age.
 Word has been received from Isa- dore Taraconi, one of the several Ital- ians from New Britain who left when Italy entered the war to join the Ital- ian military organization, that he Is alive after the fierce fighting he has zone through.
 Salaried employees of the Scoville Manufacturing company of Waterbury who have been in the employ of the company more than year have been given bonus of 25 per cent of their salaries on the rating of the month of January, 1916.
 To enable men of the ambitious ex- ecutive type to obtain greater results in business through the application of principles of efficiency the Bristol chamber of commerce announced the opening of an efficiency department in charge of experts.
 AcSnrfinrr hof ho l,a t,.. on Oct. 2, 1916, when his automobile was struck by trolley car of the Con- necticut company in Southport, Charles Everts of Fairfield entered suit against the company in the civil superior court for $2,999 damages.
 Frederick Simmons, aged thirty years, son of Mir. and Mrs, Philip Sim mons of Wallingford, was found shot through the head and breast in a Nor walk hotel. Domestic difficulties are said to have been the cause of his at- tempt to kill himself.
 Charles X. Goodwin, executive secre- tary to Governors Lilley and Frank B.
 
 didate for governor, submitted to sec ond transmission of blood to aid his brother, the Rev. Dr. James Goodwin, at the Hartford hospital.
 William r. Fair and Jack Devereaux of Darien were found guilty of man. slaughter in the superior court at Bridgeport. They were accused of hay ing caused the death of Fairs wife, whose body was found in the woods near Darien in August, 1914.
 Southington people who are i'll in town and forced to have trained nurses in attendance report that they have been forced to go to New York city to get nurses. They report that it is al. most impossible to secure trained nurses from the nearby cities.
 Word has been received in Hartford of the death somewhere in France" on Oct. 1 of Sergeant Francis Stuart Chaese of the Victoria Rifles. Canadian cxpeditiOnary force, and a native of Hartford. He was twenty-tllree years old. and his death occurred in action. Patrick S. McATahon of New Britain was bound over to the March term of the superior court on the charge of violation of the state statutes in rela- ton to fire escapes. The prosecution followed the fire at the Hotel Bronson Dec. 26, in which John Mccarthy lost his life.
 Walter Hyatt, one of Esscx's youths, Sprang a great surprise on his mother Mrs. Martha F.. Hyatt, when letter dated Dec. ' was received from La Pallise, France. stating that while in New York he signed for a trip on cattle steamer carrying load of horses o France.
 The mother town of Hertford, Eng land, in accordance with custom .es- tablished several years ago, sent New Years wishes to the daughter town of Hartford. Mayor Hagarty received 1 cable from his worship and the coun- ciI of Hertford extending New Years | greeting.
 Frank ]. Shanley of Southington joined the United States infantry at the New York recruiting station. Mir. Shanley received an honorable dis , charge from the United States army about q year ago. and news of his re- enlistment comes as a surprise to his many friends.
 l The Rev. pr. James Goodwin, one of the most prominent Episcopal clergy men in Connecticut, died in hospital , Tn Hartford after sickness of sev- rral weeks. He was born in Middle town fifty-one years ago and was of distinguished colonial ancestry. He . ,Ioo woe !, racord cousin of the late l