Connecticut western news., 1917-01-04


 Various Points In the State and So Reduced In Size That They Will Ap- peal to All Classes of Readers.
 The Berkshire Ice cOmpany's ice house near New Haven burned to the ground.
 William E. Wallace of 40 Washing ton street. Hartford, dropped dead in the City Hall cafe.
 M~ J. Gilman has resigned as super intendent of StonebroOk farm, which position he has held for three years. Fire starting from an unknown cause burned the roof from the home of J. NJ. Walker, 52 Fulton street, New Haven. Max Lustig, one of the merchants longest in business in Bridgeport, died at his home after a sickness of several months.
 Frank Usavage of New Haven got fifteen days ill jail for driving his wife l mas day.
 1 Hunting dogs unleashed through the woods about Fairfield are being blam- ed for many depredations on sheep in that section.
 James Gilmore, ninety three, died at l his home on Maple avenue, Broad Brook. MT. Gilmore had lived ill Broad 1 Brook nearly ninety years.
 Aaron Kranowitz, one of the best known and most highly esteemed Jew ish men of New Britain, died suddenly at his home on North street. 1 In fire of mysterious origin in Old Mystic the sawmill owned by William P. Welles was entirely destroyed at loss Of about $3,00O; uninsured.
 J. Watson Goslee of Manchester, who was recently reappointed town forest fire warden, announces that he will re- appoint the deputy fire wardens.
 
 was struck by a train at Bristol died of his injuries in St. Francis hospital. He was about eighteen years old.
 Jewelry burglars entered two houses On Pennington avenue, Hartford. In both cases rear doors of the apart ments had been forced by a jimmy.
 Everett Carter, lineman in the en- ploy of the Connecticut company, was killed while at work in East Berlin by contact with a high tension wire.
 The Winsted Hosiery company. en- ploying 800 hands, announced that, commencing Jan. 1, a 10 per cent in- crease in wages will become effective
 Gordon Pope, aged about four years, the adopted son of Mrs TheOdate Pope Riddle of Pennington, died of infantile paralysis after an illness of less than a week.
 The board of education in Waterbury in adjourned session awarded the con-
 
 Gaffney & Son, their bid being the low est at $321 300.
 State Attorney Arnon A. filling, who has been in the Elm City hospital for several days, following an operation, returned to his home. He is now rap idly convalescing.
 While engaged in removing the mu- nicipal Christmas tree from the farm of w. R. Palmer, in Oxford, to Derby William Clinch, a city workman. had one of his legs fractured.
 Bridgeport has obtained new auto parking place at Wall and Water streets on property formerly occupied by the Farmers market and owned by the New Haven railroad.
 Giuseppe Macri, a Bridgeport cob bler was shot through the heart and instantly killed by George Pelli of NOroton Heights in front of Gerono- mes grocery store, Noroton. IHe cOInulSSlouef OI QOmeStlc anl- mals of Hartford ordered the muzzling of does for a period of ninety days in Danbury, Litchfield and Hamden be. cause Of prevalence of rabies. While George Robbins, forty-eight years old, was smoking in bed at his home, in Bridgeport, the bedclothing caught fire, andf he was so severely burned that le died in a hospital.
 Dr. Ethelbert r. Geer. physician and surgeon, died at his home in St Paul Minn, in his fifty-ninth year. He was born in Hartford in 1858, son of Gen eral Elihu and Eliza Selden Geer. Mrs. Ellen Crowley, known to her