Conductor Bird Loses Limbs After Thirteen Fear
South Norwalk Connecticut May 25 Conductor Philip T Bird dies at Norwalk Hospital after an accident at Wilson Point where he slipped between two railroad cars and had both legs severed. He calmly directed injury care before the doctor arrived. Engineer John Horan, his brother in law, collapsed and the train halted for a new crew.
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Norwalk
Conn
Philip T. Bird
Norwalk Hospital
Bird
Wilson’s Point
John Horan
Teacher to share in big estate in Carlisle
Mary [last name unclear] long time matron at Conway Hall in Carlisle receives word from the will of Silas Leas, Rock Island milling machine maker, that she and her five daughters are to share an estate estimated between 250000 and 500000 dollars. Leas’s brother was the late George W. Leas. The estate is said to be worth over 2000000. The bequest was unexpected.
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Carlisle
Penn
Mary
Conway Hall
Silas Leas
Rock Island
Ill
Mra
George W. Leas
Charges Against Two Torrington Officers
Torrington officials vote to have the borough attorney prepare a formal complaint charging Officers B A Beers and Victor Metling with conduct unbecoming an officer. A public hearing is set in the borough court at 2 pm Friday. The by law declaring firing of firecrackers torpedoes or other combustible fireworks a nuisance is adopted.
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Torrington
Board of Wardens and Burgesses
B. A. Beers
Victor
Hotchkiss and Folk
Winsted Faces Typhoid Threat In Borough
Winsted May 25. Typhoid fever cases grow and unease rises as authorities seek the source. Four or five new cases Sunday bring total near a score, mainly in the east end. Mill farm on Riverton road suspected for milk supply. water sample sent to state chemist. Patients include C. C. Buck James Boynton Malcolm Hool E R Abbott Herman Olsen Jank James Miss Blake Mrs Raymond Barnes Edwin Lamphier King Biueher.
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Winsted
Riverton Road
Wheeler and
Howd
C. C. Buck
James
Boynton
Malcolm Hool
E. R Abbott
Herman Olsen
Jank James
Miss Blake
Raymond Barnes
Edwin Lamphier
King Biueher
Supreme Court limits state shielding of liquor shipments
Washington May 25 The Supreme Court ruled that dry counties cannot be protected by state statutes and interstate shipments of liquor must be delivered. Justice Brewer held Congress alone can regulate interstate liquor transport in the Adams Express Company v Kentucky case. Justice Haring dissented.
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Washington
South
Supreme Court
Brewer
Adams Express Company
Kentucky
Haring
Justice Brewer
Congress
Nashville
New Albany
Ind
Express Company
Bonnieville
Hart Circuit
Waterbury Club fined for selling liquor to members
Judge McMahon fined William and Ignatius Vasulaitis of the Lithuanian Political Citizens' Club of Waterbury for liquor sales without a license. The Waterbury city court found the regular club officers guilty of selling liquor to members, keeping liquor to sell, and operating a place known for liquor sales. The judge noted unclear legality of clubs selling liquor to members and referenced a recent supreme court stance.
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Connecticut
McMahon
City Court of
Waterbury
William and Ignatius Vasulaitis
McMahor
Country Commissioners
Supreme Court
Negro Postmaster Pleads Guilty in Texas Case
Dallas May 25 Williams Burrs one of the few Negro postmasters in Texas pleaded guilty to making a false accounting of cancelled notes to the Washington department Burrs held the Neylandville office and a sudden rise in business drew government scrutiny.
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Dallas
Texas
Williams Burrs
Gramps
Washington
Burrs
Neylandville
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Edison Records
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Columbia
Columbia, Edison and
Victor Records
MIRA
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Reginaphones
Supreme Court of United States
Waterbury Club
Bona Fide and Incorporated
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Main ST
Henry Co. Reid
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Frank H. Wells
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Parker
Lyman
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Bridgeport Distributing CO
State Street
Public Market
California
John F. Fay
Broad St
New England
Telephone
Naugatuck Valley Ice CO
Housatonic Ave
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Gory & CO
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Nerance Berkshire Mills
Try ‘Sprague
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