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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
5
With the Baldwin street engine house opening, city fire houses may see transfers and staffing shifts. New appointees have caused restlessness among some firemen who expect moves to closer stations. Transfers often depend on relations with the captain, as discipline considerations limit changes when disputes exist.
Brooklyn notes report the St Thomas Cadet association meeting at the Lyceum, a Naugatuck Valley Congregational conference, a Brooklyn Athletic Club football game against the Starlights of Naugatuck at Driving Park, and John Henderson’s home to make way for Clark Street extension. A Brooklynnites’ meeting backed efforts to move Henderson’s house, with a six-member joint committee pressing the mayor, while residents criticized the Bank Street bridge and Porter Street condition and urged a new bridge project.
Unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor report rising demand for men nationwide. Georgia shows good skilled trades employment, Chicago and Illinois see easier work, Indiana and Kansas report steady gains, Minnesota Mississippi Missouri note plentiful work, Missouri saw sawmills reopening, Ohio shows weeks of steady increase, New York slowest but signs of improvement emerge.
H P Craig of Detroit, after twenty years as a professional tramp, has left the road following the death of his mother in Detroit. He receives a $30,000 inheritance and buys a hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo, signaling a new life. The first installment of the funds was noted in the report dated October 17.
Nicole Zenno, a former Randolph & Clowes employee, was killed this morning on the Jackson street bridge after stepping into the path of a north bound passenger train. The tragedy occurred near the track as a south bound train approached, his body later identified beyond doubt at Bergins morgue. He resided on Charles street, leaves a wife and six children, and was en route to the trolley car barns in the West end when killed.
New York stories reveal H J Judson & Co concealed a $86,000 theft by trusted bookkeeper Saultonstall to shield his two sons. After his death in September, an October 1907 books check exposed the defalcation. the firm planned no public disclosure to avoid scandal while continuing operations at 6 Wall Street.
Petersburg farmer Klime returned from an Arkansas manhunt with a strange confession. His wife had left to join McArnold, a former fiancée, after her husband believed her dead, but Klime chose mercy over murder upon learning McArnold’s situation and asked his wife to stay with him. He admitted his motive to kill but abandoned plans upon seeing McArnold’s need and the couple’s child, expressing pride in their son’s studies.
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