Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-13
CITY NEWS.

next Sunday afternoon.
 The town health officers of New Ha- ven county will hold meeting at the Colonial Inn, near Woodmont to-mor- row.
 The street department has completed the work of tearing out the old cross ings on Bank street and replacing them with new ones and now similar oper- ation has been started on the South Main street crossings.
 Says the New Britain correspond ent of the Hartford Times in speaking of the T. A. E. drum corps: The mat ter of competing in the competition play" at Waterbury was discussed and vote against taking part carried, the cost of the trip being too much, about $1O0. A sentiment prevailed against participating in an occasion given by a brewery organization The New Britain drum corps won two first prizes recently, one in Naugatuck and one in Bridgeport.
 Thomas Cream. janitor of the Driggs school broke his right arm yesterday. Near the school is a large tree which the janitor considered could spare a limb or two to the improvement of the light and air of the building and of the pupils during school. He proceed ed to work on these principles and was thus engaged when he was precipitated to the ground, breaking his left arm He was taken home immediately and medical attendance arrived soon after. It will, of course. be some time before he can be around again.
 Angelo Dotoratos, a confectioner at 266 East Main street, can hardly be expected to enjoy this weather. Sat urday Dotoratos' store on Bank street was attached by Constable Perkins for bill of $15O. Soon after the goods were replevined by Constable Booth, after a lively tussle. That affair is now in the courts. Yesterday after noon another limb of the law, armed with a writ of attachment issued by Judge Peasley for $25O was served on his East Main street store and in de- fault of bond a keeper was put in charge. In this transaction Judge Peasley represents the City Ice com pany. ,r
 Opposition to the will of, the late Florine Peete of Oakyille having been pacified the document was approved by Judge Lowe in probate court to-day. The widower, Andrew, threatened to contest the will. The provisions of the document are that $1 shall be given to the widower and Frederick each The latter is a son. One-seyenth of the estate is given in trust to etestatrix, daughter -in-law, Mary. for the grand | oY1 md nm til they are of age. when it shall be di- vided among them. The balance goes to the children, Edith. Hattie, Charles, William, Florence and Mabel Freder- | ick is excepted. The children are re- quested to maintain home for their | father.
 Contractor Pidgeon expects to finish his paving job between North Square and Elizabeth street, on North Main street, this evening. This will reopen that part of the street to travel in a few days The improvement cannot | fail to be appreciated by everyone. | though one horseman says the grade | is too steep to be paved with brick. Doubt on this point was cleared away before the contract was awarded, it | being found that sleeper grades than that in question are paved with sheet asphalt. The digging up of North Main street between Kingsbury and | Grove streets began yesterday after noon and when this stretch is com pleted North Main street will be one of the finest in the city.
 The Sprague Publishing company, Detroit, Michigan, publishers. of .'The 1,,. quest with the management of the St Louis exposition that a boys building be made one of the features of the worlds exposition for 1903. They are backing up the request by every means possible, and they ask for the l support in this undertaking of the | boys and their friendssl In general l the plan is to have a building that shall accommodate exhibits of boy | invention and enterprise, and shall have an assembly hall in which there | may be a boys congress, conventions | of men and women workers in behalf | of boys, and meetings of associations l of amateurs, state and national. The project is a unique one, and if car ried through, will add greatly to the popular interest in the exhibition.
 Manager Preston of Court Phelan's l baseball team was asked to-day if he | intended to reply to the communication
 addressed to him through the Democrat
 by Manager Fitzgerald of Court Shields's nine. ''No, sir,' he said
 .swhat's the use? Manager Fitzgerald
 and his crowd are pretty foxy, but if
 they think nobody is onto them they
 are making big mistake. They never
 budged about playing us until they
 heard that all our best players, were
 packing their knapSacks preparatory
 to going to camp with the militia and
 then they rushed into print with g flourish that would lead the uninitiate6
 to believe that they meant business
 All care to say on that subject is thai
 while I appreciate the humor of theil
 position, still don't think it necessary
 to inform the Foresters of Waterbury
 that they are only joking and that we
 have no desire to allow them to have
 fun with us.
 Frank Murphy was the only prison
 CT before Judge Peasley in the city
 court this morning. Murphy appeared
 to have passed the night fighting. H'
 is very deaf and it was with difficulty
 that he was made to understand tha
 he was charged with resistance and in
 toxication. Then, in voice as milo
 as a child's he said he was guilty O n.