Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-20
CITY NEWS.


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 James Peasley, brother of Judge Peasley, has removed to Columbus, o, where he has taken a position in his brothers drug store.
 News has been received here of the death at Montana of William Clark. until three months ago a we'll known resident of this city.
 F. J. Shea and his counsel. Attorney Byrne, appeared in court at the ap- pointed time and the case was ad- journed to Thursday morning.
 Andrew J. Cooney will leave next week for ten days vacation in Yer mont MT Cooney intends to spend the greater part of his time fishing. The weather is slightly cooler today than it was yesterday. It. is fairly comfortable. Cannon and AWebster's thermometer registered ST degrees at ? o'clock. Only one game will be played in the City Amateur league tomorrow The Jeffersons and the Brooklyn A. c. will cross bats at Waterville Umpire Coughlan will umpire the game. The members of the New Britain Temperance society drum corps made fine appearance on the streets dur ing the noon hour. They stopped over ill Waterbury on their way to the Nau- | gatuck drum corps tournament.
 Sarah Gladys, the four years and i seven months old daughter of MT and Mrs W. H. Platt of 27 Elizabeth street died yesterday afternoon. Funeral service will be held at the house to- morrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The 1nterment will be in Pine Grove ceme- tery.
 l Workmen have completed extensive repairs along the entire length of Rob- bins street which was in a dangerous condition as the result of washouts caused by several storms The resi- dents along this section complained about the condition of this street since | last summer
 The second batch of boys from the Boys club camp returned this morn- ing while the third batch went down this afternoon. Together with the boys about twenty-five girls went. The girls l Will stay at cottage near the camp ing grounds. They will be under tie care of Mrs Combellack.
 The National Cash Register Co of l Dayton, O., has sent to mafly of the l local manufacturers and lawyers a copy of the injunction it had served upon its employees in their recent strike. This injunction was similar to that issued by Judge Gager of Derby against the strikers in Ansonia, but not one-half so sweeping in it's pro- visions or restraining in effects.
 The price of coal has taken an up ward bound. It now costs $625 a ton The new price has been in force since the earlier part of the week. The in 1 crease in prices is due to the whole sale dealers who assert that they lost last winter considerably by the miners I strike. They would like to recoup this loss and accordingly the price of coal has been raised One local dealer said he would not be surprised if there was another raise within a month The coal costs $6.25 a ton whether it is purchased in large or in small quan titles
 Judge Roraback of the superior court will on Tuesday forenoon, in the district court room, give a bearing to I the opposition of the trolley system being extended to Watertown The Consolidated Railroad Go opposes the proposed extension on the ground that public necessity does not demand it. On the other hand the towns of Water bury and of Watertown, it is said, m sist upon the extension upon the ground of public necessity. All ques- tion as to the layout of the road must for the present be put aside; that will come up later, if the court decides ia vorably to the proposed extension The towns of Watertown and Water bury will he represented by their re spective attorneys and the trolley com pany by Colonel Burpee. The reason the hearing will not take place in the superior court room is because it is in the hands of tradesmen making re pairs.
 Caretaker Danaher of the Wigwam reservoir was in town to-day looking as plump and cheerful as ever. He said the recent storms did not amount to much so far as raising the water in the reservoir was concerned. The last one split in two before it reached there and for some unaccountable reason neither section showed up at the re servoir. The thunder and lightning called upon them but the residents saw but little rain. Harry is something oi weather prophet and many think that the city could not spend a few dol lars in q better way than by building and maintaining bureau of this kint at the branch and have Mir Danaher at tend to it, and then we could all ge the news from there instead of relyins upon other sources for such informa tion, which quite frequently turns ou to be something like afaze.
 Walking to the Pan-American ex position at Buffalo. That is the un- dertaking upon which five young meI of the Brooklyn district entered upor this morning. The young men arc John Cullum, Arion Blansfield, Johr O'Brien, Patrick Hartford and Bartley Doyle. All five have been out of em ployment for considerable time They have read and heard of the beau ties of the exposition and they became fascinated with the idea of attendins it Of course they did not possess sufficient means to ride to that far famed place. They were in quan dary as to how they should get there until some one timidly suggested tht idea of walking. It was a happy sug gestion and the five youths unanimous ly resolved to use their feet as ths means of bringing them to the exposi ton. About 1 o'clock this morning when the majority of people were il dreamland, the five venturesom,