Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-04
CITY NEWS


 Pagtly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; light to fresh southwest winds. The democratic office holders will | meet tonight in the police court room l for the purpose of nominating a reg | istrar of voters.
 Loren R. Garter, as administrator on the estate of the late Charles Pritch- 1 ard, filed his account in the probate court to-day. There will be hearing on the document May 15.
 The will of Philo B. Norton who died last week was filed for probate to-day. l Excepting $1,00O which is left in trust with Mrs Norton for the benefit of their daughter, Juliette, the estate is left to the widow, who is also appoint ] ed executrix.
 Grand Secretary F. D. Grinnell of the New England Order of Protection, and deputies will be entertained by Brass City lodge of this city tonight in Knights of Columbus hall on East 1 Main street. All members of the or l der are cordially invited to be present. l Mrs Catherine Dillon, wife of An drew Dillon of 71 Dover street, died this morning. Besides her husband she leaves two sons and three daughters, William and Garrett Dillon, Mrs John Stack, Mrs John Lynch and Mrs Pat rick Sullivan. The funeral notice will appear later.
 Bridget Vaughan of 11S Bridge street has informed the city through her counsel, Attorney Slavin, that she sustained injuries on defective side walk on the above named street. and that unless she is compensated she will claim damages. The defect is a com mon one on almost all sidewalks alsd should be remedied, water hydrant pIojecting above the grade of the sidewalk.
 Charles Fisher drank deeply of mix ed ale this forenoon and about II o'clock entered tackles shoe store on Bank street and proceeded to turn the proprietor and his clerks out He be- came very noisy and insisted upon changing a pair of shoes which, how- ever, he had not bought there. It was necessary to call in an officer and he was taken to the police station and locked up charged with intoxication. Donate Summ, a five-year- boy residing with his parents at 27 Phoe- ll1x avenue, had a close call for his life on East Main street, near the Broad way hotel, at noon to-day. He was Knocked down by the fender of troll ley car and thrown to one side with one of his arms resting on the rail Fortunately the car didn't happen tc be travelling very fast at the time and the man in charge stopped it just in time to prevent serious accident The  into the Broadway hotel, but upon ex- animation it was shown that he es capped without injury. A big crowd collected about the place, all anxious to know what was up.
 Joseph Scul1y of this city fell while trying to board a freight train on tht Highland division near Jackson stree yesterday to go to Hartford and the wheels of a car passed over his righ1 leg and almost severed it at the knee , Dr Pomeroywas called and after dress ing the injured leg had the young mar removed ito the Waterbury hospital il Lunnys ambulance This morning a1 operation was performed by Dr Graves and Dr Conkey and the leg was ampu tated att the knee. Dr Graves stated , this afternoon that the young mar was not yet out of danger, but he was hopeful of his recovery. His condi tion was fairly good considering tha he had suffered severe shock and haG lost much blood before a doctor ar rived at the scene of the accident T Dr, s. B. Mum had an experience with the trolley to-day that he will not soon forget He was driving past the crossing on Exchange place this fore noon when the Bank street car began to move for North Main street Had the car been going at any speed the doctors buggy would certainly have been crushed and the doctor seriously hurt. Had the doctor looked ahead ol him there would have been no collision The spectators of the incident thought I the doctor was surely done for, as the fender. of the car struck the wheels o1 his buggy squarely and almost topple6 it over. But when the excitement which lasted only a few minutes, how ever, was over, it was found the buggy and the doctor had escaped without 2 scratch. The doctor has been some what against" the trolley strikers, but to-day he was against the trolley itself
 The annual state convention of tho Knights of Columbus will be held il Bridgeport tomorrow. The following delegates will represent the loca councils, Sheridan, Grand Knight B J. Finn, Timothy Donovan, alternates J. w. Mcdonald, J. H. Moran; Barce Iona, Grand Knight William Ryan T. F. McCann, alternates, Thomas O'Dennell, John Cronin; Hendricken Grand Knight Charles E. Mcdonald ] T. F. Conway, aIternates, Edward Mo ran, William Monagan; Barcelona Grand Knight Thomas Hallinan, Jo seph Worsley, altermates, Patrick Hal pin, Michael Kelly. E. J.. Finn is : candidate for delegate to the nationa convention and James A. Hynes is < candidate for the office of state depu ty.
 Jacob A. Riis, whom Presiden- Roosevelt termed ''the most useful cit izen in the United States, 'has been SC cured by a committee of the board ot 1 efllcafion consisting of Mayor Xiii