Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-15
CITY NEWS.

frederick Joseph. the six-weeks-old son of MT and Mrs John T. McNiff of washington street, died to-day, The funeral will take place tomorrow af ternoon The High school debating team. con sisting of Benjamin Fairbrother James Hurley and John Gaffney will go to Bridgeport about the middle of May fo participate in debate with the Girls, team of the Bridgeport High school.
 List of letters remaining unclaimed Tn the postof1ice: Miss Eunice Barber, Abrah k. Badger, Mrs Martha c. Cook Miss Nellie Cormery (2.) Jerry. Dono- van (2,) Miss Anna Johnson, Miss Mar gafet Hour1gan, Mrs Fred Kreiger, c. U. Laymond, William J. Morrissy, Mrs Anie South, Mrs Emma B. Wood. The debate which was to have been held by the Alumni association of St Marys school in the Mulcahy Memorial building last night was postponed un- til Friday night owing to the indictment weather. The debate will be on the subject Resolved, that the name of Lincoln is the greatest in American history" The speakers will be as fol lows: Affirmative George Coyle. Jo- sephine Wall, Jennie Freney; negative. Joseph Havfcan, Katherine Casey and John Hayden.
 | Julia, the fourteen-years-o daugh- 1 ter Frank Graber, the South Main street shoemaker and bird fancier, who has been missing from her home | for the past three weeks, was found | last. night in Hartford by Policeman Hart. At first she tried to conceal her name and claimed that she belonged in ! New Haven, but she finally owned up. l The reason she gave for leaving home was that her father would not sallow her to remain out late at night. The authorities notified her father and he went there to-day and brought the girl l home.
 At a meeting of the senior class of the High school yesterday afternoon Principal S. W Wilby announced that board of directors had been appoint ed to make arrangements for the publi- cation of the class work, which will be entitled 'The Tattler'' The board consists of Clifton Heaton, Nathan Redwood, William Slavin, Walter Dallas and Clarence Gardner. Among the contributors to the book will be the Misses Sadie Keenan. Margaret Hartnett, Ella Kilmartin and Miss Metheney. The members of the class who desired to write articles for the book were invited to do so and if their articles meet with the favor of the di- rectors they will be published. It was also announced that the marks of the
 various members would be made up by
 May 1 and then it would receive di-
 plomas. The class election vii be held
 shortly after.
 Waterbury is surely having its share
 of strikes. On Monday twenty em-
 ployes of the rolling mill of the Bene-
 dict & Burnham Manufacturing com
 pany went on strike because their re-
 quest for $1.5O a day was refused, and
 yesterday about fifteen young men who
 worked in Foreman Thunberg's room
 in the Scoyill Manufacturing company
 struck because they were unable tC
 make more than fifty cents a day, and
 to-day at i o'clock twenty young men
 ranging from the age of from 16 to 2C
 years, who have been in the depart ment of the Scovill Manufacturing
 company which Charles Monzain of 2l , { wall street has charge, went on strike
 because they were refused an increase :, of wages from 75 cents to $1 a day : On last Monday the young men asked
 for the increase of wages from Johr Lackie, who is one of the under bosses
 in the department. He told them tc wait for a short time and he would see
 about it. This afternoon about , o'clock they again requested the in crease of wages. This time they were informed that the increase would no , be granted and that the men could de ., part if they did not wish to work fol ? the wages. AS one of the boys re } marked they were told ''Get out iftyol , don't want to work for 75 cents" Ant 5 they got out, every one of the twent! young nssa.