Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-13


 Washington Post.
 Cities with poorly kept streets might take hint from Scranton. The grand jury has indicted the ffty-nine council men of that city for maintaining Il nuisance i'll neglecting the streets.-- New Haven Union.
 The contest "touchin' on and apper- tainin' to" the reference card ill Bridge port and Waterbury has resulted Ill decided victory for the workers ana the relegaton of the obnoxious card to ln- definite obscurity. The card was none too popular even with the contractors and its abandonment will cause no serl- ous grief to either party to the contest. New Britain Herald.
 It is said that one concern i'll Wur- temberg exports 5,000,00O harmonlcas a year. Of course, that number scat tered all@over the world would mitigate the trouble which they cause in any one locality, but just think of Wurtemberg not exporting them but compelled to keep, and perhaps play upon them, at home! That town may get caught some time yet in this risky business Bridgeport Standard.
 An Ohio health food company has just lost a suit brought against 1t by retailer in Germany, who demanded $500 damages because Ill the pictures which the company put on cartons Of its goods sent to the plaintiff the nose of the empress of Germany was so blurred that it appeared to be missing. The retailer alleged that the damage to the empress's nose made 1t tmpossl- ble for him to sell the goods. A Morristown. N. T.. man came across a big rock one day last week. in which he had placed a charge of dynamite a year ago and which failed to explode. He struck it with his ham, mer, saying: ''I wonder if the old thing will go off now" When they picked him up over fifty feet away, with one ear torn off. seven teeth and all his hair missing, he admitted. that the reply to his question was clearly atic--Hartford Telegram. a.
 A lot of navy gun powder was con- demned and hurriedly thrown over board by the commander of the war ship Olympia q few weeks ago, because he did not ,daresto allow 1ta to stay in the magazines of hls ship. Now the four battleships at the Brooklyn navy yard have been suddenly relieved of all their ammunition for the same res- son. Still 1t must be remembered that the battleship Maine was destroyed in Havana harbor by a Spanish mine v It would spoil lot of American his tory if that fiction could not be main tained.- Hartford Times.
 If the democrats who voted for Me Kinley or Palmer in 1S96-and the (Hartford) Times Is their representa- tive in Connecticut-control the nation al convention of 1904. the logical candi- date is Grover Cleveland, to whom the Times has already promised vigorous support, notwithstanding MT Cleveland has asserted he was out of politics. What the Kansas City supporters will do the editor of the Union cannot state. MT Bryan has also decided that he IS not a candidate and he knows of no circumstances under which he would become a candidate. But if the traitors and bolters of 1896 and 1900 desire to give ex-President Cleveland a fourth nomination for the presidency, we have no hesitation in saying that the Union believes that the democracy who are opposed to trusts-and in particular to the parent trust, the. money trust-can do no better than to adopt the advice of Abraham Lincoln, and mot swap horses when crossing the stream" and give the Hon William Jennings Bryan third nomination for the presidency of the United States.-New Haven Union