Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-06
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News Items Boiled Down for the Ben-
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 News Items Boiled Down for the Ben-
 eft of Our Busy Readers.
 The state society of the Sons of the American Revolution has invited the national congress to hold the annual meeting in New Haven, April 30 and May 1 and ?. The invitation has been accepted.
 l. The president sent to the senate yes terday the nomination of Rev Johnson Bellows to be chaplain in the navy and the nomination of Eugene H. Merri- man to be postmaster at East Hart ford. MT Bellows is now pastor of Grace Episcopal church at Norwalk.
 Stevenson Taylor has been appoint ed consulting engineer of the marine district of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Go. J. Rowland Gardner, assistant superintendent of marine construction, will have charge of all construction and repairs upon marine equipment and of the shops and men employed therefor.
 At recent meeting of the directors of the Middletown Street Railway Go it was voted to pay all employees, mo- y standing on January 1, 1903, IT cents an hour; all three years and under five, 16 cents an hour; and all under three years the same as now with an advance when the time comes.
 Charles l.. Cole, a brakeman, whose home is in New York, was stabbed in a street row in New Haven about II 20 o'clock last night by an Italian named James Rome. The affair oc- cured at the corner of Union and Fair streets, and was the outcome of a row that started in KraiIing's saloon at that location. The injured man was taken to the New Haven hospital. | Work upon the extension of the Bris- tol & Plainville Tramway Co.'S line to TerryviIle was begun yesterday morn ing, when Contractor Patrick H. Con- don of Bristol with seven teams and twenty men made vigorous assault upon the bank of gravel near the resi- dence of Freedman Steiler below the station, moving the dirt to fill below l.. s. Burg's place just over the town line.
 Rev Father Theodore Ariens, a Ro- man Catholic clergyman who retired from active work in Bridgeport some four years ago owing to advanced age and ill health, died yesterday in Heer- lien, Holland. The clergyman was we'll known here. The celebration of the aged clergyman's golden jubilee took place in Bridgeport October 19, 1895. Father Ariens left this coun- try about four years ago to return to his home in Holland to spend the re- mainder of his days. Death was due Ito the infrmities of old age. Robert E. Clark. who claims to be a wood peddler, would have been shot last night at Hartford but for the presence on the scene of Sergeant Weltner and Officar Tofrey, both pro- noted by the police board last night Clark was found in the rear of the house of Richard J. Rice, an inspector of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspec- ltion and Insurance Go, who lives at 139 Governor street. Clark was said to be peeking into a window where a woman was preparing to retire. Mir Rice went out with 32-caliber revol- yer and was prepared to shoot the fel- low The sergeant and policeman happened to be in the neighborhood at the time and they arrested Clark. He was found in the rear CT Dr H. s. Fuller's house few nights ago and at that time he said he was trying to sell wood