Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-29
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 Plans for new Catholic church in W1nsted have been prepared by Broth 1 CT Adrian, O. +. NJ. The edifice will be of stone, and will cost $50,000. It | will have seating capacity of 1000 persons.
 Elias E. Pratt of New Haven, for more than forty years connected with the building department of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
 road Go, has resigned as superinten- dent of the department because of poor
 health. He is the inventor of the
 Pratt coal car.
 Among those who applied to the
 board of registration of voters in the town of Winchester on Saturday to be made voters was young man who could not read, but who had learned
 1n some way to write his name. The
 young man was born in Winchester,
 and has lived all his life in that town. Graham R. Mellen son of President I c. s. Mellen of the Consolidated road
 Is now employed as stenographer in
 his fathers office in New Haven. The
 young man graduated from Yale in
 1902, rooming while in college in Van
 derbilt hall. 1t is President Mellen's
 intention to train his son as practi-
 cal railroad man.
 Robert J. Warren, son of Captain
 George Warren of Putnam, was arrest
 ed yesterday afternoon by United
 States Marshal Bishop Of Norwich at
 the request of Postoff1ce Inspector
 Pendleton of Boston. Warren, who is
 about 21 years old, is charged with
 fraudulent use of the mails. He is
 great reader of dime novels, and want
 ed to be an actor.
 The three burglars whom Policeman Relihan captured trying to break into
 T. Sisson & Co.'S Sunday night at Hartford have been identified as three East Hartford young men. Their real names are said to be George Vincent, George Beers and Carl Mickelson. One of them was implicated in the theft of sum of money from an East Hart ford man some time ago.
 James R. Johnson, an old time { printer-editor, and a veteran of the civil war, died at his home at New From 1859 to 1886 he bought and sold papers in different parts of the state, ? his purchase of paper generally being followed by awakening of inter est in the community by reason of his : witty editorials which he often com t posed while at the case
 !. The trouble which has been brewing : in the Kings Highway chapel in T T Bridgeport has finally eliminated in ! the resignation of the pastor, the Rev Evan Evans. The resignation was : rather unexpected and was read to the
 congregation at the morning service
 on Sunday. It seems that the mem
 bers of the congregation are divided
 into two divisions over the question of removing the chapel to more central
 location to the west part of the city.
 Fair Haven is enjoying n tale of a
 marvellous rat-catching oyster. The k other day rat was prowling about a I bin where some oysters were kept and ! Intentionally allowed the tip of his tail ' to enter an open she'll The oyster closed down on 1t immediately and the T startled rat ran for a hole in the floor D The oyster was larger than the rat f hole, and the rodent was held fast. A {. workman who had observed the rats o futile flight from it's captor, lifted the r,t oyster drew out the rat and killed it. i. Mrs Anna Smith of Bristol, an in z mate of the retreat for the insane. dis . appeared Tuesday while out with 6 Y party of mildly effected patients. pick
 ing wild flowers. Her husband was l. notified and also Chief Arms of Bris Il tol No trace could be found of hel It and yesterday morning posse of nine g. men rom the retreat secured the cOun a try near where she disappeared. Mrs
 Smith was found yesterday afternoon at the home of her sister, Mrs Bas sett, in Hartford, and she was take1 S' back to the retreat. 3 Y The Wesleyan sophomores have be . gun to take the freshmen out and pu 8 them through various stunts Tues e day evening the sophs secured a skele .s ton key and went through the rooms il IS North college and gathered up yer d dant half dozen. They were bundled
 into push cart belonging to Janito , Raymond and ridden about tn,
 grounds. They were then made tt 'e run gauntlet of line of sophomore 'r armed with paddles. It is said tha "a one of the freshmen refused to talk, le his medicine and was thrown into th Is fountain on Washington green.