Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-12
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS.
Knights Off for Washington-Assa
 Case in Union City.

Knights Off for Washington-Assaul
 Case in Union City.
 John NJ. Hearns. district deputy of the Knights of Columbus, left thls morning for Washington, D. O., where he will witness the presentation by the Knights of Columbus of $50,000 to the Catholic university, for chair of secular history for that institution. MT Hearns officially represents Ojeda council of this town. Joseph Neal, grand knight of Ojeda council, and Joseph E. Martin are also in Wash l ington to witness the presentation cere- monies.
 A special meeting of the Eagles will be held this evening ill Hines hall at 8 o'clock.
 The members of Rubber City lodge, l N E. o. F., guarantee a most enjoy able time to all who attend the whist party and dance to be given under their auspices ill Pythian hall Friday evening.
 The Rev Father Cunningham of South Meriden spent yesterday with the Rev Father Sheridan.
 large crowd is expected to be pres ent at the wrestling matches Friday l evening i'll the Gem opera house. The main event between Ed O'Connell of | New Haven and Jack Roach of Wa | terbury promises to be an exciting one The preliminaries are also good ones, and, ill fact, the matches will be the l best so far ueld here
 A meeting of the parishioners of St Michael's church will be held this even ing at s o'clock in the church.
 borough Auditors Frank A. Nolan | n hYIc n11VNUGn auditing the borough books. They ex- pect to finish their work about the 20th of this month.
 An assault the like of which has never before been committed in this l borough, was committed Sunday even l ing by number of young toughs who 1 reside in Union City. A young man and his lady friend were walking up Prospect street when they were set l upon by number of young men, all of whom reside in Union City and who each and all with but one exception are we'll known to the police. The young man was separated from his friend and reveiyed terrible beating | The woman ran to q nearby house, but the young toughs followed her and I taking her from the house she fled to l for shelter, kept her out until early Monday morning. Four of the rowdies were arrested last night, but owing to l the fact that the young woman did not wish to bring q serious charge 1 against them they were arrested on warrants charging them with assault I and breach of the peace Three of the | prisoners have given much trouble to the police, while the fourth has al l ways borne an excellent reputation, and his connection with the affair .J ,I to the fact that it is reported that sew eral others are concerned besides the | four arrested no names are mentioned here but this does not shield the guilty ones very much, for the affair was the principal topic about town yesterday, and just who the prisoners are is pret- ty generally known. The young men will not be brought to trial. A settle ment of the affair was effected last night by the payment of $S.26 costs in each. case. Just how much more the affair cost them is not known. T--e l general public will regret that this gang of rowdies who have made life miserable for more than one resident of Union City was not brought before the borough court and given a dose of legal medicine that would teach them much needed lesson. It seems too bad that for such an offense mere payment of $S.26 should be sufficient punishment, and those boys should thank their lucky stars to-day that they are not now awaiting trial i'll a higher tribunal of justice where the punish I ment meted out to them would have been more fitted to the crime, namely 1 q long term i'll states prison, and It was only on account of the embarrass- <. ing position it would place the as saulted in that so light a charge was placed against them.