Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-28
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 Mrs Lottie McCaffrey of Pittsburg,
 Pa. the only woman prisoner in the | civil war. was guest in Denver dur
 ing the G. A. R. encampment. She is l the only woman member of the Ma tional Association of Union Ex-Pris-
 oners of War Mrs McCaffrey's hus-
 band was an officer on the union side and was wounded and captured She
 went south to nurse him and was later
 declared to be prisoner of war. and
 as such, was confined ill Castle Thur
 der at Richmond for three months be-
 fore being exchanged.
 General Manager J. E. Sewell is
 home after hunting expedition in the
 woods of Maine. Mir Sewell was in
 great luck and as proof of this he points to a couple of deer which he
 shot and brought home, each weighing 1 iii the neighborhood of POO pounds. In answer to a query from a Democrat
 reporter as to what he intended to do ] with them he said he hadn't decided
 yet, but judging by the way he made the remark the reporter concluded 1 that there is some truth in the rumor { that he intends to have them prepared
 for the table and served out to all the
 newspaper men of the city and few
 other invited guests. The introduction i of the seven and a half minute head way on North Willow street yesterday afternoon, Mir Sewell said was looked i for. and the delay in not having it earlier was due to the conditions in { the street and added that it would he ! started on all the lines as soon as business warranted it. He has a trip
 planned along the Baldwin street line ! to see what headway is being made there Mr Sewell looks brown and tanned and healthy and apparently in , good trim to pitch in and get things moving all around.
 1 A jury in Seattle has decided that dog has right to bite man in self defence. This is an interesting yer , dict. It appears that dog bit a piece out of mans leg and the victim sued the owner of the dog for $10,O00. The defence was that the dog would never have bitten the man if he had not been provoked to do so, and that as he was provoked to do so, and that as
 was standing quite within his own rights in biting the man. The defence was upheld and dog and owner alike ought to be happy. Many other cases of a similar nature have been brought before. but this case is said to be the first time that the jury has taken this point of view.
 Boston's immigration records for single day were broken recently when the Saxonia and the Romanic came in with 3,737 passengers. More than one third of the immigrants were Italians although twenty-two different nation alities were represented. Of course there will be many who regard these ! newcomers as a national menace, and the labor organizations may not re- gard the influx with particular com placency. Yet generation or two will make great changes in this raw material of citizenship, and probably among our leading citizens in the year oOO0 we may number some or the de- scendants of those who came to Bos- ton in the Saxonia or the Roumanic.
 Will the incoming board of education change the name of Crosby Highpback to it's old cognomen, Waterbury Hignf A large number of persoRslq around town seem to think it will. When the present board changed the name of the school to Crosby, in honor of the man who was superintendent of schools Tor such long period, the act was not ap- preciated by either students, teachers or graduates on account of the confus- lon caused by the new name. They think that the school should be called by the city in which 1t is situated. Some other large school in the city could be called Crosby, and it would honor the name just as much, if not more, than the High. In every large city of the state. Hartford, New Ha- ven, Bridgeport, Meriden, etc, the high school is called after the city. The students at the Crosby dislike any name other than Waterbury; many Of the teachers do not care for It. The higher officials from all accounts are not in love with 1t, and last June the graduating class was allowed to place on the class pins the old name. w. II. S." The managers of the various sporting teams at the school always refer to it as Waterbury, have "W." on their caps and sweaters and con slider the name Crosby as not sugges' tive enough to show to what town the team came from. According to some of the stories the next board of eduea- tion will consider the matter at an early date, but whether the name will be changed back again is matter of 1oubt Certainly the people in general, according to opinions frequently given. would be pleased to see the old name back again on the yellow building and would like to see some other school in he city called Crosby"