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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
SIMILARITY OF NAMES.
Innocent People Feel That They Are
 Scmstimss Suspected.

T wish the papers would give the residence as well as the names of peo- pie who figure prominently as offend CTS in the police court" said citizen to a reporter of the Democrat to-day. This" he added, would be no injus- tice to the drunkard, the wife beater and other offenders, and nothing more than decent citizens have n right to expect. You have no idea how much scandal honest people suffer on ac- count of the use of names in the police court. If the papers want to be fair l think they should give the address as well as the name and then man who was up cannot run around when he gets out and say it was the other fellow. During the past few weeks a police court item brought woman here from Poughkeepsie to settle what she supposed was big row between her son and his wife" There is lit tie grain of truth in this, but the pa pers are not responsible for the trouble. When the prosecutor calls name in court he says nothing about streets or numbers and the reporters have to con tent themselves with what the records show.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
B1O0HIN DMERS.

I
 John Dunnigan is spending . short vacation in Pitts1eld.
 Julia Rafferty of North Riverside is reported to1 be quite i'll at her home.
 There will be special meeting of the French-Canadian Band association tonight.
 The brewmaster did himself proud on Hellmann's 1905 Book Beer. Try it and see.
 Daniel Mccarthy, bartender at the Murphy cafe on Bank street, Is suffer- ing from blood poisoning as result of receiving scratch by coming in con tact with a broken bottle.
 "A young boy, by the name of Wooding from Bethlehem. was run over by a team belonging to Valen- tine, the painter, on South Leonard street this morning. Dr De Lig0ri at tended the boy and found him badly bruised about the body.
 "A birthday party was held last evening at the home of Mrs Thomas Turley in honor of Miss Anna Turley's ninth birthday. About twenty of her companions gathered at her home and made merry until late hour. During the evening songs were sung by Will liam Hurley and Harold Gilmartin. Re treatments were served.
 Let us remind you that we have just what you need in drugs. When you have prescriptions to be filled leave them with us Our stock of drugs Is always fresh and prices right 4. c. Walker, the druggist.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
BOARD OF SAFETY
AppointeA I've Asn e the Call
 Fire Force.

The meeting held by the board of safety yesterday afternoon was . short one. Plans for the new engine house in the northwest end were dis. cussed and looked over. Edward J. Maloney and Thomas Bywater were appointed to the call fire force and Michael Crane and Pasquale Groce were examined for appointments to tine same branch of the fire department. There are half dozen vacancies in the fire department and as soon as possible these will be filled by ap- pointments from the call force. The present system of numbering the fire badges will he done away with. It is a kind of harum scarum system cal. culated to. mislead. Chief Snagg was Instructed to secure new badges num- bered in rotation from 1 up to 70. Many of the firemen use the badges they wore when members of the vol. unteer department So that one would think from the numbers that there are about 500 men in the regular fire de- partment.
 Eli Boulanger took the examination for supernumerary policeman. There were no appointments made to the regular force.
 Mayor Elton presided at the mese. ing
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
FAKE BOOK AGENTS.
Use Names of Catholic Clergymen in
 Getting Subscriptions.

Use Names of Catholic Clergymen in
 Getting Subscriptions.
 Hartford, April 20.-During the win- ter a young man with glib tongue has been canvassing among kitchen maids to get them to buy a large book on the history of the Roman Catholic church. He had no printed forms or much else to work with except his glib tongue. The price of the book was from $6 to s. Of course. few of the girls could pay spot cash. so the young man. after a long argument. would accept jO cents down. the rest collectible monthly. He used the names of clergymen and even of the bishop freely and was quite successful.
 One householder. whose domestic had no use for the book. directed that it be returned to the agent" who had left only an ilIegible scrawl on a rough piece of paper. but the agent refused to take it. After calling twice for his money. the fellow put the claim into the hands of a New Haven dunning agency. The threatening letter. from that source was answered by the man of the house. and that was the end of the threat.
 When the matter was reported to the church authorities. the householder learned that there were not a few of these tricksters. whom the priests pub fish from time to time as they learn Of them.
 Some of the fellows buy a book for a dollar or two down town and then palm it cff on an unsuspecting domes- tic for S or $1O on the instaIment plan. saying that Father So-and-so sent them
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
SHERRIE HAD LOT
 OF BOARDERS' STUFF

Rockville, April, 2O.-Petro Nella Zawronta, who boarded at the home of Mrs stephen Kulas at the time she was murdered, was the first witness in the Sherrie trial yesterday. When court adjourned Tuesday she was testifying as to the ribbons found in Sherrie's bag at his rooms in Hartford. She identi- fed a dark ribbon exhibited by the state, which she said she had seen worn by one of the Kulas children. She last saw the ribbon on January |. The next time she saw it was when the state police had it in their pos session and they showed it to her at the office of the Somerville Manufac. turing company.
 She said she knew Frank Sherrie, as he had worked at the mill and had boarded at the Kulas place at the stame time she did; she swOre that Sheyrie wore cap when at work. The hat exhibited in court she said he wore Saturday afternoons and Sun days when he was dressed up." He always wore cap to work and he owned two, one of which had ear laps on it. Asked if she had seen him wear Cdp SlIulluT tO tne OIle SLOWu III tue photograph she said she had. She iden- tified the coat shown in evidence as one that she had seen Sherrie wear. Asked as to how she fixed the day of the week upon which the crime was committed, she said she knew it was Thursday because that was pay day.
 On cross ss-examinatiOn she said that she receiverd her pay just before noon and that she took it home and showed it to Mrs Kulas. and then went up stairs where she put the money in her trunk. Two other girls occupied the room with her, but neither was in the room at the time she put the money away. She said she kept the trunk locked. Asked regarding her knowl- edge of Sherrie. she said she saw him about the yard at the mill. but did not become acquainted with him until after he came to board at the Kufas house. She was subjected to, rigid cross-examination but her testimony was not shaken in any way.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
"OLE swIMMIN' HOLEy"
Spot Made Famous by the HOosier Poet
 fin Danger of Spoliation.

Spot Made Famous by the HOosier Poet
 fin Danger of Spoliation.
 Indianapolis. April 2O.-The proper. ty owners in and around Greenfi. i'd. Hancock county, are very indignant over the proposed spoliation of his. toric place near the county seat which James Whitcomb Riley has made fam- Ous in verse as the ''Ole Swimmin' Hole"
 Property owners along Brandywine creek are seeking to get a court order which will enable them to straighten the creek. and in doing SO the ''Ole Swimmin' Hole" would lose it's identi- ty. as the bend at which it is found would be cut away. People who have no property interest in the creek are signing petitions to the county co,a- missioners to reject the proposition.
 Mir Riley was appealed to to offer a protest against the proposed change, but as he is no longer a citizen of Han cock county he declined to interfere. Patriotic citizens may purchase that part of Brandywine creek which con tains the ''OIe Swimmin' Hole.- so that it may be always preserved to the county as 1t is to-day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
scn0 !! . E IT m ] IT:
Dst Conditions ~ AsIeaAy ssAssl n
 yet uncAanfel.

| The school hoard and the depart ment of public works are In the land purchasing business for fair this year, and while everything that is being done in that line may be all right, it looks rather strange to see so much moIey expended in enlarging school lots and fixing streets in one part of the town while a very large school In another section is left to get along without any street. The board of education shifts the responsibility. for this, stating that it is up to tho board of public works, and these ofi. cials think the trouble is due to q blundering piece of business on the part Of former officials. This may be true, but in any case the duty of pro wolves upon the board of educatio1 and the department of public works and 1t would seem that sense of fairness on the part of these distinguished gentle men would suggest that the most urgent cases be taken up first. One Os the speakers at the hearing on the pen. sion and tenure of office at Hartford Tuesday informed his hearers that politics entered into the deliberations of school work in the past, but that such thing is an unknown quality on the school board at Waterbury at the present time. Some of us are not in position to say how much, if any, truth there was in the first insinuatiOn, but viewed from the road one cannot help thinking that if politics cuts no figure with the present school officials, par. tiality is rampant among them. and the result seems to be more injurious than anything else that ever crept in there. If this is not so how does our school board defend it's conduct in add ing to the play grounds of some of the schools while the pupils of another building under it's jurisdiction have to tramp half mile to get there or be- come trespassers if they take the route which should have been provided for them? During the past two years sev. eral children have contracted colds, ir some instances the malady terminating fatally, from the hardship encountered in reaching the Mulcahy school, and yet no step has been taken to improve the conditions. If this were so under some other administration somebody might attribute it to politics. What do you term it now when we are said to have a board of non-partisan gentls- men at the helm?
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
BOARD OF PUBLICATION

When the bill giving to the board of control power to determine and define the extent in pages and the number of copies to be printed of the reports of the state departments. was reache.l In the legislature yesterday. Mir Naples of Norwich said that in a few years the cost of such publications had in. creased from $3O.0N to $16.OOO. The bill was passed It carries with it an annual appropriation of sJOOoO for .he expense of printing and circulating the public laws. reports and documents is- sued by or on behalf of the state. ex- cept publications issued under the au- thority of the general sssembly by its O13c0kR
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
NOT SATISFACTORY.
This cerrespen6snt Says DoeHs nm
 sehool Site is . Peer one.

Editor of the Evening Democrat:
 Dear Sir: see by the issue of the Tuesday Evening Democrat that Bucks Hill is to have new large two room school house. one sufficiently large to accommodate all the children of this small district for generations to come. What a pity. what a shame. that such school house could not be built on a more suitable site. one that would much better serve the interests of the district The site chosen is one sided. inconvenient and expensive. It may gratify the whims of a chosen few who desire to carry out their own self. ish purpose. The names of the perpe- trators of this nefarious scheme will be known and it will surely heap upoa them the disapqrobation of the indig- nant taxpayers. which they % richly deserve
 It is to be hoped that some way win be devised to provide for the chiIdreN of the district now. and in flle futurO a more conveniently I0rate,i school horse. BRCKS HILL.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
Look Out {!

Pneumonia is very prevalent just now. White pine and tar wards 1t oil. Take ours. Take no other. and you take no chances. 9 cents takes the bottle. FITZPATRICK'S Pharmacy. East Main and Wall streets.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20
DeGrayss Cs.aAential seer<ss.t,

wASHINGTOS. April 9n-WiIIiam Henry Allen of Massachusetts has beea appointed confidential secrefary 0 Fourth Assistant 'Postmastsr Gen- OI DuGraw.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-20

HeIlmsnn-s -Buck bIny Goaf- sn1 Bully Book De6 win be ia nFent es1r DcerO0ny<
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
Secretary Hay Defends
Course of Administration

Secretary Hay, in conversation this
morning with a representative of the
press, said:
Z should like. if possible, To set 1T
rest the confusing, misleading, and
harmful reports concerning the 4leso-
tiations, not enly on the Santo IJoz
riingo protocol now under eonsidera-
ton by the United States Senate. out
also the instrument signed at Sa1to
Domingo City on January q. Whitn
IS sometimes referred to as the Dill
lingham-Sanchez agreement.
"Jt has been asserted and persist
emily repeated that the Department Gf
State had know ledge of the existence
of the agreement of January Q prior
to the announcement in the public
press that such an instrument had
been signed at Santo Domingo tsf-v.
1T has been further asserted tf.at
there was an intention and 81 purpose
on the part of the President and the
Department of State which looked to
tie haSty carrying into effect of some
important arrangement with the DO
n1inican government without duls- sub
hitting 10 tho Senate for its advice
and consent any instrument In the
nature OF treaty or protocol
Neither tie President nor any of
the officials Of the State Eepa rtTrssnt
ever had any such intention or ptr-
pose.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
COMMITTEE ACTS
FAVORAbLY UPON
DOMINICAN TREATY
Decides Upon Report
By a Strict Party
Vote.
EXTENSIVELY AMENDED
Confidently Expected That
the Compact Will Be
Ratified.
EXTENSIVELY AMENDED

The Santo Domingo treaty was today
ordered favorably reported to the
Senate by the Committee Gil Foreign
Relations
The vote was strict party one. to 3.
as follows:
Ayes-Cullom, Frye, Lodge, Clark of
Wyoming, Foraker, Spooner. kean.
Noes-Morgan, Bacon, Money, Clark
of Montana, McCreary.
Confident of Result.
Although the Republicans are not yet
wholly assured OF the required two
thirds vote needed to ratify the treaty
it Is confidently believed the four Dem
ocratic votes necessary are in sight.
Votes Counted On.
Three already counted upon are those
of Stone of Missouri, Clarke of Arkan-
sas. and Newlands of Nevada. Another
Democrat who will not let his name be-
come known at present has said that he
viii vote for the treaty If he can bs
convinced that the Government entered
upon Intervention In Santo Domingo or
the pressing request of that government
and that there vas no attempt at ag
gression by the United States.
This is pleasing to the Administrator
leaders in the Senate, as in this way
they count upon enough votes to pass
the treaty.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
SUBWAY STRIKE
PARTLY BROKEN,
TRAINS MOVING
Company Confident 1t
Is Able to Operate
Lines.
MEN SEEKING OLD JOBS
Many Non-Unionists Brought
in From Boston Take
Up Work.
MEN SEEKING OLD JOBS
SOME TRAINS MOVING.

Much improvement was noted
this morning in the movement Of
trains on the elevated and subway
lines of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, of New York
city
Officials of the company say the
strike of the 5000 employees is
broken.
The company reports this morn
ing that many of the men are ap-
plying for their old Jobs. The
men will be taken back. but will
lose their seniority.
An effort will be made by the
leaders of the strike to get the en-
ployes in the power houses which
supply the roads TO quit, The COM
pany says the employees in power
houses are non-union men and will
| not go out.
Strike leaders confidently assert
that the men viii win, and fatty
deny that any of the union men
have gone back to work.
No violence or disorder was re-
ported this morning.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
SENATOR BATE DIES:
VICTIM OF A COLD
Illness Follows Exposure at Inauguration
{. Ceremonies to Which He Succumbs.
His Long and Active Career.

the Democratic organization IN the
State. IN 1853 he was q delegate to
the national Democratic convention,
national Democratic executive com
mittees for Tennessee. The campaign
Of 1876 found NJ. Bate an elector
for the State at large or the Tilden
and Hendricks ticket.
Places Sought Man.
In 1882 political honors came seek
ing Mr.. Bate, and he was elected gov
ernor of the State, and two years later
was reelected without opposition.
With his last term as chief executive
of Tennessee just ending, he was nom
mated for the United States Senate. and
in January, 1887, he was elected. In TAX
ing his seat, on March i. 1887, Senator
Bate succeeded Washington G. Whit
horne AT the last general election Sen
ator Bate was reelected to the Senate
for the fourth consecutive time
With others of his colleagues the vet
eran statesman was again inducted int
office last Saturday, and after the cere-
monies IN the Senate chamber he Joined
the Presidential party on the stand at
the east front of the Capitol to hear the
inaugural address of President Rooss-
welt. Exposure to the cold winds of that
day gave Senator Bate a cold. but moth
ing serious was anticipated, and even as
late as Monday evening 81 [ dinner, whea
he seemed in unusually good spirits, tt e
Seators family and friends would have
secuted even the suggestion of such a
sudden fatality.
Wife by His Side.
Mrs Bate was watching al the bed
side this morning when the sudden
change for the worse occurred and she
quickly summoned her grandson Bate
Mastin, who in turn called Mrs. Car
mack, wife of Senator Carmack; Mrs.
Josephine Ellis, close personal friend
OF the family and r. W Cantrell, the
Senator's private secretary, all of whom
remained In the chamber until death oc-
Cured.
Senator Bate is survived by his wife,
two daughters, Mrs. Thomas F. Mastin,
of Grand View. Tex, and Mrs. o. w.
Childs. of Los Angeles; also by one
brother Captain James H. Bate. OF
Gallatin, Tenn, and one sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Tyree, of Fresno. Cal.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
POISON CANDY AGAIN
SENT THROUGH MAILS
Wife of Pittsburg Attorney Nearly
Loses Her Life-DeadIy Bon-Bons
Reached Her From New York.

PITTSBURG. March 9-A box of bon
bons sent through the mails, with a New
York date, came near causing the death
of the wife of a Pittsburg attorney
Who the attorney is has been kept a
secret, but the candy has been given
to chemists to analyZe and is said to
have contained corrosive sublimate.
An analysis was made in the labora-
tory of the Pfttsburg Forge and Iron
Company by Gustave Miller, the com
pany's chemist. and one was made by an
Allegheny druggist.
Albert Sauers, OF the North Side phar-
macy on East street, Allegheny, also
piece contained poison.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
THE WEATHER REPORT.

The northeastern section of the low
pressure trough Of Wednesday morning
has disappeared TO the eastward, but
the southwestern section still persists
with lightly Increased intensity. and has
moved northeastward to the interior of
the middle Gulf States. The Saskatche-
wan disturbance has moved southeast
ward to the Michigan Peninsula with
much increased intensity. accompanied
bv SHOWS and much lowe.' temperatures
on its northern and western sides.
Temperatures have fallen considerably
in the lower lake region the Ohio val
ley and the west Gulf States. and have
arisen in the south Atlantic States and
the southern upber region. Unsettled
weather win continue to night and Fri
day in the East and 5 ruth with rain or
snow TO night, cad so on Friday in
the lower lake region and the middle
Atlantic States, and colder Friday in
the south Atlantic States.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
Reports Received That
Jdps Win Mukden CITY

BERLIN, March e-The LokaI Anzei-
ger prints a dispatch TO the effect that
the japanese have occupied Mukden.
LONDON, March 9.-Tae latest indi-
cations based on war reports from the
scene OF the battle are that the Jap
anese circle ts Tightening about Mukden
from the northwest
The Russian left is falling back on the
Notifications along the Hun river for
the purpose of staying General Ki1ro-
ki's advance. and keep open the possi-
bility of a retreat to Mukden-
A heavy enga cement is proceeding in
The Washington times., 1905-03-09

According TO information received by
Minister Takahira from Tokyo, the Jap
auese expect to capture Mukden today
In anticipation of this event. says the
dispatch, Field Marshal Oyama has Is
sued an order strictly prohibiting his
troops taking quarter within the walls
of the city He has done this, he says,
for the purpose OF respecting the sane
tity of the place whence arose the i'm
periaI dynasty of China, and to pre-
serve peace and tranquility among the
Chinese inha bitants of Mukden.
Marquis Oyama reports that he has
beaten the enemy in every direction, and
that the Russians began retredting Wed
nesday morning with our troops in Wig
orous pursuit.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09

the neighborhood of the imperial tonabs
northwest of Mukden. On the north
the japanese are advancing on Ungsln-
gun, which IS three yersts (two niles)
from the station at Mukdeu.
A dispatch te the Reuter- Telegram
Company from Tokyo confirms the cut
ting of the railway north of Mukden-
The dispatch declares that General Ku-
ropatkins position is so critical that If
he succeeds in withdrawing even the
bulk of his army the performance will
eclipse mis- mastery retreat from Lao
Yang
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
Retreat of Russians North of Mulden IS
Interrupted Seriously, While Mikado's
Troops Push Pursuit Fiercely.
FIGHTING THE BIOODiEST
OF THE WHOLE STRUGGLE
Reports Place Casualties on Both Sides at
More Than One Hundred Thousand.
Will Save the Manchu Cities.

9Ofca confirmation has that the
Mukden The pursuit of
The people already celebrating the victory of the japanese
of the
he most
directed
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
BOARD OF TRADE
BOOMS FACTORY

CATAWIsSA, Pa, March AT a
meeting of the Catawissa board of trade
it was decided to accept the offer of
New York capitalist TO invest $50, COO in
the car works here If the borough would
invest $4,000. The greater part of the
towns amount has already been sub
scribed The plan is TO increase the
capacity Of the works so that they will
employ 100 men,
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
Northwest of Mukden.
Drawing Closer His Lines
To Deliver Crushing Blow

ST PETERSBURG. March 9.-Em-
peror Nicholas has received a dispatch
from General Kuropatkin announcing
that he has ordered the center and also
the left wing Of the army 10 retire IN
the direction of Mukden. with a view 10
concentration prior TO delivering a de-
cisive blow at the Japanese.
The latter nave thrown letters into the
Russian lines announcing that the cap
ture of Mukden was effected on Friday.
The Washington times., 1905-03-09
st. Petersburg Fears Big
Disaster Is Approaching

LONDON, March 9.-The ST. Peters
burg correspondent of the Standard says
1t is considered that peace can be read in
the Iaconic foreign bulletins announcing
the Russian retreat to Telling. He adds
that no dispatches from General huro-
patkin Wednesday were given out
The officials are making the most Of
the dispatches received Meroay showing
minor Russian SUCCESSES. The latest