Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-13
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 Our Busy Readers. The Suffield firemen havoc appoint ed George w. Woodruff, Franl Loomis and Joseph Sweeney dele gates to the national convention a New Haven. August 6 and '. | Burbank Yung, son of presiden of Chinese railroad, and nephew O a former Chinese ambassador to thi' country, of Hartford, is registered a the Wangum, Canaan.
 The losses at the postoffice al Brooklyn on account of the recen burglary follow: Government loss $16S.43; postmasters personal loss $20; E. E. Allen, $4; Mrs L. Searls $20.
 The work on the new directory will be started in the near future The directory is expected to indi cate a population of 45,000' in New Britain at the rate the city has been growing.
 Rev Dr Hoskins, who is mission. ary at Beirut, Syria, will give an ad. dress July 24 at Litchfield on "A Re cent Journey into Edom and Moab. , The address will be illustrated with stereopticon views.
 The house resolution amending the charter of the Thomaston and Watertown Electric Railway Go was passed, but the house amendment fixing time limit on extensions to November 30, 1908, was rejected.
 Fred I. Ley & Go, contractors, of Springfield, have a force of men stringing wires across the Connecti- cut river in Thompsonville. They are to be used to furnish power for the street railroad line in Suffield.
 The trolley company made consid- erable trouble for Watson Tryon & Sons by dumping carload of trap rock in front of the town hall when 1t should have been unloaded at the corner of Bloomfield and Poquonock avenues, Windsor.
 The new factory building which has been in process of construction in the rear of the main factory of the E. Ingraham Co on North Main street, Bristol, is near completion. The brick portion has been finished for some time and the carpenters are finishing the roof.
 It is rumored that another change is to be made in the staff of clerks at the Thomaston postoff1ce and that the place of first assistant, filled since July 1 by Edward Gates of Plymouth, will be taken by MT Curtiss, until recently of Wood bury.
 The 12 years old son of MT and Mrs Joseph McCaughty of Maple street, South Manchester, was bitten by blacksnake Thursday morning. Dr E. c. Moriarty was called late in the day. and although the boys leg was badly swollen from the bite no serious trouble is expected.
 Complaints have been made in diff ferent sections of Rockville of the work of fakers selling potatoes. Their scheme is to make the price a bushel so low that people are easily persuaded to purchase two bushels. when the potatoes are measured they are found to be short measure.
 Following the disappearance from Bristol of Frank Lagasse, the con tractor and builder, Deputy Sheriff Albert L. Morse has placed a build CTS lien on the house of August Gal loski of Terryville that Lagasse re- gently erected. The claim that this lien is to satisfyeis held by Steadman & Co, the North Main street hard ware dealers. and is for $50.
 Henry F. Wilson of Gloucester, Mass, has been selected as principal of the East street school, New Brit ain, to succeed Principal M c. Drisco, who has accepted a place in Hartford. He is 27 years old, sin gle, and graduate of the Bridge water, Mass, state normal school. He was principal of a grammar school at Weymouth, Mass, during the past two years. He previously taught for two years at Middleboro, MasS
 A rear end collision of freight trains occurred about o'clock yes terday afternoon at West Wilmington, about 200 feet north of the station. Freight No 390 was at the station and flagman had been sent out to stop any approaching train. Special freight No 3s5 came along and be- fore it could be Jagged crashed into the first, telescoping the caboose and smashing two cars. The fiagman was Jaul Davis and it was said that he was but two telegraph poles in the rear of the train. The engineer, Charles Hill. and his fireman, whose name is Cahill, jumped and no one was hurt. A wrecking train was sent out from New London and it is