Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-23
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

Miss Mary and Louise Shanna- han of Lafayette street spent yes- terday in Southport.
 Miss Mary Weiss of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the guest of the Colbech family of Draher avenue.
 There will be a meeting of the Junior Amateur Baseball league managers this evening in the B. A. c. rooms.
 Mrs John Keefe and daughter, Miss Genevieve, of New Haven were the guests yesterday of the Mahaney family of Bank street.
 Dog Catcher Trask continues to find Brooklyn a profitable field for stray dogs. Saturday he 'cop- ped" three, which meant fifteen bills, not half bad for just one sec tion of the city.
 The shaft of one of the wagons of the Waterbury Ice corporation crashed through a window of car No GA while the rolling stock was standing at the end of the Bank street line this morning. The horses attached to the wagon be- came balky and before the driver brought them under control they had sent the shaft crashing through the window.
 -Mahaney's cafe on Bank street seemed rather lonesome to-day. : Happy" the bird dog, is dead. It passed away Saturday afternoon from the effects of poison. Some one administered dose of stow away" to the canine and it expired in less than an hour. The animal came running down South Leonard street, went into the saloon and huddled up in the rear of the place "Bill' Mahaney, who prized the dog highly, immediately saw that it was sick and summoned doc tor well versed in the disease of the purp family. But Happy was too far gone and died before the doctor arrived. Happy was good bird dog and was very popular pet. who poisoned the animal.
 -Despondent because he is not of work and unable to see How the world owes every man living" a man in this section this morning endeavored to purchase some car- bolic acid to end his life. But the clerks in three drug stores were warned not to sell him any poison if he should call, so he was unable to procure the drug. He has been acting strangely the past few days ,nJ C,tn,Jor opapipo ha uac taLpD in hand by the police, as it was thought that he would try to kill himself with weapon which he had with him. He declared this morning that he would end it all soon, notwithstanding the efforts that were being made to prevent him.
 Two valuable bull dogs were stolen from this section of the city last week, and the owners of the pets are much wrought up over their loss. Jack" Johnson's pre- cious piece of dog flesh disappear ed on Thursday and the following day Robert Eaters kiyi left, or was forced to leave, its domicile on North Riverside street. Johnson's s dog was an excellent specimen or the species, and the owner had re- ceived some big offers for it, but he would not part with it for any amount of money. He has visited Dog Warden Trask about a dozen times since the animal was stolen, thinking that the dog catcher might get line on it, but his visits have nnf fnt.'c "h n not so valuable as Johnson's was we'll worth stealing. .s
 Joseph A. Smith is the only druggist in Brooklyn that is like ly to sign the petition which is be- ing circulated to curtail the sale of carbolic acid. Although Mir Sun din the druggist who is circulating the paper, has not called upon the druggists in person, he asked their views yesterday over the telephone. Mir Smith said he was willing to sign the petition .as be thinks it would be good thing. He declar- ed he has always tried to be careful in disposing of the poison, and it was only this morning that he re- fused to sell any of the deadly drug to a man who seemed to be slight ly Respondent. Robert Walker will not sign 1t and told Mir Sundin that he would not. He does not think it will accomplish much, since all the stores will not agree to it. John Killoughey has not fully decided as yet what course f.a will take. He has been away and has not heard much about the petition. If he sees where it will be of any practi- cal advantage, he might sign. but under the present conditions he is of the opinion that it will fail of its purpose.
 The court of the Moral club is working overtime and fines are be- ing imposed so rapidly that the treasurer is finding it difficult to handle all the money that is com ing his way. When court convened yesterday morning at II o'clock it was found that there were lots of cases on the docket. There were all kinds of charges to be heard and the attaches of the court had busy time of it for about three hours. William Travers Jerome O'LeaTy prosecuted. There was much noise in the court room and it so nettled the prosecutor that he arose during the proceedings and addressing the judge said. '1 will not attain my position longer if the bad treat ment which I am receiving from the audience continues" Silence there