Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-03-19
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| Our Busy RosderG New London-S Sallie Tobias was yesterday appointed clerk in the
 post office department at $sOO a year.
 Moosup-The contest over the will
 of Jonathan Niles, who bequeathed $15,00O to the Methodist conference, has been settled so that the bequest | stands.
 Hartford-George w. Scott, yer-
 eran of the civil war, Fl years old.
 committed suicide last night about 7:30 o'clock at the corner of Ward
 and Lawrence streets.
 Matthew E. O'Brien of
 Bridgeport, legislative representative
 of the prohibition party, has been
 invited by the prohibitionists to par
 ticipate in their campaign for no H.
 cense.
 New Haven-Treasurer McClung
 of Yale university has just received
 over $95,000 in cash from the legacy
 given to the university by the late
 D. Willis James of New York, this
 being the bequest of $100,0OO less the inheritance tax.
 Meriden-The railroad commits sioners have issued an order requir- ing the New York, New Haven &
 Hartford Railroad company to repair
 the bridge on West Main street
 which carries the highway over the
 tracks of the Waterbury branch of
 the railroad.
 Hartford-A jury in the superior
 court last evening found Lorenzo
 Rossino guilty of murder in the first
 degree and Louis Fughetto guilty of
 manslaughter, the two being charged
 with the murder of Eli Cavanaugh in a saloon at 161 State street on the evening of January 29.
 New Haven-Matthew A. Rey- holds, an attorney was yesterday ap- pointed conservator over ex-Mayor Cornelius T. Driscoll by the probate court. MT Driscoll is now in the west seeking a rest. He was grad uated from Yale in 1869, and from the Yale law school two years later.
 Rockville-The need of a hospital in this city was emphasized yester- day when woman, stranger, was taken suddenly i'll in the office of Bedding Bros & Co, silk manufac- turers, and had to be taken to po- lice headquarters, as no other place is provided.
 Willimantic-Papers were served yesterday in suit brought by Miss Ethel Fox, late teacher of the Pine District school of Columbia, against Joseph N. Clark and Hubert P. Collins, both of Columbia, claiming $500 for their having revoked her teachers license.
 New Milford-Commissioners c. M. Woodruff of Litchfield and A. L. Shipman of Hartford have completed the taking of evidence in the action brought by Nicholas Staub against the estate of Isaac B. Bristol, which was claim to recover s21, ,000 said to have grown out of financing the New Milford Power company. The were appointed by the probate court, and will make re- port to 1t.
 Hartford-Ex-M Mayor Ignatius A. | Sullivan, the man the old line demo- crats thought they had put down and out, is on top again. His sup porters will control the democratic town convention and the ex-mayor will undoubtedly be chosen to make the running against the republican nominee for mayor, Representative E.. W. Hooker. The democratic pri- maries yesterday resulted in Sulli- vans favor and the old liners were decidedly out of it. l
 New Britain-Hinges that weigh B ton each are the kind upon which the doors to the New Britain Ma tional bank vault will be hung. They are the heaviest ever received in this city and the task of placing them in he building yesterday was big one The vault doors have finally arrived md will be delivered at the bank at once. The doors weigh several tons each. Because of difficulty in getting steel of the required strength work ,n the building has been held up. It will take six weeks to hang the ioors.