Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-17
CITY NEWS.

Boys wash suits 49c at Upson,
 Singleton X Co.'S.
 Military Band prom at Columbus
 hall, Naugatuck. Thursday night.
 The annual picnic of the First
 Methodist church will be held Satur-
 day at Lake Compounce.
 Edward Finn, son of E. J, Finn of Second avenue. will receive his l degree this week at Holy Cross col lege. Frank Bowes, E. Vincent Maloney
 and John Phelan, students at Holy Cross college, have returned home
 for the vacation.
 Miss Pilon of 133 West Main street has returned home after
 spending a week with friends in
 Hartford and Bristol.
 A new order issued at tite post
 office provides that each batch of
 mail distributed in the boxes for
 local people should be marked with
 a rubber stamp to designate the clerk
 who distributed it.
 Pa rick Healey, James Mcknight,
 Lawrence and Howard Phipps, Wal
 ter Dallas, Michael Hayes, Charles
 O'Connor, Joseph Bergin, Thomas
 McGrath, George Coer and Max Kir-
 jassoff, students at Yale, have re- turned home for the summer.
 Two small boys named John Cakus and Adolph Dressel both F. were in the city court to-day charged with theft of some tobacco and matches from a fruit store in the west end. They saw the goods in the store, went in, snatched them up and ran away. They were put on parole till to-mor- TOW morning.
 Attorneys |. G. Church and Joseph H. Reid, counsel for the contestant in the Killoughey will case, Mrs Mar garet Whalen, have filed with the su- perior court a motion to have the yer. dict set aside, The verdict sustains the will. The attorneys claim it was against the evidence. The matter will be heard next Tuesday morning.
 Talking about high water pres sure and how to control it at the of the board of public works last night somebody asked if there is not a reducer which would bring pressure down to what is wanted. IL appears this is so and that the can be put in to an or dinary building for about SIP. If l this be so wouldn't it. be better to | put in the reducers on the high serv- ice on Washington street than ex- i tend another main up the street which will be fed from the Branch?
 Francisco Pascatoro, a laborar. en- Dloyed by the O'Brien Construction 1o., was killed yesterday afternoon Dy being run over by work train at he Cables Cut" east of the golf inks on West Main street, where gravel is being obtained for the fll,- ng surrounding the site of the new Inion station. The victim was re- moved to the hospital where he died hortly before : o'clock. Medical Ex- Iminer Crane pronounced death due O hemOrrhage and shock.
 Canary shirts, broad stripes 50c md $1, Epson, Singleton X Cos.
 At a meeting of Grand street men held yesterday af- ernoon at the store of Arthur E. Benson an organization known as he Post office Square Improvement was formed. Officers were chosen as follows: President, larry w. Yeager; viee-president, W. ). Scott; secretary, A. P. Mccoy; reasurer, David B. Meth; executive committee, W. J. Finnegan. John J. Iurphy and Arthur E. Benson. The oeiety intends to light up the quare so that one will have light nough to read paper several undred feet from the intersection f Bank and Grand streets.
 Mrs Henrietta Peck. widow of the lte Franklin l.. Peck has filed all ap- cal tO the superior court from the of her husbands estate. he claims she was entitled to a hare in the building on Bank street nOwn as the old Cooley house" { he distributors were Mayor W. F.. hnms. City Attorney John r. Kel- { 'gg and Loren R. Carter. During le distributing there was good ; gal of bother experienced ny the stributors from the lpgatees. All of - Iem could not get tue pieces of pro arty they cared for and so the dis ibutnrs went ahead and did the best ey could. The Cooley house was 'ught for by most of the legatees. "Mikado" hlouses have separate liar Jnc, Tpson, Singleton S Cos. The office help of the department uf | aFities are somewhat upset over the ysteriOus movements of small ack cat that enters and leaves the ace by some means known only to q elf. Tho feline appears and disap- ars sO unexpectedly that even Nr ? wood who is quite famliiar with q Q antics of members of that family clarps that he is beginning to re. rd it with some alarm. It made Its St appearance about two weeks agN o d not knowing how if got in 1t was h ally decidsd that somebody picked |. up 0ff the street and threw it Into O p office for joke. They were out to give its walking papers when
 raised ifs hack. spat all over inc h rniture and then disappeared. to lere nobody could find out although PITY nook and corner Cf tho office | store room was searched. T. rp- " ned the next day and aas been ming and going at will ever since The corner stone Of the proposed