Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-18
CITY NEWS.

4 The board of finance met this af.
 ternoon and approved the payrolla
 and few miscellaneous bills. I Miss Margaret E. Bowes has fin,
 ished a course of music at Mount
 St Joseph's seminary at Hartford.
 MT and Mrs Daniel Ryan of Bar
 mum and Baileys circns were the
 guests last evening of Mir and Mrs ! Roger Connor of Montgomery street. l 4 months mind mass will be cele-
 brated at the Immaculate Conception
 church tomorrow morning at z
 o'clock for the late Mrs Ellsn Hughes
 of Center street.
 Miss Anna Fox of Hillside avenue ! win her nrosh'.. Jphh. and s.sler,
 Mary, of New Haven sailed yester-
 day on the Oceanic for visit ,1 eland and England, where they vii, remain for some time
 Louis Squires, painter. was ar i rested to-day by Detective kennaugh i on charge of theft. He is accused i of stealing s55 from Joseph Cabana, carpenter, with whom he was workf
 ing on Hillside avenue ycsiCiday. i Just what effect the introduction of motor cars will have in the fire de-
 partment it would hard to say at this time, but those who know something about the question say that 1t will reduce the number of men necessary 1 to equip house. If this be so tine auto is bound to be a money saver for the taxpayers.
 The jury in the district court to- ~day returned a verdict for the de- fendant in the sui. of the James E. Smith Lumber company against the Russell Lumber company of New
 Haven for damages of $500, loss in an alleged breach of contract. No- tice of an appeal was filed. Four other cases of the same nature rest on the verdict in this.
 After. deliherating half an hour this forenoon the jury in the superior court returned verdict of common assault against Peter Wolkes, who was charged with assault with intent to kill. Wolkes was sentenced to ten, months in jail. The case following was that of Antonio Farino, charged with assaulting Gerardo Martino with intent to murder him. The defense is that the shot was fired by Mar tino's own son-in-law.
 The Leavenworth street hremen were called by still alarm about o'clock this afternoon to Corcoran's lots. near the gas house. where . blaze had started in some of the shacks maintained hy the railroad employees. Upon arriving there Cap- tain Heitman sent word back to Chief Snagg that he wanted more hose. so the Brooklyn company was ordered to the fire. It is said that some of the workmen lost all their belongings in the fire. as T few of the shacks were badly gutted.
 The average Waterbury man isn't taking the great show at Chicago ser- iously. It appears to be generally nd- mitted that the public is sick end tired of the g. Q. D. and knowing this the management is stirring up all the excitement possible about candidates in order to divert attention from the condition which their mlsgovernmeat has brought the country to. The in- junction platform will be settled in manner calculated to deceive the public. hut no matter how the blanks happened to he set in every sane man believes that they will all work in har- mony along the injunction lines after the election Is over.
 The work of paving the guttsrs or Luke street was completed today, and appears to be an excellent job. After couple of weeks more the sidewalk man will be In there. aad after he gets through ths street vill be equipped with all improvements and will be one of the haudsomest thoroughfares In the city. Luke street was ordered laid out seven teen or eighteen years aKn. but for some reason or other very little was done with It until quite rscsntis It vas costly layout. too. especially to the property owners hetucen Fair mount street and Sylvan avenue. who paid all the damages
 The fire at Corcorsn's lots this afternoon which at first seemed TO be sn insignificant affair turned ous to he mighty serious for It burned ont the wires of the Conng-tscut company and shut of praeff-alIy all the power of the city. All The fac tories were compelled to s-a~ rork. that Is those that deoenc.-d u-.oa electricity. Many of fhs~, have steam in addition 70 ele~-ririsv aaf Of course these were ao s-ecfed- The fire no on'y ds--rtsI rha wires but also .danazea the t~n,sa rather hadiv- The officials of ,N- eonrany say that in siI s-o'al1-