Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-08
The 1er,nerat,
CITY NEWS.

The annual meeting and election of officers of Go G will be held tonight.
 The Among the Pines" company Chicago Monday.
 Captain Charles E. Hall and his brother, Gardner, have left for months visit in Florida.
 All members of the Sacred Heart church choir are requested to attend this evenings rehearsal.
 The Rev Fathers Martin, O'Donnell, Murphy and Walsh were in Hartford yesterday attending a conference of the assistant pastors.
 Frank Durant, employed as a brake man on the switches at the Naugauuck yards, badly injured his left arm while coupling cars this afternoon.
 The Naugatuck railroad company will commence cutting ice Monday. The other icemen are gathering harvest and there need be no fear that the crop will be failure.
 Adjutant- General Barbour has given permission to militia of other states to pass through Connecticut on the way to the inauguration of President Harrison in Washington.
 Miss Downs, the telegraph operator at the Naugatuck station, who has been sick for some time, has recovered, but not so that she will be able to take her old position for a few weeks.
 Three attempts to burglarize have been made since the electric lights re- main lighted all night. Two of the robbers are behind the bars in the New Haven jail and the police would never have been able to track them but for the electric light.
 The annual sociable to be given by the Second division, A. O. H., at City hall on Friday evening, March 1, promises to be a grand affair. Capt Casey is busily engaged twice week drilling B picked men for the fancy drill to be given on that occasion.
 The water commissioners have granted permission to the following to make water connections L. H. Tousey, H.. w. Keeler, c. Thatcher, w. H. Clark and William Butler. The board also voted to permit fishing at the reservoir from February 15 to March l. inclusive.
 The case for seduction against Melville Moshier, the horse car driver, has been continued until next Monday. The charge is brought by young woman named Frost from Waterville. Moshier claims that she is divorced woman of absolute habits. The woman was il, court this morning and is tall and good looking.
 Sergeant Cox, signal officer at New Haven, says the backbone of the present cold snap is broken. The cold wave of the last two days has been the most severe of the winter. Yesterday morn ing at s o'clock thermometer was at 1G degrees. The coldest was degrees. The velocity of the wind was from twenty five to thirty miles an hour during yes terday. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the thermometer had crept up to 23 de, grees.
 Mrs Annie Mead of Boston and Mrs Carrie Smith from New York were the only occupants of the prisoners pen 1T the police court this morning, both be ing charged with breach of the peace They Were arrested by Officer Reid ir Orlando's Italian lodging house on South Main street last night, where they had indulged in drunken fight. Mrs Mead's husband, a peddler who had but one hand and that one minus three fingers and thumb, asked the court for lenien cy for his erring spouse. Judge Brad street gave both women twenty-foul hours to leave Waterbury.
 The firemen are much interested ir in the bill now pending in the legislature for an amendment to the charter of the State Firemen's association. The am endment proposed provides that claim: upon the relief fund shall not be en forced by suits at law, but that the equity of every such demand shall be finally determined by the trustees of the fund. AS all the firemen are liable al any time to look for aid to the state as sociation, they are much interested iI the result of the bill. If it passes their claims for relief will be decided in the discretion of the trustees.