Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-03
The Dem1nerat,
CITY NEWS.

w. F. York and R. w. Brewer are in Boston.
 The board of finance will meet this evening.
 The Waterbury Benevolent associa- tion will hold an important meeting this evening.
 Benjamin Chatfield, former resident of this city but now located in the south. IS visiting friends in this city.
 D. B. Wilson & Co are building a large brick structure near the New England Junction which will be used as a store house.
 Edward Belden and H. w. Lake went on fishing trip to Bethlehem yesterday and were rewarded by a string of forty one pickerel.
 The funeral of Daniel Lynch was largely attended from his late residence on Franklyn street to the church of the Immaculate Conception this morning.
 At meeting of the Hibernian Rifles held last evening the following officers were elected Captain. Frank Phalon: 1st lieutenant, Patrick Gordon 2nd lieu tenant, John Finley.
 Workmen are engaged removing the large mound of land near the gas com pany's property opposite the New Eng land railroad. It is reported that a large lumber yard will be opened there.
 The board of fire commissioners ac- companied by the mayor and Chief Snagg are in Holyol1e to-day exam ming the workings of new Hayes truck in use by the local fire department.
 James Nickers. well known as for mer salesman at Upson. Singleton & Co.'S, spent the holidays at home in this city. Mir Nickers is now employed by the Union Ten Per Cent Clothing Co of Newark, N. J.
 A mounted curiosity in the shape of a calf with eight legs. four ears. two tails and two bodies from the shoulders down is on exhibition in the window of Hurl- butts shoe store and attracts much at tention.
 Judge Bradstreet and the lawyers in- terested in the case of Mrs Cowen vs the town of Middlebury now on trial before the district court took d recess this afternoon and visited the scene where she received her injuries.
 The eleventh annual winter meeting and banquet of the Connecticut Com mercial Travellers association will be held in the Atlantic hotel, Bridgeport January 24. Wheeler & Wilson orchestra and a quartette of Bridgeport members will furnish music.
 Baggage Master Edward Thompson of the New England road took a dose of poison by mistake for medicine at hi. home in Hartford Tuesday. After boarding the train he was taken serious ly ill. He was taken back to Hartford and is now out of danger.
 Statistics collected in Connecticut show that long hours. slow payments and child labor go together. That is. il the counties of the state where the largest proportion of the laborers are childre1 the hours are longest and the hands are paid once a month. the Gefenselessnes; of the employees permitting the employ CTS to take this advantage over them.
 The New York and New England rail road company will in a few days bcgil to switch cars flom their tra c1s to the Meriden and Waterbury railroad com pany'S track at Railroad Hill Nesterda1 it was rumored Supt Platt was to come down from Hartford and superientcnt with Mir Crawford the running of one of their mOgul engines on the new track
 Officer Dodds will go to Bridegroom tomorrow to give some interesting tes timOny in a suit for divorce brought bN Walter DeGratf. of this city, against Gertie DeGratf, or Gerte Mason as sht is better known in Waterbury, The woman is the one who received so man, presents from Jack Connolly of art;c,eS lie had stolen from Els store a couple of years ago. Officer Dodds has arrested her once or twice and knows her peui gree thoroughly.
 The hearing on the Hepple will cast was yesterday postponed to January 8 Thomas Billbaugh of Waterbury, Mrs Alice Ford of this city. and Mrs J. l.. T Smith of New York heirs of the deceased having given notice that they intend t, contest the will on the ground that MT: Meeks. the beneficiary of the will. useC undue Influence in inducing the deceased to dispose of her prOperty.-New Havel Palladium.
 Theodore V. Meyer. of the firm oi Honold & Meyer. who was recently elected collector, has been appointed treasurer of the Tennessee Transporta tion company, and will leave Waterbur, next Saturday for Chattanooga. He ha: sold out his interest in business to hi partner, MT Honold. Mr Meyer is yer, popular in this city. and everybody vii regret that he is to give up his bushes. here. The selectmen will be called up on to appoint collector.
 ThE matter of changing the layout O South Riverside street occupied the at tention of the board of road commis sioners last evening and the propert, owners directly interested were given hearing as to the width they would prefer the street. General KelIogs stated that if the city ordered the stree to be forty feet in width, Judg, Andrews would never order the rail road to pay two-thirds of the expenses Only four of the property owners wer in favor of a forty foot street, Michae Guilfoile, John Driscoll, John Shanahal and N. J. Welton favored a forty foo layout with sidewalks on both sides Mrs Mary Fitzgerald did not favor tn street at all, saying that it would ruil her property. After hearing argumen the matter was tabled for one week.