The Newtown bee., 1891-09-18

Windsor hotel for drive and were near Delmonico's, when the horses became frightened and ran. Dashing into heavy truck, they demolished the carri- age, cleared themselves and ran some distance before they were caught Mrs Wetherbee and daughters were thrown from their seats, butnot hurt; the coach man, John Connors, struck on his head and was so seriously hurt that he died in a few hours.
 Albert Seggell of Middle district and John Dallas of Mill Plain have been sick.
 Contractor Birnie, who has done much work at Southport, has the contract for the stonework at the Mill Plain crossing, but the grading is to be done by Redfield & Sons.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Sarah Dimon, daughter of Theodore Tur- ney, to Alfred Irving Thayer, M. D., of Newark, N. J.
 Clinton Brotherton has left the Hand place at Southport and will work for Horace Jennings.
 The annual banquet of the Bridgeport bar association, some 75 to 80 lawyers, will be held at the George, Saturday, 18th.
 Business was brisk at the probate office Saturday, Judge Glover appointing ad- ministrators on three estates. On the estate of Larry McMahon, Southport,Se- lectman Edward Hawkins was appointed administrator, Sidney Hawkins and k. M. Bulkley appraisers; on the estate of Morris Gould, Selectman Rufus B. Jen- nings administrator, N. B. Hill and Hor- rec E. Burr appraisers; on the estate of Stephen Morehouse, Mrs Sarah More house, John r. Warehouse administra- tors; no appraisers appointed.
 Considerable excitement was caused by
 the story that Miss Eva, daughter of Henry Stegeman, had been assaulted while on her way home from Bridgeport.
 She works at Thompson, Langdon X Co.'S corset shop and rides on bicycle to and from her home on Hoyden's hill. On
 the night of September g., soon afGer she
 had passed the Jewish cemetery, she was
 accosted by two men. One of them pull ed her partly off the bicycle, which was
 upset and damaged. Miss Stegemar l pluckily recovered herself, however and
 drawing revolver, fired a couple o1 shots at her assailants, who did not mo z lest her further. Warrants were issued - and placed in the hands of Sheriff Pike = Saturday, but the fellow. who is descrb ed as short, thickset, dark complexion
 black moustache, dressed in Workmant clothes, could not be found. The suppo
 sition that it was William Gates or Gate T ley or Connolly is i'll founded and he wa
 probably only tramp. Miss Stegeman who has lonely road to travel, has beer
 accosted before, it is said, and now zoe
 armed.
 Before coming to trial before Justic' , Morehouse, Saturday, the case of Healtl :, Officer Brothwell against John Poland
 for maintaining a nuisance ill Stratfiel(
 was settled on payment of costs ($25 63 , , the nuisance had been abated. All th'
 witnesses were on hand, B. B. Broth
 we'll, Kepler H. Nichols, Edgar G. Will son, Joseph $. Blakeman, Isaac B. Will , son, Richard B. Jennings, Horace Lyon :, Poland was represented by his counsel .. c. s. Garfield of Garfield 6 Judson. Pc land, after promising Health Office
 Brothwell that he would abate the nuis 7 ancc and would feed his pigs no more
 garbage, had induced Donovan's tean
 to leave him a couple of barrels, thougf , against Donovan's orders. This was ob has cleaned his piggery and will feed n' garbage in the future.
 ] The six-weeks-old child of MT and Mir 9 Robert Dickie died at 10 45, Frida, night, after short illness with choler s infantum. The funeral was attended a e the house, Sunday afternoon. MT ant a Mrs Dickie have the sympathy of neigh l. bors.
 The child of James Kincella, Whicl ' died of cholera infantum, was buried
 last week Thursday.
 |, Wishing to ascertain, as far as possi :. ble, the actual financial condition of tn town as shown by the town reports, Law = yer Bacon Wakeman has carefully ex ,. amined the reports since 1876, when the. 2, were first issued in pamphlet form an
 has prepared tables showing the entir
 amount of taxes, the amount collected 5 taxes abated, amount uncollected, taxe l. abated, amount of grand list and 10 pc y cent additional. From these, it appear
 that the rate of taxation has been in
 creasing; 10 mills in 1S76-'79, 12 in 1880 t 'S9, 15 (three mills additional for the re t duction of debt) in 1890. The tota ,, amount of taxes is given as $369,924 90
 but this does not include dog taxes o f perhaps $2000 from 1878 to 1885. Dur v ing this period, from 1876 to the last re s port, the amount of tuxes collected wa ? $344, ,195 62; taxes abated, $19,297 fl
 amount uncollected, SIS, ,146 35. Now
 of this $l3 1000, there occurred betweel ? the years 1884 and 1887 the deficiency O ! $2000 which taxpayers of the town, by ! their attorneys, Wakeman & Morehouse are trying to collect from the bondsmer 7 of the late Tax Collector Daniel Moloney May it not be pertinent to inquire ii
 more of the $13, 1000 might not have beer
 collected and never paid over? MT Wake l man has prepared other tables, show !, ing that, with balance on hand at tht : beginning of the fiscal year of 1876 o1
 s7O9 20, and tax receipts of $27 ,l96 55 7 it was necessary to borrow $83, III 5