Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-04
CITY NEWS.

Johnson City, Tenn, yesterday.
 The board of road and sewer commis- sioners will meet this evening.
 The Brooklyn Athletic Clubs annual sociable will be held in the auditorium this evening
 There are are advertised letters at the post office for Lawrence Griffin and James $. Bennett.
 There was only one drunk in the police court this morning. He was | fined S3 and costs.
 The hearing on the report of the ad-
 ministrator of the Coyle estate has been
 postponed until next Monday. Oscar J. Ziegler was to day appointed sub letter carrier by Postmaster DOherty and immediately begun hlS duties. Observer Cox of the weather bureau,
 predicts for this afternoon and tonight
 and Thursday, fair weather. rising tenn perature.
 Benjamin Chattield, a former Water
 bury man, now proprietor of the High land Park hotel at Aiken, $. C., is visit
 ing in town.
 Fcnton Ward and Miss Ellen J. Fox
 were married by the Key Father Nul
 c lhy at the church of the Immaculate | Conception at 10 d. m. to-day. Lovers of flowers are cordially invited
 to visit the chrysanthemum exhibition
 tt the greenhouses of A. Dallas, on Union street. Nov ,, 6 and :. Colonel Doherty to-day received an | order for the adiutant- general, notify | ing him that Companies A and G will
 be inspected on Monday, November 9. John w. Gaifncy X Co have com-
 menced the work of placing Meadow l street in readiness for paving. Con- | tractor Thompson has resumed work on
 the Grand street paving. The arrangement committee of the
 late picnic given by the fire department report that the groS, receipts were $l, ,1432I, and the net receipts S9G9 43.
 Each company will receive $l31.I9.
 The first piece of iron work on the new $S0,O0O bridge acres, the IIOusa- | tonic river was swung into place yCst,r- | duy. The bridge is tO be finished ly the first of December and will be a handsome structure.
 City Clerk kildun to day engaged Attorney Root to look after his interest in the petition brought by Edward E. Platt asking the superior court to de- clare him, Platt, elected tu the position of clerk for 1899.
 It is announced that Roger Connor and Danny Richardson signed with the Athletics yesterday upon their own terms. Each will receive d fat salary. a large advance, and a personal con tract for three years.
 The two hundrcdth anniversary of the organization of the First Cungrrgational church in Waterbury. was celebrated with appropriate exercises to-day. many distinguished clergymcn being present. At the afternoon exercises q historical discourse was delivered by the present pastor, the Rev Joseph Anderson. The celebration will be continued to-lnor- TOW.
 Edgar M. Geer, convicted for viola ton of the game export law, and whose case has recently been passed on by the Connecticut supreme court, has ap- pealed his case to the United States su- preme court. lie sets up the claim of the unconstitutionality of the law and thus seeks expression on this point from the hig hest authority in the land.
 The circular sent to the various lodges of Odd Fellows In the state by Grand Master Cowcll, in relation to the pro. posed home for indigCnt Odd Fellows, has already resulted in the different lodges Ill the state doing some tall hustling. The idea is to raise $50, ,0O0 in three years. The lodges are going to try to raise half of this years portion by January l, and for this purposs the different lodges have committees at work. At the last session of the sovereign grand lodge the subordinate lodges were given permission to draw from their treasury a certain percentage for such purpose, privilege winch had never been allowed them hpfure But it Is not thought this will be neces- sary.
 For the past few days Dairy Inspector Winslow has been in this city working up cases against restaurant and boarding house keepers, who were serving oleomargerine to their bGarders without displaying sign as ordered by law. Mir Winslow found. many violations and reported the mat ter to Prosecuting Attorney Kellogg who to day issued warrants for eleven offenders. The writs were given to Chief Egan and the following were ordered to appear in the police court to morrow morning Mrs John Gloster, Kate McCaulry, James Durand. Dumont Kingsley, Frank Burke, Lewis Scovlll, Sarah Cohn, Mary Barnes. Mrs Gillette, Mrs Heating and Hannah Cut Ter.