Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-12
CITY NEWS.

COdIS, ONeICOdlS dHu WdlSL coats at Upson, Singleton X Co.'S clothing em- porium. I=- .aasa, ssE apSSkH4 Letter Carrier Edward M. Fitzpatrick is all smiles to-day. It is a girl, born yesterday.
 John J. Mccarthy, of the bottling firm of Mccarthy X Moore, has bought | the property on South Main street, for merly occupied by c. A. Briggs The seventeenth anniversary of the German Ladies' Mutual Aid society. will be. observed in an appropriate manner | on Wednesday evening, January 20, in Concordia hall.
 The New England road train arriving | here at a. m met with an; accident at Cooks station, west of New Britain, this morning. While taking a siding to allow a freight to pass, the caboose and one car left the track owing to the spreading of the rails. The train reached here an hour late.
 An intoxicated farmer tried to drive his horse across the Naugatuck railroad bridge near Holmes, Booth & Havdens' factory late yesterday afternoon.l IThe animal became entangled in the trestle work and could get neither upnor down. A tagman stopped the 5:47 train, which was due, and after a good deal of work the horse was eXtricated from its peril ous position. The owner declared that he thought he was on Meadow street.
 Deputy Supreme Chancellor Desmond of the Catholic Benevolent Legion in- stalled the officers of Waterbury council last evening, A social session followed. A movement toward establishing a state council of the order is in the works. The vote of Waterbury council is favorable to the formation of a state | council. There are now seven councils in Connecticut, having a membership of over 800.
 Hog cholera is alarmingly prevalent throughout Fairfield and New Haven counties. For several months past farmers have been losing hogs by death at wholesale rate, but have not until lately suspected the cause of the mortuary decrease in the swine popula- | tiOn. The disease seems to be the worst in New Haven county and particularly l in the line of the Naugatuck railroad. l Within three weeks an AnSOnia farmer lost sixty hogs. Chairman BOstwick of the New York & New England railroad authorizes the following statement: The New York & New England company has no negotia- | tons whatever for close connection with the New York & Northern road for the reason that the New England | company cannot see how it can be bene- 1 fitted by such connection. The en- trance of the New England road into New York city will be by an entirely | different route.
 The Connecticut association of Civil Engineers and Surveyors is meeting at the office of the city surveyor in Hart ford to-day and the exercises promise to be of much interest. Reports of the secretary, the treasurer, the executive committee and of a special committee will be read. President E. P. Augur will deliver an address and T. H. Mckenzie of Southington will read paper on Sewage Disposal by Irriga- lion Through Land."
 Brigadier General E. F. Durand com manding the Connecticut brigade, U. K. F.; Colonel John s. Deacon of Wa terbury, Adjutant- General Colonel Horace o. Case of Hartford and quartermaster-ge general will leave Hart. ford Monday, January Is, for Kansas City, Mo, to make arrangements for the encampment of the Connecticut brigade, Uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, at the biennial encampment which will be held at Kansas City, August 1G, 1892.
 The large number of members in the get-rlch-quick order, the Royal Ark have been encouraged recently by receiving a circular from the receiver of this society, asking them to send him vouchers for all the payments they nave made to the supreme treasury Very few of the members in this city will take the trouble to send in their Claims as 1t IS not probable that they will get a cent on the dollar, where they were assured they would get forty per cent.
 Patrick Flanagan's petition for con- mutation of the death sentence has been continued until the second Monday in April. The petition of Andrew Bories- son IS denied. Flanagan is a physical wreck. He is wasted and worn so much that he weighs but 70 pounds. He is in reality nothing but mass of skin and bones: He coughs all night long, a deathly cough that racks his slight frame torturingly. It is doubtful whether he will be alive on the day set for execution.
 Town Clerk Madden is still at work making up his annual report as regis trar of vital statistics. An amusing incident turned up to-day. It was in the shape of birth certificate, filed by one of the local physicians. The certificate gave the name of the child. its father and mother and also the occu- patton and residence of the parents. The parents were gypsies and their resi- dence was given as "the earth, with the remark that the child was born in a tent at the gypsy camp near Simons- vile, May 27, 1891.
 William E. Crane council, American Order of Steam Engineers, elected the following officers Saturday night: Past chief engineer, William J. Blacker; chief engineer, E. A. Blackwell; first assistant, J. G. Baril; recording engi- neer, s. w. Word; corresponding engi- neer, E. R. Snagg; financial engineer, E. Rowly; treasurer, H. J. Scott; chaplain, B. Keefe; senior master mechanic, F. Blacker; junior master mechanic, M. S. Sheehy; inside sentinel w. Connor; outside sentinel, A. Rowly; trustees, $. w. Word, E. A. Blackwell w. J. Blacker.
 The Bridgeport board of trade recent ly appointed a committee to report whether an effort to have the proposed