Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-13

on fishing tour to Lake Winnemaug yes- terday morning and returned in the even- ing with string of thirty-three pickerel. | The heirs of the late Patrick Mccarthy of New Britain have brought suit against the Catholic Legion to recover insurance money. The organization claims Me Carthy was in arrears at the time of his death.
 William Cudly who has been an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany for the past three years has been promoted to be assistant superintendent Mir Cuddy is well and favorably known and his many friends wish him success in new position.
 The local contractors have been asked to send sealed proposals to the center school district office for the erection of an addi. ton to the Long Hill school plans to be opened at a special meeting to be held Saturday evening. The plans are fur nished by Architect A. J. Smith.
 Major Dickinson, assisted by Captain Wolff and Lieutenant Halpin, inspected Company Gs dr1ll last evening. The | boys were first put through the night guard duty practice, then the settine<up exercises and lastly bayonet drill. Lieu tenant Fitzpatrick was in command.
 An order issued by Superintendent Platt of the Consolidated road relative to the character and nationality of the help which should be employed as laborers on the road in the future went into effect last week. It provides that preference be given to Irishmen, who, the superintendent says, are easily the most valuable laborers.
 The boys in Co G had quite lively time at the armory last night Corporal John W. Garde. hustling young soldier, was given a sergeant's stripes, and Private Patrick Barry was made corporal After drill Sergeant Garde regaled the boys with refreshments, and success was quaffed to the new non-commissionedo officers.
 Just at this time of the year many peo- pie are sending to distant friends, through the mail, articles of all kinds. The post office officials give this good advice: AL ways have the articles wrapped in strong paper and securely tied, as they receive quite juggling. Should the package be valuable one the better plan would be to register it. For some time the money order department at the local office has been stagnant. This week, however. orders are coming in rapidly and the clerks are unusually busy.
 The Waterbury Butchers Protective association held its annual meeting at Schwenck's hall yesterday afternoon, and elected the following officers: President, Charles L. Rogers; vice-president, J. c. Slattery; financial and recording secretary. J. NJ. Warner; treasurer, W. A. Guilfoile: auditing committee, c. B. Sanderson, Will liam Riether; trustees, James Coughlan. Louis Schick, NJ. F. Cassin; executive committee, William Riether, James Cough Ian, Louis Schick, c. B. Sanderson, J. NJ. Warner, S. Bohl, W. A. Guilfoile. Joseph Thebo and M. F. Cassin; sergeant-at-arms, James Coughlan.
 Connecticut this winter is fairly oyer- run with ''green-goods" and bunco sharps and "fim-ham" operators, and flooded with circulars setting forth the seductive merits of these avenues to quickly attained fortunes. The extraordinary thing about the swindlers. especially the letter-writine ones. is the reckless and stupid audacity with which they operate their games They send their ''green-goods' pros pectuses to all sorts of people, in a hit-or- miss way, and this week a metropolitan firm of rascals baited a curious hook for more than a score of postmasters in all parts of the state.
 The pool tournament at Harvey Brothers is attracting considerable atten- ton. Last night the first bout was be- tween John Harvey. handicapped at 50, and Jim Braithwate, 40. The latter won easily by a score of 40 to Is. The next round was hard fought one between Will Smith and Martin Fury. They were handicapped, Smith to make 59 to Fury's 50. It was nip and tuck to the close when Smith, the "phenom" won 59 to 39. To- night there will be two contests selected from the following teams: Tom Bergin, 45, and Ed Harvey 40; T. Henneberry, 40, and Cal OBrien 50; T. Dillane 50 and J. Scoville 60.
 The last excursion of the season to New York over the New York & New England road will be given next Wednesday, the train leaving this city at S:15 o'clock a. m. The fare for the round trip is s1 .25, and tickets are good to return on the special i train leaving New York at : o'clock D. m. or on any regular train on Thursday or Friday, December 21 and 22. The special train is due to arrive at One Hundred and Fifty-ffth street, New York, at II o'clock a. m., where connections are made on the same platform with the Sixth and Ninth avenue elevated roads.
 Word has been received here from San Francisco of the highway robbery of Arthur Hine who formerly lived in Middle bury. MT Hine is diamond dealer. He had stepped from street car shortly after dusk, when he was set upon. He was carrying diamonds to a customer for se- lection. He had them done up in a laundry bundle. When attacked he dropped them to the ground. The foot pads failed to think the bundle of value and took his pocket-money and watch and fled Hine was not injured. The watch he has since recovered in a pawn shop. The diamonds were of course saved.
 The cold snap which was predicted yes terday has proven to be more intense than was expected, according to the United States weather bureau A visit to the office of Sergeant Cox in New Haven this morn ing showed the following: The cold wave extends over the entire eastern half of the country. The lowest temperature re- corded during the night was at Green Bay, Wisconsin. The lowest in New England this morning was at Northfield, Vt, and Passport, Me, in both of which places the mercury registered six below zero. In Boston 1t was six above. In Waterbury at oc clock the thermometer read 10. This IS the eoldest of the year. The indications thls morning were that the cold would not grow any more intense.