Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-13
CITY NEWS.

James NJ. Lynch and Thomas Halpin returned yesterday afternoon from a trip to the Worlds fair.
 Another case of scarlet fever has been located at 37 Washington street to-day by Sanitary Inspector Moses.
 Miss Mary J. Caniff has removed her dressmaking room from South Main street to her home, 95l East Main street.
 Thomas Weston got drunk yesterday and when an officer attempted to arrest him he resisted. This morning he was fined s and costs on each complaint.
 Arrangements are in the works for a pool match between George L. Pease, proprietor of the Scovill house billiard rooms, and Sheldon Beach of Meriden.
 The attendance at the Watertown fair to-day Is large. the races being the special attraction. A special train left here at 1:l5 this afternoon. The fair will close tomorrow.
 A horse belonging to \. s. Snow, the fish dealor, was found dead in its stall this morning. The animal was driven to Cheshire yesterday, but was apparent ly all right when stabled last night.
 In the superior court at Hartford yes. terday Fred R. Johnson, who stole a horse in Bristol few weeks ago and drove to this city, where he formerly lived, was sentenced to two years in the state prison.
 J. OHe Bristol. the paper hanger who was so seriously injured by fall yes terday, regained consciousness late in the afternoon and was removed to his home, 1l6 Round Hill street. He will probably recover.
 Candy free Saturday. A. & P. Tea Co.,
 The clerks in the state treasurer s office are now busy registering bonds and mortgages for taxation and receiv- ing the annual state tax of two mills This tax must be paid by October 1 to exempt the securities from taxation on town lists.
 Patents have been granted to Water bury inventors as follows: H. & Chase, 1 assignor to Waterbury Manufacturing Co, filling nipple and cap: J. R. Smith, assignor by mesne assignment to Con solidated Fastener Co. Portland. Me. glove fastener; NJ. w. Stebbins, assignor one-half to E. P. Lynch, lathe chuck.
 The Connecticut Eclectic Medical so- | ciety met yesterday at the office of Dr s. B. Mum and discussed the matter of | registration of doctors, made necessary by an act of the last legislature The doctors claim that the new law con | tlicts with the chartered rights of the | oOSASlNs Al lS u6lSkOOI, nO"GNeT, that the doctors will register. About thirty members of the society were present.
 G. H. Sheehan has opened an in- | suranCe, real estate and employment bureau at l23 Bank street. He is a popular young man, well known in in- surance circles here For year or more he has been on the staff of general un- deCwrHers of the New York Life In. surance Co and has written many large policies for prominent business men of Waterbury and vicinity.
 A lawsuit is likely to be the result of ordering the removal of some of the cuts put up around town advertising the play "The Streets of New York" Tn Br:s tol. A complaint was made to the war den that some of the pictures were inde- cent, inasmuch as a few of them showed more of the forms of some of the women portrayed than certain citizens thought was necessary. The warden accordingly ordered William Ellis his stepson, to GOV. CT them up and he did so. This action has greatly anGered Manager Mitchell of the opera house, who is senior burgess of the town, and he threatens to bring suit.
 Circulars were sent out this week from | Hartford to the Connecticut members of the League of American Wheelmen en- | closing the resolution passed at the re- cent session of the state legislature in cooperating the Connecticut division of | the league. It requires a majority vote of the members of the division to accept | this charter, and the circular also in | closed postal card with blanks to be | filled out on which the members vote yes or no, as in favor of or against incor- poration. and return to the secretary at HarffnrI All ha from this section were in favor of the | incorporation of tha division.
 The committee of the common coun- cil appointed to confer with the officers of the Waterbury Traction company met last night in the police court room There were present on behalf of the city Aldermen Kelley and Barlow Councilman Fitzpatrick, Hickey and Filling. and for the Traction company, A. M. Young, J. R. Smith and Superin- tendent Bradley. The whole matter | was gone over, substantially as debated in both branches of the city government. The principel objection of the company is the paying of two per cent tax There is likely to be some compromise, made in the matter, and another meet ing will be held this evening when in | all probability some conclusions will be reached 10 terminate this vexed oues- tion.
 Jennie Rickenstein. aged I9 ysars. oldest daughter of Benedica Rickenstein of 121 Charles street. died this morning of typhoid fever. Cndertakers are com pelled by the amended law to disenfect the body of person having died from typhoid fever and to enclose the same in an air-tight coffin or case, hermeticalIv sealed. The family did not want a metallic casket, but were forced to purchase one. The law reads that the todv shall be disinfected according to methods pre- scrlbed by the board of health, ''or'' inclosed in an air-tight coffin, while the instructions received at the town clerk s office makes the law read that the body must be disnfected "and" placed in an alright coffin. The law is hard on poor people who happen to be effected by it. Metallic cases cost very much more than the ordinary collins. Physicians say that | yphoid fever Is not contagious and that there is no need. for such extreme measures.
 L. P. Benham of Middleburv, father of Eugene A. Benham of 112O West Main street, was thrown from his wagon at the corner of Harrison avenue | and FrNhancra TNlora al, I