Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-20
CITY NEWS.

The will of David M. Fenn of Middle bury was filed for probate in the local court this morning.
 Four more cases of scarlet fever were reported to Sanitary Inspector Moses Saturday.
 Painters and Decorators union, No 210, will give sociable in City hall on Tuesday evening, April 4.
 The Benedict & Burnam fire depart ment will hold it's first annual sociable at Music hall on April 12.
 The Elm street school opened this morning with a great majority of the : pupils in every room present.
 The choir of the Sacred Heart church are rehearsing for Easter a new mass by | Masten, which was recently received direct from Paris.
 J. W. Tunbridge, assistant in City Engineer Cairns office, will leave to- morrow to engage in the hotel business with his father in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 George H. Sheehan has severed his connection with the Peoples Insurance company and accepted position with the New York Life Go.
 There are advertised letters at the postoffice for Mrs E. H. Byrnes, Miss Alice Garden, Mrs Lemuel Powell, Nj. Agnes Foley, P. c. Putnam, Herbert G. Brown and John Aulthouse.
 The board of water commissioners met this morning and decided to report favorably to the common council this evening on the "branch" source for an additional water supply.
 T. E. Conoly had the fourth finger of his right hand caught in a polishing wheel at Matthews & Willard's shop this morning The bone was broken and long ragged cut made. Dr Benedict dressed the wound.
 Benny Webster, son of Mayor D. F. Webster, took a "header' from his bicycle, on Waterville street about Il o'clock this morning, and cut a long deep gash on his forehead, in which Dr Benedict placed five stitches.
 John c. Cairns of Nationa Trade as- | sembly, No 252, of Meriden, will address the members of the Knights of Labor, \ under the auspices of Local assembly No 3OS9, in Bronson hall this evening. MT Cairns is very interesting speaker. \ Fifteen or twenty members of the Acmes held an outing yesterday after noon, and made the hills around Water vile echo with songs. It is intended to form an outing club, the tramps to take ln the surrounding towns.
 Mamie Rearden, two year old child
 living on Manhan street, while playing
 with some other children had a slate pencil broken off in it's nose this morn ing. The child suffered great pain until
 the pencil was extracted by Dr Munger.
 The case of Bartoli vs Tocchio is being
 heard before Judge Bradstreet in the
 district court to-day. It IS an action to
 recover damages by reason of the
 defendant stopping the plaintiff from
 using certain we'll contrary to agree
 ment.
 Chief Engineer Snagg has placed a
 new fire alarm box, No 412' on the
 Tracy Brothers building on Benedict street, in the lumber district. It is a private box owned by the Messrs Tracy, the Platt Mills Go, and others in the district, which has been the scene of two large fires within few years.
 Terrence F. Carmody, who left for
 the south two weeks since, writes to
 friends in this city that he is enjoying
 himself immensely. His trip on the
 water to Savannah was a pleasant one, lie IS now stopping at the Highland Park hotel, Aiken, s. c. He will re- turn home the first week in April. Something not wished for in any iamily, but which have to be used at death are burial clippers, which are not kept at shoe stores. Nice satin slippers for children, ladies or gentlemen can be round at Martin Bergin's, S4 and S6 south Main street, where can be found everything in the undertaking line. A man armed with a gallon demiiohn or whiskey boarded a train on the Naugatuck road Friday evening at Tor rington. When the train started the demlJohn fell off the seat and was smashed. The liquor ran all over the noor of the car making an odor that might have been cut with an ax.
 The official postal guide for February and March was received at the post ofhce to-day. It contains among articles on the postotiice department list of the postonceS rated as excellent. The work or examlnation was done by the various postmasters of county seats. The local ofhce Is rated under the head of ex- cellent.
 Yesterday afternoon Sanitary In- Spector Moses removed the three bubuc children, who have been confined at the pest house, back to their own home on SnaEIeS street: The nurse was taken Moses cleaned out the pest house, A thorough fumigation was given the premises. Every scrap of clothing and refuse was burned and the germs of the dreaded smallpox entirely destroyed.
 The state committee of the connecti- cut Young Mems Christian associations has just issued it's annual report. The membership of the twenty-four associa- tIons is S,O10, as against ! ,O7O last year. Ten associations have buildings valued at 41l 900 and other real estate valued at VA, 700. Two associations have en- dowments aggregating $7O,0OO. Fifteen associations have conducted eighty-four educational classes, thirteen do special work for boys, ten report 3SO profess ed conversions. The report contains the proceedings of the annual state conven- non and valuable papers and addresses.
 There is good deal of comment among labor men over the question of from attachment of workin0. mems wages. A bill is now before the house to repeal the existing law. which says that workiDgman's property be- comes attachable if he owes over S50 and limits the amount of the attachment to $lO. The labor men say that a work. lngman contracts all debts in good faith and that the law, besides punishing a | man, will take the bread away from