Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-08-02
CITY NEWS.

Special bargain day at Curran's to-
morrow.
Regular meeting of the Center district
committee this evening.
Regular meeting of the road and |
sewer boards this evening.
Only neighbor's squabble occupied |
the attention of the police court this |
morning. Judgment was suspended in |
the case.
Martin Dalton settled the case against |
him for keeping house of ill fame for |
$SS. He refuses, however, to pay that |
price every month, but is willing to |
compromise on three months.
Co G held well attended drill in
guard duty last night. Sergeant Bulger,
T. J. LawIor and William Carroll are
the committee of the company to arrange
| for illumination on the evening of gov
ernor's day.
The selectmen gave a hearing last
evening on the petition of the Water
bury Traction company. The only per-
sons who desired to be heard were re-
representatives. of tina Platt Mills company
and they offer no objection, requiring
only that the road be built in keeping
with the laws.
Orders were received from Boston on
Monday to stop the work of double
tracking at and beyond Plainville, on
the New England road, and the work
was Immediately brought to an end.
When it will be resumed is not known.
This throws about fifty men out of work.
The train from Waterbury to Winsted
met q COW in the middle of the track
Just this side of Thomaston last Sun.
day. The animal was lifted high in the
air and thrown many feet. Yesterday
some persons travelling over the road
saw what remained of the COW hanging
from a tree near where she was struck,
all dressed and ready for market.
| General Secretary Daniel Colwell of
the Knights of Columbus says that the
a, o. h. Records assertions that the
knights are run by ring and his
brother officers exceeded their au-
thorlty by creating the degree of the
Golden Cross and comforting it on the
Duke of Neragua, are absurd; and that
the publication shows the writer to be
ignorant of the laws and authority of
the order.
The following are among the officers
who have been reported by the ex-
aiming board as having passed a salts
factory examination in duties pertain
ing to their rank, and they will be com
missioned with rank and date as given
herewith: Captain James Geddes, Co A.
March Is, 1898; First Lieutenant Henry
B. Carter, Co a. March Is. 1898; Second
Lieutenant William h. Sandland, Co \,
March 10, 1898.
Liquor Prosecuting Holohan wishes
to have saloon keepers and buyers of
saloons construe a new part of the
liquor law correctly. 1t has been Gus
tomary for the buyer to Immediately
take possession of the saloon and sell
under the old license, before the neces-
sary two weeks advertising was done
Hereafter the buyer must either
have his signsers and notice advertised
tor must conduct the saloon while such
notice is being advertised,
The monthly meteorological report
for July, furnished by the New Haven
signal station, gives the mean tempera-
ture as seventy-one degrees; highest.
ninety-two; lowest, fifty-one; mean
temperature of the month for twenty
one years, seventv-two. The total pre-
cipitation was 1.S9 inches; average pre-
cipitation for the month for twentv-one
years, Sill inches. There were fifteen
! clear days, fifteen partly cloudy, one
cloudy. There were thunder storms on
; six days.
Hereafter all would be benedicts in
this state must paw 81 for their marriage
license instead of fifty cents as formerly
This becomes necessary owing to the
enactment of a law by the last general
! assembly, which provides that the
applicant for a marriage license must
make affidavit to the statements he
makes. Heretofore there was nothing
to show that the applicant made the
statements which appear upon the
license, and oftentimes occasions arise
where it becomes necessary to prove
that the statements were actually made
The applicant must now sign an affi-
davit which is attached to the marriage
licenses.
The committee on water supply held
an important meeting last night, Mayor
Webster presiding. The monthly bills
were all approved. A discussion of the
pay roll brought out the fact that the
Workmen at the Branch are paid 81 50
per day, two foremen each getting So. 25
A great difference of opinion was ex
pressed in the matter of letting the work
on the foundation of the dam out on
contract or letting it out by the dav, and
it was finally voted that all work done
this season be done by the day. A bid
for pipe was received from the Mcneil
Pipe and Foundry company of Burling-
ton N. J. The company is recommend
ed by City Engineer Cairns as a reliable
one, but such that it was thought best
not to authorize any contract at present.
The city engineer was instructed to
write to the pipe company that the bid
might be accepted at some future date.
At the meeting of the police board
last evening the law which provides
that every city of 10000 inhabitants or
over shall have police matron was dis.
cussed and referred to the discipline
committee, as was a petition asking for
Z the appointment of Mrs T. D. Bassett as
matron. Chief Egan was granted six
= days leave of absence from August IA
{ and Officer NJ. L. King was given
twelve days leave. According to the
chiefs monthly report the whole mum.
Der of arrests in july was 1871; whole
i number Of cases.. 1888; males, ia; fe,
males, 9. Cause of arrest: Assault, %
breach Of peace, 80; burglary, 10; com.
mon drunkard, /; contempt of court, /
defrauding, l; embezzlement, L; indie
cent exposure, /; intoxication, IS; in.
sane, 1; incorrigible, l; keeping house
of iIl-fame, 2; malicious injury to per.
sonal property, 3; neglect to support
family, 2; peddling without license, 2
resistance, 4; seduction, 8; theft. 5
taking team without leave, .; vagrancv
I6; violation of license law. >: violation