Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-19
CITY NEWS.

the opera house tonight. ---- II
 A special meeting of police commis- sioners will be held this evening
 Miss Nora Joyce of Middletown is visit ing the Misses Julia and Hannah McCar- thy of East Clay street.
 The home of William Doran on Dublin street was gladdened this morning by the advent of bouncing baby boy.
 MT and Mrs D. B. Hamilton left on the 1O:5O train for Los Angeles. They will go by way of New Orleans.
 F. w. Laforge inspected the boilers in the public schools Saturday and found things in good shape in every school.
 Tickets for the High Rock Dramatic club entertainment at Leavenworth hall, morning at Cones.
 Rev F. J. Murphy of the Sacred Heart church left to-day on the 1:2S train for South Norwalk to assist Rev Father Slocum at the forty hours devotion.
 Twenty horses will be sold at auction at F. E. Benham's stables, 3OS North Main street. at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Every horse Is warranted.
 Rev Father Lynch of the Immaculate Conception church went to Providence to-
 
 brother Frederick Lynch.
 Mrs Abbey Partree, of 261 West Main street fell on the ice at the rear of her residence yesterday morning, and sus- tained a fracture of the right arm. pr Axtelle attended her.
 special important meeting of the lief committee of thirty will be held in the board of trade rooms at s o'clock Tuesday evening Last week Superintendent Hoadley gave assistance to the amount of $1S0.27, to III applicants for relief.
 The regular meeting of Brass City lodge, No 349, l. A. of M., will be held this even- ing at Schwenk's hall, to elect delegates to the national convention of the order, and also to make arrangements to visit Ansonia lodge on its anniversary, which takes place on February 21. Every mem- Der is expected to be present.
 The will of the late Lawrence Ruth was filed to-day in the probate court. The will Is dated April 30, 1891, and was drawn by Attorney O'Neill, and witnessed by Patrick Holohan, E. w. Mooring Charles Ochsner, and Attorney O'Neill. The widow is named as executrix. To a sister, Mary Carroll, residing in East Hartford, he left S1 900. The rest and residue of the estate is left to the widow with one proviso, that dt utI Icstlu tue property VIII Uc ulNlueU equally between her relatives and the nephews of the testator.
 Notices have been placed in the lobby of the postofice requesting people who send letters and packages to place the name and address of the sender on the letters and pack ages that they can bereturned to the sender in case the parties addressed are not found, and thus avoid the delay of sending the matter to the dead letter office. The notices are signed by the first assistant postmaster general. If everybody who uses the mails would follow the directions, good deal of vexatious delay would be avoided.
 A successful operation was performed at the hospital yesterday afternoon, the left | leg of John Semrow being amputated at the middle of the thigh joint. The opera | ton was conducted by Dr AXtelle, assisted | by Dr COnkey, Dr Goodwin of New York, Dr Brown and Dr OHara. MT Semrow has for years been suffering with dis eased knee joint. The thigh bone was be- coming diseased and to prevent blood poisoning amputation was necessary. Mir | Semrow Is a member of the Elks and the lodge was represented during the opera ton by committee consisting of Exalted Ruler NJ. J. Colloty, F.. J. Starr, Henry | Doerr and J. H. Christie.
 The green goods men are again flooding the small towns in the state with their circulars, which have been sent out to poStm lSters and business men. It has been observed that all the envelopes which | contained the circulars were postmarked | Hartford and It Is believed that the swindlers are located ill that city, More | of the circulars have been distributed in the southeastern part of the state than elsewhere. but so far none of those who have received the circulars have been | trapped. It Is illegal to send green goods circulars through the maIls and the post office department is trying to locate the | gang that Is now sending them out. | Many of the engines and freight cars of the New York X New England railroad which were tied up in the East Hartford freight yard for several weeks and were released Friday night, were put into imme- l diate use. The road has been badly ham, | pered since the attachment was placed on | the property by Receiver J. K. O. Sher- wood of the Philadelphia, Reading X New England road. The judges in the courts l which appointed the receiver of the New England road some weeks ago passed an | order allowing the receivers to pay traffic | balances out of the receipts of the road. | There had been some question as to the l fAAihAAS bL lu6 dlltCHIlent, put upon the passage of the order by the courts the re- | ceiyers entered into an agreement. con- hrming the attachment and agreeing to make payment on the bill by weekly in- l stallments out of the receipts until a full claim Is paid and also to pay all the costs | of the attachment
 At the adjourned meeting of the con- mittee on additional water supply Satur- day night the contract for laying section one of the pipe line was awarded to Mar tin Lipps of New York, his bid being the | lowest, S35, ,637. The next lowest bidders were: A. H. Coons' Sons and J. c. Stroh, Kingston N. Y, $36, 531 and Enman Brothers. New York, S39, ,3O7 The high est bid, $59. .470.6O. was put in by A. W. Byrne of West Bedford, Mass. The lowest bids for laying the second section were: A. H. COons' Sons and J. C. Stroh of Kingston. N. l., $41 ,3395O and Edward | McManus of this city, $43,45S. 90. The | committee went into executive session and | decided to lay the matter of awarding the contract for section two on the table for one week. The committee voted to offer Dr C. Art Ward the sum of SI ,25O for right of way through his land, provided he acc pt the offer on or before next Friday night.
 ''As a member of the Bottlers' Protect i've association, I thank the DEMOCRAT for the article in Saturdays issue in reference to the action of the association" said a representative of one of the largest bot ting houses in the city to DEMOCRAT re- porter to-day. How much do you sup pose" he added, 'I lost in missing bottles last year? Over $l ,00a, and other dealers have lost in proportion to the number of bottles put out. The bottles were seldom ! trRfT ra6 fNrE ala hara !,
 barrels to other parts of the country. We 1 have notified all the members tn nftona n