Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-11

ment at the earliest date possible. The board will be in session to-day from ? to , and from 2 to 9.
 The twenty-third annual concert and ball of the Waterbury fire department will be given in City hall tonight The hall has been handsomely decorated and the committee has everything in readiness to treat their guests in a royal manner. The New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad company will petition the legislature fer new method of assessing the taxable value of railroad property. with view of preventing the assessment of the stock represented wholly by property entirely outside the state, having reference to the stock of the Old Colony.
 The midwinter festival of St Johns parish, Watertown, will close tonight. Dancing will be continued during the evening and a fine supper will be pro- vided. Quite a good many who had been prevented from attending last night are making arrangements to put in an appear ance tonight
 At the annual meeting of the Waterbury Mutual Benevolent association, held last | night, the following officers were elected: President, James 0. Tiernan; vics presl- dent, Hugh Keenan; recording secretary, John P. Kelly; financial secretary, Edward J. Shanahan; treasurer, John J. Me Donald.
 Emil Solomon was taken to Willimantic this morning by officers from that place and will be given a hearing tomorrow morning. A Connecticut Associated Press dispatch from Willimantio this afternoon, says that he has confessed all, and says that helwas guilty of many crimes khok & ,l, Yesterday afternoon from to Mrs L. I. Munson of 59 North Willow street gave card party to d number of friends. The rooms were handsomely decorated and eleven tables were each occupied by six ladies playing euchre. Out of town guests were the Misses Wetherby of Bos- ton. Miss Church of New Haven and Miss Deming of Litchfeld.
 Prophet DeVoe prophecies bowling storm along the Atlantic coast this month. It will develop suddenly down Florida way on the 25th. he says. and will travel north with wonderful rapiGity." Behind il will tourney cold wave, and snowdakes will again whiten the sunny south. More over, between th~ 24th and 27th, ror'. easter will sweep the coast from Halifax to Charleston"
 hS COnkEcRdllOu held it's annual meeting last night and elected these officers: Elders. G. A. Zibell, Charles Meyer and Charles Loeffier; trus- tees, John Roeder, Valentine Hassell, Jacob Field and William Boehm: secretary, Charles KlauberG; financial secretary, Ru- dolph Roeske; treasurer, Oscar Hess; dra. cens, Frederick Wall. Edward Kssser, Frederick Shinsky and William Schlosser auditing committee. Micheal Zech, Chris topher Pfuderer and William Borchardt, ST
 The board of health will meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon. There is great in- | terest manifested as to which of the differ. enI contractors will be awarded the con- tract for removing garbage in the city. The interest in the petition of Holmes. Booth & Haydens. asking that the com- pany be allowed to burn refuse Tn the yard. is almost equal to the former, es- pecially by those who live in that section It seems to be the general opinion that the board will not grant such permission to the company.
 | Nineteen of the property owners who have been assessed for street paving on South Main street held m informal meet ing in the council room in City hall last l evening. Dwight Smith was chairman and George I Boughton clerk. The meeting was called for the purpose of talking on the matter of asking for re, duction on the amount assessed against each. It was the general opinion that they were assessed too much and as a con. sequence petition will be presented tc the court of common council at the nex meeting. asking that they be assessed one fifth instead of One-third. The petition i. now being circulated for signatures.
 The master plumbers of Waterbury held 6 meeting last night in the boald of trade rooms and began their arrangements fol the annual convention of the mastel plumbers of the state, which will be helC in this city, in City hall, on February 6 The convention will be the 9th annua and the address of welcome will be made by Mayor E. G. Kilduff The following committees wer, appointed. Reception-W. E Disley, NJ J. Daly and Patrick Garrity; music-W E. Booth and Edward Casey; finance Edward Casey and William Minor; print ing-RobeIt Walker. After the conven tion the delegates will be banaueted at tn ScOvin house. The Waterbury contin gent will meet again in W. E. Booth offce next Wednesday night.
 Considerable of the clothing found il ] I still lies at the police station unclaimed Mrs Oscar J. Hart, Ashley street, identi fed four sheets bearing the initial ''H, as her property Mrs GilligAn of & North Elm street lost two sheets. but ha not given a full identification of her prop erty. There are numerous sheets, under shirts and drawers. table cloths aud liner shirts awaiting owners. A young woman living on Union street, Wednesday nigh
 had occasion to go to the milkmAn's, at | o'clock. She saw two men take tw sheets from her line and gave them chase They Tan up South Elm street where the, . were joined by third party and all mad their escape. Sue failed to identify an of the property.
 In the superior cOu,t at Hartford yestel ! day Judge Hall granted a divorce [ Catherine Ryan of this city from William
 Ryan of Southington. The divorce va
 asked on the ground of intolerable cruelt
 and the plaintiff had Marcus Fl Holcom
 for her attorney. Her maiden name va McCormack. but at the time of her maj
 riAge to Ryan she was a widow and he name was Parker. She was married { Ryan September 27. 1892. Judge HA
 granted the divorce and she was allowe
 to take the name of Mccormack. Whe
 the suit was first brought the plainti
 asked for 5000 alimony and the defend
 ants property was attached for S5, ,0O(
 This he would have contested, but as th claim for alimony was withdrawn and th attachment released. he decided to nal
 no defense.
 Ths insurance company which had 1 , stand PhelAn's lDss, will shortly have .
 aurtiob sale of dtvss goods, urUckefy, tu