Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-08

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 The annual masquerade ball of the Wa t, rbury Turn Verein will be held in City hall on January 3l. Among the attrac- tions will be a lady orchestra from the Atlantic garden. New York.
 Mrs Frank Miller, wife of the coal dealer. had a narrow escape from being crushed to death by an electric car, which struck a carriage in which she was riding in Bridgeport Saturday afternoon.
 S. L. Hickox of Abbott avenue, an em- ploye of Benedict & Burnham's, received a painful bruise on the middle finger of the left hand while at work in the wire mill this morning. Dr Frost dressed the wound.
 William Borchardt, Otto Wendehack. R )bert WIt:e and Louis Meyer st lrted for Bantam lake this morning, The party lotends to return with enough specimens of tue funny tribe to cause Ed Crosby to turn green with envy.
 Constable Rlgney to-day attached the horses and sleigh of j Farnham, agent, who is better known as "Old Salvation" for bill of $25 10. due D. E. Carroll X Co. The turnout Is quartersd h Man ville'- Scovill house stables.
 Baker Kelly and Manager Howes of the Scovill house spent yesterday setting tip ups at Quassapaug. They hooked nine teen pickerel weighing twenty pounds. the largest beir a beauty that tipped the scales a! two and a quarter pounds.
 In less than an hour after the receipt of the mayors Eotice to put the street in proper shape for travel, Contractor Thompson had everything cleaned up and bad set down substantial plank walk running the length of the building, which is sure to meet the approval of the street inspector
 A large audience listened to the address of Vicar General J. A Mule thy in the hall of the Convent of Notre Dame last night. The lecture was the first of a series on "Liberty The discourse was very in- teresting and instructive and the speaker had the undivided attention of the audi ence from the opening to the close of his defnition of the word liberty.
 nr Anna r Donoghue. has opened a free dispenssry lbarring a small fee for medicine when turuished) for the treat ment of patients. The hours are from to D, n daily. This is new scheme for Waterbury. although copmon in larger cities. This is an opportunity for people of small means to obtain medical treatment practically free.
 At a meeting of Court vigilant. A. O. F. of A held last night. the following officers were installed by D. G. c. R. Griffin: C. R, William Earth; s. c. R., James H. Bolan; T. S.. Thomas Finnegan; k. &, James J. Barrett; treasurer. James CasS: s. W. John Hogan; J. w.. M, Carney; S.. B.. Walter Crossland; J. B.. Thomas Riley; trustee for three years, A. 0. Me Kay; physician. pr J. J. McAvoy.
 Now that the new water supply is prac- tically completed and will soon be turned over to the water board, the question is being asked, who will be the lucky man who will receive the appointment of keeper of the new reservoir. It will he a good job for some steady man. And as the place is much larger than sitLer of the other city reservoirs it is expected that the wages will be Tn proportion to the re- sponsibility.
 The state board of education has issued Connecticut school document No 15, beIng a review of the entire subject of Town Management of Schools, in all its details. Another school document issued is en- titled Transportation of Children in Country Towns" It shows the economy of closing small schools in the country with a limited attendance. and conveying the children to better schools at a central point,
 One of Partree's hacks was badly dam l aged in s runaway at 12:30 to-day on South Main street. Driver William Long, worth had hitched his horses in front of the DEMOCRAT office while he went to his dinner The Waterbury Traction Cos To- pair team came down South Main street at fy eli hA slsted of the big frame which is used in reaching the trolley wires. The noise scared the hack horses and they pulled away from the pole to which they were tied, leaving part of the bridle behind. They ran oD to the walk and had gone | only about twenty feet when they struck a lamp post, enc horse going each side and freeing themselves from the hack They dashed down South Main street and were stopped at Meadow street. The pole, whif1ietrses and footboard of the hack were badly broken. The horses were uninjured.
 In the police court to-day Jacob Villure, an expressman. was charged with resist. ance to officer. Constable Brzezinski went to the house of Henry Kaufman ou | Spring street last night and endeavored to place an attachment on three barrels oi flour in the house and A horse and wagon in the barn in the rear. Attorney Porter L. Wood was with him, Jacob Villnel was a boarder there and tried to prevent the officer from taking the horse and wagon. He claimed that he owned the rig and not Kaufman. He struck and pushed the constable until he was placed under arrest and taken to the station fol interfering with an officer in the discharge of his duty. Villner admitted knowing the officer, but said the goods belonged tC him. and he thought he had n right to pro tect them. Judge Bradstreet fined him q and costs, Henry O Neill was fined $1( and costs for drunkenness
 The members of the committee or extras are receiving some bills from con tractors on the additional water supply John W. GAffnsy < Go have presented { bill of SIG. 900 for granite facing on th, dam, instead of rubbls masonry, as called
 for in the contract. The same firm alst claimed S1 1908. 70 for extra work on tb, pipe line, extra work on the dam and fo
 cement rejected which the firm claimed
 stood the test Here is what Contracto
 Lipps wants: $3.372 for building 2S
 yards of cut stone. dry wall masonry un
 der the supervision of the engineer
 $11S.05 for delay and extra labor in re
 placing pipe broken through no fault o
 his. City Engineer Cairns says that M
 Lipps' contract did not call for cut ston
 and Mir Lipps says that his men had beeI
 ordered tO use it by Inspector Coles
 Edward McManus asks the modest sum 0
 e1O0 for rip-rap wall instead of embark
 msnt on the Litohheld highway. Tn
 committee heard the different contractor
 on these claims yesterday afternoons bu lhd1ouRhen without kakira any Mrkiop