Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-07
CITY NEWS.

gwen ln the Cnapel street M. E. cnuIcu Ou the evenings of March 27 and 2S. Ms John Mulvaney of 727 Baldwin street fell on Liberty street yesterday. breaking her arm. Dr McAvoy repdered surgical aid. Miss Alice NJ. Smith, aged 27 years. wife of Ellsworth W. Smith of 75 Wood street, died this morning. The remains will be taken to Bristol for burial. | ValmorA E. Blanchard. the t~o months old child of MT and Mrs Joseph A. Blanchard of 12 Johnson avenue, died last night. The funeral will take place at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Thomas Brennan of 457 East Main street fell on Meadow street, near Chat field avenue, last night, breaking both bones of the right arm above the wrist. Dr Benedict rendered surgical aid.
 Ashton X Garrity have been awarded the contract for plumbing and gas-fitting Condon t Delaney's new building on Baldwin street The firm is also about to put two Page steam boilers in Dr Rodman's | house on North Main street.
 E Prosecuting Attorney James E. Russell I has added 8 new Morris & Ireland safe to his office furnishings. MT Russell has given his new quarters thorough cleaning and now has AS convenient a suit of office | rooms as tnere are 1n tue city.
 Mrs Frances A. Tompkins aged e years, died af the residence of her son, George E. Tompkins on Hillside avenue at o'clock this morning. The deceased was tho, widow of George Tompkins. leader of the old Tompkins band.
 More than fifty bills have been referred to the committee on temperance of the Connecticut general assembly, Nearly all all of these are intended to to be restric- tive. There is to be a public hearing on their general features in the hall of rep resentatives on Wednesday, March 13, at 2p. m.
 In the police court this morning Rocco Fangllletu was charged with assault on Rocca Testa. Several other Roccos were witnesses. The alleged assault took place Tuesday night in a boarding house on Meadow street. After Judgo Root had tried for half hour to disentangle the tes- timony he suspended judgment.
 Trolley car IS was going down Bank street this noon directly on the heels of one of Blakeslee'S big trucks. The motor man applied the brake. but the rails were wet and the car slipped. striking the rear end of the wagon. The horses made a jump, landing on either side of tele- graph pole in front of the telephone office The damage to the car and team was slight.
 Phelan's tea store in Platt block is be- ing repalnted and decorated It will be the handsomest and best equipped tea store in New England when complete The proprietor says he put the right man in the right place when he let the con tract f Charles Skinner, for certainly he is doing justice to the wall decorating, painting, etc, which requires an expert, such as he is
 The new automatic telephones where you slot your coins and wait for an answer are being defrauded, it is said These boxes are full of slots. One slot is for a dollars worth, another for fifty cents worth. another for a quarter, a dime, and so on. The coins as they are dropped 10 ring various toned bells, so that the young lady who rejoices under the name of Gen trar' can tell by the sound just how much you have paid in. But 1t is claimed that Central cannot detect the sound of a falling three cent piece from that of dime, that two cent piece will sound the same , bell that quarter will ring. and that a "bungtown" copper will have the same effect in the dollar slot as a genuine cart l wheel.
 At a meeting of the board of health yt sterday afternoon bills to the amount of s469 36 were approved. The purchase of 500 postal cards for use in the office of the sanitary inspector was ordered. The re- port of Sanitary Inspector Moses for the month of February was submitted as fol. lows: Scarlet fever 19; diphtheria, To- typhoid fever. 3: measles, 1: outhouSe es cleaned II; houses fumigatod, I9 The re. port was accepted. and ordered on file The following vote was passed: Voted y that this board request the city attorney to y render his opinion as to whether the court o of common council has power to compel n the police department to render the board p of heIth assistance in maintaining the Il quarantine of persons having contagious diseases
 ' The evidence was all finished in the , case of Edna Santanna charged with k eping house reputed to be a house oi i'll fame. this morning in the district court Attorney Lowe made one of the ablest pleas for client he has ever attempted It included a scourging of various police. men and a scathing tongue flashing of the - neighbors of Mrs Santanna, who testified in the case. It was expected that the iury would bring in verdict of guilty, but il was not expected they would reach de cision in such short time. They were out only seven minutes, when they returned with verdict of guilty. Judge Lowe gave notice of an appeal, after Judge Bradstreet imposed penalty of $10O and costs, the same penalty as in the lower court. The court then adjourned until to- morrow morning.
 At n meeting of the district committed , held last evening the monthly bills \ amounting to $l ,576.27, were ordered paid Superintendent M. $. Crosby appeared before the committee in reference to thu need of more room at the High schoo
 building for the April term. Mir Crosby said the Bronson library building would cost $lOO per month, but he thought tht clerks office and his own might be kep there. The matter was referred to a com
 mittee consisting of Chairman Wolff anC and A I. Goodrich. Henry Loether ap r. peared before the meeting in reference tC N' his bill of S6S for teaching night school ir $ ln the Clay street school building. NJ
 Loether admitted that he was not author ized to open night school there and said o he was entirely at the mercy of the dis N trict committee. The bill was ordered e paid. The meeting discussed the advisa ,r oility of purchasing piano for the Higt school building, but DO action was takeI r. on the matter.
 k The Connecticut Veterinary Medical as
 soclation held meeting at the Tremon
 hotel in New Haven Tuesday night A
 which Dr E. 0. Ross of New Haven, presi r. dent of the association. presided. Thos is present were: Dr Thomas Bland of Water
 bury. Dr Storrs of Willimantic. Dr Beck T ley of Meriden. Dr Eliot of Ansonia an,
 Dr Whitney. Dr Kelly. Dr Hall, Dr Potte
 of New Haven. Dr Becklsy read paper or p tuberculosis. which was followed bya dis n cussiOn. Dr Whitney read paper on frac " ture. there was discussion on this also
 Dr Bland talked on various clinical case
 and Dr Elliot gave some points on diaRno h sis of fracture. Dr Kelly told about th