The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-20

he will be caught He was travelling
toward the railroad station, and prob
ably left town on the first train.
Miss Kearns described the man as a
rough fellow, evil looking and poorly
clad. He wore pair of felt boots,
protected with rubber overshoes. She
thinks he is an Italian laborer, al
though he spoke with little accent.
Mrs. Kearns is a poor woman, and
cannot afford to lose money. She is SO
pleased with her daughters cleverness
In saving the three dollars that she
doesn't complain much of the loss of
so cents, so she told the correspondent
of The Spy this afternoon.
Nicholas Sinko, a bad tempered Hun
garian laborer, is wanted for an as
sault upon Mrs. Marie Birnicki, who
runs boarding house for metropolitan
laborers, in South Clinton, near the
Boylston line. Mrs. Birnicli is 55
years old, and not able to stand the
thumpings she could when she was
younger.
She limped to the police station, yes
terday, to ask for a warrant for Nick
olaf Sinko, one of her boarders.
Sunday, two weeks ago, Mrs. Ber-
nicki alleges that Sinko assaulted her.
AS proof, she exhibits a bruised and
famed right leg, and a badly marred,
all but dislocated, shoulder. She says
SinlSo and another of her boarders,
John Kermai, quarreled, and that Sinko
lifted a three-tined fork, threatening
to stab Kermai in the neck.
She jumped between them
Sinko transferred his attention to her.
He knocked her down and kicked her,
she says. Then he banged her against
the door post. He hurt her leg when
he kicked her, Her shoulder was in
1ured by contact with the door post.
John Kermai and Peter Kermai were
! witnesses of the assault.
Mrs. Bernicki was n bed for a week,
unable to walk. AS soon as she got
up she came to the police. Chief Muir
ply knows where to lind Sinko, as soon
as the warrant is ready.
The fire under the kitchen sink, in
the house 277 Oak street, mystifies
Chief Lawrence Fury. He believes,
however, that it originated from a
| lighted kerosene stove. The alarm
came from box Is, Oak and Chace
Streets at 2.25, this afternoon. The
steamer, the steamer hose, Cataract
hose, and the Franklin hook and lad
der responded. The fire was in the
house owned by the heirs of the Thorn
Miss Mary O'Malley.
| No one was at home. There was a
merry blaze under the sink, which was
| quenched with chemicals. There was
a Kerosene stove there. The stove was
warm to the touch, when the firemen
| hauled 1t out.
! 1t was situated Just right to heat the
water pipes and keep them from freez-
ing, il it was lighted.
The statement, repeatedly made in
| Inc spy that the manufacturers OF
TINS town are enjoying a period of al
most unparalleled prosperity is fur
| ther confirmed by an estimate of the
amount of money expended in enlarge
ments and improvements on the sew
| eral mills here. The Lancaster mills
has expended approximately as it is
claimed on the authority of an Eek
ofnclal, $25O.OO0, in changing from
water and steam to electricity, and in
minor additions. The change of power
was made necessary by the metropoli-
| tan project, which takes the Nashua
river. The new power house is 127x1O4
feet. A description of the electric in
stallation was printed in The Spy six
weeks ago.
The Sterling Worsted Company has
| erected two-story brick MILL 140x5C
| d II
| len. The Clinton Worsted Company has
made improvements and engagements
! heretofore described in The Spy The
{ total amount expended in building
along all lines is not far from S250, 900
/ The large sums expended by the Ian
caster mills for dynamos, steam plant
electrical installation and machinery
/ of various kinds, cannot come under
! the title of building operations. The
1 increase in new taxable property by
reason of constructions may reach $780,
900.
Work on the stable of the central fire
station is practically completed. The
new posts have been put in and the
new grating between the stalls. BY the
middle of next week the property will
be ready to turn over to the board of
engineers.
1t is expected that the remains of DR..
Thomas P. OConnor will reach New
York city Sunday morning. by a steam
err of the Transatlantic line. Joseph
+. Harrity and Martin Murphy win
leave Friday or Saturday for New York
to- receive the body. They will accom-
pany the remains to Clinton and the
funeral will take place here. Gibraltar
Council is making preparations to at
tend the funeral in a body.
Attorney Walter r. Dame expects to
receive from the selectmen of Hud-
son a copy of the amended franchise,
with their approval attached. The
terms of the franchise for line to
run between Clinton and Hudson were
not entirely acceptable to the select
men Of Hudson. They wanted clause
giving the right to use the tracks of
the proposed line to any company that
shall ever build the line between Hud-
son and Concord and Maynard. The
projectors of the Clinton and Hudson
Street Railway company were willing.
w. s. Reed of Leomlnster amended the