The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-21

board into more or less intimate touch
with more than half of the force, and
4 division of authority would be near
| at hand. From an instruction regard
ing the patrol wagon, to an order about
something else, an order that would
kdoubtless be issued through Inspector
baldwin, the authorities believe, is but
a little step.
The authorities, however, have seen
through the little scheme. The result
is that no officer has so far called out
the patrol wagon furnished by the wa
ter board, and none will call 1t out, pro-
| bably. Patrol wagons with string on
| them do not go here.
| That the water board has a definite
pan In its mind is seen, as the author
tiles believe. in the fact that it has
| practically refused the offer of the Sc.
| lectmen to pay half the cost of main
| tanning the wagon, il it shall be Iur-
nished for the use of the entire force.
There is little the water board has
| left undone to aggravate the citizens
| of Clinton. An attempt to usurp the
| policing of the town under the clause
| of the law which provides that the
| board shall furnish suitable police pro-
| lection is the last straw that breaks
the camePs back. There will be a storm
CT indignation from feavy, black clouds
| of popular wrath, that will penetra te
| the office of the water board on Mt.
| Vernon street, and wet thugs a little.
| This is what the authorities say in
language somewhat more diplomatic,
| perhaps.
1t looks as if the next fight in the
| legislature against the injustice of the
state would contain an issue or two
dealing with the petty usurpations and
| encroachments of the board. In this
| aspect of the case, the board will doubt
less be regarded as individuals, and the
| things of which the town has to COM
| plain as faults of individual tempera-
ment rather than flaws in a policy Of
the commonwealth.
AS the authorities look at it, moth
! ing can be smaller than the course the
board has uniformly pursued in it's
| treatment of this town.
| Take, for instance, the delay that has
usually followed the confirmation of a
! policeman appointed by the selectmen.
| The manner in which the board has
| affected to investigate the characters of
| men whom the selectmen have deemed
| good citizens and who are so In fact,
/ is held to amount to positive insolence.
| There is certainly a warm time COM
| ing.
Walter j. O'Toole received a tele-
gram from his brother, Charles B.
| O'Toole. this morning, saying that the
| Clinton Klondikers are at Seattle, and
| about to begin their journey east. This
| is in complete confirmation of the story
| exclusively printed in The Spy a few
days ago, that the gold-seekers had left
| their camps on the edge of the Arctic
August. and would be in Clinton at
! least as early as Sept. 1. This news
was received through letters written
| by Abban Cox and George Conrad
| IT. is believed that Richard Attridge
| is with the rest of the party. Whether
! others of the rs members of the min
| ing company have returned, is not
known.
! Mrs. Kate Burns of Clarke street paid
a fine of $40 in the city court this morn
| ing Kate has been a terror to her
neighbors. Last night they decided to
procure her arrest. Kate said that her
| little pyrotechnicaI outbursts were &C.
casioned by the free speech of her
neighbors and her neighbors' children,
who, she said, pulled UP the vegeta-
bles in her garden. Fred Bassett, her
! landlord, testified to the effort he has
made to get Kate out Of his tenement.
She promised to move right away from
I Clarke street if his honor would be le-
nient His honor thought that $40
/
James Boyle tried to hoist a trunk
out Of wagon this afternoon. The
trunk was heavy and he was short, so
he stood on a box. The box broke and
| let Boyle through. On his way down,
Boyle cut his chin open on the trunk.
The chin was badly gashed and bled
much. DR.. George ]. OFT took several
stitches in the wound before the edges
would stay together. BOYLE lives on
Main street. He is employed by Jas.
Conpery.
Thomas Duncan tailor, who mad
a shop on High street, has absented
himself from town for four weeks. BE-
fore he left, he said to one of his
business neighbors, 1T is cheaper 10
move than to pay rent"
Nawn g. Brook began work on their
stripping contract, today. They have
begun their labors in South Clinton in
the neighborhood of the railroad sta
ton. They will increase the force en-
ployed by them rapidly.
Fred Nicholson was very drunk when
the police found him this afternoon He
was also very polite. While Officer
Lawson braced him from the rear with
one hand and searched him with the
other, Nicholson answered Chief Bates
with, Eyes, thank you, I'm Swe,le.
Don't mention It," The chief wanted
to know where he came from. Spell
1t for you, thank you" Nicholson made
a horrible effort, took a long breath
and spelled "F-i-c-h bug If he
chances not to have luck tomorrow,
the good natured Swede will doubtless
get a free ride there. There are plenty
of bugs in the place where he is
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