Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-05
CITY NEWS.

Mrs A. Collins, of Columbia, is en- l toying a short visit with Mrs Frank Seaman, of Wolcott street.
 The committee on consolidation of | the city and town will meet this even- l Ing in the office of Kellogg & Kellogg. John, the years and~3 months old | son of MT and Mrs John Murray of 9S | Park avenue, died this morning. The i funeral will take place tomorrow af-
 ternoon, with interment in Calvary | cemetery.
 | Letters of administration were to- day granted to Sarah Merrill, on the estate of her late husband, Charles l.. Merrill. Deputy Sheriff William Farm lee of Ansonia was appointed co-ad- ministrator.
 The storm last evening apparently cooled off the evil tendencies of those | who make business for the city court, | because there were TO arrests made, | and consequently no need for Judge Burpee to sit this morning
 | The following list of unclaimed let ters await claimants at the postoffice: Mrs William Andrews Mrs J. Burgus, Mrs Mary Clark, c. c. Derby ?, Mrs Jeannette DeNer, Mrs B. Hogan, Mrs Nellie Hardy, Mrs Mary Johnson, Gil bert RiN, Harry Walker.
 The officers of the Second regiment. c. N. G.. at a recent meeting, by q unanimous vote rendered the hearty thanks of the regiment to it's friends who donated prizes on the occasion of the annual rife tournament of the regi- ment, held in September.
 George H. Bronson. guardian over Louise Erwin, formerly of Waterville, but now of New Haven. resigned his guardianship in the probate court to- day and settled up his account with his ward. Until Miss Erwin chooses another guardian her interest will be looked after by Attorney Smith of New Haven.
 Constable William M. Gillette was at large throughout 1itchtield county to-day summoning the jury for the criminal term of the district court which resumes next Tuesday. It is not expected there will be much busi- ness for the jury. There are only a few cases and Prosecutor Bronson is of the opinion that the most of them will be disposed of without trial.
 Thomas Gallagher of 257 Bishop street while passing up Cooke street about o'clock last evening" barely escaped serious injury. The wind was blowing gale at the time and small limbs of trees were being Topped at a great rate. As he was turning into Cooke street from Grove a large limb of q tree dropped just a foot or two behind him. Had it struck Him he would have been severely injured.
 The matter of new name for the Plank road was brought up at the meeting of the board of public works yesterday afternoon but nothing was done about it. The name Hamilton avenue was suggested, but it, was thought that on account of the Hamil- ton park abutting the street this might result in a confusion of names and it was decided to let the matter stand for the present. Some people think it ought to be named after the Porter family, but if this should be done we would have two streets of the same name in Waterbury, and that would never do.
 The Hellmann Brewing Co has al ready received several applications for space in it's new cold storage ware house. which will be completed in the early spring. One local concern is ar ranging to have a room constructed in the warehouse for its own special re- quirementS. The Hellmann company invites commission men and dealers in perishable goods generally to select space before the spring opens. The Baker Artesian We'll Go of Providence began Monday last the sinking of a we'll larger than any on the company's premises. This will form part of the water supply for the company's ice plant.
 Thomas Delowry, the contractor, will make another attempt to rid his building on the corner of Spencer ave nue and North Main street, of B. Scoo- pino, an Italian fruit dealer. A few weeks ago Delowry's summary process case against ScoopinO was decided against himself. with costs. owing to d flaw in the process of serving the writ. ScoOpino claims to have a lease of the premises and Delowry claims he has not. Delowry can get more rent for the place now than when he rented it to ScoOpino. The case was assigned this morning at bar meeting in the city court for trial tomorrow afternoon. The tidings of the settlement of the controversy of the Dady sewerage con- | tract in Havana was gladness to MT Dady's friends in this city. John Mori- arty of the Waterbury Furniture Co is one of these and he has followed the controversy from it's inception. The contract was for one million dol lars in Spanish currency, the contract having been awarded MT Dady by the Spanish government before the war. He was to build sewers through Ha- vana. After the war MT Dady's polit- ical set set the machinery of the gov ernment in operation against him, but
 allowed that he had an equity in the
 work worth $50O,0OO Though Mir
 Dady is big republican politician in Brooklyn he was not big enough to pull against his enemies. However, he has been paid his equity in the
 work and for. this his friends are pleased. Mir Dady is well known to number of people in this city. Thomas Kelly's interview on how to increase the city's income without add ing to the tax bills of property owners, published in Monday nights Democrat. has occasioned good deal of talk of one kind and another. but nothing that came to our ears pleased so well as the following from well known shoe maker: ''Kelly knows good laws from J,od af ci O IJ, c,or ,of ir,o-