Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-01

and as no new cases are being reported | it is thought that. we will soon be through with the disease.
 Frank J. Collins of Waterbury has been appointed superintendent of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting | company's Southington system, sue ceeding Burdett c. Thayer, transferred | to New Britain. ALr Collins has moved his family to Southington and will reside on Aeriden avenue. Mir Thayer has been in charge of the light ing station there for about two years
 The Immaculate Conception church and the chapel in St Patrick's block were crowded last night at the mission service. Father Slocum is using every precaution to avoid accident to people who attend the service. Incandescent lights have been put up at the en- frances to the church and in addition to this half a dozen persons stand at the steps when people are coming out pre- pared to lend q hand to anyone who might accidentally stumble on the stone steps.
 Joseph Skipper, a stranger in these parts was arrested in Naugatuck yes- terday by Chief Schmidt at the request ! of Detective Kennaugh. Skipper was charged with theft of two diamonds l from Harry D. Parsons, business man ager at Polls theater. One of the | stones was set in q pin, the other in i ring, both worth about $50. Mir Par sons left them near his desk in the l box office of the theater for while yesterday afternoon. While he was absent Skipper entered. asked for help from the ticket seller and upon leaving | pocketed the diamonds. He was brought here. The diamonds were not i found upon him.
 1 Waterbury was visited by a severe storm between 10 and Il o'clock last night and for half an hour or so the lightning flashed in all directions, 1 thunder roared, rain came down in torrents and wind cut up all kinds of capers. So far as can be learned no damage occurred here on account i of the storm. A bolt of lightning en- tered the fuse box of one of the trol- Hey cars and burned it so that the reconstruction car had to come out to < haul the disabled coach back to the
 barn. It was a special which was being brought out to accommodate the rush after the show and had no pas
 sengers aboard when the. charge of electricity Stfuck IT,
 There seems to be 2 question in the minds of many people regarding the le- gality of the action taken at the last
 meeting Of the aldermen in appointing
 q deputy building inspector. The or dinance provides that the inspector ment shall be made by the board of
 aldermen on or before the first Monday in April but the board turned this up : side down and deferred Accompaniment
 until the last Monday in that month, lswhen they appointed F. B. Smith. But what does the ordinances amount to anyway? The aldermen made that or
 dinance and it would be a nice thing tiff they could not break through when
 ever they pleased. Ordinances are
 framed to regulate the conduct of
 everybody except the aldermen.
 ? Notwithstanding the size of the rate
 bills, people are paying them although . there seems to be no question but that
 the assessors erred in not notifying
 property owners whose taxes were in- creased that additions had been made
 as the statute expressly states they shall
 do in all such cases. But as said here
 in the other day, 1t would not pay q
 man go into the court about 1t. Allow
 ing that the cases should be decided in
 In his favor 1t would cost him more to t fight than 1t would to pay and keen
 silent. Law is pretty expensive e game and those who have had a trial
 of it do not care much about entering 2
 the lists second time provided he can \ avoid it During the past week a prop
 erty owner in one of the town school
 districts paid $20 to settle case for a tax bill amounting to about $1.V2O, two years taxes on small lot The cost
 of foreclosing lien for a small sum is
 as high as for large amount, so that it behooves the small rate payers as a well as the big ones to toe the mark.
 A little boy who lives on Green street and whose name is something
 like Bocanage had a fortunate escape
 from being seriously injured yester-
 day afternoon about o'clock. He r was playing about the bridge on
 Bank street over the Naugatuck riv-
 CT. In spirit of fun he climbed one 1 of the railings along the side of the J bridge. In doing so he lost his bal
 ance and fell headlong into the river = below, distance of about fifty feet | A man who witnessed the fall rushed
 across the bridge and down to the
 river and waded out to where the
 child was. He rescued the youngstel 7 and carried him into a nearby shoe . shop where he was wrapped in blank . cts and kept until his mother arrived e and took him home. The child es
 capped any injury. whatsoever. It E [. wonderful how he escaped so forum \ ately. The river is rather low al present and the boy struck on stones There Is no doubt that the boy would have been drowned but for the quick
 work of the man who witnessed the accident.