Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-23
CITY NEWS

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 Committees representing the board of aldermen and the Merchants asso- citation will meet tonight for the pur
 pose of talking over the old home week project
 A carpenter named Patrick Reilly, engaged with School Carpenter . i'm at Washington school, to-day broke his left leg while alighting from Quinn's wagon.
 The Hibernian rifles will go to Oak vile this evening to attend Father
 Trayn0r's lawn fete. The members are requested to meet at headquarters promptly at ' o'clock.
 Town Clerk F. F. Brett has few copies of the public acts passed by the
 geenral assembly of 1903 which he will pass out to people who call for them.
 If you want copy don't wait too long.
 Hereafter no boy under ten years of age can be committed to the State
 School for Boys except upon conviction of an offense for which punishment is
 imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail.
 Gladys Higgins. the 1O-months-old daughter of MT and Mrs Frederick W. Higgins of 94 Wall street, died last night The funeral took place at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Interment was in St. Joseph's cemetery.
 His many friends were glad to see. the Rev Father McGuane so far re- covered from his recent illness as to permit his return to the cathedral last Sunday. By the advice of his physi- clan Father McGuane will take brief vacation before resuning his duties at the cathedral Catholic Transcript. The city court has been quite profita- ble to the city for, the quarter ending July 1. To-day Clerk McMahon of the court drew up check for $1, 300 for the city. This is about $500 above the average for this quarter of the year. It is $500 more than was turned over for the first quarter and about $500 more for the corresponding quarter for last year. This shows a great increase
 of business in the city court nOtwith- standing that for days at time there has been no business for the city court at several intervals in the quarter in question. The increase is accounted for by the gambling cases, which netted the city about $350.
 A M. Young has been elected pres ident of the Pine Orchard association,
 incorporated during the recent session of the general assembly, with practi- cally all the rights and privileges of a
 borough, which has been organized and starts in the municipal family of the
 state under favorable auspices. In one feature of it's government Pine Orchard
 has taken step in advance, or at least an unusual stS2, in raising woman to the level of man in clothing her with the franchise. Tn all that the assocla- ton may consider regarding it's local government the woman owning prop erty has as much to say as her brother alike situated. And at the election of officers of the association just held ev- cry woman entitled to vote exercised her privilege. Still another important feature of the election was the fact that the women did not insist upon
 placing any of the sex in the list of candidates
 There was a little commotion at the
 police station this afternoon. Officer J. Mccarthy, after quite chase, ar
 rested colored man named William
 Thomas. Further than orders from his superiors the officer had no author lty to make the arrest. After being
 in custody few minutes and the mat ter having been explained to Chief Egan, the man was released A week ago Thomas and his wife roomed in house kept by a colored man named Samuel Ferris on Fairview street.
 There was a falling out and Mrs Thomas left. Thomas made some ef- forts toward a reconciliation, but his wife would not listen to him. He then took her clothes from the house, where
 upon she made complaint to the prose cutor and orders were given to the police to be on the lookout for him. There being no warrant issued for him
 Chief Egan let him go Now Thomas
 attributes all his troubles to Ferris and
 wants him arrested.
 So far but few children have fallen victims to cholera infantum this sum-
 mer, but the disease appears to be get
 ting around the past few days and peo- pie cannot be too careful about their little ones. Of course, no matter how well they are used, they go ;but even so it pays to be on the alert and call in the family physician as soon as the
 malady shows up. The doctors and
 undertakers say that there Is very little
 serious sickness in Waterbury at the present time and the druggists are of
 
 no doubt regarding the truth of the
 statement. Just why this should be
 so nobody appears to know, but many
 are of the opinion that it is due large
 ly to the extreme vigilance of Water
 bury's board of health, to whose ef-
 forts must be credited many radical
 changes in the interest of good sanita- tion, and if there is anything more con-
 ducive to good health than
 cleanliness nobody knows what it is. The health board
 has not gone around with a brass band nor has it bothered the newspapers
 very much, but it has been vigilant day and night and in consequence many of
 the foul smelling surface closets and
 other stench holes have been abolished
 and everybody appears to be the bet
 ter for it. Heabth Officer Kilmartin
 has not been idle and as for Inspector Moses he rarely sleeps at this season. He is up with the lark every morning