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Show MINH'li'AL MIMTL1E- The Police Ooramittua Look Into Applications Appli-cations for Positions on thd Ubiquitous Ubi-quitous f oro9' DEAD D0MIN1CK3 ON SALE. A Number of Water Corrections Mads Work on the Streets The Health Department- The Tolice committee in considering a batch of matters in Chambers tliis afternoon, and among othar results will he the recommendation on Ttiesilay uiifht of a number of additional patrolmen, patrol-men, the nuoetisity for which has long been apparcut. A meeting was held Saturday afternoon late, but it was impossible im-possible to arrive at anything delinite. it is understood that the committee will proceed very cautiously in the selection of new material, that the present breach may cot be aggravated. A harioua Complaint. A complaint that should be subjected to tho fullest investigation by the health committee was lodged Before Commissioner Creenman, the ageut of the human society by one of its satolii-ties satolii-ties on Saturday. For sometime the representatives of the society have beuu making war on tho shippers of the yellow leg dominick that are packed so closely in coops as to come terrible fatality. " It was whilo arraigning arraign-ing a shipper on this olTensn that the uses to which those feathered corpses was exposed, the consignee making no hecret of the fact thai after they had been dumped in the garbage box there was a clash to lish them out and ultimately ulti-mately put them on the market. Jt prevails or has prevailed in the larger cities to a serious extent and the deportment de-portment w ill do well to take the matter mat-ter in hand. I'olin If unlni'a. The jiast week was a dull one boforo the magistrate, but forty-eight con-victioes con-victioes having been made from which II Cm was derived. This is scarcely in support of what has been claimed that the department is self -sustaining, and while dissensions in the force has had a hypnotic cllect, the taxpayer cannot ailord to pay lor services not performed. It is notorious at home and abroad, that the city is overrun with law breakers break-ers of all sizes and varieties and the wary sleuth is scarcely doing justice to his old time vigilance. For the current week there wero twenty-two arrests for drunkenness and live for assault and battery. Kxtenillntr Water Maine. The pay roll in tho water department fur the week just gone into municipal history was HilM-M, which completes a pay roll numbering 11! meu. The principal work at present is the laying of 1 '()( feet of six-incli pipe on Third Soutli and Second Kist and -1 .10 fact of similar pipe ou First North and Currant atreeH. The excavation, toOil feet in length, on Eleventh East and Fifth South has been about completed and wili be ready for the pipemen in a very-few very-few hours. Ten lire plugs wi re constructed con-structed and twenty-three water connections con-nections made. The Fall Clean I . The department despo.'od of THil loads of garbage during the week and suppressed sup-pressed lit nuisances. The health committee com-mittee reports four cases of infectious (lisosses L'j hurried permits and births. The expenso for the wesk was $18C.-7". $18C.-7". Diptheria is reported from a number num-ber of localities. The Struct JMinp!i!. Captain Paul is directing his force at the work of grading the thoroughfares in the northwest portion of the city whero Third North street from Fifth to Eighth and fast is being put, in fine feather for hypoborean trallic. Tho expense account is about $7111 a week, and dirt is Hying thick and fast. A CUr Infirmary. It is understood that the City Council will take up the mstter of an infirmary in a short time and that steps will follow to secure a hospital, conducted under the immediate auspices of the city. It would involve no great expenso after the structure is once had. |