Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
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CITY AND SUBURBS.
:, police court this morning.

Patrick Woods from probate will be heard tomorrow morning.
 Poloist Willie Conway was in town to- day on visit to Williams, the goal keeper of last seasons five.
 Bart Bossidy has added a neat cherry wall case to the decoration of his phar- macy on East Main street.
 Rev Father Murphy of Bridgeport, late of the Immaculate Conception church, is visiting in this city to-day.
 The rat batting match which was to have taken place at Naugatuck last night has been indefinitely postponed.
 Tax Collector Louis Meyer will be at Ford's store at Waterville from 2 to p. m Thursday to collect Waterville taxes.
 Dr Luscomb of this city, and Hinckley of Naugatuck left on the o'clock train this morning to attend the annual meeting of the Connecticut Homeopathic Society, which meets in Hartford to-day.
 The case of Fred R. Swift, in appeal from the decision of Judge Cowell, was to be heard today but Attorney Walsh tele- graphed that he could not be present and the case was adjourned until Thursday at 2p. m.
 As the next meeting night ot the Young Mems Democratic club will fall on Fore paughs circus day, the meeting will be postponed for one week, which will make it few days after the presidential nomi- nation.
 Tonight will be the last chance for per sons to visit the Japanese village at City HalI, as the company will open in Danbury tomorrow. The exhibition is good one, and has been given with unexpected suc- cess in this city.
 Court Fruitful Vine, A. o. F., at their meeting last night "voted permission" to Court Stephen J. Meany, according to the custom which requires all new Courts to obtain permission for formation from the three nearest courts. s
 Robert F. Sheehan, clerk in Walcott's market, to-day received 8 horse hair cane from the penitentiary at Boise City, Idaho. was sent MT Sheehan by one of the turnkeys who was a former Waterbury boy.
 Work on the new Sacred Heart Church which has been interrupted for some months was resumed yesterday, and stag ing erected for clustering the upper DOT ton and for building the spire. It is pro- bable that the upper portion will be ready for occupation by January or February, 1889.
 An Italian in the employ of the Meriden and Waterbury railroad, was seen to fall off the bridge near the cut at South Meri- den late yesterday and was rescued by two of the spectators, who threw him a plank just as his strength was beginning to fail him. He was scarcely able to breathe when taken from the water. - Meriden Journal
 Ticket No 27 was announced as the one drawing the gold watch at the meeting of the organ fund collectors at the Sacred Heart church last night. The winners of the other five prizes are: Dress pattern, Harry 0. Upson; ton of coal, Bernard Syn mott, Dublin street; $10 gold piece, Alec Buchanan; one-half dozen shirts, M. Don ovan, East Main street; barrel of flour, H. Loether, Bucks hill.
 The Rev Fathers Duggan and Mulcahy of this city, and Pagan of Naugatuck, went to Williamantic to-day to take part in the celebration eff the twenty-fi fifth anniversary of the Rev F. L. De Bruycker as pastor of the Catholic church in that place. Father De Bruycker will to-day receive the per sonal congratulations of large number of bishops and priests in honor of the rare event of pastor preaching over a congre- gation for a quarter of a century.
 A meeting of the stockholders of the Meriden and Cromwell and Meriden and Waterbury railroads will be held at the opera house in Meriden, May 24, to take action on the proposed consolidation of the two roads. The Meriden and Crom- well road stockholders will meet at 1 o'clock, and the Meriden and Waterbury stockholders at 3 o'clock, so as not to con. fict. The directors of the two roads will probably meet together immediately after ward.
 When the Washington street school was lox hat Misc Mary Gaynor's room had been broken into and general disturbance made. Things were all tossed around, and number of the keys on the Weber piano broken. Miss Donahue's room had been visited also, and the teachers register torn and covered with ink. This is the second time that such acts of vandalism have been commit ted, and it will go hard with the perpetra- tors should they be caught.
 D Lawrence Brennan of South Elm street had narrow escape from losing foot at Scovills yesterday morning. MT Brennan is & caster tender, and while passing one of the furnaces attempted to shove back @ pot of molten metal with his foot he was over balanced. He saved himself by throwing himself backward, but his shoe struck the metal and splashed it over his foot, burn ing it painfully When the burnt shoe was removed the instep of his foot was covered with thin sheet of metal. Had he not recovered his balance so quickly whole foot would have been lost.
 Mark Pelham, of 2O9 Van Brunt street, New York, uncle of George L. Pelham of this city, has been missing from his home \, for several days, and it is supposed he com mitted suicide MT Pelham is we'll to- do man, and had been in the employ of the Union Ferry Co. for 30 years, but had lately been discharged, and had threatened several times to drown himself Shortly after Mrs Pelham gave the alarm at the police headquarters. MT Pelham's coal was found in the water at the foot of King seree@;ap2 his hat was picked up hY a. tus boat off Sullivan street. The bOuF has no yet been recovered. MT Pelham was 6 years old.
 The first passenger train over the nev Merider x Waterbury railroad made successful tnr this morning from Wes Main street. Meriden, to Dublin stree crossing. The trip occupied about A. minutes, several stops being made on the