Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-11
CITY AND SUBURBS.

Struct1On Of Grau s new building on Grand street.
 Nosahogan Lodge, I. o. o. F., last ev9n- ing worked the initiatory degree on II can didates.
 The Waterbury polo team left for Bridgeport on the PAP train this after noon.
 N. Salladin of Camden, N. J., is visiting with the family of J. D. Roe on Burton street.
 Miss Nellie c. Joice, who has been visit ing friends ill town, yesterday returned to her home in North Adams, Mass.
 The Board of Relief will meet in their office in the City Hall on Thursday from to and7 to 9, p. m.
 Canton Waterbury, Patriarchs Militant, will meet this evening. A full attendance IS desired as business of importance will be transacted.
 The case of Kellogg against Hall, the trial of which was begun before a jury ill the District Court yesterday, occupied the session of the court to-day.
 In the Superior Court at New Haven yes terday divorce was granted to Anna Ba- ker from her husband, James B. Baker of this city on the ground of cruelty.
 Mrs James Hodson of New Haven. who
 
 Sedgwick of South Main street, was taken Ill yesterday and is in a critical condition. Dallas Roland, engineer at the works of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, re- gently had one of his thumbs caught in the machinery, but fortunately only had the nail wrenched off.
 Mrs Bridget Dee, aged 46, died at her residence, No AZ Baldwin street, yesterday afternoon. The funeral was attended from the Church of the Immaculate Conception this afternoon.
 Civil Engineer LaForge is making a survey to-day for Patrick McMahon on Grand street. MT McMahon contemplates erect ing brick block on the corner of Grand and South Main streets.
 At the meeting of the Connecticut Civil Engineers Association held in Hartford yesterday F. F. Weld of this city was elected second vice president, and Jay Car penter, also of this city, contributing member.
 Bound copies of the Revised Statutes cost S2. 40 a volume. Considering the large sum the state paid the commission for the of printing and binding, the book is exceed ingly cheap.
 ''This city should have public weigher
 
 would be paid out of the city treasury, it should be his duty to weigh hay and coal and then people would be satisfied and would be sure of getting their just weight" :" The trial of William Cisco, colored for murder in the second degree, in causing the death of Harriet Thompson, was finished Ill the Superior Court at New Haven yes terday and resulted in the disagreement and dis charge of the jury.
 The annual concert and masquerade ball of the Waterbury Turn-verein at City Hall, January 27, is the only event of it's kind this wintr. The committee of arrange ments are making elaborate preparations for the occasion. The Wheeler & Wilson full orchestra will furnish music.
 Col l.. F. Burpee will be president of the court martial which will try Edward War her in Hartford Friday on a charge of fraudulently obtaining discharge papers from the adjutant generals office and thereby gaining admission to the Grand Army
 The long trestle over the crossing of the Northampton railroad has been completed 7and the construction train of the Meriden x Waterbury road passed over it for the first time last night. The work of track laying will now continue rapidly toward Waterbury, Only about four miles remain unfinished. .-Meriden Journal.
 The new rubber shoe factory which has just been completed at Naugatuck will en- ploy l. 000 hands. It is expected that operations will commence in September Naugatuck will then make more rubber shoes than any other city or town in the United Statss. The factories there now turn out about 15 ,000 pairs of rubber shoes daily.
 The second lecture in the Y. M. C. A. course was given at the associations hall last evening. Charles Pancoast, who has travelled extensively in India, took the audi dience over the country with him, and with the aid of stereopticon views held the close attention of his hearers. Among the views were some charming ones of scenes i'll the Himalaya mountains.
 There were only two drunks in the Po- lice Court this morning. The court dis charged one and fined the other $1 and costs. James McGrath of Brooklyn, who was arrested last night on the charge of as- saulting little boy named James Ray, ask ed that his case be continued until to-mor- TOW because he had no counsel. The re- quest was granted.
 In the Supreme Court of Errors at Hart ford yesterday the case of Harry H. Palmer, ct ux, against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, ct al, was ar gued The plaintiffs want to recover judg- ment for S700 to cover the loss of certain freight at Chicago by fire. Attorney Graves and Judd of this city, who are the attorneys for the railroad, claim that the goods were delivered at Chicago, which is the end of their road, and that they cannot be held liable for the loss of the freight after they have delive1ed it to connecting lines.
 The Ladies' Mission Circle of the Second Church yesterday afternoon elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Mrs P. B. Norton; vice presi- dents, Miss Mary Chase Mrs J. T. Futile, Mrs H. w. Scovill and Mrs I. H. Atwood; secretary, Miss Hattie Futile; treasurer, Miss Jennie Blakeslee; directresses, Miss Johanna Judd, Miss Lizzie Kellogg, Mrs Hotchkiss, Mrs Joseph Woodward, Mrs Morse, Miss Helen Chase, Miss Lucy Keel CT, Miss Julie Welton, Miss Ella Hart, Miss Anna Keeler, Mrs Segar, Mrs P. M. Gal lond Mrs J. H. McKinnon and Mrs Brad ley; refreshment committee, Mrs Dudley Abbott, Mrs S. J. Robertson, Mrs H. w. French.