Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-17
CITY NE WS.

A this evening.
 Authors carnival at City hall this evening.
 The St Jean Baptiste society will hold an important meeting this evening. Meriden's city election is being held | to-day. Three tickets are in the field. Dennis Hawley makes another inter | esting holiday announcement to-day. Tho annual meeting of the Consoli dated road will be held III New Haven l tomorrow. Meriden's electric railroad is a dismal | failure. The cars could not run during the storm Saturday.
 1 The Middletown Penny Press has been enlarged to meet the the demands of its readers and advertisers. l The Southern New England company last night began the work of removing the oyafffhead wires in New Haven. Cox of the New Haven signal station predicts rain at intervals, with higher temperature, for tomorrow. | A benefit for Carl Geyer, a former leader of the Concordia Singing society, will be held this evening in Concordia hall.
 Circulars are out giving full particu l opens in Platt's new block, Monday Jan uary 6.
 Mrs J. E. Grant fell on the icy side walk in front of Benton's art gallery on Bank street last night, and fractured her ankle.
 Tho Rev Father Murphy will deliver a lecture on Greed Contrasts" before the Young Mems Catholic Literary associa- tion this evening.
 The baggage car on the S:4S- a. m l train on the Naugatuck road is appro- priately draped in mourning out of re- spect for the late Conductor Beers.
 The seventh annual sociable given by the Big Seven Social club, will be held 1 in City hall, New Years eve. Music by Hallam's orchestra; Uffendale. prompter.
 The Little Ones" of the Convent de Notre Dame will give a Christmas evening, in the Convent hall at 4:30 o'clock.
 The steam laundry watch dog ''Vic" met with an accident last week, nearly losing one of his fore feet, but by the treatment of MT Davis the dog is now doing well.
 The four nights fair and festival of Martha Washington Council, O. $. S., opened i'll Music hall last night and was largely attended. The hall was beauti-
 fully decorated.
 Jeremiah Rourke, another alleged
 Waterbury man, was arrested in New
 Haven for vagrancy yesterday. He
 was bound over to the superior court
 under the provisions of the tramp law. } Judge Deming of New Haven, yester- , day ordered the release of Frank Comfort t from the State Reform school, as the 1 lyN1r tS fl,.,t tl,D
 sixteen years of age at the time of his
 commitment to the institution.
 Ojeda Council, K of c. of Naugatuck
 are making elaborate preparations for
 their second annual ball at the Gem
 opera house January r. Arrangements
 are being made for a special train to
 accommodate those who attend from this
 city.
 The supreme court met in New Haven
 yesterday and rendered decisions in a number of cases. In the case of Corne-
 lias NJ. Benedict and others vs Augustus s. Chase and others judgment advised
 for plaintiffs. Reasons by Carpenter
 judge.
 Another daughter of Michael Hughes
 of 15 North Elm street, has been taker
 sick with diphtheria. Mir Hughes ha: | the sympathy of his large circle ot t friends, his daughter Miss Maggie | Hughes having died from the dreaded
 disease, Saturday.
 s A decorative art reception and exhibl tion of art needle work done on the new E high arm Wheeler & Wilson sewins
 machine, will be given at w. H. Hunts
 from December Is to 23. The exhibition : will be under the care of those compe
 tent and willing to show how the many : attractive articles are made. } General J. H. Wilson, who will be = remembered as the general manager ot 3 the New York & New England railroad : some eight years ago, and who has T recently acted as general superintendent e of the Ohio, Indiana & Western road . wa, killed yesterday in railroad acci 7 dent at Covington, Ind. The funeral of Mrs Mary Mccarthy :, who died Sunday, took place this morn u ing from her late residence on Cherry l, street to the church of the Immaculate Il Conception, where a requiem mass was
 sung by the Rev Father Flemming The pail bearers were : John H. Moran C James Delaney, John Hosey. Martin 7 Mcdonald, Patrick Gilchrist and Franl ' Phelan.
 {. Mathew Lusk was the first victim tt this morning on the list. Drunkennes. if was the charge; $5 and costs, wa: Il the decree of the court. Thomas Whelar Il a boy IA years of age, was also on tn, r. list and for similar offense. He saie
 he received his liquor from young ma1 e on Scovlill street. Judge Bradstreet gay, n him good reprimand and discharged le him.
 II At the semi-annual meeting of Cour , 70 Hancock, A. O. F. of A., held last even V, ,o ing the following officers were elected R | D ~ ID I'M ;is Connolly; treasurer, Bart Bos.idy; finan . . cial secretary, DE. Murnane; cores ;" bonding secretary, E. P. Hyland: S. B.
 James Doherty; J. B., w. F. Dillon;
 w.. Michael Keefe: s. w., William
 German, Jr; physician, Dr B. A. O'Hara II II druggist, P. Bossidy; trustees, Jame. A lt Hynes; John Madden and Patrick Kane
 Says the New Haven Courier A mem
 Der of the Second regiment said las
 night of the action of the First regimen n officers: ''The officers should obey tn | Of