Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-10
The 9en,ncrat.
CITY NEWS.

The Rev. Father Leo of Winsted is in | town to-day.
 Court Hancock. A. o. F., will install officers this evening. Some of the fences around the city suffered by last nights high wind. The regular rehearsal of the choir of the Sacred Heart church will be held this evening. Probate Judge Phelan is rapidly be- E coming acquainted with the workings of his new office.
 The selectmen have been very busy to- day repairing several dangerous holes on he Middlebury road.
 Train signal boxes are being placed at all the stations of the Naugatuck dlvls- ion of the Consolidated road.
 F. w. Ingraham went to Naugatuck last evening to install the newly elected officers of a camp of Sons of Veterans recently formed in that town.
 The Washington express due in this city at 30S a. m. did not arrive until II 30 this morning being delayed by an accident to the transfer steamer caused by the storm.
 Connecticut pensions Increase, Zenas c. Bowen, Waterbury Chas klockner Westport; Addison E. Thompson, Col umbia Anthony Otta, Seymour Stephen B. Wilcox, South Norwalk.
 The first private ball given by Quelques Bons NivantS Canadiens was held in Grand Army hall last evening. About forty-tive couples participated in the grand march which was led by Oscar A. Valentine and wife.
 A gold watch chances upon which are being sold by members of the A. O. F., Is on exhibition in Lake, Strobel X Co.'S window. The drawing which is for the benefit of the Connecticut state dis trict of the order will take place in New Haven Saturday, January %.
 Fifty years ago last Sunday occurred what is remembered by every lrishman old enough as the big wind" It eX- tended over the whole of the Emerald Isle and laid waste the farm houses and forests. Many of the older Irish resi- dents of this city remember the event and reckon their ages by 1t.
 The Women's Relief corps of the Grand Army has become one of the most important charitable institutions in the country and its work is rapidly increasing in value and influence. The president of the Connecticut depart ment. Mrs Durfee of Rockville, who has proved a most efficient officer has issued orders for the sixth annual convention which will be held in New Britain Jan nary 30 and 3l. Reduced rates have been secured over the New York and New England road.
 Yesterday afternoon just before , o'clock the sky presented a strange ap- pearance and some of the citizens re- marked the peculiar greenish gray ap- pearance that was developed just pre- vious to the earthquake in the fall of 1894. One lady who saw the sky yester- day said at the time that she would not be surprised toshear that there had been an awful cyclone somewhere in the country. As if in veriication of this prediction, news came last night by tel egraph of the terrible tornado Tn Reading and other cities in Pennsylvania. The peculiar appearance of the sky lasted until dark.
 A subscriber writes to the DEMOCRAT concerning the Standard Oil company and declares that property owners in the Brooklyn district should fight hard against the location there of a refinery or distributing station. The tract of land purchased by the company is a large one containing seven or eight building lots and it is believed that the oil men intend to go into the business in Waterbury on large scale The ter rible stencil of an oil factory will do more to impede the growth of Brooklyn than almost anything that can be thought of and it is to be hoped that the company can be induced to locate in the meadows below Simonsville.
 Jennie Freeman was to all appearances happy and at peace with the world as she walked into the court room by the side of Officer Dodds this morning. although she was charged with drunk enness and also with being a common prostitute. Jennie is a colored woman and has police record containing as many items as a plumbers bill. Twice she has escaped from the town house. The police have been watching for her several days, having been informed that she had returned to her old haunts. Yesterday afternoon she was arrested by Officer Reid and gave him the fight of his life before being locked up. Judge Bradstreet inflicted a sentence of 12O days in jail for being a common prosti- tute and 30 days for drunkenness with costs in each case.
 A terrific sou'easter was blowing and the rain swept in great sheets across the open space near the soldiers monument last night as weather beaten pilgrim singing an obsolete ditty slowly wended his way toward the center. An umbrella handle to which was attached several ribs rendered naked by the fury of the storm gave him an air of responsibility above the average tramp. Just as he reached the center of the green the wind gave terrific howl and a small bougl of one of the noble elms standing guard over the band stand with a crash de scended striking the wanderer full upon the head. An ordinary mortal would have been stunned by the blow, but not so the tourist. There was momentary intermission in his song but that was all Fifteen minutes later he called for the best spare room in the station house.