Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-30
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"Pecks Bad Boy at the opera house this evening.
 Excursion tickets to the Bristol fair are on sale at the New England station. A special meeting of the court of common council will be held this even ing.
 The regular monthly meeting of the board of fire commissioners will be held this evening.
 Eight couples were ''called" to be married at the church of the Immaculate Conception yesterday.
 Bishop Matthew Harkins, of Provi- dence, R. l., and the Rev J. H. Mulcahy of the Boston diocese, are the guests of the Rev Father Mulcahy.
 Mrs Matilda Richards, aged 34 years, died at her home in Simonsville Saturday evening. The funeral was attended from St Ann's church this morning.
 A telegram was received by John O'Brien this morning announcing the arrival in New York of Mathew Ken nedy, who had just returned from his foreign trip.
 Thomas J. Campion of the New Haven Register Is spending a part of his vacation in this city. He leaves for Montreal Wednesday, where he will re- main for week.
 The alterations in T. P. Hutchinson's block on South Main street are nearly completed and the building is greatly improved in appearance. The three stores have already been let.
 Superintendent Crawford of the Mer- iden, Waterbury and Connecticut River the parties who said he had resigned. Ho covs ha ic cp1JaraI fo thp road
 James Johnson. brother of Leroux the balloonist, who was drowned few days ago at Reval, Russia, to-day cabled the American consul at that place asking for further particulars regarding his brother.
 Alderman Timothy O'Rourke of the fourth ward says the report that he will run ''split'' ticket in the city cleo tion is wholly without foundation. Mir O'Rourke will support the regular ticket.
 Twenty-four members of the Women s Relief corps left for Danbury on the 1:55 train this afternoon to pay visit to the Women's Relief corps of that place. They will return on the Washington express tomorrow morning.
 Patrick Coleman, of this city, broke into E. R. Rowes house at Meriden the 
 other articles. Coleman has a bad po- lice record and only recently was re- leased from New Haven jail.
 ::Mrs Ann Campion, aged 56 years wife of Edward Campion, died yester day at her home on Dublin street. The funeral will take place from her late residence to the church of the Sacred Heart at S:3O a. m. tomorrow.
 The work of filling in the Hop brook trestle on the New ork & New EnglanC road has been temporarily suspended Nearly 50,000 cubic yards of sand have been dumped into the gorge during the summer and twice that amount will bt required to complete the work.
 J. P. McGuerty, United Press opera tor at the Republican office, leaves to morrow for New York to take charge O the press wire in the Evening Telegram office. Allen Seymour of New Yorl will be Mir McGuerty's successor at tn, Republican office.
 Charles A. Briggs was arrested Satur day at the instance of Porter L. Wood an officer of the game club, for shooting upon private property. The case will b tried Wednesday. Attorney Lowe, win appears for Mir Briggs, says it is cas of malicious prosecution.
 James l.. Keenan of this city, wh conducted the 22 hours walking mate at New Haven last week, cleared $40 profit from the race. He will hay charge of the 20 mile race betwee Guerrero and Hegelman at New Have Tuesday night.
 The whole interior of the Waterbur bank building, corner Bank and Gran streets, is in the hands of the carpenter and great transformation is bein wrought. The bank will use the entir first floor and the upper stories will b used by the Waterbury club.
 Dr Gideon L. Platt has sold. throug William J. Schlegel, the property oe cupied by the Apothecarles' Hall con pany, which the doctor has owned fc forty years. The price paid was S35 ,O0t Frederick G. Platt of New Britain, trea urer of the Waterbury Lumber and Go: company, was the purchaser.
 Senator Hawley and Adjutant- Ger eral Barbour have received dispatche from the state department at Washing ton announcing that the Dominic government has given hearty conser for the invasion of Canada by an arme band from Connecticut. In other worl the official permission to visit Montre; has been granted to the First regiment
 In the last report of the state boar of education, the secretary, MT Charlt D. Hine, says: ''There is abundant ev dence that the school census is not take with care. Instances of over enumer tions, double enumerations and und, enumerations are constantly coming light. The remedy is town enumer tion by competent persons, and verific tion by the school visitors"
 The laugh is on three prominent clerg men-the Messrs Eggleston of the Fir Methodist, Tullar of St Pauls Methodi and Elsdon of the Baptist church. The gentlemen have all been prominel leaders in the grand cold water rallies the rink for a week or so past, but we so careless about their own votes f. prohibition that they reached the regi tration too late to get their names upo the list.
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