Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-05
Yhe 9enncrats
CITY NE WS.


 ALL leading grocers sell ROYAL AMMONIA Best in the world. Take no other
 Professor Ladd of Yale university preached at the Second Congregational church yesterday
 Edward NJ. Fitzpatrick and Frank Hod- son left this morning to spend q two weeks vacation at Saratoga.
 John Welch was this morning fined s3 without costs for fighting on South Main street Saturday evening
 Michael Ryan of Machias, Me, formerly in the employ of John MoEyoy, is spending O few weeks in this city.
 There were 800 arrests made i'll New Haven in July, the biggest record in the history of the police department.
 Miss Cora Black and brother Willie of 66 Maple street left this morning for vacation trip through New York state.
 Several complaints were made to-day of whistling on the New England road last night, in violation of the recent order of the railroad commissioners.
 The Southport Sunday school, will pie nic at High Rock grove to morrow. The Plymouth Congregational church of Mi ford will picnic there Wednesday.
 Peter Lynn, breakman on the Meriden,
 
 fully injured while coupling cars near the Dublin street station Saturday night.
 William Doggins, sixty years of age, was in Willimantic. He was last seen We'd nesday and was intoxicated. He leaves Il son and daughter.
 The Waterbury delegation to the conven- tion of the High Court ..of Foresters nt Minneapolis will leave New Haven with the other Connecticut delegates at D. m Friday.
 The resi- ignation of James Spruce as q member of the district finance committed has been rendered, and will be acted upon at the meeting of the committee Wednes- day evening"
 Col Doherty has issued special order calling for a skeleton battalion drill to be held at the Second regiment armory in New Haven August g. The drill will be under command or Major Wells
 It was a bad week for laying out the camp at Mantle, but the work is only about half day behind that of last year The camp will be ready for the brigade in time for the rendezvous, August 19
 The locks on the regimental target butts, which Were lately placed in posi- tion, have been broken off by some mis- creants who will yet repent of their folly It is possible that $100 reward will be offered for the detection of any person or persons who persist in mutilatng property which is owned by the state
 At St Patrick's church yesterday, the pastor Rev Father Duggan. departed from the usual religious themes and spoke for a few minutes upon sanitary matters, advis- ing his people to enjoy as much sunlight and air as possible and te take other pre- cautions to prevent the spread of disease during the present unhealthy season
 For some time the Meriden t& Water bury road officials have been troubled by tramps sleeping ill freight cars in their yards. Saturday night Maurice Lyons was arrested for this otfense and locked up. This morning he told q straightfor- ward story and as he was perfectly sober when arrested Judge Cowell released him with a reprimand.
 The saloon screen law was pretty well observed yesterday. Window curtains were raised and standing screens removed and many who never before saw the inside of d barroom could be seen giving sly glances through the windows Only one drunk was before the court this morning and he said he bought his liquor Saturday
 ght ill bottle.
 
 New Haven last night one of the members of the moulders union stated that they had n little trouble ill one of the shops last week because one of the men persisted in rushing" and doing two days work ill one. The men objected and the .'rusher'' was discharged. He is now making watches in Waterbury," said the delegate.
 A meeting of Foresters will be held in Grand Army hall Wednesday evening for the purpose of organizing a mounted squad to take part in the Field day par ade. A large number of visitors will be here Saturday and the largest gathering of Foresters ever assembled i'll this c.ty will participate in the Field day exercises. The picnic gives promise of being one of the grandest events of the season.
 William J. Schlegel reports the follow ing real estate sales for last week The Merritt E. Scott farm at Mill Plains to Jared D. Durand; the residence of F. N. Humphrey of the Waterbury lumber and coal company on Holmes avenue. price about &11 ,OOO; for William E. Fulton, thirty-one feet front on Bank street with buildings, also frontage of thrty-six feet on Meadow street, price about S13, ,OOO-
 The Meriden and Waterbury railroad folks should have air brakes on all their passenger trains and will no doubt do so in the near future. AS it is now the brakes have to be applied by hand, and it is tough job to bring the trains to a standstill. Each brakeman has a big club like an axe handle which he puts between the spokes of the brake wheel and uses as lever to screw the brakes up hard They have to begin putting up the brakes n quarter of mile above q station and the way they tug and haul is enough to make passengers who watch the operation sweat out of pure sympathy.
 The funeral of Michael Bannon, was largely attended from his late residence to the church of the Immaculate Concep- tion at 2p m. yesterday. The pallbearers were: Lawrence Tobin, James Wall, An drew Moran, John Thompson, Thomas Smith and Thomas Ledwith of Hartford MT Bannon was one of the oldest as well as most respected Irishmen in the city. It is something over forty-seven years since he took up his residence in Water bury. He made many friends during that time as the large concourse of people at the funeral yesterday evidenced. He leaves two sons and one daughter.
 Conductor Miles and Engineer Gilbert,