Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-23
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CITY NEWS.


 The board of police commissioners will meet this evening.
 The state board of health is making an investigation into the South Glastonbury ice cream poisoning case.
 Miss NJ. Driscoll, dressmaker, has re- moved her place of business from No 54 | Mill street to 230 South Main. The final details for the observance of | Memorial day will be made by Wad- | hams post at their meeting this even ing. There was a large attendance and a very pleasant time at the sociable given by the colored Odd Fellows of this city at Music hall last night.
 The Hartford board of trade has issued a book of 217 pages setting forth the advantages of the city. Waterbury will have to hurry up.
 It was Roger c. Downey, an agent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany, who rescued the children from drowning in the Mad river Tuesday afternoon.
 Patrick Keough, jr, child of Patrick Keough, aged year and months, died to-day. The funeral will take place Friday afternoon at o'clock from the family residence, 43 South Riverside street.
 Mrs Lucas. a we'll known character about town, left for Danbury to-day on the , o'clock train. She has been in town for the past two weeks trying to find someone who could tell her what town should pay for her support.
 John Stevens of North Madison has had a deposit of S1 100 in a New Haven bank attached in suit brought by Alb Ipl~ al. z ,nI- e, = the claim of fraud in selling timber from mortgage land.
 The sales agents of the six leading coal companies at meeting in New York yesterday decided to advance prices 15 cents per ton for stove coal and 10 cents for grate and egg on June 1. Another advance next month is expected
 The following committee are making the arrangements for the third annual picnic of the Brass City Hose company, No 6: Bernard Byrnes, Daniel Hackett, Thomas Moran, George H. Byrnes, Peter Kenney, Dennis Slavin. The pie mic will be held at Concordia grove, Wednesday evening, June 12.
 S. Y. Beach, father of Supt G. w. Beach of the Naugatuck road, cele- brated his 79th anniversary at his home in Seymour Tuesday. Among those present were his four sons with their families, G. w. Beach, $. D. Beach, A. Y. Beach and T. B. Beach of Seymour, and his daughter, Emeline E. Beach of Seymour.
 From the table of casualties it appears that of the soldiers of this state there killed 112: fatally wounded, TAI: wounded ,l5, ,5O6; accidentally wounded, 126; captured, 4,075 died in prison, 6S9; died of disease, 2,S01 discharged for dis ability, 4,S24; unaccounted for at muster out, 352; total casualties, 20,573.
 The case of Christ ian Hauser vs Nel- son Kilmer, action in a suit of ejectment is being tried before Justice James Rus sell and jury at the district court to- day. The jurymen who are hearing the case are: John Fitzpatrick, William E. Austin, William M Tyler. c. l. Ire maine, Lawrence Root and Nelson Mor- ris.
 Arthur H. Tyrrell, treasurer of the Waterbury Blank Book company, and Miss Agusta NJ. Smith, daughter of Mrs Jennie M. Smith. were married in this city at Il o'clock to-day by the Rev Alfred Allen of the Catholic Apostolic church of Hartford. Mir and Mrs Tyrrell left on the 1 o'clock train for a short wedding tour to Boston and New York, and on their return will reside at 24 Union street.
 The first advertising car to visit Wa terbury in behalf of a circus this year is Barnum's No and arrived here from Danbury last night. Number one is i'll the west, and not on this route at all Crete Pulver, very gentlemanly agent is in charge of No2, and he has with him 20 men, who are constantly employ. ed in posting and distributing the ele- gant paper which the Barnum X Bailey attractions always post. Twelve mer have in details been sent through the Surrounding country to-day, while the fother eight have been putting paper al over the city itself.
 More lies were told in connection witt the sturgeon that was on exhibition a B. F. Sheehan & Cos last night than yol could shake stick at. The peculiar formation of the fish's mouth first at tracted attention and was responsibl, for yarn by a local doctor who declared that sturgeon thrive on smaller tisl which they kill by sucking in about |; bushel of gravel which they afterwarC discharge with deadly effect upon thei prey. Another story teller declared tt passers by that the fish was of thu Malarapterurus Electurius variety ant was caught in the Mad river. But al old sea captain capped the climax by telling of whale he once assisted Il catching from whose tongue forty bar rels of oil had been rendered. The DO liceman on the South Main street bea ordered the liars to move on after thi story had been recited.
 $5OO,OOO GONE UP IN SMOKE. The Housatonic Railroad Compan,
 and New England Terminal Com
 pany Heavy Losers.