Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-23
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Sergeant Cox predicts fair weather,
stationary temperature.
The democratic school convention |
will be held this evening.
Manager Jacques contemplates plac- |
ing twenty-five two-seated sofas in the |
opera house.
Thomas C. Taft to-day assumed the
management of the Adams Express
company's office in this city.
Charles Lancaster left yesterday for
Philadelphia, where he will enter the
Pennsylvania dental college.
Remember have moved into my new
residence. Night calls 159 East Main
street. VIM +. Dillon, the undertaken.
A special meeting of Co G will be
held this evening to make arrange
ments for shooting.
Look out for THAT Rascal Pat" and
"O'Grady's Goat at Jacques opera
house tomorrow evening.
Miss Slade, aged % years, daughter of
+. G. Slade of Oakville, died in the hos
pital at Hartford last night. The body
win be brought TO this city tomorrow
for burial.
There Is a large attendance at the
Watertown fair to-day. special train
will leave the Naugatuck station at 1880
p. m. daily during the fair. Returning
leave the fair grounds ut 5:3O p. m.
w. +. Dillon is to-day moving into his
handsome new residence on East Main
street. The house and barn were the
property of the Corrigan estate and were
purchased by Mr. Dillon some time ago.
This evening at shutdown Yom
Kippur, the Hebrew day of atonement
begins, ending tomorrow evening. This
is one of the greatest days in the Jewish
calender, and is chiefly observed by fast
ing the entire time.
C. r.. Pancoast, president of the Wa
terbury Camera club, will give de-
monstration of lantern slide making be-
fore the members of the Hartford
Camera club at their rooms tomorrow
evening.
The case of Hanley VS. Bergin, action
to sustain q writ of error, was heard be-
fore Judge Bradstreet in the district
court to-day. The writ of error was
sustained by the court, deciding against
the decision of the justice in the lower
court.
The marriage of j. w. Cone and Miss
A. NJ. Manwaring will take place at the
home of the brides parents in Water
ford, Conn, tomorrow afternoon. Mr.
and Mrs Cone will leave on three
weeks trip through the west.
Inc llGSllHE VI TIC kAohN
lodge, Independent Order of Good Tenn.
plars, is being held in Middletown to.
day. Delegates are present from al
over the state. The principal address
was made by Samuel 1nsell, of London.
Officers will be elected tomorrow to-
day being devoted to reading reports
etc.
Manager Jacques received telegram
from New York, last night, announcing
hot t,N tha H.Nafh of har
Lolita must cancel her engagement fol
this city tonight. An audience of over
900 people were disappointed by the
non-appearance of the company at New
Haven last evening.
The Vulcan iron works of New Brit
ain have been purchased by large syn
dictate, which has absorbed several SINH
lar concerns and of which j. II. White
more of the futile Il Whittemore com
pany of Naugatuck is manager. They vii
shortly take possession of the works, and
William Bacon of Brooklyn will take VI
ms residence ut New Britain as loca
manager.
This morning shortly after O'Clock
an unknown man was killed by a freight
train on the New England road, Mt the
Smalley street crossing in New Britain
He was standing upon the track watch
ing passenger train when struck, anC
many believe it was case of suicide
The body was terribly mangled anC
there is no clue to the mans identity.
Dennis Colgan yesterday completed
his fortieth year of continuous servict
with the New York, New Haven anC
Hartford railroad, holding his presen
position as draw tender of the railroad
bridge in Bridgeport for the past thirty
seven years. In 1867 the company pre-
sented him with five shares of stock, h.
having risked his life to prevent al
accident.
Postmaster Doherty has received
circular from the dead letter office
giving statistics of mail matter received
at that office. A large proportion of thu
matter sent to the dead letter office fail
to be restored to senders because of thu
absence on wrappers or enclosures o.
anything to indicate ownership thereof
OF the letters which reached the deaC
letter office AZ, 900 were sent to fictitiOu
addresses, and were principally relating
to green goods" or "sawdust" swindles
Many of these contained money witt
orders for the purchase of the fraudu
lent goods. Twenty eight THOUSAND
letters that reached the dead letter de
partment contained money amounting
in all to $4S,642 and four Thousand
others contained postal notes aggrega
ting $500. Checks, drafts, and note
representing nearly a million and a hal
of dollars were also received.
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