Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-08-04
CITY NE WS.

T. r. Hyde and George briggs left
this morning for Oak Bluffs.
Judah Barker, aged SO years, died
yesterday at his home in Waterville.
There were two drunks registered on
the slate at the station house this after
noon.
The republican state central commit
tee will meet in Hartford tomorrow
afternoon.
The excursion committee of the A. o.
ii. will meet at st .Patrick's hall this
evening.
w. F. Brett, of the Globe Clothing
company, is with his family at Block
Island.
A break occurred in the water main
near the corner of North Main and Cher
ry streets last evening.
Mrs E. b. Hardie and children have
returned from a ten days vacation spent
in Bridgeport and New Haven.
Some of the Waterbury party who
went on the pilgrimage to st Anne de
Beaupre, returned this morning.
John Hurley, infant son of Mr. and
Mrs John Hurley of 115 Baldwin street,
died yesterday of cholera infantum.
The board of fire commissioners will
meet this evening at 1880 and the court
George L. Pelham, of Shoninger &
Cos, to-day sold to Miss Caroline Ber-
gin of Baldwin street, handsome
Weber piano.
A meeting of those who are to take
part in the mounted squad, Forester's
field day, is called for Wednesday even
ing, at billions store.
Mayor Baldwin to-day instructed
Chief of Police Egan to cause to be re-
moved the peanut stand that for years
has occupied the highway in front of
Apothecaries hall.
Mrs Margaret Horigan died at her
home, No 90 Baldwin street, yesterday,
aged SO years. The funeral will take
place from her late residence to st
Patrick's church at 2 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
The corner stone Of st Patrlck's
Roman Catholic church at Bridgeport
was laid by Bishop Mcmahon of Hart
ford, yesterday afternoon. The Rev
Father Higgins of New Haven preached
the sermon. The church will cost about
$4,000.
A carriage containing n man, two wo-
men and a child collapsed on South
Main street, just below this Office, to-day,
throwing out all the occupants. The
horse was one of the go-as-you-please
kind and did not move. None of the
party were seriously injured.
David Delaney, aged 90 years and 2
months, died at the home of his parents,
90 Scovill street, yesterday morning,
from chronic diarrhoea. His funeral
will take place to the church of the Inn
maculate Conception at $3.50 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
There was q large attendance at the
fnneral of the late Patrick Donovan,
which took place to st Patrick's church
yesterday afternoon. The pallbearers
We're: Thomas Harvard, Daniel Cream,
John Fitzmaurice, John Fitzgerald John
Cream and William Deneen.
Frederick Hoffman, aged 81 years,
died of consumption, Saturday evening
at his home No 5 Summit steeet. Mr.
Hoffman was faithful cmploye of the
Holmes, Booth & Hayden company,
where he worked for over 90 years. His
funeral will be held tomorrow after
noon at 3 o'clock.
Elihu J.Spencer of Naugatuck, AN aged
man and cripple, had his hip broken
by fall down a twenty foot embank-
ment yesterday afternoon. He was
taken to the hospital in this city, and
owing to his advanced age, may not re-
cover. Mr. Spencer is relative of Major
Fred A. Spencer.
A meeting of the parishioners of the
church of the Immaculate Conception
will be held Thursday evening of this
week, IN st Patrick's hall, to make ar
rangements for reception which it is
proposed to tender to the pastor, Rev j.
A. Mulcahy, on his return from his trip
abroad. Father Mulcahy is expected to
arrive home in a few weeks.
That unique will of Alzina Pendleton,
published in the DEMOCRAT a week ago,
was to have been contested in the pro-
bate court this morning, but the hearing
was adjourned for two weeks. Myron
johnson OF Canaan, brother of the de-
ceased, is the contestant, and Judge A.
7. Bradstreet is his counsel.
Fred Goppelt, the we'll known meat
cutter, is one of the most skillful man.
ipulators of knife to be found in Water.
bury. In less time than it takes to tell
it he can transform a potato, or beet, OIL
turnip into pond lily or rose so natural
that one has to look a second time be-
fore being sure that the flower is not q
freak of nature.
The Hartford Turnerbund has beer
talking of securing for that city the
New England funniest for 1891. The
occasion would bring to the city Ger.
mans from all over New England to the
number Of about 5000, and about / ,OOC
active turner's would be present and
contest for the prizes.
The Falls Village correspondent of the
New Milford Gazette writes that paper
as follows: William Barney, who was
run over in the Naugatuck yard al
bridgeport few days since, and had his
both legs severed from. the body, leaves 6
father and stepmother here, also 6
brother. He had taken out an insurance
policy and had paid in his dues a few
days before.
The New Britain Independent, labor
paper, has this fling at the Clerks as
ISOLATION of this city: The clerks of Wa
terbury have met and organized an early
closing association. A couple of years
ago these same clerks joind the knights
of Labor to get two evenings a week off
and when the order got it for them they
had no further use for it and left. L
they are successful now it won't be fol-
long, as they are Iwoefully deficient il
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