Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-02-25
CITY WS.

Mr. and Mrs William Smitz will leave
for Elgin, Ill, tomorrow.
At the Bridgeport city meeting last |
night the tax was reduced from IS mills |
to 214 mills.
The Misses Phalon, Of Waterbury,
were the guests of Mrs John Gaffen, on
North Main street. Sunday, returning
home to-day.-Ansonia Sentinel.
Aluminium 900 per cent pure) is now
quoted at 81 pound. 1t is not very
long since it was $l1. Just what it costs
to make it has not yet been discovered.
Sergeant Cox predicts rain or snow,
followed by colder weather. An exten
sive cold wave has developed in Mani
toba.
Michael Kipp and family left for New
Haven last evening where they will re-
main until spring. Mr. Kipp will then
remove his family to Germany, where
he will reside.
The Naugatuck division have COM
menced the work of filling up the ice
houses along the road. Two carloads of
ice were placed in tho ice house in this
city yesterday.
The new shoe store of Ryan & Fitz-
maurice, at 70 Bank street, is open for
business. They display a clean new
prices reasonable.
The publishers of q New York Sun
day morning paper, shipped $4,000 sam
pie copies to w. F. Dillon to-day. The
papers were sent by express and the ex
pressage was 1888
In reporting the will Of E. 8. Hoyt
yesterday, an error was made in the
nature of one Of the requests. The
sum of S25, 900 was left to the wife of
deceased absolutely.
Leader Rudolph entertained the mem
bers of the French Canadian band, at
their rooms on Meadow street last even
ing, yesterday being the anniversary of
the popular leaders birth.
The first meeting of the recently or
gained state democratic club will be
held at the democratic headquarters in
New Haven, Thursday afternoon, when
the work to be dene by the club will be
outlined.
A pointer for Waterbury pharmacists:
Druggist Schoonmaker of Ansonia has
an electric bell in a cabinet containing
poisons. When the door is opened the
bell rings, reminding the compounder
that he is handling poisons.
Three reasons why the fish dealess are
unhappy; Quotations are high, peddlera
were never so numerous as at present,
and last but not least. everybody has
taken to buying behring's, which are
sold at very small margin of profit.
Henry Freeman. the hackman, met
with an accident at the Naugatuck sta
ton last evening. The king bolt of the
hack broke throwing Mr. Freeman to
the ground and injuring his head. 1t
wound.
This evening, at the church Of the
Sacred Heart, the lenten devotjons will
consist of the recitation of the rosary. a
sermon on the Folly of Delaying r.
pentance," and the benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament. The lentcn devo-
tons at this church will be on Tuesday
and Friday evenings.
The funeral of Mrs Ann Finn was
largely attended from her late residence
on South Elm street to the church of
the immaculate Conception where
requiem mass was said by Father
Walsh. The pallbearers were: Edward
and James Fox, Edward Fitzpatrick and
William, Edward and Dennis Deegan,
nephews of the deceased.
Says the Danbury Register: The
Southbury oil we'll scheme is failure.
The men engaged in the enterprise
didn't suspend operations until they had
sunk the shaft over 1900 feet. Some
i'eople still pfofess to believe that petro-
leum or gas exists in the Southbury
region. 1t is our opinion that there is
more gas at the mouth of the shaft than
there il below the bottom
The directors of the Consolidated con. |
template re-establishing the office of
second vice president, which ha, been
vacant since President Charles +. Clark
resigned several years ago to take the
recsivership of the New York and New
England. E. b. Thomas, now second |
vice president of the Erie. will probably |
be asked to take the new office. How |
ever, the matter is in the hands of a
committee of the board of directors and
nothing has been decided.
Clemens Herschel of Holyoke, Mass. |
who was first choice of the city authori-
ties and counsel for the railroad inter
sted. will act AS engineer in max
ing surveys and preparing plans for
the tracks IN his city OF the |
New York & New England and Nan a
luck roads and eliminating grade cross
ings. The work will be done bv Eng
neer breckenridge of New York under
he supervision OF Mr. Herschel and will
.'robably be completed in three mo nths
Regarding the newspaper stories Go
the effect that E. b. Thomas. now
second vice-president Of the New York.
Lake Erie and Western railroad had
been app )inted second vice -presiden, of |
Of the Consolidated road, President |
Clark said to-day: sit is perfectly
absurd. No such officer has been an.
pointed. and the diret tors do not con-
template appointing one. There is not
a particle of truth in the stories. There
has been talk of increasing the exrcn-
tive staff of the road, though when if
Will be done or how cannot say"
This evening at the opera house Miss
Nellie McHenry will appear in her
latest success entitled, Green Room
Fun, written by Bronson Howard, the
author Of Shenandoah 1t is an EN-.
oodiment OF the trials, fluctuations and
mishaps encountered by the professional
stage manager of company of society
amateurs In trying to produce an Indian
The piece nGPeen Roo,n