Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-10-28


The board of road and sewer commits |
sioners will meet this evening.
E. T. Turner is very low this after
noon. He is unconscious again and Is
gradually sinking.
A pile of metal fell on Michael Stack,
a workman at Benedict & Burnham's,
this afternoon, fracturing his leg.
A special meeting of the East End
Democratic club will be held at 3
o'clock tomorrow.
William jackson of Thomaston was
before the police court this morning,
charged with drunkenness. He was
fined So and costs.
Rev Hugh Treanor is attending the
centenary exercises at st Mary's semi
nary in Baltimore. Father Treanor is
an alumnus of st Marys.
If you want to hang up your babies
and have no trouble with them, get
swing at Phelan's tea store, No Al East
Main street, Platts block.
Miss Fitzpatrick, the milliner, has
rented the handsome store, formerly
occupied by Weber on Bank street,
and will remove about December /.
Captain w. E. Moses has presented
handsome sabre to Company G's fair.
| 1t will be offered as prize in voting
contest for the most popular officer in
the city.
William Morgan died yesterday
morning at his home, 161 Wall street.
The funeral will take place to the
church. of the Sacred Heart at $50
o'clock tomorrow morning.
| A horse owned by Charles Barnes ran
away on South Main street last night,
damaging the carriage. The horse was
badly injured, DIR Bland finding it
necessary to sew up the leg, the wound
requiring nearly fifty stitches.
David S. Fem, telegraph operator in
Superintendent Beach's office, and Miss
Josie NJ. Schofeld of Seymour were
married by the Rev Mr. Holmes lin Sey-
mour at p. m. to-day. Mr. and Mrs
Fem will reside on West Main street.
The report of the proceedings of the
| eighth annual convention of the Con-
necticut State Firemen's association,
| held in New Britain, have been printed.
The amount paid out for ben
efits was $3.479. The total balance
of cash on hand was Sc, 177.43
| The paraphernalia used in producing
| Aphrodite, the illusion announced as
one of the attractions at the New York
museum, was broken in transit and the
manager announces that this feature of
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pensed with this evening.
There was good sized attendance at
the Co G fair last evening. The
awkward squad and the sparring match
between Carroll and Mcdonald fur
nished plenty of amusement. The
Sacred Heart church choir will render
several selections at the fair Friday
evening. ..
H. Foote Perrin of Hartford entertain
ed the members of the Y. NJ. G. A. with
number of fine selections on the piano,
last night, the principal numbers being
minuet from the sonata op 81, Beetho-
ven, and gavotte, selected. Mr. Skin
ner of the Shoninger Co also rendered
several sections.
The new Brooklyn-Boston trains over
the Housatonic and New England route
will probably have their time length
ened about half an hour in the next ar
rangement of the timetable. If so the
Boston train will leave Waterbury about
twenty minutes later than its present
timetable time. No announcement of
the change has yet been made.
Eleven men qualified at the shoot of
Co at the rifle range Yesterday. The
following qualified in the first class
Lieut. Fitzpatrick, Sergeants Mailman
and Collins, and Private Mcdonald. The
following qualified as marksmen Ser
geant Keavney, Musician Flaherty, Pri-
Yates Dillane and Carroll. Majors Ben
edict and Carter of Co A qualified as
sharpshooters.
The question whether liquor licenses
should cost $500 or $500 per year was
yesterday decided by the county COM
missioners in favor of the former sum.
Mr. Burleigh and Mr. Durham voted in
favor of $500, while Mr. Jacobs cast his
vote to charge $500 for the licenses.
The year for liquor dealers outside OF
New Haven begins November 1, 1891,
and for the dealers in that city January
1, 1899. All of these dealers will be
charged $4OO per year.
Last Saturday evening Thomas NJ
Collins, a fireman working on the Con
solidated road, was struck with apo
plexy on freight engine as it was com
ing out of New Haven. He was taken
off unconscious at Cedar Hill and sent
back to the New Haven hospital, where
he lies, not yet having recovered con
seriousness. The officers of the company
have learned that he has a wife near
Amsterdam, N. Y, and a sister in New
York city, but they have not been able
to find their addresses.
A Bristol correspondent writes: The
freight yard at this station is in a
thoroughly congested state, all of the
spur tracks are full of cars and one of
the long sidings so that it is impossible
for trains to pass without saving
around each other, as railroad men term
it. The absconding freight agent has
not been seen since Thursday night
although it is not altogether certain
whether he left town Saturday night OF
Thursday night, but the probabilities
are that he went away Thursday night
The amount of his shortage has been
estimated at 5000. 1t is probable that
an effort will be made to raise this
lamOunt.