Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-31
CTTY NEWS.

 stationary temperature.
 Owing to the rain the band concert | announced to take place last evening | was postponed
 Wilson H. Pierce was to-day appoint ed trustee of the insolvent estate of Alamanzo Bacon.
 The total number of deaths during | July, recorded up to o'clock this after noon, at the town clerks office, is 115.
 "It's a condition, not theory, which | confronts us." Our condition is dirty | and the remedy is Lavine. Buy your hats, neckties and collars, and save dimes, fifties and dollars, at Upson, Singleton & Co.'S. Erwin Strickland has retired from the firm of Miller, Strickland 6 Co, coal dealers. The new firm name is Frank Miller & Go.
 Just $1, 100 has been subscribed by the Catholic total abstainers of this state for the Father Matthew chair in the Catho- lie university at Washington. President Upson of the board of trade and c. F. Chapin will attend the ban quet given by the Winsted board of ! trade at the hotel Andrews this evening.
 The members of the Waterbury Pho tographic society are making active preparations for competition prizes in an exhibition to take place on October 15
 W. K. Vanderbilt is said to guarantee | the Consolidated road twenty-five tickets every night that sleeping car for New port is attached to the owl train. It IS done for his own family's accommoda- | tion.
 Among the corporation returns made to the secretary of state is the following: Detroit & Lake Superior Copper Go, l Waterbury, capital $1 ,200,0 ,00O, real es- tate S497, ,341. 94, personal estate $1.O10,- S22. 80, debts none, credits $26, 733.71. | At the meeting of the Oddfellows' Mutual Aid association held last even ing, six new members were admitted, and benefits of $1 ,500 were ordered paid the heirs of w. E. Ford of New Britain, l Charles Schandorf of Middletown and George H. Grannis of New Haven.
 Extensive preparations are being made for the annual field day exercises of the local courts of A. O. F. of A., to be held on the West End grounds August 15. The amusement committee will meet tomorrow evening to make out programme of sports.
 There will in all probability be a wheelman's day at the Meriden park during the coming state fair, and if so it will be the first day. Secretary Andross
 
 as the Meriden Wheel club may deter mine. In case that is done, the horse tretting for that day will be postponed until o'clock.
 Michael Murphy was the only prisoner in the dock this morning. He was ar rested yesterday afternoon on North Elm street by Officer Kennaugh for fighting with a young man named Burke. Murphy pleaded hard to be let off. He was fined $1 and costs for breach of the peace and judgment was suspended for drunkenness.
 Edward M. Warner and Nelson J. Oviatt have purchased through $. F. l Williams real estate agency, the large tract of land situated on the southerly side of East Main street at the corner of Silver street. The land was the property of Caroline O. Platt and the price paid is said to be about $15, ,000. Streets will be cut through the land and it will be divided into thirty building lots.
 The towns that were not satisfied with the result of the census-and there are some of them in this state-can now fall back upon the directory. What it is ca pablo of in the way of remarkable ex- hibitions of mathematics is beginning to be demonstrated and the town that can not now prove that it has grown fifty per cent since last summer isn't in it' as the small boy says.
 An egg which had outlived its useful ness was thrown from an upper window of the block on the corner of PhOeuix and Abbott avenues this noon, coming within an ace of striking several gentle men who were passing on the east side of Phoenix avenue. It is asserted that this is not the first time diseased hen fruit has been seen flying through the air in that vicinity and if the practice is not discontinued a complaint will be
 made to the authorities.
 The old mill, built over a hundred
 years ago, standing by the side of the railroad track at the junction of the New Haven & Derby and the Nauga tuck road at Derby, fell yesterday and
 buried the former road four feet deep in
 debris. The mill has not been in use fol
 twenty years and had fallen into decay.
 up the rains of yesterday and became
 too heavy to stand the strain. If g
 train had been passing disastrous acci
 dent would have occurred.
 ,, Shortly before 9 o'clock this morning u the fire alarm was rung from box 325
 The companies turned out in gooo order, but after travelling to Railroad
 Hill street found that the fire was out | The fire was nothing more than the , l OI d I6W SUCKS OI WOOu III dI ], oven in Mrs Barnes house. The No !, hose wagon went through South Main \ street and was blocked at Burnham d street, the bridge being closed for re ; pairs.
 2 A volume of popular Connecticut r biography, containing sketches of FOG 8 men of prominence in their home locali
 ties or throughout the state, has just
 been issued by J. A. Spalding of Hart
 ford. The book is intended to be ot
 practical value, without pretension tc = great literary merit. The 700 persons
 whose sketches and portraits appear
 are those of 2,O00 who complied with > the compiler's request to be represented '' in the work, and the list is not given as
 that of the 700 foremost citizens. The !. probability of another volume is sug a gested.
 Game wardens were, previous to 1888