Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-07-21
CITY NEWS.

VII Il ANA w ~"
Sergeant Cox predicts fair weather,
stationary temperature.
Owen Shields, sexton of st Josephs
cemetery, is i'll with pneumonia.
John Wagner and wife of Burnham
street, are at Savin Rock.
Company G will meet to night for the
purpose of selecting a caterer for camp.
II. S. Newton returned yesterday
from a two weeks vacation in Boston
and vicinity.
Dirt forces itself into the human
habitation and on to the human form.
Lavine will drive it away.
Mr. and Mrs F. B. Rice left this after
noon for Watch Hill. They will remain
there several weeks.
The Park street Congregational
church society of Bridgeport are pic
nicking at High Rock grove to-day.
The Fifteenth regiment, Connecticut
Volunteers, will have a reunion at
Savin Rock, August %.
The 800 in the hands of the treasurer
of Inex lodge of the collapsed Royal
Ark was distributed among the members
| last night.
John Butler, who spent several years
| in India, arrived in New York yester-
day on the steamer OmDrla ana Is VlSlC-
| ing friends in this city.
A young man named Gastwright fell
| this morning, receiving an ugly cash
under his chin, neceSSitatlng surgical
attendance.
made arrangements for transportation
to camp. The will go over the Nauga
tuck division as usual.
Tho TioCoc Minpio an5 Ellie
returned home yesterday after an ex-
| tended visit through New Haven,
Meadows End and Bridgeport
Mr. and Mrs William Senior of Phila-
delphia, who have been visiting Mr.
and Mrs Patrick Dillon of Round Hill
street, returned home to-day.
The fire alarm telegraph pole opposite
the Cooley house was removed to-day
and much taller pole substituted. The
new pole is seventy feet in height.
1t is said that the conductors of both
| the New York & New England trains
which collided near Danbury Thursday
| morning have been suspended pending
| an investigation.
Epson, Singleton & Co are disposing
of the balance of their summer clothing
at greatly reduced prices. They have
resolved to clear their counters before
| September l.
According to information furnished
by the weather bureau, compiled from
weather reports from the country east
| of the Rocky Mountains, the month SO
| far has been one of the coolest Julys Of
which the weather bureau has record.
William A. Bigelow and Miss Minnie
Linehan were married at the parochial
| residence of the church of the Immacu-
| late Conception yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Bigelow is member of Co A and
| last evening several of the military boys
serenaded the happy couple at their
home on Bishop street.
The marriage of Miss Kate G. Donlon,
until recently a teacher in the Clay
street school, to Frank J. Mulligan, will
be solemnized in the church of the
Sacred Heart, Mount Vernon, N. Y,
next Tuesday morning at $3.50 o'clock.
The ceremony will be performed by Rev
Father Treanor of this city.
The Fourth Ward Independent Demo-
cratic club was organized last night and
the following officers were elected:
President, w. Kennedy; vice president,
A. Sheehan; treasurer, T. Fitzgerald;
secretary, J. j. Bowling; executive
committee, E. Shea, M. Keefe, J. DOno-
van; investigating committee, J. Reilly,
j. Bowes, William Bergen. The next
meeting will be held at IS Washington
street, Monday evening, July 81.
With regard to the paragraph running
the rounds of the Connecticut press
to the effect that President Clark had
ordered equipment of all the freight
cars on the Consolidated road with the
Janney coupler, Vice-President Reed
said last night that he had heard moth
of it, but that he would not say it was
not true, as Mr. Clark might have given
the order just previously to going
abroad. 1t is reasonable to assume,
however, that the rumor is false, for Mr.
Reed, being now acting president, would
undoubtedly have heard of it had there
been any truth in it.
William Murphy, husband of the late
Mrs Cornelia Murphy, for whom search
had been made throughout Litchfield
county, returned to Waterbury Satur-
day night and learned for the first time
of his wife's death. This morning he
wanted to have the remains exhumed
and let friends view them, hold burial
services and then inter the body in
some other place. The undertaken re-
fused to do this as the remains were too
badly decompOsed. The selectmen in
formed Mr. Murphy that they could not
order such thing done at this late
hour.
American Band Concert.