Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-04
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house this evening.
The charter committee will hold |
another meeting this evening.
John Brennan died this afternoon at |
his home, No Al Brown street.
Sergeant Cox predict snow or rain,
followed Thursday by much colder, fair
weather. ~.>.-
A thrilling and romantic story will be
commenced in our Saturday edition,
entitled s'The Colonel of the Fourth"
The board of health will meet Mt 4
o'clock this afternoon and the road and
sewer boards at 7:30 this evening.
Twenty-Five applicants for druggists
certificates were examined before the
state board of pharmacy yesterday at
Hartford.
Dominick, infant son OF Antonio
Verasto of Orange. street, died last
night. The funeral took place this
afternoon.
Harry Durant is attending the meet
ing of base ball delegates in New Haven
to-day, to talk up the project OF state
league.
The total number of deaths in Water
bury during the month of February was
80, an unusually large number for
short month.
The masquerade sociable of the ladies
| of the Concordia society, last night. was
largely attended, and was pleasant
social success.
The Young Mems Catholic Literary
association will observe Emmet's birth.
day with readings and other appropriate
exercises at their rooms this evening.
George Nichols, who lives on Chapel
street, Siddonsville, was removed to the
town house last night. He is insane
and at one time was confined in the asy-
lum at Middletown.
In the United States district court at
Hartford, yesterday morning, Elias
Cohn pleaded guilty to using the mails
for lottery purposes AMI was fined 81
and costs, amounting to $43.72.
The Hon Daniel Dougherty will lee
ture in Naugatuck tonight. The idea
of running a special train from this city
to give Waterbury people another OPP
portunity te hear this great speaker, has
been abandoned.
Already the ardent trout fisherman is
beginning to look over his book of flies,
putting his rod in order and in fact
making preparations for what promises
/ to be an excellent season. This winter
has been an exceedingly favorable one
for trout.
A stereopticon entertainment was
given to the boys at the Boys club
rooms last evening, by F. d. Young,
who was assisted by Miss Minnie Bald
win and G. S. Booth. The rooms
were crowded and the pictures were
fully appreciated by the boys and many
friends who were present.
Cronin and Mccormick, two inmates
of the state prison, were brought to the
asylum for the insane in Middletown,
Il tnrD1Inl II
serving five years sentence for bur-
! glarizing the Boston One Price Cloth
i ing store, in Middletown, and Cronin
under a fifteen years sentence for bur-
glary.
In the police court this morning
Willie Gallagher and Edward Eddy,
aged respectively IL and IS years, were
charged with theft. They were arrested
by Officer Dodds for stealing small arti-
The court found them guilty and COM
mitted each to the reform school.
A cheeky pair of swindlers are work
ing the state with a new scheme. One
of them orders quantity of goods at a
store, taking a few of the most valuable
and ordering the remainder to be sent to
a certain address where they will pay
for the whole. The address invariably
turns out to be vacant lot and the
merchant is out the price OF the goods
the swindler took with him.
1t is not unusual for a doctor, when
i'll, to call in a brother practitioner, but
the only case on record where a tailor
had his clothes made by a rival in bust
ness, occurred recently in Waterbury
j. Rosenberg, Bank street tailor, went
to New York yesterday to be married
and although he is practical tailor his
wedding suit was not made by himselt
or the men he employs, but by j. Gold
berg of Grand street. And Mr. Rosen
berg does not claim to be superstitious
either.
/ Daniel Lucey of Danbury, an excur
sion manager, has recently brought sui
| against the Housatonic railroad to re
cover several hundred dollars he claimi
} to be due him for passengers that were
conveyed down the Housatonic las
summer, but We're prevented by gov
eminent officials from boarding a steam
: boat ON which they were to make an ex
cursion to Coney Island. There were
about / 200 of these passengers, many
from this city, and Mr. Lucey claim
that, as they paid full fare, including
that for the Coney Island trip, he rs en-
titled to the fifty cents that he was t
receive for each person. The Housa
tonic managers, however, assert that h
did not abide by the agreement entere'
into and that the general excursion
business of the road was badly injured
by Mr. Lucey's failure TO carry out hi
part of the undertaking.