Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-19
CITY NEWS.

er, stationary temperature.
The court of common council will
meet tins evening.
DIR Axtelle left for New York to-day
to attend the alumni meeting Of the
mormen's hospital.
The Concordia Singing society enter
tanned their friends with scored con-
cert in their hall last evening.
Elmer. aged 3 years, son of J. A.
Silvernail of Is Bishop street, died yes
terday. The remains will he taken to
Lakevills tomorrow for burial.
Miss Annie Fitzharris of Kensington
and Miss Katie Malloy Of New Britain,
left for their homes Saturday, after
spending several days in this city.
a man is not known by the clothes
that he wears, but no man need wear
dirty clothes when his grocer is waiting
to sell him lavine for easy washing.
Augustus Baker of Riverside street,
took dose of acid by mistake for wine
and was made deathly sick. DIR Debuo
was summoned and succeeded in saving
the mans life.
The train due in this city from Win
sted at l0:45 Il. m. was nearly 45 minutes
late to-day on account of the locomotive
slipping from the turntable in WinSted.
No damage was done.
The members of Melchizedeck lodge,
|. .. B. b., gave Il pleasant entertain
ment, consisting of vocal and instrument
tai selections, recitationS, etc, in John
sons hall last evening.
In the Connecticut Normal school in
New Britain the past year the total
number of students was 312. SiXty-nine
clme from New Haven county and ten
from outside the state. Seventy-seven
diplomas were granted.
The Holy Name society of st Patrick's
church yesterday elected the following
Ulcers: President, James Hutchinson;
vice president, George Foley; secretary,
James Lynch; treasurer, Daniel
O'Fiaherty; marshal, Bernard Malloy.
Drs Axtellc and North yesterday am
putated the hand of James Ryan, the
Naugatuck road brakeman, whose hand
was smashed while coupling cars at
Union City several days ago. An effort
was made to save the injured member,
hut the surgeons found it necessary to
amputate it.
There are now over three hundred in
mates ON the roll of Fitch's home for
soldiers, at Noroton, Il larger number
| than at any previous portion of its his
tory. There are generally about thirty
five or forty absent on furloughS, so
over ESQ
An alarm rung from box No 81, at the
corner of South Main and Washington
streets, called out the fire department at
SEQ Saturday night. The fire was in
the attic of Andrew SimOnS' building on
Market street, outside the city limits.
and was extinguiShed with the aid of
few pals of water. The loss is small.
The first annual meeting of the state
board of trade will be held on Wednes-
day in Hartford and promises to be both
interesting and important. Ample ar
engagements have been made by theHart-
ford board andcourtesies will be offered
by the city. The topics to come up are
important, and there can be no doubt of
the value of the papers and discussions.
Representative Root to-day secured
the affidavit of James Fitzpatrick, the
moderator who threw out the forty
three prohibition ballots in the second
ward, this city. They were rejected be-
cause the word "for" appeared on them
and because a blank was left where the
name of candidate for judge of probate
should have been printed.
At the meeting of the Young Mems
Catholic Literary association held yes
terday, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing six months !:
president, E. b. Reilly secretary, James
L. Smith; assistant secretary, Patrick
Barry treasurer, w. Z. keenan, COM
mittee, Edward Starr, p. J. Mcmahon,
Emmett =. Riordan librarian, Thomas
Flnnegan assistant librarian, Martin
Scully.
At meeting of the board of mana
gers of the National Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, in New
York on Saturday, at the office of Presi
dent General William Seward Webb, it
was voted to hold the next annual con-
! vention in Hartford, beginning April
80, 1891. The delegates in attendance
will number about $50, representing
twenty different states and the District
of Columbia.
A little daughter of S. P. Proctor was
accidently locked in the music room at
the convent of Notre Dame n few even
ings ago, just at dusk. The sisters be-
lieving that all the children had left the
building locked up and went to their
home near by. The child was terribly
frightened upon finding herself alone in
the building, with darkness fast coming
on, but managed by her screams to at
tract the attention of a passer by, and
was promptly released.
The grand union fair of the local
courts of the A. 0. f. of A., will open in
the City hall tomorrow evening and
will continue for nine nights. A stage
entertainment will be provided each
night by Manager Pincus of the casino
theatre. Other attractions will be
tug. of-war between teams from the
different courts, for a handsome Ameri-
can flag. There will be dancing each
evening to the music of Bergen's orches-
ira. The many beautiful articles secured
40 foi in
Platt's block.
Colonel John c. Broatch of Middle
town will retire from the command of
the Connecticut department, G. a. r.,
at the annual encampment in Meriden,
February 10th and 18th, and will be
succeeded by Senior Vice Commander
Henry Fanton of Danbury Junior Vice
Commander Smith of Willimantic will
be advanced one grade, leaving the