Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-04-27


A. o. F. of a., will be held in G. A. r.
hall this evening at 1880 o'clock.
James Fitzgerald, an employee at
Plume & Atwood's, lost part of a finger
in foot press at the factory this morn
ing.
window with children's suits costing
from So to $40, which they are now
closing out for 1895.
Thomas Lehan, who recently removed
from this city to Bridgeport, is under
arrest for stealing a suit of clothes Sat
urday, in that city, while drunk.
Rev Hugh Treanor, pastor of the
Sacred Heart church, left this morning
for Savannah, Ga, where he will spend
two weeks with relatives.
General Manager Howard, Superin-
tendent Nichols and other New England
road officials, made tour of inspection
over the western division to-day.
Olive Terry, aged years, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs S. G. Terry,
died yesterday afternoon. The funeral
will take place Tuesday afternoon.
John Fitzgerald, aged 81, died yester-
day at his home No 16 Beacon street.
The remains will be taken to Balston,
N. V, tomorrow morning, for burial.
Martin Keefe, one of the men ap-
pointed foreman on the town roads by
Selectmen Brown and Carmody, is lying
dangerously ill with pneumonia, at his
home on Quarry street.
Thomas III. Cummings, who lectured
upon the Passion Play" at the opera
house last night, is the guest to-day of
the Rev j. w. Lancaster of WATERFOWL,
who was one of his classmates while in
college.
The funeral of w. T. Munson was
held at the house, on East Main street,
yesterday afternoon, interment being at
Mill Plains cemetery. The pallbearers
were: Charles keeney, Miles Oviatt,
Charles Adams and b. A. Burlingame.
All local Foresters are invited to ac-
company the delegation to WATERFOWL
Thursday night when court Merritt
niversary. The party will leave &. a
r. hall in business at T:30 o'clock.
All but eighteen of the fifty new Brad
ley cars ordered for the Consolidated
road have arrived, and when all are
received the company will have 900 pas
senGer cars. Only 100 are, however,
ordinarily in use at one time.
We have received copy of the first
number of "The Foresters' Herald" a
journal devoted to the interests of the
A. o. F. of A. of Connecticut. 1t is
published monthly. ut Meriden, and is
filled with interesting fraternity news.
The New York & New England road
freight depot at Manchester was entered
by burglars Saturday night and the
office was ransacked. Yesterday, several
hundred cigarO were found secreted in
the woods one and one-half miles from
there.
The New Haven Journal and Courier
says: Khmpe, 90, has left college to
teach in the High school in Waterbury.
He is enrolled as a teacher of German
and chemistry. He will return and join
his class again in the fall, but mean
while is great loss as he is one of the
best members of the class crew.
The committee having in charge the
arrangements for the observance of the
centennial anniversary of the Connecti
cut Medical society will meet in Hart
ford to-day. Much interest is shown by
| the profession in this event. DIR Storrs
of Hartford, DR. Goodwin of Thomaston,
DIR Fox of Willimantic and DR. Wordin
of Bridgeport are members of the COM
mittee.
Some person, wholly unknown, has
pledged 81 900 year for five years for
| mission and association charity work in
| this city. The gift was made through
| an anony letter handed to Rev DR.
Joseph Anderson of the First Congrega-
| tional church by a gentleman who said
| that not even the sex of the donor was
to be made known. AS superintendent
of the work to begin May list, was
chosen Rev Horace G. Hoadley, grad
uate of Yale, class 1888, of the Yale Theo-
| logical school.
Articles of incorporation were filed on
Saturday at the secretary of states office
by the Naugatuck Granite company of
Waterbury and the Meriden Provision
company of Meriden, the former with a
capital of $4,000 and the latter $780,
900. The stockholders of the Granite
company are G. r. Baldwin and Lucien
F. Burpee of Waterbury and II. w.
Beardsley of New York. The stock
holders of the provision company are
John w. Coe, Meriden; S. F. Swift
Chicago, and E. G. Swift of Lowell,
| Mass.
On account of the legislative deadlock
the Connecticut school-marms will not
gather 600 strong this year in the
summer school for teachers at the village
of Mantle, on the sound, for there will
be no summer school. The school is
supported by the state, and, since the
legislature has done no business, there is
no money for the school. The school
| was oDened at Mantle in 1886, and con-
tinued there in in 1888 and 1889. 1t was
very successful. Last year the teachers
met at Suffield, 600 of them, but last
fall the managers of it decided to have
the meeting at Mantle thereafter
William Armstrong, who lives on
Cassidy avenue, just off Hill street, at.
tempted suicide Saturday night by
cutting his throat. OF late he has done
very little work, but drank heavily.
When his wife returned home from
work Saturday evening she told him
that it would be better if he were dead
Armstrong then retired to his bedroom
and few moments later when his wife
entered the room she was Mortified tc
find him sitting in a chair with gaping
wound in his throat from which the
blood was flowing profusely. DIR Dono
hue was called and sewed up the wound
Armstrong was resting comfortably last
night. 500