Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-30
CITY NEWS.


well known here, died recently at Rock
vile.
Last night was the coolest of the sea-
son, the mercury dropping to nine de-
grees above zero.
Prof G. B. Stevens of Yale delivered
sermon on 1.-THE Religion of the Coming
Man. at the First church, yesterday
morning.
Edward ]. Coyle, aged 20 years, died
last night at his home on Ayers street.
The funeral will take place Wednesday
morning.
Chief Egan has in his possession a
lady's hunting case gold watch, which
was stolen, and the owner can have 1T
by proving property.
j. NJ. Stahl of Newark, N. j., A.
Wolff of Brooklyn, A. Moos of New
York, and Harry Hyman of Jersey City,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs Isidore
Chase, yesterday.
Several of the local Catholic clergy
men are assisting Rev Father Pagan at
of the forty hours devotion at st Fran
els church.
The regular monthly meeting of the
board of education will be held to-mor-
row evening. 1t IS expected that the
board will elect a principal for the High
school.
w. c.. Bannon was this morning APP
proved as trustee of the estate of 2. NJ.
Bannon. The liabilities amount to
about 81, 800. AS assets there are fix
lures, stock on hand, etc.
A young sport from Winsted was
arrested here Friday night, charged
with obtaining a pair of pantaloons I'M
der false pretences. He was fined
$10.53 by Justice Jordan, on Saturday.
At o'clock this evening in the Sc
lectmen's room there will be a meeting
of the committee appointed at the last
town meeting to confer with the'select-
men in regard to superior court accom-
mOdatiOnS.
Jerry Mccarthy of Derby, who is
charged with violating the internal
revenue laws, was surrendered to Mar
shall Loveridge Saturday evening, by
his bondsman, John McGrath of this
city.
Patrick Grennan, aged 40 years, died
yesterday morning at his home on East
Main street. The funeral will take
place to the church of the immaculate
Conception at $50 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Henry Clark of Harvey hall, near
-
He was regarded as eccentric. He
carried about his person bank books
representing $40, 900 in savings banks
throughout the state.
Matthew Keefe of this city has &C
copied the challenge issued by Joseph
Gilligan of Birmingham, to dance any
one in the state of Connecticut, and the
contest, which will he for some amount
between $50 and 5000, will probably
take place at Birmingham.
Word was received to-day of the
death of Mrs Daniel Hellmann, on
November II, at the home of her
parents in Germany. Mr. Hellmann is
in California on business. Mrs He'll
mann left Waterbury in April to isit
her parents, in Germany.
The doctors now say that Johanna
Bresnahan, the Waterbury woman who
is at the New Haven hospital suffering
from fractured skull, may possibly re-
cover. She seems to be growing stronger,
though her talk is irrational, and the
doctors think that she will be insane if
she does recover. They think that she
may linger a long time in this condi-
ton.
A dispatch to the New York Sun in
reference to Mayor Baldwin's assign
ment of his property to Major L. F.
Burpee, states that the former is a
heavy stakeholder in three Waterbury
papers. This is not so. Mayor Baldwin
never was stakeholder in the DEMO
Graf, and the cheap Johns who take
every opportunity offered to lie about
the DEMOCRAT know this to be fact
The east bound Brooklyn and eastern
states express train over the New Eng
land road struck the Woodstock stage
at the Main street crossing in Putnam at
1870 o'clock this morning. A number
of passengers were in the stage, but for
tunately none were seriously injured
who was responsible for the accident,
was Immediately discharged from the
company's employ and placed .under
arrest.
People who sympathized so largely
with Miss Mary Wells, the young lady
from Youngstown, Ohio, last spring,
who was engaged by the state board of
education to instruct in gymnastics at
the state normal school in New Britain,
and whom Professor Carroll sent home
because she was so homely, will be glad
to learn that the young lady has under
gone successful operation upon her
nose, which was the disfguring feature,
and has become very pretty young
ChSAO DCAhS III AdCS VI scar leII ny
the operation.
The sun enters the sign of Capricornus
on December 81, and automatically
speaking, winter then begins. The sun
then touches his furthest limit in
southern declination, % degeees, %
minutes, the days are at their shortest
and from that time onward for a
period of six months the shadows of
night no longer encroach on the light of
day. There will be partial eclipse OF
the sun on Wednesday, invisible in this
portion of the globe, and, in fact, it SC
happens that the eclipse takes place be.
tween the space occupied by the fan
southern countries of South America
and the northern coast of Australia anG
so will be visible to but very few of the
worlds inhabitants. 1t lasts a little
more than three hours and half.
Writes the New Haven Sunday Regis
ter correspondent: There is some differ
ence of opinion as to why the Baptis
church din't join the Congregations
and Methodist churches in the union