Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-31
CITY NEWS.


 There will be a meeting of the board of police commissioners this evening. Father Walsh of Tariffville Is visiting Fathers Mulcahys Fleming and Ken= nedy to-day.
 MT and Mrs Terrence F. Coughlan, 65 Washington street, are happy at the birth of a baby boy.
 Henry w. Scovill and family will start today for Wiano, on Cape Cod, where they will spend the summer.
 Rev Mr Borgendahl of Bristol will hold Swedish service, with preaching, at the First Methodist church tonight.
 Miss Maggie E. Kelly and Miss Bertha Precht, who have been visiting Miss Geneva R. Smith of West Haven, re- turned home to-day
 Father Fleming preached the sermon last evening at the mission in St Johns church in Watertown. Father Kennedy will preach tonight.
 Patrick Commerford, charged with drunkenness, was fined ST and costs this morning. William Clancy of AnsoniR had judgment suspended. i A tenement of four rooms wanted in or near the center, to be used by a young man and his mother. Address M. H. Sayers, 7S Wall street. s.4 [ Special weather forecast for Com necticut: For Tuesday fair, warmer. For Wednesday, cloudiness and rain, stationary temperature.
 Wadhams post will attend the house warming of Commander Holmes, S46 North Main street, tomorrow evening. They will assemble at G. A. R. hall at 7:3O.
 Joseph O. Srahan, who has been suffering for some time past from an abscess of heyFaxilla, submitted to an operation yesterday, and is doing very well to-day. ..
 The board of government of the Knights of Columbus will hold its an- nual meeting in June, and an effort will be made to change the law of the order Y 80 that ladies can be admitted.
 The Acmes went to Winsted yesterday and played two games with the Win sted club. In the morning they were beaten 13 to 8 Land in the afternoon again suffered defeat to the tune of IF to 10.
 The preliminary hearing of Policeman Matthew Daily of New York, formerly of this city ,who is accused of assaulting 16 year old Mary Hannon, was begun in the Essex market police court to-day. Daily claims it is a case of blackmail. An IS months old son of Patrick Cal lahau of Fuller street, fell from table this afternoon cutting his lip from the end of the nose through to the corner of the mouth. Dr Hayes was called and dressed the wound, which required three stitches to close.
 \ &Thess funeral of George J. Reid took place to the church of the Sacred Heart this morning at o'clock. A requiem high.mass was celebrated by Rev Father My~o knn oh TT Slavin, James Moran, John Doran, William Cosgrove, William Conlon and James Feeney of New York.
 Catherine Garde, aged 70, died this morning at her late residence, 15 Kings. bury street. She was the mother of Joseph, John and William Garde, and of Mrs George M. Egan. The funeral will take place Thursday at a. m, from the church of the Immaculate Conception. The interment will be al Cheshire.
 Genario Bombalia, the man who wal struck by a car near Holmes, Booth & Haydens' factory yesterday, has beer delirious since yesterday evening. HiG cries are so disturbing that he has beer removed to a cottage outside of the hos pital. The collar bone was found to bt broken in two places. The attending physician said to-day that hls recovery is very doubtful.
 The choicest gift in the power of June to bestow is the summer solstice, whicI occurs on the 20th, at six hours sixteeH minutes in the evening, as the sur enters the sign of the Crab and astro Hnomical summer begins. The culmina tion of old Sol's power in the northern hemisphere will then be reached. Hi height at noon is the greatest, the sun rise and sunset points are furthest north, and the longest day is succeeded by the shortest night.
 The Washington correspondent of the New Haven Register writes to this paper: It has been generally under. stood here that every member of the Connecticut delegation intends to stand for reelection. As to Mir Wilcox, he is now down home attempting to repair some very bad breaks, alleged to have been made in his political fences. There seems to be some doubt as to his success There is a well grounded belief that James P. Pieott will be the choice oi the New Haven democrats.
 At a meeting of the board of directors of the Manufacturers National banl this morning, George M. Beach wal Mitchell was elected cashier, vict Charles R. Baldwin, resigned, and Roger S. Watkyns was appointed teller. MI Mitchell has been bookkeeper and tellel for this bank almost from it's start twelve years ago. He has well earned this new honor, and many friends vii Acongratulate him; while Mir Watkynl has not been with the bank so long still he well merits this promotion.
 Street Inspector Wright's men tor' down the building owned by Joh1 lShannahan and standing on the corner Iof South Riverside and Bank streets to day. An injunction was secured soma time ago by Mir Shannahan restraining the city from moving his building, bu the injunction was dissolved May 20 The work of grading South Riverside \ wall do their part the tunneling of Banl | l-.-..L - Al... - a-.a 4l.o os.a.I:.... !.