Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-08
OTTY ! NEWS.


Il. J. Lapalme a substitute letter carrier. |
Waterbury council, No 300, @. b. L.,
will meet in Carrollton council hall this |
evening. eyer
An important meeting of the Ameri-
can Legion of Honor will be held at 8 |
o'clock this evening.
The employees of the Waterbury
Furniture company are enjoying their
annual outing at Lake Quassapaug to-
day.
The delegates to the democratic state
convention will be elected this evening.
Ward delegates will assemble in the dis
trict court room at 8 o'clock.
Colonel DohertY has received word
from brigade headquarters stating that
the Second regiment will perform grand
guard and extended order at Camp
White on Monday, August 10.
Owing to the large number of inmates
ct the asylum for the insane at Middle
town there is no room for others. No
new patients are received, except in
case Of death or when patients are dis
charged cured.
Mayor Webster had a very painful
operation performed Saturday, which
at his home on Hillside avenue and will
be confined to the house for several
weeks,
The new gearing for the Benedict &
Burnham mill was received to day over
the New England and Meriden & Water
bury roads, from the Robert Poole &
Son Co of Baltimore, Md. There were
two sets, weighing $4,000 pounds.
The common council will hold an i'm
portant adjourned meeting this even
ing, to act upon the report of the COM
mittee appointed to consider the Ghange
desired by the Horse Railroad company
of using electricity as motive power.
Saturday evening Patrick McGinn
was badly bitten on the leg by dog
owned oy Mrs Cornelia A. Colley, of
West Side hill. He was going into Mrs
Colley's yard for a carriage which he
was to wash when the dog jumped on
him.
The delegates from this city to the
firemen's convention at New Haven
next week are j. w. wright of No 1,
Daniel Markert of No 3, j. Pebbles of
No 8, w. E. Bannon of No 4, William
Latin of No 5, and D. F. Hackett of
No 6.
Walnut Beach, which is the nearest
point to Waterbury of any location on
Milford Point, is likely to become a
favorite Waterbury resort. Henry
Burton, foreman at Plume & Atwood's;
w. P. Thoms, the shoe man; Elliot
Semers, and Attorney G. G. Root have
just purchased lots there and will at
once erect cottages.
Reporter Cullen of the Republican
| whose veracity was impeached by the
New York Sun, is strutting around with
a chip on his shoulder and a column of
cold facts in his inside pocket. He
proves the claim he made in regard to
the Suns circulation, by newsdealers'
statements, and is ready to fight to a
finish.
In the suit Saturday by the Winsted
baseball club against the Acme ball
club of this city, in Winsted, to recover
agreed to pay them, Attorney Lowe for
the defendants did not call on any of
the Acmes to testify, but allowed the
plaintiffs to take judgment and ap-
pealed to the court of common pleas,
where the case will be tried on its
merits.
The military camp Is now about in
readiness for the soldiers, who go to
Mantle this week. The snow-white
tents and the carefully moved grounds
present pleasing appearance. All the
tents are up except those for the gov
Iernor and staff, brigade commander and
staff, hospital tents, etc. Those will be
Iup tomorrow. There are about 800 i'm
Iproved common and 200 wall tents.
The battery this year will be Quartered
on the knoll west of the sea-coast bat.
terry. The mess buildings have all been
newly painted.
August Nitsche, engineer of engine
1876, which pulls the pier so train out OF
Waterbury in charge of Conductor
Charles White, at a. M, slipped from
the deck of his engine while sidetracked
at Litchtield this morning and fell
heavily across the rails. He was picked
up unconscious and brought to this
city on the 7:30 a. m. train and taken to
DIR Axtelle's Office. 1t was found that
he had suffered conclusion of the bowels
and had received a slight wound on the
on his engine again in a few days.
William Judson, a hardware mer.
chant and a prominent business man OF
Torrington, who formerly lived in this
city, attempted suicide Thursday night.
He took sixty grains of morphine, but
his wife found it out and three doctors
and stomach pump saved his life. He
fingered unconscious for an entire day
before his case took a favorable turn.
He had been ill for several months and
when he returned from a vacation,
| tound MS business IN bad way on &C
count of the neglect of clerk.
One result of the Consolidated Housa-
tonic deal will be that on and after
October l, the Adams Express company
will again resume control of the express
carrying business on the latter road,
which the United States Express COM
pany has held for the past three years.
The United States company paid big
price for the Housatonic road, in the
hope that it would prove the entering
wedge for the ultimate control of the
express carrying trade OF Connecticut,
and possibly of a good share of the
New England states. The price paid
for the privilege was out of all pro-
portion to the receipts received, and the
company has lost heavily each year
since it assumed control of the road.
The Adams Express company allowed
itself to be outbid each year because it
was confident that it would finally re-
gain control of the road. The change