Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-17

DlOSe OL OGhGNASb CS DoA oS hAAS at work at pair of rolls last night had two veins cut in his wrist. He will not be able to resume work for some time.
 The resignation of First Lieutenant Charles G. Miller, Go B, Second regi- ment, has been accepted. and Captain John Gutt has been ordered to conver @ | the company to nominate a successor.
 The various gun clubs of the state vii | meet in New Haven, February g, to | compete in the second monthly contest | for the Connecticut trophy. It is pro posed to organize a state association of clubs at this time.
 The game wardens of the state will | in stitute vigorous measures this year to | prevent marketmen from keeping game | in cold storage during the season whom | the law says no game shall be shot or offered for sale.
 A feature of the exercises at the ball of the Turn Verein, tomorrow night, | will be fancy march with calisthenic exercises, by the junior class, and a fancy march, with club swinging, by the active lady turner's, under command of Otto Book.
 The architects who are preparing plans for the new almshouse to be sub mitted to the board of selectmen have nearly completed their work. The plans. it is said, will be both handsome and modern covering every desired convent ence within the S30,0 appropration.
 An assembly was given in Leaven- worth hall last evening under the pat ronage of the Mesdames H. c. Griggs, G. s. Parsons and J. s. Elton, and the committee were Messrs GrIggs, Elton and Clark. Habenstein of Hartford catered and music was furnished by the American band orchestra.
 The story sent out from Chester yes terday, that Bishop McMahon, who had gone there to dedicate a church, had been attacked by pneumonia, is denied on the authority of the bishop, himself. He suffered merely from a sore throat, and returned to Hartford in the after noon.
 Interest in the voting contest for gold headed cane, which is to be feature of the sociable te be given next Tuesday evening, by the Second Ward Social club, is on the increase. A voting coupon Is attached to each ticket. Votes will be sold in the hall on the evening of the dance for five cents each.
 Big Gun" Johnson of Middle Had dam says that from the 27th of this month until the 2d of March the inhabi- tants of this section of the country will experience one of the worst weather disturbances in the history of | the world. He is sure about the date Tand he is just as sure that the storm will be blizzard.
 Preparations have already been begun for the annual meeting and banquet of the Connecticut Press association, which will be held in Hartford on the evening of April 23. It is expected that Charles Taylor, editor of the Boston Globe, Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist, and others of well known fame will grace the meeting with their presence.
 "Whence come tramps :" asks Hart ford clergyman. They generally claim when they come through here, and are the product of superabundant laziness, poor rum and strong onions. WhitheT they go we don't know, but they do not tarry hereabouts long.-AnsOnia Senti- mel.
 The great national parade of the order of Knights of Columbus to come off at New Haven, October II, 1899, is excit, ing widespread interest with the gene ral public as well as among the various councils composing the order. Without doubt the demonstration will be the largest of a civic character that has ever l plelCC HI SOAAAASSlASub
 The American band wish to announce to the, public that all tickets for the Sunday recital have been disposed of Those who failed to receive tickets will be remembered in the future as, if the band can pay expenses. the concert will be repeated. No person will be ad
 mitted to the hall Sunday evening with out ticket. The doors will Le opened 5 o'clock.
 Sheridan cuuncil reception, at City
 hall Friday evening, will be a charming affair. Arrangements for the entertain
 ment of large party have been made and the committee are putting forth
 unusual efforts. Bergen's full orchestra
 will furnish music and Grand Knigh
 John H. Moran, who has had wide ex
 perience, will have charge of the floor.
 Traffic on the New England road wa. delayed about three hours last evening
 owing to a wreck of freight cars neal
 Hamlin's pond, about three miles west of New Britain. Four cars of the cas- bound through freight, No 50, secont section, jumped frog, tearing up tht
 track badly. All trains from the yves were blocked and all passengers had tC be transferred. The accident occurred , shortly before o'clock.
 Chief Tomlinson of Birmingham, wa in Waterbury Monday and from her,
 went to Wolcott, to get a little fou
 years old girl whom the psrentswere no taking proper care of. Her name il } Martha May Bradley and her parent
 formerly lived on White Hills, but he
 father dying some two or three year
 ago, her mother has since married agaiI and the little fatherless waif has me
 with scant care since. She is bright clever little thing and went to tn, lcounty home with the chief gladly.