Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-15
CITY NEWS.

| To-day being the feast of the Assump
ton of the Blessed Virgin, special ser
vices were held in all the Catholic
churches.
| District Deputy Supreme Knight John
S. Neagle will install the new officers of
i Valley council, X. of c., in Ansonia
this evening.
There are advertised" letters at the
postotfice for Mrs John J. Brennan,
Mrs James Woolson, Lewis Banice and
Mrs Dwight Wheeler.
| The estate or the late DIR DeForest of
Middlebury was settled in the probate
court to-day. The estate pays $267 col
lateral inheritance tax.
James Donahue, 287 Cherry street, is
contemplating a trip to Europe, when
he sufficiently RECEIVERS from his late
| illness to allow him to travel.
DIR Dauray of Rhode Island addressed
meeting of French Cananians on the
subject of Naturalization" in the hall
on Meadow street last evening.
The will of the late Mrs Eunice Mer-
chant was received for probate to-day.
The deceased leaves her property to her
son whom she also named as executor.
The Thirteenth Connecticut Volun-
teer Veteran association will hold their
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Rock on next Wednesday, August II.
During the remainder of the present
month all articles contributed for the
sick at the hospital may be left with
Miss Merriman, or will be called for if
desired.
Bayard WELLER, of the staff of the
New York Evening Post, and Miss
Mabel Smith, daughter of Earl A.
Smith, were married on Saturday, by
| the Rev DIR Anderson.
Timothy GuiIfoile was arrested this
morning for drunkenness. lie resisted
the combined efforts of Officers Reed
and Brickel and Il charge of resistance
was also entered against him.
Many Waterbury people attended the
funeral of +. T. Briggs, the Meriden
road baggagemaster who was killed here
on Thursday. The funeral took place in
Cromwell yesterday afternoon.
Rev Father O'Donnell of Watertown
is again reported as being very sick.
Father Dineen of the church of the I'M
maculate Conception performed the ser
vices in WATERFOWL yesterday and to-
day.
George Sutherland has been appointed
secretary of the Y. NJ. c.. A., at Morris
town, N. j., and left Waterbury to-day
to begin work in his new field. Mr.
Sutherland has been an able worker in
the local association for several years.
1t is stated on authority of the family
of Frank Butler, who it is said is wanted
for crooked dealings IN this city, and
who has left town, that the young man
is in Chicago visiting friends and that
satisfactory settlement will be made.
William Matthews of Holyoke at
tempted to get off a moving train at the
New Haven Union depot yesterday
morning, but in so doing made a mis-
step and sprained his ankle so badly that
he had to be taken to the hospital.
Domeneco Nomro, aged As years,
while getting out of the way of a special
train on the Meriden, Waterbury and
Cromwell railroad this afternoon at
ICriden, fell thirty feet down an en-
bankment, sustaining severe internal in
Juries that will probably prove fatal.
The tug of-war contest between the
Holmes, Booth & Haydens team of
Waterbury and the II. NJ. Bassett team
of birmingham, at the FOresterS' union
picnic in Birmingham, on Saturday,
was won by the former in two straight
pulls by four inches each time.
The Right Rev Bishop Mcmahon has
Iappointed the DIOCESAN consultors for
the next three years as follows: Very
Rev James Hughes, V. c., Rev William
lIarty, Very Rev Fra Leo do Saracena.
O. S. F., Rev NJ. Tierney, Rev Flori-
mond de Bruy cker and Rev Thomas w.
Broderick.
The new steam road roller will be
here Saturday, August Goth. A large
amount of stone has already been
crushed and is at the bins at the
Cheshire notch ready to be placed on
the roads, and it is expected that the
work of matchmaking will be begun
Immediately.
Robert j. Blackman, an employe of
the Waterbury Buckle company, will
start for Denver Colorado tomorrow,
| where he expects to remain perma-
nentlY. His brother-in-law, w. II.
Mccarthy, representative of Naugatuck,
| will accompany him, and will remain
| four or five weeks.
Barney Brodigan, of 631 East Main
| street, had three fingers bruised by ac-
cident at Scovill's last Friday evening.
Before going to bed he wrapped them
in flannel saturated with pure carbolic
acid. To-day DIR Donahue says that the
fingers are dead. Mortified by the
| will have to be amputated.
+. B. Granniss concluded his labors as
organist at the First NJ. E. church
yesterday, and left for New York to-
day. He will sail for Germany Thurs
day, on the steamer Columbia. He will
spend two years at the university at
Liepsic to complete his musical educa-
ton. On Thursday evening Mr. Grannis
entertained the choir of the church at
his residence, 30 West Clay street. He
was made the recipient of many hand
some presents.
A Waterbury man returned from
bear hunting in such haste that he
threw together in the bottom of his
trunk several boxes of matches and half
dozen boxes of cartridges. The
baggagemaster learned this when
he opened the trunk after it had emitted
volumes of smoke. Men are noto-
riously careless in packing trunks, but
few can equal Waterbury men in
asinity of this kind. If this had &C.
Cured in one of our effete, monarchial
countries or in the Pennsylvania dis
tricts, the owner of the trunk would
have been held as an anarchist and have
received the punishment he deserves.-I