Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-24
CITY NEWS.

D. J. Phelan has purchased Mrs Owen Thompsons grocery store on Baldwin street.
 The funeral of Thomas Lancaster, of Round Hill street, took place at 4 p. m. to-day.
 Miss Elizabeth Crosby arrived home last evening from a two years trip abroad.
 The High Rock grove train will make it's last run for this season on Saturday, October 1.
 Rev H. Treanor is m New York to-day attending the funeral of Rev Father Keefe of the 142nd street church:
 Engineer Snagg will attend the national convention of fire engineers at Louis vile, the first week of October.
 A meeting of the Third Order of St Dominic will be held in the Sacred Heart church after vespers tomorrow.
 Alice c. Cassidy's appeal from probate has been ordered transferred from the Waterbury docket to the New Haven docket.
 Michael Cruise, who has been spend- ing the past nine months visiting his brother in Montana, is expected home this evening.
 The St Aloysius Drum corps have received set of new drums. There will be meeting of the drummers at : o'clock tonight.
 Solomon Mcdonald and John R. Poulter were brought in by the police to-day on the charge of breach of the peace committed Monday.
 The Waterbury wheel club have se- cured a suite of rooms in the new Castle block, and will immediately set about furnishing them in an elegant manner.
 The Waterbury Band of Hope will hold a meeting in the lecture room of St Pauls church, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. All abstainers are requested to attend.
 At bar meeting this morning the following cases were assigned for trial in the district court. Thursday Septem- Der go, City of Waterbury vs Lathrop; Friday, September 30, Ellison & Sons vs Hylan; Tuesday October 4, Minotti vs Trachole.
 The seventh annual convention of the Connecticut state branch of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor will convene at Mechanics hall, AnSonia, on Monday, October 10. About seventy-five organi- cations will be represented by one hum dred delegates.
 Increasing business made 1t necessary for Curran, the dry goods dealer, to se | cure more room, and he has taken a lease of the rooms over his present store. They will be fitted up and stocked with cloaks and suits right away. Curran says that advertising did it.
 The case of Antonio Migliano against | Nicolo Zinno for the recovery of $50 for | breach of contract in the latter's refusal | to keep his promise to engage in the saloon business in Waterbury came up hafOra Tuefica KIaipor in Nauy yesterday and was continued a week.
 Lloyd, the photographer, has begun a composition picture, consisting of DOT traits of Roman Catholic priests in the Hartford diocese. The picture will re- present the bishop on his throne and Vicar General Hughes delivering an address. It will be sent to the Worlds fair.
 Charles Schmidt of Union City has been appointed weigher of mails on the Naugatuck trains. His appointment is for the period of thirty days, during which time the mails are all weighed so as to determine the amount each railroad ought to receive for transportation dur ing the next four years.
 The Plymouth Granite company are about to construct a siding to the quarry, on the west side of the river at Reynolds bridge, making a connection | with the railroad near the station. The | material to be used in the construction is that which was used by the Nauga- tuck Granite company.
 Mrs William Dwyer, aged twenty nine years, died early last night at the hospital from typhoid fever. The funeral will take place from her mothers residence in Hopeville, at 1:3O to- | morrow afternoon. An infant child of | f l,,N, I'M deceased was a daughter of the late Thomas Ryan.
 Alexander Bergeson, lad of years, living at 153 Vine street, fell from a chestnut tree this morning breaking in the lower jaw and crowding five or six | teeth into the flesh. The upper jaw partially dislocated, causing an external cut on the chin which required four stitches to close. Dr Munger dressed the wounds.
 A letter has been sent to the Catholic pastors of the diocese of Hartford by | Bishop McMahon, in relation to the cele- bration of Columbus day, October 21. He recommends that a solemn high mass be celebrated in all the churches and that appropriate exercises be held in | the Catholic schools. A dispensation from the usual fast on that day has been granted.
 There was a hearing before Judge Thayer in the superior court in New Haven yesterday on a writ of manda- mus brought by the New York & New England Railroad company against the Asylum street bridge commission of Hartford, to compel them to reopen the question of the award of damages to them. The judge reserved his decision after hearing the arguments of both sides.
 A partial hearing was held this morn ing in the district court room, before Judge Bradstreet, on the case of Elisha Leavenworth vs John Kingsbury ct al The claim of the plaintiff was fixed by the court at $17, ,49S. 80. The sale of the property at the corner of West Main and South Willow streets was ordered. and E. l.. Frisbie, c. s. Northrop and
 II. Fl. Peck were appointed appraisers.
 F. B. Rice was appointed to sell the place, the time and manner of sale to be