Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-14
CITY NEWS.
Good morning.

this evening. l The road and sewer boards will meet this evening. A private assembly will be given in Leavenworth hall on Monday evening.
 Miss Annie l.. Eldridge of Boston is visiting the family of the Rev w. P. Elsdon.
 The district messenger boys appeared to-day in their neat new uniforms for the first time.
 Thomas Shea is happy to-day over the Christmas present he received this morning. It is boy.
 Hannah Ferris. the four year old daughter of Thomas Ferris, died this morning. The funeral took place from the family residence, log Ridge street, at o'clock this afternoon.
 Chief Snagg expects that several electricians from the Gamewell Fire Alarm company will come here this week to place the mechanism for the additional fire boxes in order.
 The case of Williams vs Carey is be- ing heard before Judge Bradstreet in the district court to-day. It is an action for breach of contract Bronson for plaintiff, Webster for defendant.
 In the police court this morning James Dunn was charged with drunkenness and breach of the peace. He went to a fellow boarder's room last night and as saulted him. He was fined $l and costs on each charge.
 The committee of arrangements for the Firemens ball, to be held January 20, have decided to engage Reeves band of Providence for the occasion. The concert program will therefore be above the ordinary.
 Next Saturday will be a gala day for the sheritfs and deputy sheriffs of Con- necticut. On that day Miles P. Preston of Hartford will tender them a great barbecue and feast in his city. Many friends of the sheritfS will also be pres ent.
 The Rev Father Mulcahy of this city and Father O'Donnell of Watertown will attend the ordination ceremonies at St Johns seminary in Brighton, Mass, on Friday. Father O'Connor, brother of Contractor Charles O'Connor, will be | ordained on that day.
 The executive council of the grand | lodge of Odd Fellows will meet in Wa terbury Tuesday, December goth, to consider matters in connection with preparing charter for the Odd Fellows home at Fairview to submit to the gen eral assembly.
 On next Friday night a passenger coach will be attached to Conductor Munson's freight train which arrives in Waterbury about midnight to bring back the people who will go to Ansonia that evening to hear Ballington Booth speak at the opera house in that town.
 Timothy Altman of 173 Baldwin street, while at work on North Elm street yesterday afternoon, had his eye filled with fresh mortar, which burned | the transparent membrane so that the sight may be affected. The accident was the result of ''fooling." Dr Dona- hue removed the mortar from the in jured member.
 Mrs Elizabeth B. Custer spoke for two hours in Leavenworth hall last evening to large and intensely interested audi euce on Garrison Life on the Plains. '' Mrs James E. Coer introduced Mrs Custer. The audience was captivated by the lady, who came down from the stage when she had finished, to be intro duced to and shake hands with each in dividual.
 The body of John Van Nostrand, the New England road brakeman who was killed at DAnbury Sunday, was brought to Hartford yesterday afternoon. It was found that the young mans l pdISutS were unaDle to pear the eX- pense of funeral and a collection was taken up among the railroad employees to give the unfortunate brakeman a proper burial.
 Good morning.
 Architect A. J. Smith has completed plans for one story brick block fol Irving G. Platt, to be erected on Phoenix avenue. The building will have a gal | nl Crlo ,Itb metallic skylight. It will contain two stores. The rear wing will be a store house. J. w. Gaffney & Go have the contract for the mason work and w. E. Booth for the galvanized iron, plumbing and roofing work.
 A Rockville correspondent writes: Surveying for the new electric road from Rockville to Ellington began yes terday. An expert from Waterbury has been Investigating the gas plant here and designing improvements in it. Al. though the gas is of a superior quality now the expense of producing it is toe great MT Walker of Waterbury, the new manager, took charge yesterday.
 Conductor Ellison and Engineer Thompson, who were bound over yester- day on a charge of manslaughter in causing the wreck on the New England road, remained at the Scovill house last night in charge of Detective Wakelee This was done in order to give them a chance to obtain bonds. This morning John Richmond of East Hartford ana J. J. Daily of Hartford furnished the necessary bonds and the men were re leased.
 The Bridgeport Union thinks it would , be a good idea for the next genera assembly to investigate and see if a law could not be passed that would compe the railroad companies to confine tn, employment of boys by railroad com panies to carrying water and selling papers. The fact that there is doze1 lives entrusted to their care don't coun , with the youthful train dispatchers when there is an interesting dime move near at hand.
 A few weeks ago the body of William Brown, a trackwalker, was found oI the tracks of the Naugatuck division O the Consolidated railroad at Ansonia and it was first thought he had beer struck by an engine and killed. Late the idea became prevalent that he hat oe