Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-16
CITY NEWS.

in Meriden this week. beginning on Wednesday.
 John D. Burns, aged 9, son of John Burns, go Canal street, died last night. | The funeral will take place tomorrow | afternoon at 9 o'clock.
 Almost week of cloudy, rainy days. 1 The crops, flowers and grass are getting l a big benefit from it and little sum | shine will now make the plants grow l luxuriantly.
 The military tax bills have not all | been sent out yet. The usual per cent | age of three quarters of one per cent per month will, however, be added after June 1st, on all bills not paid.
 Miss Katie Phelan, aged 31, dled at the home of her father, Robert Phelan, 496 Baldwin street, last night. The funeral will take place from the house at S:30 tomorrow morning to St Patrick's church. Thomas Mooney, William Berry, James Berry and Michael CarbeTry left this morning for a three months trip to Ireland. They will sail Wednesday morning on the City of New York for | Queenstown.
 Arrangements are being made for an entertainment to be given in the near future by the Choral society. A pro- gramme' of vocal and instrumental music, and probably farce, will be rem dered.
 A crack rife team, consisting of eight members Of Company I, of the Third regiment, at New London, are anxious Jo meet any negimental team in the state, the crack shots of the Second regi- ment preferred.
 William Oulihan, formerly of the Western Union Telegraph company, spent Sunday with friends in Water bury. Miss Mamie Courtney of Allen street, is visiting friends in Waterbury. I-Bridgeport Union.
 Four bids on the Connecticut worlds fair building have been received. The bidders are from Chicago, Waterbury, Norwalk and New Haven. They closed Saturday. The figures will be made known at the meeting of the executive committee tomorrow.
 The Acme Social club elected the fol- lowing officers yesterday: President, P. W. Winters; vice president, T. F. Egan; financial secretary, Terrence Car mody; recording secretary, James Duncan; treasurer, James Freney; exc cutive committee, T. Carmody, P. Fox and J. Donovan.
 The LyTa Singing society will give a concert on June 9 in Concordia hall. | 1NOAO "AAA " oAn6Ah6 OJ OAhAO Oertel of New Haven, alto; Adolph Falbisaner, bass. Musical numbers will be rendered by Prof Bonn and Miss Katie Somers, piano, and Conrad Becker, flute. Faulman's orchestra will assist.
 Most of our physicians have received a circular letter the receipt of which has aroused their indignation. It comes from the National Chloride of Gold Cure company" and offers to sell the formula for the Keeley chloride of gold cure for $1OO and royalty of $5 on each , patient cured in the next two years. } Freddie Brearton, the 9-year-old sor a of Conductor John Brearton, of the . South Main street line of the horse rail road, while watching a game of bal B Saturday afternoon, received bad cut r on the face from a bat which slipped t from the batter's hand. It required , several stitches to close the wound anG the lad will be disflgured for life.
 Joseph, the 4-year-old son of JohI Pierce, was severely bitten by dol street grocer, yesterday afternoon. ThC little fellow was playing in the bacl . yard of the house, where his family wa
 visiting, and angered the dog whicl
 was running about the yard. Int
 wound was on the lips and Dr Mum dressed it with antiseptic liniment. ? A slight blaze in a chimney at Johl
 McEvoy's building, 253 Bank street
 called out the fire department yesterday
 morning at 10 o'clock. It was extin ! guished with few pails of water be fore the fire companIes arrived. Tn rear axle of No Is supply wagon brok ! while on the way to the fire, but fortu
 nately no one was injured, Driver Flynn Istopping his steeds in short order.
 There is considerable gossip afloat re :. Igarding the New York & New England
 HousatOnic, New York, Providence (
 Boston and the Consolidated. That tn
 New York, New Haven & Hartford vii labsorb the Housatonic and Derby sys If tems at some time, if not in the nea
 future, is not doubted by a great many ! New York 6 New England bonds ar
 recovering some of their decline.
 The announcement of the removal 0 the Rev James Fl. O'DonnelI was mad e at all the masses in the church of tn
 1mmaculate Conception, yesterday, b
 the Rev Father Mulc8hy. He said tn = parish owed a great deal to Fathe IODonnel for Ahis earnest work hert u- and especially for the great interest h " took In the parochial school, whic 'd owed it's success largely to his labors. le The following programme of sport 'S mas been arranged Tor the picnic of 0
 E, Hibernian rifles, to be held at tn
 West End grounds on circus day, Ma,
 28: Tug-of-war contest between the c .IG, Rogers & Brother, East End an
 AbFigador teams, for a purse of $13t
 race, for boys under IA years of az,
 throwing sixteen pound hammer, pu
 ting twenty-eight pound shot, chasin
 greased pig, 100 yards race, for men
 bers of the A. O. H.; fat mems race, fC
 members of the A. O. H.; one mi ol square heel and toe walking match.
 A soap firm is flooding the town wit
 circulars, first advertising the sale ( i stock in their company, then sendin
 unnumbered bonds, asking the receive
 to fill out the number of shares wante Od and return for signatures and sea X FolIoyyinn this c0unes latke1,a askiuo