Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-02
CITY NEWS.

M A A 4N ~ w kQe There will be a meeting of the board of finance this evening at 7:SO. Miss Minnie GuIlfcyle of 37 Ridge I street has recovered from a severe at tack of scarlet fever. Dr Franklin Woodruff, who was we'll known here, died at his home In Berlin, yesterday aged 72 years. The North End Democratic club will meet at their rooms on Cherry street at 8 o'clock Monday evening.
 There will be an anniversary mass at the Sacred Heart church Monday morn- ing at 8 o'clock, for the late Mrs John Byrnes.
 w. O. Atwater left this afternoon for New York, where he will take the steamship Australia" for the Honolulu Islands.
 The devotion of the forty hours will commence tomorrow at the 10:30 ser vice in the church of the Immaculate Conception.
 At New Haven, yesterday, Alfred O. | CharbOnneau was divorced from Eliza | beth Charbonneau, on the grounds of i'm | temperance. They live in Waterbury.
 Wood and Vine streets are in a bad | condition. Pedestrians wade knee deep | in mud, and certainly something should be done to improve that growing | locality.
 o'Brien Brothers, the bakers, have to day opened their new bakery in Thompson's block, Baldwin street. They still continue to sell groceries and bakers goods at their old store,
 The Y. M. c. A. have arranged for 8 series of addresses to bel given or. each Sunday of the present Emonth, com mencing at 4:30 p. m. The first will be given by the Rev MT Micou.
 The examination of the pupils of St Mary's school, conducted by Rev Hugh Treanor, will not be finished for two weeks. The examinations are held only during the morning sessions, and are both written and oral.
 President Clark denies that the man. agement of the New Haven road has any intention of cutting off the New England connection at Willimantic or anywhere else m two weeks or at any time.
 On Monday fifteen or twenty men and twelve or fifteen teams will be put to word repairing the trotting park. The managers are desirous of putting the track in good shape for the three days trot which will take place in May.
 Nothing has been done yet towards double tracking this division of the New York & New England road. It is said that the work is done by contract and the men who are building the new ex- tension at Hopewell, are to have it in charge.
 Postmaster Doherty has made appli- cation for pail pouch for Naug gatuck, leaving on the :25 p. m. train and re. turning on the 3:56 train. Under the present conditions there are only two daily nNQiIa hntyvn "otnrhYYrTy Naugatuck.
 The jury cases in the district court will bekin on next Tuesday morning The first case to be tried Is that Oi William Roberts vs Waterbury Manu featuring Go, an action to recover is $1 ,5OO for the loss of two fingers on - power press.
 . Curran, the dry goods dealer, hal bought the stock and interest of E. A Judd, Exchange place. After selling of the stock at the old store Curran wil move to the stand now occupied by M Judd, which has been used as a dry re goods store for sixteen years. re The question of Sunday trains wa
 debated at the meeting of the Y. M. c L. A. last evening. Jehn Moriarty de tended the position taken in his adver tisement by an able argument, but evi dently had the weakest side of the uues tion, and was closely pressed by the de
 baters of the society.
 - Frank E. Craig died at his residenc in New York, yesterday afternoon His death brings sadness to a very larg
 circle of friends in Waterbury. Thi
 morning James E. Watts received
 telegram announcing that the funera would be held at St Johns church, Ney Haven, on Monday morning. Yesterday afternoon Peter Munson, - Swede, called at Town Clerk Madden
 office, secured a license and said tha < he wanted to be married last evening b. | justice of the peace. Mir Madden me
 MT Munson and his fiance, Miss Huld
 Anderson, by appointment at Mir Rus
 sells office, where the knot was tied b.
 the justice.
 '' Mrs Thomas Hurley died this morn
 ing Tn New Haven, after a long an,
 painful illness. The deceased is vel
 known in Waterbury having lived ol
 Baldwin street for twenty-five years of The body will be brought here for inter :. ment Monday morning, and the funera will take place from the church of tn
 Immaculate Conception at 9 o'clock.
 The AbrigadOr Athletic club will giv N tug-of-war tournament in the Cit le hall on Fast day, April 15. There vii
 be match between teams from tn
 club and Co G, and between the Roger
 & Brother and Holmes, Booth & Hay
 dens teams, each match being for
 purse of $25 and an outside bet. Tn
 money will be deposited at the DEMO
 GRAF office.
 The funeral of the late Elizabeth E Corbett took place to the church of tn - immaculate Conception at 7:30 thi
 morning, where the funeral service
 were performed by the Rev Fathe
 Mulcahy. The remains were taken o
 the S:3O train for burial in Great BaI
 rington, Mass. The pallbearers were
 John Duncan, John Freney, James MC
 Donald, John Powers, Daniel ConnoI ol T. F. McGrath.
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