Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-07
CTTY NEWS.

- "starlight'' at the opera house this evening.
 The board of finance will hold it's regular monthly meeting this evening. There are advertised letters at the post office for James Turner andl Konst Gelekis. Conductor Dan Ewell of the New England road, who has been sick for several weeks, is on duty again.
 Mir and Mrs F. J. Bolan are rejoicing of their friends. The little boy was born this morning.
 A large bundle of stockings was stolen from the wagon of Jewish peddler, on Washington street this morning, by boys.
 P. s. Dillon has secured the contract \ for constructing several avenues through the Hillside park property, on North Willow street extension.
 Conductor Broughton has been ap- pointed to take charge of the freight train on the New England road on which the late Conductor Brewer was injured.
 The members of the road and sewer boards visited all the parts of the city where work is to be done, and where | peLAtAOhS nave OOno hOn' UhAS oAOeA noon.
 0, s. Meller, the now general man. ager of the New England road, General Superintendent Barton and Division Superintendent Noonan, made a tour of inspection of the western division to- day.
 A rehearsal of the Choral society will be held this evening in the hall in Lilley's block. Manager Macomber will be present and all who intend to sing in the opera of "Priscilla" must be present at 8 o'clock.
 Charles E. Wallace and Miss Lena A. Parsons were married yesterday after noon at the residence of the brides father, J. A. Parsons, 370 South Main street. The ceremony was performed by the Rev J. G. Davenport.
 "One Hundred Pointers on Eli quette," Beautiful Selection for the Autograph Album" and four other books on popular subjects constitute Phelan's library, series of which are given with every pound of tea or coffee purchased at his store.
 Architect Joseph A. Jackson has plans completed for three new houses, for George E. Judd to be built on the newly laid out street, between Holmes avenue and Willow street. They will all be ot NuAAACICIb NCbAku6 lhIu "OOO with every modern convenience.
 If the weather continues favorable the old land mark on Bank street will bG removed without much delay. CurraI will not be able to begin his sale in tho Judd store Monday, as expected. Wed nesday morning, he says, will be thG a time.
 Thirteen applicants for certificates and licenses as registered pharmacist were examined by the pharmacy com - mission at the capitol yesterday. They were from Hartford, New Haven, Meri - den, Waterbury, Thomaston and Rock vile.
 p The press banquet at Hartford or Saturday evening, April sS, will be | most brilliant gathering. Secretary ' Downey this morning received lette from Bill Nye regretting the fact tha | he cannot be with the boys on that oc , casion.
 The Maple street bridge between An p sonia and West Ansonia, over the Nau gatuck river, was totally burned yester , day afternoon. Loss 10,000; no insur ) ance. It was a wooden structure buil in 1871, and the main connection be tween the two places.
 Chairman Davis of the democrati state committee has called a meeting o Iho CohAuIbVeo tO Oo ueLu dC Ine neau quarters in New Haven on Tuesday = May 12, at 80 p. m. This meeting i for the purpose of arranging for tn state convention at Chicago in June.
 The officers of the Second battalion O the Second regiment, were to hold 7 meeting in New Haven this evening but a telegram received by Adjutant D E. Fitzpatrick, from Major Burpee, wh is in New York, states that the meeting N is postponed for one week. The Abrigador Athletic club poste N $50 at the DEMOCRAT office last night, t ' be competed for in a tug-of-war tourna ment on Fast day. The members of tn different teams are in training and tn match promises to be the most excitin ]. of the kind ever held in Waterbury. - James Conway of Troop K, Sixtl cavalry, U. $. A., writes from For Niobrara, Neb, to subscribe for tn DEMOCRAT. He is evidently homesick for he writes: 'I may be a stranger t. you, but not to your paper. I am aC J quainted in Waterbury; all the boy = know me-
 A freight train on the New En9lan road backed down and off an ope N switch at Hawleyville at 6:30 last night le and five cars were overturned an
 badly smashed. The train was the on
 from Waterbury, run by Conducto = Norris. Freight traffic was blocke
 until ii o'clock.
 A horse belonging to William Strong milkman, fell into a sewer trench o
 Fuller street, about o'clock this morr
 ing and in it's struggles to get free wa
 badly injured. Dr Bland was calle
 and pronounced the injuries fatal. Tn
 animal was shot to be put out of misery
 It is said that the trench was not pro
 tected by railing and lights last night
 In the police court to-day Jude
 Bradstreet imposed a fine of $1O an
 costs on John Keating, for being drunl O, John Jordan was charged with intox
 cation and violating the city ordinanC
 against Assembling on sidewalk