Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-29
CITY NEWS,

morning for to spend week at the
shore.
The board of fire commissioners will
hold their regular monthly meeting this
evening.
Edward II. Bowe, clerk for J. F.
Phelan, is spending a weeks vacation in
New York and Brooklyn.
The remains of Edward O'Connor,
who died suddenly on Saturday, were
this morning taken to New Haven for
burial.
This evening at o'clock the Mutual
Hook and Ladder company will practice
with their ladders at the American Pin
company's buildings.
Edward Gleason and Chris Ledwith
of New Haven and Stephen Murphy of
New York were, yesterday, the guests
or John Horbune.
John p. Geisler of Baldwin street has
gone to Ellerville, New York, to meet
his wife and son, who have been spend
ing a six weeks vacation at that place.
Mrs Mary A. Crossan, aged 81 years,
died SATURDAY afternoon at her home on
Spring street. The remains We're this
morning taken to Chicopee, Mass, for
burial.
Edward Bannon of Cromwell has sued
the Meriden, Waterbury & Connecticut
River railroad to recover So 1000 for inju-
ries received while a passenger on the
road, by train going through bridge.
There are eight cases of typhoid fever
in the hospital at present and thirteen
patients otherwise afflicted. John Egan,
whose spine was injured by falling from
veranda, is reported to be improving
slowly.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the annual parade and picnic
of the fire department, September 8.
| The general committee is working hard
| to make this the most successful parade
ever held by the firemen of Waterbury.
The survivors of the Twenty-Sixth
Connecticut, will hold their twenty
seventh annual reunion at Savin Rock
| on Thursday of this week. The regi-
| ment was recruited in Waterbury, Port
land, Hartford Middletown and else
where.
One of the Waterbury Furniture COS
| horses became frightened at the steam
road roller on West Main street to-day
and ran away, wrecking the wagon,
| which was loaded with parlor furniture,
on Leavenworth street.
The Rev Il. W. Micou preached his
| farewell sermon at Trinity church at the
| morning service yesterday. For fifteen
years the reverend pastor has been con-
nected with the parish and leaves Fri
day to take a professors chair in an
Episcopal Divinity school in PhIladel-
phia.
The funeral of Mrs Kate A. Beach
| took place this morning from her late
home on Spring street, to the church of
| the immaculate Conception, followed
by a long line of carriages. The re-
QUEEN was celebrated by the Rev Father
Mulcahy. The pallbearers were G. r.
Bannon, w. G. Bannon, d. E. Fitz-
patrick, Joseph Devereux, G. F.
Downey, DIR j. F. Donahue of New
| Britain.
| The New York state papers say that a
new fast train is to be put on the New
| England road to run daily from Spring
field, Mass, to New York city, Via the
West Shore road. The train will leave
springfield every afternoon and stop at
all important stations, and arrive at
lFishkill-on-H Hudson about midnight. A
boat will then transfer 1t to New burgh,
when it will run on the West Shore
road to Weehawken, and then be trans,
ferred to New York by ferry. Nothing
official seems to be known about it.
Mamie Daley, who halls from Water
bury, made complaint to Officer Hayes
last night that man on a schooner
near buILlS ~ DIIlIn 5 lunDcr company
wharf, had wickCdly and maliciously
rested the man, who at the police station
gave his name as William O'Neil. Ills
story was different from9Mamie's. How
ever, there was a doubt, so Captain Bir
mingham locked them both up until to
day when they can settle the case il
court. News.
Terrence Coyle and Miss Bessie Dono
van were married this morning at s
o'clock by the Rev Father Duggan,E il
st Patrick's church. James ii. Null
Vile was Mr. COyle's best man, and Miss
Nora Donovan, sister of the bride, was
the bridesmaid. A wedding breakfas
awaited the party on their return to the
home of the bride on Hickory street, a
which were seated a large number O.
friends of the couple, a number being
lpresent from New York, Bridgeport anC
Seymour. There were many beautiful
presents. The happy pair left on tn,
1850 train for Providence.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the Connecticut Total Abstinenc,
Union will be held tomorrow in Meri
den. The convention will be called t.
order at 10 o'clock. The Paulist, Re7
Father Walter Elliott of New York city
will attend the convention and addres
o'clock Father Elliott will be the princi
pal speaker at a grand public rally t.
be given in the City hall. This evening
at $50 o'clock the board of government
which is composed of all the officers o
3 the state union and the various count,
+ directors, will hold a meeting and de
i. wise plan to be carried out during tn
convention.
At the convention of letter carriers il
Indianapolis last week a resolution wa
adopted in favor of extending the civi
service rules to all offices. A gradet
system of assessments in the benefi
association was adopted. The age limi
is from twenty-one to fifty years. TIL
age periods are twenty-one to twenty
five, twenty-five to thirty, thirty t.
thirty-five. From the age of thirty tn
assessment rate increases each year. /
resolution was reported from the com
mittee on resolutions providing for tn
pensioning of carriers who have been il
Y continual service ten years or more
the pension to be paid out of a fun
raised by annual assessment of the &C
| tive membership of the association,