Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-02
CTTY NEWS.

house this evening.
Miss Carrie Pritchard and her mother,
of New York, are visiting friends in
town.
Rev r. w. Micou left for Philadel-
phia to-day, where he will permanently
reside.
There will be special service at the
church of the Immaculate Conception
this evening.
Charters & Borden will decorate many
buildings in Naugatuck for the big fire.
mems parade in that place next Monday.
Fred ]. Brown came up from the sea-
shore this morning, where his family is
summering. He returned later in the
day.
]. w. Gaffney & Co have the contract
to build for the Baptist society OF West
Cheshire, a brick church with brown
stone trimmings.
Colonel Doherty, Lieutenant-Colonel
Burpee and a party of friends will leave
on Monday for a weeks horseback ride
to the Berkshire hills.
Mayor Webster is fast recovering
from the facilitating effects of the
operation he was forced to undergo, and
is able to get out of doors some.
Attorney Henry G. Baldwin of
Naugatuck leaves to-day for Maine,
where he will do some campaigning in
the interest of the peoples party.
A copy of the revised edition of the
Rand Mentally index atlas of the world,
the most complete atlas published, has
been received at the Bronson library.
The Ladies' Aid society of the German
Lutheran church on LeavenworLh
street will celebrate it's second anniver-
sary with a supper, musicale and liter
airy entertainment on September IA.
Miss Katie Mitchell has returned from
vacation spent in Mantle, Hartford
and New Britain. Mrs S. E. Wheeler
and children of Bridgeport are visiting
Mrs Wheeler's parents on East Main
street.
The committee of the common coun-
Gil, having under consideration the
matter of allowing electricity to be used
on the street railway, will meet the Off
Gals of the Horse Railroad company
this evening.
A special train of twelve or fifteen
cars passes through this city every
evening on the New England road.
The train is loaded with peaches. They
come from New Jersey points and are
bound for Boston.
The number of interments in st
Joseph's cemetery during August, re-
ported by Sexton Owen Shields, was
twenty-six; in Calvary cemetery,
nineteen, a total of forty-fve. In
August 1891 there were twenty-nine in
terments in st Josephs.
The rooms of the Boys club on Har-
rison avenue will be opened next Mon
day for the coming year. Mr. Combel-
lack, the superintendent, requests
that any one having games, game
| hoo r]S or hookS for which thov ha No M
further use, would send them to the
rooms for the boys.
The new transfer tickets were put in
use on the street cars to-day. A person
may now get on car and pay for a
continuous ride, receiving a transfer
| without the inconvenience of having to
purchase tickets in particular places.
The system is the same as that discarded
last spring.
During the past few days freight has
been so heavy on the Naugatuck divis-
ion that the freight handlers became
tired and dissatisfied last evening with
their long hours and quit work. All re-
turned to their places this morning, ex-
cept one man who left work yesterday
| at noon.
Postal cards have been sent through
the state calling for the arrest of Pas
quale Micieli, the Italian who cut off a
fellow countryman's ear at Riverside,
near Stamford, Saturday night. The
charge is attempted murder. Micieli is
% years old, five feet, nine inches high
and weighs about 175 pounds.
The New England road has decided
to run fast freight from Springfield to
| Newburgh, and from there over the
West Shore railroad to New York. The
train will pass through here early every
evening, and will be great advantage
10 Waterbury shippers. This will be
the only change in the new time cards
to be issued Monday.
| Ansonia Sentinel: A woman who
came out from New Haven on the noon
train, Wednesday, accompanied by
several children, when she changed cars
at Ansonia to go up the Naugatuck
road, forgot a two-year-old baby and left
it standing on the New Haven & Derby
road platform. Conductor Phillips saw
the child, picked it up and ran and
caught the train, which was under good
Roadway, and turned it over to brake
man, who carried it to its mother.
Joseph Robichard, 10 Phoenix avenue,
employed as a laborer at the yards of
the City Lumber & Coal company, was
seriously injured this morning. He
was removing a pile of lumber when
part of it fell, striking him on the back
and head. He was taken to DIR North's
office, where an ugly wound in the left
temple was sewed up, requiring five
stitches. Two stitches were required to
close cut on the face. His left arm
was sprained and his back injured
A woman was put off the Naugatuck
train at the depot in Stratford Wednes-
day night as she had no money to pay
her fare. She Immediately proceeded
to throw herself in front of the express
train which was coming at the time,
but was prevented from doing so by
some boys who dragged her from the
track. She was taken to Officer Stage
to whom she stated that she wanted to
go to Waterbury where her mother-in
law lived. Mr. Stage bought her a
ticket for this city and saw her safely
on the train. She appeared to be
slightly demented.
In regard to rumors of combination OF
railroads in New England, General
Manager Mellen says: 81 am in utter
ignorance of any proposed deal or com.
bine on the part of the New York &
New England railroad, and do not know