Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-11-20
CITY NEWS.

ADJOURNED meeting OF the common coun- |
Gil this evening.
Mrs Jacob Gale, aged 50 years. died last
evening at her home in Simonsville.
UIlie Akerstrom in The Sultan's Favor
ite' at the opera house this evening.
Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair.
slightly colder on Tuesday, westerly
winds.
Court Vigilant, A o. F. of A will meet
this evening in the Relief Corps room, G.
A. r. block.
Mrs Mary McKane of this city is left
$500 by the will of her aunt, Mrs Margaret
Quinn of Hartford.
Mrs Eliza Kane, aged &c years, wife of
Patrick Kane of % River street, died at
her home early this morning.
O'Donovan Rosa will lecture under the
auspices of the OConnell Literary and
Social club, in City hall December 10.
The water commissioners have finished
laying new water main on Farm street
and with the exception of little repairing
will do nothing more this season.
Vice-President Odell of the New Eng
land road who took office on November u,
is making his first trip over the road to-
day. He reached Waterbury in the officials
car shortly before o'clock.
The funeral of DIR Alfred North will be
held at , O'Clock tomorrow afternoon.
Services will be conducted by DIR Anderson
In the First church, and interment will be
in the family lot at Riverside.
The century clock. which the Waterbury
Watch company sent to the Worlds fair.
will be placed on exhibition at st Louis.
Frank Is. Dean, who went from this city
to care for the clock, has returned home.
The New York 4 New England road will
run an excursion train to Springfield on
November p, the day of the great football
game between Yale and Harvard. The
fare for the round trip will be $50. RaE
| The Yale Sophomores- defeated Lthe Y.
NJ. {. \. football team II to o, at the West
| End grounds Saturday. At Bristol the
High school team met defeat at the hands
of the local school eleven by the score of
| - to 10.
The first annual sociable and entertain
mrnt of the st Baromeus verein of st
| Cecilia parish will be held Thanksgiving
evening in Concordia hall. Articles re-
| manning from the recent fair will be
auctioned.off after the entertainment.
Mrs. Charles Hollister of Washington.
| Litchfeld county. has written to Rev DIR
Davenport saying that some of the people
in her vincinity are anxious to send some
| farm products down to Waterbury to help
make the Thanksgiving dinner of some of
the poor people.
Mrs Mountford, who gave several de-
lightful lectures here last winter. will
speak at the opera house on December &,
and ., under the auspices of the Hospital
Aid society. Her subjects will be: Jews
at Home" True Life of Jacob, and
| "Ecce Homo"
The annual sociable of the Third d.
| vision. A. Q. H., will be held in the
! l.
There has been IA large sale of tickets and
former efforts. The Third division boys
are great entertainers.
The funeral of George Foley Was held
yesterday Afternoon from the residence of
his son on South Main street to st Pat
rick's church. The pallbearers were:
Thomas Kelly. Hugh SaultS, James Coyle
Patrick Colwell, and Patrick Fitzmaurice
| lnterm"nt was in st Joseph's cemetery.
The funeral of Mrs Ann Dillon was held
at O'Clock yesterday afternoon from
her late residence. 220 Baldwin street
to the Immaculate Conception church.
The pallbearers were: James McGno. Frank
Grouden. Thomas Garvey, Michael Reilly
John Gagain and John Tracy. Interment
was in st .Toscph's cemetery.
The funeral services over the remains of
afternoon at her late residence. $50 Water
Vile street, and conducted by Rev Mr.
Davenport. The Central band of Kings
Daughters attended in a body. The re
mains were taken to Torringtcn on the
Hip train this morning for interment.
The general committee of the Murphy
campaign held a meeting Saturday. The
chairman of the finance committee
reported that the receipts were over
81 900. A check for $500 was
presented to Murphy and after the
bills were paid there was deficit of SIS.
Permanent organization was affected and n
constitution adopted.
The inmates of the almshouse feel very
grateful to Mrs E. D. Steele for her con
tribution of papers and magazines. Incl
dentally it may be well TO remark that the
winter is approaching and any heavy
clothing would be acceptable to the in
mates. Superintendent Moran will call at
any address for such clothing as will be
donated.
The directors of the New York ~ New
England railroad held Il meeting in New
York Saturday and issued a call for a
special meeting of the stockholders in New
York on December p, TO approve of the
lease of the New York. New England &
Northern railroad, the New York con.
nrction of the New York q New England
and which is yet 10 be built. The terms
Of the lease were withheld.
John Powers. who was arrested al
Bridgeport, charged with completely with
Edward Brady in the embezzlement OF
furniture at New Haven. is the man who
while tending bar in the Gem saloon in
this city year ago skipped out with the
license money. He is locked up at New
Haven awaiting trial. Brady, who is ou
I hn11 l,,.,,, Z /.
imprisonment after the court decides tbs
embcZzlement matter.
There was only one prisoner in tn,
police court this morning. He gave thu
name of John O'Neill. He was charged
with drunkenness and was fined 81 an,
, costs. His right name is John Lynch an,
] his home is in New Britain. He admittet
this after court, and said he gave the nam
of John O'Neil because he thought tn
prosecuting attorney being of the sam
name would get him acquitted. 1t i
strange but true that there have been fou
4 John O'Neills in the police court within
= short period.
| The number of Connecticut visitors t
the Worlds fair, as shown by registration
" at the state building. was 25,667. Base
on the population of the state by the Ger
sus of 1890 this shows attendance of onl
3.44 per cent. Hartford heads the list c
visitors, S.64l, and shows the highest pei
centage of population, S.4 at least so far a
leading towns are concerned. New Have
visitors footed up 3,619 percentage {
40; Bridgeport l,9OS, percentage. 3.9>
n Waterbury 1,042, percentage. 3.l3; MOI
wich 7SS, percentage, 2.G9; New Britai
80. percentage, 2.49.
The large audience present at the Sacre
e Heart church fair on Saturday night CAV
great satisfaction to the managers and cal
\ vassers and heartily enjoyed the exceller
stage programme given by the choir. Nh