Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-20
CITY NEWS.
Bargain day at Curran's tomorrow.

Mrs Martin Hellmann contributed S100 to the relief bureau yesterday and E. NJ. Burrall $50.
 The excursion to New York on the New England road to-day was patronized by 122 Waterbury people.
 | Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair and colder, followed by warmer weather tomorrow; northwest winds.
 The funeral of Isaac Hine. who died | Sunday afternoon, took place at 10 o'clock this morning.
 Be on the lookout for our new serial, Foes in Ambush" Captain King. the author, is n clever writer.
 County Sheriff Tomlinson was in the city to-day settling up the business of the last term of the superior court.
 The funeral of Mary Champlin will take place from her late residence. on Henry street, at l 30 Friday afternoon.
 The selectmen and the committee from the Relief association will sit again to- morrow to consider applications for work on the town roads.
 Mrs T. \. Barrett of Taylor avenue fell on icy sidewalk yesterday morning breaking her left thigh Dr Axtelle re dueed the fracture.
 Captain King is the author of our new I shortly appear in these columns It is n thrilling narrative. Be sure and read it.
 G. F. Heublein of Hartford was elected president of the Connecticut Hotel Keep CTS association at the first annual meeting held in Bridgeport yesterday.
 The pool tournament at Harvey Brothers was concluded last night The first prize was captured by James Braithwaite, the second by Oscar Brown and the third hy Cal O'Brien.
 The sewer board will give d hearing this evening on the matter of sewer assess ments on Pine, North, South Riverside and Riverside streets and Washington and Hillside avenues.
 The funeral of Minnie Brick will take place from the residence of her sister. Mrs William Nagle, Sarsfeld street. at 2:3U tomorrow afternoon with services at the | church of the Immaculate Conception.
 tea and Christmas sale for the poor of the city was held at the residence of C. F. GosS on Hillside avenue last evening. The entertainment was largely attended and neat sum was netted for the Relief associations treasury.
 Mrs John Manning. aged 42 years. died suddenly at her home in Watertown last evening. The funeral will be held at 9:3n | tomorrow with services in St Johns | church. Watertown and interment in Cal vary cemetery, this city. The deceased leaves eight children.
 The funeral of Miss Catherine Mccarthy | will take place from the residence of Jere- miah Lyons. 136 East Liberty street. at S:30 tomorrow morning to St Patrick's church, with interment in Calvary ceme- tery
 As the result of the investigation into the cause of the accident on the eastern division of the New England last Friday, the conductor and engineer of the freight train have been indefinitely suspended and the telegraph operator who gave them the orders has been discharged.
 The funeral of Matthew Ward took place this morning to the Immaculate Con ception church, where a mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev Father Lynch. The pallbearers were John White. John Doran. John Kenny, James Nickers. Maurice Horan, Michael Brennan Inter ment was in St Joseph's cemetery.
 The funeral of Alice Gallagher took place from her late residence 36 Orchard street. at S:30 o'clock this morning to the church of the Sacred Heart, where a mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev Father Murphy. The pallbearers were: w. J.. Charles, Thomas, Joseph, Richard and John Cosgrove. Interment was in the family plot in StJoseph cemetery.
 The adjutant general has appointed Cap- tain Walter Fitzmaurice, aide-de-camp of New London, ma jor and brigade commis sary, and Corporal Charles r. Carter, brig ade orderly of Glastonbury, captain and aide-de-camp, both on the staff of BriC,l- dier General George Haven of New Lon don. Captain Fitzmaurice Is a brother of Thomas w. Fltzmaurice of this city
 The funeral of Catherine Brady took place from her late residence on South street at S:3o o'clock this morning to St Patrick's church, where a mass of re- quiem was celebrated by the Rev J. H. Duggan. The pallbearers, nephews of the deceased. were: Dennis Murnane, John Murnane, James NIurnane, Peter Reilly. Michael Brady and Walter McNally.
 People who own chickens should have them roost high, as poultry thieves are growing bolder. Almost every night some hen-roost is raided. The Abrigador dis trict, especially, has been we'll plucked The thefts are undoubtedly the work of tough gang who hold high carnival in the woods above the Abrigador, but it is almost impossible to secure evidence against them, and anyway people do not tell of half of the doings of the gang, for fear of meriting their ill-will. which means trouble.
 The Naugatuck railroad ticket office at Waterville was burglarized between and 9 o'clock last evening and a number of tickets stolen. The burglary was dis covered by Station Agent c. A. Whitley, who happened to go down to his office about o'clock. The burglars had ran- sacked the office before his coming and if is thought fled at his approach. They were traced down the railroad track towards Waterbury and the Waterbury police were notified to look out for them. Ice dealers all over the state are iubilant over the prospect ot harvesting this year larger and better crop of ice than in many years before. In many places the dealers have already housed a large uuan- tity from the ponds during the recent cold snap, and they are confident that before the middle of January the ice harvest.will be completed. The ice dealers in Hart ford are putting into the house ice that is ten inches thick, and have already har- vested over five hundred tons
 Court Falcon, A. 0. F. of A., held its annual meeting in G. 4. R. hall last even ing and elected the following officers: C. R., John Seery; s. c. R., Thomas Owens; F. S.. F. NJ. Fitzpatrick; treasurer, J. H. Calvin; s. w, John Burke; J. w, J. F. Adams; S. B., E Lawlor; J. B w. Law Tor; physician, Dr B. 4. O'Hara; druggist, J. W. Cone. T. F. Bulger was appointed to fill vacancy on the board of trustees. The treasurers report showed that the court has made admirable strides since it's organization, a net balance of S1 200 re- maining in the treasury
 It is we'll known that many brands of tobacco sold in this town contain pictures which to say thesleast are objectionable to good taste. It has become common for boys to make collections of these pictures and smokers are constantly importuned by young boys to give them to them. Many