Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-29
CITY NEWS.

Cs A. beliS OnCe-a-Week VaudeVIlle show at the opera house this evening. Florence Clohessy and w. J. Schlegel have been appointed commissioners on the estate of T. H. Brennan.
 Judge Cowell and J. J. McAuliffe have been appointed commissioners of the insolvent estate of L. L. Raymond.
 There will be special meeting of the O'Connel Literary and Social club this evening. All members are requested to attend.
 New England road, near Danbury Sun day night, has been identified as that of John WhaleY of Hawleyville.
 Charles, the 1S-months old son of Charles A. Lord of Town plot, died last night. The funeral will be held to- morrow afternoon to Riverside ceme- tery.
 John J. Howard has purchased through Real Estate Agent Tierney the old pr. Frost homestead at 76 Walnut ] street. The purchase is for c. F. Ma | honey.
 Conductor Frank Richmeyer of the street railway. left last night to attend the funeral of his uncle, S. R. Gibney in Saturdays accident on the Harlem railroad.
 Mrs Bridget Mcknight, aged T years, died Monday at the home of her daugh- ter in Providence. The deceased was the mother of James Mcknight of 46 Ashley | street, and the remains will be brought here tomorrow for burial in St Joseph's cemetery.
 The committee on abatemcnts will meet Friday evening at o'clock in the city clerks office to hear all petitioners for abatements. No petitions will be considered unless the parties presenting them go before the committee with a statement of the facts in the individual cases.
 A large party of Waterbury people went to Watertown last evening to at tend the festival of the St Johns parish. Mir and Mrs John Cluney were repeat edly encored for their singing and danc- ing. The entertainment was excellent. The Waterbury visitors came back at 1l:3O by special train, which will be run again this evening.
 The funeral of Mrs Mary Heffrin was largely atttnded from her late residence on Cooke street this morning. The fu- Inernal services were at the church of the Immaculate Conception, where a lrequiem high mass was celebrated by the Rev Father Lynch. The pail bear . James Reid, Henry Brennan and Thomas McCartan.
 After the train on the Watertown di- vision had left Oakville station this morning at 10:35 for Waterbury, a couple of flat cars loaded with cinders, which stood on a siding broke away and running down to the end of the siding struck a bulkhead and were thrown across the main track. The roadmaster and crew set things to right in little while.
 A new rule has been made by the Consolidated road in regard to the trans portation of bicycles and tricycles which goes into effect September l. All bicycles will be accepted as baggage at the same rates as before, but tricycles will not be received, owing to the space the three wheeled vehicle takes up in a car, and will have to be transferred by express or freight.
 Tomorrow the excursion of the Pat. rick Sarsrield club of Waterbury and the Celtic Literary association of An. sonia will leave the Naugatuck depot al I6:l5 am. Tickets may be procured al the depot. At Bridgeport the party will take the big iron steamer Sirius for New York and Coney Island. This excursion has always been well managed and is very popular.
 Helen Phelan, aged years and II months, only daughter of MT and Mrs Frank Phelan of 24 Bronson street, died yesterdy morning of tubercular men, lngitis, in Bridgeport, where she had gone to seek health from change of air The remains were brought to this city last evening and the funeral will be held at o'clock tomorrow afternoon, with services at the Immaculate Conception church.
 The Waterbury Retail Butchers asso. citation held special meeting last night and completed all arrangements for the big barbecue to be held Thursday at the West End grounds. The parade will form around the green at 12 o'clock and start at l o'clock, going down Bank to Meadow, to South Main. to East Main to Cherry, to Grove, to Central avenue, to West Main street, to the grounds. The chief marshal will be James Cough Ian and his aides will be Louis Schick, J. M. Warner and w. A. Guilfoile.
 The twenty-fourth annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Uuion of Connecticut is being held in New Britain to-day. This organization is the pioneer of the national organization and IS now fourth in the aggregation in point of membership. The Connecticut union has a membership of nearly 300, g gain Of more than 300 in the year The delegates were welcomed by the Rev M. Tierney, pastor of St Mary $ church.
 Early in the summer the railroads of the state pooled their interests and made rule that all consignees who neglected to unload their cars after being placed in the desired locality, or any other po- sition reasonably convenient of access within forty-eight hours should pay a fine of $1 a day thereafter. The real test of the order has not yet come. In the summer time the freight is for the most part perishable and consigners would unload their cars anyway. How ever, the Waterbury freight receivers are complying with the rule to such an extent that but few instances of ffning have occurred. This was largely due to the fact that they did not know the