Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-27
CITY. NEWS.
Slavery Days" at the opera house thi

evening.
The water supply committee will meet
this evening.
Mr. and Mrs George W. Common, 1859
West Main street. are at the Worlds fair.
An important meeting of the Central
Laber union will be held in the engineers |
room this evening .a !
The st Aloysius Drum corps nre re-
quested to meet at 7:30 this evening to at !
tend st Ceciha's fair.
Dwight B. Snow of this city and Miss |
Cora E. Pritchard were married yesterday |
afternoon in New Haven, by the Rev I. c. |
Meserve.
For Connecticut Showers this afternoon
or tonight, fair, stationary temperature,
Saturday. Southeasterly winds to-day,
shifting to northwesterly by Saturday.
William X. Hitchcock of this city and
Miss Gertrude C. Latimer of Meriden,
were married Mt 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon Mt the brides home, by Rev W. S.
| Perkins.
| Waterbury lodge of Elks will have Ullie
| Akerstrom as a guest on November 80.
NJ. j. Colloty, exalted ruler of the lodge,
completed arrangements with the actress
while in Worcester, Mass, last Wednesday.
| Major A. NJ. Dickinson and his sister
were on the Chicago express which collided
|
| Light near Trenton. No one on the express
was injured, except the engineer and fire
| man.
The funeral of Charles Dodds, son of
Sergeant Thomas Dodds, took place at 2
| o'clock this afternoon from the family resi-
dence on Pearl street. The pallbearers
We're John Noonan, Henry Smith, Albert
Dawson and Christopher Mcclure. Inter
ment was in st Joseph's cemetery.
There will be an important meeting of
the executive committee of the Fourth
Ward Regular Democratic club this even
ing at the O'Connen Club rooms, corner
of Liberty and River streets. All men,
bers are requested to be on hand promptly
at o'clock
Mary Ann Riley, widow of the late Will
liam Riley, died this morning at her
home, 800 Baldwin street. The funeral
will be held at . o'clock Sunday afternoon
with interment in Riverside cemetery.
One daughter, Mrs H. A. Fitzsimons, sur
wives her.
Members of the Connecticut division of
the League of American Wheelmen, of
whom there are n number in this city, yes
terlay received blank ballots on which to
express their choice for officers for the
state election that is to be held next
month. The ballots must be in the hands
of the secretary treasurer on or before the
18th of November
Samuel J. Barlow accidentally ran the
point of sharp shears into his hand this
morning, cutting an artery in the ball of
the right thumb. Mr. Barlow bandaged
the wound and went to Naugatuck to do
some work, but he was unable to stop the
blood from flowing, and at o'clock had to
call in DR. FROST to render surgical aid.
He lost nearly two quarts of blood.
Mrs Mary Joy, aged IS years, wife of
Michael JOY. died suddenly this morning
at her homer on. West Side hill. Medical
Examiner Axtelle viewed the remains, pro-
nounced death due to heart disease and
gave permission to Undertaken Bergin to
prepare the body for burial. The de-
ceased leaves besides her husband one son
and five daughters.
The funeral of Mrs Ann Keenan, was held
at nine o'clock this morning from the resi-
dercs of her nephew, William C. keenan,,
p Welton street. The remains were taken
to the Sacred Heart church where a re-
QUEEN high mass was celebrated by Rev
Father Treanor. The pallbearers were:
William c. Keenan,, William D. Keenan,
= William c. Kelly, Andrew Daniels and
Michael Phalen. Interment was in St
! Joseph's cemetery.
After the races tomorrow evening the
Rambler Wheel club will have stag party
and have invited the Naugatuck Wheel
club and the Rose Hill Social club. The
prizes will be presented 10 the winners at
this gathering. All races will start and
end at city corners, except the first, which
starts from Naugatuck at 2 o'clock. The
prizes are on exhibition in P. ]. Bolan S
window on Bank street.
Orders have been issued from the adju-
tant-genernls office announcing the result
of the brigade rife match, which was won
{ by the First regiment. The first prize was
- a silver cup, won by the First regiment;
the second a bronze medallion of General
Grant, taken by the Second, and the third
a bronze statuette of Roman soldier won
by the Third regiment. The trophies
having been won three times by the Or
+ ganiza tons mentioned, now become their
property.
The st Cecilias parish fair at City hall
is still drawing crowds. The stage enter
n tainments are good and the dancing is
r much enjoyed. Maloney and Young in
=. Irish specialties. and Mayo and Russell in
$ negro specialties, created great deal of
amusement. Little Dottie Simpson, in
her highland fling, was great favorite
Tonight the Acme quartette will sing
several selections. P. H. Adams will give
an exhibition of juggling and the Shelvey
brothers will do a turn. The door prize
last night went TO 1,O59.
= grand athletic entertainment in Naugatuck
on Thursday, November 2. 1t will prob
ably equal any contest ever given in the
state. A great array of talent has been en-
gagged and two bouts alone will be worth
the 81 admission fee. Danny Russell of
Bridgeport and Walter McNally of New
York will appear in a four round go, and
the wind up will be between Tommy
Ryan, champion weller weight of the
world. and Harry Jamison, the colored
champion heavy weight of Bridgeport. L
will be ten rounds and for points.
new set of rules to be used by al
baggagemen on all divisions of the Consoli
dated road has been promulgated and viii
go into effect Wednesday, November 2
One rule that will interest patrons of thu
road is that if baggage is not presented a
the station baggage room a reasonable tim,
before the departure of trains, to AFFORD
time for checking, weighing and recording
it will not be forwarded until the mex
train. Another rule is that no package O.
bundle of any kind shall be placed in BABY
carriages when they are checked, without
the payment of excess, not less than one