Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-28
CITY NEWS.

I The Democratic association will meet at o'clock this evening, at the rooms in the Platt block.
 The Young Mems Democratic club of the fourth ward will meet in the club rooms tomorrow night.
 Ella Phelan, aged years, daughter of Mir and Mrs Frank Phelan of Bronson street, died this morning.
 Mrs Harriet A. Hart, aged 75 years, died Saturday night at the residence Of her son, E. I. Howe, 157 Grand street.
 Constable O'Brien today garnisheed the | funds of l.. Glikman in the Fourth Ma | !: tionsl bank in a suit brought by Charles | Freed to recover $29. 55.
 The harvest excursion from the NauG- | atuck valley to Coney Island will take place on Thursday. The train will leave Waterbury at 745 and the fare for the round trip is S1.25. Tickets for sale at the Naugatuck station. The fourth annual excursion of the | Celtic Literary assocIation and the Pat rick Sarstield club of this city will take place on Wednesday to COney Island, via Naugatuck road and steamboat Sirius from Bridgeport.
 The Rev John II. McCrackan to-day let the contract for the new parish house for St Paurs Episcopal chapel in Waterville, to w. Nj. Hurlburt. The building will be erected from plans pre- pared by Architect A. J. Smith.
 The report that c. $. Mellen, the second vice president of the Consoli- dated road, has been offered the position of traffic manager of the Boston X Maine railroad by Lucius r. Futile, who is to become its president in October, Is denied by both of those gentlemen.
 Mrs Mary Heffrin, aged @ years, died yesterday morning at her home on Cooke street. She was the mother of Mrs Joseph Stevens, Mrs Henry Brennan, Edward and Joseph HetTrin. The fu- neral will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow ! morning, with services at the lmmacu- late Conception church.
 r,The houses built for.the accommoda- tion of workmen at the reservoir are all completed and there will be only few | days more delay on account of the mak ing of mattresses before the men will be set to work MT Cairns said to-day that everything would be in readiness on Thursday morning.
 The old red barn which has stood so many years at the end of the horse car line in Hopeville is no more. On Satur- day Edward s. Smith told the em- ployes at Smith X Griggs factory that , they might have the barn, and never was a building removed quickly z Now there is not a vestage ofthe barn ? left.
 The entries for the handicap to be run r next Saturday on the West End grounds }, will close this evening. Already HE f entries have been received. The names residences and distances will be pub lished tomorrow. The picnic which will take place during and after the , handicap will be a prominent feature Ladies admitted free to both events.
 Two boys named Grady and Carr were badly hurt Saturday at Winsted The boys stood near the NaugatucE tracks when train came along. Tht firemen did not notice the boys and jus
 ss the train passed he threw q larg, Iquantity of cinders from under tn, 5, boiler. Some of them struck Grady il
 the head and knocked him unconscious
 He was still unconscIOus yesterday anC
 may die. Young Carr was struck II
 the side, but was not so badly hurt.
 Horace Johnson terms the recent dis
 astrous storm only one of the intCrmC
 diate variety, mind quarter" for tn, ). general storm which k to come iron
 the Sth to the 18th cf September. Thi
 latter he predicts will start in the CuI - of Mexico and sweep up the AtlantI coast with tidal wave. MT Johnsul |, calls attention to the fact that his pre-
 diction that the earth would pas
 through a tornado belt early in Angus ol it fulfilled by the reports Cf various tor 30 nadoes all over the country.
 B, The last out door concert of the seasol
 will be given on the green Tuesda. Id evening by the American band. Tn D. following programme will be rendered
 March, "Onward Christian Soldiers
 overture, Lustspiel; grand medic
 waltz, embracing the most popula Iannou of tho do SalaotiDt, nf
 national airs; concert walt, Visions O
 the Past" selection, "Bohemian Girl.
 by request; ''In Old Madrid" by Tt - quest; From Dawn to Twilight:' Sta N Spangled Banner"
 The William Shollhorn Mauufacturin
 company manufacturers of shears an
 scissors of New Haven, has accepted tn offer of citizens of Waterville to locat -I their factories there. Citizens of tn n town have agreed to build new shoI VI for the company and it will be eXemI
 from taxation for a term of years. Tn H. company has finally decided to acCeI and will move there as soon as the ne, 'o shops can be completed. The concer
 employs about 200 hands.
 The summer nights festival of the < . Johns parish, WatertOwn. W ill open i
 Sepple's opera house, Watertown, tn an evening. The St Johns cadets can
 
 D and made street parade. The U. will return to Watertown on the
 o'clock train. Mir and Mrs Clune,
 George Adams and William Cudot wi
 appear in their well known specialtie . Father O'Donnell is desirouS of seeiu
 his Waterbury friends and speCl
 train has been secured to return to tn
 city, leaving Watertown at II o'clock.
 An item is going the rounds to Il
 effect that the Washington expre
 which was taken off the New Englar
 road a couple of weeks ago is to be D,
 back. There is no officIal notice to tn
 effect gone out from headquarters yt
 although a good many things late slP transpired would indicate that the tra nd will go on soon again. It is understoc UT that the New England road will opera fe' the Poughkeepsie bridge system. IT = papers are all made out and only aws
 the signature of the court. Natural
 one would suppose, then, that this trai