Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-02-27
CITY NEWS.

meet TINS evening III SarEollIOh CouhCll
hall.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs
William f. Dillon of Scovill street this
morning.
The board of fire commissioners will
hold its regular monthly meeting this
evening.
The Bartlett quartette will take part
in the concert at the Gem opera house
in Naugatuck this evening.
The ceremony known as the forty
hours devotion will open in the Sacred
Heart church at the 1890 o'clock mass
next Sunday.
Henry Heating, the two weeks old son
ofsHenry Heating of II Field street, died
last night. The funeral was held at
o'clock this afternoon.
The general committee of the recent
Foresters' fair desire all members of the
local orders having tickets, to turn them
over to their respective courts before
March 4.
Patents have been granted to citizens
of Waterbury as follows: w. G.. Price,
pencil sharpener; A. Wolff, making
metal mounts for brushes.
Frederick w. Haase, for seven years
a popular clerk of Epson, Singleton q
Co, has accepted a position with the l..
f. Haase Co, in the wall paper depart
ment.
The Consolidated officers say that
road does not own any of the New
England's stock, and does not want any
of it. Reading has controlling IN
terest in its stock.
John p. Murphy is very busy revising
the constitution of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, and preparing to submit his
report to the order, which will meet in
New York next May.
The accident which happened to Peter
Brine, while at work drawing wire in
Holmes, Booth & Haydens' mill last
Thursday, it is said will result in the
loss of his right eye. The power of
vision is entirely gone.
The Waterbury Turn Nerein enter
tanned its friends with pretty three act
comedy entitled The Humorous
Student" at Turn hall last night.
Faulman's orchestra furnished the
music for the occasion.
Dennis Whalen, who has been soiourn-
ing among the green hills of Erin for
some months, arrived home this morning
looking as hale and hearty as a young
ster of 20. He has been kept very busy
all day distributing souvenirs to his
| friends.
Charles Lyman, president of the civil
service commission of the United States,
was in Waterbury to-day securing
statistics necessary for the formation of
a civil service board in the local post
office. He will report his findings
within a few weeks.
| Mrs Margaret Smith of 800 Grove
street, while on her way to the 1880
o'clock services in the church of the
immaculate Conception yesterday, slip
ped and fell on the icy sidewalk on
North Willow street and broke her left
arm just above the wrist. The fracture
was reduced by DIR O'Hara.
The funeral of Patrick Hackett was
largely attended from his late residence,
TAG East Main street, at , p. IN. yester-
day, to the Sacred Heart church. The
pallbearers were John Thompson, Will
liam Bannon, James Dunn, John Ken
Inaugh, Terrence Downey and Robert
Sheehan, all old friends of the deceased.
The interment was st Joseph's ceme-
/ terry.
The Scovill Manufacturing company
has started in to heat the entire
works by a new system. The Evans
Heating company of New York city
has the contract to put in the apparatus
and hot water will be used instead of
AhC olCllA 10 StlNl W bt lar
more economical and to give greater
satisfaction than steam.
A horse, attached to a cutter in which
were two men from Bristol, became
frightened near the junction of Malta
tuck and West Main streets yesterday
afternoon, and after throwing out the
occupants of the sleigh started on a run
Ldown the New England tracks. The
animal was stopped near the New Eng
land station, little damage being done to
horse or vehicle.
Word was received at the local office
of the New England road about Il
Ioclock this morning, that b. r. Pollack
OF East Hartford has been appointed
tralnmaster in place of A. L. Mckenzie
resigned. Mr. Pollock has been through
the three tricks" and was for long
time chief dispatcher And what he
does not know about New England
trains could be learned in little while.
Daniel F. Kelly suffered peculiar
accident yesterday morning which re-
suited in the loss of his left eve. He
was about to get out of bed, when his
wife threw up one of her arms and he1
thumb nall struck her husband in the
eye and penetrated the cornea. DR.
Hayes, on examination, pronounced the
sight destroyed. DR. Rodman was
called in consultation and arrived at the
same conclusion. MIR Kelly went to
the hospital to-day for special treat
ment.
The Connecticut board of lady mana,
gers for the Worlds fair makes an ap
peal for any old valuable work.
whether book, paper or magazine,
written by Connecticut woman, which
the owner is willing to loan To tn,
state. 1t is the intention of the board
to place such loans in the woman's
building at Chicago and n number OF
rare old volumes have already been
promised. The list is not restricted tc
old volumes by any means, but in.
cludes the work of woman writers of to-
day, whether the articles were written
for magazines or newspapers, or were
published in book form. Intending con
tributors are requested to send theil
names to Mrs p. H. Ingalls,, 112 High
street, Hartford, who will, in turn
notify the chairman of the literary com
mittee of the state board.
In the police court to-day Dennis
Murphy, who hailed from Hartford
and Edwin Pope, a coachman, hat