Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-10-19
CITY NEWS.


The board of education will meet at s .
o clock this evening in tho district COM
mitee's Office.
William Ennis of the Naugatuck division
is attending the convention of the Brother |
hood of Railway trainmen in Boston.
The committee on attachments will meet
sidered unless the interested parties are
present.
4 well dressed man decorated with a
blue ribbon, was arrested on South Main
street this afternoon, by Officer Tehan,
for drunkenness.
Miss Annie Quinn, who has been visit
ing friends in this city for the past three
months, returned to-day to her home in
Paterson, y. J.
The remains of Lyman S. White, who
died in Milwaukee, arrived in this city on
the G:59 train yesterday evening for in
terment in Riverside cemetery.
There are advertised letters at the post
office for 0. b. Briggs, Miss Annie Barrett,
Joseph Cowen, Jack Liberty, George Law
renee, c. Williams, Miss Alice Walcott and
F. L. Wilson.
The First division, \. 0. H. will meet to-
morrow night in St Patrick's hall, at 8
o'clock, 10 attend the fair of st Cecilin's
litIIlSll, HI II hOuN All OlntI IllbtIIIuIlS
are invited to join with them.
A communication with regard to the
plumbing and heating of the almshouse,
received at the office yesterday, has been
consigned to the waste basket the writer
having neglected to sign his name.
Harrison Whitney of Wadhams post, G.
\. r., of this city is among the fifty G.
\. r., men whom the New York Press will
send to visit the Worlds fair. Mr. Whit
neys friends have worked hard for him.
| The New York Il New England road
will give another excursion to New York,
under the auspices of the Knights of Ply
thias of Connecticut, on Wednesday, Octo-
Der %. The special train will leave Wa
terbury at SIS.
| The first annual road race of the Ram
bier Wheel club will be held on Saturday,
October IS. The list of events is as fol-
lows: Five mile, scratch; one mile. scratch,
boys under Is; one mile handicap, club;
nine mile handicap, open.
The annual inspection of the soldiers
home at Noroton by the Connecticut
| Grand Army officials will be made Satur-
day. The hospital board will hold a meet
ing at the same time. Governor Morris is
expected to be present at the board meet
! ing.
The depot ticket office in Southington
WAS broken open yesterday noon while Miss
| Flohe, the telegraph operator. and Mr.
Smith, the ticket agent, were away at din
ner and robbed. The thief, whose name
is CHLORINE, drove off in carriage with
his booty. He was followed as far as this
city. where he deserted the team.
The alarm of fire from box 4, South
| Main and Grand streets, sent in at As
yesterday, was on account of a small blaze
in the rear of Peter Benefits grocery
store on Union street. An oil tank caught
fire and was thrown into the back yard
| where n lot of debris caught fire. but was
eNtinguished by a street hose.
The sale of the tickets for the coming
concert and reception of the Acme social
club promises to eclipse anything yet given
in Waterbury. 4 new feature in the au-
| ditorium will be the decorations by
Charters n Borden. The hustling COM
| mittce of arrangements George II. Sheehan.
Edward Lewis and l. Davidson have ex-
erted themselves to secure success and
that their efforts will be crowned with sue
oess is an assured fact. The reception will
be held Tuesday, October 81.
The postal script will soon take the
place of the postal note now in use. The
postal note costs three cents and carries
any amount up to So, while n script, n
| sheet gaining LOT amounts from one cent 10
So. has been prepared from which, on pay
ment of one cent. the amount of money to
be sent by mail 10 any part of the United
States may be torn off. the same as an eN-
press order. There will be no writing on
it of any kind by the postmaster, the
sender indorsing the check draft. The
government guarantees its safe transporta-
ton.
The Waterbury superior court. criminal
side, adjourned for the term yesterday
afternoon. The trial of John II. Rathye
of Bridgeport, charged with selling u
Clandered horse to Willis LOCKWOOD of
Southbury, September 4, was set down for
trial yesterday afternoon. but the accused
agreed 10 pay back Lockwood the sos he
got for the horse, and pay the costs of the
court if the prosecution was dropped.
State Attorney Terry therefore agreed to
nolle the case. One of the states wit
nesses created a diversion in the lobby of
the court by his drunken antics. In order
that he could testify. one of the other wit
nesscs walked the fellow several miles and
filled him with settler water and succeeded
i'll SOLDERING him up. When the fellow
learned that he would not have to testify
he WAS angry because he had got rid of his
jag"
The Isabella express which left for Chi
Cago last Saturday. met with peculiar &C
cident just before reaching Warren, Ohio
About 2:15 p. IN. as the train was under
good Roadway, the axle of one of the larg,
driving wheels of the engine broke of
clear to the hub. The huge wheel break
ing loose from its connections, left tn,
track and ploughed through a fence anC
across the fields for distance of about Ion
yards. The piston rod was snapped of
like pipe stem, the cylinder head wa.
blown out and the loose end of the con
Meeting rod smashed to the side of tn,
cab. One driver on the opposite side o
the engine left the track, and as the traiI
ran along for about quarter of a mile
every bolt which fastens the fish plates OF
the rails was cut off as clean as though
with n shears. Fortunately the engine die
not leave the track and the passenger,
were not aware that anything had hap
pened until the train slowly came to
stand still.
A young man who halls from Waterbur,
showed himself to have a supreme amour
of gall yesterday, says the Hartford Tele
gram. He called at the police station an(
told Captain Bill that he had bought
watch from n man for So and that after tn,
bargain was consummated the other maj
asked to see his watch, which he handed
: him. After getting it he refused to give i
back. The man, he said, was Just outside
as he had induced him to come there as h,
did not know it was police station. The
watch trader was called in and said tina
his accuser asked him to come to the polio,
station while he went in to see friend
and that he traded watches with the fel
low, giving him 50 to boot. 1t was evi
dent that the Waterbury man was trying Il
get possession of both watches and hole
the 50 besides. No attempt was made t.
hold him. but he was given some good ad,
vice. His unprecedented gall in using tn,