Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-02
CITY NEWS.

<AAhCAANuh 2AAAAH Np Auo SAAuh hoNA for two weeks. ''.
 Mrs Kate Gagan aged 35, wife of Patrick Gagan of 223 Hill street died this morning.
 The Lyras gave concert in their hall last night under direction of Prof Jno L. Bonn.
 Miss Kate Altman of 54 Hillside avenue and Miss Bridget Finnerty of Pleasant street sailed from New York on Saturday for visit to Ireland.
 The annual fair of Court Meanys Pride circle, C. of F., will open tomorrow even ing in City hall. There will be dancing each evening and a good time generally. The annual town meeting with Mayor Webster moderator. was called in the police court room this morning, but no taken until tonight.
 i Mrs Margaret Brennan. aged 90, died Saturday evening at her home, 99 Brown tstreet after lingering illness. The 1 funeral will take place to the church of the ! Immaculate Conception tomorrow morn l ing.
 i The Waterbury Watch Co hns been ] awarded medals at the Worlds far for 1 duplex witches. century clock, artistic dis , play and general exhibit in competition 1 with all the big watch companies of the world.
 l Lottic G. Egan. daughter of Charles l Skinner and wife of James Eg1In, formerly of this city, died in New Haven yesterday. i The remains will be brought to this city ] to-morrow on the lI:17 train, in charge of 1 Undertaken Mulville. Services will be ] held at the church of the Immaculate Con l ception. with interment in St Joseph x cemetery.
 At meeting of the Rose Hill Hose Co i yesterday afternoon arrangements were 1 completed to attend the state parade of the ! firemen next Thursday, in MiddletOwn. i The company with Il band and friends will leave Waterbury on the 7:30 New England train. The fair for the round trip is 95 ! cents.
 1 The big Danbury fair opened this morn | ing and will continue the remainder of l the week. This k conceded to be the biggest and best agricultural fair held in | New England annually, and its fame has will exceed all previous years. feature l of the show will be an exhibit of blooded ! dogs from all over the United States. i Three hundred dogs are entered. 1 The annual meeting of the center school district was held Saturday night. A ten 1 mill tax was laid the district committee was instructed to appoint no persons us janitors who are not actually dependent upon their salaries for support, and 1t was voted that residents of the town living outside the center school district may. if they pay taxes within the district to the extent of SIP annually, send theIr children | to the center district schools without tui- ton charges.
 Collector John l. Hutchinson of the in- tcrnal revenue department has just received l from the office of the secretary of the ! treasury permission to be absent from his | district during the thirty days succeeding . October 1. For the first time since his np- pointment Collector Hutchinson asks for leave of absence in order that he may visit the Worlds fair and a relative. A vaca- ton at this time would seem to indicate that the president has settled on the sue cessor of MT Hutchinson and that his ap- pointment will be shortly announced.
 Joseph Thereault a little boy aged foui years. living with his parents on Chape street, Simonsville, met with an accident Saturday afternoon which may result fatally. He was playing in the street near his home when bullet from d piStO in the hands of Jacques Schaeffcr, l! year old youth. entered his left side almos penetrating the lung. The child Wa. plcked up and carried into the house. Dl Chagnon was summoned and extracted tho bullet. which was of thirty-two calibre Schaeffer. 1t is said, Is not of right mind and whether the bullet was fired inten tionally or not is not known. The parents of the boy will not prosecute him a' Schaefer's father has promised to meet al expenses and send his boy away.
 Thomas Holmes, aged g, New Eng land road brakeman, went crazy at Eas Hartford yesterday and smashed thing, right and left. He was taken in charge bN sheriff Foley. Holmes was locked III about two weeks ago for being crazy, ano wAi released when he promised tc go to hi, ho ne in Lyons, \. Y. He WAS cunfine, ill an asylum ill New York state for about
 week and then he made. his way back |,
 East Hartford. He tried to break his eel
 door yesterday afternoon. but Was not Il,
 successful he was with the furniture
 Last night Deputy Foley SAW him and sai,
 hc Was going to let him % iu the morning
 Holmes said he wus going to New York t
 be married this week and wanted tn
 deputy sheriff to act as best man.
 One uf the teachers of St Margaret
 school. whose name Is s4rid tu b, Mc(irath
 Was assaulted hy an unknown man on tn
 Naugatuck road short distance below
 the smith X Griggs factory about U'cloc
 Saturday afternoon. The woman was dis
 covered by Liveryman John P. LawloI
 who Was urlNlng to NauSutuck, lylnS h
 the roadside with bad gash on her fore
 head. She was cared for by friends am
 Mir Lawlor drove to Union City and telt
 phoned to Chief of Police Egln. As tn
 crime was committed outside of the Water
 bury limits. the local police did not ac
 and Chief Horsford of Naugatuck was n,
 tifed and made an unsuccessful search fo
 the woman's ass4lilant. Robbery is said [
 have been the mans motive, hut tn
 woman resisted and after beating her wit
 a sharp instrument he fled. Dr Rodma
 dressed the teachers wounds which ar
 not serious. The young woman hal rit
 den to the horse car terminus and wake
 a short distance along the Naugatuck road
 She was returning when the assault wa committed