Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-09
CITY NEWS.

James L. Murphy and H. H. Schotield i of Naugatuck went to the Worlds fair to-day.
 For fine footwear, stylish and durable, no better place to buy can be found than at E. J. Finn's store.
 Twelve carloads of peaches went over the New England road from Newburg to Boston yesterday and eleven to-day.
 Edna, the infant daughter of Fred erick ". Higgins of 75 High street died this morning. Funeral tomorrow at four o'clock.
 The Central Labor union held 8 meet ing last evening and passed a vote of thanks to the societies taking part in the Labor day exercises.
 Miss Winnie Hardy of Chicopee, Mass, arrived in this city yesterday, and will be the guest of MT and Mrs Thomas Lunny for few days.
 Miss Alice Matthews of Curran's left yesterday for a few days sojourn with friends In Bridgeport. She was accom- panied by Miss Mamie Lunny.
 William J. Bergen of City Engineer Cairns office, will leave Monday to take up a course of civil engineering in the Polytechnic institute at Troy, N. Y.
 There will be a special meeting of the
  morrow afternoon at o'clock. All members are requested to be present. Miss kittie O'Neil, who has been spending four weeks vacation in Dan bury, Southbury and Hartford, as a guest of relatives and friends, returned yesterday.
 A special meeting of the Fourth Ward Democratic club will be held at s o'clock Monday evening in the rooms on Doolittle alley. All voters interested are invited to attend.
 The many friends of Dr Walter H. Holmes will learn with regret that his mind has become unbalanced to such an extent that close watch has to be kep! continually over him.
 Mir and Mrs Theodore Templeton cele brated their silver wedding at their home, 415 " est Main street. laat night A number of beautiful presents were re- ceived and several Out-of-town guests were present.
 The train due in this city at ll:l2 on the Naugatuck road was delayed one hour to-day owing to the deraIlment of some freight cars in front of the Wheeler X Wilson shop in East Bridge port.
 The Acme Dramatic club held very successful rehearsal last night of "A Celebrated Case" In future rehearsals will be held Sunday afternoons at 8 o'clock, and Monday and Friday even ings at 7:30.
 | Chairman Morris Is one of those men | who do several things without much talking. He has gone over a good deal of ground since his election, and to morrow will get the town committee together and make all arrangements l for the democratic DrimariRS
 R E. Meyers and Joseph Reid of the local postoffice and MT and Mrs \. N Trott left this afternoon on the Isabella express for Chicago. About twenty | people took this popular train at the | Waterbury station this afternoon. the greater part of which number were from surrounding towns.
 The twenty-seventh annual fair of the Watertown Agricultural and Horse association will be held on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday of next week There will be special attractions each day, with racing and good music on ! "Wednesday and Thursday. There will be special trains and reduced fairs on the NaugRtuCk railroad as usual.
 The trlal of the railroad men before the superior court for defrauding the New York X New England railroad l will come up next Tuesday at Hartford. Evan w. Scott, the timekeePer and fore man of the gang arrested, and who was placed under the heaviest bonds, is now in Pennsy lvania, but there is no reason to believe that he intends to stay away.
 The biennial convention of the SUI preme court of the Ancient Order of Foresters will be held in New Haven next week, the session beginning on Tuesday. The semi-annual report of the order shows that 1t was never more l prosperous than at present. The re- turns up to July l showed total mem bership of III, ,92S. On July l, 1891. the membership was 7,790. The gain dur ing the last two years has been a ,l3S members, , courts and 2O3 subordinate courts.
 A meeting of democrats from the first and fourth wards was held last night, in James Sutton's building on East Main street. Kevin Drury acted as chairman. and William J. Cassidy secretary. The following committees were appointed to prepare tickets for the primaries: First ward, John Lough, Ian, William Sinnott and John Doolsn fourth ward. John Brophy, John Hurley and John Finley. Another meeting ot the association will be held on Monday evening.
 The Peoples Industrial Life Insurance company has been merged into the Metropolitan Life Insurance company and the latter has entered into contract to assume all out standing policy con tracts of the Peoples company All policies will be re- stamped by the Metropolitan company. It's agents will attend to the collections and every. thing Is arranged to go on under tht new management. The local officers o the companies when seen to-day woulc not talk on the reasons for such a steI being taken, but it is rumortd that tht Peoples company was not doing stuff cient business and to secure its policy