Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-01-17
CITY NEWS.

bury Photographic society will be held
this evening.
The Grelle- Boughton-P inney case
comes up before the supreme court to-
day.
Joseph McGrath will open his new
wine room on South Main street at 6
O'Clock this evening.
There were six sleighing parties last
night, two to Naugatuck, one to
/; Thomaston and three to Cheshire.
Mr. and Mrs Roger Conner gave a
pleasant whist party at their home on
East Liberty street last evening.
P. j. Donahue was granted admins
tration papers on his late wlfe's estate
this morning in the probate court.
The commissioners on the estate of L.
X. Thorpe held their final meeting to-
day and filed their report in the probate
court.
Ruby NJ True was this morning ap-
pointed conservator over Della Hull,
who is now confined in the Middletown
insane asylum.
The funeral of the late Mrs Mary Nc
Evoy will take place at 8 o'clock to-
morrow morning to the church of the
Immaculate Conception.
All those having center school district
taxes to be abated are requested by
Chairman Tierney of the district COM
mittee, to call at 1877 Bank street.
Last night was one of the coolest in
many yeals. The thermometer in
many places registered eleven degrees
below zero. At the horse railroad
barns the mercury dropped to eighteen
below.
Daniel Hayes got off a Naugatuck
road train in this city last night and
Immediately began asking people for
money. He was intoxicated at the
time and was arrested by Officer Moore.
He was given thirty days and costs for
drunkenness and the same dose for
vagrancY, this morning. The case of
the Rankin boy, for theft, was again
continued until Saturday.
Mayor Webster has made new rule
with regard to coasting. IL is that this
sport shall not be INDUCED in until after
4 o'clock in the afternoon on the streets
already designated. This arrangement
is made necessary because otherwise
traffic would be seriously impeded in
the busy hours of the day. ANY person
caught coasting before p. m. will be
liable to arrest, and the new rule will
be rlgidly enforced.
Friends of Mary E. Gregory, wife of
- IL HIeSoIy, Will oe palned to
learn of the death of that estimable
lady at the Atlantic hotel in Bridgeport
last night, after lingering illness. DR.
and Mrs Gregory were on their way to
Huntington, in this state from Spokane.
Wash, when Mrs Gregory's failing
health necessitated a stop-over in
Bridgeport. where she continued to
sink until the time of her death. Her
five weeks old baby died few hours
previous to its mother. Mrs Gregory
and her child will be buried from Trum-
bull church on Thursday at 80 p. m.
Three small accidents on the New
England road yesterday evening tied up
things pretty generally on the west end
OF the road during the night. Eleven
freight trains and their crews were
stalled in the local yard early this
morning. Four cars and a caboose
were off the track at Southford, caused
by the breaking of a truck Nine cars
jumped the rails at Osborntown, and a
switch engine at Bristol was in the
same predicament. Passengers were
transferred around the wreck at Bristol
and brought to this city at 1905 p IN.
John w. Belts, who claimed Water
bury as his home, was charged with in
toXication. 1t was plain, EVERYDAY
KIND OF drunk, and Judge Coe gave
MN chance to settle for the costs.
50 30. Belts poured forth a tale of hard
luck and woe, and so impressed the
court officers that they not only per
mltted him to go home upon his
promise to remit the amount when he
got there, but City Attorney PIatt went
down into his pocket and gave the man
the amount of his railroad fare to Wa
bury. Officer Carter went with him TO
the depot, purchased his ticket and put
MIN on the train.-Meriden Republican.
Chief Snagg advocates the building of
water tight cistern at the southeast
corner of the green. The necessity for
such a clstern has often been considered.
ana was forcibly demonstrated at the
recent fire in Irving block. Should
nre OF any magnitude occur IN the
center the steamers would be practically
Valueless, because the pressure is so
much reduced on the attaching of one
OF them to any of the hydrants. The
chief thinks if cistern sixty feet long.
twenty feet wide and twenty feet deem
were built and kept ready for use. the
section in the center as far as Grand
street on one side and Church street on
the other, and in the neighborhood of
covered.
Ever since Deputy Sheriff Foley was
:, W AAOhl TAKING from Boston the
railroad men, Costello and Waterman.
accused OF pilfering from the New Eng
iand cars, he has kept his eve peeled for
Costello. The men, it will be remem- |
bered, refused to come to Connecticut
without requisition, but it was be-
Ileved that Costello would appear in |
Vernon, his home, as he had secured his
liberty IN Boston. Deputy Foley kept |
W communication with parties in |
vernon and yesterday heard that his |
man was there. He went to Vernon. |
found him in the station, brought him
before Justice Goodwin, in East Hart
ford, last night, and then carried him
over to Hartford to Jail, after the |
justice had promptly held him in bonds
OF 81 200. 1t is expected that Water
man will soon be secured on requi-
The board of trade held an adjourned
meeting last night, President J. R.
Smith presiding. A communication
was read from George E. Judd, de-
Ginning to accept the office of secretary
to which he was elected at the last
meeting. Another ballot was taken re-