Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-17
CITY NEWS.

Thomas r. Casey, resigned
Grand concert and ball for the benefit
of the active singers of the Concordia
singing society, in Concordia hall this
| evening
Thomas Flaherty of 375 Baldwin street.
an employe of Benedict & Burnham's, got
his foot caught in a truck this morning.
and received a bad cut on the toes. DR.
Frost attended him.
Nj Welton has force of thirty six
men at work laying water pipes in Ayers
street. Mr. Welton says he did not intend
| to commence this work just now, but the
demand for work SO great he thought
it might as well be done now as later.
A.V. Laconte has sold the large stone
house at the rear of Mrs Verziers on South
Main street to Bernhard Schmidt. boss
| timer for Disiey & Weyand. Mr. Schmidt
will improve the place and make his
| home there.
Phelan the tea man is going to give a
special present with each pound of tea
Saturday. Ladies need and must have
them, but gentleman would cause quite a
commotion by using them on the street.
| Look in his window.
| At the meeting of the division superin-
tendents of the Consolidated road in New
| Haven Tuesday, it was decided to continue
the Waterbury and New London through
| express for the accommodation of people
| in the Waterbury section, who desire to
reach the seaside during summer.
DIR Benedict was called from the base
| ball grounds yesterday afternoon to attend
G. W. Mcdonald of Winsted, an employ of
the Naugatuck Railroad Co, who received a
bad cash on the forehead by striking
against the window of a caboose car at the
stitches in the mans forehead.
Susan NJ. Brown of California, Through
her attorney Judge Gillette, entered an ap-
peal in the probate court to-day against the
distribution of the estate of the late Jen-
ME NJ. Hitchcock. The will was admitted
to probate some time ago. The appeal was
granted and will be heard in the superior
court
st Cecilia's dramatic and operate So
ciety will give reproduction of the opera
Pauline" on next Thursday evening,
May 24, at Concordia hall. sociable
will follow. Prof Rudolph furnishing the
music and Leo Herr prompting. The ad-
mission will be % cents. A great number
of tickets have already been sold.
Superintendent NJ. s. Crosby, Rev j. A.
Mulcahy, Captain Wolff and C. S. Hart,
the joint committee appointed by the
board of education and the district COM
mittee to report site and plans for new
| High school building, are in Bridgeport
to-day looking at the different school
buildings in that city.
Conlon Brothers have again opened the
| passageway between South Main and Bank
streets and the public is thankful. 1t is
understood that the place was only closed
to keep within the bounds of the law,
which requires such a passageway to be
| closed once in every seven years in order
to keep it from becoming a public high
way.
While the reporter was in Chief of
Police Egans Office to-day a boy, appar-
emily fifteen years of age, entered, and
said he had no home, no friends and no
place to go and he wanted to be sent to the
Meridsn reform school. When asked
where he had lived last, he said in Mystic.
He was told to go back there and have the
authorities of that place care for him.
Mays cold weather appears to have ar
rived on time, but it is bereft of much of
Its chill by the genial sunshine that seems
to have come to stay. We get tidings of
more or less severe frosts, and consequent
damage to vegetation in some sections but
unless they are more nipping than yet re-
ported. tie injury will not be very great.
The season is so far advanced now that
heavy frosts would work damage
The following officers were elected at
the convention of the I. o. o. F., In
Stamford yesterday: Grand master, Leo
pold De Leeuw of Hartford; deputy grand
master D. Railing of New Haven; grand
secretary, F. B. Smith of Waterbury; grand
treasurer, Frederick Botsford of New
Haven; grand wardeEs. L. H Fuller of
Putnam. John Blair of Waterbury, II.
Stanley Finch and 1. Taft of Stamford.
There are about 1000 or 5000 Italian
citizens in this state and they propose to
form a building and cooperative loan as
sociation. They will have also in mind a
unic of voters and citizens in body that
shall be characterized by a love for their
fatherland, their fellow compatriots and
their adopted country. The organizers be-
lieve that such union would cement and
unite the members and prove to be a mu-
tual benefit to all.
Charles Pardee, a farmer seventy-four
years old, and for several years resident
of Terryville, shot himself through the
heart with a double barreled shot gun
Tuesday afternoon, killing himself instant
IL. Dependency seems to be the cause at
tributeG. He had been notified to vacate
the small farm where with his wife he
eked out but a meagre existence for the
past years and lately had been doing some
erratIc things. He leaves a brother, who
resides in this city.
The Waterbury and Naugatuck directory
for 1894, published by the Price & Lee
Co, is being delivered to subscribers.
1t is a model of topographic neatDess and
is complete in every respect The num-
Der of names in the Waterbury directory is
IS. 1858; new names added 3,04O; names
erased, ?, 293; increase TAT; changes in ad-
dress, APPS. Names in the Naugatuck
directory, 3.71S; new names added. 721;
names erased, 4O7; increase 314 changes
in address, 942.
of speed will be made on the Waterbury
Driving park by N. w. Heaters Jerome,
G. L. Lilley's Rockburn, and o. G.
Camps Applewood. Other owners of fast
steppers will be present and settle some
old disputes. Trainer Donovan will ex-
hibit his fine string of colts. No admis-
sion fee will be charged. Eight horses be-
longing to Stackhouse & Son of South
Carolina are expected to arrive in few
days and will be kept on the grounds all
summer. The Park house is rapidly ap-
preaching completion. The dining room
and cooking department will be ready for
use on Decoration day. Entries for the
spring meeting will close May 81.
The board of police commissioners met
in executive session last night to consider
the complaint entered against Officer j.
Brickel for using remarks not in keeping
with his position on the night of the re-
cent murder on Canal street The accused
admitted using the words, but explained
that they had been made in reply to jok-
ing bystander. While the board did not
consider the remark an indication of
cowardice on the part of the officer, still it
was indiscreet and the officer was repri-
manded. 1t was an unwise remark to
make in the presence of large crowd and
Officer Brickel, who has on many occa-
sions given practical evidence that he is