Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-08
CITY NEWS.

Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair,
cooler.
Phelan, the tea merchant, will make the
ladies of Waterbury open their eyes next
Saturday.
The quarterly meeting of the Second
division, A. o. h, will be held in st Pat
rick's hall tonight.
The funeral of Mrs Kean will take place
from her late residence on Cherry street to
the church of the Immaculate Conception
at $50 tomorrow morning.
Agnes Birrell, daughter of the late
James E. Birrell, died last night at her
/ residence, 81 East Main street. The fu-
| neral will take place tomorrow afternoon.
/ New York Il New England road con-
| ductors have been notified that they must
not whistle for telegraph signals in cities
and towns where wklstling is prevented by
ordinances.
Thomas F. Crannell of Niagara street,
for. some time employed at Benedict &
Burnham's. left to-day to accept position
with the National Sewing Machine COM
pany at Belyedere. Ill. ;ie'sH. - so y
The statement of city expenditures from
January to May L, made by Auditor Cas-
sin last night to the common council gives
the totals for each month as follows: JAM
uary $37, 1888, February SAL, 1858
March s66 OATS, April $62 ,096. II; bal
ance unexpended $199, 403 "a. The total
amount expended on the additional water
supply in 1894 is $40, 093.23.
Mrs Julia Kenny, aged SO years, died at
the residence of her husband, James
Kenny, ], 1O9 East Main street, last night.
Besides her husband she leaves seven
children, Mary, Katie. Annie, Maggie,
James. Lawrence and Nicholas. The de-
ceased was sister of William and Daniel
McGrath. The funeral will take place to
the Sacred Heart church at o'clock to-
morrow morning,
At the meeting of Co last night Quar-
termaster Sergeant Schuyler presented G.
W. Sharpe with solid gold badge for sell
ing the largest number of tickets for the
recent entertainment. The company will
have a full dress battalion drill next Mon
day night. After the meeting the MEM
| bers were treated to refreshments by Lieu
tenant Fitzpatrick of Co G., Waterbury's
new postmaster.
| Tickets for Colonel Bosbyshell's lecture
in the Peoples ten cent course, Thursday
evening, are finding ready sale. 1t
promises to be the most interesting and
instructive entertainment of the series.
The colonel was for years superintendent
of the government mint at Philadelphia,
and is a thorough master of his subject,
Coins and Coinage" He is an unusually
interesting speaker. Seats may be secured
at Cones.
Local assembly, No 3O89, K. of L., held
an important meeting last night. The
matter of subletting the work of laying the
pipe for the new water supply was dis
| cussed. 1t was shown that the resolution
presented by organized labor of Water
bury urging the employment of citizens
only was being entirely disregarded.
Italians are being brought here from all
over the country to take the place of the
citizens and taxpayers with the result
that the regular citizens of the town find
it almost impossible to get chance to
earn dollar of the money paid out for
pvblic improvements, which money is
made up of the various sums paid into the
city and town treasury by the same men
who walk the streets in a vain search for
employment, while the italian workingmen
find lots of work from the different con-
tractors who are dealing with the city.
John Cairns, state agent for the journal of
the Knights of Labor, was present and ad-
dressed the meeting.
Philip DERRICK of the Connecticut
state decorators threatens to bring
suit against the Nau gatuck road for
losses sustained in not being permitted to
pile his baggage into the baggage
car this morning witho t having it checked
or exhibiting a ticket. Mr. DERRICK had
justfnished fitting up the saloons of j. W.
Hodson andD. II. Hart and was on his way
to Torrington, but arrived at the depot too
late to turn his several valises over to the
| baggagemaster and commenced throwing
them in himself. He threw one into the
car and then turned around to get another
| when the man in charge of the car tossed
the one he had just thrown in onto the
platform. This so enraged enraged the
decorator that he refused to make any
further arrangements and Immediately
tried to find out the name of the
man in the car and called on officer John
Brickel to witness the affair. He says he
will lose $50 on account of the delay, and
gave all the officials at the local Office a
berating on account of something which all
who witnessed the mans action said was
due to his own mistake.
The presence of huge rat in the lobby
of City hall last night came near causing
City Sheriff Mcdonald to be sent out on
another still hunt after some of the mem
bers of the court of common council. A
number of the city solons were grouped
together in front of the mayors Office dis
| cussing the measures to come before their
| respective boards, when a large rat de-
scended the stairs leading to the main
| hall and seeing the crowd of apparently
angry disputants the rodent fed in the di-
rection of the district court room. Alder
man Kiefer caught sight of the fleeing
form and Immediately gave chase. The
rat reached the door of the district court
room and finding it closed turned on its
assailant making a vicious charge for his
laoru II L
pursued. Mr. Kiefer was so stunned at the
unexpected and determined defence
offered by the rat that he scarcely knew
which way to turn, but fed in the direc-
ton of the main exit uttering the most
| up earthly yells ever heard in the City hall
| When the excitement was at its height
Councilman Delaney appeared on the
scene and with well directed aim of his
toe sent the rodent into the air and soon
its ifeless corpse was being viewed by the
brave city fathers who but few moments
previous had fed before it like flock of
sheep pursued by a wolf dog.
The first annual meeting of the United
Charities was held in the board of trade
rooms last night. F. j. Kingsbury pre-
| sided. E. n. Dickinson was elected gen.
eral secretary. A committee consisting of
DR. Anderson, Rev J. A. Mulcahy and E.
II. Dickinson was appointed to mako some
changes in the constitution. E. NJ. Dick
inson, w. II. Camp and Rev DR. Martin were
appointed to name the central committee
as called for in the constitution. Follow
ing is the list of delegates who have been
appointed to represent the different
churches and societies connected with the
organization: First Congregational church,
the Rev Joseph Anderson, D. D., and o.
81. Stevens; Second Congregational church,
the Rev j. G. Davenport, D. D., and j. s.
Galley; Third Congregational church, the
Rev T. P. Waters and John Henderson,
Jr; FIRST 81. E. church, the Rev Gardner