Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-23

portaut matters that Will come before TINS
meeting will be the election of delegates to
attend the state convention which will be
held in Hartford July and 3.
Attorney J. F. Holohan performed
marriage ceremony before an interested
croud or spectators in City hall
this afternoon. The couple were Michael
=AIcCarthy, aged ~. residence. Pomperaug
Valley. occupation brakeman, and Lizzie
Rotchford. aged Sc, residence, this city.
The Brass Moulders' Local assembly, No
$40. X of l.. held a social meeting in
Labor hall last evening. at which the
Central Labor Union delegates were
royalty entertained. Refreshments and
speech making was the order of the
meeting. The Moulders' union is finan-
cially and numerically strong.
The assessors say that hundreds of prop
erty owners, principally people in moder-
ate circumstances, have not handed in
their tax lists. Under the law an addition
of ten per cent will be added to the lists
not IN before July l, The assessors may
be found in the council chamber, City hall
building
Pride of the Valley lodge, No 1928. 1.
o. y. F. has elected the following officers:
q. NJ. w. Waters; n. g.. John Suther-
land; V. CT, Thomas Tonks; F. S. George
Marendaz: r. S. John Gilmore; T..
George Brown; 1. G.. John Anderson; o.
| G. Edward Strom; w, j. Cummings: c.,
John BeardSley; LIST S. S.. Victor Ander
son; 2nd s. S. George Mclean.
| The New York court of appeals yestAr-
day affirmed the conviction of ex-Rounds-
man Matthew Daley, of New York. He
WAS convicted of assault on Mrs Annie
| Harmon and tine lower court sentenced
/ HIM to a years imprisonment. He was
previously trled and acquitted for an al
legged criminal assault upon Mrs lannon's
daughter. Daley formerly resided in Wa
terbury and recently visited friends here.
Orson Castle. aged 81 years. former
resident If Waterbury. died at Yuma.
! Colorado. June II. He learned the brass
| rolling business at Benedict & Burnham's
and afterwards worked at the West Brass
mill In 1864 Mr. Castle left this city and
accepted a position in New York. The
deceased Travelled a good deal through the
country making occasional visits to Water
| bury. He WAS nephew of \. Scovill of
b North Willow street and of Mrs Sarah
johnson of 81 East Clay street.
Edward West for drunkenness was fined
81 and costs this morning. Dennis Sulli-
van was fined -. A young man for being
caught bathing in the Naugatuck river on
Riverside street WAS fined - and costs.
Martin Higgisun. aged fifteen. was charged
with stealing coal from the yard of Fred J.
Wood. Wood sud that for two years he
had been bothered by boys stealing coal
and particularly by this boy, Hlggison.
| The boy and his mother said it was the
| first time he ever took coal from Wood :
yard The case was adjourned until Mon
day morning
Judge Prentice heard two divorce cases
Yesterday afternoon in New Haven and
continued eight until next Wednesday
Mrs Emma JeSsell of Waterbury pleaded
iur dlyorcs from Henry JesSell on the
ground OF his immoral conduct. The hus-
| band did not contest the case and the
plaintiff obtained decree. Their mar
rage took place in 1885. The only other
| case heard WAS a Waterbury affair. John
| II. Bri>sInger asked for divorce from Ann
BeIsSiuger. alleging that she deserted him
over four years ago. They intermarried in
1854. Judge Prentice continued the case
till Friday for further evidence.
The Waterbury and NauGatuck sports
who attended the pugilistic carnival at
Seymour Thursday night say that the re-
port of the affair published in the Bridge
port Union was one sided and untrue,
There was only handful of people pres
! ent and for that reason there was no in
| duCemeut for the men to exert themselves,
as there was no money in it. Harry Lane
of Bridgeport and Jack Lynch of Manga
| tuck were booked for six rounds, but were
instructed by Manager Burns to merely
show themselves and spar one round.
This was agreed to but Lane at the first
| opportunity fouled Lynch, his methods
being contrary to all rules.
This was the hottest day of the season
and the hottest June day Waterbury has
experienced in a number of years. At
| noon the thermometer registered ninety
five degrees in many places. At the New
| Haven signal station nlnety-one degrees
was the record ut IL o'clock this being the
highest temperature reported from any
signal station in the United States. At
Hartford it was 81; Meriden. sc; New
Britain. 80; Ansonia, "a. The weather
forecast to-day is not reassuring. either.
1t is: Fair. continued warm weather
slightly cooler. with possibly thunder
showers Sunday afternoon or night; winds
generally southwesterly.
Owing to the criticisms which have been
made by Congressman Pigott On the APP
pointment of James w. Fitzpatrick as as
sistant postmaster. the postmaster. d. E.
Fitzpatrick. has concluded to remove all
cause for complaint by appointing another
| man to the position aud has 70 warded TO
Washington the name of Councilman John
t. Boylan for assistant postmaster at VS.
terbuTy. Mr. Boylan has b. en- in the en-
ploy of the Waterbury Watch company al
most from the time the company fist en-
gagged in business and through homes
thrift and steady application to business
worked his way from an ordinary en-
ploye to that of one of the most important
in the factory. he is a councilman from
the third ward. and is we'll and favorably
known in society circles.
| II was thought yesterday by the rela-
| tives of Mr. Emeline Brousseau of 700
Baldwin street. who died Wednesday
night, that the woman was in a trance Mrs
Brousseau had not been i'll aud was appar-
| emily wen as ever fifteen minutes before
her death occurred. Yesterday after the
body had been prepared for burial her face
had such life like appearance that IL was
thought the woman was not dead. DR. Nc
Avoy was summoned and pronounced the
woman dead although she bad remark
ably life like appearance. An investiga-
/ body was embalmed eleven hours after
death. The funeral of Mrs Broussau
toook pl.ce 10 Sc AIMS church at
o'clock this morning. where q requiem
mass was celebrated.