Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-08
CITY NEWS.

W. U. McCracken Of Boston, brother or | the Rev J. H. McCracken, of this city gave
 a talk on The Referendum in St John $ parish house Saturday night.
 The funeral of Mrs Martha Kane took place at o'clock this afternoon from her
 late residence, 155 Cherry street. Inter
 ment was in Riverside cemetery.
 Dancing Instructor Joe Provost will open 1 his dancing school at Lyra hall Tuesday,
 December 9 at 7:30 p. Tn. Lessons every Tuesday and Friday. A. Tucker will assist | him.
 l At the meeting of the board of fire com missiOners this evening, it is probable that
 there will be three new permanent men
 added to the force, two pipemen and an engineer.
 | Joseph Mcdonald of Stone street was run
 over by a team at the Branch this morning and had his ankle broken. He was brought
 to his home in this city by Dr Johnson of | Thomaston.
 The regular monthly meeting of the
 Holy Name Society of the Immaculate | Conception parish took place yesterday. | Officers were elected as follows: William
 Milton. president; James Coughlan, treas
 urer; Michael Carney, secretary. The Mills meetings closed yesterday, the l 4tAot III SllN 1ltllI OC1liS about ,, ,O0O. Mir Mills expresses himself as pleased with the result of his labors in
 this city. The expense of the revival was about $500. The amount of the offering to MT Mills has not been made public. The following are the newly elected off, cers of the Concordia society: President John J. kunkel; vice-president, Daniel Kiefer; secretary, Otto Kleenert; c. S., l Fred Buettner; treasurer, c. Hauser; F. S.. Emil Harderer; music librarian, Hugo Wendehack; librarian, Otto Taller; hall agent, Paul Asheim.
 The new mail which is delivered here at the local office after the o'clock train is meeting with great success. Saturday night over 100 letters arrived here which were mailed in New York between the hours of and o'clock in the afternoon The local drops" are also assorted and distributed at the sametime.
 Colonel Doherty has nominated ex- Lieutenant Joseph T. Elliott of Middle town to be quartermaster of the regiment in place of George G. Blakeslee resigned. Colonel Elliott was formerly assistant adjutant-general on General Gra- hams staff. He afterwards served as a lieutenant in Company H, Second regi- ment, Ahddletown.
 SuGElOAn OOuuCllI h OI O-s uelu us urSl meeting Tn Pythian hall yesterday after noon. The meeting was largely attended, and by an almost unanimous vote the council decided not to take any part in the movement now on foot to call a convention of the order inINew Haven next month. The circular received from the New Haven. Birmingham and New London councils was tabled indefinitely.
 The funernl of Professor Charles E. Platt took place yesterday afternoon from the residence of his mother Mrs Caroline T. Platt, 322 West Main street. The ser vices were conducted by the Rev Dr Row land and Rev Francis T. Russell. The pallbearers were: Harry B. Lane, Robert F. Griggs, Lewis A. Platt, Archer J. Smith, Fred S. Chase, and Harris White more of Naugatuck.
 4 petition will soon be presented to the court of common council, signed by resi- dents of Stone street and vicinity, asking that a crosSwalk be laid on Baldwin street south of Stone street. About year ago a walk was laid at the north side of Stone street. but the need of one at the other side is still greater, for it is there that esidents of this and adjoining streets cross Baldwin street, going to and returning from their work.
 OdAlGI 11uL BLlNy CLdi hItu uuhGn- ness, was given thirty days in jail this morn ing. James McCabe got fifteen days for a similar offense. John Brown called Off . cer J. Brickel some vile names while he was arresting man Saturday night. The officer dropped the man he had in charge and arrested Brown. This morning he was fined S1 and costs for drunkenness and 5 and costs for breach of the peace. The Acne Dramatic club held a rehear- sal of the romantic drama "Under Two Flags" at the Acme rooms yesterday after noon. The play Is progressing favorably. Tickets are selling rapidly and merchants and others who have been assisting the re- lief bureau are buying many as the mati- nee proceeds are to be divided equally be tween the bureau and the Boys club. The next rehearsal will be on Tuesday night.
 Cornelius Tracy of the soliciting com mittee of the relief bureau deserves the credit due to the most successful worker He today turned over to Chairman Moriarty of the committee the following contributions: A. NJ. Young. ton of coal; V. B. Bronson. ton of coal; w. H. Scott 6 Co, ton of coal and load of wood. He also turned over cash contributions which he received amounting to S42. 60. With the exception of about forty or fifty sacks of four there are but little supplies at the relief bureau now. If the dull times continue something will have to be done to increase the supplies. At press hour to-day there were quite a good many people at the rooms and the number ap- plying for relief seems to be on the in crease.
 Peter Bennett, the Union street grocer, wishes to say that the statement published in one of the Sunday papers, stating that as bOndsman for James J. O'Reilly, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, he had been called upon to pay a deficit in the agents account, is absolutely false He never was bondsman for Mir O'Reilly and never was asked to pay any of that gentleman's bills, and has not heard of anybody else having to do so.
 Two years ago residents of South street petitioned for grade and asked that the curb be set and the gutters paved. So far nothing has been done with the place. The street is in good condition as far as the property of William Murray. Above this it is in bad shape. A shower of rain floods the whole street, compelling the people to walk ankle deep in slush and mud. Speaking of the indifference of the authorities to their grievance one of the residents said to-day: ''It is too soon, to commence to find fault with tha new ad- ministratioD, but unless the new court of common council shows more interest in the needs of property owners around here than their predecessors have, the change will not be productive of much benefit to us. Our taxes are paid promptly and we feel that any reasonable demand made by us on the city fathers should not go by un- needed
 Patrick J. Lawlor. aged fifty years. died at his residence, 17 Meadow street, yester- day morning. He had been we'll up to Saturday night, when he complained of an attack of rheumatism near the heart. He did not think much of it, however, and went to bed as usual. At 4 o'clock yester- day morning his son, who slept with him, awoke and found him dead. The de-