Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-26
CITY NEWS.

Go As refined minstrels will be the at traction at the opera house this evening. A fine programme has been prepared. Some excellent seats for the concert of the Boston Festival orchestra may yet be secured at the Driggs < Smith Co.'S store.
 John J. Dawson, formerly with the Wa terbury Clock company. has accepted a position with the Waterbury Furniture company.
 Catherine McMahon. aged fl years, wife of Patrick McMahon of Is Oak street. died this morning. The funeral will be held Saturday morning.
 In Waterbury, Middletown and other places when a nan wants little free ad- vertising he publishes card denying that he is a member of the 4. r. A.-New Bri- tain Herald.
 Bridget Sheehy. aged seven months, died this mol ming at the residence of her parents, Mir and Mrs David Sheehy, v l Pleasant street. The funeral will take place at o'clock tomorrow afternoon. James Hunter, aged 57 years, died last night at his residence. P Alder street. The deceased had charge of the plumbing department at Holmes, Booth X Haydens', and was well known among the residents
 of this town.
 The first regular meeting of the Central 1 Labor union, since the uplon fair, will be
 held tomorrow evening, and all the dele gates are requested to attend to hear the report of the executive committee relative to the fair.
 Tickets for the seventh entertainment of the Peoples ten cent course are now on sale. The entertainment will be talk on "Coins and Coinage" by Col O. c. Bosby- shell, until recently superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia.
 Chairman Moritz Grelle of the recent town meeting announces the following appointments to the committee on for'uu- lating by laws for the management of the almshouse: Mayor E. G. Kilduff. Judge C.. G. Root, Thomas D. Wells. ex-Seleetman Benjamin Sedgwick and First Selectman F.. W. Pinney.
 Attorney D. F. Webster, as counsel for Loomis G. Day. has brought suit against pr J. NJ. Benedict for S, ,O0O. Mir Day claims that when his leg was first broken he was attended by pr Benedict. and through some alleged mismanagement the broken limb did not knit properly and re- | suited in his being obliged to undergo n second operation
 The marriage of H. $. Newton and Miss Mary E. Russell was performed at the home of the bride on North Main street yesterday afternoon by Rev Dr J. G. Davenport. After the ceremony bounti- ful dinner was served. The couple left for wedding trip to New York. Washing ton and Baltimore. They will reside at 476 Winthrop avenue. New Haven, where Mir Newton is engaged in business.
 The Holy Family society of St Cecilia's parish celebrated it's second anniversary with sociabIe and reception in Concor- dia hall last night. The hall was filled to overfiowing with members of the parish and their friends. The stage performance was decided success and received merited applause. After the stage performance dancing was enjoyed for couple of hours Faulmann's orchestra furnished the music and Professor Herr prompted.
 w. J. Snow places his loss by yester- days fire at $1Oe. Miss Moore's loss is $50 and the damage to the building is placed at $50. Rametti X Squires, the shoe dealers. have not vet made an esti- mate of their loss. The fire communicated to the shed from bonfire in the rear of one of the stores north of the Platt build ing. A section of hose which had been run over by wagon burst in Shows store and was responsible for most of his loss.
 The Hon A. A. Strout counsel for the receiver of the New York S New England railroad, yesterday filed in the United States circuit court at Boston n bill in equity against the New York, New Haven X Hartford railroad. asking for an injunc- ton to restrain the latter from discrimi- hating against the former corporation. The bill, which contains allegations simi- lar to those in the petition recently dis missed by the court. IS filed in accordance with the suggestion made by the court in dismissing the petition. Similar bills will be filed in the other jurisdictions at once.
 Yesterday afternoon the clerks in A. F. Cowles' millinery rooms raised one of the Tear windows to admit little ventilation. At night the window was put down, but the catch was not closed. About S:30 o'clock last night someone raised the win dow and thrusting in his hand grabbed pocketbook, which one of the clerks had laid on the window sill. The pocketbook contained about $1 50 in money. and al- though the daring burglar was seen before he had left the place. still no tidings of the man can be found. The amount taken was not much but the act itself was one of the boldest ever known in the city.
 This morning when Thomas O'Connor. who lives with his wife and seven chil- dren at No Hickory street arose, he complained of being sick but went to his work as usual. Mrs O'Connor also had a terrible headache which she could not account for, when she tried to arouse her children she was alarmed to find them un- conscious and at once suspected the truth that they all had been poisoned by coal gas from the kitchen stove. Dr O'Hara was hastily summoned and sue ceeded in restoring the children to consci- ousness and all are now out of danger. It was a close call.
 The board of government of the Catho- lie Total Abstinence Union of Connecticut and the state parade committee of the Young Mems Total Abstinence and Bene- volent society held meeting in the rooms of the society in New Britain yesterday afternoon to arrange for the state parade and field day to be held in that city June 2Sth. The chief business transacted con- sisted of matters relative to the appoint ment of grand marshal and county marshals and the position of the different societies in line. All the previous arrangements which were made by the parade committee of the local society were acceptable by the board.
 When Fred Howard. the young man sentenced to six months in jail in the police court yesterday. for raising a dis turbance 1t the Salvation army barracks Tuesday night. arrived at New Haven jail he gave the same name as he used in this city. but when he was stripped and given a change of clothing it was noticed that his arms were marked with the letters. B. C.. On examination it was learned that the letters are the initials of the mans real name. which is Benjamin Copp. He be- longs in New Hampshire and said he used Al kLoA | pie should learn of his conduct He said hIs mother is an English woman and his father descendant of A family that came over in the Mayfiower.
 Liveryman George D. Gregory and wife were driving down South Main street last evening when the horse became frightened at the noise of a hand organ which was being operated on the sidewalk. The animal shied and struck against horse