Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-08
CITY NEWS.

Rose Tiernoy of Hartford, both sisters of
Bishop Tierney. spent yesterday with Mrs
John O'Neill of this city.
The Jury in the case of McGrath VS.
Cavanaugh yesterday afternoon returned
verdict for the plaintiff to recover the full
amount of the bill, 1874 60 with costs.
Samuel Potter, aged 81, died at his resi-
dence in Hopeville last night. The fu-
neral will take place from the house at
o'clock Friday afternoon. Interment will
be in Brockett cemetery.
The Ten Foot Drive will be our next
serial. 1t is a companion story to The
Breton Mills" which gave such general
satisfaction few yaars ago. You will
miss good thing if you do not read it.
Watch for the opening chapters
The rehearsal of the st Joseph's Dram
attic club, which was to take place in st
Patrick's hall tonight. has been deferred
Rehearsal will be held in the opera house
commencing at II o'clock Sunday. full
attendance is requested.
Miller 4 Pecks losses by the recent fire
were adjusted to-day but the amount re-
ceived is not known. Mr. Miller when
asked the basis of settlement referred the
reporter to the insurance agent. The
agent sent the scribe to the adjusters, who
refused to talk. And there you are.
| Bluebirds were fitting about in the gar
| d ms Yesterday, the sunset was mellow
! a that of "A June evening and the weather
generally seemed altogether out of season.
| The greatest blizzard in these parts came
week Later than this, but there's plenty of
time for March to raise high jinks with
the thermometers.
CITY Treasurer 2. f. Bannon and City
Sheriff Mcdonald are home from their
trip to New York. The treasurer brought
back with him check for S101, 761, pre-
MUM on bonds delivered to \. w. Harris
a Co. More of the bonds will be de-
livered in Boston this month to the same
firm aud another 500. 600 worth in New
York on the first of April.
John O'Neill was again in the prisoners
box this morning. He was only at liberty
one hour. after being given his freedom
yesterday, when Officer Tehan brought
him in drunk He was given thirty days
in Jail Mary Dillon. who has many
ali SEES, was carried to the station in an
express wagon by a special officer. She
begged to be let go this morning but was
tined 81 and costs.
The funeral of James H. Coyle took
place frcm his late residence. 81 Ayers
street. to the church of the Immaculate
Conception al : 30 this morning. mass
Of requiem was celebrated by the Rev p.
J. Kennedy. The pallbearers were John
Bowling. Edward Carroll, Timothy Dona-
hue Thomas Coughlin. William Ryder
and Eugene Murphy. Interment was in st
Joseph's cemetery.
The meeting of the national council of
the knights of Columbus, held in New
Haven Tuesday, the first annual
meeting under the new rules. There were
meetings IN October and January AID Off
GERS were elected The business of Tues
day. however. was mostly routine and re-
| hating to the running of the several de-
partments. nothing out of the ordinary
coming up. The membership January l
was 7,21O, net gain for the year 1898 of
| SD. The Connecticut membership in the
| same time suffered a net loss of twelve
their membership January l being $3.50
! The aggregate gain in membership for the
last quarter was about 325 A new coun-
ell Will soon be organized in Hartford
St JosephS Total Abstinence society an
nounces the following programme of eN-
| ercISeS for next Sunday night Opening
address. Nice-President Patrick Mcmahon;
violin solo. William J. Bergen; tenor solo,
John b. Moran; address. Rev z. J. Ke =
nelv: soprano solo, Mrs William J. Ber-
| gen: recitation Miss Lalla Madden; piano
| SOLO, MIS- l.. W Oil. ltllOI SOlO, HULL - L
! Mnher; cornet solo, William j. Bergen;
school: accompanist, Mrs l.. Wolff. The
success which has attended the former
efforts of the society in the matter of liter
| airy and musical exercises. and the excel
| lent programme arranged for next Sunday
night, Is assurance that all who will attend
the coming entertainment will be treated
to an evening of rare intellectual and
| social amusement.
! At the regular meeting of the district
committee last night there were present
Chairman Wolff. Messrs Mcdonald, Beg
nal Hart and Chapman. The monthly
payroll amounting to St, 630.75 and mis-
celhneous bills of S9,O7J.72 were APP
proved. J. NJ. Taylor appeared before the
meeting and explained the need of the
scissors for the drawing school, in a
| thorough and satisfactory manner. He eX-
| hiblted several Specimens of work eXecut-
I'd by the children and said that owing to
the lack of the necessary number of scissors
the children had been permitted to take
the work to their homes and the result was
| not quite rs satisfactory it would be if
the work was carried on at school. Mr.
| Taylor made az excellent plea for manual
training In the public schools. Bids were
received for setting up closets, urinals, etc,
in the Ridge street school, as follows:
| Barlow Brothers $500; Ashton & Clarity,
SGl5; L. H. Toucey. 500; ". E. Booth,
S725; Charles Thatcher Co. $500. The
contract was awarded TO Barlow Brothers.
The meeting adopted tbs recommendation
OF the board of education in reference to
the hiring of the Choristers double quar-
tette for the graduating exercises at City
hall and the purchase of 725 pairs of
scissors for the drawing school, but did
not con6ne itself to any particular COM
pany on the latter vote. Chairman Wolff
and MIR Hart were appointed to act in the
matter of recommendation in reference to
additional rooms In the West Side hill and
Sperry street schools. Mr. Chapman pre-
sented the following resolution which was
passed: Resolved, that we deprecate the
action of the board of education in charg-
ing an admission fee to the annual gradu-
ating exercises at City hall and dissent
from the same, and insist that the exer-
cises be free to the public heretofore "
The chairman was instructed to insure the
boilers of the public schools through F. H
LaForge in the Connecticut Mutual Steam
Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.
for one year. The sum received
from the state school fund amounts to
Sl9, 9O0.25.
SchoolhOu%e Burned.
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