Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-01-29

Conception yesterday afternoon. Rev
Father Downey read the funer al services.
The pallbearers were Johu II. Calvin,
Maurice Whalen, John McNiff, John Muir
ply, William Bergin and Cornelius Fahey.
At the meeting of st Josephs Total Alb
stinence society in st Patrick's hall yester-
day. eight new members were elected.
1t was voted to organize a dramatic club
from members of the society. meet
ing will be held tonight when the
cast will be made out and other matters
talked up. The society has some of the
best dramatic talent in the state among its
members and will no doubt succeed in get
ting up a good local dramatic club.
"Rialto" of the Boston Advertiser writes
that a prominent New Haven official whom
he met assured him that mo matter who
controlled the New Nork & New England
property, the New York extension scheme
is now as dead as CAESARS wife, and, with
that killed, our possible interest in New
York & New England ceased. As to the
New Haven taking the New York & New
England 1 fail to see what they could do
with it, even if 1t were given to them"
The pre-lenten festival of st Johns
parish, WATERFOWL, will be held in Pythian
hall at that place on Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. There will be dancing and
other amusements and several prizes will
be given. The new hall has all the mod
ern accommodations, smoking room, ETC.
Father O'Donnen will give a cordial well
come to visitors from Waterbury and many
from this city will probably take advan-
tage of the good sleighing and visit the
festival.
The Acme Dramatic club held the first
opera house stage rehearsal yesterday. 1t
proved to be one of the best. The squad
from Co G, who are to take the parts of
the chasseurs were on hand and went
through the maneuvers. The costumes
will arrive here from Springfield Saturday
and Sunday next full dress rehearsal will
be held at Jacques opera house. The
American band orchestra will furnish
music. The chart for the reserved seats
will be placed in NJ. F. Daily & Co.'S drug
store Saturday morning. Another re-
hearsal will be held tonight at the club
rooms,
Charles c. Commerford, who was APP
pointed by the selectmen to ascertain if
there were any errors and omissions in the
records of the town clerks Office, has made
his report to the selectmen and it is all
that the most rabid republican could ex-
pect from the material at hand. Mr. Com
quotes the statutes and concludes with an
insinuation that is uncalled for. He finds
in substance that a number of deeds were
not signed by the late town clerk and that
other matters have not been recorded, al
though notes were found from which the
records may be completed. The rer ort
shows nothing more than that Mr. Madden
allowed the work of the Office to accumu-
late, which is not surprising, as his health
was in precarious condition for several
months previous to his death.
The democratic town commi tee met
yesterday afternoon and voted that the
nomination of a successor to the Lite j. ].
Madden, town clerk, be made by the dele
gates to the democratic town convention
of last fall and that meeting for this pur-
pose be held in the police court
room tomorrow night. The matter
of filing the vacancy in the third
ward delegation was left in the
hands of the other delegates from that
ward. Judge Root reported. conference
with j. P. Kellogg the result of which was
that the special election of next Monday will
be under the old ballot law and that the
polls will be open from a. m. to 5 D. m.
The committee should prefer that the
hours be from p. m. to p m. and ap-
pointed Committeeman Mailman and
Secretary Timothy Shanahan a committee
to wait on the selectmen and ask that the
polls be opened between these hours.
Nelson Normand still lies speechless at
his home on Meadow street. The doctors
attribute the condition of the man to one
of two causes. He was either struck on
the head or fell, causing clot of blood to
gather on the brain, or a small piece of
matter has penetrated one of the veins and
has stopped at an opening too small to
allow it to pass through. The police are
working on the case and, it is learned,
have discovered the following: Normand
was in a Bank street saloon on the after
noon of the day he was injured, where
he drank nothing but gin.
While there he made a bet which he lost.
He became so enraged over losing his
money that il was returned to him. This
did not pacify him, as he wanted to clear
out the place. The proprietor finally put
and became more abusive. He was finally
led to the back door and ushered ont. He
fell in the rear yard and friend picked
him up and wanted to take him home. He
refused to 60 but was finally led
into the stable in the rear. Here hs fell
helpless in one of the stalls Straw was
brought and q comfortable bed was made
for him. He remained there only an hour
when he was seen making his way toward
jackson street. That is one story, another
is that he was led towards Jackson street
by an italian, The doctors say the idea of
is All bOsh.