Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-17
CITY NEWS.


 Ex-Postmaster Commerford advises every one to read tie Sunday Globe.
 My Katie" comic song, in Mondays DEMOCRAT.
 James J, Carroll, registrar of vital sta- tistics of New Haven, was in this city to- day.
 St Joseph's Dramatic club will have a rehearsal in St Patrick's hall at o'clock afternoon.
 There will be meeting of the O'Connell and Social club at o'clock to- morrow afternoon.
 The mercury dropped to seven degrees below zero early this morning, the lowest point reached this winter.
 A freight train on the New England road from the west, jumped the track at Hart ford last evening, No one was injured.
 The funeral of Mary Catherine Keane noon from the residence of her parents, 6S Mattatuck street.
 The Misses kittie and Josie Collins of New Haven, who have been visiting friends in Waterbury for a few days have left for Hartford.
 The case of Fogarty vs McGrath, an ac- ton to recover wages, was decided by Jus tice Brett, to-day, the plaintiff being award ed S2. 50 and costs.
 The railroad commissioners will hold an adjourned hearing in the superior court room on March G. at 30 a. m, on the union station matter.
 Each delegate to the Central Labor union is requested to attend a special important meeting in Labor hall at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening.
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair to-day, rain tonight or on Sunday, warmer; brisk to high southerly lwinds tonight, shifting to northwesterly on Sunday.
 Peter Tammany for drunkenness was fined S1 and costs this morning. Bartly Doyle, one of the old rounders, got 240 days for being common drunkard.
 With Mcleod out of the race, it is the impression in Boston that the next presi- dent of the New York X New England, to be elected next month, will be Receiver Platt Receiver Perry or ex-President Par sons.
 The adjourned meeting of the water supply committee tonight will be of more than usual importance. All the bids pre- sented last will be brought before the meeting and action on several rights of way and other matters will be taken up.
 Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock in labor hall will be held another labor rally Members ot every local union will be present and addresses will be delivered by able speakers. The subjects of the ad- dresses will be ''Organization. The com mittee extend an invitation to all anion men to attend.
 The |. NJ. C. A. contest was continued last night with the following result: Stand ing high jump. McEvoy first, four feet six inches: Engelke. second, four feet four inches; Probst, third. four feet three in- ches. Pull up, Smith, first twenty-three times; PrObSt second, twenty; Durner and Pretat tied for third at nineteen.
 All the officers of the local divisions of the 4. Q. H. will meet in St Patrick's hall at , o'clock tomorrow afternoon to take action in relation to the matter of union entertainments by the different divisions of the order Tn this city. This Is a step in the right direction and 1t k to be hoped that the officers will be a unit on the sub ject.
 The new officers of the Catholic Literary association were installed last night They are all of the younger members of the society and their work will be watched with great interest by those who have been in charge for several years past. The so- Ciety has membership of sevcnty-tive and iS Ill good financial condition A meeting will be held at Il go o'clock to- morrow, to take action in regard to cele- bratiug Robert Emmet's birthday.
 The members of the Waterbury Wheel club and their friends spent u very pleas ant evening at the clubs smoker last night. w. HendrlcSon opened the exercises with several well rendered selections on the banjo. Professor Russell gave some piano solos. Lawton's orchestra furnished music through the evening. A bountiful spread was served. The club will hold its wind up smoker OH Tuesday, April 10 in Red Mems hall and propose making 1t one of the greatest smokers ever held in the state.
 It is said that the state parade of the A., O. H., which was to take place some time in June, will be postponed until fall on account of the dull times. An officer of one of the local divisions informed n DEMOCRAT reporter to-day that while no definite action had been taken in reference to the pOstpOnement the matter was being talked of and he thought that the change would meet the approval of all the divisions The dull season and the paying out of sick benefits. he said, gave the different divisions about all they could attend to without commencing to make arrangements for a state parade. But all this is mere speculation and no one will know anything about 1t until the matter has been decided by the proper authorities.
 About 7:30 this morning the chimney of D. F. Maltby's house, 191 Prospect street, was discovered on fire. Instead of ringing a general alarm and giving the companies a run up the steep hill word was tele- phoned to the district office and a messen- ger boy carried the news to No Is house Chief Beecher was present and in a trice the supply wagon was on the way to the fire. The blaze was controlled by the use of hand extinguishers. The promptness with which the chief and Phoenix company and put out the fire without loss shows that in fires of this kind it is better to send word to the nearest fire company than to ring the alarm when, perhaps, it is not necessary to lay a single line of hose.
 Horace Johnson. the man who predicted the blizzard, writes: From the 5th to the llth Of March the planets that cause dis in the atmosphere of the earth will occupy positions in their orbits very similar to what they did during the great blizzard of 1888 in the aforesaid month. A great disturbance will take place within a certain radius of each the eastern and western continents. The storm will be a medley of all sorts of weather The class of who do business on the deep should take warning. From the 18th to the 2Oth of the present month look for raving southeaster. Water will run through the streets like rivers. great tidal wave will soon put in an appearance. rHrn1 l-a Al present month to the second of March. hardly possible for it to reach tho coast of North America. Some crafts wide off the coast may be engulfed in the mighty abyss never again to be heard from.