Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-08-06
CITY NEWS.

Miss Hannah Mccarthy of East Clay
street is spending her vacation with friends
in Middletown.
Bernard f. Reid was yesterday elected
treasurer of Sheridan council. X. of c., to
succeed the late Matthew Kennedy.
The Misses Kittie and Clara Fulton of
Bridgeport are spending a weeks vacation
with Mrs Charles Ross on Baldwin street.
The initiation of the new court of For
esters. announced to take place at the
meeting of Court Hancock tonight, has
been deferred until August 90.
Ellen Healey, the eleven months old
daughter of James Healey of "a Fuller
street, died at noon to-day. The funeral
will Jake place at $50 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
William Hug. aged 80 years, died last
night at his residence, 10 Fleet street, of
heart failure. The funeral will take place
at $50 tomorrow afternoon with services
at the church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton and interment IN Calvery cemetery.
Miss Katie McAlenny, a former clerk
in Kelly's North Main street store and now
housekeeper for her uncle. Rev Father
McAlenny of st Roses church. Meriden. is
visiting her parents. Dir and Mrs Edward
McAlenny of Jewelry street
The funeral of George ii. Pendleton. a
former resident of this city, toak place
| from his late residence on Cumberland
street, Brooklyn. n. Y. this afternoon.
The deceased was once secretary and
| treasurer of the City Manufacturing Co at
Benedict Il Burnham's.
Several applications ''to be made" have
been received at the rooms of the Demo
cratic association, and the registrar re-
80 that xrhn hava nanyaI from
one ward to another since the last election
notify him at once. sending in their
former and present address
William Fox is doing great work on the
New Haven ball team. He showed his
ability as a ball player last week by pitch
ing two consecutive games, one of ten
innings Fox should be an acquisition as
an infield player for any league team.
W. S. Strong of So Cherry street served
notice on City Clerk Grady to-day. that
he would bring suit against the city for
| $500 damages. He alleges that on August
| 3, at o'clock at night, at the corner of
West Main and Willow streets. he drove
into an iron pipe and damaged his milk
wagon.
Two complaints against saloon
keepers were filed with Prosecuting Agent
Holohan to-day. Both were for violation
of the screen law. One is the saloon on
Ridge street at the head of Martin alley
and the other Iun by Peter Adam. 152
East Main street. Officers Pagan, Blakely
| and Noonan are the witnesses.
A trust company has been formed in
Boston for the purpose of forming a COM
bination to acquire title to first-class bust
ness property in New England. Circulars
| explaining the scheme have been received
by Waterbury people and requesting that
the managers be notified as to the location
| of such business sites.
There was large crowd on the driving
park Saturday afternoon to witness the
| trotting match between Thomas F. Buffers
| "Oaker" and James Stackhouse's Miss
| Princess The race was the best three
out of five half mile heats for purse OF
$50. Miss Princess won the three first
heats. The first two heats were trotted in
1:24I and third in 1:21. Judges: T. ii.
Hayes, Z. b. Norton and \. w. Heater.
For the convenience of officers in the
Connecticut National Guard a roster of the
national guard of the state. completed
and revised up to August ;. is being
printed. Copies of it will be mailed from
the Acknowledgements Office to the COM
handing officers of the national guard.
The roster contains the names, post office
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general staff. brigade staff. regiment
officers. officers of seperate companies. bri
cade signal corps. batteries and naval
militia.
A notice has been posted at all the head
quarters of the United States Army re-
cruiting office detailing the chief pro-
visions of the recent act of congress which
affects enlistment in the army. Hereafter
enlistments will be but for three years in
stead of five years. The order will tempt
more men to join the army service. Dur
ing July over $50 men applied to be &C.
ceptcd soldiers but Lieutenant McCor
mack of the New Haven station only ac
cePted four of the number. The most OF
the applicants were Russian Jews.
The Waterbury base ball team met with
defeat Saturday at the hands of the Dan.
bury team bat it was not a bad defeat
The field work Cf the tam was
simply exc llrnt. Only two error,
were made and thos4 exCusablt
ones. They made one noe hit than
the Danbury boys. but they could moi
bunch them. nor get them in the right
time. An audience of 1000 SAW the game
and applauded every good play. 1t WA,
one OF the most stubbornly contested bal
games ever seen in the state. Neither side
had AN advantage and the game hung on q
| uaA-AAtG uAANlA lAAC ltSt HAL WIS Oul IL
score at the close was 1 to 3.
There was a large attendance at tn.
meeting of the Waterbury Temperance
RI form l-ague yesterday afternoon. Pro
fessOr Elton and four of his pupils werG
present and gave an excellent musical pro
gramme. The singing of Miss Margaret
Sweeney was the most agreeable feature
of the meeting. Toe Orphan quartrtte
CT imposed of the Misses Coogan, NoTthrOp
Neale and Sweeney. with Professor EltOI
at the piano. rendered soma excellent
selections. Professor Elton will conduct
the singing at the meeting of next Sunday
afternoon. The collection amounted t.
S22 IS, and the meeting voted not to dis
band. but continue the meetings through
the summer months.
A good many complaints are made tina
the law compelling people to connec
cio>ets with the public sewer has not beer
observed. Several property owners wht
can well afford to meet the expense hav,
taken no notice whatever of the law anC
their places are in much worse condition
than they were before the sewers wer,
built. Why a few residents on a stree
should be compelled to connect wi h tn,
sewers while their neiGhbors can keel
their old closets in their cellars and back
yards. the stencil from such places being
common nuisance, is something which
those who obeysd the law and made con
nections with the sewers as soon as the,
were ready cannot understand.
Superintendent Bradley of the Traction
Co is wrestling with a bothersome ques
ton. He finds it almost impossible t.
make schedule time on the Naugatuck lin,
without running at an excessive rats O
speed. owing to the large number of stops
Yesterday some Of the cars had to stop tel
times between the center and Union street
1t is possible that regular stopping place
t will be designated. marked by white rim,
= around the poles, at which points onl,
{ will cars stop. This method has beef