Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-10
CITY NEWS.
New music Monday.

F l.. Mendellsohn made an assignment
to-day in the probate court, naming Morris
II. Was as trustee.
Rehearsal of st Joseph's Dramatic club
in Jacques opera house commencing at
noon tomorrow.
The board of directors of the A. o. H.
will hold an important meeting in st Pat
rick's hall at , o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
Timothy V. Durham, aged forty years,
died at his residence, 1S5 Benedict street,
yesterday afternoon. The funeral will
| take place at o'clock tomorrow after
noon, with services in st Patrick's church.
Governor Morris yesterday re-appointed
Judge Alfred B. Beers of Bridgeport and
General Leonard A. Dickinson of Hartford
members of the soldiers hospital board,
each for two years from March %, 1894.
Sanitary Inspector Moses will soon COM
mence his tour of back yards to see that
they are thoroughly cleaned. 1t would be
we'll therefore, for owners and occupants
of property to see TO it that the work Is
done mt once.
| w. NJ. Shepard, for several years with
| the Tower Manufacturing * Novelty Co of
| New York city, has accepted position as
| book keeper with the Waterbury Furni-
/ ture company, TO succeed MISS annie
Cleary, resigned.
The meeting of st Joseph's Total Absti-
hence society in st Patrick's hall should
draw large audience. The programme
is of more than usual interest and great
preparations are being made to see that it
| shall be carried out in most satisfactory
manner.
Landlord ESinhart of the Earle house
has presented Superintendent Comeback
of the Boys club with 100 tickets for the
play The Ticket of Leave Man" at the
opera house tonight. This will afford Mr.
Combellack's large family an opportunity
to spend an evening at the theatre.
In the superior count, civil side, at New
| Haven last evening at 7:3O o'clock Judge
Wheeler granted divorce to Edwin NJ.
StgearS of Waterbury from his wife Ada F.
SegearS, a variety actress of Providence, r.
[. The grounds alleged We're adultery and
intemperance and the divorce was granted
on the second allegation.
At n bar meeting this morning the fol-
lowing cases We're assigned for trial in the
district court. Thursday, March Is Ed
ward Fox W George Adams. Friday,
March Ii, The Plat Mill Co VS. William
and John Hall Monday, March ~,
Michael Shea, administrator vs., n. Y, n.
II. ~ IL IL IL 20, bOStllil NIOIllu ~ SilIlS,
James kinnane vs. same.
The four local lodges of the Order of
Haruguri celebrated their forty-seventh
anniversary in COncOrdia hall last night.
The exercises were in charge of D. DIG.
b. O. kaluse; chaplain, CT. Koegel; K,
Daniel Kiefer; speaker, Paul Meerlander;
G. f. j. Moers. Faulmanns orchestra
furnished the music and Professor Leo
Herr prompted.
Professor Crosby addressed the gradual
ting class of 90 in the High school build
lrg yesterday morning, and talked on
matters pertaining to the graduation eX-
erciSes. Owing to the large number of
graduates this year it was decided that only
about thirteen or fourteen should read
essays. representing four different courses
English, classical, college preparatory and
scientific.
The board of directors of the y. NJ. C.
\. ut meeting last night voted Secretary
Folsom three months leave of absence
and also presented HIM with we'll filled
pOcEctbook to be used during his alb
Sonce. Mr. Folsoms health has not been
good for some time and his friends thought
that little relaxation from the cares and
unNicties Of his arduous labor wouldrestore
him To his usual health.
popular lectures of the brilliant Colonel
Sanford, and the Peoples course finds
place for it in the Mar DIST entertainment.
In this lecture Colonel Sanford takes his
hearers through Westminster Abbey, the
buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum,
Pyramids of Egypt, Great Wall of China,
Obelisks of Egypt, etc. and in contrast de-
scribes the more modern wonders.
The military board of survey appointed
by the adjutant general completed its ar
duous labors yesterday and finished earn
ing its two days pay by testing few
rounds of cartridges at the rifle range in
Hartford. The sample ammunition which
Captain Cornell brought home from the
various companies of the National Guard
was found efficient in the main and the
other articles inspected by the board were
as represented by State Armorer Mclean.
The board will prepare detailed report.
In the police court to day John Sullivan,
youth of II, was charged with breach of
the peace Adolph Arnstein keeps small
cobbling shop an Baldwin street and for
months has been annoyed by a crowd of
boys, who pestered him until he had re-
course to the law. He said Sullivan was
the ringleader. The boy denied the
charge. but it was very evident to the
court that he was guilty. Attorney O'Neill
asked to have the boy let 90 with a repri-
mand rs his parents would be unable to
pay fine. He was allowed to flo.
\ case has been decided in the United
States supreme court that has a direct
bearing on the union station and grade
crossing matters in this city. The case
decided was that of an appeal taken by the
New York Il New England Railroad COM
pany from a decision of the railroad COM
! ms ha
them to abolish a grade crossing in the
town of Bristol and made them make ex-
tensive changes at their own expense.
The company appealed on the ground of
excessive damages. but the supreme court
decided that the case was one subject to
police regulation and belonging to the
policy of the state in which the court had
no power to interfere.
An important legal discussion started
this morning at IL o'clock in the district
court room on the case of H. b. Nation
vs. H. &. Reynolds. Judge Root occupied
the bench. 1t Is the case reported before,
where Reynolds went to Watertown and
interested twenty or twenty-five of the
natives in horse raising project. Notes
were given to Reynolds, but it was dis
covered that the project was n failure. An
injunction was then prayed out restrain
ing Reynolds from making use of the notes
The case this morning was an application
by Reynolds attorneys, Bennett of New
Haven and Lowe and Webster of this city,
to have the case removed from the juris-
diction of this court to the United States
court. Attorneys O'Neill of this city and
Williams of Ansonia were against the APP
picatiOn.
The literary exercises in the rooms of
the Catholic Literary association last night
were of more than ordinary interest and
the large audience that filled the spacious
parlors and applauded the different
speakers is in evidence that the society can
better entertain its members with exercises
of literary nature than in any other
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