Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-12
CITY NEWS.

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 The supreme court of errors will con- vene in New Haven next Tuesday.
 M J. Corcoran is recovering from an at tack of the grip.
 A meeting of the Central Labor union will be held at o'clock this evening.
 A son was born this morning to Mir and Mrs William E. Buckley of Taylor steeet.
 F. E. Hewitt, comedian of the Ullie Akerstrom company, died in Danbury yes terday.
 The members of Phoenix fire company, No l, will give their annual spread in the Hub dining rooms tonight.
 The regular fourth ward democratic club will hold an important meeting at o'clock this evening; a full attendance is requested.
 The ninth annual concert and reception of Sheridan council K. of C., will be held in City hall on Wednesday evening, Jan uary 31.
 The funeral of Frederick A. Johnson will be held from the residence of his brother at East Farms at 10 o'clock to- morrow morning.
 John Sedgwick Eggleston, aged 20 years, died last night at his residence. 156 Grand street The funeral will take place at ? o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 John Schupack. aged seven, died yester- day in Naugatuck. The remains were brought to Waterbury this afternoon by Undertaken Lynch and inferred in Mel chezedeeE cemetery.
 Mrs Martha E. Benham Hart, aged 64, died last night at the residence of her son, B. Hart, IS Wood street. The funeral will take place at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Interment will be in Waterville.
 James Darling of West Side hill, while at work in the Farrell foundry yesterday, slipped and fell against a sharp piece of casting, fracturing one of his ribs. Dr Hayes attended him.
 William J. Schlegel. trustee, to-day sold the equity in the four family t"nement house on Bronson street, belonging to the O. A. Valentine estate, to Thomas F. But Ter.
 The funeral of Riley M Morse took place this morning. The remains were taken to Ansonia on the 10:45 train. The pallbearers were: Robert Cairns, Edward Hagen, Walter Holmes and E. w. Moor ing.
 Advertised list of letters at the post office: William W. Cowles, Matthew Daley, William Jorden, George Harris, James Hall, Etiene King, Miss Maggie McGrath, George H. Nearing, s. G. Pier son, Herbert Platt, Mrs Nettie Richman. Representatives of the different so- cieties interested in the proposed new tuilding for the local Catholic organiza- tions held meeting in St Patrick's hall last night. They will meet in G. A. R. hall at o'clock next Sunday afternoon.
 Oliver Turgeon, night operator at the telephone office, is on duty again. He re- turned to work three weeks ago after re- covering from q siege of typhoid fever, but suffered an attack of nervous pros tration and had to return to his home in Birmingham.
 The Waterbury Mutual Benevolent asso- ciatlon last night elected the following officers: President, James Murray; vice president, James Herman; recording secre- tary, John Kelly; financial secretary, Ed ward Shanahan; treasurer, John J. Me Donald.
 special from Washington to the DEMO GRAF to-day says: The commissioner of pensions has established a new board of pension examiners at Waterbury, for the accommodation of people of the Naugatuck valley. The board consists of Drs Me Donald and Benedict of Waterbury and Tracy of Meriden.
 J. F. Phelan sent fifty packages of coffee to the relief bureau to-day; Louis Schick, 100 pounds of beef and James O'Brien 100 loaves of bread. Mary Donovan, clo- thing; Mrs E.S. Hayden, clothing; Mrs Emma Munger, clothing. There is a great scarcity of clothing at the bureau, espec- ially boys overcoats and childrens under wear.
 MT and Mrs William F. Jones of Water bury were in town yesterday buying silver ware and furnishings for the elegant new home they are building. MT Jones is an old South Meriden boy who is now at the head of one of the largest clothing stores in Waterbury and who is also in terested in several other stores about the state.-Meriden Record.
 The funeral of Mrs Ann Phelan took place at S:30 o'clock this morning from the residence of Mrs Mary Doolan, 1101 East Main street, to the church of the Immac- ulate Conception, where mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev P. J. Kennedy. The pallbearers were: Jokd J. Lowry, James kenney, William Gleason, Matthew Bergin, Dennis Bulger and John Horan. The twenty-seeond annual ball of the | Waterbury fire department will take place in City hall tonight. Janitor Laughlin ! ing every effort to make the place as neat and attractive as possible. The Eighth regiment band of New York, Conductor I. | c. Crowley, will furnish the music and the programme promises to be of more than usual interest.
 The object of the visit of the members | of the town school committee to the Oro- noke school district yesterday was to de- | eide dispute between the taxpayers of | that place as to the site of the proposed new school building. Judge Cowell named a site about two hundred feet from where the old school building stands and the judges selection met the approval of the taxpayers and also the other members of the town school committee.
 At the meeting of the Mutual Relief association of the Connecticut National Guard last night the following officers were elected: President. Lieutenant Pat rick Halpin; vice-president, Lieutenant H. B. Carter; secretary, Corporal NJ. c. Hay nor; treasurer, Lieutenant W. H. Sand land; recruiting committee Captain A. J. Wolff, Captain James Geddes, Lieutenant D. E. Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant w. H. Sand land, First Sergeant J. Hanlon; sick com mlttee, Sergeant W. A. Bigelow, Private F. J. Brett, Sergeant T. E. Guest, Cor poral w. H. Lynehan and Privates G. A. Sharpe and J. Freney. All active and honorably discharged members of the c. N. G. are eligible for membership in the association. The first of January was adopted as the date for the annual meet ing. The meeting voted to rescind the ac- ton taken some time ago not to pay sick benefits until the membership reached one hundred, and voted to commence to pay sick benefits now. The association has a membership of eighty and will hold a meeting every Thursday night.