Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-01
CITY NEWS.

DoAACs III A NOuANIy SpOIL dl the opera house tonight.
 The police commissioners and board of education will meet tonight
 David Lepper, employed by NJ. J. Daly, is receiving congratulations this morning. It is a boy.
 Kunkel & Martucei, merchant tailors, have removed from Phoenix avenue to PIT Bank street.
 Good Cheer council o. c. F., will give an entertainment and sociable in Red Mems hall this evening.
 The shoe stores of the city will close at at 6:30 on Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings commencing Thursday, May 3. Lizzie Egan, the girl who was taken to the almshouse suffering from mental trouble. was removed to the the Middle town asylum to-day.
 Sheriff Carmody opened the civil side of the superior court at 10 o'clock this morn ing and immediately adjourned it to New Haven at ? o'clock this afternoon.
 Richardson is playing a pretty fielding game for Louisville, but his batting has been weak. In eight games he has hit safely only four times.
 Julia A. Chipman, aged fl years, died at her residence, II Baldwin hill, yesterday afternoon. The funeral services will be held at f o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The remains will be taken to Thompson vile for burial on Thursday morning.
 Rev James Hughes, IL. D. of Hartford, vicar general of the Catholic diocese of Connecticut, will sail from New York for Europe to-day. He will be accompanied by his brother, Dr Hughes of New York. This voyage will be the 14th that Father Hughes has made across the Atlantic.
 The Waterbury correspondent of the New Haven Register writes: The DEMO- GRAF has lately been prosecuting an in- vestigation snd exposure of neglected back yards, oyerfowing cesspools and similar nuisances in neglected parts of the city. If pursued until reform is effected it will be valuable and much needed public ser vice.
 The Waterbury party of the Tennessee River Transportation company officials have returned from Chattanooga. The an- nual election of officers was held Thursday with the following result President, s. P. Williams; vice president. secretary and treasurer, T. Y. Meyer; directors, Valen- tine Bohl, E. A. Pierpont, J. B. Doberty. V. L. Sawyer, L. A. Platt, H. w. Lake and E A Judd.
 lie funeral OI 1uOUldS [. N1du6T LOOK place this morning from the residence of his parents, 115 Wolcott street, to the church of the Sacred Heart, where a mass of requiem was celebrated by Rev Father Murphy. There were several beautiful floral offerings by the pupils and teachers of the East Gaylord school. The pail bearers. all schoolmates of the deceased, were: Joseph Egan, Thomas Morgan, Peter Clark, James Mcdonald, Thomas Driscoll and George Higgins. Interment was in St Joseph's cemetery.
 Mrs Maria Clear, aged 43 years, of 54 Maple street, died at the hospital last night Mrs Clear had been suffering from throat trouble and it was decided that nothing but an opertion offered any hope of recovery. She was removed to the hos pital last night and Doctors Munger, Me Avoy and Conkey performed the operation of tracheotomy at 10:30 and at II :25 the patient died. The doctors did not enter tain much hope of her living and the oper- ation was resorted to when all else had failed An autopsy was performed on the body to-day by Doctors McEvov, Conkey and Munger. It was found that a tumor had grown around the wind pipe.
 In :the police court to-day George w. Nichols, an aged, respectable looking man was charged with drunkenness. George Griswold spoke for him and sad he was about to take the gold cure. He was let off John Allen, tailor, said he was like q bird out of cage, but he was now in one. He had judgment suspended and was warned not to appear there again. You bet your life won't" was his reply The case against Thomas Delaney for as- sault on Mrs Coyle was adjourned until to- morrow morning.
 The Ansonia Sentinel publishes an arti- cle of much length about Conductor Will liam Flynn. It seems that MT FlYnn was presented with dozen eggs by a friend one day. He purchased a chicken and placed the eggs under and awaited the coming of the little chicks. He waited twenty-five days and then broke one of the eggs. He discovered that the egg was hard boiled So were the other eleven. The engineer of his train told him after wards that he had placed the eggs in the steam chest of the locomotive. Conductor Flynn has given up the idea of raising chickens.
 Abraham Lincoln camp, No 9, Sons of Veterans, held its first regular meeting last night in Quigley hall. Captain Weigner made the following announcement to ap- pointive officers: Chaplain, E. T. Harding; quartermaster sergeant, W. A. Chase; ser geant of guard, L. A Flood; color sergeant, C. F. Loomis Jr; principal musician, W. F. Rissland; camp guard, Joseph Hubbard; corporal of guard, A. $. Rockwell; picket guard, John Gallagher. Charles Temple ton was appointed first sergeant. After the inst,,lIment of these officers the camp transacted large amount of routine busi- ness and appointed a committee to repre- sent the camp on the Memorial day com mittee.
 The Danbury papers severely censure Dr Robbins of this city for sending William Daragan, smallpox patient, to Danbury. Dr Robbins. in explanation of his action, says when the man called upon hin the case had not fully developed and no one could tell whether or not he had smallpox And even if he was sure the man had the disease Dr Robbins says he could do nothing for him as Waterbury has no pest house. The DEMOCRAT has urged the authorities to erect a suitable pest house and this incident furnishes an- other argument that should not be over looked. It is not known where Daragan contracted the disease. He had been liv- ing at Jersey City for a number of weeks and about a week ago came to Waterbury.
 F. J. Kingsbury presided at the meeting of the United Charities organization in the Y. NJ. c. A. building last night, and Secre- tary Dickinson of the Christian Visitation and Charity society acted as clerk. Ad- dresses were made by s. O. Preston, New Haven, and Professor Francis Wayland, L. L. D., of the Yale law school. Secre- tary Dickinson presented the report of the committee appointed to frame a revision of the constitution The report WAS accepted and MT Dick inson was instructed to notify all the churches and organizations to appoint their delegates The first annual meeting will be held next Monday night in the