Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-08
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CITY News


Falcon A. o. F. of 4. will be'held at
o o'clock this evening in CT, A. R., hall!
The Waterbury Mutual Benevolent as
ISOLATION will meet at o'clock this even
ing in the engineers room in CT. a. X.
block.
what is Our Chief Good will be the
subject of Rev Father Mulcahy's discourse
at the convent of Notre Dame next Wed
nesday night.
requiem high mass, months mind,
for the late James J. Madden, will be cele-
brated in the Immaculate Conception
church at o'clock tomorrow morning.
Edwin Clark, of III Bank street, died
this morning. The funeral will be held
Saturday afternoon. Interment will be in
Riverside cemetery.
Prosecuting Agent Holohan went to New
Haven again to-day to have another talk
with the county commissioners before
bringing the cases against the liquor
dealers who kept their saloons open on
Monday.
John O'Neill and E. G. Kilduff, admin
istrators on the Andrew Moran estate, will
sell the property on Cook street at public
auction in the probate court room on Mon
day February -, at o'clock in the after
noon.
There are advertised letters at the post
office for Dwight H. Andrews, Mrs Francis
L. Barnes. Mrs F. F. Barlow, Willard Il.
Carroll. G.. T. Hardt, Mrs Annie Hanes,
F. y. Hawley, A. c. Hazard and Charles S
Trumbull.
The relief bureau is being filled to the
doors to-day with bread and confections of
every description from the store of James
O'Brien, and to Judge by the supply on
hand no one will be in want of sufficient
food for a long time. The ladies of the
First church are engaged III making cloth
ing to be given to the bureau.
The Sun to-day said that Ward had
mailed a contract to Roger Conner for his
signature. The big first baseman said
this afternoon that he had not yet received
the paper adding that when it does come
he will sign it If the figures are the same
~ last year; otherwise, he will not.
A deputy sheriff from East Hartford has
been in Waterbury for several days looking
for Frank McKenna of this city, who is
wanted in East Hartford for defrauding
boarding house keeper. Detective Egan
arrested the young man this afternoon and
he will be turned over to the East Hart
ford authorities.
Superintendent Moran has been busy
the past few weeks making arrangements
for the removal of the inmates of the old
almshouse into the new building. To-day
the work will be completed and all the
residents of the old rookery will find them
selves domiciled in one of the finest build
ings Of the kind in the state.
The quarterly meeting of the commits
stoned officers of the Second regiment was
held at the New Haven armory last even
ing. Every company was represented ex-
cePt G and A of Waterbury. Colonel
DohertE presided and took occasion to
compliment the officers on the good show
ing made in attendance at drill by the en-
tire regiment during the month of January.
Albert w. Skinner, book-keeper IN the
local store of b. Shoninger & Co. and Miss
Edith Marsh. were married at $3.50 yester-
day afternoon at the home of the brides
sister, Mrs George kron in New Britain.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev
F. D. Buckley of Trinity church of this
city, in the presence of relatives and few
intimate friends of the contracting parties.
George T. st Germain who came to Wa
terbury three months ago to open a law
office left town several weeks ago and
nothing definite has since been learned
concerning him. 1t is said, however, that
that he was imprisoned at Providence for
some crime against the government. He
left number of unpaid bills in this city,
lie had plenty of money, having
received good fat fees from a number of
French speaking people here, by whom he
was employed to investigate their claims
to estates in the old country. st Germans
trunk and law be oks are at South Main
street boarding house.
The following is the programme of ex-
ercises for the open meeting to be held
in St Patrick's hall on Sunday night under
the auspices of st Josephs Total Absti-
hence society: Opening address, Vice
President 2. Mcmahon; piano SOLO Miss
Marie Herringer; selection, Ideal Banjo
club; song, c. Maloney; address, Rev w
II. Lynch; soprano solo. Miss Rose T.
Mcdonald; recitation, Miss c. Mcknight;
piano solo Master L. Madden; tenor solo,
L. F. Mcclure; recitation, Miss NJ. O'Con-
nor: guitar and mandolin, MesSrs Rich
ards and Trotta; overture, Ney Brothers
orchestra; pianist. Miss Marie Herringer.
The State Law and Order league is
fighting the system under which cases
coming from the city courts on appeal are
nolled. The 1892 returns show that in
the whole state there were l ,734 criminal
cases. of which lis were conviction, 80
25 resulted IN jury disagree
ments, in 1913 he accused pleaded guilty
and in 133 cases the bonds were forfeited
In many cases of forfeiture of bonds, the
result was equivalent to a nolle, but,
counting those cases as positive in their
legal results, there remain 81 cases out of
the whole l ,734 in which the results were
nearly all the 971 being cases
that were nolled. The 1898 returns have
not yet been made public.
Mayor Kilduff called the adjourned
meeting of the fire board to order last
night. There were present Commissioners
Hynes, Hart and Drugs. The
minutes of the previous meeting were read
and accepted. Communications were read
from Mutual Hook < Ladder Co. Monitor
Hose Co, No 3, and Rose Hill Hose Co,
No 3. notifying the board of the officers
elected at the last annual meeting. The
tons were accepted and or
lered on file. A petition was received |
ssking that Chief Snagg and Terrence
O'Brien be re-appOinted members of the |
ire department. pending the election of a
chief. The clerk started in to read the |
names of the petitioners, but the matter |
lid not seem to be of much interest to the |
meeting and the mayor asked if the board /
wished to hear all the names read No |
body answered and after a pause it was |
voted to lay the matter on the table. |
McAuliff then moved to ad- |
ourn to Monday night at 7:3O. |
The motion was carried. When leaving |
the room Commissioner Hart, who seemed |
10 be in bad humor. remarked: The time |
IS not far away when Chief Snagg will be |
IN charge of the fire department again. |
I'll tell you that straight" The mayor,
rhO uas sittip0 of the dash. ransuarad. |