Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-13
CITY NEWS.

Monday morning at clock.
 The case of Platt Brothers < Co against the city of Waterbury for damage arising | from sewage in the Nsugatuck river. has 1 been postponed until next Friday. F. W. Trowbridge of this city was an | bearer to-day at the funeral of J. k. Wheeler in Hartford MT Wheeler | was grand treasurer of the grand lodge of | Masons. lowed by fair on Sunday, winds will in- crease in force from the south to-day SlightlyYcooler in western part Sunday evening.
 When you want good, seryiceable. shoes and rubbers for yonr boy or girl. or for yourself or wife go to E. J. Films. He has them in all grades, and they will wear like iron
 The number of idle men on the streets has decreased and the only conclusion to be drawn iS that the financial panic has ended and the winter will start in with bright prospects.
 Thomas E. Murphy has sent dispatch to s w Goodyear of the Waterbury Tenn perance Reform league. stating that it would be impossible for him to be here tomorrow. Mir Murphy also stated that he would write later setting a time when he could come to this city.
 The geology class of the High school with Principal Tracy went to New Haven yesterday. The morning was employed in visiting Peabody museum, Yale college and gymnasium. After dining at the New Haven house. the class spent some profit able time at East rock, returning on the evening train.
 Alexander Angus of Hartford will ad- dress organized labor and all others wish ing to attend at Labor hall Sunday after noon at 2:3O. MT Angus is very inter- estting speaker and a full attendance is requested. Immediately after the address l the speaker desires to meet all the carpen- i iers and joiners of the city.
 The neatest httle household utensii ever 1 invented for the comfort aIId convenience of ladies is on exhibition in Phelan's tea l store window. It is a contrivance that holds the needle. thread and thimble, while you do the sewing. One with each pound of baking powder.
 This is the sign which greets the passer- by on Bank street from the handsome suit of rooms in the Lilley block, formerly oc- cupied by the Acme club, St Joseph's T. \. Society. Young men are Welcome" The society Is fitting up rooms in the best pos sible manner and prOposeto offer better 1 Inducements to young men to become af- | fliated with it than any other organiza- tion in the city. ,,.
 For the first morning Tn many months the spectators seats in the police court room had not an occupant. It caused much talk among the court attaches and it wa; the general opinion that gradually the spectators who have been idle so long have dropped back into the workshops again. | It Is a fact too that men are being hired daily and the shops are running almost 1 on full time.
 John D. Maher chairman of the probate committee has callt d the meeting of the delegates to nominate a candidate for Judge of Probate for this district for next l Thursday morning in Concordia hall at 10 | o'clock. The present Incumbent R. A. Lowe is the only candidate in the field His clean record of the past year has scared other applicants and he will un- doebtedly be nominated by exclamation. ! Farmers in some parts of the state have been the victims recently of a game worked by swindlers who pretended to be | agents of large wholesale houses. They bought large quantities of hay, grain and straw. offering checks in payment. which Were al ways for larger amounts than the purchase required. consequently compel. ling the farmers to Iay the difference in cash. The checks are proved to be worth. less.
 The open meeting of St Joseph's tenn. perance society in St fatrick's hall to. morrow evening will no doubt draw a large audience. Apart from the lecture of the Very Rev J. A. Mulcahy. which of itself
 would be sufficient to fill the house, there
 will be also an interesting musical ana
 literary programme. In the announce
 ment of the programme the piano and I ,11. l,,.s
 the Misses Mcknight There will be ar
 admission fee of ten cents.
 The many friends of Tom Cooney of thi;
 city will be pained to learn of his seriou.
 illness. He was playing the lead in the
 Rockville Theatrical Repertoire compan,
 under his stage name o
 lhcmas Stanway. Last nigh. hi.
 relatives in this city received a dispatch | from Montpelier, Vt, from a Dr ChandleI
 stating that he was seriously sick and tC
 come on at once. His brother John anC sister Mary left on an early train thi
 morning and reached there this afternoon
 A high mass of requIem was celebrateC
 this morning Tn the Convent chapel fo 7 the repose of the soul of Catherine Gill, l member of the class of '93. Very Rev ] l A. Mulcahy. V. G. was celebrant. Mis
 Marie Herringer of .91 presided at tn . organ. and was assisted by the members O , the convent choir. The class mates O
 Miss Gill with other members of the Al umnae and friends of the convent ver , present. During her schooldays Mis-
 Gill endesred herself to teachers and com panions alike by her talents. quaint humo and sparkling wit. All deeply feel her los
 and sincerely sympathize with her be reaved family.
 . Last Saturdays DEMOCRAT told how ...N. III Al
 70 so by going to the candidates and i'm
 ploripg little fiat" to help the campaign
 It is doubtful if this money saves A vote t
 the candidate. A lot of the toughs latel
 thought of trying the conversion dodge O I | the Honorable E. c. Lewis. They weI
 to him and informed him they had orgar [ lzed the Young Irish American Republi
 can club He ngIstulated them. The
 they ventured to intimate they needle l. money to support their club and keep th
 boys true MT Lewis soon caught on an
 told them if they wanted to vote the r, [ publican ticket they could do so witho, T money. And they were left t-Connecticl
 Catholic.
 Because the New York. New Have = < Hartford Railroad has withdrawn two , .. its least import mt way trains or rath, ! has sh"rten' d their Iun hy station or E, ' 1t has given rise to an impression in tt
 minds Uf tnuSe unimfOrmvd regarding tt
 matter that m .smuch as these trains wei r forced of by electric road competition tl
 Consolidated would seek to iufiu-ut 7 l-gisla ion in the next general assemb
 agHinrt trolley roads. particularly
 reference to granting new charters au
 extending old franchises. says the Ne
 Haven Leader This opinion was formt = early in the year. and the officials of Il
 Toad have from the first stated that the, would be no such opposition on th' ir par