Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-11

The Madrigal society will meet in City hall this evening. A cordial invitation is extended to singers to attend.
 Sanitary Inspector Moses reports the only case of diphtheria in the city at 19 Division street.
 | Mir and Mrs William F. Wallace returned from their wedding trip Saturday evening and have taken up their residence at l9 Kendrick avenue.
 John Scott had his finger crushed under l a power press at Plume & Atwoods fac tory this morning. Amputation was nec- 1 essary and the operation was performed i by Dr Tonks.
 William Lancaster made the biggest record on Maurice McCarthy's hitting ma- chine Saturday night, winning first prize by record of 26SL. Daniel Squires, 26l. was second. and Edward Murphy, 254, third.
 The convention of the Connecticut Music Teachers association opened at ? o'clock this afternoon in New Haven. | President A. s. Gibson of this city made an address. About three hundred dele gates were present.
 The New York X New England is the | first of the New England roads to feel the | shortage in the bituminous coal supply. | It has purchased ?, 900 tons of bituminous 1 coal from Nova Scotia, 2,000 tons of Poca- hontas soft. and 5000 of anthracite, which. it is expected. will suffice until the normal sources of supply are reopened.
 The musical and reading of class essays at St Margaret's school Saturday evening was we'll attended and the exercises were of a very interesting character The grad uatiug exercises prorer took place to-day. There were nine numbers on the pro- gramme, all O which were carried out n manner which ref @ ted much credit oa the institution
 In the Waterbury superior court at New Haven to-day Catherine Mccarthy of this city was granted divorce from Michael Mccarthy on the grounds of desertion. The couple were married October 1O, 1876. at Great Harrington. Mass. For the past three years Mrs Mccarthy has been in Waterbury and her husband in parts unknown.
 | The German Catholics of Waterbury are making extensive preparations for the state parade of German Catholics which will be held in this city July 9. One of the principal features of the parade will be a float decorated with German and Ameri- can flags, drawn by six horses and filled with little girls, each dressed in her own national colors. In the center of the group there will be q boy supporting the papal colors The whole thing will be de- 1 signed to represent the university of the Catholic church.
 Tax Collector Griggs did noble work | during the month of May and notwith- standing the hard times and the increase in taxation he has kept up to his former record )r that'month. This may be ac- counted for by reason that the large tax payers have settled up and large number of the smaller ones. On the books is a total of $335, ,0O0, out of which he has collected S275, TOT go. This is classified as follows Town. S31 ,305 3l city, Sl54, 7S3.29; school, SS9, ,61S.79.
 Nora Geraghty of Cooke street met with d serious accident shortly before noon to day. Miss Geraghty is a dreSsmaker in the employ of Miss McGuinness of Grove street and was on her way home to dinner | when the accident occurred. She had reached Cooke street above Pine. where | Contractor Jarrett has a force of men opening up new streets through the Casey | property. The workmen were blasting some old Stumps and it Is stated that with out any warning to pedestrians blast was | tou>hed oil and piece of root weighing about thirty or forty pounds flew in the | direction of the public highway n distance ! pl dpNtlt put uuuhIttl lttl, SlIlhliiS "lSS Geraghty in the limbs with great force, throwing her to the ground and tearing her clothing. The girl was picked up by the neighbors and carried into the house of Patrick Dowling Mir Jarrett says he notified n doctor to call and attend to the l girl, but for some reason or other the doc tor did not call and the injured girl was left without medical attendance for over an hour. Her friends are indignant at the carelessness exhibited on the part of those who were responsible for the accident in this respect. for they waited anNiouSly for the doctor that did not come Finally Dr Benedict was summoned. He found the girl badly bruised. but no bones are | broken. She was taken to the residence of her brother, Martin Geraghty, Cooke | street