Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-22
CITY NEWS.

A meeting of Central Labor union will be held this evening.
 F. E. Benham will sell twenty-five horses at auction next Saturday.
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Showers, followed Tuesday by fair weather cooler tonight.
 c. Hauser of the Waterbury One Price Clothing Co. and E. E. F. McMahon of the DEMOCRAT left for Old Point Comfort to-day.
 Tie Treuen Schwester lodge. D. O. H.. will give a sociable in Ooncordia hall Tues day evening for the benefit of the burial fund.
 Mrs Jane S. Ford, aged 76 years. died at her home in Waterville this morning. The funeral will be held Wednesday after noon.
 Darling will be celebrated in the Immacu- late Conception church at o'clock to-mor- row morning.
 In the police court today James Shana- han was charged with assault on John Cleary on April g. His case was adjourned until tomorrow under bonds of S200
 The funeral of William 1Edmonds, aged seven months, child of Thomas Edmonds OA AJ oSCAg RAhSCI HhO NAoA t-AS AA-ONA will take place tomorrow morning at o'clock.
 Two more beautiful open cars arrived here Saturday night on ths Naugatuck road for the Waterbury Traction Go and to-day they were hauled to the barn to be cleo Iically equipped.
 Beautiful basketfuls of arbutus are being conveyed about town to-day and punches r.. AL NE Era cents. One of the vendors said the plant is more plentiful this season than it has been for a number of years. Division No f, A. O. H., will give an il frustrated lecture on "Ireland," in the opera by Prof Walsh of Boston, who is himself member of the A. O. H. and enters deeply into the spirit of the order.
 There will be an adjourned meeting of the district committee at 8 o'clock tonight to discuss the advisrbality of calling meeting of the electors of the district for the purpose of taking action relative to ad- ditional high school accommodations.
 Yesterday was hospital Sunday iu some of the churches. and the following amounts were contributed: St Johns, $l52.25; First Congregational, $156; Second Congre- gational. $l06; First Baptist .S6; First Methodist, $36; total. $506 II.
 St Ann's fair had an suspicious open ing Saturday night, quite a large number of the congregation and some from the other parishes being present The stage performance was rare treat. Tonight there will be tambourine drill, tight wire performance and other exercises. Through some mistake two ladies ex- changed capes at the concert and sociable | of the Catholic Literary association dance Friday night One of the ladies returned the cape given to her and if the other will do likewise the society will see that each receives her own.
 The office of School Clerk T. J. Moran is commencing to look like the storeroom of some big New York publishing house. To-day two big wagon loads of books were dumped on the floor and by the time all | these are sorted over and sent out again to the different schools the clerk will have worked many busy day.
 The scholars and friends of Prof Bailey have completed arrangements for a recep- ton and entertainment at Pythian hall on Thurs d y evening. May 2. The following 8 Ilo dsnces will be rendered by the juvenile q :ac;nS Iiass: 'How Grandma Danced" |" Highland Fling" Peasant Dance" and | "Sallor dornplpe.
 James F. Dunn, d machinist employed by Cross & Spiers. has conceived new Idea for a car fender, and is making ar rsngements to perfect a machine which he believes will surpass any of the lenders now in use He will prepare A miniature fender for exhibition before completing the larger one.
 Edward P. Liuch has resigned the posi- I he has held for a number of years with Blake < Johnson. machine builders, and l has bought a half interest in the machine | and tack business of 1. L. Hawkins, situ- ated on the corner of Division and Vine streets, on the Grlggs property.
 Saturday night the selectmen awarded contracts for supplying the almshouse with meat, bread and fish for six months as fol- lows: For meat, per pound. 3 cents, to L P. X A NJ Guilfoile; for fish. per 100 pounds, haddocb. (undressedl $4. and cod
 fish. tuudressed) $5 50. to Alexander Mil lette; for bread. per 100 pounds. g 10, to Alexander Bouffsrd
 Two daughters of Mir and Mrs William Mason of P Baldwin hill, died yesterday Helen, aged three years and three months, died at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and Leila FredeIika. aged four years and five months, died at 10 o'clock at night The cause of death vas scarlet fever. The double funeral took place this afternoon with interment in Riverside cemetery. Half dozen robins held concert on $ tree in front of the almshouse this morn. ing at theconclusion of which nine male in hates picked up their traps and walked out into the world telling the keeper that the chance of making a living out doors was al | E.- Al A Al \ ! that had just charmed the whole house hold with their cheerful song Edward Devine. aged 32 years, an at tache of the gypsy camp on the WatertowI road. died Saturday night of pneumonia The gypsies had excAvAted a hole in thu ground and were about to roll the corpst into it when the selectmen surprised them and took charge Uf the remains
 The man had been with the company but
 a short time and death was hastened by
 exposure and neglect.
 Yesterday Vicar General Mulcahy an
 nounced that next Sunday 8 collection would be taken up at the Immaculate Con i, ception church in aid of the hospital fund
 He also referred to the great suffering O
 the people of Nebraska and stated that an, , of the Catholic people wishing to contribut
 towards the relief O. those people coulG | send thelf oner1ngs to him. He also an : nounced the entertainment to be given a
 the opera house under the direction of F : E. Cleveland in aid of the Connection } Institute for the blind, at Hartford. Ther
 are three Catholic children of Waterbur, at the institute. one of whom will appea f in the entertainment
 A large audience witnessed lively bas ball game on the West End grounds Sat ' urday afternoon between a picked min, |, from the Y. M. c. A and the Youn Acmes. Both sides played good ball. bu l the Young Acmes were too much for thei
 opponents and whipped them to the tun of II to 8. McElligott and Klobedanz wer i l the hattarv for tha xicknra and Phalan an,