Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-19
CITY NEWS.
Skating at the rink tonight.

/ $. W. Kellogg and wife. and Mrs. Sarah G. Plume are registered at the Arlington, in Washington.
 Mir and Mrs Charles Lamb and Mir and Mrs Samuel Root left to-day for a trip to the Bermudas.
 The annual sociable of the South End Anchor club will be given tonight in Concordis hall.
 The funeral of Joshua Mahony took place from his home in Simonsville this afternoon with interment in Riverside cemetery.
 Laura Todd. aged S5 yelrs. died at her home in East Farms yesterday. The funer- al will take place at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
 The decree team of Court Falcon will ex- emplify the new work on four members at the meeting of Court Shields tomorrow night
 Steward 0 White, colored, aged 37 years. died at his home, 76 Kingsbury street. Sunday afternoon. To-day Undertaken York sent the remains to Philadelphia for burial.
 The Misses Mary and Rose A. McNulty of North Elm street. will leave for New York to-day. and tomorrow will take the steamer Britannia for Glasgow. where they will visit relatives.
 Sheridan council steps down for no combination. It celebrates its anniver- sary i1 a manner to please the public, and will endeavor to excel this year. Friday night next at City hall
 Joseph L'Ecuyer. who was injured by a falling tree near Seymour the other day, died at his home, 9 Rushton place. yester- day afternoon. The funeral will take place at S:30 tomorrow morning with | services at St Ann's church.
 William NJ COttle was to-day appointed l trustee on the estate of William J. Snow. D. H. Tierney and A Dallas were appoint ed appraisers The list of liabilities filed in the probate court amounted to $34, ,962. The amount of assets is not given. Helen E. Williams. aged 75 years. wife ot the late Robert T. Williams of Litch- field. and mother of S. P. Williams and W. R Williams of this city, died Sunday night at the residence of her son. W. R. Williams. Ss1 East Main street. The re- mains will be taken to Litchf1eld for bur | ial
 The funeral of Michael Moriarty took place from his late residence. 303 Bank street, at S;30 o'clock this morning to St Patrick's church where a mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev J. H. Duggan The pallbearers were; Thomas McGlynn, D. F. Dwver, H. kiernan. Edward Fitz- gerald, John McCabe and P. H Began. Interment was in Calvary cemetery.
 The case of Eugene A Benham vs Au- gustus Peck and wife was tried before Judge Bradstreet in the district court thIs morning. On October 25, 1893. Benham rented barn in the rear of l120 West hasV Al 1,Y- fE ion ho fell through a hole in the barn floor. which had been made by Peck. His knee was dislocated and he was otherwise in jured. He sued for $500 damages
 Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream" is soon to be presented in de lightful way by the young people of the First church. who will condense all the goodness of the seasons amusuments into one grand event. The "Midsummel Nights Dream" will be given in monologue by Charles F. Underhill, impersonator. assisted by A. $. Gibson, orgnnist The subscription prices will be Fl co. fifty cents and twenty-five cents. Tickets will go on sale at Cones tonight, and May be exchanged after March 1
 E Burd Gibbud. aged 7S years. died al Syracuse \. \. Monday. The deceased was born in Naugtuck and when quite | young came to this city and entered the employe of the Scoyill Manufacturing Co. Some yeals after he kept little factory or Elm street and manufactured buckles and slides for ladies garments. He afterward: went to New York where he has since re- sided. The deceased was brother oi Mrs Bennett Stiles of Baldwin hill. Int remains will be brought to Waterbury and inferred in Riverside cemetery at o'clocl Thursday afternoon.
 An adjourned meeting of the Connecti cut State league of base ball clubs wa held at the Tontine hotel in New HayeI yesterday afternoon, and a compact six club league formed for the coming sea son. James H ORourke of Bridgepor WIS unanimously elected president, secre tary and treasurer of the league. and { board of directors was chosen as follows James H. O'Rourke of Bridgeport. Thomas L Reilly of Meriden, Charles H. Miller O New Haven, Thomas H Hayes of Water bury, JaAes O. German of Hartford anC !. Claude Gilbert of New Britain, Int salary limit for the league was fixed a $500 a month, including the manager, the season to run from May 4th to Septembe 14th, and each club will be required t pledge a gilt-edged bond of $250 as a guar antee that it will finish the season out. | ! games at home and two games away, witl a guarantee of $40 with privil. ge of 35 pc cent of gate receipts
 Three hundred and sixty five permit: were issued to parties who wanted to tr. their luck on the East Noun ain reservoir, said Prt sident Welton of the wa.er board to day. "one for eNe cry day in the year. Il don know what kind Of luck the boys had. h. added, but if they didn't succeed as vel as they would like to have done, the fsul was not ours. We had DO favorites, bu issued a permit to every man in his turn. Janitor James Preston of the Washington scho ol and Fish Dealer Maurice Whalel , are the principal characters in the las story reported from the big pond Botl went out tbere Saturday and promised thei friends big things on their return. The fished from o'clock in the morning unti l I2 in the afternoon and never got I bite. There they hauled in their line and started for the center where they calle = on photographer and had their photo ; taken. fishing tackle and all. When asRe' why they did this they said they had t i take something home to please their wive after being out all day. Some of the ol timers say the place was me tied last sum ? mer and that this is the reason so fe' caugh any fish there this winter.