Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-01
CITY NEWS.

Special forecast for Connecticut: Rain. cooler on Tuesday.
 An adjourned meeting of the Central La- bor union will be held this evening.
 Thomas Crosby of New Britain, one of the prominent members of the Knights of Labor spent Sunday with friends in this city.
 The board of education will meet at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and the dis tfiet committee at o'clock Wednesday night
 solemn high mass was celebrated at the Immaculate Conception church this morning for the father of Sister Claudine of St Mary's school.
 Joseph Hill, an employe of the Scovill Manufacturing Go, smashed the forednger of his left hand on power press this morn ing Dr Tonks rendered surgical aid.
 There are advertised letters at the pest office for Wallace Clark, Pat Killigan, Miss Maud Lord. Elmer Matthews, Miss Bridget Dates. L. ". Pond, George Thorne and Mrs Willie Sanford.
 Christopher O'Rourke, the infant son of John O'ROurke, 91 Scovill street. died yes terday afternoon. The funeral took place at 3 30 this afternoon with interment in Calvary cemetery.
 Thomas Nick formerly We Il known in this city, died recently at Leadville, Col orado. The deceased was once employed as teamster for Mir Beardsley and boarded with Mrs Mary Mellon of Jackson street.
 Vincent B Bergin, the ten months old son of Mir and Mrs Bergin of 475 Baldwin street, died Saturday afternoon of spinal meningitis. The funeral took place at o'clock this afternoon with lnterment in St Joseph's cemetery.
 In the district court Judge Bradstreet rendered the following decision: In the case or Henry l.. Rowland vs c. c. Con- merford, an action on n note, judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $651 and costs of S49 64. Law days: Commerford, May I5; Hart. May 16; West Side Savings bank, May IT.
 The front of E. J. Finn's shoe store Is being ripped out and will be replaced with handsome show windows and more sight ly entrance than the old one. What are YOU going to do there?' was asked the gen ial proprietor as he stood in the rear of the store experimenting the work of demoli- ton. ''Going to put on big front" was the answer.
 "A Day in the Woods" and "A Merry A afternoon and evening for the benefit of the high school piano fund, drew full house at each performance. The operettas were given by pupils of the high school under the management of Professor Bill, supervisor of music in the public schools. The affair reflected much credit on the pupils and tutor.
 At the joint meeting of the district com mittee and board of education Saturday night the subcommittee reported that there was nothing definite to report. The committee had agreed on the Platt black as the most desirable place to rent rooms for school accommodations, but aftre hearing the objections raised to the place it was decided not to make report No action was taken and the meeting adjourned with out taking any action.
 The funeral of F. L. Watrous took place | from his late residence, 109 Waterville street, yesterday afternoon. the Rev F. D. Buckley officiating, A delegation of twelve from Nosahogan lodge, I. O. O. F., wss present The pallbearers were G. Fred | Barnes, Seron Decker, Lewis l. Raymond, James Worthley The remains were taken l to Mystic on the COS train on the Nauga- tuck road this morning. The pallbearers accompanied the body and interment was l held with OdQ elbows rites.
 l Lieutenant Colonel Burpee was in New Haven Saturday for a short time. He told | a reporter that the movement for a legis- lative investigation into the conduct of the brigade at the last encampment at Mantle would probably be abandoned. Speaking in general way about the charges made against Camp Bradley. he said they were vastly exaggerated. He said that he had | hat have salutary effect in checking abuses in camp. He did not think, though, that such an inquiry would be held this year. 1 P H. Loughlin is the accredited repre- | sentative of the Elliott Publishing Go in this city. He has done some business here, | giving good satisfaction. dispatch from Danbury. published in the state papers Saturday, stated that a man representing himself to be an agent of the company;is a swindler. Mir Loughlin is inclined tc doubt that there are any bogus agents fol I the company in the state. He has appoint ed agents in different cities, all of whom are trustworthy. His agents never collect money from subscribers in advance.
 A freight train on the Philadelphia, Reading X New England road broke in two at Wlnsted yesterday morning and when tht | work of destruction was over eight cars including three on the siding of the Nsuga tuck railroad. were lying wrecked on the whole bredth of the three tracks. Three of the cars belonging to the Philadelphia
 & Reading company are damaged beyond repair, one of the cabooses being in splin ters. and two of those on the Naugatucl road are also beyond repair. curious thing about the accident is that while tho rails on the Naugatuck track were broker and twisted, those on the track where tht collision took place were not damaged.
 About one hundred persons, mostly Rus sian Hebrews. listened to the address O Charles w. Mowbray in the hall On Jack son street yesterday afternoon. He beratet the capitalists and the policemen, ceiling
 the latter the servants of the former. H.
 said that working people have more free
 dom in England than they have in America
 There you can hold meetings without tn
 interference of the law. Here you canno
 get glass of beer on Sunday. .Men ar
 dying out" he shouted, but missing link
 are growing up in their places. Suicide
 crlminality and prostitution are on the in
 crease, and all this can be traced to tn moncpolists who starve the people an,
 drive them to desperation The speake
 was announced to appear in the evening
 but there was not a corporaIs guar
 present and the evening session was dis . pensed with.
 The remains of Patrick Wall, formerl
 of this city, who died in New York Friday arrived here Saturday evening on the Nau
 gntuck road and were met by a large mum
 Der of relatives and friends, including Joh Wall of Stone street and Mrs Annie Dalto | of William street, brother and sister of tn
 deceased Accompanying the remai~%~ weS
 the sister of the deceased, Miss Bridge
 Wall. Mrs JuliA Hughes. Mrs Mary Bergi
 and their husbands, Policeman Joh
 Hughes and James Bergin, all of New Tor . city. The funeral took place at o'cIoc l ofk ko