Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-29
CITY NEWS.
Music at tue skating rink tonight.


 urday afternoons children's dancing class for a three moRths course.
 A hearing on disputed claims against the James E. Wheeler estate was held for Commissioners Florence Clohessey and John c. Altman to-day
 Division No 3, A. c, H., will give a con- cert and sociable in Concordia hall on ri- day evening. February 8. The Ideal or- chestra will furnish music and Professor Herr will prompt
 John R. Martin has received no infor- nation concerning his son, Henry Martin. since yesterday. Mir Martin has written to the chief of police where the accident occurred asking for full particulars
 John A. Somerville and NJ. F. Pagan have purchased from the widow of the late ]. F McCandless, the blacksmithiDg busi- ness on Jefferson street and will take possession of the place tomorrow.
 Dr 0. E Munger to-day received from Professors Behring and Ehrlich of Hael- chst on the Main. Germany. a small vial filled with snti-toxine. the new cure for diphtheria. It is a llquld which might be easily taken for sherry wine.
 Special trolley cars will run from Naugatuck to Waterbury after the concert and also after the close ofthe ball given | by Ojrda council. K. of O, tomorrow night. It is expected that one hundred Waterburians will attend.
 The American baud will be assisted by Miss Lila c. WIgmore. soprano, aud the Water bury orchestra, twenty pieces, nt City hall Wednesday. February $. Tickets can be had at D1iggs < Smiths music store, or Oannon's North End drug store. The remains of Samuel H. Pritchard, formerly of this city. who died n Bridge l port Sunday. were brought to Waterbury on the 1l:l2 train this morning and in tered in Riverside cemetery. The de- ceased was Sl years of age.
 Maggie A Finnan. aged one year and nine months daughter of Mir and Mrs P. k. Finnan of 213 South Main street, died | last night of tubercular meningitis. The | funeral will take place at s o'clock to- morrow morning with interment in Cal vary cemetery.
 The funeral of James Gleason took place t9 the Sacred Heart church to-day, where services were conducted by the Rev | Father Treanor. The pallbearers were Matthew Ryan, John Moran, James Dnnn. Michael Phelan, Thomas Deianey and Timothy Keefe. Interment was in St JosePh's cemetery
 | Dr Freney is to perform a difficult sur | gical operation on a patient at the aims house this afternoon. A col"red inmate | named William Hill has been ailiug with consumption for some months and has | suffered such pain that after an examina- ton it was fouHd that he was in need of | surgery we'll medicine.
 | The first of the twenty y-five heavy loco motives recently ordered by the New York. New Haven & Hartford road will be dt livered in four weeks. The engines are of the Consolidated type. with four coupled wheels aud two-wheeled trucks forward. The weight of each is 15J, ,U00 pounds. They are designed for hauling heavy freight trains at slow speed. There is little serious illness about town, although thee are several cases of hard colds, which in some instances are called grip. According to a physician there Is very little. if any. genuine grip hereabouts A careful diagnssis of the average case reported Hs grip. would show it to be simply cold. more or less severe. | with nothing in the nature of grip Symptonl about ii.
 l The nIalr employees of Steele < Johu- | sons held meeting in the factory after l o'clock last night and adopted a constitu- l ton and bylaws for benevolen: society l to be known As the Steele & Johpson's Protective association. In order to be eligible for membership it is necessary to l be in the employ of the company and in case member should leave or be dis charged he shsll forfeit his membership, and whatever he may have paid into the orgarlIatiou unless he returns within five l weeks. It costs twenty five cents for initiation for charter members and ten | ha will be open until Thursday. After that date employees wishing to join will have to pay an initiation fee of fifty cents. Dues will he collected until the sum in the treasury amounts to $l00. Then there will be To more collections until that sum has been reduced to $75. weekly bene- it of $l0 will be paid to sick or disabled members. Officers We're elected as fol- lows: President, John Blacker; vice president. Frederick Sawyer; secretary, George N Derigon; treasurer, George L. Pl4tt; board of directors. Martin L Keefe, chairman; Thomas Kehoe. Thomas F. Fitzgerald. Joseph Woisley, Francis Bradbury The board of directors will appoit sick committee Already min, ty- five have joined the org4; izaiion.
 There was lively debate Tn the rooms of the Catholic Literary as | . els the Strike of the Emil yes of the Brooklyn Traction Company Justiti- able" James NJ Lynch was appointed judge and James Galavin, clerk It was surprising to notice the remarkable knowledge each contestant had of the de. tails of the strike and also of the rights of l capital and labor. Some of them had documents to read which would prove. they said, that the president of the com pany should be in jail, while others had 1 documents to prove that the authorities | were too lcnient with the strikers. Judge | Lynch ruled all this documentary evil dence out of order and compelled the members to rely entirely on what they had memorized for the decision. The contestants for the negative were: James P. Kane. James E. Smith, Thomas J Far ley, William J Walsh for the Welsh. Peter ] Luddy, Charles H. Ramon. The discussion lasted over two hours and after the last speaker had been heard Judge Lynch put on a serious face and decided that according to the merits | of the debate the employees had not ex- | ceeded their rights he therefore decided in favor of the affirmative. The reading of Hamlet wi be the exercise on next Monday night and On the folio Ging Mon- day night the question: Resolved, That All LottorI $ are Detrimental to the Com mon Good. will be discussed, with J. E. Smith for the affirmative and J NJ. Lyuch tor the negative.
 The members of the parish of the Inn msculate Conception held a meeting in St Patricks hall last night and organized St Vincent de Paul society. William c. Keenan was appointed temporary chair man and Jsmes H. Freney clerk. The following were appointed as a nominating committee: Very Rev J. A. Mulcahy, Mrs John Ryan. Miss Susan Weston, J. A. Jackson. John H. Moran. After a brief conference he committee an- n"uncrd the following list of permanent offic, Ts. which Was approved: President,