Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-16
CITY NEWS.

 Special forecast for Connecticut: Rn- Wednesday.
 Real Estate Agent l.. R. Carter has sold Judge Cowell's Oak street property to Henry B. Deiss.
 Roger Connor's batting average is .329, while Lachance has dropped to 3O2. Keeler leads the league. with an average of 4O5.
 John Wrinkle for drunkenness was fined $1 and costs, and John Lannagan received a similar dose for a similar offense, this morning.
 Willie Courtney of Union street fell from a tree last evening cutting big gash in his leg. Dr McEvoy put several stitch es in the wound. >t
 William Lynch, a Baldwin street boy, had his nose broken and his lip split while playing ball last evening. He was attended by Dr McAvoy.
 Labor Commissioner Horne is getting out pamphlet edition of the laws affect ing the labor questio on passed by the recent general assembly.
 Hubert Verrier has awarded the contract for building a six tenement house at the corner of South Elm and Pond streets to Leon Bulduc of Danbury.
 NeW Dtltaln IS 10 nANea moEnluS pApeF1 republican in politics. Somsbody must already well supplied with papers.
 Perley Bell Garthwaite, aged eight months, dIed at 7S9 North Main street yesterday. The funeral took place at 3 o'clock this afternoon with intsrment in Bucks Hill cemetery.
 The case of Patrick Thompson vs Lucy ha krSo n before Judge Cowell, was adjourned until tomorrow morning at half past nine, as the defendant did not appear. The funeral of John Dover will take place from his late residence, 21 William street, at S:30 o'clock tomorrow morning with services at the Sacred Heart church and interment in Calvary cemetery.
 Marie Lucia. aged 23 years, wife of Nicholas Lucia. 249 Bishop street, died last night. She leaves an infant child. The funeral will take Elace at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, with interment at Calvary cemetery.
 Charles Bowling of East Main street, an employe of Matthews X Willard, caught his left hand in a polishing wheel this morning badly lacerating the second and third fingers. He was attended by Dr Tonks.
 At meeting of the ex-Waterbury High school ball team last night H. o. Reach was elected manager and Levi Wilcox cap- tain. The club expects to play game with the Taft school nine in Watertown next Friday.
 The meeting of the members of the dis trict committed, which was announced to take place last night for the purpose of act ing on bids for the addition to the Bank street school. has been postponed until Wednesday night.
 The Danbury News of yesterday was a "women's edition;" that is, it was edited by the women of the hating town. It was an elaborate affair, filled with we'll written news items and special articles, and alto gether was a big success
 It is stated on excellent authority that ere long there will be another Catholic newspaper issued in this state and if ar engagements now under way are consum- mated, and the probabilities are that they will be, it is not at all unlikely that Bridge port will be the home of the new publi- cation.
 It was rumored to day that the decom- posed body of an Italian had been found | in tho water mains leading from the Branch, above Waterville. Medical Ex- | aminer Axt+lle pronounces the story a hoax and City Engineer CairDs and Presi- dent Melton of the water board also ridi- | cule the statement. It would be physi- cal Impossibility to place a body in the mains, laid as they arc.
 A large party collected at the Naugatuck depot at the departure of l :28 train this af- ternoon to bid farewell to John T. Burn, superintendent of the Metror olitan Life Insurance Go who left to-day for visit to his former home in England. MT Burn is popular with the men under his control | Nearly all of the assistant superintendent ts in the district and quite good many of the agents were present to wish him a God speed.
 President A. A. Benedict presided at | the quarterly meeting of the Union Rescue mission in the west parlor of the Second church last night. The treasurer's showed receipts to the amount of $280 15, and ex- penditures of $199.2S leaving a balance on hand of $50 87. The constitution was nmendt 50 as to give power to the execu- tive committee t0 fill all vacancies among it's own members arising from resignation, death, etc, for the unex pired terms, the body. to consist of nine instead of seven members. The two positions created by this increase were filled by the election of Rev w. J. White and E. l.. Robbins. It was NoIeu to engage superintendent W lI- | son for one year at a salary of $9U0. Some of the w. 0. T. U. were opposed to this. They had heard that MT Wilson said if the women should hang out their sign at the entrance to the room of the Union Rescue mission he would pack his bag and walk out of town. The proposed w. c. T. U. sign is a bone of contention among the members of the mission. The men folks are trying 10 dissuads the women from put ting up their card but the last word heard from Mrs Cook was: ''This is our missi on and we are going to have sign out" It was finally voted to leave the W. 0. T. U. l sign matter to the executive committee. B. G. Bryan was appointed to audit the last two quarterly renorts