Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-20
CITY NEWS.

creasing cloudiness and snow.
 The Turn Nerein Norwarts will hold special meeting tonight,
 Isaac Solomon, who formerly lived here. died in Philadelphia yesterday. The re- mains will be brought here tonight.
 The hearing on the settlement of the Mary Heffrin estate was adjourned until tomorrow.
 Application was made in the probate eourt to-day for letters of administration on the estate of William H. Richardson.
 Henry Greeuberg was declared insolvent in the probate court to-day and hearing on the appointment of trustee was set down for March 23.
 The American band will give sacred concert in the City hall sunday night Tickets can be secured at Drigcs .S smiths music store or of members of the band.
 Letters advertised: Miss Lillian At wood. Miss Harriet Cooper, C. l.. Hallen- borg Miss Maggie Keryan. John Lendral. Mrs Julia kIernan. Mrs Charles Porter, William Stokes
 City elections will be held in Connecti- cut thIs spring as follows: Hartford. Stam- ford and Bridgeport, Monday. April l {: New Britain. Monday. April <; DAnbury Monday, April %. and Norwich. Monday. June ?.
 \ party from Watertown who will at- tend the Philharmonic club concert to be given at Leavenworth hall on Saturday evening. has perfected arrangements for a special train which will leave the Nauga- tuck station immediately after the close of the entertainment at about 10:45
 There has been n mal ked increase in the wholesale price of beef during the past week or so. and it is probable that early next week the retail dealers, who have not as yet advanced the price, will be com pelsd to do so on account of another ad- vance on the part of the wholesalers.
 Henry J. Flanagan iS the first man to announce the advent of the bluebird For several years half a dozen of those har- bingers of spring have been accustomed to call around his home about thlS time and to-day the birds appeared. their pres ence filling the neighborhood with sunshine and mirth.
 The funeral of Margaret McGuire took place from her late residence, 34 Adams street, this morning. to the Immaculate Conception church, where a mass of re- quiem was celebrated by the Rev Father lynch. The pallbearers were: T. J DalS F. ] CruesS, !. ( DorAn. F.. II, Howes E. R. Meade. Interment was in St Joseph $ | cemetery
 Another post office proposal has been filed with Postmaster Fitzpatrick. Heal estate agent S r. Williams offers the site at the corner of Brook and Scovill streets. It k vacant lot. and he will erect a suit able building. The property Is part of the l.awlor and Ruth estates. Agent Williams claims that geographically It Is the most central site reported.
 Court Falcon. A. Q r. of A, held m enthusiastic meeting last night. The de- gree team went through the regular work and initiated one candidate. w. C. kleiuecke and Peter Meyers were ap pointed delegates to the state convention Tn Hartford in May. The degree team ot | Court Falcon will also attend the conven, ton and exemplify the worS before the delegates. It is the only court in the state which has such team and the ex. pense of the trip to Hartford will be mel | by the local Foresters.
 Officer W. Brickel saw two men and ( woman going up Cook street last night and acting very suspiciously. They alSc saw the officer and went into a side stree but returned to Cook street agaln. O1icel Brickcl followed them and the men TAT away. He arrested the woman. Sbe gave her name as TesSie O'Connor. This morning she was charged with lascivious carriage As the officer had discovered nothing improper in her actions she wa: allowed to so. Daniel Mc(irath for drunk rnness was given thirty days in jail Joseph CoLuorS was sent to jail for fifteer | days.
 A coat and hat rack in the room of tht mayors office Is a much needed piece o furniture, and the person placing such Au article there is sure to win the good grace. of the members of the municipal boards and also of the members of the press. fl the latter be worth having Ii is a com | mon thing to see nine or ten oVercoat: and as many hats thrown on the backs O chairs or on the clerks desk. and not in. l frequently someone's derby comes to grie by falling upon the floor and remaining | their until some belatcd lawmaker O. scribe stumhles over it. The mayor ha frequrntly referred to the need of procur ing some accommodation of thls kind hu so far nothing has been done about it.
 That business Is picking up in good shap, on the New England road k evident iron the large number of cars being handle, over the western division of this system An eastern movement of cars OF thls roal means good paying business. and for tn, l past few Vt tkS such movement has beer l very heavy. The increase Tn east-bOuu, loaded cars handled on thls division alon, amounts to from too to SOu cars per weel moie than for the samr period last year FuS lu contraction with the westerI movement. makes large number of car, handled, Freight brakemen are maRius full time and are corre>pondingly happy glance at the traiumen in the servic, at present shows that the physical ant moral standard has been improved, anc especially when compared to the class O men employed some years ago Is this i'm Erovement evident.
 The St Vincent de Paul society con nected with the parish of the Immaculate Conception church Is performing a noblt work among the poor of the city. Althougt organized but few weeks it has already furnished food, fuel and clothing for large number of poor people who are no ln position to help themselves. Whil, there has been no pubhc sppea made thls winter in behalf of the unem ployed. yet the fact remains that there are A good many families in wan. It wa 2 long, severe winter. Very little outdoor work has been done since last Decembel and as result almost as many idle mel could be seen on the street since that timl as there were during the corresponding months of last year. The different churcht and other charitable institutions have don, much to keep the wolf from the door o many family during the last three month and the St Vincent de Paul society aided materially as it has been by the contri buttons of the poor box of the church O the Immaculate Conception. has alread.