Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-21
CITY NEWS.

| was knocked down and run over by a 1 grocery wagon on North Main street Inis forenoon. Besides q geaer:Il shll- ing up his lips were cut. pr McLinuen | attended hi-2.
 The new jewelry store of Frank r. Bccton & Co wilt be opened JGst three 1 days later than was expected. Tne or!glnal plan was to open tonight, but 1 owing to some delays the store will | not be opened until saturday. When i the store is opened tine people of Wa i lcrDury Will be surprised nt the srien- did line of goods that wlli be dis | played.
 The Y. NJ. C. \. foot ball squad are requested to meet for practice tonight at I:i5 r. Ill.,. in prcpuratiUn for their final game of the season, which will be played next Saturday in Seymour, with the strong eleven of that place. 1 The players hope to end the season, which has been q successful one for them, with ! victory.
 | The condition of Alexander McRob | Of Clay street. who was removed to | the hospital some time ago suffering from an attack of typhoid fever, was reported very low this afternoon. Mr | McRob is q very popular citizen and i many inquiries have been made about | him at this office during the past few days. and it is to be regretted that the news to-day is not more encouraging.
 Mrs O'Donnell of Washington street,
 who was injured yesterday by falling off the yerandi. gave birth 10 a baby last night. but it did not live over ten
 or fifteen minutes. 1t was buried this afternoon in Calvary cemetery. The
 woman is getting along as well as could be expected under the circum
 stances and unless something uneN-
 Dected sets in she will be all right in
 Il short time. The little girl who was precipitated into the yard with her shows no signs of having been serious ly injured.
 At the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium yes terday afternoon the Whites won from the Blues by Il score of 9to '. thus gaining the league championship in the Junior basket ball league. The game was close and Interesting throughout, ahounding in beautiful plays by both teams. The Whites were composed Of the following players: Captain Chap man and G. Tompkins. guards: Camp bell and Leach. forwards: and Schun. center while the Blues makeup was as follows: Hyde and Benham, guards:
 NJ. Tompkins and Davis, forwards. and ; Captain Larkin. center.
 A man who had occasion to travel : along East Main street late last night or rather early this morning declared
 that he saw half a dozen men near
 the old tan shop with d cart load of : fish which they had just captured in the East Mountain reservoir. which is now being cleaned. He said that he | talked with the men and that they in formed him that all one had to do was to fill them lip into q bag and that if you did not care for trout pike perch pickerel or bullhcads you could delve into the six or eight feet of mud , and load up with eelS. This sounds i, like a fish story. but the man was
 positive that lie had made no mistake
 and repeated the statement dozen
 times that when he met the men they
 were on their way home with the full
 of dump cart of all kinds Of fish. II. II. Spooner of New Haven, pres , idcnt of the Connecticut Christian En- deavor society. has been secured by the Y. M C. A. management to deliver . an address next Sunday afternoon at , Jacques Opera house. Ar Spooner is q fluent and stirring speaker, one who holds the rapt attention of his audi ! encc throughout his entire speech An especial feature Of next Sundays pro gram will be the presence of the Fisk jubilee singers of Nashville. Tenn. who will, in their own inimitahle style , render several selections. Their rep ,, utation as singers is well known y throughout the country. They alone ought to attract a packed house at
 the meeting.
 line New York Herald of to-day pub fishes a long story of an alleged injury received by George A. GOSS. of this city, sophomore at Yale. in which it
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 in harness straining every nerve to ,= establish a strength record. overdid it , and caused blocd clot to form on the brain. George A. Goss is one of the best known young men in Waterbury, a. prominent foot ball player and an all EaroHnd good fellow. and naturally the Estol-y et'e:tfed some talk and prompted , people to inquire if it were true A ' EDemoerat reporter asked Alderman E. , A. GOss. bretlseT of the well known , athlete, about the matter. and was in- formed that the accident reported in the Herald to-day occurred one year ago next month. Mr GOsS got over it all right. but the family is not anxious to have him play with the big teams, and probably this led to the pushing around of the accident of a year ago. and some wide-awake scribe, thinking it a new thing. soon made a capital story out of it.
 The committee appointed by the all ! dormen to prepare :, draft of a bill
 for the consolidation of the town and
 city governments appears to be talk
 ing things easy5and unless they get a
 move on themselves they will not be ready to report until after the next session of the general assembly ad- journs. The committee should get to- gether and report some kind of a bill
 and then if the aldermen do not like
 it let them try it themselves. Those. who are behind il claim that they are
 going to present q bill to the legisla- ture anyway, but they would prefer
 to go there with one that had met the approval of the board of aldermen
 rather than with one of their own making. The committee is catching fits from the consoldationistS. some
 of whom declare that if they do not get down to business before the next session of the board of aldermen they | will appear before that august body l and have the committee fired and a