Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-04
CITY NEWS.

[s The board of public safety will meet tonight.
 The district court, criminal side,
 opened to-day. and adjourned to Thurs day. f
 The board of public works held an
 important meeting at o'clock this afternoon.
 Miss Louisa Coffey of Winsted has
 returned home after weeks visit to
 her friend Miss Lilly Kilroe of 15 Camp street.
 Major Crooks of Dublin, Ireland, is the guest of NJ. Guilfoile and family l This makes Major Crooks third visit to the United States.
 H. A. Robinson, an electrician on East Main street, has procured pat ent for an electric automobile He is
 now engaged on the machine. Postmaster Guernsey has been noti- l fled by the Washington postal author ities to open a sub-postal station at TAB North Main street, which is w. II. Pickett's drug store.
 The. funeral of John Kelly will take
 place tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock from his late home on Beech street at
 9 o'clock with mass of requiem at the Sacred Heart church and interment in St Joseph's cemetery.
 Special forecast for Connecticut:
 Fair tonight and probably Wednes- day; variable winds, mostly westerly. For eastern New York: Fair tonight and Wednesday,, except rain in north
 portion Wednesday,; light, variable winds.
 John Savers of Beacon street has an | offer to pitch for the Wlnsted Ball team l Saturday in a game against the Tor rington team. The north end advo- catcs of the national game expect that | Savers will uphold his reputation as . l pitcher.
 | Local lodge 120 of the Brass Holders l union will hold an important meeting
 this evening in the headquarters of the
 buffers andA po1is1iers' union. The
 strike in the moIding department at
 Matthews x Willard is still on. Half
 q dozen applicants for work there, hail.
 ing from towns up and down tue val
 ley on hearing there was strike at this
 concern returned whence they came. I Martin Parkinson, who lives at .S4 l Ridge street, is the proud possessor of
 some fine poultry. Last night about l II 80 MT Parkinson saw several sus- l picious looking characters near his property. He watched them and they 1 laid down as if to rest not so very far ] from his coop. Thinking that they I were seeking poultry rather than sleep,
 MT Parkinson summoned policeman. \ The latter succeeded in capturing one I of the men, who was not as fast as his l companions in escaping at the sight l of the minion of the law. After gly- l ing him a good taste of his club and l some wholesome advice the officer al l lowed him to depart
 l It is now the intention of counsel l of the Barlow Bros Go to attack Mrs l Eliza I. Parsons on another issue III their now famous suit against her 10 l recover damages for deposits they l claim to have had in the Parsons bank l when the crash came in that concern l On looking over the decision of the SUI preme court they find that it is not as | broad as they at first supposed and ln l amending their complaint in the new trial which the supreme court has al
 lowed they will allege that she not only conducted the banking business l on her own account after her. nusDand s I death. but also received certain money l as a depository. The amount they | claim she received as depository was |
 A woman. Petroncle Yockate. by
 name, who lives on Railroad Hill sIreet,
 has been acting very queerly for the past few weeks. She IS slightly ue-
 mented and has been wandering about
 the different streets in Brooklyn TOT several weeks, shouting ana actlng uueerly. This morning her actions De I came more queer. She would go lnlo stores and begin to shout and to insult l the store keepers. Complaint was
 made to Officer Haley and Constable l Donahue. The latter procured a car
 riage and the unfortunate woman was taken to the station house. Later she l was moved to the almshouse by order
 of Selectman Doran. This afternoon an examination was to be made as to
 her sanity.
 The members of Martha Washing 1 ton council Order of the Silver star,
 celebrated the 18th anniversary of it's
 organization with appropriate exer-
 cises in Johnson's hall last night. About 15O persons were present. The
 program. which was of a fine nature,
 was arranged by J. c. Latus, chair
 man of the meeting. A part of the pro-
 gram was as follows: Piano solo, Mrs l K. c. Chapin; recitation Mrs Harper; I tableaux, ssAn Interesting Story" the
 Misses Marion Grant and Lillian Beau
 camp; vocal solos, Master Harry l Blakeslee; recitation, Mrs Hart; tenor l solos, James Roy; vocal solos, the l Misses Addie Partree and Nf E'itzsi- l mons; Master George Harrington in 4 blackface act Incidentally to this, I George sang My Money Never Gives I Out" RecitationS were delivered Dy I J. c. Latus and Miss Grace Morell. I The latter's was entitled TX. of P, or
 True Friendshi.- " A tableaux enti- tied s'Cross' by the Misses Lillian
 Beaucamp and Marion Grant end n good night tableaux by the Misse1
 Marion Clark and Irene Partheny con- cluded the entertainment. Supper was
 served