Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-29

down Green street he lost control o1 the bicycle and ran straight into [ team and was knocked spinning to the
 ground. The horse fell upon the pros trate rider. The wheel was smashed beyond redemption, while the rider re
 ceived severe scalp wounds and SC were bruises about the body Dr De Liguori rendered surgical attendance A great crowd was attracted to the scene of the accident.
 There were several games of ball at the Rye Lots yesterday. In the
 morning the Ben Mohrs defeated the
 Slashers of Scovill street by score of
 19 to 12 and the Lafayettes won from
 the Washington Hill team by score
 of IA to 8. Tn the afternoon the St
 Thomas Cadets defeated the Brooklyn
 Athletic club club by a score of 26 to
 IS. The battery for the former was
 Stein, Kinney and Ray, while Luddy,
 Pratt, McNellis and ogers were the
 battery for the B. A. c. On Saturday
 the Altar Boys defeated the St Thom-
 as club of the North End by the score
 of 31 to 6. Lynch made two home
 runs and Dolerty one.
 Joseph A. Jankauskas of S43 Bank
 street, fell down the stairway at his
 home last night, receiving injuries
 from which he died shortly after the
 accldent. He ruptured an artery and
 bled to death through the nostrils. ears and mouth. He leaves a widow and one daughter. NIT. Jankauskas
 conducted saloon at the corner of
 Bank and North Riverside streets for several years, but retired from the
 business last fall and has since been
 working at the Waterbury Manufac- turing company. He was we'll known Lithuanian and had a host of friends among all classes. After he was injured Dr Russell and Dr De Liguori were called, but their efforts to save his life proved of no avail. The funeral notice will appear later.
 Alderman D. J. Mahaney's. home, Bank street, was the scene of merry festivities last evening. The festiY- ities were given by the we'll known all derman of the fourth ward in honor of the tenth anniversary of his moving into his present splendid residence. And what 9 time and what gathering there was. There were present Mayor Kildnff, Alderman Mahaney, City Clerk Ryan, Comptroller Russell, Town Clerk Brett, Alderman Morris, Reporter Lahey, Constables Donahue, Baker, Daniel O'Brien and the follow ing members of the Hardware Hall club: John Clohessy; Michael Clancy, Timothy Luddy, Patrick Cronin and John Malone. and a host of other people. A part of the evenings en- ertainnent was as follows: Songs by Thomas Maher, William Hughes, William Riley, Thomas Flaherty, Thomas Quinlan and George Butler; song and cake walk by Johnnie Ma lone; piano selections, by the Misses Louise, Malone, Alice Hughes and Mary Denehy; mandolin selections, Frank Johnson; choruses by the Hard-I ware Hall club, with Timothy Luddy as soloist. But the hit of the evening was the solos by City Clerk Ryan, in the choruses of which all the politi- clans joined. He sung ssKindling Wood that song made famous by the New Haven aldermen on their appear ance in thls city last summer, when they played ball against the local al- dermen. Mayor Kilduff, Alderman Mahaney, Constable Donahue, John Clohessy and Michael Clancy were the victims of Ryan's witty sallies. Dane ing was a feature of the evening. Re treatments were served. It was a most memorable gathering, one that will long be remembered by those who were present.
 A very interesting and practical sermon was delivered at the morning service at the Third Congregational church yesterday morning before q large audience by Rev Charles E. Granger, who also repeated the ser mon at the Bunker Hill chapel in the afternoon at 4 o'clock, before another large congregation. As said before, the sermon is of Q practical nature and one that is worthy of perusal by the public in general. It was in part as follows: There is a certain lady in our church, who, as far as | can learn and as far as can judge from my own friendship with her, never speaks evil of any one. There may be many others, but this one case has particularly commanded my at tention and my admiration also, for more than a year past. Is not this a virtuous reputation to have? Would you not be pleased if it could be truth fully spoken of you. Well, it rests with ourselves and for my part, l mean to try more and more to over- come that natural tendency to talk un- favorably of others. Please under stand me, am not insulting you this morning as a congregation of slander- CTS or gossipers. have no idea that you are; on the contrary, am inn pressed that you are a great deal free CT from this than most people, butA I simply want to speak of that com mon and natural tendency to which we are too easily inclined to yield, and ! am preaching as much to myself as to anyone in the room. Think for just a moment of the nature of your talk < and conversation. How much of it is about dkhcrs We will doubtless be surprised when we consider the matter to find how large proportion of our talk and conversation is about our friends and acquaintances, and it is \ not always kind or good. We are too prone to enter into criticisms and comments which are neither hattering nor charitable. There are times :, I know, when in the interest of justice, the truth must be spoken. We are not dealing with these times now, but with commonspeech and conversation. Let us inquire what is the purpose and end of the great gift of speech. It is that we may make ourselves under stood by others, to convey to those around us our knowledge and our knowledge. It is this great gift which has made man a social being, and progress of ages and ages has made him to tower so infinitely above , 1T otha,. a nina1 craation The gift of