Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
CITY NEWS.


 ming at o'clock.
 Yesterday the Rev Dr Parry preach ed an interesting sermon against desc cfation of the sabbath.
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair tonight and Tuesday, fresh northwest erly winds becoming southwesterly. The annual meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. c. A., will be held in the Y. M. c. A., building to- | night.
 Referee Newton of New Haven has ordered the Robbins Forging company of Brown street to file a schedule of l it's indebtedness
 Mayor Kilduff, City Clerk Ryan and the members of the board of public works are having an outing at the | Branch to-day.
 The A. O. H memorial day commit tee will hold a meeting at Hibernian headquarters in G. A. R. block at s o'clock tonight.
 The Jeffersons baseball nine went to Wallingford on Saturday afternoon and was walloped by the local team to the tune of IT to z.
 Chauncey H. White of White & Wells and Mrs Jennie B. Gates were married in Brooklyn, N. r., on May 20, by the Rev J. l.. Carson.
 Miss Mary D. Perkins, daughter of William B. Perkins of Bucks hill road returns home tomorrow for the sum- mer. Miss Perkins is a student in the Griswold school in Lyme.
 Major Crooks of Ireland, who has h0nv. fy11r h Ina family of NJ. Guilfoile, left for the old country today. A large party of friends saw him off at the depot.
 Helen Mahoney, the two years and ten months old daughter of MT and Mrs Jeremiah Mahoney of 32 Lafay- ette street, died early this morning from an attack of pneumonia. The funeral will take place tomorrow af- ternoon with interment in the new St Joseph's cemetery.
 Dennis Hogan died this morning at the, residence of his daughter, Mrs. John O'Connor, 274 South Leonard street. Besides his daughter he leaves four sons, David, William, Michael and John O'Connor of New York. The remains will be taken to Sylvan Lake, New York, Wednesday morning for burial in charge of Undertaken Null vile. " Mrs. John Parker. aged 35 years, Baldwin street after about two weeks sickness with typhoid fever. Besides her husband she leaves four children, Nellie, 10; Robert, '; James, 5; John, 8; also her mother, Mrs Francis Healey, and a brother and sister, Philip and Miss Katie Healey. The funeral notice win appear later.
 Miss Jennie Lyons of this city won l second prize in beauty contest which took place at fair which just closed | in Jersey city. Miss Lyons lives on | Liberty street and was a member of | the class of 1900 of the Waterbury | High school It must be said that the | judges had. an eye ptol beauty when | they selected Miss Lyons as the win ner. Of second prize, far she well de served tnefh9n9rs T-ozI7 Je fp~ kTI-
 Thomas F Me1fahon, nelerkA at. the selectmen's office, and Attorney J. J. O'Neill spent Saturday afternoon fish | ing for bullfrogs at Wattles's pond and while they saw scores of the croakers still they had poor success in making them bite. They captured | four or five and had hard time of 1t to do even that. One of the frogs did not like how he was handled and came near taking the top off Attorney | O'Neill's little finger, pinching it so badly that the limb of the law yelled | for help.
 Shortly after 5 o'clock. yesterday af- ternoons an alarm of fire from box 824 called the fire department to He'll mann's grove. The scene of the fire was building which is now used as storehouse but was formerly a dane | ing pavilion. The fire was raging rath- CT fiercely when the firemen arrived. But prompt work by the firemen quick 1y extinguished the blaze. The dam- | age, which was not heavy, is covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown but Is believed to be the work of some boys who were playing around the premises and one of whom might have dropped accidentally | lighted match in the building.
 Mary, Margaret, Ellie and Julia Sul- | livan, daughters of Daniel Sullivan of 10 Fuller street, suffered considerably last night from ptomaine poisoning, as a result of eating ice cream. The above named children range from two to five years of age. About 6:30 the children purchased quantity of ice cream from l a street vendor and about 8 o'clock they commenced to feel i'll. They grad ually grew worse and at 10 o'clock their condition was so serious that Dr Me Donald was summoned. He immedi- ately attributed the illness to ptomaine poisoning, the result of eating the ice cream. Dr Mcdonald rendered the ne- cessary medical attendance and to-day the condition of the children is much | improved.
 Those who attend the Fourth Di- | vision, A. O. Fl. entertainment in City hall Thursday night next will see one
 of the finest tug-of-war contests ever witnessed in the city. Ex-Alderman
 John Hurley says he has a team of
 first division boys who will pull any team in the city so far that it will take | them till the next fourth of July to
 get back. Hurley is an old hand at
 tug-of-war and people says he knows I what he is talking about, and he is I prepared to back his assertions with | all the money he can get covered. A
 man on the inside track says the Nau- 1 gatuck boys expect to show the Brass | "A L T. .