Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-07
CITY NEWS.

l a meeting tonight
 The Democratic association gave a
 smoker in Turn hall last night. l.. J. Bowen, aged 54 years, died yes, l terday at his home, IS Park place. He
 leaves widow and three children. Samuel Lapin, a North Elm street l grocer, was thrown from his team to- day and received a bad shaking up. Dr J. l.. Moriarty and Miss Nellie A. Donahue will be married tomorrow
 morning at 6 o'clock at the Immacu- late Conception church.
 Lewis Shabbos, for several years Eemployed as clerk at Cones drug store, has accepted a similar position l at Fitzpatrick's pharmacy.
 Colyer, the photographer, is placing the finishing touches upon the picture of the class of 1900 of the High school and in few days the picture will be. l decoratingN the walls of the school. There is no change in tif& strike l question to-day. Some of the men are leaving town and appear to find no l trouble in getting work wherever they go. Quite a few have taken positions in Bridgeport and New Haven. Dennis c. Murray has resigned as
 manager of the High school baseball team and Jesse Devine has been chosen to succeed him. The team will l play the Naugatuck High school in l Naugatuck tomorrow afternoon. Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair tonight; Wednesday increasing cloudiness and rain in west portion; fresh westerly winds. For eastern
 New York: Partly cloudy tonight; | Wednesday showers and cooler, yaria- ble winds, mostly westerly.
 In the present number of Donahue's | Magazine there is published an inter- esting story by James W. Fitzpatrick l of Wall street, student at the Cath ollie university at Washington. The story is entitled Thomas, IT." and re- l fleets creditably upon the literary abil- l ity of the author.
 l After the business meeting of the | Sixth division, A. O. H.. last night, a social session was held with Thomas 1 Finnegan as master of ceremonies.
 The society accepted a challenge from the Fourth division of Naugatuck to a tug-of-war contest sto take place at r ENaugatuck on June 6.
 The Prichard house at the corner of Grand and Bank streets is being torn down by Contractor Mallette and in. a short time the building will be a thing of the past. It was thought that the main building would be removed to another site, but this was not found
 practicable, so it is coming down and
 will be disposed of for whatever can be got for it.
 II-->4rn the appeal of Moses Harris.
 lessee of the.P Plaza hotel, from the de cision of Judge-~Ileasley, Ill the sum-
 mary process brougat against him by George H. Gloves lass, Safurday, bond of $1 400 has been or04red. The
 object is to protect MT Cloves in case the appeal is decided against MT Il ar ris. which would mean that he shos 'ds pay rent while occupying the hotel. At the meeting of the aldermen last night a petition was received from
 Patrick Madden and others asking for the continuation of the surface harden ing of Baldwin street from Stone street to Washington street 1t went to the board of. public works with all the other petitions for new work. Some of the city officials think that inas-
 much as that part of the city is fast
 becoming an important business center
 the street ought to be paved with yitri-
 fled bricks, but others are of the opin-
 1O1l IlldI lHe pIOI1EIlf Is nOl stDiG sLO
 bear all assessment for that class of
 improvement and lean to the belief
 that the macadamizing should be con-
 tinued as far as originally planned,
 Washington street
 The antics of a Newfoundland dog
 at the corner of East Main and Cole
 streets to-day, about 20 D. m., created
 considerable excitement and attracted
 a large crowd. The dog,l whose owner
 is unknown, was suffering and ap-
 peared to be dying from combina-
 ton of collie and heat prostration. He
 was on the steps of what was once
 Smiths hotel. He was foaming at the
 mouth and several persons in the
 crowd which gathered about the place
 thought he was mad. But his actions
 indicated otherwise. The residents of
 the house were afraid of the dog and
 did not wish him to be around the
 place. Accordingly q spectator, who
 was disgusted with the wretched sight
 of the sick dog. attempted to carry
 him onto one of the back streets. But
 it was too much of an undertaking and
 Ae dropped the dog on the sidewalk,