Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-27
CITY NEWS.


 Birney's.
 Warranted fresh eggs 14c dozen, and q good table butter DOC lb, at Bos- ton Butter house.
 John A. Babin has just returned from Canada, where he went to visit his brother. whom he found very dangerously i'll.
 The funeral of Thomas O'Connor will take place from the family resi- dence on Meadow street tomorrow morning al S:3O o'clock.
 The same story was told this morn ing, both at the police station and the city court, that has been told there the past three or four days; no business and no court.
 take place this afternoon from Moriar- tvs undertaking rooms. with service by the Rev Father O'Brien and inter ment in St Joseph's cemetery.
 Mr Hallett requests full attend ance of the members of the Friendly league %lee club at rehearsal this even ing. All who are to sing in the con cert next month must be p10ent at this rehearsal.
 At the meeting of the Naturalist club last night Mrs Bristol read a paper on "EconOmic Ornithology." Mrs Bristol had a good word for every member of the feathered family with the exception of the pugnacious spar row
 The necltes that will be sold at the Friendly league tomorrow evening are from the stock of J. E. Mullings X Go and are genuine bargains. The home made candies. jellieS, etc. are of the best. The public as well as league members is invited. Notice of desertiOn from the armc l by Daniel T. Goodwin of this city has 1 been posted in the police station. The paper was issued by the war depart- ment. IL states that Goodwin enlisted 1 in Company B, Eleventh infantry. in | New York. August 2O 10OO and de- serted on March 12. In last years di- rtctory there appears no man of the above name.
 Court Wolf Tone held q meeting last night and chose D. r. Kelly and Michael O'Neill as delegates to the state convention. One of the delegates is said to be for I<leinecke and an- other for Griffin. The Kleinecke- Griffin contest is becoming decidedly inter- esting and some predict that the dele gation will go to the convention di- vided. This should not occur. Let
 
 by the will of q majority of the reg ular1y elected delegates.
 The trolley company has let specifi- cations among local contractors to build an embankment wall 2,OOO feet long on the Watertown road. The points between which the wall will be built are the junction of the trolley | tracks and the public highway and the Bunker hill road. It will be built | up from the river and when complet- ed the space between the road and the wall will be filled in and the tracks moved off the highway. This is sub | stantally in accordance with the first l requirements set out by the town. It l Is the purpose of the company to as far as possible lay it's tracks on pri- yate property so that it will have little or no bother with municipal authori- ties regarding the care of highways One of the greatest nuisances that | attract the attention of strangers in 1 town is the large number of vagrant ] dogs that may be seen on the business streets all day long running after and | barking at passing vehicles. Exchange place is always full of such dogs. The noise they make is of the most dis agreeable character. They cause more ] runaways than other known things. 1 This forenoon messenger boy jumped on the rear of a grOcer's wagon near Miller & Peck's store. Soon after along came dirty, evil looking mon- grel which snapped at the horse giving it a fright. Then it undertook to bite the revolving wheels. In this it failed. but it caught the boys trousers, which seemed to give it more satisfaction than a bite out of the wheel. The boy did not relish the situation. however, and with strong kick with his loose | leg he sent the dog Spraw1ing in the gutter. Every teamster in the city would like to see the board of alder men frame an ordinance declaring this condition of things to be a public nuisance.
 Charles W. Tompkins. aged 42 years for several years head salesman at J B. Mullings & Cos, Bank street cloth iers and outfitters. died this morning at his residence. % Field street, after an illness of four weeks. He leaves : widow and one child. Hattie. q brigh girl about 12 years old: also his father l Willard TompkinS. and one brother Frank. MT Tompllins entered the ern l ploy of J. B. Mullings x Co twenty seven years ago and worked his way upward from a general utility bo! about the place to that of head sales ! {: 1 for quite q good many years. He wa: q man of fine character and command ed the confidence and esteem of hi: employers and that of all others wh( had the pleasure of an acquaintance with him. He was q man of pleaSan manners and the clerks and patrons O. the concern as wellas his hosts of per sonal friends will regret to learn tha he has been called from amongst then while yet in the prime of life. ant deeply sympathize with his bereaye( widow and family.
 ; Things are bordering upon open wa on South Elm street for the past twen ty-four hours, and unless some on, steps in before night and removes tn, source of the trouble there will be wa in the camp and more than one mal will be made to feel the lash. Tester day morning a dead dog was discOv . cred on South Elm street and the tint was promptly reported at the police