Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-12
CITY NEWS

, Jean Jacques is on the sick list. Ht } is said to be quite ill
 Mrs Ann Baldwin, widow of the late } William Baldwin, died yesterday at the ' Brookside home
 ; The Teamsters' union, 437 will hold an important meeting in Hellmann's hall tonight at 8 o'clock.
 Fancy Elgin creamery butter, was soc, to-day 25c. Try our new coffee
 15, IS, 20 and p cents. Great A. and
 r. Tea Co.
 Robert McGrath will sail tomorrow
 on the TeutOnic of the White Star line
 for trip to Europe, to be absent three
 or four months. He will spend q
 month in Ireland and the balance of
 his time will be divided between Eng land, Scotland and Paris.
 St Johns day, June 24, will be ob-
 served by the local Italian, colony of Waterbury. The exercises will include
 fireworks, a musical program and ad-
 dresses. The committee in charge in
 clude F. Insoquia, P. De Gregora, N.
 Di Zinno and G. Di Jaro.
 Funeral service will be held over the
 remains of Dr R. c. Jones at the fam
 fly residence, 25 Johnson street, at s o'clock this evening by the Rev F. D. 1 Buckley. The remains will be taken ] to Port Jefferson, l.. I. for burial to-
 morrow morning in charge of Under taker Grady.
 1 The delegates to the Foresters' con vention, which will open in the Casino 1 Wednesday morning, says the New Britain Herald, will begin to arrive to-
 morrow evening. and it is expected that when Grand Chief Ranger Randall raps for order that there will be at least 250 in attendance. The contest which Is likely to attract the most at tention is that for grand secretary, for which William c. Kleinecke of Water
 bury, the present official, is being op- posed by Lawyer Frank A. Hagerty of
 Hartford. Both have been members
 of the order for a great many years. It is understood that the New Britain
 delegates are solid for MT Kleinecke,
 and his election is being predicted. One would not suppose the carpen- 1 ters' strike in Waterbury would affect 1 Ansonia in the least, but 1t Is so. for | John Lfttlejohn expected to have been in Waterbury before this but because of the strike the contractors were un- able to finish the store. The strike has | now been settled and the carpenters were to commence work this morning. MT Littlejohn went to Waterbury to- | day to see how soon he could have the store, but thinks 1t will be nearly a month yet before the work can be com ! pleted. He is anxious to move as soon as possible. for his summer goods are
 not unpacked and if he does not soon occupy the store he will lose the best 1 of the seasons trade-Ansonia Senti- | nel.
 | The long pending eases of John J.
 Bolger and Thomas H. Hayes against l the Consolidated railroad for damages resulting from an accident fin August, ] 1900. were begun before Judge Ralph i Wheeler in the superior court today.
 Bolger claims $2.00O and MT Hayes l S1 ,O00 damages. The latter owned the wagon and pair horses, and they were in the custody of Bolger at the time of the accident. which occurred at the Porter street crossing. Bolger was thrown out of the wagon and laid up for some time with the injuries he re-
 ceived, the wagon was completely | wrecked and both horses were hurt. One of them is almost constantly lame since. and the other has recovered.
 The horses were worth $500 and the | wagon $250. Viewed from the road one would think things are quiet in the trolley strike, but this is far from the facts.
 At no time since the trouble started
 was there such efforts made to deceive
 the public by leading them to believe that the strikers are weakening and
 that their friends are deserting them
 day by day. Whether it is wise or noS
 to continue the strike is something peo-
 pie differ over but in any case, much that Is being said about the strikers
 and their sympathiZers is made out of
 whole cloth and instead of serving the
 end aimed at it appears to be having the opposite effect Tn the opinion of the wise leads the best way enthusias- tic friends of the trolley company and opponents of organized labor could perform the work assigned to them would be by letting the question se- verely alone.
 The Central Labor union held a largely attended meeting last night and transacted a big grist of business. The press committee desires to state that there is not word of truth in the state ment that the question of abolishing the 15-cent assessments for the SUD- port of the trolley strike was tn have been raised last night. They say that while it may not be necessary to in- form the public where this idea orig mated still they think it wise to deny the imputation lest anyone should be misled by it. The report regarding the abolition of the reference card was re- ceived with great applause Several new delegates were seated. c. E. Weed was chosen financial secretary, to succeed c. G. Hill Cornelius Hori- gan who has just returned from the trolleymen's convention. at Pittsburg, gave the meeting an interesting ac- count of his visit to that place.
 Have you seen the artistic and beau tiful display of articles designed espe- ,cially for wedding presents that the
 Upson Jewelry Go is showing? A de- scription would be inadequate to do justice to this uncommon display; they