Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-25
CITY NEWS

The regular Friday evening sociable of St Mary's alumni will be held this evening.
 City Sheriff Rigney is keeping biS eyes open in regard to the overcrOwNr ing of halls, theaters and the like Thls afternoon he paid visit to Jacques where the crowd was so large that he refused to allow any more tickets to be sold.
 It is amazing, the large number Of men that are out of employment in this city at the present time If any one doubts this statement, let him come downtown some afternoon and view the number watching the work on the building on the corner of Grand and Bank streets. Fully 100 men were standing there today and you would imagine that 1t was some kind of a holiday.
 The trolley company is rather slow in installing some of the lights or dered by the board of aldermen, but this is due to the fact that few Of the new lights are to be placed in
 
 poles and a little time was consumed In getting the right kind of sticks" to set them out on. The timbers arv now on the ground and people may look for the service any day from now on.
 The Waterbury Independent team will play in Danbury tomorrow after, noon against the strong team of that town. Roger Connor will cover first base for the locals, taking Mulligans place. Mulligan and McNellis will play with Bristol in Manchester. The lineup of the Independents will be as follows: Mcdonald, c; Carmody and Mclaughlin, p; Connor, 1b; Dwyer, 2b; Henebry, 3b; Smith, ss; T. Lawlor, If Camp, of; F. LawlOr, If.
 A number of young men in the northern section of the city met last evening and formed a club to be known as the Colt Athletic club. The following officers were elected: Presi. dent, Edward Fitzgerald; vice presi- dents FloEenaa RutlaD;. recording sec. retdry. James 'Bagfey! financial secr'el tary. Matthew White; treasurer. Mi. chael Flanagan. The club intends to put d very fast football team in the field the coming fall. After all busi- ness was finished d social session was enjoyed.
 Mrs Bridget Cluney, widow of the late James Cluney, died early this morning at the family residence. 17S Dublin street, after lingering illness. She leaves four daughters and two sons. Julia. Bridget, Margaret, Annie, Joseph and John. Mrs Cluney was n rfative of Ireland. but had resided in Waterbury for many years. living most of the time in the house where she died. She was a good Christian woman and was held in high esteem by her neighbors. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon.
 Sheriff Gillette had an experience yesterday. Armed with replevin writ he went to the house of Mrs Charles Zell on Maple street to get possession of d sewing machine. The payments on the machine were behind and Mrs Zell had apparently made up her mind to pay no more. The house was closed when the sheriff got there. After getting inside he was confronted by two young women. Every room was locked. but skeleton key was found and the machine finally located. The matter will be tried out in the city court.
 Wednesday evening lady who lives quite distance out in the suburban section of the city was held up a short distance beyond the old Brass mill and relived of what valuables she had with her. She happened to he going home little later than usual and when she came to the point mentioned above two men jumped out from the bushes and demanded what money she had. Fortunately she had only two dollars with her and she handed this over without any trouble. The residents of the locality do not seem io care to talk about the matter and did not even report 1t to police head quarters.
 The rainstorm of last night and this morning cooled things off considerably and did a world of good at the reser- yoirS. where the water was beginning to disappear so rapidly that many thought the bottom would soon be reached. The rain came down with a vengeance. flooding portions of streets where fhe water had no outlet so that early risers had to do some wading to get io their work The storm was ae- eompanie,i by heavy thunder and sharp lightning. No serious damage occurred in Waterbury and for the benefit of the reservoirs the officials and others would he pleased to see the perform anee continued for day or two bong CT. It cleared ID this afternoon but the clouds looked heavy and some cf the weather prophets about town ad- vtSef their friends f0 keep . close watch on their umbrellas. for they might need them any moment.
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