Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-12
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS

The infant son of Mir and Mrs VII
 liam J. Duigan of Scott street die, yesterday.
 The Ladies Aid society Of the Meth
 odist church will meet Wednesda,
 at the Methodist parsonage. Frida!
 evening at the Methodist church vii
 be held an entertainment and socia
 of the Epworth league. 3 The engagement of Miss Emil,
 Dufln and Peter Collier has been an
 nounced. < St Michael's guild will meet in tn,
 chapel this evening ats o'clock.
 The bans of marriage were pub
 lished for Harry vose and Alice Carr
 yesterday. s.
 The Church Helpers will meet 1T
 the chapel of St Michaefs Wednesday
 afternoon. Y. '-7-''''
 The bans of marriage were publish
 ed for the first time yesterday fol
 John Goodrich and Mary Scanlon, l The bible class of St Michaers par.
 ish will meet Friday. evening in the
 chapel.
 Commissioners were appointed on
 the Maher estate last week in con
 demnation proceedings. They were
 Judge Munger of .Ansonia and Moran
 and Wheeler of New Haven It has
 been .rumored that the railroad had
 reached an agreement in the negotia-
 tions for the estate. ',
 The sudden death of Charles Mur-
 phy, aged thirty, of Hillside avenue.
 from pneumonia, came as surprise
 to his many friends. MT Murphy has
 been employed recently in New Ha-
 ven and last week came home to visit his father, Patrick Murphy and sls- ter. Susan. While here he had an at tack of pneumonia and passed away about o'clock last night. Besides his father and sister, he leaves brother, Thomas, In Union City: a brother, William, in New Haven; a brother. John, in Boston; a sister, Mrs John F. Hammell of Waterbury and another sister Mrs Maggie Web ster.
 Tomorrow will open here the for tieth annual meeting of the general conference of Congregational church. es and 200 delegates are expected to be present.
 Townsend lodge. No S9. I. O o. F.. of Waterbury will visit Centennial lodge on Monday evening. December 3. to work the third degree on a class of candidates who will take the ini- tiatory degree tomorrow evening. Townsend lodge confers the third de- gree in dramatized form, using para phernalia which is worth several hun. dreds of dollars and is the only lodge in Connecticut. except Samuel liar ris lodge of Bridgeport. which works this degree in amplied form. The degree team is rehearsing now this special ceremony and will bring all its paraphernalia and costumes to Naugatuck. conferring the degree as 1t is put on in Waterbury as nearly as possible with limitations of floor space. -
 Napoleon Fortier. thirty-fve. a woodchopper. met his death In the Pulling Mill brook above Smiths Button shop in Union City Saturday night by drowning after being render ed unconscious by falling upon a rock In the stream About S o'clock yes terday morning boarder at Mrs An son Swanson's discovered the body of a man lying face down few yards l from the house. Chief of Police John R. Schmidt was immediately notified and Medical Examiner F. H. Johnson of Naugatuck was called. A gash was seen on the mans face indicating that in falling his head had come In contact with stone. Broken branch ps indicated the path of his fall which was distance of some four or i've feet below the bridge he was evident ly attempting to cross. The medical examiner said there was every evil dence of accidental death and that 1t would have been impossible for the man to have drowned in the small amount of water had he not been un- conscious. He was a member in good standing of Court Roberval of ,Ieriden Independent Order of For esters and came from a small town about ten miles from Quebec. He was engaged on contract to, chop wood on the old Becklin place for Henry F.. Terrell of Cheshire with Napoleon Chamberlain. but lived alone in an old cabin on the estate. He had been to Union City early Sat uriay night and started home with roast of beef. some bread and other groceries and as there is a bridge to be crossed in reaching his cabin. he evidently rnIstook tho bridge at Swan sons for his own and in crossing l stumbled and fell to his death. When found he still retained hold of his gro ceries bereath his arm.