Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-02
CITY NEWS

ternoon at o'clock. | The American band will give {
 concert on the green tomorrow even ing.
 Division 1, A. o. H., will hold its
 regular meeting this evening at s
 o'clock.
 Mrs William Chapman of New
 Britain is the guest of MT and Mrs
 Oscar Rabe of West Main street.
 M. A. Green, the jeweler now at
 224 Bank street, will remove to the
 south store in the new Buckingham
 block about the last of the month.
 An anniversary mass will be cele-
 brated at the Immaculate Concep-
 tion church at s o'clock Saturday
 morning for the late Francis Leary
 of Bridge street.
 pr J. D. Freney left to-day to
 spend vacation at the Catholic
 Summer school, Cliff Havenl Sun
 day he will be joined by W. J. Histon
 and John Grimes and next Wednes-
 day M. J. Noonan will be with the | party.
 Mrs Mary Griffin, wife of John Grimm, died last night at her home,
 Pemberton street. Besides her hus-
 band she leaves one son, David Grif-
 m. The funeral will be held to the immaculate Conception church at
 S:30 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Henry c. Schofield and Miss Ellen Louise Dowd, both of Cooke street, were married this morning by the Rev Father Slocum. Frederick Smith was best man and Miss Beatrice Byrnes was maid of honor. MT and Mrs Schofield left for wedding tour.
 Two men named John OBrien and James Griffin had some trouble in a saloon on Baldwin street last even- Ing. It being pay day for both of them and are said to have been un- der the influence of drink. They were put out of the saloon and con tinued the fracas on the street. Grif- fin was arrested, but O'Brien got away and a warrant was issued for his arrest this forenoon.
 People who have occasion to use the vault in the town clerks office are talking of making another effort to etibetter quarters. They want the town clerks office and vault in build ing to be located between the City hall and the annex. The present vault is entirely inadequate to the needs of the city. Sometimes ten or fifteen per- sons are crowded in there and on such occasions there is not room to turn around.
 There was an outbreak near the Junction of Cooke and Pine streets last evening. and one man was badly cut by knives and dirks. All that was left on him contrived to come down town this morning and lodge a complaint with Prosecutor Meigs. and half a dozen warrants were is- sued for the mans assailants. The cause of the row is not known. but 1t is supposed to be the same old cause, cards and beer.
 The registrars will hold q session tomorrow from noon until o'clock in the eveninig for the purpose of giv- | ing all who have not registered for 1 the primaries an opportunity to do l SO. Registrar O'Connor said today | that all who voted for the first time | last year and those who voted at the | primaries on certificates should | come in and have their names put on the list if they want to participate in | the primaries. This applies. also to | all who never registered. and to ev- who changed his residence since the last primaries.
 Commissioner Finn of the boarI of public works has n plan for sprink- ling the streets which if carried ont will he greatly appreciated and will put share of the cost upon every body. His scheme is to have the streets sprinkled by the water depart nent and fix the price of water so as 10 meet the expense of sprinkling and Mir Finn is of the opinion that one cart in each ward would do for the present. In this way the benefit to be derived from sprinkling would be general and the ,ost would not have to be borne by Few rate payers. There is q lot of merit in this and if would he we'll tO give fl some consideration before final action is taken on the draft of an ordinance now before the aldermen which puts the expense, upon the lbuting property owners.
 Attorney O'NeiT has started on an- ,ther suit for Mrs Elizabeth I. La- hrop against her husband. Edwin L. .athrOp. But Mir I.athrop seems in- ( iifferent to whatever course Mir GNeill may take now. He seems to [ 'e the happiest man in town since Judge Reed handed down his dpci- ion in the now famous divorce case. nd he has been quite busy reoeivl ng congratulations. IL is evident owever. that Attorney O'NeII will .eep him in hot water for years to Ome unless there is a settlement of be question How shall Mr I.ath-op ay his wife for support and main ena1ces The suit which Mir O'Nefil ', ] preparing Is based on that question nd is precisely ike the two which . brought up some time ago for s3l- l0 each and withdrew subsequently n the suggestion of Judge Repz1 ana n condition that Mrs Larhr0p 1ould receive so a month pending le trial of the case and S5p down. That satisfied expression comes fly when the eyeglass guards hold
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