Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
CITY NEWS.

All eltSdHt llne Of Catholic prayer books and rosaries can be found at the Waterbury stationery store, 2O1 East Main street. near High school. .
 The funeral of Anna Marie, infant daughter of MT and Mrs Maurice T. Kane. IS High street. took pace tn morning at S:30. Interment in Cal vary cemetery.
 Mary, the 4-months-old child of MT and Mrs Patrick Hayes, of Granite street, died yesterday. The remains will be taken to Chicopee, Mass, for burial tomorrow morning on the S::1J train, in charge of Undertaken Null Villo
 Timothy Griffin. well known Wa 1 terbury man, who has spent six years ill the United States army. is visiting in town. Nil. Griffin has served in the Philippines and can relate some inter eSting "reminiscences of his eNperen- ccs alnCng the Fiiipinos.
 List of letters remaining unclaimed in the poStottice: VI. r. Roylan. Miss Mollie German, Dennis Cahill, Miss Minnie O'Mcara. Miss Vivian Palmer Kate Shanhara. Robert Strachaw. Miss Agnes Taylor, A. q. Wilson, Miss Sue Wheeler. Joseph Wood.
 William D. Richardson. secretary and treasurer of the Hellmann Brew ing company, stated to-day that the plans for the cOmpanyS new artificial ice plant and cold storage are expect ed to arrive this evening. and that i'll all probability building operations will ! begin next week.
 Judge COWell has retreated from the stand he took yesterday in declining to give Dennis ;. Donnelly, who was | fined in the district court for keeping 2 i open his saloon two Sundays succeS. sively, q certificate of recommrnda. tion to the county commissioners. To' day he granted the certificate.
 The Catholic Literary association will give q banquet and entertainment | in their rooms in the Lilley block. 1 Bank street. on New Years eve. Pro lessor Bailey's rooms will be used for dancing. The affair will be confined to members of the association and their lady friends. The committee in charge is composed of William Walsh, Edward Skelly and Thomas English.
 Everything points to a crowded house of the annual dance and reccp- tion of Company C in the armory on Christmas eve. Faulmann's orchestra will furnish music and Professor Herr will prompt. The company has q rec ord for giving successful entertain .-mentS and an effort will be made to surpass ali previous efforts on this oc- 1 caSion. The committee in charge consists of Christopher Bannon. F. r. Callahan. Charles Mcdonald, Frank Reed and Michael Peters.
 The long-pendin& suit of Joseph Oui- mette ct al against the Waterbury Beef and Provision company was heard to-day by Judge Rradstreet in the district court. civil side. This is 8 rcDlevin suit. q horse being the issue Oumette's brother testified that he or ] iginally owned the horse, having raised it for the race track in New Bedford ! Mass, and gave it to Mrs OuimCtte, his sister-in-law: therefore the defendant had no right to seize it for any debt owed by the plaintiff. Judge Lowe appeared for the plaintiff and Attorney Pierce for the defendant. Decision i was reserved.
 Carl A. Carlson was given a ride yes terday for which he paid dearly. Carl son was bowling drunk on South Main l street late yesterday afternoon wheI | Officer O'Hearn undertook to quie1 him. \ fight resulted and after some | hard knocks were given on each Sidt l Carlson was thrown and bundled into q passing truck and carried to the | police station. He settled for $13. 4 small boy named Thomas Toomey was arrested for truancy. After being de
 tained in the station house for some time he was given his liberty on hi.
 promise to be better boy. There wa. no court and big crowd was disap
 pointed.
 Those persons who listened to Wood | 1o -1,p,, In oI-
 on Patriotism in the Women's clul
 lecture course, will need no invitation
 to hear him again under the samt
 auspices, or whenever opportunity
 offers He will appear this evenin: at LeavenwOrth hall, as the thirt
 speaker of the second course of tht 1 Women's club lecture series, and hi.
 topic will be Self Government Woodrow Wilson is professor of juris
 prudence and politics at Princeton
 university. He is we'll and favorabl,
 known as the author of "Congressiona
 Government" The State'' and "Di
 vision and Reunion He has writer
 recently, and will publish in the Janu
 ary issue of the Atlantic Month, 1 Magazine, the first of that periodical
 important group of papers relating tn
 Reconstruction Period" which vii
 continue throughout the coming year
 An insignificant fire came very nea
 resulting fatally this morning at
 o'clock. At that hour the engine q : No ? hose house was called by sti i alarm to the apartments occupied b ,. Mrs Alice TeatOr on the top floor ( No 122 South Main street. 4 lac > window curtain and part of a carpe surrounding the stove was burne
 when the firemen arrived at the plac
 and the adjacent room was full (
 smoke. The door of this room wa , opened and the volume of smoke thl
 rushed out would have stitied anyon
 but those accustomed to such dange E When the smoke was somewhat cleare
 away Captain Heitman found the owl
 CT of the apartments unconscious (
 the floor. being almost suffocated wit
 the density of the smoke. The won = ,