Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-20
CITY NEWS.

Professor Bailey's dancing academy closed last evening for one weeks va cation. ~He left for New York to-day to spend Christmas.
 Have you seen those beautiful stat ues of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady Of Sorrows now on exhibition at the Waterbury Stationery store?
 The Eelllnann Brewing company has. entered suit against Michael 1go. liquor dealer on West Main street, for $500. Igo'S license was attached
 this forenoon.
 Castle, the marketman, has as fine lot of poultry on exhibition as ever was seen in any market in the city. And at the prices he is selling them they won't last long
 The board of finance held meet
 ing last night and approved the pay rolls. The rest of the business tran sacted will he found in the report of the meeting of the board of aldermen in another page of this issue of the Democrat.
 \ soiree will be given by the mem- bers of the 1901 class Of the Waterbury High school at the school building to- night The arrangement committee, consisting of Dennis Murray. Joseph Fltmming and the Misses ManNille: Butler and Winship. have completed all the necessary arrangements for the ! affair.
 At the Salvation army tonight q special mec ting will be conducted pS | Staff Captain Mckenzie. As to-mor- TOW will be tue last meeting Of the special week. everything possible Will be done in order to make these meet ings as interesting and useful as pos sible. Admission is free and all are cordially invited to hear the staff cap tain sing and speak.
 Again to-day. making the third in q week. there was no city court. For morality Hartford, Bridgeport or New | Haven are not in it with the Brass 1 city. Not even an arrest for 1ntoXlca- ton was made yesterday CT last night.
 though it was pay day in the factories and everybody is buying something for some one else and passing the compli-
 ments of the season along. not soli- tary person offended the majesty of the law in all the excitement.
 Manager Jesse Devine of the High
 school basket ball quintet states that he is arranging q game with the Hale freshmen ill this city on Saturday night. January l. at the |. M. C. A. I gymnasium. The high school has not as
 yet this year played in q real contest, i but the players have been practiclng
 daily and have indulged ill several practice games. In bringing the Iale i freshmen five here they are selecting
 very fast team as their opponents. and there is no doubt but the game. if
 arranged. will be a cracker jack ana
 will draw a large audience.
 | Of ] street. who enlisted in the navy during ! the present year, and who is aboard 1 the Alabama. now at the Brooklyn navy yard, has written to John Stad- | lel. of Denny street, an employe of the | Democrat office, stating he will soon i be on q tour around the world. Young | Portman was formerly an altar boy i at St Cecilia'S parish and has a host i of acOuaintanceS about town. who will | be pleased to learn that he likes the ! seafaring business. He says that he 1 thinks the. Alabama is likely to leave
 in q short time for Hampton Roads where the North Atlantic squadron will start on cruise to the South At 1 lantic ports and West Indies.
 Last evening about 10:30 o'clock the i board of aldermen voted to take I i short recess. Everybody wanted to know what was up. but all the explain 1 Gtion given was that there was a box | of cigars in the ante-room. It was no l joke either. and. on entering the alder
 men and members Of the press found ! Sheriff Mcdonald guarding the cigars. 1 It was a Christmas box from the Sher- ! if. and came in inst right for all
 hands. When the boys got down to | business again it was noticed that Al ,Inrr1
 among the missing. leaving the demo
 crats masters of tLe situation. The democrats had planned to strike out
 the item of S1,00o for lights in the
 new district. but when they saw the | empty seats on the opposite side of 1 the house they hated 10 do it.
 The man who will strike q woman
 is considered the lowest of his kind i but the man who struck the woman i on one of the "Shop' cars going uL ! North Main street this noon hardly
 comes under the above category. IT
 the first place. it was an accident, anC
 of the most singular kind. The wom
 an sat near the dCor and the man was
 standing on the platform just outside
 the door. He was trying to do vari
 OuS things at the same time. maintain
 his balance hold his transfer where 1 lne cOHuuClcr WOulu- see II, ana put ! toning his coat. The car door was l open and as the car was turning tht | bend opposite Abbott avenue the ma1
 made a grab for the handle of tho
 door to steady himself. and failing tt catch it. banged the woman sitting oI
 the inside of the door square in the
 face. Everybody saw it was an acci dent. but the confusion of the unfor
 tunate man was actually awful. The woman who received his blow felt fo him as much as any other passenger
 It was a really painful scene to all wh' witnessed it. and rel'ef came onl1 when the woman. who must surel,
 have been a lady, alighted at Grow i street.
 Miss Sarah 4. Matthews, of B
 Baldwin street. died about ! o'clocl last night of heart failure, on Grow
 street, while on her way to visit he
 sister, Mrs Miles F. Connolly, 29 Sec
 ond avenue. She was taking som medicine and oranges to a sick chilt
 belonging to MT and Mrs Connolly, an'
 had reached point opposite the resi-
 dence of r. T. Hayes on Grove street
 when the parcels dropped from he