Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-22
CITY NEWS.
Readscasfle's list Of specials. te-night

Read Castle list of spacia1S tonight.
 Howard Place leads to rear of J. l.. l Birney's saloon, Phoenix avenue.
 "A Tragic Disappearance,' a serial l of great power and interest, is com | mencGd in this issue.
 The funeral of Robert F. Witte will | take place from the family residence on Fifth street tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
 The Waterbury stationery store has q beautiful line of gold and silver chain rosary beads; large line Of oOc editions of famous poets. They are To- cated near the High school.
 During holiday week the Friendly league entertainment hall will be available for rental as there wifi be no class evenings between December 22 and January ?. The league build ing will be open every evening, as usual, except Christmas evening.
 Mrs keough Baldwin street has some very pretty and useful presents for Xmas: Fancy hanlierchieIS, pOck- CtDocks, scarf pins hat pins, hosiery. fIrrfumery. fancy hose supporters, um- nrollas. a full line of doIis all will be sold at cut prices after G o'clock Mon dlN evening.
 St Anu'S French school closed yes terlay noon, after q very pleasing Christmas program. At the close of the exercises the pastor, the Rev Father Senesac, prese nted each child with pretty Christmas gift. Ali the children left i'll a very happy mood, thanks to the generosity of their kind pastor.
 Tomorrow at the Salvation army meetings will be held as follows; a. n, knee drill; Il q. m., holiness meeting; 5 F. m., praise service; t:l9 D. m.. children'S meeting: D. m., Sal Vation meeting. The evening meeting will be conducted by Mrs Clifford. wire Of the Brooklyn district missionary, and will be of special character. The Right Rev Bishop Tlerney ordained two priests at St Joseph $ Cathedral this morning at $ CLOCK. The candidates for the priesthood were the Rev William Judge of St Peters parish. Hartford. and the Rev Reinhard Bardeck of St Peters par ish. New Britain. Both are students of Brighton seminary. where they made their philosophical and theologi- ] cal studies.
 Court Stephen J. Meany met last night and elected these officers: C. R.. James H. Pryor: s. C. R.. William Walsh: treasurer, John Clohessey; F. S. John NJ Joy; E. g.. John Barrett; s w. M Kelly: ]. w. Edward lily land: s. B., Joseph Wright: J. E.. ?. McCovern: third trustee. Charles Smith: captain of the guard, Daniel 1 O'Ieaty: court physician. M. J. Dona- hue: court druggist, William Fallon. John Ryan of 109G East Main street 1 is home again, after a two months trip 10 the dear old Emerald Isle. Mir | full of into e corning the land of his birth, and what "reminiscences a visit to the ould sod 1 after number of years absence ] awakens in q person. He had most i enjoyable time in visiting places ia l miIar to him in childhood days. but | of course many things have changed since he was there.
 1t a meeting of NiZpah colony, U. 1 O. F. F.. last night the following off cers were elected: Governor. Fred '' i Pierce: lieutenant governor, Julia Sil- vernail: secretary, Helen M. Stanley: collector Lewis R. Silvernail: treasur CT, Edward AI. Stanley: chaplain, Mar ! tha M. Andrews serge eantat-arms. Cor nelia Lopez: deputy sergeant-at-arms, Josephine Smith; inside guard. Jacob 1 E. Blakeslee: outside guard, George l Woodruff: pianist. Sarah A. Warner: | trustees. Jacob R. Blakeslee, George Woodruff Helen VI. Stanley.
 The following are the new officers of Court Waterbury, I. 0. F., elected last night: Chief ranger, E. NJ. Bee be; vice chief ranger. J. J. Donegan; :; treasurer, B. II. Fitzpatrick: recording
 secretary. T. A. NLaton; financial secre- tary. Walter Geraghty; chaplain. James F.. Madigan; senior woodward,
 J. ]. Geraghty: junior woodward, F.
 al T
 junior beadle. r. T. keeley: superin- tendent of junior courts, J. II. Murray:
 court physician. Dr E. A. O'Hara; trus-
 tees. J. A. Hynes. D. J. Murphy; court
 deputy, J. J. Geraghty.
 William Blaikie, attorney and coun-
 sellor-at-law in New York city. will ad-
 dress the meeting for men at Jacques
 opera house tomorrow afternoon at
 i o'clock. Mr Blaikie is an Interesting
 and forceful talSer, plain and accura te
 in his statements. He Is very frank
 and the chances are he will treat in an
 especially interesting manner the sub-
 ject which he has chosen. Secret Sins of Young Men," MT Blaikie is man
 of wide experience and is fully in
 touch with the above subject. Per { haps it is not so much as a speaker
 but as a writer that he is best known , for he is the author of How to Ge Strong, and How to Stay So.' Isaac | B. Clark, the well known singer. vii ! entertain the audience with several SC f lections. The opera house ought tC Q contain a large audience tomorrow af n ternoon. as the program merits it. i There was long and lively hearing n in the probate court this forenoon ol n the account of Theophile Thibault J., administrator on the estate of Philo }: mene Chounard. Attorney Wood ap e peared for the administrator and At }. torney Clohessey for the heirs. Tn V estate inventoried S1 1.54S15. Tn
 principle dispute was over a chambe
 suit. There was an ante-nuptial be
 tween the Chounards that their indi , vidual property should not become tn
 property of the survivor, but shoul
 go as directed by will or otherwise = During their married life the chambe
 suit in dispute was bought and sol ; by the husband soon after his wife N death. The heirs insisted that the ad
 ministrator should be held responsibl
 for this and he claims that he notffie { them that he intended handing owe
 tba shit to the husband, The matte