Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-26
CITY NEWS.

At St Thomas's church Thanksgiv- ing morning there will be a special solemn mass. A three days novena in honor of the feast of the patron saint of the parish i of St Francis Xavier, which occurs on December 3, will be opened at St Francis Navier's church Saturday. Tuesday and Wednesday, November 21 and 2S, only, the Charles Thatcher company, No 39 Center street. will sell 200 Columbia records at $3 per dozen, and 300 at S4 per dozen, to make room for fall stock.
 The board of finance will meet to- morrow evening a | S:20 o'clock for the purpose of considering the estimates for 1901. The board will hear at that
 tune the representatives of the differ ent departments who desire to appear and make known their needs.
 | The explosion of an oil stove in the home of Patrick Mcintyre on Bronson street Saturday evening called out the supply wagon from the Burton street engine house. The response of the firemen was so quick that practically no damage whatsoever was done.
 Mayor Kilduff and City Engineer Cairns will meet the selectmen of Thomaston at the Branch tomorrow afternoon for the purpose of coming to an understanding regarding the lay out and grade for a new highway. to take the place of portion of the Val ley turnpike at that place. which will be submerged when the dam is raised.
 There is every prospect that the dis pute between the city and town over the division of the appropriation the latter has made for highways will be amicably settled without the interven- tion of Judge Wheeler of the superior court. Town Attorney Carmody inti- mated as much to-day. The pile of work thrown on the city by the order of Judge Wheeler last Friday. when the matter was first brought to his mo- tice. did not tend to enhance the humOr of the city attorney, the mayor or the employees and officials would have to unearth the mountain of statistics or dered by the court to give him clear view of the situation before he could decide it. The city demanded one-half of the appropriation of $35,O00 made by the town. and the latter was willing to give only $15,OOO.
 An excellent program has been ar
 ranged for to-night's fair at Oakville and many Waterbury people will be in attendance. The Dewey car will carry those from this city who intend to be present. The following is the program arranged for tonight: Reading, Miss Colt, of New Haven't soprano solo, Miss Mamie Morgan; Empire quartet of Naugatuck in selections: black face specialties. Miss Annie Whalen of Wa terbury; vocal selections, Miss Jane 1 Hart: reading. Miss Ray Smith; ballad, Miss Mamie Gagan; monologue, Miss | r
 mann: MT and Mrs John Kelly in an original sketch entitled ''The Girl With the Appetite.' The last car will leave Oakville at midnight. Annie Meehan of Oakville won the door prize Satur- | day night. The case of the Barlow Bros Co against Mrs Eliza Parsons ~yill come
 up before Judge George w. Wheeler and q jury in the superior court to- morrow morning at 9:30 o'clock, pro- | yiding it is not otherwise disposed of | by that time, which is not at all eX- | pected. The panel from which the | jury will be chosen has been increased | half a dozen or more. it being expect 1 ed that all of the jurors will be chal-
 lenged and that at least the necessary
 number, twelve, can be chosen from | the whole. which now numbers about
 
 evidence has been taken in a deposi- | tion. and this cannot fail to greatly | shorten the trial. All the witnesses | have been summoned, the case has | been thoroughly prepared and unless | expectations fail to be realized it will
 take at least three days if not the whole week. It commands more public | interest than any other case that has | ever been tried in this city.
 | Morgan Bowling. who Is a member of Company K, Fourteenth infantry, which has been doing service of late at Pekin, has written to his friend, | David Sheehy, and he tells of some
 narrow escapes. He says: "On the | 9th of August I had a narrow escape from being killed, and on the 9th of August I had another close call. Two
 men on my right were killed and a
 piece of the shell that carried death
 to them struck me on the right hip,
 tearing away my clothing, as well as
 some of the flesh. but I was not to be
 killed just then. told the boys
 around me that a Chinaman cannot
 kill me. as the bullets slide off me,
 and that they cannot kill an Irishman.
 any way. However, Dear David, 1 am thankful that I am living. We are kept very busy here, and the night be- fore last We received orders to start for the Philippine islands again, and
 we expect to leave in a couple of days
 There was much more in the letter | but it was only of interest to MT Dow
 ling's friend Davy.
 Mayor Kilduff is in receipt of a com munication from William Sloan chair
 man of the committee in charge of the Phillips Memorial fund, stating that | Waterbury's contribution to the fund
 would be $500, and asking him if he
 would kindly take hold of the work of
 raising the amount, and if not, to for
 ward him the name of some other gen.
 tleman on whom the committee could | rely to attend to the matter. Admiral
 Phillips died last June, leaving his
 widow with a pension of just $30 a
 month. He had been engaged in rais-
 ing money for the erection of a suita- | ble home for retired navy officers, l members of the navy, near the Brook | lyn navy yard, New York, and the | committee that has taken up the work l where he left it off believe that S1OO,- GOO would complete the home and also