Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-10
CITY NEWS.

almShouSe. The remains were re-. moved to Mulyille's morgue.
 At the state convention of the A. o. U. M., in Norwich yesterday ". A. Chase of this city was elected state instructor.
 The Waterbury High school base ball nine will play in Torrington to-
 morrow afternoon Dawson or Hen
 nebery and Byrnes will be the bat tery.
 Baron H. L. de Ginzberg is in town to-day arranging for q series of lectures on the Boer situation in South Africa. The proceeds will be devoted to a fund for relief of the widows and orphans of the Boer soldiers. The High School Glee club will give.
 a ssoeiable and dance~in IeayenWorth hall on Friday night. May 24. The following compose the committee of
 arrangements: Robert Warner, Arthur Holmes and the Misses Winnifred Ward Clara Sutton, and Edith Hen derson.
 The selectmen sent three patients to the hospital to-day, Eddie Lynch of Town Plot, who was injured yesterday
 
 bianco of Chatfield street, who is, suf- fering from a severe attack of pneu- monia, and Mrs Ciarlo of Scovil street,
 who is troubled with disease of the stomach.
 We had a nice rain last night which helped vegetables considrably. 1t started to com down this afternoon again and while it interfered some. what with outdoor operations, still it l is doing a great deal of good and no one appears to b finding fault because he happened to be thrown out of em- l ployment for . few hours.
 The clock oil the corner of Union and South Main streets, which has adorned Castles meat market for so long. is again doing business at the old stand. A few days ago the clock 1 got on the rampage, and it was hard 1 to tell whether it was night. noon or morning by it. It was put in the re l pair shop and now it looks brighter and keeps better time than ever, The ball game between the Jeffer-
 sons and Brooklyn Athletic club will l be played at Waterville on next Sum 1 day instead of the Driving park as will be all games which the Jeffer- l sons are scheduled to play at the Driv-
 ing park. John SayIes, the crack pitcher, has been added. to the Jeffer- l sons He will greatly strengthen the team ill q position where it is. some l what needed.
 Mir and Mrs NJ. J. Ryan entertained
 9 party of friends last night at their
 new home on Cooke street last night
 Among the entertainers were Miss May l Maisella, Miss osalind Roberge, Will liam w. Underhill, George Darling l Walter Bassett, Miss Alice Hughes, the
 Misses Lynch, the Misses Cocgan, Miss l White, Miss Julia Mayer, Miss Co 1 meau. James and William Searle The 1 exercises included singing, reciting and l instrumental selections.
 James Wagner. one of Waterbury's well known and highly respected resi- l dents, died this afternoon at his home. 1 173 South Leonard street He leaves ! four sons and five daughters, Robert,
 Thomas, James and Michael Wagner; l Mrs John Donovan, Mrs Lawrence l Travis, Mrs Daniel McDonnell. Mrs ] James Moore and Mrs Patrick Dunn.
 NIr Wagner was born in Limerick. Ire l land, but had resided in Waterbury for l a number of years. He was we'll and l fayorab1y known among 2 wide circle 1 of friends in all parts of the town and l especially in the part of the city where | he resided since he came to Waterbury. l The funeral notice will appear later
 The Machinists' union held meet l ing last night and initiated 125 new I members. This brings the member ships roll up to between TOO and 800.
 ,IThe conditions at the Waterbury Clock | company were discussed and the opin- | ion appeared to be general that the diff l ference should be settled without or dering the men out, if such q thing l were possible It was thought that the matter could be straightened out by 3 l committee representing the union and l the company. but latr developments showed that this was not the case. as | can be learned by the perusal of an- I other article in this issue of the Demo crat-
 ! Rev Father CoppenS, curate at St l Ann's church. received official notifica- ton from Right Rev Bishop Tierney of Hartford this morning that he had been transferred from this city to New Britain, where he will assume the pas l torate of St lPeterSs church. Father Schneider of New Britain goes to Mer- iden. where he will be pastor of St Mary's church. The parishioners of St AlDSS GuuEcH-a tdlOiSl1S HULL lil9
 pleased at the promotion of Rev Father Coppens. will regret his de parture from their midst During the fifteen months that lie has been curate at St. Anus he has endeared himself to all sinceyhe is a jealous, faithful and jndefatigab les worker. The church of which he becomes pastor has been
 built only about q year It is beau tiful brick structure. Of Rev Father Schneider the New Britain Daily Her. aid speaks as follows: Rev Father Schneider has been pastor of St Peters
 German Catholic parish in this city
 since it was created about ten years
 ago: previous to that he was q curate
 to Bishop Tierney when he was pastor
 of St Mary's. He ie very popular with all classes in New Britain and the al-
 nouncement of his removal will be
 heard with regret. 1t was under his supervision that the new church was
 built" Father Coppens has been noti-
 fled to leave for New Britain the early
 part of next week to assume his new
 duties. Rev Father Sepesac, pastor of
 St Aun's. has not as yet received any
 notification as to the successor of Rev
 Gather Coppens.