Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-18
CITY NEWS.

Every member of Court Crosby, f. of A., is requested to attend the regu- lar meeting which will be held in For esters' hall tonight at s o'clock. The annual election of officers will be held.
 The county commissioners were in session today issuing gratis the Christmas number of their magazine. in the form of liquor licenses. The price of it would buy many work or art.
 Friends in this city have received word that Miss Mary Horan, aged 23, died lately at the home of her parents, in Ireland. Besides her parents. she leaves two sisters and two brothers i'll Ireland. and three sisters and a broth CT in this city and one brother in New Haven.
 Troubles have been pouring in upon Irving H. Wolcott. druggist in the west end. Two or three attachments were made upon his property two weeks ago and yesterday another was served upon two building lots owned by him for | bill for $100 for cigars. The writ was served by Constable Car mody.
 NSdlAC1lAt tNs' terday afternoon at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Miles McNiff. 37 Washington street. Besides Mrs Me Mfr the deceased leaves two sons, John J. and Michael F. Spellman. The funeral will take place to St Francis Xavier's church Friday morning at 9 o'clock.
 List of letters remaining un- claimed in the postoffice: Steven An drews, Mrs Mary A. Carter, Alfred Cook. Samuel Dryton., John Garrity. Mrs NJ. Kurgston, care Mrs Horigan; R. E.. Johnson, James H. Malone, Mrs Edith Parsons. Mrs w. c. Reilly, $. ". Toles. Lawrence Taylor, Edward H. Wells.
 The Holmes, Booth X Haydens bas- ketball team will play the Boys club tonight at the Boys club and to-mor- row night they will play the Knock abouts of the Brooklyn Athletic club. The lineup for the Holmes, Booth x Haydens is as follows: J. Wenzel, center; F. Ruetter. right forward; A. Mitchell, left forward: J. Skinner, right guard; A. Talmadge, left guard.
 foAnother promenade concert will be given by the American band, at City hall Thursday evening this week. The program will include new descrip- tive piece entitled" Tn a Bird Store" also the Musicians Strike" by re- quest Angelo Lanciers will con tribute a piccolo solo. Other concert numbers will be the overture, Light Cavalry" and selections from "The Ameer."
 Mrs Robert W. Harder's case for 5000 against the Consolidated rail road company did not come up in the superior court at Providence yester- day notwithstanding that the plaintiff had all her witnesses ready. The case was therefore put back for re assignment. The cause of the post ponement was that the preceding case was not finished and probably will not be for some days.
 High class vaudeville entertain ments will be given during the fourth week in January throughout the state by some of the best talent in the busl- ness. They are all graduates of Mt St Joseph's ladies' seminary at Hart ford. Bridgeport. New Haven, New Britain. Hartford. Waterbury and New London will be visited. Polls the ater has been engaged for an afternoon and evening performance January 24. and the committee expect large at- tendance.
 There seems to be a scramble for stores about the center and if the race continues and many more business men have to get out at short notice it is probable that we'll have a little law over it. It is q question whether a landlord can come along and put q merchant out of a store who is paying his rent regularly without giving him lots of time to look up suitable place to conduct his business in. The only relief in sight is for people to move farther out of the center, and if they do this and advertise the same as if they were in Exchange place, sharp shoppers would find them.
 Eagle hive. No 16, Ladies of the Maccabees, held an interesting meeting last night in Johnson's hall at which 1 time the annual election of officers was held and one proposition re | ceived. At the first review in Janu- ! ary the officers will be installed. The second meeting of January will be an ] open IQ00IlHS. lie elecllOn IaSI nlSDl resulted as follows: F. l.. O., Mrs 1 John Moriarty; l.. l.. O.. Mrs NJ s. Mad l den: l. R. K. Mrs T. H. Hurley; l.. F K.. Mrs M 4. Gilman; l.. g., Mrs NJ I. McGrath; NJ. at A., Miss Margaret l E. Brickley; l.. g., Mrs l.. Cullinan; l. 1 P. Miss B. McGrath; l.. O., Mrs T. | Kilmartin. A social session followed l and refreshments were served.
 The usual large audience was pres | ent at Professor H. S Gulliver's lee. 1 ture before the Current Events club al
 the High school assembly hall yester. day. The lecture was based on three 1 topics, namely, "The Schley Verdict,
 .'The Philippine Problem" and Euro pean Politics. Professor Gulliver's remarks upon the first subject were 1 probably the most interesting. The 1 substance of the lecturers remarks on I this subject were that more importance
 would be attached to Dewey's opin- l ions of Schley's conduct than to the vews of the other two members of l the court of inquiry. The entire lee ture was very interesting and very pleasing to the large audience. Tn the article published herein yes | terday relative to the retiring mem. bers of the board of aldermen the | name of Arthur H. Tyrrell was inad- vertantly omitted. Owing to a row