Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-27
CITY NEWS.


 AIoriarty's low prices for .nndertak- ing and skillfnl services meet the puD- lies hearty approval.
 Mabel A. tue 14.nouths,old child of Mf and Mrs Louis Field, of IS Green street. died to-day. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon.
 A. A. Benedict and A. c. Mintie will | conduct the service at the Union Res cue mission, 271 South Main street, Sunday evening. Everybody welcome. Good singing and testimonials.
 Peter Kiernan, who will do some pretty work on the diamond this sea- son. was made the recipient of q hand some medal by his shopmates at Mat thews x Willard's yesterday afternoon.
 Martin Bergin. x Sons have pur- chased beautiful team of black horses which were put on the road to-day for the first time. They stand sixteen hands high and weigh 1900 pounds each.
 The troupe of 'eA Country Mer- chant" which played here, Wednes- day evening, says the Ansonia Sentinel, was forced to go to Waterbury on the midnight train ill order to get hotel accommodations. for every house here was so filled that it was impossible to find room for them.
 By the special request of many par tishioneeEs the Easter music at St Ann's church will be repeated at the 1O:45 mass tomorrow. The musical pro- gram is of splendid nature. Tn addl- ton to the regular choir, Lalliers or chestra will be in attendance. Miss Morrot will preside at the organ. This makes a fine combination as manifest ed by the delight of the parishioners over the playing and singing on Easter Sunday.
 A couple very we'll known in this city were married in Providence, R. l.. last Monday. The bride was Miss Mary Louise Sprague and the groom Thomas U. Catloe. The officiating clergyman was the Rev w. C. Selleck. Last winter the couple visited friends here and became quite popular. Mir Catloe tried to alienate the affections of Assistant Clerk Gillette of the dis trlct court on the grounds that the girls of Providence are far better look ing than the Brass city girls, but he failed, MT Gillette knowing far better
 Last night the selectmen opened bids for the contract for furnishing meat, fish and bread at the Almshouse for six months, commencing May 1. The bread contract went to John O'Brien for the price of his bid, $2.S0 per ewt. He had no competitor. The bids for meat and fish were as follows: Meat. A. J. Mccarthy, $397 per cwt; J. J. McGrath, $4.50 per cwt; fish. D. J. Mccarthy. $5 per cwt for cod, S5.25 per cwt for haddock; John Dunn, st per cwt for haddock, $6 per cwt for hake, $S per cwt for steak cod. The contract for fish and meat was award ed to MT. Mccarthy, he being the low est bidder.
 The Outlook is making a point of publishing in each of it's monthly H. lustrated issues, portraits and brief sketches of men and women of imme- diate interest. The May issue contains fine portraits of Governor O'Dell, the Countess Tolstoi. the new Attorney General Knox, Prince Ito Ghe Japan ese statesman). Ben Foster, whose painting. "Lulled by the Murmuring Stream" is one of two American land- scapes recently purchased by the French government for the Luxem- bourg; portraits of the men who have made the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo possible are also included. Hubert D. James, aged AT years, died yesterday at his home on the Water town road. He leaves widow and two children, three brothers, Henry of Iowa, Edward of Harwinton and Egg bert of Goshen, two sisters, Mrs Helen Todd and Mrs Demers of Thomaston IA h but had resided in Waterbury for sev- eral years. He was a trusted employe of c. L. Dickson & Go of West Main street. The funeral will take place at 1 30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with service at the house of the Rev Dr Davenport and interment in Mill Plain cemetery.
 Deputy Sheriff Rigney of Water bury was in town to-day looking for the junk filters. who on April 6 stole over 1000 pounds of brass and copper | from the firm of Benedict & Burnham He had information that the men were in New Britain, but he failed to glean their whereabouts. The deputy sheriff recovered some of the copper in West field, Mass. The robbery was bold one and created considerable talk in Waterbury at the time. The. thieves drove right into the factory yard and removed the junk from 8 car on a I switch. The information which the officers has received is tliat the job was done by Italians. New Britain I Herald.
 Mrs Ella Cleary, formerly a we'll known teacher in the public schools of this city. died yesterday in New York Her husband and two children survive her. Mrs Cleary. whose maiden name was Maher. was resident of New Haven. Prior to her marriage she taught at the Bank and Porter streets schools. and later when her husbands s health failed, she was given a position ! in the schools again and was assigned [ to the Crosby Grammar building. Her husband, James Cleary, was at one time a machinist at the Farrell Foun- i dry and Machine company, but left here for New York In the hope of re- ceiving some benefits at the hospitals there. In her efforts to maintain the family Mrs Cleary's health became im- paired and she was granted leave of absence by the board of education and | joined her husband in New York. Collector Thoms is sending out the rate bills for 1900 and according as