Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
CITY NEWS.

the hearts of Mir and Mrs Lucien Wolff of Laurel street.
 Tomorrow is Palm Sunday Palm will be distributed at the various Catholic churches of the city. The will of Robert c. Munson, late of
 Middlebury. was filed for probate this
 morning. The estate left by deceased is worth about $15,00O.
 The local recruiting station is about to close it's doors, so that in the near future applicants for positions in the army and navy will have to go to New Haven.
 J. H. Parry of this city has received | bunch of interesting newspapers from the Transvaal. The papers were sent by Mrs ROSSer,.a q SiSter-in-law of 1 MT Parry.
 Report has it that Tom Reilly has already written to Secretary Root ask l ing for Anguinaldo's first open date. l to umpire ball game at Hanover | Dark.-Meriden Record.
 Frank Mantim injured his foot this
 afternoon while at work at Randolph | X Gloves. He was moving boxes of
 metal, when one of the cases fell on
 his foot, crushing it badly.
 l A HHe lectuIe WILL SIefeOptlcOn l views of foreign countries will be given at the Boys club on Monday evening. March s. The lantern will 1 be in charge of Mir HOadley.
 Many colleges have already closed
 for the Easter vacation and many of l the local college students have arrived l home to enjoy the Easter season with | their friends in this city.
 The funeral of the late Edwin Price Parsons of Southbury took place this
 afternoon. with service at Hall Memor-
 ial chapel by the Rev Dr Davenport, ] and interment in Riverside cemetery.
 The premises lately occupied as q
 harness store adjoining Hodson's cafe
 and which has been leased by Mr
 Hodson, has been rented for a jewel ry business by q Bank street jeweler.
 Mrs John T. Sheehan, of 9S Fair
 view street. died at noon to-day. after
 an illness of about three weeks. The | deceased was a native of Litchfield | The funeral will take place Monday
 morning.
 X travel circle will be organized among the members of the Friendly | league on Monday evening. April 1St. | which will. during the spring. visit | many interesting places. by means of
 books. maps and pictures. The imag- | mary trip to the Pan-American expo Sltlon will be of special interest to | members who intend to go to Buffalo ] later in the season.
 The International Silver company. | commonly known as the silver. trust.
 held it's annual meeting yesterday in 1 New Jersey. The old board of direc- 1 tors was reelected and q dividend was 1 declared, what amount is not stated
 but it is supposed to have been quite l large, as :l surplus of S1 .OOO.OOO was
 announced. Last year the surplus was 1 SGOO,OOO.
 | Attorney Linford F. Root. clerk of | the district court, is very seriously ill
 at the home of friends in Hartford | MT Root has been sick for some timc
 but not until Il week ago was his ill.,
 ness considered to be of a serious
 character. Now his nervous system is | totally deranged and :t specialist in
 nervous diseases is almost in constant
 attendance upon him.
 ] Two boys named Joseph and John 1 Savage Were arrested this forenoon bv 1 special Officer Hickey. charged with | 1heft. They were seen in the act of l stealing chunks of copper wire from l the electric light station and after q.
 chase of some distance were captured.
 They are supposed To have been impli- l cated in theftS of metal from the same premises some time ago.
 \ large number of the friends of MT and Mrs George Ford of WatcryilIe enjoyed q pleasant reception at ] their home last evening. Among the | many musical selections rendered were 1 q piano solo by Miss Hattie Wooding | and q vocal solo by Miss Edith Strick- | land. both popular employees of the l Southern New England telephone com pany. Refreshments were served. A special feature of the Sunday evening services at the St Johns church tomorrow evening will he the singing of Gounod's sacred motet. ''Gallia,'' by the vested choir. The l solo parts in the work will be in 1 capable hands as Miss Wigmore has been engaged to sing them. No doubt St Johns church will have many vis- | itors within its walls tomorrow night. attracted there by such an excellent musical program.
 The management of the American l band is conducting negotiations by which James NJ. Fulton, of New York, may become it's leader. Mir Fulton is we'll known as the former leader of Waite's orchestra and as an author of several popular marches. MT Fulton was in town a few days since in con- nection with these negotiations. but 1 it is not known whether satisfactor arrangements were concluded or not People may grumble at the antics of l the wind the past few days. but those l who feel so inclined should remember | that the weather for the past two or | three days has done a good deal | towards getting the ground ill shape | so that contractors and others can be- | gin eXcaVating for the seasons build | ing. In any case what is the use of
 kicking about rough weather these | days. Does not everybody know that March has to keep up it's reputation by going: tout like lion?
 Judge Bradstreet heard the case of
 the city of Waterbury vs George o. 1 Robbins in the police court this after