Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-19
CITY NEWS.

Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair tonight and Saturday. Cooler tonight, variable winds.
 The members of Mulcahy council, K of O., will celebrate the first anniver- sary of it's organization tonight in the Knights of Columbus hall.
 Al Lockhart, licensed druggist at Baribault's pharmacy, has been spend ing the past two weeks at the Pan American exposition in Buffalo.
 William Spellnan who was hit by a trolley car on South Main street le evening about a week ago is expected to be sufficiently recovered to return to work next Monday.
 Dr James J. Mccarthy, formerly of Naugatuck and well known in this city, is renewing old acquaintances in town. pr Mccarthy is at present in the employ of large medical house.
 Sister Thecla, mother superior of the convent of Mercy, Westerly, Rhode Island, formerly Miss Annie Shearon of this city, spent yesterday at the home of her father James Shearon Of Wolcott street. Sister Thecla wfs ac- companed by Sister Thomas of the Convent of Mercy, Fair Haven. ITs The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel will be celebrated at Our Lady of Lourdes church on next Sun day. The church will be prettily decorated for the occasion. The regu- lar choir will be accompanied by Ken yon's orchestra at the 10 o'clock mass and at the yespers service in the even ing at o'clock.
 The familiar salutation is no longer IIrxr lo I,rJ+ The weather still continues to be hot. notwithstanding rainstorms, sun show CTS, etc. Yesterdays storm had but a slight effect upon the atmosphere. It is three degrees cooler to-day than it was yesterday. At 2:30 yesterday the thermometer at Cannon &5 Web ster's registered 93 degrees; to-day at the same hour it registered 90 degrees.
 The funeral of Ella the II months ol1 daughter of Mir and Mrs James Chicanovitz of James place, who died yesterday, took place this afternoon, with interment in Calvary cemetery,
 To-day Real Estate Agent D. H. Tierney sold for Albert Vom Veg, administrator, the property located at 344 Washington avenue, to Pasquale Rienzo, who will occupy the premises and intends to make extensive im- (
 The policemen do not favor much reform in their summer uniform. and it seems as though Dr Munn's efforts i'll that direction may be futile. Par ticlllarly do the policemen object to a shirt waist, no matter if while it would embrace them it would also embrace all the colofs in the rainbow. They say that it would hamper them in the performance of their duty and perhaps sometime they may report at head quarters with the waist in filters. A lighter coat of the material they are at present wearing would not be so easy to tear, they say, but still that would be too heavy for shirt waist. Consequently they say, avaunt shirt waist.
 Waterbury was visited yesterday af- terEcon by one of the fierceSt electric cal storms i'll the history of the town. It was accompanied by loud peals of thunder and a heavy downpour of rain and lasted about three-quarters of an houl. or so. So far as can be learned no serious damage occurred in Water bury, but it is no guesSWork, to state that quite q good many people were pretty well scared. 1t is said that the storm split in two before reaching Wa terbury, one part of it going in one dl- rection. and the other starting some place else on it's own hook. If this be tru.e that it weakened and went apart before paying it's respects to the peo- pie of Waterbury, for when half of it could make so much noise. the whole of it would have shook the town to pieces.
 About three hundred persons saw the presentation of the play "Snor Giusepinna,'' at Concordia hall last night. 1t was given under the aus pices of the church of Our Lady of Lourdes and was under the personal supervision of Rev Father Karam. The various roles were enacted ill q clever and charming style that elicited continued applause. Sophia MarcoIa as the Baroness was fine as was Maria Giuseppa Rulano who pleyed the part of the mother of Snor Giuseppina. The latter role was portrayed in captivating and pleasing style by Mary Bauby while Stella Barber made superb Agnes Pellegrina. Michael Janele played the part of Donna Martha in an able and capable manner. Besides the sacred drama. there was 3 farce and a pantomime in which the leading role was performed in pl S-se- worthy manner by John Baptist Tom- masy. There were selections by Ken Eon's orchestra between the acts.