Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-07
CITY NEWS.

Odd lots of carpets at half price during our clearance sale. AIoriarty'o Waterbury Furniture Co.
 Rev Father Crowley read his an- nual report yesterday. The recapitu- lation is as follows: Balance on hand January 1. 1900. $52S.4S; receipts for the year 1900, including the balance on hand, S9,6S4.23; amount expended, $9,527.22, leaving balance on hand January 1, 1901, of $151.O1.
 The advanced league class in phy- sical culture will have the first lesson of the new term at the Friendly league this evening at 7:3O. All members planning to continue in the class should enroll tonight, so that none of the benefit of the work may be lost. A ! lclass for beginners, both league and special, will be formed on Tuesday at S:3O
 A party of fishermen expect to start this evening for Quassapaug and camp out the rest of the week The party consists of Attorney John F. Holohan, stephen Mitchell of Brook Iyn, John Hurley. Christopher Dun phy and William F. Quigley During the week they will keep open house and will be visited by many we'll known fishermen in the city.
 Saturday afternoon the fire depart lnent was called to the residence of Mrs Elizabeth A. Moran. 935 East Main street, where Il window curtain < caught fire from Il lamp. The blaze was eXtinguished before the 1iremen reached there. Later. about 7:3O o'clock in the evening" the department was called to the same house, fire hay ing been discovered in the woodwork. It was eNtinguished before it had a chance to spread. The damage. was slight.
 Fhe suit of Mrs Phoebe Ouimett against NJ. r. Carmody and the Wa terbury Beef and Provision Co was de cided to-day by Judge Bradstreet in favor of the plaintiff. Judgment was given to retain possession of certain | horse which she held on a writ of replevin, and $40 damages. This was known ill the courts as the famous | horse case. Mrs Ouimetts brother-in- | law testified that he originally owned the horse and raised it for the race track. The Ouimett's used it here for i ordinary purposes. Judge Lowe ap- l peared for the plaintiff and Attorney l Pierce for the defendant.
 | Dr J. W. Johnson of Torrington, who has many friends in this city, has sold his property on tho corner of | Water and John street to David Wha- l len, who will take possession of the i property February l. MT Whalen is a brother of John Whalen. the East End grocer Dr Johnson has purchas- cd the Calhoun property on Church street. and will shortly erect on the place a modern house and barn. This property is ill the best residential part of the busy town of Torrington. and when the place has a new house, such as is contemplated by the doctor, erected thereon, it will add greatly to that section of the town. Plans are already prepared for the new build- ings.
 Thomas Lewis, aged 8 years. died under an operation at the Polyclinic hospital. New York. Saturday after noon. The remains were brought to this city yesterday by Undertaken Spain of the Boston Furniture Co and taken to the. family residence 619 South Main street. from where the fu- neral will take place at 3 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. Service will be conducted at the house by the Rev Dr , Davenport. The interment will be in Riverside cemetery. MT Lewis was prominent member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and was for merly employed by the Naugatuck di- vision of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. He leaves a widow
 | The annual report of the Sacred Heart parish was read at the 1O:3O
 mass yesterday morning by the Rev Father Shelley The receipts during the past year was $7,325.73. and after paying the running expenses of the year and clearing off 100 of the mortgage on the church property, there remains q balance in the treas- ury of S3O616 This is q very gratify- ing report and Father Shelley was ex- ceedingly pleased with the record of his parishioners during the past year and so expressed himself The re- ceipts far exceed those of last year. The report goes to show that Rev Father Shelley is q hard and earnest worker and that his efforts to liquiGate the debt on the church property are meeting with hearty accord on the part of the parishioners.
 In Bridgeport yesterday morning early an Italian resident of this city was found wandering and evidently out of his mind. Saturday morning the man reported to Lieutenant Dodds at the police station that q fellow coun- tryman had threatened to kill him. Later he entered Attorney Bauby's office and acted in q decidedly strange manner, and while the attorney was giving him advice the man started up North Main street and entered the ele- vator in the Odd Fellows building ex- actly as Colonel Burllee was boarding it. The moment Tanitor Rowland closed the door of the elevator car the man grabbed him and struggle took place. The man acted as though he was afraid of somebody rather than that lie wished to iniure any one. He was released from the ear and that was the last seen of him in the city. It is supposed that he walked to Bridgeport. He will be sent back here and examined as to his sanity.
 At the last mass at St Thomas's church yesterday the pastor treated his congregation to q practical talk on matrimony. He advised young people 1 a,,l