Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-01
CITY NEWS.

The Elm football team will play in Naugatuck tomorrow afternoon.
 A daughter was. born today to MT and Mrs Frank E. Bradley of 254 East Main street.
 Miss Katherine Flynn of North Will low street entertained number of her friends at her home last evening. Mrs J. M Bennett of Providence.
 k. l.. is visiting her parents, MT and
 Mrs Jeremiah Fitzpatrick of Wall street.
 The funeral of Mrs Henry Brown
 will take place Sunday afternoon at 1 30 o'clock from her late home on South Wilson street with service at St Patrick's church and interment ill St Joseph's cemetery.
 There was very large attendance
 at the early masses at the Catholic
 churches this morning, and the ser vices held later in the day were well
 attended. too. Vespers will be cele-
 brated this evening. Services were
 held in all the Episcopal churches and attracted large congregations. Word was received here today of the death of Miss Annie Mckeon at
 her home in Scranton. Pa. The de-
 ceased was q sister of Miss Mary Me
 Keon, clerk in the assessors office, and had many friends here. She spent some time in Waterbury last spring. Her sister was notified of her illness and left for there last Monday. William Kenney of Burton street, an employe of the H. w. Keeler Co, met
 with a serious accident yesterday af- ternoon while fixing I gasolene tank in the lunch cart on South Main street,
 opposite the Auditorium. The tank
 accidc tally exploded and the burning fluid scattered over the mans hands.
 face and ears, burning him severely.
 He was attended by Dr Kilmartin.
 The second degree will be conferred at the meeting of Barcelona council,
 K. of C., next Tuesday night, in pre- paration for the working of the third 1 degree, which will take place during | the present month by a team from New York. It is important that all members who have not yet taken the | second degree receive ii next week so 1 as to be eligible to the third dgree when the New York team comes here. At the High school tonight the first debate will be held. The subject of de-
 bate will be: Resolved. That the rail- | road systems should be controlled by i the government. The affirmative side ] of the question will be upheld by Myles
 McNiff, Benjamin Fairbrother and the
 Misses Mary McNerney and Mary ] Waas, while opposed to them will be
 Benjamin Webster Harry Granger
 and the Misses Edith Henderson and
 Elsie Humphries.
 The Co A football team left this | morning for New Haven where they | were to meet the Yale scrub eleven at l the Yale field this afternoon. The
 Yale team is unusually strong contain
 ing several players who have been promising candidates for the varsity
 eleven. Manager Sandland took the l following players with him: Dodds,
 Hotchkiss, Stout, Beardsley. Blakes- l lee, Mcfarland, Wells, Kane. Morri- son, Goss. Bauby, Arinbruster Pallme- I tier, Bardeen and two Nangatuck l players.
 The residence of w. R. s. Wake of l the Boston Furniture Go narfowly~,cs- l capped being consumed by fire yestcr- day afternoon. MT Wake lives at 70 I Central avenue and shortly before fi | o'clock. some one on the outside noticed
 a very brilliant light in one of The
 rooms and shouted to Mir Wake, who i happened to be home at the time that 1 the house was on fire. Investigation
 showed that the lace curtains on tic window in one of the apartments was
 blazing merrily and for two or three l minutes Mir Wake and two or three | others who came to the reSene were | the busiest men in town. They sue ceeded in extinguishing the fumes be, I fore it had a chance to spread. Tilc damage amounted to about SI5 nl
 &1QQ.