Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
CITY NEWS.
The aldermen will meet tonight.

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 The democratic town committee held a meeting Saturday night and elected Herbert E. Tullar of Waterville secre- tary and Edward Futile treasurer.
 Francis, the 7-monhts-old son of Mir and Mrs Michael Reilly of Sarsfeld street, died last night. The funeral took place this afternoon, with inter- ment in St Joseph's cemetery.
 James O'Connell, international pres ident of the I. A. of M., will address a mass meeting under the auspices of Brass City lodge, No 349, at G. A. R. hall this evening. All machinists and tool makers are invited.
 Attorney John F. Kellogg is laid up with sore throat and in consequence all the cases against the city and the Con solidated Railroad Co that were as signed for hearing in the superior court this week will have to go over.
 John Keenan, the 7-year-old son of MT and Mrs Florence Keenan of 60 Beacon street. died yesterday morning, after q weeks illness with appen- dicitis. The funeral will take place to- morrow afternoon with interment in the new St Joseph's cemetery.
 The funeral of James Houlihan took place yesterday afternoon from his late home on Walnut street, with ser vice at the Sacred Heart church by the Rev Father Bray and interment in St Joseph's cemetery. The bearers were Patrick Hickey, Thomas Shanna- han, Patrick Lynch, Michael Riley, ). Houlihan and John Mccarthy.
 There was q cat and dog fight on 1 Burton street yesterday. Three aw- | full rounds were fought, while the air was rent with q most unearth1y noise. l The cat held her own for a time. lnak- 1 ing two dogs fur fly The right eye | of one of them was badly torn and | the other bled copiously from the | mouth. In the third round however. | fortune went against the feline and | both. dogs grabbing it literally tore it | to pieces.
 A slight change of dates has been l made necessary in the Friendly league entertainment course. The concert by the Denim Mandolin orchestra will be given in Leavenworth hall on April 18th. instead of March 2Sth, as ad- 1 vertised, and the illustrated lecture, "Untravelled Labrador and the Eski- mo- by Miss Anna l.. Ward has been | transferred from the latter date to March 2Sth, when it will be given in Friendly league hall.
 At the meeting of the French Cana 1 dian institute last night Dr David de- | livered an interesting address entitled Duties of Young Men, Other exer- cises included selections by Galipeaus $ orchestra; piano selection, Prof Bari beault; vocal selections, Miss Rose Roberge: song, Francis Galipeau; ad- l dress. Attorney Arthur G. Pelletier of New Bedford, Mass. There were songs 1 by Emil Bouffard. Eugene Varner Fred Galipeau, George Perren and | others.
 John Mccoy, father of William Me l Coy of Laurel street, died at his home l in Highland, N. N., last Friday. MT | Mccoy left Saturday to attend the fu- neral and he was lucky that he was not called home to arrange for the fu- l neral of more than one member of his own family. Saturday night Mrs Me 1 Coy and children ate a hearty supper and soon after all of them were taken | sick and for some time it was feared 1 that some of the cases would result | fatally. They were attended by Dr ! Pomeroy. who found them suffering from ptomaine poisoning from eating l cheese. Henry. 30; Martha, 13, and | Clarence. 6, were the worst cases.
 The advocates of the eight-hour law l logg as to what effect it will have upon the laboring classes in Water | bury and elsewhere. General Kellogg l appeared in opposition to the measure | at Hartford last Friday and argued against it on the ground that it would be b detriment to the working people. l especially those who work by the l piece. The union men and others look at the matter in a different light and more than one of them would like to meet the general and have it out with | him on the subject. c. r. Kellogg. secretary of the State Board of Charities was heard in opposition to the bill asking for q little assistance for St Francis Orphan asylum.
 A new departure in the March num- Der of the American Boy is ''The Gar den," containing q description of hill of potatoes and an item on ''How to Make Money Raising Plants An expert canoe maker occupies two pages. with an illustrated description
 of how to build a Canadian canoe
 Boys as Money Savers occupies a
 page, as do also the departments
 "Boys in the Home, Church and
 School, and Boys in the Office, Store
 Factory and on the Farm.'' "The I Agassiz Association of Young Natural
 ists' occupies q page. The photo
 graphic editor of the American Boy
 takes a page. Boys in the Animal
 Kingdom is a department telling
 about the 1op-eared rabbit and the
 value of toads and bats.
 The funeral of James F. McEvoy
 took place yesterday afternoon iron
 the family residence on Keefe street
 to St Francis Navier's church, where
 service was read by the Rev Father
 Fitzsimmons. The bearers were Jere
 miah Scully, George Hynes, Rober
 Parker, Finton Connor, Joseph De
 laney and James Shea. The intermen
 was in St Joseph's cemetery. Int
 floral offerings included a pillow
 marked Brother" from the brother:
 and sisters of the deceased; cross let tered Friends and Companions"
 wreath and cross marked Friends
 wreath. A. Moore. c. Higgins, G
 Hynes. c. Mccarthy; basket of roses
 Annie Mamie and Katie Phelan: bou
 quets, Grace Walsh, Mrs Finnegan ] Mamie and Lizzie Broderick. James