Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-08
CITY NEWS.

dent or IhlS GUY, DuC HOW iTSpfeSSultl- 1 tive of the Consolidated Electric rail-
 way and Equipment company or l Thames street, New York, is renewing 1 old acquaintances about town. | Cards are out announcing the com l ing marriage of stephen Bloomneiu oI { Silver street and Miss Theresa Mckeon of Bank street. Both are popular em- l ployeS of the Rogers & Brothers com pany and have q host or friends I throughout the city.
 1 The superior court resumed business l here to-day. Judge Thayer taking up l the Cloves Miller cases Frederick Da- wis. the expert bookkeeper, who gave
 very damaging testimony against MT 1 Gloves last week, was the first wit ! ness called. The case is to be ended to-day, as Judge Thayer holds court I in Niddletown tomorrow.
 l One more addition to the list of Wa terbury boys who are serving Uncle l Sam as sailors has been made. The latest one to join the naval forces Is Robert Herr, of North Main street, 1 who enlisted at the Brooklyn navy
 yard on Thursday, March 24. On last Friday he sailed on q man-of-war for
 Porto Rico. He is serving as q first ] class machinist.
 The members of the Nassau club | were the guests of honor at the rooms | of the Ierrimac Athletic club last l evening, and they were the reclpients l of a.royal time. Vocal solos, pia no se- lections, recitations and clogs dancing composed the program. Among those I who contributed to the evenings enter tainment, were the Dingleberry quar- | tet. Thomas Lyman. James Downey, 1 Thomas Driscoll William Ghent, John | Grady and many more.
 Mrs Bridget Caniff. widow of the l late John Caniff, aged 65 years, died | yesterday afternoon at her home, 95l | East Main street, after q weeks sick ness with pneumonia. She leaves two 1 sons and one daughter, Thomas and | James Caniff and Mrs Martha Me Grath. The deceased was one of Wa terbury's highly respected citizens and had d large circle Of friends in differ ent parts of the city. She was q de- voted member of the Sacred Heart
 parish The funeral will take place to-
 morrow morning at S:30 with service
 at the Sacred Heart church and inter-
 ment in the family plot in St Joseph's cemetery.
 Word has been received by several of his friends in this city from Cap tain McGrath, of the Yale Law school
 base ball nine. which is now on a southern trip, stating that so far the trip of the team has been very suc-l
 cessful. The first game, which was to have been played with one of the college teams in New York city, had to
 be cancelled owing to rain. The next two games were with colleges in Penn sylvania and the Law school team won both games handily. Captain Me-
 Grath has q fast lot of players un-
 der him this year and they expect to
 make one of the best records which
 the Law school nine has made in sew
 eral years.
 The forty hours devotion of the
 blessed sacrament was commenced 1t
 the Immaculate Conception church yes
 terday morning immediately after
 the 1O:3O mass. 4 procession of the
 blessed host was held, in which about
 200 children participated. among
 them being about twenty-five little
 flower girls. Palms and potted plants
 were tastefully displayed within the
 sanctuary rail. while cut flowers
 adorned the altar. Innumerable light
 ed candles added to the brilliancy of the scene. Masses were celebrated this morning at 5:30, and s o'clock. The services will close at o'clock to- morrow morning. when q high mass will be celebrated. followed by pro- cession of the blessed sacrament. Be- l sides the local priests there were in attendance last evening the Rev Fath- CT Condon of Naugatuck, the Rev l Father O'Rrien of Thomaston, Father Tanning of Naugatuck will be present l this evening. A splendid musical pro- gram was rendered at the 10:30 mass | yesterday under the direction of Or ganist John l.. Bonn. The soloists were the Misses Agnes Breen and | Katherine Charters, H. P Lizctte and E. Beerbaum.