Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-28
CITY NEWS.

l
 hall, March f.
 Speedwell lodge, K of F., will en-
 certain Ethan lodge of Bristol to-1nor-
 row night.
 Mr and Mrs Thomas r. McCann are receiving congratulations over the ar 1 rival at their home of baby boy. MT and Mrs Joseph Baird celebrate
 the forty-seventh> anniversary of their | marriage last night at their home in 1 Oakville.
 William Russell Ross, father of Sec retary k. s. Ross of the |. NJ. c. A.,
 is enjoying q short visit with friends 1 in New York.
 | The Friday evening class in cookery at the Friendly league will have no lesson this week. The new term will l begin March 8.
 1 Thomas Lee was the only prisoner 1 before Judge Burpee in the city court | this morning. He was charged with | lntOXication and was fined S1O and | costs
 The pupils of the Hopeville school | gave an entertainment in the Chapel | street Baptist church last night for the benefit of the library fund.- The | attendance was large.
 l Mr Barton's class in decorative art at the Friendly league. will meet for | Us second lesson on Saturday evening | oI this week, instead of Friday. which will be the regular class night. Edna Mary, the 2-year-old daughter of MT and Mrs John Bossidv of Hill street. died this morning The funer- al will take place tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, with interment in Cal vary cemetery.
 The funeral of William F. Dillane i will take place tomorrow morning at 1 $50 o'clock from the family residence ! on Bishop street. with a mass of 1 requiem at St Thomas's church and l interment in the new St JoSeph's cem- l etery.
 Assessor Thomas c. Lane will re- | tire from office tomorrow and John
 W. Burns will step into his shoes for a term of three years. The new board will be made up as fol lows: Thomas Coyle, John Clohessey and John W. Burns.
 John McEvoy. a student at Mt St Mary's seminary, arrived home yester- day on a short, vacation for the bene-
 fit of his health. He was accompa-
 nied by a' fellow student, Albert J. Cassidy. formerly of the reportorial staff of the Democrat. MT Cassidy will return tonight.
 | Manager Dennis Murray and the
 members of the High school football 1 eleven. champions of the Connecticut 1 1nterscholastic league for the season 1 of 1900, are becoming far famed. i Their portraits appear in Il conspicu- | OuS position in the Police Gazette this | week.
 Ii you should happen to notice a 1 broad smile on the usually austere l of hn ular hotel proprietor, you will find the
 reason if you call down at his home l There is q baby boy there now who | arrived last Tuesday and cigars are l being freely distributed at the cafe. 1 The annual meeting of the New Ha- ven County Public Health association
 will be held at the Hotel Garde. New | Haven. March '. Among the papers to be read is one by H. M. Rigney of 1 this city entitled Disposal and Col | lection of Garbage" Several Water l bury people belong to the society and many of them will attend the session. 1 Considerable excitement prevails | in Waterville over the troubles of rhe | West family which has been broken up. It appears the majority of the ! sympathy is with the wife, anyway. 1 q petition is said to be in circula ton l to raise funds to enable her to fight l for the custody of her children. There will be a hearing on her petition for this purpose in the probate court Mon- | day morning.
 | The article in yesterdays Democrat relative to new clerkships and fore manships in the city departments l created a good deal of talk about town In that connection it might be well to state that there is no vacancy in | the sewer department. Joseph Begnal l was appointed to the position some | time ago, but has been on the sick | list for several weeks. He has not re- | signed. however, and it is not likely that he intends to.
 l The wind tossed more dust and rub Dish about the streets to-day than
 would roll out of carts in [: year. It whirled papers in all directions. threw sand into the eyes of young and old
 and made lots of extra labor for clerks
 in the stores and housekeepers brush
 ing the dust off shelves and putting it
 out doors. Why doesn't MT Kelley get after the wind as well as the fel- lows with the carts?
 Mrs Mary Claffey. who lives on the
 corner of Dublin and Silver streets
 and is one of the oldest residents in
 the community. is very i'll. Yesterday she was visited by her son-in-law and
 daughter. Mir and Mrs John J. Connol-
 ly of Philipsburg. \. J. They were
 accompanied by their child and Maud
 CIaffey, daughter of Michael Claffey.
 who is well known in this city. Mir
 Connolly was one of the contractors who built the Meriden railroad.
 Francis Rina1di, whom Dominica
 Rinaldi stands charged with attempt
 ing to kill one morning last summer
 was started for his native land, Italy,
 yesterday by the United States au-
 thorities and the Italian consul in New
 York; that is to say, he has been ex-
 tradited for the murder of Dominico's s father in Italy and for which he was
 sentenced to twenty years imprison-
 ment and escaped. It being the first
 case of the kind that ever occurred 1 in this state some difficulty was met | with in preparing the necessary pa
 pers None of the well known law | yers in New Haven, where Rinaldi has
 been detained for some weeks, knew
 the operations of the law in the case