Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-15
CITY NEWS.

The board of public works will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
 Father Curtin celebrated mass at the Brookside home yesterday morning. Rev Father Crowley of St Thomas's church preached at St Johns church ln l Watertown last night.
 There will be a months mind re- l auiem high mass at St Francis l Xayier's church tomorrow morning at I 7:30 for the late Jeremiah Sullivan.
 There will be a meeting of the Sixth j division, A. O. H., this evening. Elec- l tion of officers and other important ! business should insure full attend ance.
 Judge Gager's finding of the facts I in the case of Partree against Atwood I in which fraud to the amount of about $25,000 was alleged, was received to- day by Clerk Marsh of the super1cS I court.
 Beware of goods sold at auction. If I you want to buy your Christmas pres I ents in diamonds, watches and all kinds of jewelry call on M. Green, 2l3 I Bank street. All our goods are sold with written guarantee.
 I The Rev Oscar Haywood of Jack son Tennessee, recently called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church of this city, entered upon his duties yesterday, and delivered an instructive sermon at the morning and evening service.
 The will of the late Hugh O'Donnell was filed for probate to-day. The doc ument was drawn up by Attorney Rus r @oe r.aI1 411nH f6 | testator's two grandchildren Catherine and Hugh Meredith. Catherine is named executrix.
 Because of the storm of Saturday night which prevented many from talk ing the lesson in candy making at the school of housekeeping, the lesson.Will be repeated this evening at 7:SO. Either league members or non-mem- bers may attend.
 At a meeting of the Fifth division, A. O. H., Friday night, the following officers were elected: President, J. r. Sheehan; vice-p president, Thomas Con- Ion; recording secretary, Joseph Me Grail; financial secretary, Patrick Fla herty; treasurer, Cornelius Moore.
 At a meeting of the Waterbury Ty- geographical union, No 829, held in Buffers and Polishers hall on Satur- day evening, the following officers were elected: President. H. B. Deiss; vice president, Frank Engel; secretary treasurer. c. B. Weed; sergeant at arms, Frank Lauzon; executive con- mittee, A. c. Bentley, c. F. Harris, l. c. Matteson.
 Mulcahy council, K. of c. met yes terday and elected the following off, cers: G. K, Thomas Hallinan; D. G. K, William G. Donovan: recording secretary, George Hynes; financial sec retary, Thomas F. Casey; warden, Martin F. Hapenny: chancellor, Henry NJ. Eaters; treasurer, Joseph H. Dev ereaux; outer guard. William Laffin; inner guard, Robert Conway; lecturer, William D. Duffy; chaplain, Rev Fath- \ CT Broderick
 E. l.. Frisbie, Otis S. Northrop, George B. Boyd and J. Richard Smith, the subcommittee in charge of the proposed local hotel, are home after a tour through Massachusetts and New York with a view to getting informa- tion relative to the cost and plans of the best hotels in some of the towns in those states. It 1 is understood that they will recommend the erection of a building of 150 rooms, at an expense of about $300,000 This includes the cost of the site. The building will be fire proof and will be of the most modern design.
 The suit in detainer against Frank Mcdonnell for dispossessing John O'Brien from certain premises on Cooke street few weeks ago has been withdrawn. Attorney Russell counsel for the defense. entered a plea of juris- diction on the grounds that the service upon the defendant was defective. This matter was to have tried to-day by Judge Peasley in the district court but Attorney Guilfoile thought it was better to let the matter go by default, thus admitting the defective service, which vacated the entire proceedings. Another suit will be entered. The Colonial Trust company. ex- ecutor on the estate of the late Fred A. Spencer, represented by Louis Van l Keuren. secretary, filed their last ac- count on the estate in probate today A question arose as to what portion of l the estate the collateral inheritance tax was due on and Judge Lowe de cided that the income from it during the period of settlement. as we'll as the I principal was not taxable. but after that period all of the estate less than $10,000, all of the just debts and the expenses of settling up was taxable. which means payment to the state of about $25O.
 Superintendent O'Brien of the bu- reau of water is in a peck of trouble these days. Snow shoyelers have GOV cred several hydrants and the superin- tendent is having hard time locating them. There is an ordinance covering this matter and some day when the l superintendent catches somebody in the act he intends to make an example of him. Everybody should make it q point not to do anything which would interfere with the immediate use of the hydrants if necessary. A few min. utes' delay in locating hydrant might cost thousands of dollars and no doubt this is one reason why the city is ST particular in keeping them free of al Instructions.
 The smoker given in Pythian hall
 Saturday night by the local union ot machinists and engineers was well at