Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-24
CITY NEWS.

day afternoon from his late home in Hartford
 Word has been received here of the death of Thomas Whelan at Dllnning, III. The deceased was q former resi- dent of Canal street, this city. His parents were notified of his illness last week.
 The Waterbury High school basket ball team will play the Choate school i'll Wallingford on Saturday afternoon. On Tuesday. March 4, Waterbury will play the Springfield High school team in this city.
 Lewis Madden, member of the Bennett-Moulton orchestra, spent Sun day at his home in this city. The Ben nett-Moulton Co played ip Meriden last week and is playing at the Hyperion theater in New Haven this week.
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Fair tonight; warmer in western por- tions Tuesday snow i'll northern DOT tions; rain or snow in southern Tor- tions. Light westerly winds, becom- ing northeast and increasing in force.
 A son was born Saturday to Mir and Mrs Edward Maloney of Beacon street. Besides being q trolley conductor like his father, the boy will be named after George Washington, Saturday having been the anniversary of Washington,s birthday.
 William NJ. Laffan's name appears at the head of the editorial column of the New York Sun to-day. Paul Dana, oh. where is he? Does this mean the end of the war with labor nts1 fhaf f will ho continued with renewed force?
 The Robert Emmet celebration which will take place here on March 4, will be held ill St PatrickAs hall, and will probably be the most successful affair of the kind ever held ill the city. It looks as if Emmets name is becoming more and more popular among the men of his race as the years roll onward.
 Judge Peasley has notified the city that he has been retained by John F. Corcoran of 523 East Main street to claim damages. Corcoran claims that on the evening of February 19 he fell on a sidewalk on Walnut street be- cause of ice on it and broke his right foot at the ankle.
 Alfred Joseph Carey, the two
 
 chael IT. Carey, 46 Dikemani street, died this morning at o'clock after q few days illness with pneumonia. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in the family plot in the old St Joseph cemetery.
 The funeral of John Slavin took place this morning from the family residence on Dublin street with a mass of requiem at the Sacred Heart church by the Rev Father Shelley and interment in St Joseph's ceme- tery. The bearers were Dennis J., James, Michael, John and James A. Slavin and Michael Coss, all nephews of the deceased.
 John Ennis, aged S4 years, died last night at his home, 45 Gilbert street. He is survived by four chil- dren, William, John and James Ennis and Mrs James Wheeler. The fu- neral will take place "Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock with mass of requiem at the Immaculate Concep- tion church. The interment will be ill St Joseph's cemetery Mir Ennis was q resident of Waterbury for the past forty years and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him.
 Judge Cowell in the district court to-day began the hearing in the case of Mrs Bertha Foestch against Charles Lattner. Both the litigants reside in Naugatuck. Attorney Ken nedy appears for the plaintiff and At torney Russell for the defendant. Mrs Foestch claims she was serious ly slandered by the defendant to the extent that the peace of her home and family was endangered. The alleged islander was of such q nature that the evidence surrounding if could hardly be published. She claims $1,0OO damages.
 Fannie Futile Benedict. wife of G.. w. Benedict, died Sunday morning at the family residence on Highland ave nue. Mrs Benedict was born June IS, 1863. She leaves besides her husband three children, Ralph 1'uttie, Eric George and Doris Benedict, aged re- spectively 15, II and 19 months. The parents of Mrs Benedict. MT and Mrs John l.. Futile of Winsted, and one brother, Edward l.. Futile, teller at the Manufac- IufefS National Dank, survive her. The funeral service will be conducted at the house Wednesday morning at 9:3O o'clock by the Rev Dr Davenport of the Second Congregational church. The remains will be taken to Winsted for burial in charge of Burrall SS Co.'S undertaken.
 The hearing of criminal business in the superior court will be suspended after the present case on trial Moses Stone, charged with statutory rape, is disposed of. All the other cases will therefore go over to the June term These are only three. Pietor Van noni, charged with the manslaughter of John Bowe; Thomas Delaney and William Devoy, charged with assault. The reason for suspending criminal business was that the court wished to dispose of all the civil business possi- ble, there being a great deal of it on the docket It is hinted among the lawyers that an effort will be made at the next legislature to have q judge hold court here almost continuously, as is done in New Haven. They say there is always business enough to warrant such step. Now there are IN ,x<1