Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-09
CITY NEWS.

 Lutheran church society will be held tonight at S:30. Officers will be elect. ed for the coming year.
 Christian the infant child of MT and Mrs Michael Scadden of Hickory street, died this morning. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at o'clock with interment ill St Joseph's cemetery.
 Two classes for beginners i'll dress making will be formed at the Friendly league tomorrow, one at 2 D. m.,Which will be for either league members or outside pupils, and one at 7:45 for league members only. The advanced class meets on Monday evening.
 Albert W. Adams of New Rochelle, one of the victims i'll the late railroad disaster. who is suffering from q l crushed leg, is an uncle of A. w. Skin ner, manager of the Sonnenberg Piano Go of this city. MT Skinner has gone to the bedside of his uncle.
 X demurrer has been filed i'll the injunction case of the city against Alice and Alderman Walker, and to- morrow at short calendar in the SUI perior court in New Haven Judge Ga
  The demurrer has been filed by Colonel Burpee, counsel for the Walkers. At a meeting of the Luther league of the German Lutheran church last night the following officers were chos- en: First vice president, Miss Rosa Merckel; second vice president, Miss Pauline King; secretary, ID. Eisenwin- ter; financial secretary, Miss Ida Field; | treasurer, Miss F. Taschenberger.
 Rev J. E. Clark, who was recently appointed by Bishop Tierney to the pastorate of the Montville, Conn, church from Bristol. is the recipient of beautiful cabinet. which is the gift from several of his Bristol friends Rev Father Clark was as sistant to Rev Father Curtin before going to Bristol.
 The musicians of the. city are con sidering the advisability of organiz- ing q local branch of the national un- ion similar to unions about the state. A call has been issued for q mass meeting of the musicians to be held 1 in Carpenters hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Every musician in the city is requested to attend.
 Mrs Grace Weiser Davis, the noted evangelist, will hold her farewell meeting at the First Methodist church 1 tonight. The series of meetings, which have been held every night for the past two weeks, have been largely attended and much good has resulted from them. The largest audience yet l should be present at the farewell meeting tonight.
 At a meeting of the Odin Benefit as sociation last night officers wer1 chosen as follows: President, Peter Hemingson; yice-president, Anton Tall berg; secretary, Carl Nelson; treasurer Carl Platen; trustee for three years Albert Thusberg; sick visiting commit tee, Anton Tallberg, August Erikson Carl Wallin, Oscar Peterson and An drew Anderson.
 The funeral of the Rev Bernard W Bray, formerly assistant at the Sacred Heart parish in this city. took plac: White Plains, N. The burial was 1T the cemetery at the home. The insti 1 tuition, Rosary Hill home, is in charge of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, th; youngest daughter of the famous au | thor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mrs La l throp is Sister Mary Alphonse, su perior of the Dominican Sisters, wh, | are in charge of the home. Mrs La throp founded the original home fol cancer patients, women only, at Cherr, street. New York. The Rosary Hill home is a branch of the Cherry stree home, and admits both men and wo I men.
 There is still another robbery of til, poor box in a Catholic church. Flo the past few weeks reports have Fol lowed closely upon each other of tn robbery of poor boxes in Catholi churches throughout the state. On day it is the poor box in Meriden, tn next day it is the poor box i'll Water bury that has suffered. Last wee three poor boxes in St Patrick's churcl were robbed and neat haul mus have been made, for it is said tha there was about twenty or thirty dol lars in one box alone. An attemp was made to rob the fourth box at tn same church, but the burglars mus have been evidently frightened ava, for they left before their work wa finished The poor box at the Tn maculate Conception church is said t have been robbed during the holidays
 The latest robbery is reported at tn
 Sacred Heart church. On Monday tn robbers did their work. They too the poor box and it's contents. It
 not known how much money was i
 the box The sexton of the churc wouldn't mind if the robbers kept th
 box for ha could make another on but he would like to have them retur the lock.
 John Carroll, aged 9 years, died thl morning at the residence of Mrs Joh Riordan, 46 Washington street. Ii leaves a brother, Daniel, and a siste
 Josie, in this city, and his parents an three brothers in Ireland. MT Carro was born in Ballywire, parish of Ga bally, Limerick, Ireland, and came this country about two years ago, an secured employment at the Naugatuc freight station, a position which |
 held until he was taken sick wit : pneumonia short time ago, and q
 though he had good medical attent
 ance and proper care in every othe way, still all proved of no avail, an' fortified by the rites of his church, |
 passed away this morning. He was young man of good habits and mad many friends during his short res dence in this town. If he had bee spared 1t is probable that he woul