Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-27
CITY NEWS.

l
 Bishop street.
 All who have bills against the board of health are requested to hand them ing.
 A mass for deceased members of the Knights of Columbus will be celebrated at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at St Francis Navier's church. The suit of Frank Danze against James Bryan for $50 for goods was de- cided this morning by Judge Burpee. Judgment was given the plaintiff to recover $15.
 Miss Rose Clerkin, stenographer for Judge k. A. Lowe, witnessed the gold en anniversary of Springfield, Mass, which celebration was held during the past few days.
 A months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart church Saturday morning at $ o'clock for the late John F. Kelly of Brook
 lyn, N. Y.
 Under it's certificate of organization the Sonora Mining and Development company of Waterbury has elected the following officers: Alexander McNeill, president; Henry B. Ketcham, vice president; John P. Kellogg, secretary
 and treasurer. The capital of the company is $200OOO and it owns ex- tensive mining lands ID Hermosillo in the state of Sonora, Mexico. President ]. J. Mcdonald presided at a largely attended meeting of the St Joseph T. A. society in St Patrick's hall last night. The Rev Father O'Brien administered the pledge to eight new members and also gave an instructive talk on temperance. The report of the entertainment committee concerning the late festival, which
 was a great financial success, was re- ceived with satisfaction. Other busi-
 ness of routine nature was transact ed.
 Mrs Catherine Goldsmith, wife of Frederick Goldsmith, aged B years,
 died at the residence of her mother,
 Mrs Bridget Cluney, TIT Dublin street, at S:30 last evening, after a short ill- ness. She leaves three children, Jos eph, William and Mary; four sisters. Julia, Bridget, Margaret and Annie, and two brothers, John Cluney of New
 York and Joseph of this city. The fu-
 neral will take place Thursday morn ing at S:30 o'clock with services at the Sacred Heart church and interment in St Josephs.
 The proprietor of the Arlington house on Bank street is looking 1Dr one or his recent guests who gave the name of Joseph R. Watson. Watson had stayed at the hotel for some days and when
 paying his bill before departing gave Mir Sickmund, the proprietor of the
 hotel, check for $5755 out of which to pay himself. The, check was issued
 on the Middlesex Safe Deposit and Trust Go of Lowell, Mass. MT Sick mund cashed the check without hesi- tation and gave his guest his change. A day or two after he had sent the check away to the bank in Lowell it was returned to him with the informa- tion that Watson had no account there and that it was forgery. D. H. Tierney is home after attend ing the unveiling of the Rochambeau
 monument at Washington and speaks enthusiastically of the whole program.
 Mir Tierney had the honor of an intro duction to the French notables who came over here to represent their coun- try at the exercises and other men of prominence who gathered there from different parts of the world to say nothing of the great men of our own republic, including President Roosevelt and the members of his cabinet, every one of whom did all in his power to at tach as much Importance as possible to the event. It was q great gathering of notable men and left an impression upon all present which they will be slow to forget
 Donald Mckenzie of Pratt place. foreman mason for Chatfield S Chat field, is preparing to remove to Pre- toria, South Africa. MT Mckenzie lived there before and likes the coun- try. It is understood that there will
 be big rush of English speaking peg pie to South Africa from now on. AL most all the Boers have been sys- tematically murdered or sent into ex- ile and in consequence there is room there for large numbers of men who like to live under the protection of the British flag. It is said to be a good
 country for thrifty working men. MT Mckenzie is a first class mechanic and is sure to make his mark in South Africa.
 The board of directors of the Busi- ness Mems association held a special meeting last evening in Attorney Church's office to hear Frank J. Lud- dington and c. M. Truman on the proposition of a large hotel. Mir Lud- dington stated that he has not bound himself to the plans that have been prepared already for hotel, nor to the site which he has purchased for one
 He desired to get the Business Mems association interested i'll the project in order to raise the stock necessary to launch such a hotel as Waterbury needed and should have. He proposes to raise S4O0.000 if possible. Nothing less would suffice to build such hotel as would do credit to the town. A spe- cial committee was appointed to look into the matter. This committee con sists of R. N. Blakeslee. c. D. Wye, John Moriarty. O. F. Ziglatzki, E. w. Mooring and C. A. Templeton. It is expected that another meeting will soon be held and steps taken to start the hotel.
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