Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-29
CITY NEWS.

night. The remains will be sent to Washington, D. C., for burial by Un dertaker Burrall.
 A small fire was discovered at the residence of A. E. French, corner of West Main street, shortly after } o'clock yesterday afternoon A still alarm was sent in and the engine from Leavenworth street house responded. There was no damage to speak of.
 The Alligator club has elected these officers: President, G. E. Harring- ton; vice president, Joseph Connor; secretary. Miss Eva Bouffard; treas urer, w. A. Knop; financial secretary, Miss Margaret Sweeney; dance com mittee. Emil Bouffard. Charles Holl- man. Jennie Purcell, Mrs G. B. Har- rington.
 List of letters remaining unclaimed in the postoffice: Mrs Flora Blais. c. B. Rissell Mrs Grace Duncan, Ed J. Friday, Albert Greenwood, Mrs An nie Moore. Mrs Ruth Miller, Mrs Bes- sic Nichols. Andrew O'Conners, Mrs Lewis E. Perkins. Mrs D. Raymond, Mrs Della Roy, Miss Anna Stuart A. Soderlund. John F. Thare
 Charles Miller has returned from the south, where he has been for some time past for the benefit of his health. Developments in the contention be tween Mir Miller and Mir Gloves may now be looked for. Mir Clowes's offer to Mir Miller of S500.O0O for his inter- ests in the Randolph-C Cloves Co being still standing. It is thought that Mir Miller will not sell for this figure.
 The suit of the Brass City Lumber company against Lawrence and Wig gins of Plymouth was settled yester- day afternoon out of the court. It was down for hearing to-day in the district court. The plaintiff contract ed with the defendant to be supplied a certain quantity of lumber at cer- tain price. Soon after the price of lumber rose considerably and the de- fendant refused to keep his contract with the plaintiff at the price that had been agreed upon. Suit was accord ingly entered for $500, which was about the amount given in settlement of the suit.
 The case of Crimmins against Hutchinson began it's third days nearing before Judge Welch in the dis trict court to-day. It is a dreary. tedious case, teeming with dry facts relating to carts of earth, sand and stone. To-day's testimony was re- garding the actual damage to the plaintiffs property by it's being under mined by the defendant and falling into his lot Some witnesses thought the damage amounted to $15; others q great deal more. The defendant also tried to show that the collapse of the plaintiffs property into his was caused by a natural overflow of water run ming through both properties. The case looked as though it might end to-day.
 At the meeting of the Waterbury Woman's club yesterday afternoon the following papers were read: s'Tha Scientific Exhibit at the Pan-Ameri- can,'' by Mrs William F. Chatfield; l EsThe Electrograph, Telautograph and Typewriting by Electricity by Mrs 1 Charles H. Brown; Aerial Naviga- tion,' written by Mrs F. N. Sackett, and read by Mrs F. D. Buckley; ssDr Pupin's Recent Invention" by Miss s. H. Cairns: "Marconrs Latest Tri- umph in Wireless Telegraphy," by Mrs Otis s. Northrop: and "The Auto mobile" by Mrs R. R. Stannard, read by Mrs D. F. Webster. Before the reading of the papers Mrs Stone sang the "Jewel Song" and Because Love You.''
 The following committees have been appointed to act for the Business Mems association for the present year: Executive and legislative, W. g. Jones, E. P. Fitzgerald, John Afori- arty; arbitration and complaints, D. w. Mooring, Dr J. F. Hayes and W. 1 D. Upson transportation and insur- l ance, R. N Blakeslee, c. E. Hall. T. l H. Hewitt and J. R. Hughes; debts and debtors, Dr A. A. Crane, NJ. J. Fogg and 0. H. Reach; telegraph, tel I ephone and postal, J. s. Galley, NJ. S l Cheney and Dr c. E. Munger; light ing and water facilities, A. F. Taylor W. Easton Smith and R. D. Pierpont house and accounts, John Blair, JacoL ] Kaiser. J. B. Ebbs and P. c. Cowles 1 closing, c. A. Templeton, Luzerne Camp and Chris Strobel; organization John B. Mullings, I. Chase and O. A Ziglatzki.
 Miss Pauline Judd entertained 8 numDeP or IfleQdS at tue nome or -nGI l parents, MT and Mrs Charles F. Judd fl Holmes avenue, last night. Among those present were the Misses Ethe
 Chase Reta Leonard, Eunice Crane
 Lillian Richardson, Margaret Coe, May | Andrus, Marguerite Melton, Rather inc Smith. Harriet Northrop, Margarel Ives, Mildred Childs, Helen Childs
 Gertrude Judd, Arlina Bradley, Loret ] ta Fitzmaurice. Alma Fitzmaurice, Elm l fly Mason and Olive Camp. The pro
 gram included piano selections by tht
 Misses Alice and Cuthbert Buckner
 Prizes were given for the peanut hunt" and the donkey game" II
 the first, Reta Leonard won first prize
 and Alma Fitzmaurice the consolation
 and in the second Eunice Crane took first and Lillian Richardson the conso
 lation.
 Miss Ethel Sperry, daughter of Nil and Mrs Mark L. Sperry of Cooke street, made her entrance to local SO ciety last eevning. For the occasion q reception was given in Leayenworth hall, at which many of Waterbury's popular society people were present
 The hall was handsomely dressed with cut flowers and choice offerings from the conservatories. The assem-
 blaze was indeed quite attractive. Ii Ir- A. L