Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-28
CITY NEWS.


 Island next Saturday.
 A regular meeting of the St Jo Iseph's T. A. society will be held to night at 8 o'clock in St Patricks hall Special forecast for Connecticut Probable thunder showers this after noon; partly cloudy but generally fa1 tonight and Tuesday. Light south west to west winds.
 James Conlong, administrator on the estate of the late Genevieve McDon ald, has petitfoned the probate cour for an order to sell part of the estate There will be hearing on the petition Wednesday morning.
 Santoria Antonia, aged two years and eleven months ,died Saturday af ternoon at the family residence, 63a Bank street. The funeral took place Saturday afternoon with interment il Cavalry cemetery.
 Margaret B, the six months ole daughter of MT and Mrs Albert B Croft of 115 Dublin street, died Sat urday night. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon with interment il St Josephs cemetery.
 The arguments in the case of the Sec
 
 silate Box Go of Hartford were made to-day in the district court before Judge Cowell The plaintiff seeks tc recover $1,6O0 for goods claimed tc have been delivered.
 Miss Julia A. Granniss, aged 56 years, died yesterday at her home, 1f Franklin street. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at o'clock with service by the Rev MT Lewis of St Johns church and fnterment in Riverside cemetery.
 l James A. Hynes, who attended the national convention of the A. o. H. at Denver, was about town today ap- parently in the enjoyment of good health and spirits. He came near dy- ing out west and says that while Den yer is pretty place still he prefers to do business at the old stand.
 Joseph Cough. the die sinker, has an English penny dated 1797. It weighs two ounces. MT Cough says he likes money about as well as others do, but if he had a great deal of that kind of the filthy lucre and was compelled to carry it in his pockets he thinks he would quickly become public bene- factor. e
 When John WenzeI, living at 70 Clark street, returned to his home on Saturday at noon, he found smoke is suing from one of the rooms. Inves- tigation proved that fire was burning briskly in a closet. With assistance the flames were extinguished, but not before over $1O0 damage had been done.
 | At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Economic league, held yesterday afternoon. James Robertson was selected to go to the New Haven convention Wednesday to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of William McCann. The delegates will leave by way of Cheshire at o'clock 1 Wednesday morning.
 A surprise party was given at the home of Miss Clara Blum of Ayers street on sFridayJ evening. ! Solos were rendered by Mamie Conway, Catherine Crane and Margaret Riley A aduet was played by Josephine Healey and Julius Sybol Supper was served at . | late hour. Miss Blum received many presents o,one of which was a gold necklace from her shopmates. l There was a decided change in the weather today, a change which if it continues will be much appreciated I by the owners of shore resorts. To- day was a good day for the shirt waist man to make an appearance. 1t was l the warmest day in several weeks 1 and reminded one that there may yet be summer this year At noon the thermometer at H. w. Lakes drug store had reached 91 degrees. At o'clock it was SS in the shade.
 The funeral of Eli Ray took place this morning from the family resi- dence on Charles street with a mass of requiem at St Patrick's church by the Rev Father Sullivan and inter ment i'll St Joseph's cemetery The bearers were James CoweIl, James Carroll, James Eaters, Timothy Don ahue, Patrick Clark and Artl-3. OBrien. The floral tributes inc1ud ed cross and anchor from John Clo. hessey and bouquet from Miss Nellie Luddy.
 Antoine Thomas, whose wife disap. peared the other night taking the baby with her, has been found and probab ly her husband will not be so ready fo offend her in the future. The woman and child were found on the veranda of Paul Hamflton's of Frederick street and taken to the Brookside home where MT Thomas found them. Mrs Hamilton gave them food, but the wo man was so weak she was not able tc use it. Then she reported the case to the board of charities.
 The St Joseph's T. A. society have decided to give their excursion by way of New Haven on Saturday, August g. They have been in communication with the railroad and steamboat au thorities and the engineers consider the docks at Bridgeport unsafe for ex cursionists at the present time on ac count of the many improvements an6 lalterations going on. The members are disposing of tickets very rapidly and as the number is limited to the seating capacity of the trains it vii be we'll for those desiring to go to SC. cure them early from members or al clubhouse on East Main street.
 The Merrimac A. O.. baseball team went to Sandy Hook on Saturday af ternoon and played the team of tha- place. The struggle lasted ten in nings, when it was ended owing to tht refusal of the Sandy Hooks to abid, | T., 2 q M,