Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-12
CITY NEWS.

II. III tulS Clly WILL uOlQ MeuOfldl udy
 services next Sunday.
 A good time is in store for those who attend the strawberry festival at
 St Thomas's church tonight.
 1 Thomas Nolan has sold very de-
 sirable building lot on Mattatuck ter
 race to Bartholomew Griffin of Ridge street.
 Special forecast for Connecticut:
 Partly cloudy tonight; showers in
 west portions; cooler; Friday, fair;
 fresh northwest to west winds. A boy belonging to Henry Galligan of Baldwin street strayed away last
 night and was picked up at 1 o'clock 1 this morning in Exchange place by de- tective German.
 It is understood that large major | ity of the employees of the Farrel 1 Foundry and Machine Co have voted 1 in favor of nine honr day instead of a Saturday half holiday
 1 The funeral of Kathleen Holmes will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home of her parents, MT and Mrs John H. Holmes, IT Bronson street. Interment will be in the new St Joseph's cemetery. At short calendar tomorrow in the superior court, motion will be heard for the acceptance of thefnal report
 of the receivers of the Parsons bank, and for the discharge of the receivers.
 This means the winding up of the Par sons bank affairs.
 Court Champlain No 146, F. of A.,
 will celebrate tonight in Congress hall their first anniversary, with q first class concert and reception. The
 grand state officers will be present and
 also large number of out of town
 Foresters.
 There will be a meeting of the St Joseph T. A. society at the society's rooms tonight at s o'clock. The mem
 bers of the society will attend in
 body the strawberry festival at St
 Thomas's church given by the St
 Thomas T. A. society. They will march to the church, the St Joseph Drum
 corps heading the procession.
 The funeral of Mrs Mary Collins took place this morning from her late
 home on Edward street with a mass
 of requiem at St Patricks church by
 the Rev Father Gleeson and inter-
 ment in the new St Josephs cemetery. The bearers were Thomas and John Welsh, Patrick and John Dinihan, Mi chael Hanley and Patrick Foley. Mrs Margaret Stone, wife of Thom-
 as Stone of 31 Spring street, died at
 her home at half past nine last even- ing after a lingering illness. The de- ceased was forty y-seven years of age, and leaves two children, Margaret and
 Ada. The funeral will take place to-
 morrow morning at S:30 o'clock with service at the Immaculate Conception
 church and interment in St Joseph's cemetery.
 With John J. Splain as spokesman, a number of Waterbury men went to
 Norwalk Tuesday evening and present. ed to the Rev Father O'Donnell, for
 merly of this city and Watertown, a
 handsome token of their esteem for him. Father O'Donnell was equal to the occasion and invited i'll number of his Norwalk friends to meet the
 Waterbury men and the evening was spent in a pleasant manner.
 Marie Coward, young lady about 20 years of age, living at 132 Charles street took dose of oxalic acid this morning about 7:30 and only for prompt medical assistance there might have been serious results. The acid was not taken purposely Miss Coward has been i'll for a week or so This morn ing about 7:30 she took what she thought was teaspoon of physic, but shortly afterwards it was discover ed that it was oxalic acid. Drs Rus sell and Lopez were immediately sum- moned and succeeded in relieving the young lady, who suffered much. The young lady is all right now.
 A horse owned by Lfveryman Sack cit, and driven by little boy, ran away on Cole street this noon, about 12:30. It became frightened on Cole street near St Mary's school and start ed on a mad pace up that street. It went flying through Union square, made straight line for the fence sur rounding the yard at the corner of Union and Franklin streets and jumped the fence. The carriage struck the fence with crash and the horse freed itself from it. The boy. not hurt in the least, then relinquished his seat in the carriage. which was badly damaged. The horse was stopped by Arthur H. Cleveland, driver for the Hook and Ladder company, No l.
 Mortimer Doran and James A. Hynes will be among the four or five hundred delegates who will attend the national convention of the A. o. H., which will open at Denver, Col. on July 15. It is understood that half q dozen or more others from this town will make the trip, too. Representatives will attend the convention from every country in the world where the society exists, and that includes almost every place where a sufficient number of scattered Gaels" or their descendants have been able to muster up enough members to form a division. As this will not be an international meeting the men from abroad will have no voice in it's delib- erations. Several representative 1nem- bers of the order are expected from Ireland, England. Canada, Australia and South America.
 Mrs Ann Kennedy died at noon to- day at her home, Is School street, af- ter an illness of two weeks with Besides her husband, Thomas Kennedy, she leaves an adopt ed daughter, Mary; one sister and three brothers, Miss Magdalene Me- Hugh, Bernard, John and Frank Me Hugh The brothers and sister re- side in Montreal, where the deceased lived until about twenty years ago when she came to Waterbury. She was a deeply religious woman and