Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-30
CITY NEWS.


 Charles Doran of Pine street Is i'll l with scarlet fever. @
 Joseph Lynch died at the home of | his sister at S Walnut street this af- | ternoon at 3 o'clock.
 The pupils of the Crosby Grammar school will have no school tomorrow as it is visiting day for the teachers of that school.
 Special forecast for Connecticut: Cloudy, generally fair weather, ex- cept light snow on south coast; Friday probably fair; fresh north winds
 Business is dull at the Clock shop. 4 number of motn hands will be laid off tomorrow night i'll addition to the large number already enjoying va cation.
 Frederick Stevens of Cherry street, an employe of the Trott Baking com- pany, is passing around the cigars to his fellow employees to-day. 4 baby girl arrived fin his family yesterday.
 One of those delightful sociables and dances for which the Mad River grange is famous will be held in Grange hall at Mill Plain tomorrow night. A bus will convey those who desire to. attend from the end of the trolley tracks to the hall free of charge.
 Word was received to-day from Charles R. Baldwin, ex-mayor of Wa terbury, that he has been dangerously i'll with typhoid pneumonia in London. 1 He represents Rankin & Ludington of this city in England and he has been
  on the road to recovery. Mrs Keough, 194 Baldwin street: l Specials for the next two days: One lot of children's hose, were 10c, 12112c. l 15c pair, for the next two days 5c q pair; ladies' mercerized waists were $1.25, this sale 95c; ladies' corsets. were soc, this sale 25c This Is to make the ninth annual sale q memorable 1 enc.
 An Italian who lives on Bank street, but whose name is unknown, had q fortunate escape from being seriously injured at Reid & Hughes's dry goods store last night shortly after midnight. He was engaged ill helping James H. Tripp, the night watchman, and want ed to go from the main floor to the basement He mistook the elevator shaft for the elevator and stepped into l it and fell to the basement. As re- suit he is suffering from badly 1 wrenched knee. He was carried home In q hack.
 | The funeral of James Kelly took place this morning from the family residence, 32 Wilson street, to St 1 Patrick's church where a mass of re- 1 quiem was celebrated by the Rev Father Jordan The bearers were James Garrfty, Edward Cook, Frank and Joseph Taylor, Charles Monroe and James Lunny. The floral offer 1 ings included pillow lettered , --Sroth- err from the sister of deceased; cross from employees of the turning room at the American Ring Co; bou- l quets from MT and Mrs Boyle and i others.
 At the home of Miss Emma Forest stall on Bank street last evening q I very pleasing entertainment was fur nished by the hostess to a number Of her friends. One of the delightful features of the evening was the whist i party for beautiful prizes Miss Car rie Miller of this city and MT Gartner of Greenwich were the winners of tue ! first prize, while the consolation prize went to Miss Addie Splain of this city 1 and MT Hawthorn of Boston. There were guitar selections by the Misses Hattie Murphy, McNellis, German and Nellie keenan. Rscitations were l given by Miss Maggie Grout and Miss Margaret Higgins. There was buck ] and wing dancing by the Misses Katie Kerwin and Mamie Reilly. After the i entertainment the guests sat down to an appetizing repast furnished by the hostess, who proved herself an able entertainer.
 William NJ. Miles, the well known 1 ball player. will leave on the SIP I train tomorrow morning for Villa l nova college. Pennsylvania, where he ] will become q student. Miles is crack baseball pitcher. He has 1 pitched for a number of amateur 1 teams in this city and has good repu- i tation as a twirler. Last season he was the mainstay i'll the box for the 1 Washington Hill A. C., the champions of the City Amateur league. He IS also a fine basketball and football player. He will enter into athletics prominently at Villanova and he ought 1 to be most successful. He will no doubt make the baseball, football and 1 basketball teams. Waterbury will l probably have at least three represent l atives on the yillanova baseball team during the coming season. They are l Thomas Donahue. Timothy O'Rourke l and William Miles. Frank Donahue, l the well known pitcher, is coaching the candidates for the team.