Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-27
CITY NEWS
hnny Doe is coming.

JOhuuy bOo IS CO1ulHS.
 The committee on abatements will
 meet tonight.
 Thomas Parker and John Dillon. stu dents at the Yale Medical school. are spending the Thanksgiving vacation at their homes in this city.
 1 Michael CiOce of Seymour street was arres.:..sal this afternoon about 3 1 o'clock by Detectives DOdds and Ken naugh. The charge preferred against ] him is for stealing copper from Ran dOlph & Cloves, where he was em- poyed.
 The Catholic Women's association will give a Thanksgiving sociable this evening which will be preceded by q progressive whist contest. Prizes will l be awarded to the winners and the games will start promptly on time in l order to make way for dancing. | The funeral of James McGowan l took place this morning from Bergin's undertaking rooms with a mass of re- Quiem at St Patrick's church by Fath- CT GleesOn and interment in St Jo- seph's. cemetery The bearers were Edward Kenny, John Grady, Peter Clark, William Monaghan, Felix Clark and Frank McKenna. There will be another hearing on the final report of Judge Beardsley of Bridgeport, receiver for the Matthews
 and Willard company, in the superior court in New Haven to-day. The re- port was filed last Friday and there 1 was hearing upon it then, and owing to objections of MT Winters. 8 stock holder decision was reserved. Undertaken Mulville is in receipt of a letter from Mrs Albert Kelsey of Maple street. Norwich. asking to be informed about the man killed here on the railroad last week. She states that her husband has not been home in a month and that she thought from
 what she saw in the papers the man killed may be MT Kelsey. MT Null vile thinks the Norwich woman is
 mistaken as the description she gives of her husband shows that he is much larger than the victim of the accident in South Brooklyn.
 The funeral of Mrs Joseph Hardy took place this morning from her late
 home on Myrtle avenue with a mass of requiem at St Patrick's church by Father Sheehan and interment in St y. l John Waters, Bernard Waters, Pat 1 rick Kane and John Barrett, all of Thomaston, Bernard Reilly and James Murnane Of this city. The floral trib- utes included a pillow. wreath and Sheaf of wheat from the family: cross sisters and brothers; wreath. grand children: bunch of ferns. Mrs O'Hara New York; bouquet, Miss Margaret Lavigne.
 Martin Dwyer of Lafayette street had q close shave for his life at the Naugatuck station this morning. While the G:3J train was being made up Dwyer was cutting off the engine from the tender and when he was about through he raised his head a little higher than it W9s while he was unscrewing the bolts and at that mo- ment a car bumped the end of the pas senger cars. bringing the bumpers of the tender and the engine almost to- gether Dwyers' head was caught be- tween the bumpers about the cheek bones. but as they didn't come close enough he escaped injury. As it was he was pinched badly but Dr Benedict who was called and made an eXamin- alton of his injuries could find no l broken bones but he considered the case of sufficient importance to war
 rant sending the patient to the hospi- tal It was a miraculous escape. Another turn of the car wheels and Dwyer never would have known what l had happened to him, for his head
 would have been crushed into a pulp.