Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-20
STATE NEWS.


 The annual prize shoot of the Hartford Schuetzen Verein takes place on next Wednesday at the Union grove range, be- ginning at about half-past 10.
 The five mile State championship race on roller skates between Charles Gordon and w. BeIknapp, of Bridgeport, at the Meriden rink was won by Gordon in 19 minutes AZ seconds. It was for S100 side and the championship belt.
 Francis P. Norman, who had been prom inent young lawyer in Bridgeport and town clerk there, died in New York Thursday. The Hartford Union for Home Work ded- icated new and appropriate building Thurs day, with address by Henry c. Robinson. The PleinviIle Democrats had big rally
 Thursday night with people drawn in from
 the neighboring towns, and Congressman Eaton talked.
 Hartford had an elaborate society wedding l Thursday night, when Cora Eloise Barker, daughter of Ludlow Barker, was married to I William Day Allen, of Chicago. The cere- nony was performed at MT. Barker's resi- dence on Pennington avenue by Rev. Dr. 1 Stone, of the Asylum avenue Baptist church. l The funeral of Rev. Dr. Preston, of Hart | ford, took place Saturday, Rev. J. w. Brad ! in, of St. Johns church, officiating. A two-year-old colt belonging to MT. A. \ H. Rowe, which he has had out at pasture, I was recently missed by his owner. Search was made yesterday morning and the colt I was found near the pasture dead. He had been shot in the neck by shotgun. l Mir. Thomas J. Lewis, an old employe al l Colts armory, who died short time since, had been a member of the Knights of Honor 1 for seven years, and had paid about Sf6O in l assessments Mrs. Lewis has recently re- | ceived 2,000 from this organization. l Benjamin Blumenthal, former resident of Hartford, died suddenly Wednesday oi heart disease in New York, where he lived. He was twenty-six years Of age and left 6 ! wife and one child.
 | Next Wednesday afternoon at Cherry
 Park there will be three good races for oats l In the home race there are seven entries | with sixty bushels of oats for the purse; the | 2:50 class has seven entries with seventy-fvt
 bushels of oats as the purse, and the free
 for all with purse of one hundred bushels of oats has five entries.
 The Stratford Cornet band is 9 promising l of amateur musicians around. This week ! they intend giving an instrumental concert and ball in the Masonic hall, Stratford. ! Norwich has fire alarm telegraph system l which went into operation Saturday. The new organ in St. Mary's Star of the l Sea church, New London, will be used for I the first time next Thursday evening -
 
 parade last Saturday. aS Mrs. Charles E. Way, wife of the station agent at Stony Greek, with whom her parents have refused to allow her to live since her elopement year ago, is dangerous ly i'll at the home of her parents in Madison.
 Captain c. w Filler met with singular accident at Taftville political turnout Wednesday. He was in command of one of the companies and shouted out his orders so loudly that he ruptured blood vessel. He is now quite i'll.
 A mare valued at S2, 2,5O0, belonging to James s. Brown, sister of Christine, who won in the 2:40 race at Stafford last week, was found dead the other day in pasture near his residence where other horses were also kept, and is supposed to have been kicked to death by them.
 A grand council of the Order of United Friends was instituted at Bridgeport Thurs day by Imperial Recorder o. M. Shedd, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., with these officers: Grand Counselor, c. G. Bacon of Middle town; vice counselor, w. T. Hartwen of Bridgeport; grand prelate, George E. Cooley of Hartford grand recorder, Ii. o. Case of Hartford; grand treasurer, S. M Bacon of Middletown; grand marshal, G. s. Davis of Ansonia; grand guardian, c. H. Vandercook of Ansonia grand sentinel, w. F. Allen of Bridgeport; grand medical examiner, w. B. Beebe of Bridgeport past grand counselor, R. s. Hoxie of Hartford; grand trustees, T. F. Kinney of Hartford, w. F. Green of Bridge port and B. L. Lambert of New Haven. The next meeting will be held in New Haven on the second Wednesday in April.