Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-01
General state News,

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The wife of Martin Fleming of Pratt street
| Meriden, presented him with sixteen and
a half pound boy Monday.
| BARN BURNED.
| Charley Benham's barn, located on the
| Norwich turnpike near New London, was
burned Tuesday morning before daylight.
| STURDY OLD WOMAN.
| Mrs. G. Clang, Swede who has relatives
in New London and who is ninety-seven
years of age, started from Stockholm on the
I'd inst. to come to New London.
| TWO WIVES.
1t has been learned that Actor Ormsby.
| who recently eloped with a FitchviIle farm.
| er's daughter, has another wife who is look
ing for him. Ormsby has been arrested.
LARGE DEATH RECORD.
| The death record in New London has been
a large one during the month of February.
| There have been twenty-five deaths in the
| city proper and not few in the Immediate
| vicinity.
| The Higganum Manufacturing company
| uses large amount of Virginia lumber,
and bullets are frequently found imbedded
| in the wood. They are believed to be relies
of the late war.
PASTORS DEATH.
gational church at Reynolds Bridge, died
yesterday of pneumonia. He was born in
Williamsburg, Mass, in 1915, and helped to
found Bates college. Before and during the
war he was closely identified with the anti
slavery movement.
THE NEW LONDON HIBERNIANs PREPARING A
WELCOME.
The local division of the Ancient Order of
Hibernlans are preparing to give their breth--
rem throughout the State grand reception
on the occasion of the biennial State conyen-
ton OF the order in New London during the
summer of 1888
THE BICYCLE.
The Northampton Wheel club are prepar-
ing for their annual ball, which will be given
at the City Hall there March T. They have
engaged w. S. Maltby of New Haven, whe
has just returned from two years. trip in
Europe, to give an exhibition of fancy bicy-
Gle work.-Springfeld Republican
THE OLD UNITED STATES AT HARTFORD.
The above popular hotel passes to-day into
the hands of Charles NJ Truman of Wash
ington, D. G. Colonel Rood has been pro-
.prietor of the United States for twenty years
and highly popular landlord he has been.
The new proprietor is an experienced hotel
man, son of the former manager of the
Revere House in Boston and for sixteen years
proprietor of the United States in New York.
EXCITEMENT IN HARTFORD FINANCIAL CIRCLES.
Financial circles at Hartford are aroused
by the report that President Diaz of Mexico
has ousted the International company from
it's large land holdings in the lower Califor-
mia peninsula, valued at $4,000, 600. The
company has much local interest, and Edgar
T. Welles of Hartford, son of Lincoln's Sec
rotary of the Navy, is its president The es-
tate has long been claimed by Mrs. Burton,
to whom, it is now said, President Diaz's de-
cision transferred the property. But little |
confidence is placed in the story, and should
it prove to be true the company is ready to |
make an earnest struggle for its interests.
FRAUGET WITH DANGER.
George Freyer, an elderly Stratford fisher |
man, nearly lost his life recently by his fool |
hardness in attempting to cross the Housa- |
tonic while it was filed with floating ice. |
Hearing someone remark that it was a dam
gerous thing to attempt, he declared he |
could easily do it himself, and Immediately
embarked for the opposite shore in a small |
rowboat He reached the middle of the
stream without any serious trouble. Here his
progress was stopped; he was borne down
stream, and his frail boat seemed every mo
menr threatened by the immense cakes of
ice. He was finally reached by two men in a
staunch boat, and rope was thrown to him
Just as he was being borne out into the
Sound.