Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-02
General State News.

REFUSED TO RESCIND.
 The special town meeting at Willimantic Saturday afternoon refused to rescind the vote on the electric light question.
 MEMORIAL DAY GRAFTON.
 Rev. Edward Anderson, chaplain-in- chief of the Grand Army, will deliver memorial address at Middletown on the evening of the 29th.
 AMATEUR BOWERS.
 The annual regatta of the New England Amateur Rowing association will be held at Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, but the date has not been announced.
 THE TALIsMAN.
 Mr. Wm A. Slater's yacht, the Talisman, of Norwich, is at the railroad wharf there being thoroughly overhauled and refurnished. She is to be lighted by electricity.
 MUsURGIAs.
 Norwich BuIletin.-The coming concert of the Musurgia club on May will be in many respects one of the most notable musical events which Norwich has ever enjoyed.
 sTABBINe CASE.
 Charles Freeman is locked up at Bridgeport on charge of stabbing Charles Sherwood. Sherwood makes it out an unprovoked attack and Freeman says it was all an accident.
 DIED IN CANTON.
 Mrs. Eliza Merrell, widow of Samuel Mer- rell of Canton Center, died April 20, aged 80 years. She had been married twice and had lost her only son, young man who died in 1851.
 AN ORNAMENT TO NORWICH.
 The new Carroll building at the junction of Main and Water streets, Norwich, is an ornament to the city. It has frontage on Main and Water streets combined of one hundred and eighty feet. It is built of brick with brown stone trimmings and is five sto- ries high on the Water street side and three stories high on the Main street side. II contains five desirable stores. DEATH OF A PHYSICIAN. Dr. Daniel Mason, father of Albert Mason of Putnam, died in Putnam Monday morning at the age of ninety-three. He left one son and one daughter. His wife preceded him by about sixteen years. He was for many years a practising physician of considerable note and quite extensive practice at Stur- bridge, Mass. He was man of not a little I intellectual ability, but of late years had dropped almost entirely from the world. He studied medicine with the famous Dr. Carol of Woodstock. He was an earnest Christian. CAUGHT IN NEW YORK CITY. NEW YORK, May 1.-The chief of police of Bridgeport, Conn, on April g, asked Inspector Byrnes of this city to arrest Thom- as Kennedy, a blacksmith, who had robbed his sister, Mary Reed, of Bridgeport, oi | $1 $50. Detective Lawlor, who was asslgn' ed the case, traced Kennedy back to this \ city and arrested him yesterday. On his person was found concealed s1 ,775 | At Jefferson Market Police court to-day Kennedy was remanded to await the action \ of the Connecticut authorities. | AN ALLEGED LIVE STOCK INSURANCE swIND LER.
 l BIRMINGHAM, Conn, May LII. A. Stirl | ing, an agent for an alleged insurance con- \ cern, said 10 be "The New York Live Stock Mutual Benefit association, 265 Broadway | New York" was arrested last evening after | arriving at the Bassett House by Chief No Ian on a charge of soliciting insurance with out license from the State commissioners | He is held to answer. A. R. Smith had horse and COW insured in it and both died | some time ago. He was unable to get hii money until last night, when Stirling made out checks for him after his arrest. If ths l frm should prove imaginary or bogus ther' will be many victims in the State.