Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. | CONNECTICUT ODD FELLOWS. Annual Session Of The Grand Lodge In Hartford. DISTRESS AMONG THE STRIKERS. A Foul Crime Surrounds Another Railway Mystery. WAS BISHOPS DEATH A TRANCE. The CrOnin Case Is Still A
 Mystery.
WAS BISHOPS DEATH 4 TRANCE.
CONNECTICUT ODD FELLOWS.

CONNECTICUT ODD FELLOWS. notnps at tne Annual Session of the Grand Lodse-The Continued Pros. perity-Hartford Hospita1ity-Omcera Elected.
 HARTFORD, May 15.-The Connecticut Grand lodge of Odd Fellows met in annual session to day in this city. About four hun. dred members were present, representing the sixty-seven lodges in the jurisdiction. Grand Secretary Botsford in his annual report pre-. sented the following statements and statistics relative to the condition of the order. Six new lodges have been added during the year two of which are located in eastern Connecti cut, and give promise of good work in that locality, where the order has been so long without representation. The present num- Der of lodges is sixty The total re- oeipts of subordinate lodges were $106, ,547. .09 from which there was paid for relief $4S,- 031. .91, and for expenses $49, ,128. 32, leaving balance of $9, ,6s6.S6, which, added to the previous surplus, makes the total fund $306, 76134
 There were initiated during the year, ], ,O27 members, admitted by card 53, and rein- stated 34, making 8 total of IA. From this there are to be deducted 122 withdrawn by card, 236 suspended, T expelled and 10e deceased, leaving 641 as the net gain for the year. The membership January 1 was ii, S47. The number of weeks sickness was 1850, or an average of six days, two hours and forty-one minutes per member. The death rate is one in 1O2-a little less than one per cent.
 Three lodges of the Daughters of Rebekah have been added during the year. There are now twenty lodges of this degree, with a membership of 1880, and fund of $16,- O3s. .9S. The receipts of the Grand Lodge re-printing of volume I, bound journal of the Grand lodge, now out of print.
 All the grand officers were present as fol lows: Ralph Burnham, of Hartford, grand master; James Bishop, of New Haven, deputy grand master; Frederick s. Hunt, of Bridge. port, grand warden; Frederick Botsford, of New Haven, grand secretary; John W. Smith, of Waterbury, grand treasurer; William H. Comley, of Bridgeport, and Bradley s. Keith, of Winnepauk, grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge; Henry F. Payne, of Hartford, grand marshal; Henry Inglis, of Middletown, grand conductor; T, D. L. Manville, of Ansonis, grand guardian; the Rev. D. G. Ashley, of Lyme, grand chaplain; R. H. Johnson, of New Haven, grand herald.
 During the noon recess dinner was ten dered to the representatives at Germania hall by the local lodges of the order: Charter Oak, No. 2, Tycho Brache, No. 13, Hartford, No. s2, Connecticut, Ne. 93, and Beethoven, No. 98.
 The grand officers and several distinguish ed visitors were entertained by Hartford lodge, No. 62, at it's regular meeting Tues day evening. The first degreee was exem. plified in @ creditable manner, following which brief speeches were made by Past Grand Sire James P. Saunders of Yonkers. N. Y., Past Grand Master John Medo1e and Past Grand Mcintyre of New York, and a number of the Grand officers. On the con- clusion of the lodge room exercises the mem- bers of Hartford lodge and their guests, to the number of nearly three hundred, march ed to Germania Hall, where @ banquet was served. The tables were tastefully decorat- ed with flowers and potted plants. After the menu had been discussed and cigars were lighted, speoh- making was in order, in which the Grand officers and other guests took part.
 Grand Master-James E. Bishop, New Haven.
 Deputy Grand Asster-Frederick 8. Hunt
 Grand Warden-J. W. Cowell, Waterbury.
 Grand Secretary-Frederick Botsford-New Ha
 Grand Treasurer John W. Smith. Waterbury.
 Representatives to Sovereign Grand Lodge Brady s. Keith of Winnipauk, Ralph Burnham oi
 Grand Master Bishop made the following appointments: Grand marshal, Charles B Ware, New London; grand conductor, s. G. Blakeman, Birmingham; grand guardian Henry Meyers, Bridgeport; grand chaplain the Rev. D. G. Ashley, Gardner's Lake grand herald, R. H. Johnson, New Haven. Eulogies were pronounced and appropriate resolutions adopted on the deaths of Stephen Terry of Hartford and Past Master Tolles oi New Haven.
 Past Grand Sire Sanders, of New York and John Medole and James Mcintyre, grand representatives from that State, were pres ent and made addresses. It was voted tc hold the next session in New Haven on tht third Wednesday in May, 1890.
 ANOTHER RAILWAY MYSTERY. A Drugged and Outraged Woman Found Breathing Her Last by the Roadside-The Victim ofa Foul Crime
 Unidentified.
 ELIZABETH, N. J., May 15.-The city O Railway, N. J., is intensely excited to-day over another alleged mystery. At 5 o'clocl this morning the body of handsome woman was found lying near clump of trees or Main street, near Hazelwood avenue. Sh, was still breathing, but life was nearl, extinct. The woman had been evidently heavily drugged and outraged. She wal styIishly dressed and is about % years old 5 feet inches tall, and finely developed She was placed in 8 wagon and taken to thu station house. Mayor Hyer declared that h. believed another foul crime had been com. mitted and that he intended to spare nt effort to hunt down the perpetrators. Ther, was nothing in the woman's pockets te identify her, and her features were no recognized by anybody who viewed th' body.
 A later dispatch says: This evening ths young woman still lies in a critical condition although during the afternoon she recovered young men who assaulted her. The descrip tion corresponds with that of two young men from New Brunswick, who are employ ed in the Johnson Signal Works here ane 4e Tha YNnlinA