Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-25
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Ph1tO IL P1erce-NewGOWnSe dOlQ
NIine-A ScOundreps Attack ON q
Half-Wftted Girl-To Go to Rhode
Island-A Woman Dies OF Exposure
and Injuries-Society for Increase Of
NIinisters-Suneld Fair-WOOdstOck
Fair.
The late Philo ]. Pierce OF Bridgeport was born
at Lime Rock, Conn, August TO- 1914, and came
to Bridgeport about twenty years ago and during
the whole of that period has been engaged in
business at the Wheeler & Wilson mandatory.
He was esteemed by all who knew him. In poll
tics Mr.. Pierce was democrat and served with
credit terms councilman and alderman. He
was member of Pequonnock lodge, I. o. o. f.,
also one of the directors of the Wheeler & Wilson
Sick Benefit association. He has been for many
years an exemplary member of the Park street
Congregational church.
For several weeks past prominent Bridgeport
lawyer has been busily at work searching the
Newtown records through period extending
away back to the time when the settlement was
first made a corporate town, the time being
somewhere about the year 1908. He is said to
be working in the interest of several New York
and Sandy Hook capitalists, and the object OF
his 1S mas 6een 70 d ,me n ad Il,
ceeding owners with their titles to the properly,
down to the present date. The New York and
Sandy Hook s ~ me- are te
are said to have a mammoth scheme on hand to
work the old mine for all it is worth, in order to
valuable mineral deposits there. Several at
| tempts have already been made to develop the
or less w anasgtties the results Of the
were not of sufficient value to warrant continu-
ance of the work
| honored indeed. Out of compliment to him the
name of the Wallingford Hose company was
i changed and it will hereafter be known as the
i Hubbard Hose COMPANY,
Mrs Abraham siiversmth of Hartford gave
for TSe girl is now the
F. ]. o'Keefe, the wholesale liquor dealer who
was run over by cars in Bridgeport Monday
| Yesterday morning Frank Quinlan, dissolute
assault on Hattie Townsend, a hall, witted girl,
on the river road between Middletown and
Cromwell. The screams of the girl attracted the
| attention of a number of auarrymen on the op-
posite side of the river, who succeeded In cap
where he was lodged in the lookup. He sue
ceeded in breaking Jail and started across the
With 0cer T5bs ba IN c pmT for s on
Ian and it is thought that he will be captured
soon.
the First company, Governors Foot Guard, to
report for duty as escort to Governor Bulkeiey
Monday MOI 7 The e Connecticut delegation Win re
| main in Pawtucket until Tuesday evening. The
occasion is that of the centennial celebration OF
| the founding of the cotton industry in America.
| Mary Shaehy of Stratford died at the Bridge
port hospital at an early hour yesterday morning
ing the tracks at Stratford Monday night she fel
| into ditch and lay there all night. She was
| found there in the morning half dead. She was
| IS years of age.
| The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Socie
| ty for the Increase of the Ministry was held II
Hartford Tuesday The SO, society has extend dee
total expenditures amounted to $1s, $780, OF. @
n 10 I,ola Tv,11r Had
the receipts we're s., 900 in legacies. The ofacer
| and managers with single exception were re
elected and are as follows: President, the Rt.R Rev
| John Williams, DID,; vice president the Rt.Rev
B. H. Paddock, D. D.. recording secretary, tn
Rev T. R. Pynchon, ,,, p 81 correspondent!
urer, james Bolter; managers, the Rt. Rev
p F huntington, D; D. the Rev Rev s; e G. ia.
Ma egh the Kew f. BE- *
Rev: j. H; Watson, the Rev. E. H. Jewett, D. D
the Rev storrs q Seymour the . Rey E Ed ar
| G. T. Brewster, the Rev. F. W.. Tompkins, jr
the Rev A. St. J: Cambre D: D. the Hon. Elish
/ johnson and j. S. Blatchford
Gu1LFoRD Sept. M.-Captain William Jones
! lighthouse keeper at Faufkner's island, to-da
completes his labors. He has been in charge c
| the light for eight years and is well known to q
the slippers who ply up or down the sount
l Captain Bummell succeeds Captain Jones.
IF the saea sooesy
to-day. Eight hundred dollars in premiums wi
be awarded to the various classes of cattle sheel
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articles. The first day of the fair will be exhih
| ton day, with races for local horses. The primo
pal attraction will be for the next two days, tow
hall, where the farm produce exhibit will be see
l The association has been supplied with goc
l sized police force and the fakirs will be kept
| line. To-day there will be 2:40 race and q FIRE
| for-all race, with good purses for each. Entri'
| closed this morning.
PUTNAM, Sept. M-The Woodstock Agric,
| tural society opened its annual fair here yeste
| day. The weather was fine and the opening vel
successful. More money and time has BET
spent arranging for this years exhibit than ev
before and successful week is looked for. T
| days program includes trotting and plowil
matches and other events incidental to a fair.
l MANCHESTER, Sept. M.-The fall season
fairs and cattle shows embraced in the caste
l Connecticut circuit closes at Stafford Sprin
l October 80 with the annual exhibition OF t
Stafford Springs Agricultural society Arranf
IS | ments are complete for a big show this year q
,r | large premiums are offered The stock exhibit
= | the society is one of the main features Of t
q | show. The program for the first day includ
! an exhibition of district trains, sheep, swine a
l poultry, blooded stock, grade and native catt
- | steers, working oxens draft oxen trained Gait
| etc. Professor Edwin Northrop will make b
q | loou ascension and parachute jump every da
Edward Halskie John L. Sullivan's trainer VIII
on his trip through the country, will start
J. | athletic contests. Running contests, with do
| from the Scottish American club Of Jersey GU
| will appear each day. George s. Pratt Of Bird,
| port is the judge. The entries for the races Gle
l "Wednesday nnfnhAr