Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-14
LOCAL NEWS.
- Rrlaf M 0n0iOn.


 Ssnator O. H. Platt left for Washington yesterday.
 Franklin Farrell of Ausonia has returned home from Europe.
 Do your feet trouble youi If 50 try the comfort Royal shoe.
 The need of hospital in Meriden is again being ogitated in that city.
 Meriden is trying to organize an ice oom- pany on the co. operative plan.
 Austin A. Nendslball of Duluth, Ninn., the Yale student, is still missing.
 J.. P. Platt, son of Senator Platt of Meri- den, was in New Haven yesterday.
 The Meridsn, Waterbury and Cromwell road was duly inspected yesterday.
 Rockville had mad dog scare yesterday. The dog was dispatched before biting any, one.
 Selsctman Silas Futile, aged seventy seven, a prominent Niddlebury man, died Sunday.
 The J. E. Cowles factory in Unionville was sold yesterday at auction for $1,70o to F. R. Mouos of Bristol.
 Accanaut lodge, I. 0. o. F., of Wallipg. ford, lass night celebrated the sixteenth an- niversary of its resusoitation.
 A barn in the rear of James H. Doran's meat market in Bridgeport was damaged $500 by Are yesterday. Insured for $200.
 Judge Fenn of the superior court issued an order yesterday debarring Attorney How ard W. Taylor from prsosioing in the courts of the state.
 Professor T. R. Lounsbury of Yale uni- versity lectured on English literature in Social hall, Smith college, Northampton, last evening.
 The young men of the Dixwell avenue Congregational church will give Q musical and literary entertainment to. night for the benefit of the church.
 0. H. Benham, the we'll known landscape painter of New York, formerly of this city, is the guest of the Rev. o. E. Woodocck of Christ church, Ansonia.
 church in New Britain struck yesterday for $3 60, an advance of fifty cents per day. The contractors have advertised for ether men.
 Hartford's board of trade met yesterday and discusssd the project of erecting board factory, a large building with several rents with power, for rental to young nanufaotur- ing concerns.
 The Meriden Journal announces James P. Platt as surely booked for the nomination of secretary of state at the next state election. Ito information 1t derives "from Q we'll known Now Haven politician"
 Lieutenant Raphael Gilbert, who died re- gently in Northampton, Mass., served In the the old Seventh c. v., enlisting from Neri- don. He was for nine months In Libby prison. He leaves wife and six children.
 Mrs. Mary Cranston of Msriden, aged ftty-nine, died yesterday morning of typhoid fever. The faneral of her daughter, Miss Jennie A. Cranston, took place from St. Rose church, Msridsn, yesterday morning.
 R. A. Chslker, son of Fish Commissioner Chalker, is in Birmingham completing sr- engagements for matching. fish. The haatoh- cry has been constructed in its customary place and the pipes and jars will be set up today.
 Isaac Hayes of this oity was the installing ofacer at the installation of Court Alton Far rel, Ansonia's new court of Forestsrs, Mon- day night. Among those present were Past Chief Rangers James MoMahon and Michael Began of this city.
 The Waterbury American says: The con- cert by the Sixty-ninth Regiment band of New York on tho green Monday evening drew together one of the largest audiences that ever assembled in Waterbury. Seven or eight thousand people were present.
 The stockholders of the Metropolitan Rub bsr company of Wallingford comprise A. J. Tower of Brookline, Mass, 5000 shares; O. N. Wilcox, New York, 5000 shares; R. E. Gallsher, New York, 1000 shares; c. A. Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1000 shares; W. B.. Dowse, Wsllingford, 1000 shares.