Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-21
LATEST ooNNEoTlcUr NEws.
Reports from all Parts 0fthe State By Connecticut Associated Press.1

Reports from all Parts Of the State. By Connecticut Associated Press1
 GUN CLUBS NEW GROUNDS.
 WALLINaEoRD, May 2O.-The National Gun club will dedicate their new grounds to-mor- row by tournament. The shooting will be- gin at o'clock in the morning.
 TO MOVE TO NEW YORK.
 NEW LONDON, May 20.-The Quinnipiao company of this city, manufacturers of the well known Quinnipiac fertilizers, arc soon to move to New York and they are now tearing down their buildings at Pine island preparatory to moving.
 TEN JURoHs-THE scHEELE MURDER CASE.
 BRIDGEPORT, May 20.-It Is expected that . jury will be secured early tomorrow nom ing in the Scheele murder case and the trial will then proceed. This morning ten jurors were secured and then the case was adjourns ed, as the panel of thirty.three jurors had bsen exhausted.
 NEPTUNE ON A RAMPAGE.
 NEW LONDON, May 20.-The tides to-day here were very high. A gale prevailed from the south and outside in the sound steamers and other vessels made their way with much difficulty owing to the thick weather and rough water. The harbor here to-day has been fuli of sterm-bound vessels.
 THE HALL CASE.
 WALIINGFoRD, May 20.-Mrs. Hall, wife of Postmaster W. M Hall, who sued her husband for support unsuccessfully, will apply to the town for aid. Her counsel rep- resent that she is destitute and dependent to collect their fees of the husband.
 FIRE IN NEW BRITAIN YESTERDAY.
 NEW BRITAIN, May 2O.-Fire in Lee Bros thera' block on Lafayette street this noon destroyed the grocery store of Frederick Young and did considerable damage to the building. But for the efforts of the fremen the loss would doubtless have been very se- were. MT. Young's loss is about $1, 200; in- surance $700. Lees less is $250 uninsured. THE TWO DROWNING CASES. BRIDGEPORT, May 20.-Medical Examiner Downs to-day rendered his decisions in the two drowning cases of yesterday. He decid. ed that the man whose body was brought in by the oyster steamer Jeremiah Smith, as l well as the boy who was found drowned in Burr creek, had come to their deaths by acci- dent.
 AN INSANE WIFE AND MOTHER. CANAAN, May 20.-Is is thought that Mrs. Fred Schemerhorn will be placed in an in- sane asylum shortly. Last week she put arsenic in her husbands milk and tried tc poison her two little girls. She has beer ! mentally unbalanced for several months, but 1 1t was thought that she was not dangerously 1 insane. Her husband and children had l narrow escape.
 l NOW IN STATE PRISON. | NORWICH, May 20.-This afternoon Ed | ward R. Perkins and James Gilmore were taken to state prison in Wethersfeld. They were convicted of burglary at the last term of the superior court. Perkins belongs to a well known and highly respectable family in l this city. He is a notorious crook and has caused his relatives no end of trouble. They have claimed that he was mentally unbal anced, but the authorities were unable to 1 discover that Perkins mind was affected. | BooTBLAcKs AND PITCHING PENNIES. MERIpEN, May 20-W. E. Benham, the president of the Y. M. o. A, who yesterday l caused the arrest of couple of bootblacks who were pitching pennies, was last night removed from the presidency of the organiza. | tion, position which he had held for | eighteen years. The removal was made by l the progressive element in the association. 1 The boys, who were fined yesterday, claimed that they were simply snapping a nickel to see which should black the others shoes. A subscription was raised for them and enough money was collected to pay their fines. l Concealed Weapons.
 Thomas Healey was brought to the police station yesterday evening for drunkenness