Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-08-21
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ALL AR0UND TWE STATE.
rhey Favor, q Seventy EhOusand Dol
lar steel Rridse~-Ehree Hkibs Broken |
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.crutfs-FuneraI OF JOdAn RaOley 81 1
Notwithstanding seven SchOOners l
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MenaOriai ~ &sreten--An Old Lady
K1lied.
w II. n. Campbell, for many years of
the Norwich Bulletin, is at Burlington, vt.
The representatives of Fairfield county
met ut Bridgeport yesterday tofconsider
the subieet of building o bridge between
Shelton and Birmingham. The commit
tees report favored stee1bridge with q "a
foot brace and "a 4foot sidewalks, the cost
not to exceed $40, 900, 50 that Fairfield
scountyss share should be no more than
$S5, 900. Various plans were considered
and the county commissioners wereauthor-
lied 10 borrow $50 900, on the faith of the
county, for the prosecution Of the work.
Andrew Martinez, prominent Ansonia
cigar merchant, was out riding in Thomas
ton Tuesday when his horse SHE'D and
4
/ said his injuries were only superfeials
/ When Mr. Martinez arrived in Ansonia he
called DIR. Conklin, and that physician
found three ribs broken as well as his col
4 lar bone He also fears that there are in
4 ternal injuries. Mr.. Martinez was more
i comfortable yesterday.
The funeral of the late Samuel l.. Miller
4 of North Farms, Walingford, takes place
4 to-day.
Judge Bartholomew and w. Burr Hall
and wife are at Block Island to stay until
| Saturday.
i The following is the result of the cleo
4 ton Just held for the officers of the Con-
/ necticut division of the l.. A. W: There
were 1876 votes cast in all. Chief consul,
/ II. A. Dean, Danielville, received 314
votes; vice consul, A. g. Fish
er, New Haven, 81; secresary treas
| urer, E. A. DeBlois Hart
i ford, 1856; for representatives, Joseph
/ Goodman, Hartford, 308; L. A. Miller,
/ 307; Henry Goodman, Hartford, 306; II.
4 w. Huke Tor1ington, 304; l.. G. Grover,
/ Hartford, 303 z. G. Rowe, New Haven,
800; C. E. Remer, Ansonia, 1903; Frederick
Atwater, Bridgewater, 202; w. L. East
wood, Stephney Depot, 300
Lieutenant Zalinski arrived at New Lon
don Tuesday afternoon with thirty recruits
| from Columbus barracks, Ohio. Sixteen
i of them will be attached to Battery J. al
Fort Trumbull, which will make the
strength of this company sixty-three men
| The other fourteen men Lieutenant Ia
lnski will this week take on to For
Preble.
The term of I'll. M. Harrington, supefin
tendent of the public schools of Bridge
port, expired Tuesday, and yesterday DIR
Eugene Bouteu, his successor, commenced
his duties.
John Ellis Wiliston, son Of J. f. Willis
ton of Hartford, died in New York Sun
day. He was 20 years old and was an en-
gineer on one of the transfer boats of tn
Consolidated road. He died of con
sumption, following severe attack of tn
grip
The funeral of John A. Pooley, the vic
tim of the railroad accident at the depo
> in Mefiden Monday night took place a
the residence of his father, James Pooley
10 Walnut street, Meriden, yesterday aft
ernoon at 3 O'Clock. The Wheel club, o
which deceased vas member, attended
, and delegation of the I. ID. club. Th
factory of Manning, Bowman & Co., o
which the deceased was an employe, wa
shut down at noon. The burial was a
Walnut Grove.
Fl. Hudson Churchill, son of DR.. A. b
Churchill, died at the residence of hi
parents on Britannia street, Meriden
, Tuesday afternoon.
David Chaput bf JeMett City, who dis
appeared SO mystefiously three weeks age
and who WAS believed to be either dead O
in Canada, has been found in a shop i
: Putnam. Chaput acknowledged his wron
T in behaving as he had to his two daugh
- IL E.
T whom he feared. The older daughte
q seems inclined to side with, her fathe,
t Chaput has again fed and his whereabout
now is another mystery.
Mr.. George +. Marshall, the agent of til
| American Shipmasters' association, hs
: seven schooners at present being built VI
D der his supervision, two in New London
q two at Bridgeport, one at Madison, one 4
. Mamacoke and one at Mystic.
DR.. ]. I, Beckwith, professor of Gree
. 1t Trinity College, Hartford, has been ser
. way, N. H. He is now recovering and 81
' poets to return by the opening of the ia
: | term.
: Mr.. William Gillette, the actor and pla
p | writer, who has been i'll for some time,
Q now at his home in Hartford and slowl
5 improving. His physician says he wi
z come out all right, bat he needs rest an
I has been forbidden to work. He tax.
daily drives, and occasionally sees b
y | friends.
s Thomas Walsh of Hawkins street, Bi
!. mingham, fell from the old town bridg
Il on which he WAS at work, Monday nigh
fraeturing his thigh near the hip. Being
man Of advanced years, his recovery is eol
sidered doubtful.
The Democrats of Ansonia and Birmin,
. ham viii meet this Thursday evening, u
former In military hall and the latter .
the town court room, to elect delegates
the various conventions
Indian Harbor hotel, Greenwich, wi
give its third annual carnival on the afte
noon and evening of Saturday, August 2
There will be exhibition rowing, yael
q race and q tub race open to all corners
which silver prizes are offered The pfi,
cipal event OF the carnival viii be a gran
parade of illuminated boats and yachts
the evening. Prizes are offered and a con
mittee of ladies viii decide as to the be
illuminated boats. A full dress hop ia Il
parlors of the hotel viii follow.
s. George Yates, native Of Warwickshir
q England, but who has lived in Tariffyill
u over twenty-five years, and who has fin
4 fruit orchard on his premises reports tha
4 on the same trees from which he last yes
!. picked fourteen bushels of plums, he conl
0 only find eight plums on Monday. Fl
g the last twelve years be has not picked lie,
than eight TO ten bushels each year unit
g the present season.
!, / The Wightman memorial monument
. erected in the old cemetery in Grotoi
9 near where the old Baptist church was 4
q Gated, was unveiled with appropriate Sc
a vices Tuesday, The local committee WI
J. Charles r. Stark and the Rev DIR. Mile
. The program, rs published, was carrie
. out with few exceptions. The Rev. p. {
Wightman of Branfords very appropriate
ly represented the long line of Baptis
preachers. The Rev. DR.. Paddock of Har
ford represented the state Baptist int
. est, The Rev. Fred Denison of PROV
= denee represented a family that vo
shipped there until the church was r
q moved to Old Mystic and Mystic. II