Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-19
LOCAL NEWS.

Brief Mention.
Up to midnight last night Clerkin had
not obtained bondsman.
A. D. Osborne and Arthur S. Osborne
have returned from Europe
Best stock, always the same. Royal
shoes only at 81 Church street.
Business men in want of live young
men should apply to Yale Business college.
Clinton Buckingham of this city and
Edward Hunt of Clinton are the guests of
George Buckingham of Meriden.
Deacon George w. Shelton, one of the
most prominent citizens of Birmingham,
is dying from an effusion of blood to the
brain.
At meeting of the Order of Vista, held
last evening, DR.. Joseph B. Sayles was
elected medical examiner and E. F. Hill
secretary.
The Hon. Philip Corbin of New Britain
has bought five building lots in Cottage
City, where he will build magnificent
summer residence.
G. G. Salter, prominent citizen of
Duluth, arrived in town last evening, en-
route for Bridgeport to attend the reunion
of the Thirteenth G. "
All are invited to temperance prayer
meeting tonight at 7:45 to be held by Ply
mouth Rock lodge at the hall corner of
COTE and Sperry streets.
The Good VIII fire company of Allen
town, Pa, will visit New Haven on Sep
TENDER 90, arriving by boat at 8 o'clock in
the evening and leaving the following day
at3p.m.
Seven bridges between Ellington and
Broad Brook were washed away Wednes-
day by the overflow caused by the giving
way of the dam at Sadd's mill pond in
Ellington.
Hiram lodge had a we'll attended meet
ing last evening and in the early part of
the session heard report on the progress
of the improvements the lodge is making
in the Masonic Temple.
Martin j. Borden, an estimable young
man who was missing from Bridgeport,
has turned up with his parents at Nashua,
N. H. Temporary alteration of mind is
disappearance.
A beautiful specimen of the night
blooming cereus can be seen nightly in
front of the residence No. 90 Orange street.
The plant has five very large and perfect
blossoms. The plant was viewed by a
number of people last evening.
struck by an Electric Car.
ANsoN1A, Sept. 1o.-At7 a. m. to-day
Maggie Clancy, aged twenty-three, was
struck by an electric car at the foot of
Cankwood hill on lower Main street and
received bruises besides scalp wounds.
She tried to run across ahead of the car.
SICKENING SPECTACLE.
A Swede Gashes His Throat and Lies
Helpless I'm the Woods For Three
Days.
SOUTH MANCHESTER, Sept. 19.-A sick
ening spectacle was presented here to-day.
Joseph Markinson, Swede, who has been
employed as coachman by James Shaw,
disappeared on Monday. This morning he
came crawling upon his hands and knees
into neighbours house in horrible con-
dition. His throat was gashed from ear
to ear, his head was covered with blood,
and the Gaping wounds were filed with
maggots. He had gone out into the ad-
joining woods Monday and had attempted
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.
He had failed of his object, for he did not
cut the jugular vein, and he lay helpless in
the woods until he had finally crawled to
the spot, where he was found, by last eff
fort. He was taken to the Hartford hos
pital, where he lay in condition between
life and death last night. No reason as
signed for the deed. He is young man
of temperate habits unmarried and indus
trious. There was found $40 in his
pocket.