Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-11-13
GENERAL STATE NEWS.


Points Of Interest From All Quarters.
The Village Improvement society Of Thomp
sonville will give its entertainment in Franklin
hall next Tuesday evening to raise money for eI.
ira electric lights for street lighting.
The diphtheria scare In ThompsonvflIe has no,
yet died out. George Richards has lost two
young daughters from the disease, and Michael
O'Brien his young boy Besides these there are
still several dangerous cases, mostly confined &C
the north end Of the town.
John Maynard, prominent In Plainleld bust.
ness circles, has been missing several weeks. A
telegram from Colorado says he is working at
his trade in the Akron machine shops. He leaves
q wife and seven children in Plainheld and Is q
prominent Freemason and Odd Fellow.
The Trinity college football team. Hartford.
will play the last game on the home grounds to-
morrow with the team from the Boston Institute
u Bishop McMahon sailed from Queenstown yes
will be rendered him at the new cathedral Hart
The Young Mems Hebrew association of Hart
ford gave their first socishle Wednesday night.
It was in their hall over Habenstein's. There
was large attendance.
While at work a circular saw in NewBritain
Monday wallace T. Cloude's hand came in con.
tact with it and split up through the wrist.
Wheel Sub vaa hed al 5hs N 9
O'Clock: The following toasts were responded
Dwight; '.sport on the Wheel" a Kennedy
Childs; Bicycle Industry" Colonel George A
Pope; Moral Aspect OF Wheeling" the Rev
j. Il. Watson; Historical Sketch" E. C. VIII
son.
Dennis Myott of Manchester was killed on the
New England road at East Hartford Wednesday
William Mitchell, a railroad brakeman. was
run over at Plainfield Wednesday night his leg
was cut off.
A state Sunday school institution is in session
at the North Congregational church in Middle
town.
The estate of the late Samuel F. Jones. Hart
ford's great criminal lawyer, inventories only
The county commissioners granted ffty-one
liquor licenses in Waterbury Wednesday. There
are los applicants
The attorney general has decided that the East
Hartford draw must be opened to let Michael
Dupre's sloop pass.
Thomas Palmer, a cigarmaker, was killed at
road at New Britain Wednesday.
Samuel S. Wilcox, ind, is contesting E W.
Wellmans, rep, right to the place Of first select
BRIDoEPoRT, Nov. 1a-Peter Seaman, aged
sixty, truckman living in East Bridgeport, met
a horrible death this morning. While driving
over the Water street crossing he was struck by
the New York express which is due in New Ha-
ven at Hos He was instantly killed aud horribly
mutilai ed, his body being carried several rods
before the engine was stopped. His horse was
The late Luther G. Riggs. formerly Of Meriden.
whose death was announced yesterday, was a
man of ability and peculiarities. He was pro-
IIlC III many ana COlIlQuel
writing verse all his life even when most actively
at work editing one paper and doing work for
several others. Some of his poems secured con-
siderable popularity. he had a talent for getting
into controversy. and an originality in his news
paper methods that attracted attention
Mr.. Riggs had an eventful career. He was a
native OF Fairfield county, this state. He pre-
pared for college, learned the printing business
in the Office of the Bridgeport Standard and con.
tributed stories, sketches and verse to the va
rious periodicals up to the breaking out Of the
war. He then published political satire entitled
1.-THE Anarchiad, which attracted considerable
attention. He abandoned writing to go into &C
tive service, enlisting as a private in the First
Light battery, and coming out captain in the
Twenty second regiment with brevet rank of ma
jor. After the war he began the publication of
the Meriden Recorder which he conducted for
twenty-one years At different time she was also
connected with the Morning Call, the Citizen, the
WallDgford Forum and the New Haven Daily
News. In 1852 he went to Illinois. While there
he was brutally assaulted for printing articles
attacking the social impurity of the place He
never fully recovered from the effects of this as
sault. Mr.. Riggs was the father Of Manager
Riggs of the New Haven telephone office.
The Hartford Stenograpners' association give
drive whist party at their hall Friday evening.
November Is.
The New York. New Haven and Hartford Rail
road company are setting up steam boiler at
the west end of the depot for the purpose of
warming their Air Line cars before starting on
their trips from this place.
Mrs Abby G. Baldwin. well known in West Suf-
field has gone to Del Norte, Col, for the winter
and may make her home there.