Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-04-20
ALL OVER THE STATE.

NOrW1chsD new $lOOsOOO Depot
Hartford's Project to Buy Lands
for Parks at $500, OO0-steamboat
and schooner Collision-The Haru-
garis-Their Grand Summer Gather
fng-Big Haul by Burglars In Nor.
wich-A Child Terribly Injured
nigh school Athletics.
Work will be begun within the next few
days on the new union station at Norwich,
which is to be located over the west arm of |
the Yantic river. It will be handsome |
structure costing at least 100000. Mr.. |
George Prest of New London is to do the |
piling and stonework. The station is to |
be located just below the present New
London Northern railroad station. A
great amount Of piling will have to be
done. -.
The powder boat Kansas City, Captain
Walton, is at the bottom of the sound,
having tipped over two days ago. 1t con-
tanned one ton of dynamite in small boxes,
consigned to D. N. Shelton. The crew
managed to get ashore all right. Fears
that this may be dangerous to passing
steamers from a submerged explosion
are entertained. It will be remembered
that dynamite cartridges were placed in
the Housatonic river by Italians to kill
fish when the extension of the Derby was
being built and exploded from some cause
in the bottom of the river a year later, two
men in boat being drowned. There
may, it is thought, be great danger to pass
ing vessels over the sound from the
swamping of the Kansas City with her ton
of dynamite aboard.
A plan is about to be presented to Hart
ford to lay out system of connected sub
urban parks, each accessible to some popu-
lous locality, the drive which would con-
meet them making the circuit Of the city.
| It is estimated that 1000 acres now easily
purchased would suffice for the parks and
| that the whole land could be bought for
less than $500, 900.
The Stonington lime boat Connecticut
was nearly wrecked in Long Island sound
this morning while on her way from Ston-
| ington to New York. She collided in
dense fog with an unknown three-masted
schooner and was damaged to the extent
of $15, OOO No one on board was injured
beyond being bruised, but there was great
| excitement for a time. There were 100
passengers on board, many of whom were
thrown out of their berths by the violence
of the collision. The accident happened
at point half way between Huntington
| and Captain Island. The officers of the
steamer soon restored order and conf
dence. Several passengers were severely
bruised. The name of the schooner was
| not learned.
back home again from Colorado Springs.
His sojourn in Colorado has been of no
benefit to him, and he is not 30 we'll as
when he left Meriden.
Curran Brothers & Co. opened their
palatial new drug store in the Meriden
I house, Meriden, Saturday evening.
Mrs. Lillian Hall of Ellington, who IN
der the name of Clementine St. George
Ray, imposed herself upon the public as
an object of charity and received money
etc., through the mails, was bound over in
5000 bonds at Hartford Saturday.
The annual state Harugari gathering
takes place in Meriden Monday, June 80.
Committees on music, entertainment, re-
freshments, decorations, reception, etc.,
have just been appointed. There are at
present twenty-five lodges of the Harugari
order in Connecticut and two more will
soon be added, so that the past grands ex-
pect that there will be at least eight hun
bred visitors in Meriden on that day.
In Hartford Saturday little Kittie Car
roll, aged ten, daughter of Michael Carol
of No. 81 Belden street, found railroad
torpedo yesterday and thought it was a
box of salve. She attempted to hammer
, the cover off when it exploded, badly in
juring her. Three of the fingers of the
right hand were terribly cut, the thumb of
the left hand nearly blown off, her lip cut
open, wound on her left temple and a
bad cut on her right shoulder.
. The Connecticut High School Athletic
} association held a meeting in Hartford
, Saturday afternoon, in the Hartford High
7 School building. The Hillhouse High
{ school of New Haven, which withdrew last
fall, was represented by delegates and re-
3 turns to it's allegiance with the association
= The schools represented were as follows
| Bridgeport, HilIhouse at New Haven Hart
ford, Classical school of Hartford, New
! | Britain, New London, Norwich, Rockville
< Suf6eld institute, Bristol, Waterbury anc
. Danbury. Several others will come il
3 later. It was voted to hold the field day
< at Charter Oak park on June 6. If thai
should prove stormy the games will be-
5 postponed till June IS. Gold and silver
: medals to the value of over 500 will BIZ
: offered as prizes.
r The solitary case of smallpox at the pes
, house still remains solitary, and it is be
| lieved will remain 80, thanks to the prompt
and efficient action of the health officers
, The woman is improving rapidly.-Water
3 bury American.
Still another advance of 81 hundred in
> the wholesale price of beef again calls at
, tention to the increasing cost of living.
. Bishop Mcmahon has invited the priests
l of the diocese to dine at the Episcopal res
idence on Pennington avenue, Hartford,
l Tuesday, April %. The bishop will shortly
) go to Europe on the advice Of physicians
for needed rest and to receive proper treat
J ment for his impaired eyesight, and this
dinner will give the priests an opportun
ity to bid the bishop goodbye. He has
A created a new parish in Meriden for the
) German and Roman Catholics. The Rev
Ignatius Kost is assigned to the new parish
) there. Another is in Bridgeport for the
Slavorian, Bohemian and Hungarian
} Catholics. Rev. Joseph J. Formanck is
tho pastor.