Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-25
LOCAL MEN s.
Brief Mention.

Scribner's for October at T. H. Pease & Sons.
 New store, 92 Church street. Roya Shoes.
 All quiet in Bridgeport's police fight yes terday.
 Rev. Fra. Leo of Winsted has arrived in Rome and had an audience with the pope.
 The annual fair of the Chester Agri- cultural society will be held next week, Wednesday, September 30.
 Theodore Auquillare of 217 Water street was arrested yesterday on the charge of keeping disorderly house. He was re leased on bonds.
 Four persons have died in the last few days at Poquonnock of typhoid fever. One was Mrs. Laverty, aged nineteen, bride of only three weeks.
 Hon. Francis Wayland of New Haven will read paper at the convention of the National Prison association, which Is to be held in Pittsburg October 16 and IT.
 A girls tricycle. was found in front of the Elliott house about week ago. It Wds ldhou Io tuo poAlSo hcdO1uoA eOAo Aesoo night and is there awaiting its owner.
 The regimental shoot of the Second regi- ment will occur October 7. The Second will enter a team for the brigade shoot which is to be held in Hartford October IA.
 Yesterdays Meriden Journal says Dr. Sanford of New Haven was in Wallingford this morning to see Charles L. Schember. Since last night MT. Schember has i'm proved forty per cent.
 Engineer Potter of the "ghost train" :" whose home is in Willimantic, has been presented with gold medal valued at $200 by the Bay State lodge of Locomo- tive Engineers of which he is secretary.
 Mrs. Robertson, wife of Judge A. Heaton Robertson, is now slowly improving, though her physician thinks it will be @ week or two yet before she will be able to ride out She has had serious attack of pneumonia.
 A blast set off near the Episcopal church in Stratford, yesterday, sent fragments of rock flying in every direction. One of them struck the rectory, breaking the clap boards, but doing no other damage. Rec tor Pardee and family were not injured.
 Deputy Sheriff Michael F. Slocum, aged forty-two, died at his residence on Lake street, Winsted, Wednesday, after an ill- ness of two weeks. His death was caused by bilious dysentery. Sheriff Slocum was born in the same house in which he died.
 John Walsh of Westville was visiting lawyers offices yesterday for the purpose of securing a lawyer to prosecute the G. F. Warner company for damages owing to the death of his son, who was killed by the bursting of an emery wheel at the com pany's shop recently.
 Guilford's Agricultural Society fair, an event which is always, weather permitting, of no little interest in all that section, takes place in Guilford September 3O This is the society's thirty-frst annual fair. This year, we hear, from George L. Gris- wold, the secretary, that the society will endeavor to secure both superior quality and an enlarged extent in the displays in every department.
 Mrs. M. Sonnenberg and daughter Jus tine on their return from Europe. found awaiting them at their home many lovely floral tributes, the testimonials of welcome from some of their many society friends. The two ladies had very enjoyable stay in the old world, which included delight ful journeyings. Miss Justine was for considerable period member of the cele- brated young ladies' seminary at Boon.