Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-24

Points from Sections of Public Inter-

DANBURY, Dec. So.-ADel D. haWley,
 one of the oldest residents of this city and
 the oldest undertaken in this state, died at
 his home on Liberty street this morning at
 the age of seventy-nine years. His death
 was directly due to a stroke of apoplexy which he suffered four weeks ago. He
 passed away in his sleep last night. He leaves wife and one daughter. MERIDEN, Dec. 23.-Mrs. N J. St. Cyr, one of the best known ladies of Me1iden, died to-day of pneumonia, following the grip. Her death makes the eighteenth in ten days in this city.
 GUILFoRD, Gee. 23.-After long sick
 ness, Mrs. Ann, wife of George Lee, died yesterday morning at 6 o'clock, aged sixty five years Mrs. Lee was an earnest work CT in the temoerance organizations, being president of the w. c. T. U. and superin- | tendent of the Loyal Legion. The funeral l will be tomorrow at 3 p. m., at her late
 residence on Boston street. The barn on the Ralph FIagg farm at West Hartford was burned to the ground | on Monday by the explosion of lantern. The Mystic Shrine will elect officers and
 adopt a code of bylaws in Bridgeport l Monday evening.
 1 Edward Cleary, aged twelve, fell through
 the ice on Rockville Paper Mill pond Tues day afternoon and was drowned. August Knoor, an employe of B. Miller | & Go. of Meriden, has been arrested for
 stealing brass castings.
 | In the Waterbury superior court the
 case of Cornelia s. Buell., trustee, again t | Franklin Farrel, has been erased from
 the docket, the result of settlement by 1 fho Oe
 mated at $30 1000. Defendant endorsed
 notes for $40, 900 six years ago, after as
 suming management of the Brown Broth
 ers' brass mill, which notes were made by | w. H. Brown while manager of the com
 pany and were part of the estate of Mrs.
 Philo Brown, mother of the plaintiff. Far
 rel refused to pay and the district court
 decides for the plaintiff, from which deci sion the defendant appealed.
 B. Rossidy, Waterbury druggist, has l assigned.
 The total increase in deposits in eighty | six savings banks in Connecticut will ex- | ceed S5,OOO, ,OO9, as compared with 1890. Deports from about twenty Connecticut
 towns show nearly thirty deaths from | grip during the past week. The Bridgeport Daily Union has been at
 tached for $4OO by James s. Golden, late | foreman of the composing room. | John Bedeau's three children have died
 within a week at Bridgeport. s. Y. Beach of Seymour, father of Super
 intendent Beach of the Naugatuck road, is | reported as being quite ill
 | HARTFORD, Dec. 23.-Mrs. Lucinda Ris- | ley, mother of Lyman Risley of East Hart
 ford, died of the grip at her sons resi- old. MT. Risley's family has been particu-
 larly afflicted with the grip. His wife died one week ago, and at that time his | mother, himself and four other members | the family were sick with this disease and unable to attend the funeral. Thompsonville Tuesday night celebrated the advent of street electric lighting and l the introduction of mercantile system of lighting by the same agency with much en- thus1asm, parade, speeches, etc. The I thirty or more arc street lights of 2,000
 candle power each were started up five o'clock and burned brightly and steadily
 until midnight. The contrast with the
 measly, sputtering, yellow, dim oil lamps on the street was strong. They were | lighted and left burning to show the diff ference.
 John F. Buckley, one of Hartford's pop | ular young men who died of the grip Tues day, was member of Hartford lodge of Elks, which will attend in body. Hon. A. P. Hyde of Hartford is recover ing from an attack of pneumonia. The condition of Colonel Charles A.
 Jewell of Hartford showed perceptible inn
 provement yesterday. He has recovered
 to some extent the use of his arms and
 tongue. Besides his regular physician, Dr. Shepherd, he has been attended by Dr. AL
 fred Loomis of New York and Dr. Stearns of Hartford.
 Constable O'Brien of Waterbury came to New Haven Tuesday and placed an attach
 ment on the New Haven Savings bank for $50 for Howard W. Wooding of Water bury