Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-05

besides his wife, two sons, Plerson R., l aged fourteen years, and Timothy Coles, l aged twelve. He was a member of Cor inthian lodge, F. and A. M.
 Jottings of State News.
 J. A. Broatch of Middletown left for | California on Monday and will spend the l winter there.
 The Connecticut Creamery association l has reelected George w. Barnes of Wind | sor president.
 The Rev. MT. Carey of Vermont has ac- cepted call to the pastorate of the Baptist | church in Cromwell.
 MT. Charles B. Phelps of Hartford left l yesterday for Louisville, Ky, to take an important position with the Louisville and | Nashville road.
 The Rev. D. A. Haggerty, pastor of St. l James, church at South Manchester, con- templates building parochial residence in l the early spring. MT. and Mrs. Zachariah Main of Shelton 1 are taking great care of their seventh baby. l It was born eight weeks ago and weighed less than pound. Now it weighs three pounds and is thriving. Thomas M. King of the cigar-making firm of Bahle &r King, Danbury, commit ted suicide at his home yesterday morning by shooting himself in fit of despondency. He was sixty six years of age and leaves a family. Charter Oak park directors elected are Morgan G. Bulkeley, Henry Kenney, Hen l ry Kennedy, William H. Goodrich, L. B. l Plimpton, R. N. Fitzgerald, John R. Hills, William H. Bulkeley, A. c. Hills, George Best, Burdette Loomis, J. c. Capen, Asa | s. Cook, F. G. Whitmore, R. N. Seyms,
 Leander Hall, T. o. King.
 ! oIo of, 1 bers of the Boston Fruit and Produce ex- l change and their friends started at o'clock yesterday for California via Chat l tanooga, New Orleans and San Antonio l The return home will be over the Union
 Pacific road. The entire trip will take
 about one month Several Connecticut
 men are in the party.
 The AveriI block on Main street, Hart
 ford, has been bought by Moves Fox for
 $1O0,0O0. This lot has Main street front 1 age of S9 feet inches. The owners of the | property who sold it to MT. Fox were the
 nieces and nephews of the late James
 Averill. They were Asenath T., Henry E.
 and Elisha P. Averill of Ferrysbury, Ohio,
 and Charles E. Averill of East Hartford.
 The leases of the present tenants hold in
 force. They are R. Ballerstein, George o.
 Sawyer and the Charter Oak lodge of Odd
 Fellows.
 The Connecticut Temperance union, of
 which the Rev. J. H. James of Rockville is secretary, has just brought out it's twenty fifth annual report. This organization.
 founded by Governor Buckingham and men of like spirit just at the close of the l war, has for twenty-five years labored to l educate public sentiment and at the same time to keep clear of political entangle- ments. On it's board of management are mon of different parties and creeds. Its contributions come from people of all shades of politics and belief. During the past year it has used nearly $5, 900 in seek ing to promote sobriety.
 THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court Civil side-Judse Hall.
 The suit of John Horan and wife vs Po- , llceman McAvoy for $5,00O damages for 3 islander was on all day yesterday. The ac- 3 tion is based on statements made by Off. cer McAvoy on March 19, 1889, that in
 searching the premises of Mrs. Horan fol , l property believed to have been stolen by
 one Matt Pagan he found other goods which he said he believed were stolen. and
 he also believed that Mrs. Horan received
 stolen goods in her house.
 Officer McAvoy was on the stand yester 8 day afternoon and denied some of the state t ments in toto and said he had been incor . rectly reported regarding the case. Mrs. Horan, Peter Gibbons, a grocery man at State and Pearl streets, Arthu, a Tennant, Martin Conlan, Mrs. c. H. Stil l. l son, whose washer-woman Mrs. Hora1 e was, and others were put on the stand. il Court of Common PIeas-Civn Side j. Judge Demtng.
 l. The habeas corpus proceedings brough
 for the release of David Yudkin, formerl,
 an Ansonia clothing dealer, from jail, wer J. postponed till Friday morning yesterda,
 because of the absence of Justice Holden 8 l otherwise Senator Holden, in Hartford.
 City Court Criminal Side Jud., o Pickett.
 Stephen Wood, vagrancy, judgment sus
 pended; Alfred Goddard, vagrancy, judg
 ment suspended; Joseph Johnson, reform @ school complaint, continued to March 7 : George Lyman, reform complaint, con r. tinued to March 7.
 $ Court Notes.
 : A final hearing in the contested will cas, u of Clarisca Francisco was held yesterday l. and Judge Robertson admitted the will il
 contest to probate. The will admitted is s one which gives Bernice Francisco the in . U come of $500 and leaves the balance of the 4 estate in trust to John G. North, to be used Q for the benefit of aged women. William '. G. Mccarthy, the beneficiary by pre- 5 vious will, was the contestant, claiming U U undue influence
 Q The case of Peck & Parker agains
 Charles E. Crittenden, involving clain ii Of $25 for furniture sold by the plaintiffi to the defendant, was settled by Mir. Crit s tenden paying the full amount of the claim.
 CONSTABLE KEEFE MUST MAKE GOOD THI d The property of Constable Joseph H @ Keefe on Adeline street has been attached
 by Deputy Marshal Loveridge in behalf o1 | the United States government, to secure $ the bond of $150 which Keefe gave fo, d Frederick Gutt, the cigar manufactures a a who was arrested last year for violation oi e the international revenue law Gut, l. skipped bail.