Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-23
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Hr1e1 Ncnt1Ons
Harper's for July at T. H. Pease & Sons.
The Rev. Mr. McNichol of the Westville
NJ. E. church is ill.
Gentlemen, try the Royal Shoe and have
comfort. 81 Church street only.
Walter B. Beecher of this city has taken
position in Meriden drug store.
The triennial reunion of the class of 'SS
will be held at the Atheneum this evening"
Over 5000 was found yesterday hid away
in the trunk of Ufford, the Stratford
miser, who died Saturday.
Miss Lillian Sanford, of Paterson, N. j.,
is stopping with her cousin, Miss I. Eva
ters, of No. So Pierpont street.
Dominick Guido, an Italian, was arrest
ed yesterday afternoon by Detective Brew
er for stealing flowers from the graves in
st. Demands cemetery.
Secretary Noble left Washington yester-
day afternoon for this city to attend the
commencement exercises of Yale univer-
sity and his class reunion.
Three more deaths brings the number of
victims of the East Hartford diphtheria
epidemic up to twelve. It is believed that
the epidemic is now under control.
Mrs. Kinney, widow of the lamented Ma
jor John G. Kinney, has removed from
Hartford to this city, her former home: and
is visiting at her brothers, DR.. William H.
Thompson's, home. =,
R. G. Shepard of Old Saybrook and Ho-
ratio D. Chapman of East Hampton were
nominated on the first ballot yesterday,
by the republicans, for county commission
ers of Middlesex county.
A. M. Drummond, 464 Whalley avenue,
is enjoying the reunion of his class, on the
twenty-6fth anniversary of their gradua-
ton, together with the other commence
ment exercises, at his alma mater, Syracuse
university.
Mrs. Mary Kingsley, wife of H. o.
her room in the Cromwell hospital, Friday
last, while insane. Her funeral was at:
tended from the Baptist church in Deep
River yesterday.
Miss Clara Louise Hovey, daughter of
Rev. DR.. Hovey, of Bridgeport, formerly
of this city, graduates tonight from the
Bridgeport High school. She is one of the
six to deliver essays, and is the author of
the music for the class hymn. The SUBJ
ject of her essay is Scandinavian Music"
Hon. G. B. Bowers, wife and daughter
of this city, and his elder son, E. A. Bow
ers, of Washington, D. c., sail on the City
of Rome for Europe Saturday. They will
make an extended tour through Scotland
and England and then visit Paris, Berlin
and, perhaps, make brief stay in Switzer-
land.
Earnest Markert, of 101 Cangress ave-
nue., molder, who has been ill for several
weeks, fell on the corner of Water and
Meadow streets last evening, about 8 p. M,
and it was necessary to take him to the
hospital He had been reported at the
police headquarters earlier in the evening
as missing.
Thomas Mcclure of Bridgeport and Ed
ward Mcclure of Wallingford have re-
ceived information that they are the only
heirs to an estate of $4,000 left by a
brother who recently died in Australia.
Thomas Mcclure has been employed at the
Holmes & Edwards silver shop in East
Bridgeport for the past five years.
At David Cowell's, on State street, all
the meats served at the Yale Alumni Com
mencement dinners are cooked. This work
he has done for ten years. He is now cook
ing for the dinner for the fifteen hundred
or so Yalensians, old and young, for :. the
dinner tomorrow, the following: Five
d hundred chickens, three hundred pounds
of roast beef, three hundred pounds Of
ham, two hundred pounds of tongue. This
is about the average amount served every
year. Beside all this, there is consumed at
commencement dinner big amount of ice
cream, Strawberries, fah, bread. ETC., to
say nothing of about six: hundred store
pies.