Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-22
ALL OVER THE STATE.

treasurer of the BoZahV1lle cotton Manu- featuring company, died in Norwich Sun lay, aged sixty seven. He was corpora tor of the Norwich Free academy and trustee of the Norwich Savings society.
 F1REMEN's DAY.
 The fremen of Nam aroneck, NY, held a parade yesterday, and fremen from sev- sral towns in Western Connecticut were present.
 CLAIMS THE REWARD.
 HARTFORD, Sept. 21.-George Sawyer of New Haven to-day asked Judge Car penter for the $1O0 reward offered by the state for the arrest of Henry W. Cook, the, horse thief. Cook was sent to jail for year.
 FAST TIME.
 A special train over the New England road has made the run from Hartford to Boston in two hours and twenty-four min utes. A part of the run was made at the rate of 63.3 miles an hour.
 APPOINTED.
 Senator Milton A. Shumway of Killing ly has been appointed attorney of the New York and New England railroad, vice George A. Conant of Willimantic, resigned He assumes the position at once.
 LIQUOR LAW.
 J. H. Donovan of Huntington was ar rested Saturday night for violating the liquor law. The place is no license town. The officers raided Donovan's place and found nothing but "Red Jacket" bitters.
 RROIraHr sTrIT
 Dr. H. s. Pomeroy of Boston has brought suit against the Rev. Charles Herbert Gleason of Somers, for $1O,OOO damages for alleged libel. Gleason has made Pome- roy correspondent in a suit for divorce against his wife, Fanny.
 GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT.
 The Grand Central depot in New York will be enlarged and the whole Forty-sec- ond street front turned into large wait ing room. This will add to the accommo- dation of people intending to take trains, but it cannot help the trains themselves, of which there are already too many. A removal of the general passenger station to some point north of Harlem river or the withdrawal of the Consolidated road to it's own Portchester branch is not un- likely within ten years.
 WELL KNOWN.
 O. w. Elmer of Burnside, who has driv- en the stage between that place and Hart ford for so many years, died at his home at o'clock Saturday afternoon after g lingering illness.
 OLDEST IN THE STATE.
 Mention has been made of the long ride of Mrs. Mehitable Straton Dayton of Glas tonbury, the oldest person in the state. II turns out that that ride was her permanent removal from Glastonbury to East Had dam. The people of Glastonbury, where the highly respected old lady spent all he1 life, feels her loss keenly, as the following from the Glastonbury correspondent o1 Manchester Saturday Herald will show
 The people of Glastonbury have been proud. Q having the oldest person in the state living with in it's limits-a person who has spent over 10 years of her life within forty rods of the hous where she was born. Now at this stage of he spot, even in the town of East Haddam. Mrs Mehitable Stratten Dayton was on Saturday o last week placed in carriage at the instigatiol of grandson, Arthur Dayton, and his mother and driven the distance of twenty five miles ove one of the most hilly and rocky roads in the state of Connecticut to East Haddam. Not
 
 thing about the affair until the old house wa locked up and the occupant gone. AFFAIRS AT WESLEYAN.
 College work at Wesleyan will begin il good earnest this morning. There ar about 275 students registered. Of thes seventy-three are freshmen. The colleg year opens under more favorable condi ditions and with brighter prospects tha, | at any other time in the history of the col lege. The number of students has in creased, the ranks of the faculty are flu | and the financial basis of the institutio l firm. Two important additions to tn ] faculty have been made. Edward B. Rosa | a graduate of John Hopkins, has been se cured as instructor of the new electrics department in physics, and w. M. Daniel l as professor of political economy. F. w | Nicolson, graduate of Harvard, take l the position of tutor in Latin in place c Karl P. Harrington, who resigned to ao l cept the professorship in University c l North Carolina, and F. s. Goodrich, clas l of go, tutor of Greek in place of F. H Taylor, accepts the professorship in St PauTs school, Concord, N. H. MT. Good rich has also studied in Europe the pas year.
 l Improvements dl6 UtluS uldu6 dUOub LII college buildings. Most prominent are tn | new rooms which are being put into shap l in the boiler house and the old chemics | laboratory for the use of the new depart ment in physics. Professor Rosa persor | ally superintends the setting up of the ms | chinery which has been purchased for hi | department. While much of the apps ratus will be purchased, some special il struments will be made in this machin shop, which is supplied with suitable ms chinery for this kind of work. In one en l of this room dynamos of different size will be placed, which will furnish abou two hundred lights to be used in the differ ent laboratories and recitation rooms. Pow CT will be furnished from an engine place in an adjoining room. Mir. Blakeslee, fol merly of Cornell, will have charge of th machinery. The room in the old labors tory has been thoroughly overhauled an fitted with the best means for carrying o | experiments in this department. The improvements which will be mos l appreciated by the students. .however,i is th new toilet room-Crystal Palace-whic occupies the entire east end of the boiler house. This room is being fitted with th latest improvements and finished in mos lavish manner through the generosity ( John E. Andrus of New York. The foo is of mosaic pattern, while there is wai1 scouting of polished marble tiles whic reaches about half the distance to the cei l ing. This will be model room in ever senso of the word.
 Work on the Psi Upsilon Chapter hous has already begun. It is expected it wi be ready for occupancy next fall. Befo1 the year is past work will probably | begun on the new gymnasium. ! NEW BRITAIN woRKMEN.
 NEW BRITAIN, Sept, 20-There is movement on foot in this city to establis a real estate company for the purpose C building and selling dwelling houses. IT company will have $50, ,000 capital and u plan is to secure seventy five building lo in the western part of the city and issr certificates of twelve years duration wit installments, payable monthly, and at u end of this time the title of the propert is to be transferred to the certifica holder; thus if a man desires to build house costing $1,250, the monthly ii stallment would be SIP, the style and co of the house regulating the amount of il stallment.
 ! wINDERMERE MILL PROPERTY.
 ROCKVILLE, Sept. 20.-After long Ii igation, Jordan, Marsh & Co. of Bostc will probably obtain possession of tl Windermere mill property October l. Tn firm sold the property few years ago the Bertram Manufacturing company f. 5o,ooo; They took mortgage on ! which the Bertram company reduced $19,OOO. Jordan, Marsh & Co., will nc get the property for $50, 900, the amoul ! of @ba;r o1a;po and xyil1 fbop soll tho ,,ro