Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-13
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Attend Childs' business college.
Entries for the state fair are coming in |
with big rush.
Miss Helen F. King will spend her two |
weeks vacation at Ocean Grove, N. j.
Hartford's new public library building |
will be opened this week. It has 1900
volumes.
R. P. Reed, manager of Hartford's Ad-
AIMS express Office, died Of heart disease
yesterday afternoon. =" ,&s
Keegan's ice house in West Haven was |
set fire to last night by tramps. 1t was
burned to the ground.
The Admiral Foote Post drill, announced |
to take place at the armory this evening,
is postponed to Friday evening.
Greenwich was highly excited yesterday,
having had FIVE inoendiary fires the night |
before. About $1,000 damage was done.
The seventh annual convention of the
Connecticut Fife and Drum corps associa-
ton takes place at Union grove, Hartford,
to-day.
The Hillhouse High School Wheel club
will have a road race over the East Haven
course next Tuesday. The prizes are we'll
worth contesting for.
Lieutenant Bradley of Company I, Aer-
iden, and his wife were in the city yester
day, attending the funeral of their ten
months-old nephew, Clayton Brown.
The corner stone of tho Church of Our
Saviour on Berkeley street, Norwalk, will
be laid on Saturday, September "a. at $3.50
o'clock. Bishop Williams will be present
The Seventh ward Jocelyn Square Dom
ocratic club meets this evening at the cor
ner of Hamilton and Water streets. The
committee on uniforms will make its re-
port.
The carrisge of DR.. Pinney of Derby
was Smashed by an electric car Sunday
night, and the doctor had narrow escape
from being killed. His horse escaped in
jury.
The Grays will celebrate their seventy
sixth anniversary to day at Dorlon's Point.
The arrangements for the affair are as have
been announced. A large attendance is
expected.
The Schuyler Electric company of Mid
dletown has just received an order from
the government for the most powerful
search light in the world for the statue of
liberty in New York harbor. 1t will be
visible for 100 miles.
Major Franklin w. Fish, the poet and
author, a former New Havener, gallant
officer in the war, is in town. Major Fish's
home is in Brooklyn, N: Y. he comes to
attend the Grays' celebration and answer
once to the roll call of the old command
30 dear to his heart.
The steamer Richard Peck arrived in the
harbor about 8 O'Clock last evening. She
started from New York shortly after
O'Clock. She was saluted on all sides.
Captain Peck said he did not run the boat
cry, being content to have her arrive here
on time.
POOLING WITH A PISTOL.
=. A Boy Shot-Fatally Injured.
M1DD1ErowN, Sept. 1s.-Charles Bailey,
aged eight years, was accidentally fatally
shot in the abdomen yesterday at his home
on the Higganum road by another boy
Samuel Curran. The boys were playing
with q revolver.
TO.MORROW NIGHT.
Grand Display at savin Rock.
W. W. Ward, superintendent of the
West Haven electric road, has arranged {
grand display of hot air balloons and fire
works at Savin Rock on, Wednesday even
ing. Two hundred dollars worth of fire
weather is stormy the display will tax,
place next fair evening.
r. Joseph Burke shown Up. =
Joseph Burke, who was supposed Il
have met his death ii, small town /,
New York state few days ago, turned III
Is well as ever yesterday, and togethe
with Andrew -Blackbird stsrted on
csrousal. Blackbird became very intoxi
Gated before he had gone very far and wa
assisted to the lookup by Driver Kendall o
station G, who, by the way, is very polite
Burke was not so intoxicated and wa
allowed to CO. ,.--s...s2
A coon oPPOaTUN1rY
To Buy Brick works aud Clay Prop
erty. 5t>fts2 2s'T
Attention is called to an advertisement
in another column announcing brick work
and clay property for sale-the fines
equipped brick works in New England
The property in question il owned BY GU
former townsman, Mr.. Charles P. Merwin
whose notable success az Q leading bricl
unsker Ia so widely known.
He offers for sale his Berlin brick works
and about 100 acres of the finest brick clal
and shale in New England, and five othe,
tracts of clay property in Berlin; also on,
farm of about forty acres near Blue Hills
tekvaen Berlin and -Meriden; also tvs
II .,,,ouk land and 0fher aun a11o