Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-11
LOCAL NRWS.
Brief Mention.
Hot

Hot! ,..
The heavy shower last evening cooled
the air but little.
The fire on the sound steamer City of
Boston was but very slight one.
The big excursion of the Knights of st..
Patrick Of New Britain comes to Savin
Rock to-day. -
1t was yesterday reported in Hartford
that nineteen brakemen on the New Eng
land road had quit work.
The Twentieth regiment, Connecticut
Veteran Volunteers, will hold their annual
reunion at Savin Rock Thursday, Sep
TENDER l.
A passenger on one of the late afternoon
trains to this city yesterday reports that
the thermometer stood at % in the car all
the way home.
Despite the heat Momauguin lodge, A
o. U. w., initiated one new member last
evening. Several others are to come in at
the next meeting.
Baldwin Tibbals, a we'll known resident
of Milford, died yesterday morning at the
age of seventy-three years. He leaves a
wife and four children.
Richard Hadyen, jr., child of ex-Super-
numerary Hadyen, about whom scandal
was raised some time ago, will be removed
to the county home today.
Another electric car was put in service
on the West Haven road yesterdsy-mak-
ing six in all of the electric cars IN service.
Another will be added soon.
Margaret, wife of Charles Robertson,
died in Newtown yesterday morning. She
was ffty-five years old and was well known
in that part of the town in which she lived.
The granite cutters strike at the Bran
ford quarries is practically ended, the men
being completely beaten. 1t is thought
the quarries will have a full complement
of men by Monday morning
The regular weekly meeting of the Young
Mems Republican club will be held this
evening, and as business of Importance
will be transacted it is hoped that large
number of the members will turn out.
The Stolm Engine company of Birming-
ham held special meeting at the COM
pany's house last evening and voted to 60
to Savin Rock on August 16 as guests of
the West Haven Hook and Ladder COM
pany.
The excursion of the Adelphi Literary
association to Glen Island Tuesday, Au-
gust 16, by steamer John h. Starin, prom
Uses to be a most enjoyable event. It is
expected that it will be one of the pleas
ATTEST excursions of the season.
The officers of the grand lodge of the
Sons of Foresters met last evening in
Trades Union hall and decided to meet
once a month instead of once in three
months as formerly. They will meet the
second Wednesday il each month.
Another scorcher yesterday. The whole
community perspired regardless of age,
sex, color or previous condition of servi-
tude. And the weather bureau says it is
to be hotter to-day and still hotter to-mor-
row. Verify this is a hot summer.
Brother Curtiss of Momsuguin lodge, A.
o. U. W., is personal friend of long &C.
quaintanoe with J. Edward Burt, supreme
master workman of the order A. o. U. W.,
whose portrait appears in the latest issue
of the New England Anchor and Shield.
The twenty-ffth annual reunion of the
Sixth Connecticut Volunteers will be held
at Stamford, Conn.,, on Wednesday, sAu-
gust "a. Membership requested as far as
possible t. reach Stamford on the train ar
irving there at 1926, as a reception has
INnav
The excursion of Templars of Honor and
Temperance of Seymour, Ansonis and
Shelton to Belden Point Saturday, August
20, promises to be pleasant affair. The
trip will be made by way of the Naugatuck
railroad to Bridgeport, thence by steamer
Sunshine to Belden Point.
The Rev. Mr.. Buck has written to the
committee of the Trinity Methodist church,
New Britain, that he has three years yet to
serve in the Brooklyn church, and on that
account he won't be available for New
Britain next April, when the Rev. Dr..
Pullman will leave that city.
At Plainfeld camp meeting yesterday
DR.. Pitblado preached in the morning, Rev.
A. 81. Wyatt at 2 p. M, and. Rev. B. T.
Abbott at 7 p. m. To-day Dr.. Pullman of
New Britain will preach at 10 4. 10 RsS.
W. n. Barton at 2 p. "a, and Rev. Mr..
Bridgeford of the New England Southern
conference at 7 p. m. q -
Yesterdays Waterbury Ansricslssaya
Organist o. Gibson has invited sAhs Fi1st
church choir to meet him 4 Haven
cn Friday, when he will meet them in his
yacht, entertain them probsbly at the
house of the New Haven Yacht, club, and
give them sail. 1t is thought,thst tho.
party will number fifteen. ~ @2'@''-' '',,'5'''
The Hon. Benjamin F. Tracy, secretary sts7f,
Of the navy, who is in New London. WAS
given dinner at the Pequot house; last
evening by . personal friend Of his, Mr..
Bookman of New York. About q dozen
other guests sat down to the feast. Sec
rotary Tracy goes on the Dolphin from
New.London to Marblehead, Mass. where
q new cruiser which is to be named after
inst place will b iaunehsd this Afternoon,