Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-03
GENERAL STATE NEWS.
GIeanings from Various Locaittei
In Our Little Commonwealth.

/
he triennial conclave of the grand en-
of Knights Templar in Denver,
which opens In that place Tuesday, August
J.. Those knights who intend to leave
are:
Mark R. Leavenworth, eminent COM
handler; Hugh Stirling, grand captain |
general; James B. Wildman, deputy grand |
w. R. Frisbie, W. F. Ran
lall, DR.. J. R. Topping, John W. Bedient,
Fred Hindsley, John g. Shelton, a. h.
Pyle, G. ]. Hughes: Levi K. Mansfield and
E. P. Foster.
About twenty-eight sir knights and la
dies will go to Denver with Washington
of Hartford. This COM
goes over slightly different
route. Both routes include many points
of interest on the way, both going and
coming home. The local committee who
have arranged the affair 80 satisfactorily
for the pleasure and comfort of the
knights, and have procured for their SER
vice every accommodation known to the
great railroad lines of the west are: Hugh
Stirling, @. n. Foster, b. 81. Pyle, Henry
Setter, jr., d. o. Garfield and William R.
Frisbie.
LIVED FOR NINE DECADES.
Mrs. Lucy Cook, widow of Nathan Cook,
died at the residence of Mrs. Persis G..
Woodruff in Norwich Monday. She was
most estimable Christian lady, over ninety
years of age, and had always enjoyed good
health, except to be troubled to some ex-
tent with rheumatism. One week ago she
was taken i'll with chill and did not rally
from the shock.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.
The Seth Thomas Clock company at
Thomaston has started up after two weeks
idleness under the new management of
Seth E. Thomas of New York, a grandson
of the original Seth Thomas. Aaron
Thomas, for years past at the head of the
company, has retired. The new manage
ment will pay particular attention to the
making of watch movements.
AN INSANE MANS LEAP
M1DDLETowN, Aug. 2.-William Lutz of
Norwich, aged thirty-aix, jumped from a
four-story window at the Connecticut
hospital for the insane on Saturday, and
died from his injuries this morning.
LIE fAACE MAKERS.
The Universal Peace union, which holds
its twenty-sixth annual meeting in Peace
grove, Mystic, Conn, on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of next week, has
had its officers in Pittsburg and Home
stead in the interest of arbitration az
settlement of the recent trouble there
The case seems difficult one, but the
board of arbitrators appointed by the
union has been the means of bringing to a
satisfactory issue a number of serious la
Dor troubles in different parts of the coun-
try. The discussion of the labor question
at the annual meeting, by eloquent speak
ers, who will attend, will be an interesting
occasion.
The Plummer family of Providence, R.
l., and Professor Origin Young of Hope
dale, Mass, will assist the peace meeting
choir in the musical program.
NEW COMPANY FORMED AT STAFFORD.
A certificate of organization of the w.
W. & R. M. Keys company of Stratford
was filed at the secretary of states Office
Monday. The capital stock is $40, 900,
divided into 100 shares OF 800 each
Twenty per cent. of the capital stock has
beeL paid in and the balance as called for
The stock is held by Andrew Selleck, Is
shares; Mrs. Lillia ". Keys, Is shares;
Mrs. Nellie W. Keys, 30 shares; treasury
stock, 40 shares; total, 100. The company
will deal in metals, etc.
TO ENTERTAIN wHEELMEN.
The following committee has been ap-
pointed by Chief Counsel Calhoun Latham
to have charge of the entertainment at the
fall meeting of the wheelmen in Hartford
September and 6: T. W. Fahy, chair
man, G. o. Shaffer, T. w. Laiman of the
Hartford Wheel club, A. M. Carlisle of
the Columbia club and George Keasley of
the Colt club.
TO NIANTIc CAMP GROUND ON BICYCLES.
The First Regiment Signal corps propose
to go to the Mantle encampment by road,
mounted on Columbia Century wheels,
cushion-tired, which will be furnished by
the Pope Manufacturing company. The
bicycles will be fitted with clamp to hold
the rifles and flags and baggage carrier.
Blankets and overcoats rolled will be car
ried and also canteens and haversacks con
tanning rations. The heavy baggage will
be sent by train.
The corps, If the scheme is approved at
regimental headquarters as practicable,
will start on Friday afternoon and Lieu
tenant Jenkins expects to cover the dis
lance, about sixty miles, before o'clock
on Saturday. A halt will be made for
the night at some convenient place on the
road.
R. H. HATHER.
Richard 81. Mather of Essex died in his
sailboat of heart failure while out with
two friends Saturday. He was about sixty
years old and had worked in the bit fac
tory at Centerbrook ever since it was
started twenty-five years ago. He was
superintendent of the Centerbrook Meth
odlst Sunday school, q member of the g.
A. r., and held numerous town Offices.
FERDINAND Wards SUMNER.
M1DDLETowN, Conn, Aug. 2.-Ferdi-
street as the "Napoleon of Finance" and
who was recently released from Sing Sing,
is spending the summer at East Haddam,
and passes much of his time calling at the
home of a young lady to whom it is re-
ported he is engaged. His quarters at
East Haddam are at the Champion hotel,
of which he was at one time the owner.
he spends but little time there, however,
as he drives over here every morning and
stops the greater part of the day. The
young lady to whom he is paying atten-
oAOAo 40 oWOAty GuIoo years Oh age, ana the
daughter of prominent citizen.
A SAD CASE IN HARTFORD.
The wife of ex-Representative Frank E,
Hyde of Hartford, and sister-in-law of
Mayor Hyde, was prostrated with the heat
and has since become insane. Mrs. Hyde
is an artist of superior merit, and was a
leader in Hartford society. Her father
was Congressman julius L. Strong, one of
the ablest representatives Connecticut ever
had.
sTRArEoRD's NEW TEACHER.
Professor J. D. BARLEY, formerly princi-
pal of the Bridgeport high school has
accepted the principalship of the
Stratford graded school for the coming
year.
THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
spend the Night In New Haven Har-
bor-The Fleet Consists of About