Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-04
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT.
Notes Of Interest From Various Sec
lions.

NEWS OF CONNECTICUT.
Notes Of Interest From Various Sec
lions.
The strikers at the betting oompany's |
shop, Newtown, resumed work yesterday
the company refusing to back
down from their position in the case.
THE LATE FRANCES s. HALE OF GLAsToN- |
BURY MAKES MANY REQUESTS IN HER
WILL.
The will of the late Frances s. Hale of
Glastonbury was admitted to probate yes
terday. requests are made as follows:
First Congregational church, Glastonbury,
$500; Charlotte n. Tolley, farm of fifty
five acres with buildings at Sag Harbor,
N. Y, also SO, 900; at the time of her death
what remains to go to her two daughters,
Marion n. Policy and Manetta D. Policy;
Annie G. Beckwith, $1,000; Manetta D.
Policy and Marion h. Policy, $500 each in
addition to the balance of their mothers
estate; Mary J. Tuthill, use of house in
East Hampton, N. Y; Abbie E. Payne,
the house and lot at East Hampton; Henry
L. Tuthill, $500; Maria J. Conklin. 81, 900;
Willie E. Conklin, 5000; George B.
Conklin, 5000; Mortimer L. Conk-
lin, 5000; Ethel M. Conklin, 5000;
Fannie a. Conklin, 5000; Ella M. White,
$50; Edith Isadore Barnum, $25; Justina
T. Halsey, $25: Henrietta Douglass, 500;
Henrietta Il. Seelye, 5000; Fannie Hale
Douglass, $500; to her surviving sisters is
given all the wearing apparel, to be divid-
ed as they see fit; Joseph A. Edwards, So;
John T. Edwards, $50; Hannah White, $40;
Deborah G. Topping, SO; Herman L. Ed
wards, $40; Minnie D. Edwards, $500. The
balance of the estate is given to Deborah
H. Goodrich At her deceass the property
shall be divided between her two children,
Addie V. Goodrich and Charles E. Good
rich. Isaac Broadhead and Deborah H.
Goodrich are named as executors. The in
strument is dated March 10, 1899.
G. N. G. ALWAYS READY.
Seventy-6ve per cent. of the entire
National guard of the state, General
Embler reports, could be concentrated at
New London in five hours. and the same
is true of either Hartford or New Haven.
Ball cartridges are distributed in 500
rounds to each company, to be used under
orders for riot or other emergencies. Each
regimental surgeon is provided with a
complete set OF first class instruments and
| q supply of stores sufficient for several
days. The brigade is equipped with first
class two-horse ambulances and supply
| of letters. Each company of the national
guard separately located has q range, and
| when two or more companies are located
| in the same locality they have separate
range.
NEW BRITAIN ELoPEMENT.
Richard Guthier, member Of Company
E, New Britain, and Miss Ivy Simpson Of
that city, have eloped. Her parents OBJ
jected to Guthier because they thought he
| was too much of dude.
| CONNECTICUT TnoTTING MEETINGS.
| Three of the associations in the Connec
ticut circuit have announced races for trot
ters and PAGERS as follows:
J. II. Otis of the Gsntlemen's Driving
club of Hartford has announced meeting
at the half mile track of the association
this week.
| N. W. Heater of Waterbury is out witt
an offer of purses for races during the
week of August 30 to September 2.
]. A. McEnerney, secretary of the Derby
association, has advertised purses of $500
each for classes to be decided during thu
week of September 6.
SCOTTISH GAMES.
The fourth annual picnic and Scottish
games of Clan Gordon No. 10, o. s. c., o
Hartford, will be held at Union grove mex
Monday afternoon and evening
OLD VETS REUNIONS IN STANFORD.
| There are to be three regimental reun
ions in Stamford this month. In addition
to the gathering of the survivors of tn
Sixth and Seventeenth, on August "a, th
Twenty-eighth, which had two brave com
panies of Stamford soldiers, will meet her
on August 80. One of the speakers at tn
Twenth-eighth's reunion will be the Hon
James 81. Olmstead, who in 1861, befor
the regiments departure for the seat o
war, made an address presenting hand
| some set of colors, bought with none
subscribed by Stamford people.
Ex-PoLIcE OFFICER DEAD.
Henry A. Button, for several years a
invalid, died at the home of his son-in- law
. Mr.. Elmer Thompson, in Norwich Tues
: day. He was born in Preston in 1928 an
resided in Norwich about forty years. b
was for many years engaged in the liver
business. He was for sixteen years faitt
full police officer.
WANDERED, BUT RETURNED.
ANsoN1A, Aug. 3.-George W. Baldwin
who wandered away in fit of mental al
, erration, has returned. The last place b
was at when away, as far as he recalls
was a New York park. He walked bac
from New York. He slept in an unoccr
pied ice house, lumber yards, etc., unit
he ran across friends in Stratford, who ser
him home. He ate nothing but fruit an
berries from Saturday until Tuesday. HI
. indisposition was caused by brooding owe
slight difficulties and the weather.
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE THERE.
. At the labor demonstration in Meride
Tuesday night in support of the strikin
conductors and drivers of the street raj
road, held at Terrace Garden, five thousan
| people were present. There were fftee
: hundred in the preliminary parade, repr,
: | senting twenty-five labor unions. Tw
l brass bands and three drum corps we,
out. Driver John Grady, whose dischare
led TO the strike, and who is the maste
workman of the Street Railway EmpIoye
assembly, K. of L., was grand marshal {
| the parade.
I | are without street cars, and the compan
is firm in its position that it is not to /
dictated to as to whom it shall hire or ne
3 hire.
About 81 900 was cleared for the strike,
by the picnic.
DISCHARGED.
W1LLIMANTIc, Aug. 3.-Willis Birdse,
: who was visited by White Caps, and VIII
t has been confined in the Jail at Haddan
, charged with drunkenness, was taken I
: Willimantic this morning and discharge
by Judge Hall.
THE COURT RECORD,
9 Common Pleas COurt-CrImfnal Side