Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-07
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention. !.

50 to 75c saved on hats at Lyons
 Don't forget the children's Royal Shoes Own home-$1O month-R E. Baldwin. Ascots and puffs soc. Lyons ss2 Chapel street. Fresh sweet pea blossoms every day at H. R. Aliens, 34 Church street.
 The Old American hotel in Hartford was dam aged by fire $500 yesterday.
 Mrs. Montgomery of this city addresses the Kings Daughters in Norwalk today
 Miss Harriet Kleiner of this city is visiting her cousin, Miss Alice Dreyfuss in South Norwalk. The Norwalk carpenters strike for nine hours ended yesterday, the bosses acceding to the de- mand.
 Rev. Mr. Miller of this city held German ser vice in the First Methodist church, Waterbury, last evening.
 To-day the flags on all the public schools will be displayed at half mast in honor of the late John E. Lowell.
 E. J. Pope, formerly Adams express agent at Rye, N Y, has been transferred to this city on the night force.
 The New Haven Poultry association held an interesting business meeting at Jones' cigar store last evening.
 Conductor Frank Smith of the Derby road ia running Conductor E. B. Bradley's train during the latter's illness.
 Jacob Williams, aged nine, caught his leg in a wagon wheel yesterday while stealing ride and the leg was twisted off at the knee.
 Francis Martino and Mary Smith were arrested last evening by Sergeant Stormont and Officer F. D. Cook and locked up charged with lascivious carriage.
 The resolutions passed by the St. Francis Or phan Asylum corporation, and engrossed by c. H. Blakeslee, are on exhibition in Dillon's shoe store, on Church street.
 The Air Line brakeman who fsll from his train ct Montowese Thursday night and was picked up unconscious was taken yesterday to Willimantic. His recovery Is doubtful
 John Drew of Huntington died yesterday aged ninety-two years and eight months. His children are Mrs. Henry Somers of Huntington and Nor ris Drew, Ansonia's postmaster.
 City Engineer Ingersoll and Commissioner Sul- livan went to Orange yesterday and conferred with the selectmen about the Oak street bridge, which is to be rebuilt. Action will be taken later.
 Arbor day yesterday. Some tree planting in this city was done at the Seaside park, under the authority of the park commissioners Several of our citizens planted trees their home grounds.
 The catalogue of the Hillhouss high school for 1899, which is a very beautiful and most compre- hensive volume, is now ready, and can be ob. tained at the rooms of the board of education on Center street.
 Professor Lee has sold his "Cloverdale" farm near Litchfeld to Mir Isaac Bidgood, the horti culturist and landscape gardener of Edgewood avenue, this city. Mir. Bidgood moved to his farm yesterday.
 The child left by the late ex-City Treasurer o D. Mills of Bridgeport inherits $1O0.0OO. Insur ance policies on the life of the deceased for $30, GOO in favor of the wife had lapsed only few days before his death.
 Architect R. G. Russell is making plans for g three-story building on the corner of Winchester avenue and Webster street for William Hine, and has also made plans for a seven-room house al Westville for Henry Bristol
 Charles Nettieton, who died in New York or Thursday, graduated from Yale law school ir 1644 and practiced law in this city from 1847 tc 1852 He was born in Washington, Conn. Hi son Charles Is superintendent of the Derby Ga, company.
 Marcus w. Robinson of Brooklyn, N. Y., diet at the Storrs homestead, Mansfield, Conn or Thursday night, aged seventy-two. He wa taken ill about the time the late Augustus Storr was stricken down in March. He leaves a widow the sister of the late Mr. Storrs.
 The demand for fur shoulder capes for sprin, and summer wear at Burgess & Burgess is un precedented, and hundreds of gentlemen hav bought those famous Knox hats while the ladie are buying largely of those Knox sailor hats, g. pretty. New arrivals of all shades of felt hat for men and youth.
 Temple lodge, F. and A. M, of Cheshire worke, the third degree Thursday night. There wer fully 100 present in the pretty little lodge room in Cheshire, among the number being Grand Sec retary Wheeler of Hartford and District Deput, J. o. Rowland of this city, besides Past Grant Masters F. H. Waldron of this city and J. W Mix of wallingford and about thirty others iron Meriden, Southington and Wallingford.