Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-04-26
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief M eRtiOn.

Everybody now wears the Royal shoe.
A Large attendance is expected at the
Knights of Columbus state convention in
this city to day.
Tbs monthly meeting of the managers
will be held at the asylum tomorrow
morning at quarter after ten o'clock.
No quorum was present at the meeting
of the committee on nominations last
evening and in consequence no business
was transacted.
Call on Dickerman and see tho 1900
roses and innumerable cut flowers for the
81. n, s. Prom. and get prices before pur-
chasing; see adv.
An auction sale of the premises, 1853
Dixwell avenue, as advertised in the col
umns of this mornings issue, will be con-
Quoted by Edward @. Beecher.
William Nicely, the we'll known dry
goods merchant, was In Middletown re-
Gently looking for store with view of
opening up business in that city.
The opening of the grove at Savin Rock
will take place on Decoration day, May 80,
and the Northan Brothers and the Elm
City band will hold q picnic on that day.
The skillful nurse who had the care of
Mr.. Lewis Elliott during his recent long
illness was Mr.. W. Clack of Wallingford
and not Mr.. Clock as erroneously stated
yesterday.
There is no finer display of cut flowers
and plants in the city and at so reasona-
BILE prices as can be seen at Diokerman's
New York Floral company's, No. $50
Chapel street.
Freight train No. 1927 on the Danbury
branch of the Consolidated, in charge of
Conductor Wiler, was derailed at Wilton
shortly after II O'Clock last night. Several
cars loft the rail.
The Middletown Tribune was issued for
the first time Monday as a republican af
ternoon paper. E. F. Bigelow is editor-in-
chief. The city editor, q Mr.. Miller, comes
from New jersey.
The night bakers in many of the baker
les in this city went out on a strike last
evening, there being some trouble in re-
gard to employing of nom union men in
some of the bakeries.
DR.. Converse stated last evening that
the condition of Charles Peck, the Chapel
street book dealer, was on the whole a lit
tie improved last night, although the
patient Is still very Ill.
Mr.. Powers, an assistant foreman in the
Office of Price, Lee & Co., this city, has
been engaged to take charge of the job
printing department of the Bristol Press
Publishing company. He will move there
next week.
The American Express company last
night resumed business in Hartford, hav
ing made traffic agreement with the
Adams Express company by which it can
chip all of its freight over the Consoi-
dated road.
The local Knights Templar of Shelton,
Birmingham, Ansonia and Seymour have
extended an invitation to the other men,
bers of New Haven eommandery, with
their ladies, to become their guests on the
evening of Wednesday, May 10.
The suit of Louis Kabatznick against
Jacob Ruderman was to have come up be-
fore Judge Hamersley in the superior
court at Middletown yesterday morning,
but was again postponed. Attorney Good
hart of this city telegraphed that he had
injured his foot and was unable to be
present.
One of the large tobacco growers at
Windsor Locks is putting steam pipes in
the ground to warm it as the seed in the
tobacco beds do not terminate on account
of the cold weather. Early plants will
bring a ready sale this season, and numer-
GUS devices are being used to promote the
growth.
The association of trotting parks in
eastern Connecticut, which includes tho
towns of Manchester, Rockville, Brooklyn,
Norwich, Willimantic and Stafford
Springs, are of the opinion that the anti
pool bill recently passed will prevent the
holding of their series of races this fall.
The races are held in connection with the
agricultural fairs given by the local
societies In each town.