Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
waLLINGRORD.

Rumors That Man Had Been
 Drowned in the Race at the Lake
 Led to an Extended Search-No Body
 Was Found - Small Attendance at
 the Union Excurxion-Water M eters
 Are Being Put in Several Buildings.
 There was quite little excitement about the lake shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon over a report that there was man drowned in the race near the eand bank on the east side of the lake, A crowd soon gathered on the bank, and the Lake sides life saving crew was out in full force with boats and rakes dredging the bottom of the race, and several swimmers were diving and searching the bottom for the missing man. The csuss of the report was due to the fact that g mans straw hat and bottle partly filled with whisky was found near the edge of the water, and several boys stated that early in the after l noon a man was asleep in the shade on the bank, aud when awakened by the boys he | put chase after them. A little later the boys came back and found the hat and
 bottle but the man was missiug, aud 1t was | believed that he had fallen in the lake and | drowned.
 Alter an hours careful work the I search was given up, and some time | after 1t was learned that the supposed vic | tim, who is an old man working on a farm for Mrs. Sheehan, east of the Vinins farm | in the northern part of the town, had been | seen late in the afternoon bsrehesded in 8
 esloon on Cherry street and had there
 stated that be had lost his hat aud bottle
 near the lake when he chased after some
 saucy boys and upon his return could not
 find the articles. He returned to North
 Farms barehesded and drunk.
 James Doyle lad his prizs colt out or
 the trotting park yesterday afternoon and N. F. 1pgrshsm was driving the same and
 speeding 1t with Allie Hail. Patrick Gan
 non, the Colony street grocer, started hil
 mettlesome horse after the speeders and |
 soon started in a run and overlook thu
 trotters and before they csuld get out o | the way there was collision between
 Ipgrahsm and Gamer. Both were throwl
 out and somewhat bruised. but not dancer
 ously. Doyle's sulky wheel was broker
 badly and the vehicle was otherwise brok
 up. The accident caused quite an excite ment for a short time. James was aux ious to know who was to settle for th damage to his turnout.
 William Pritchard, who works for s. G Baldwin, cut his leg quite badly just abov, the ankle with an axe yesterday. Dr. Me Gaughy attended.
 There was small attendance at tb union excursion to Wbite Oak grove yes | tsrdsy. There was seven cars on the e, cursion train and hardly enough passene
 CTS to fill two cars. The excursionists al ? | rived homo before 6 o'clock. There was another dog fight in the pos office last evening. The csnines seem have great desire to scrap in Uncle Sam - office.
 : Texas Joe took an unexpected bath . the lake yesterday. He trusted himself d a small unsafe craft.
 6 Thomas Nicholson arrived here yeste
 | day from Pueblo, Col, after an absent :. from Wallingford of over four years. E e is employed iu the Union City railros }, freight office and is taking sixty day
 vacation. He is now the guest of MT @ George Hull of Fair street.
 T Judge and Mrs. O. H. D. Fowler vi J. start early this morning in carriage f, n Saratoga by the way of Litchfeld. A DO l. tion of the journey will be made by trsi y Water meters are being put in come 1t the public buildings, livery stables, etc B. in hopes of stopping the wholesale was y of water that dces much to lower Psul e pond. One put in Center street live e stable shows that over Sunday the wat o used would foot up over S1 26 per da B. The saving in this one place will amount
 considerable, as the faucets which ha
 been left running are now turned off, e d l cept when necessary to use the water. MT. and Mrs. F. G. Clark of Chat l. nooga, Tenn, are the guests of John Broe D. lin of Cherry street.
 1t Mrs. J. D. McGsughey and childr IT leave to-day for two weeks stop at Pi e Orchard.
 tt Moonlight boating parties are now in (
 der.
 Yesterday was said to bs the hottest d
 of the season, the mercury ranging way ye in the nineties