Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-20
WALLINGFORD.

Judge Deming,s lecture on sPales- tine, tho Land of Promise''-A Burglar Arrested in Wallingford Fool Room for a Crime Committed d Last AUgusL-Osher Items. The fifth of ths se1ies of illustrated
 lectures by Judge L. P. DemiDg in the
 Congregational church will be given this
 evening. The subject of the lecture is | Palestine. Land of Promise" This | course of lectures has been very enterta ing and instructive, but owing to the stormy weather every evening the attend l ance has not beer as large as it should have been. Those who fail to attend the ! lectures will miss rare treat that is seldom offered to the citizens of the bor- ough.
 Michael Donohue, at one time engineer at the rubber shop, will have charge of the engineering at the Muddy river pump ing station.
 Burton Hubbell is now janitor of the board of burgesEes room in the town hall building.
 About thirty of the Leavenworth guard attended the Light guard fair in New
 Haven Saturday evening and returned home on the Owl train, which stopped at this station for their accommodation. There was 8 slight fire at tho house of James Wrinn of North Colony street Sat urday evening, caused by wood box catching fire, but it was discovered and put out without serious damage. No alarm was given.
 E. J. Wallace has severed his connection with R. Wallace & Sons. Frank Birch field is now filling his position.
 Owing to the new departure at the New Haven opera house Joseph Worralls en- gsgement as cornetist was of short dura- ton.
 The Penochle club held its weekly meet ing at the Central hotel Saturday evening, with full attendance of it's members.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Mix of North Maine street will celebrate the twenty fifth ami versary of their wedding this evening, and although no regular invitations have been sent out yet they will be pleased to wei come any of their friends this evening.
 The Leavenworth Guard has now mem bership of sixty-fve.
 The Lakesides had their annual banquet Saturday evening end enjoyed a very pleasant evening with music and other pleasant features.
 Reserved seats for "McKenna's FIirta- tion" go on sale at Pixley's to day.
 J. Edgar Lane has been awarded the con- tract to build the addition to the town farm house. The figures were: J. E. Lane 1,75O, G. B. DickeTman $1, ,7S5, c. F. Wooding $1,S70.
 Officer Luke Martin arrested Herman Laymsn in Roach's pool room on South Colony street late Saturday evening" Lay man is wanted for burglary in Milford last spring and has since that time been dodg- ing the officers. He was lodged in the New Haven jail over Sunday aud taken to Mil ford this morning.
 The burglary in question was committed last August. A store in Milford was broken into and an overcoat, several boxes of cigars and quantity of meerschaum pipes valued at about $20O were taken. | Another Wallingford young named l Thomas Nugent, who is now in jail | serving out six months sentence for theft, | was also implicated in the burglary and 1 took the overcoat and cigars as his share of the swag. Layman had the pipes and ! was selling them around here last fall. | Something wrong was suspected and he | got out of town. Layman has been work l ing in New Britain the past few months, l and he has been implicated in burglaries 1 there and in Southington and Waterbury. | He has brother also who is serving out | twenty years sentence in the state prison | for highway robbery. He acknowledges 1 this crime, and will be tried in Milford | this morning.
 A bundle of New York morning papers | which were thrown off an express train at l this place Sunday morning, broke one of 1 the gates which protect the highway from l the railroad track.
 "The Whyho Gang" had row Satur- day night on Cherry street, of which more 1 will probably be heard in the city court this morning.