Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-20
STATE NEWS JOTTINGs.

STATE NEWS JOTTINGS. Items of Interest From All Parts of the Commonwealth-Co Road Items-The Big Berry Season A Coming Fine New Church Judge Han,s Street Railway De- cision Yesterday.
 During the height of the strawberry sea- son the Consolidated road dispatched east ward on the average of fifty cars of ber- ries per day. Most of them went to Bos- ton.
 - The Tenth Separate company of Mt. Yer non has been invited by Company of Bridgeport to take part in the Barnum statue parade in that city July 4.
 The fifteenth annual meeting and ban quet of the Army and Navy club of Con necticut will take place at the Fort Grls- wold house, New London, Friday and will be attended by large number of veterans in this state.
 The prize rhetoricals of the Morgan school | at Clinton will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.s m. The music will be by Thomas' orches- l tra. The judges will be Colonel N. G. 0s- born, New Haven; Rev. John Bushnell, Rye, N. Y.; Isaac Thomas, New Haven; George s. Woodward, New Haven, aud Professor H. O. Flint, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The Rsv. Hugh Montgomery and wife of Norwich will sail for Europe from Boston on the Sth of July. They expect to spend eight or ten days in Ireland. MT. Mont gomery will begin his lectures in East London the last Sunday in July and will speak there during the month of August. They expect to return to this country in September.
 The report of the death of Dr. Edward Psyson Thwipg, the we'll known mission ary, from typhod at Canton, China, May g, has been confirmed. He had many l friends in this state.
 1 STREET RAILWAY DECISION GIVEN BY JUDGE HALL YESTERDAY.
 Judge F. B. Hall yesterday morning gave 6 decision allowing the Norwalk Tramwsy
 company to run cars through Wall street in that town, through which street the
 Norwalk Street Railway company already
 has franchise. The tracks of the former
 company are to be laid under certain re-
 strictions, the principal one being that l their rails shall be four feet distant from
 those of the street railway company. The
 decision is really one granting a modi-
 cation of the injunction prayed out by the
 street railway company.
 l PROFESSOR ROLLINS RESIGNS.
 Vice Principal Rollins of the New Brit.
 ain High school has rendered his resigna.
 tion to Secretary R. G. Hubbard of the
 school board, to take effect at the close of
 the present term. He will go the high
 school at Newton, Mass where he Is to re
 ceive $2 ,000 year, an advancs of $40( | over his present salary. He will teach
 natural science. Professor Rollins' resig
 nation means a great loss to New Britain'l
 school, for he is an efficient teacher anc
 popular with hepupils.
 l CONSOLIDATED ROAD IMPROVEMENTS Al STAMFORD.
 The work of elevating the tracks of tn, Consolidated road has begun in earnest il Stratford. The dummy track has bee, , completed and workmen are now engaged r in widening Railroad avenue. Within tn past week the company have purchased tn
 old Thompson homestead and the propert, owned by Attorney John Stirling of Ne1 York. Instead of elevatipg the track ssyen feet, ss was first intended the eleva ton will be nine fest The property o Sylvaman Dickerson and wife on Rsilroa,
 avenue and East Broadway was purchases Saturday.
 wATERBURY's COMING BEAUTIFUL NKy CHURCH.
 At tho morning service in the Secon
 church in Waterbury Sunday the pastor
 Rev. MT. Davenport, took for the topic 0 7 his remarks the proposed new ohuro s building. The Republican gives the fol Q lowing account of what was done: "He re
 viewed the situation fully and showed the 8 the church had but $40, 900 with which t 5 erect a building that it was estimated woul
 cost $l00. 900. In urging his people to 2 | united effort to raise this deficiency he prs [ l sented two considerations The first wa r that the members could raise 1t, and th @ second was that all should put their shoul T ders to the wheel to do so. At the clos s Deacon L J. Atwood arose and said ths
 he would be one of five to contribute $5
 GOO. Much enthusiasm was manifested t and it was resolved to hold a meeting 0 F. l all interested tonight in the church lectur j. room. At this meeting, it is understood j. | 8 decided movement will be made towsr o raising the deficiency.
 s It was the original intention that tn 8 church should bs constructed of palle r r brick and 1t was voted that not over $75 : 900 should be expended above the lot
 which cost $14,000. The building com
 mittee have since decided that it will tax s $100,0 ,000 to erect church such as th t society desires and needs. They have sls 8 decided that the construction shall be C 7 Pennington red sandstone, a beautifr l. brown stone. This will insure one of th S handsomest church buildings in the stato. DROWNED HERSELF. !, WEST TWISTED, June 19.-Msry Fri t zier, widow, fifty, of New Hartford while insane, drowned herself in Greer
 wood Pond, New Hartford, Thursday, ui
 ing a rope and weight to accomplish th
 result. The body was found by a eesrct l. ing party Sunday. She was apparent l. sane and cheerful in the morning. Th 1. entire town joined in the search. The su - eide said she was going calling, and he l. friends were not suspicious.
 THE CONSOLIDATED AND THE NEW ENC |. BOSTON, June 19.-The railroad commi F sioners decided to day that Rockville sha n be the transfer point between the Ne l. York, New Haven and Hartford and tt n New York and New England roads. y SUICIDE IN HARTFORD.
 HARTFORD, June 19.-Rslph Pallet
 aged twenty-six, a German peddlar (
 musical instruments, was found dead v his room at No. GA Hopkins street abo,
 noon today. There was a strong smell @ chloroform in the room and bolt r. 1 which had contained the liquid stood t f the bed. pr. Fuller, medical examine v pronounced it a case of suicide and tt e mans body WAS taken to the morgue.
 THE ECONGREG EGATIONALIST if Their Two state Go nventionsa Ro cH L. ville This Week.
 Two annual meetings, interesting to th
 Congregationalists of Connecticut, will