Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-10
LOCAL NE W 8.
Brief Mention.

Buy q lot-$1OO-R. T.. Baldwin.
Fresh arbutus every day at Aliens, "a
Church street.
Turing and grading by the Connecticut
Concrete company, 40 Church street.
The board of health met last evening,
but transacted only routine business.
The last concert of Dorscht lodge, No.
Q, will bs held in Harugari hall on May
81.
Fine Trimardeau pansy plants, none
equal them in the city, at Aliens, 81
Church street.
The regular monthly shoot of the New
Haven Gun club will be held to-day at
their grounds on West Chapel street.
Captain Chamberlain of the Seventh
Connecticut Volunteers is expected to be
the speaker Memorial day in Rockville.
Charles W. LsCount, the wealthy Nor
walk manufacturer who was badly injured
in runaway accident Friday, died yester-
day.
Michael Wheelahan, one of Wsterbury's
Oldest residents who was killed by the
cars Monday, leaves an estate of about
$4,000.
Columbus Lodge of Masons of South
Glastonbury will celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of Its birth Thursday,
the 18th.
A delegation of Elks from Hartford,
Bridgeport and Meriden will attend the
benefit of the local Elks this evening at
the Hyperion.
A meeting CT the Daughters of the
American Revolution will be held to-day
at half-psst three p. m. at the house of
Mrs. M. F. Tyler, SO College street.
In Meriden about one hundred men, all
members of the Building Laborers' union
and the Bricklayers and Masons union,
are out on strike demanding more
wages.
A young woman named Baldwin in
Woodbridge was villainously assaulted by
two strangers who called at her house
Saturday. The wretches are not yet ar
reated.
New London's board of trade has begun
tho work of raising the funds for the
necessary expenses contingent upon the
holding of the Yale Harvard race upon the
Thames.
The hearing before the railroad investi-
CATION committee at Boston closed yester-
day. Colonel 81. E. Benton made the
closing argument. He arrived in this city
In the afternoon.
Department Chaplain Henry D. Miller
expresses the hope that the clergy in all
the cities and villages in the state will
hold fitting services on the Sunday pre-
oeding Memorial day.
Francis Murphy, father Of Thomas E.
Murphy, addressed mass meeting in the
Center church, New Britain, last evening
Mr.. Murphy conducted a temperance cru
sade In that city about fifteen years ago
His son continues to draw large audiences
there.
The Light Guard and Sarsfeld's will
hold their field day next Tuesday at Quin-
nipiac range. A new feature of the shoot
ing will be volley competition between
squads of sixteen men from each company,
ordered by Captain George G.. LaBarnes,
inspector of rifle practice.
The Chicago Athletic club was booked
to play the Yale varsity in this city yes
terday afternoon, but for some unknown
reason they failed to arrive and the game
was not played. No announcement was
made that the game would not be played
and many were disappointed after going to
the field.
A. F. Atkins, president of the Bristol
Brass & Clock Co., died at his home in
Hartford yesterday after an illness of
nearly nine weeks with the grip, aged
sixty-fve. He had been connected with
the company for nearly forty years. He
leaves q widow, daughter of the late E.
N. WEIGH, who was for years president of
the company.
There was large attendance of sorrow-
ing friends at the funeral of the late CSp-
tain Samuel Granniss in this city yester-
day. A detail from Arthur Dutton post
of wallingford attended, bringing beau
tiful floral wreath. They were NJ. W.
futile, o. B. Lane, P. N. Twitchell and
John James. There were choice, beautiful
floral tributes In memory of the deceased
officer.