Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-09
WALLINGFORD.

featS Meriden-Win Vote To-Day for
 8 Sewer Appropriation-Pol to be
 Open from to O'Oleck-Newsy
 Notes from the Busy Town.
 The Meriden high school football team and many friends came down here .Satur- day afternoon with tin horns expecting to gain victory over the high school team,
 but they did not have chance to use the
 tin horns, for Wallingford won the game
 by a score of to 4. The local team was
 celebrating its victory uptown Saturday evening. John Ryan, who lives on the west side,
 has crabapple tres that has crop of fruit on some of the branches and blossoms on the others. He also reports strawberries in blossom.
 The, hunting contest Saturday between teams from the Lskesides resulted in vic- tory for Heinemsn's team, which scored 210 points to 190 for Gardner's team. Miss Jennie Campbell is teaching school
 in Orange.
 Mrs. F. J. Heavens has gone to her home
 in Hadlsy, Msss.
 There is talk of forming g rifls associs- ton here.
 Miss Ada Williams of Meriden Is book keeper for M. J. Redmond & Go. The polls will be open from 9 to this ! afternoon to vote on the appropriation of ! $3, ,000 for the overflow sewer from Colony | street to the lake, through Parker street. Four hunters were coming down the steep hill west of Peter Jones' in 8 wagon early Saturday evening, when the horse stumbled and fell. The two on the front | asat took flying leap and the others un- loaded very suddenly. All escaped without | injury. The wagon coming on to the horse resultsd in breaking the shaft, and the quartet led the horse and drew the wagon dowl the hill.
 masterpiece, has stocd test of 200 nights
 in Boston and 160 nights in Ne. York, and | received nothing but the most hattertng
 notices since its first production in this
 country four years ago. It is 8 melo- drama that stands without rival and Is
 the most popular drama on the road. The
 scenic effects are grand and realistic and the revolving transformations gre quickly
 and skillfally made.
 One ardent admirer of the British yacht
 valkyrie wagered $15 to $10 on Saturdays
 race and Saturday evening he was sad. The board of managers of the Temper '
 twenty-one yaars of age shall be allowed
 in the temperance rooms in the Beach house. The boys who have been allowed ! there have conducted themselves in such 8 manner than this action becomes neees-
 sary.
 l Ned Judd of the High school football l team sprained his ankle in practice Sstur- day morning.
 Charles Backes has gone to Newark, N. J. Two weddings are booked for this month | east of Main strest.
 W. H. Talcott ia filling Will Talbot's po-
 sition on the postal car. during his absence
 in Chicago.
 The delegates from Mizpah chapter, o.
 E. s., to the Grand chapter, which meets
 in Bristol Wednesday are W. B. Hall, Mrs. o. B. Powers and Mrs. R. Fl. Atkinson. Mine chickens belonging to John Bridget | of Hall avenue were stolen Saturday even
 ing about 8:30. MT. Bridget and his son 1 went out to the coop and stayed there l until 1 o'clock. They were firmly con- vinced that the chickens had been stolen. When they came out in the morning, how
 ever, they found them safe and sound. They inferred that the thief or thieves were repentants.
 A LOUD ExPLosIoN-THE NIGHT wATcHMAN TERRIBLY BURNED. At $40 last evening the residents in the vicinity of the gsshouse on Washington | street were startled by loud explosion, and rushing out found smoke and flames
 issuing from the windows and doors of the gashouse. A general alarm was sent in,
 but when the fire department arrived they found no fire. Milo Goddard, the night watchman, was in the building, however, terribly burned. The hair was all burned off his head and his face was
 badly burned. He said he had been away and returned and found the free in
 the furnace low and had thrown in pail of crude oil, which immediately exploded. He said that the man who had worked there before him had done it with no such re-
 suit.