Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-18
LOCAL NE WS.
Brief Mention.


 Money to loan. R. E. Baldwin.
 Meriden Is to hava baseball nine on the co operative plan.
 Representative Myron N. Clark, rep, of Norfolk Is critically i'll with pneumonia.
 MT. Kebabian has opened magnificent collection of Oriental rugs at $40 Chapel St.
 Horace Wall is negotiating with refer encs to leasing the Sterling opera house in Birmingham
 The annual ball of the German American association will be held in Harugari hall on Monday, March 20.
 The condition of Mrs. Mix, wife of MT. Willis Mix, the we'll known druggist, was critically ill last evening.
 Superb in beauty and quality. The flowers at Dickerman's supplied to any ex- tent fresh daily; finest floral designs.
 Temperance Orator Francis Murphy be- gan 8 three days crusade against the liquor traffic in Branford last evening in Gaylord's opera house.
 Thomas Gildsy was arrested by Sergeant Reilly, accused with the theft of a $75 overcoat, the property of D. s Gamble of the firm of F. M. Brown & Go.
 The Yale law school team wilFsbe al- lowed to practice on the Yale field and five or six games on the Varsity diamond on days when the college team is out of town.
 Charles A. Thielbar, contractor at Win ehester's, and Patrick Lally, foreman in Roots bakery on Grand avenue, started for Chicago yesterday, to bs gone four weeks.
 Two freight trains on the New England road crushed together at Thomaston yes- terday afternoon. Considerable damage was done. It took six hours to clear away the wreck.
 The Consolidated railroad will soon have over 1 ,600 passenger cars, and If this roll ing stock could be united on one track 1t would make up a train about nineteen miles in length.
 Miss Minnie B. Kay, the accomplished elocutionist, will recite in Bridgeport on the 23d, and in the Summerfield church on Dixwell avenue, this oity, on the 24th of the present month.
 Frank L. Pierce, a well known car painter, died at his residence, No. Lines street, yesterday, aged thirty-nine. The death was sudden and the result of an at tack of neuralgia of the heart.
 William Myers, 6 civil engineer of this city. was ssizsd with vertigo at tho corner of Fairfield avenue and Middle street in Bridgeport yesterday morning. He was removed to the Emergency hospital, whe1e he soon recovered.
 The remains of Henrietta Gehring, who died in this city last Monday, were taken to Norwich Thursday and inferred in Yan- tie cemetery. She was unmarried and 8 native of Germany. The deceased at one time resided in Norwich, and was eighty eight years old.
 Those lovely Empire fur eapes at Bur gess & Burgess, and those fine fur capes, all styles and makes, and all 50 fashionable for spring wear, are in constant demand. They make lovely wraps for any season. Hats, hats of all the spring styles for the lords of creation, just arrived.
 The Consolidated railroad, it is said, has solved the question of eliminating grade crossings in this city. The proposed plan Is to elevate the tracks from the Burr road to seaview avenue. The tracks will be run over the same route now covered by the ground tracks.-Bridgeport News.
 Mr. Edward Carswell, who is doing tenn perance work in the state under the direo- ton of the Sons of Temperance, will speak in the Congregational church, West Haven, on Sunday evening, the 18th. Those who signed the Murphy pledge are especially re- qussted to come and hear this eloquent speaker. ... ;.
 Miss Mamie Holland of Mill River street gave a green tea party this evening in honor of her cousins, Misses Nellie Garde and Josie Chat6eld of Waterbury. Among those present were the Misses Ella and Sadie Ulmer, Lizzie Lee, Louise Lorensen, Minnie Hnlyard of New Britain, Lillian and Bella Lautenbach and many others.
 Many people are suffering with naalsdy somewhat similar to the grip. Instead of the vigorous sneeztng that accompanied the latter disease, however, the present ailment is marked by g severe sore throat. Sufferers are seldom obliged to take to their beds, although the ailment gsneralIy keeps them within doors for . number of days. -----
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