Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-24
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
Items of Interest From All Parts of
Our Little But Famous Nutmeg

Items of Interest FROM All farts OF
Our Little But Famous Nutmeg
State. II
Wallace & Son, large brass manufactur-
ers in Ansonis, have shut down for ten
DAYS. Several men were discharged week
before last and enough last week to make
an even hundred. Business ia suffering a
depression there, and other factories are
running on short time.
SHEFFIELD INSTITUTION.
SO. Johnston, late principal at Colby
academy, has been elected assistant prinoi-
pal, Mr.. johnson has been engaged in
teaching for fifteen years. Miss Jessie F.
Smith has been elected preceptress. Miss
Smith is a graduate of Vsssar and has been
assistant principal at South Weymouth,
Macs for several years. All vacancies in
the faculty are now filed. The fall term
begins September 6. Principal Scott is at
the worlds fair.
DULLNEss AT NoRwALK.
Norwalk manufacturers are experiencing |
the dullest season they have ever known. |
Hutchinson, Cole & Co., shirt manufac |
turers, have been shut down three weeks. |
Roth & Goldsmith, corset manufacturers,
employing nearly 500 operatives, and one
of the largest concerns Of the kind in this
country, are idle. Several hat shops, en-,
blowing hundreds of men and women, are
doing practically nothing, and last night
| the Nor walk Lock company laid off some
of their hands.
RoADMAsTER MILLER.
A, P. Miller of Biuefeld, West Vir-
ginia, has been appointed roadmaster of
the Naugatuck division. The position has
been temporarily filed by F. W. Plumb,
| foreman in charge of masons, since the
resignation of G. II. Lane, in April last.
Mr.. Miller has already commenced his
| duties. His headquarters will be in this
| city.
| cELTICs AND sARsFIELDs.
| The annual excursion of the Celtic Lit
erary association of Ansonia, and the Pat
rick Sarsfeld association of Waterbury
will take place on Wednesday, August 23.
| The excursion committee will run special
trains from Waterbury to Bridgeport, and
| there board the Sirius of the Iron Steam
boat company for New York and Coney
Island. The tickets are limited to 1900,
and the capacity of the boat 2,100.
| hAhlfOnD hNCOUhAtED
Hartford's directory names 9,175 pso-
pie and it is thought that there are enough
more there to make total of 60, $685.
900 within three years-the largest in
crease in the city's history.
| A NICE BASS.
Editor Babcock OF the Sound Breeze,
Essex, formerly of New Haven) caught a
striped bass that measured forty seven
inches in length and twenty seven inches
around, just below the gills, and tipped
the scales when first taken out of the wa
ter at just thirty-seven pounds.
A TERRIBLE FALL.
Henry Murphy, a well known painter of
East Bridgeport, fell from staging Satur-
day morning, and had not an awning and
some telegraph wires broken his fall he
would have had his brains dashed out ON
. the sidewalk. He escaped with only severe
bruises. He fell sixty feet.
THE wooDMoNT LICENSE.
Feeling runs high among the cottagerE
in Woodmont over the granting of license
to Proprietor Sanford of the Sanford house
: There is talk of an appeal.
, WILL REMAIN AT ERIE.
Rev. Ernest Mathews, formerly an assist
ant rector at St. Johns church, Bridgeport
who has been supplying the pulpit of St
Paups church in Erie, Pa, and who re
t Gently accepted call to sanduaky, O., has
been released from his acceptance of the
latter call and will remain at Erie.
SHOOTING FESTIVAL
/; The Southern New England Schuetzsn
= bund will hold shooting festival at Hart
ford next Monday and Tuesday, in which
members from Springfield, New Haven
Bridgeport, New Britain, Mer'den and An
Q sonia will take part. The shooting will be
| gin at l O'Clock on Monday and close at
!, | p. m. On Tuesday the shooting hours will
= be from to 10 and from to 6 p. m. AL
! prizes will be distributed at the Close of tn
b shooting The principal event will b
}. shooting at the target of honor, every msm
,, Der having three shots. The highest scor
:; wins handsome prize. The shooting 8
: this target closes at p. m. Tuesday. Ther
|, are nearly 100 prizes besides the casl
: prizes, which aggregate nearly $500. Ger
:, tain prizss are open to all corners, Will
!; others are restricted to members of tn
J. bund. There will also be prizes for ladies
EMPLOYEES TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.
i. The annual excursion of the employe
l. of Yale & Towne's big factory, Stamford
70 takes place tomorrow. They spend
n day on the sound on the iron steame
,, Cetus.
- A. O. F. TO ENJOY THEMSELVES.
y Court Philip H. Sheridan, A. O. F.
y of Stamford has decided to hold re
,, union and field day at Shippan Point O.
O. Saturday, August 10. Invitations hav
been sent to the two Norwalk Courts an
| &c
Dewitt has rendered the use of his pavilio
at the point for the accommodation of tn
d Foresters and their families.
% FRUSTRATED WITH sUNsrRoKE.
y The first local sunstroke of the seaso
~ in Bridgeport occurred Saturday after
r. moon. William J. Carroll of No 1 Wa
n street was Frustrated at the depot an
fell unconscious. he was taken to tn
v Emergency hospital in the ambulance
n His case is serious although probably no
:. fatal.
n STOLEN CATTLE RETURNED.
d The police this morning located the team
% of oxen stolen from farmer Pratt of Bots
"a ford several days ago. The name of III
W party who stole the animals is known.
/, N. Y, N. E. AND NORTHERN.
Is The New York, New England and North
ern Railroad company was incorporate,
Saturday, at Albany, to construct stan
y dsr3-guage steam road about so miles 1,
:, length from point on the East river nea
If the mouth of Leggett's creek in New Yorl
- city, northerly to point on the line of tn
" New York and New England road nea
It BTewsters. The capital Is So, 900, 900. dl
a vided into 500 shares.
u APPOINTED EDITOR.
- W. F. Hilton of Hartford has been an
Is pointed editor of the department of tn
y Open Air Workers association of Americ
in the monthly magazine, The Worker
published at Pittsburg.
DISAPPEARED.
=" Frank Bittner, German twenty-eigh
years old, working in the Meriden brew
cry, has disappeared and has probably
T committed suicide. He had been employed
at the brewery several weeks. He leave
a wife and two children.
J.. sHoLEs HELD IN $1,000.
b NORWICH, July 22.-Sholes, who killed
!. a tramp in Preston, was given hearing a
: Preston yesterday. He was charged with
: murder in the frat degree and he pleaded
f not guilty. His case was continusd unit
! Wednesday, August Q. Bonds were fixed