Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-13
wALLINGFORD.

wALLINGFORD.
 The Rig Driving wheel at R. Wallace
 X Sons, Burst, Hut No One Was In-
 iured-The Accident Will Cause a
 shutdown of at Least Two Weeks
 Work of the Town Meeting-Night |
 Schools Will be Held.
 There was a bad accident at R. Wallace S Sons factory shortly after o'clock yes terday afternoon. The big driving wheel on the main shaft, that connects from the two engines, broke and every spoke in the wheel was smashed and about two lengths of the shafting badly bent and twisted. As the wheel broke it struck the floor above, breaking hole through into the rouge bufiug room, scattering the silver wars in all directions, but luckily not in turing any of the employees. The cause of the break is not known, but is probably due to the immense strain of the heavy machinery that is used in all parts of the factory. John Kahl, master machinist, savs that 1t will take at least fourteen days to repair the break, and in consequence the employees will have two weeks vacation. A portion of the works used In the manu facture of the nickel silver fatware can be run by the water-wheel, but this is only small part of the works. A notice was posted yesterday in the gate house that the factory would hereafter, until further mo- tice, run five days @ week.
 Sergeant Young of Company D, New Haven, won the Colonel Leavenworth medal at the skIrmish shooting yesterday in the meadows east of Judge Choate's property on Christian street. The shoot ing was at a figure representing man, instead of the usual target. The winning score was fifteen points, representing five hits out of ten shots.
 Charles A. Goodwill of this place, who works at 0. Rogers & Brothers in Meriden, got caught in the elevator and his left leg below the knee was broken. Ed. Lom bard, formerly of this town, lost two fin gers in drop at the same factory yester- day.
 The Ladies' Benevolent society held the first of it's semi monthly suppsrs at the Congregational church parlors last even ing. The suppers will be given every al ternate Thursday during the winter. M. K. Thomas entertained his Sunday | school class at his home on South Main street last evening.
 Hall & Elton Go. and the Simpson Nickel | | until Monday. The maj jority of the em- 1 ployes of Maltby, Stevens & Curtis Go. | got through last night until Monday. Simpson, Hall, Miller. 6 Co. will run tc- day and possibly tomorrow.
 l A large number of children and grand
 children of Bennett Jerralds gave that
 worthy citizen a pleasant surprise lsst
 evening, it being his seventy fifth birthday.
 The relatives gathered at his house early
 and brought with them many presents. and l made themselves at home and were joyfully
 received and entertained by their aged hos, l and family.
 Band concert on the plains this evening
 weather permitting.
 G. M. Harenbeck and Dr. w. s. Russell
 will arrive home from Chicago to-day.
 Henry Botsford, who lives on North Elm
 street, states that the bullets were flying
 thick and fast in his neighborhocd yeBte1
 day during tine skirmish shoot for the
 Colonel Leavenworth badge, which wal held in the lot half-mIle below his place
 and in direct range.
 Robert Allen was down to the shor,
 duck shooting yesterday and brought hom'
 one Gold coot."
 | It was just o'clock last evening whel
 Judge Hubbard called the adjourned tow
 meeting to order. The attendance 1a
 very large. The first business of the meet
 ing was the laying of the annual town tax
 Ex -Selectman 0. N. Jones gave brief es
 timate of tho expenses of last year aut
 thought that less money would, in his es
 timation, be needed during the comin
 year than in the year past, owing to extr
 expenses that came up last year. such 8
 new bridges and other outlsys, includin 1000 paid for town farm, that would nc , come in during the next year. Judg , | Hrh hhorI ofn ntoA hot ho hol lon ip
 over the town reports for the past si , years and finds that the expenses hay averaged about $35, 900 year and that tn receipts by taxes and other sources wer somewhat less than the outlay. The ts . of seven mills last year on the new lis footed up more than the eight mill tax ( | the previous year. H. l.. Hall made , l motion that a seven mill tax be laid, th ,, ] same to be payable on the 1st of Apri , 1894, and collected before April 1, 1S0i 7 The motion prevailed. The next in orde , voted to leave the matter to the board C : ! selectmen.
 The matter of accepting the new road 1 | YalesEills opened by Bennett Jerralds. B ! a mistake in the call the credit of openip the road was given to A. J. Brown J. 3 Campbell made motion that the road question be accepted by the meeting. A
 ter some discussion as to the location ( , the road in question, after several vote ,, were taken viva voce, without @ satisfactor result, standing vote was taken, and II suited in favor of the motion by total (
 90 to 60. The chair nan decided that th motion prevailed.
 Voted that the selectmen be authorize
 to borrow money to conduct the bueinef of the town, according to their best judg
 | ment, as in former years
 Judge Hubbard called J. R. Campbell l the chair for the purpose of taking th floor 10 make motion as follows:
 Voted, that the selectmen be and al hereby authorized to present to the auditor
 each year hereafter 8 particular statemer of all outstanding indebtdness, embrscin the names of parties to whoever the san
 is due, and to far as possible the amour due in each csss and when the exact amour due in any case, cannot be at the tin
 practically ascertsined then as close an e l timste ss may be, and the selectmen al | further directed to print such statement in the annual reports. The motion pr f vailed without opposition.
 :, The matter of the case of the bridge . the railroad near the North Haven lir came up for discussion. The bridge ws moved into the limits of this town by Il railroad company in order to change th course of the stream for the benefit of u railroad company itself, and since thi time the company has cared for 1t and no the company decline to further bear tt , i expense of caring for the bridge. A mt | tion to accept the offer of the railroa . company to give the town $100 and her. after the town to care for the bridge ws l voted down almost unanimously. 5 The matter of night schools was take from the table and discussed. James ( , Roach favored the project, but thougt the matter should go over until the ne1 annual meeting. s. N. Edmonds made motion to indefinitely postpone the que
 tion. An amendment was made by R. E : Cowles to postpone the question until tt
 next annual mee'ing. The chslrma : ruled that the amendment was not in orde . | s. o. Roach offered 8 substitute motion t lay the matter on the table for one year ,, There was lengthy discussion, which wa participated in by Rev. J. E. Wildman, E M. Judd, H. L. Hall, J. B. Kendrick, Y |, o. Callahan and others. The motion wa voted down. E. M. Judd made motto
 that when the meeting adjourned that
 would be for g week, and that @ committe be appointed by the chair to investigat l the general subject and report. MT. Jud afterwards withdrew the motion and J.
 Kendrick presented the following motion Voted, That the board of school visitor |