Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-10-21
LOCAL NE w 8.
Brief Mention.


High water to- day at 1923 p. m.
Money wanted on mortgsgs.-R. E. Bald
win.
A. Il. Davis, Bridgeport clothier, failed
yesterday.
James Hall, in advance of "The Two
Johns" was in town yesterday.
A movement is on foot to have paid
fire department in Middletown.
George Thomas, town clerk of Orange,
left yesterday for the worlds fair.
The 21st school year of tho Yale Business
College begins Monday, September 4.
Typewriter supplies at $40 Chapel street.
Joseph E. Plat, general dealer for Conn
;Oonorete walks laid and repaired by
Conn. Concrete company, 49Church street.
The annual meeting of, the directors of
the Consolidated road will he held in New
York to day. Esz+,. :.
~ksvFDf. Levy addressed the members of
the Court street synagogue for the first
time last evening.
The first battalion Of tie Boys brigade
will meet at the Calvary Baptist church
next Tuesday night.
The Yale junior football team goes to
Ansonia ,dsy to play game with the
Wheel club team there.
Gall at $40 Chapel street and see new
Remington Standard typewriter. Joseph
E. Platt, general dealer.
Fifteen messenger boys at the Western
Union Office in Hartford are on q strike.
They want to get off an hour earlier at
night.
The Peck, Stowe & Wilcox company of
Southington yesterday gave notice to all
the salaried employees of a reduction of 10
per cent. in wages.
The general convention of the Universal
let church, which has been in session at
Washington, adjourned yesterday to meet
in Msriden two years hence.
A Washington dispatch yesterday after
noon says that Mrs. Platt, wife of Senator
Plat, was little easier yesterday and that
the symptoms were very encouraging.
State Health Officer G. E. Hoadley of
this city has made his appointment of the
town health officer for Seym under the
new law. DR.. F. A. Benedict Is the APP
pointee.
At the quarterly meeting of the directors
of the General Hospital Society of Connec-
ticut last evening 1t was decided to build q
maternity ward at the hospital as soon as
possible.
Wonderfully low, and those who buy
now of those beautiful fur shoulder capes
and neck boas at Burgess & Burgess will
save much money. These very useful and
tasteful wraps are in greater demand than
ever.
Albert Nelson of Hartford, three years
old, who was mutilated in a terrible man
ner by an electric car a few months ago,
has been brought to this city to have an
artificial leg applied by George B. Hoggson
of 721 Chapel street.
Conflicting reports-The weather bureau
last night reports that storm ia coming
northward from the Gulf of Mexico, while
our Connecticut prophet, Horace johnson,
says eve shall from now on have beautiful
weather during the months of October and
November"
Rudolph Kost, real estate and insurance
agent of Bridgeport, who died Thursday,
aged sixty-fve, was member of the Sixth
@. V. and was one of the detachment of
one hundred captured in the brave de-
tense of Fort Wagner and was in rebel
prisons for twenty months.
At the musical and literary entertain
ment to be given by st. Roses guild next
Tuesday evening in Warner hall Mics
Helen Conklin and Master Hayden Cooke
will sing duet. Miss Lottie Reynolds,
the gifted and highly accomplished elocu-
ZIONIST, will also appear in several choice
ssleotiour