Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-11
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.


Honest shoes; right prices. Royal Shoes.
A beautiful pair Of Shetland ponies, well
broken, for sale at 81 Veto street.
The New Haven Gun club will hold its
monthly shoot to morrow afternoon.
Rev. Father Downey of St. Augustine's
church, Bridgeport, who has been ill with
pneumonia, is still very low.
B.F. Dillon, the shoe merchant Of this
city, and Miss Lillian Turley Of jersey
City will be married June 81.
Very few trout stories have been told
yet in the state. The weather is yet too
backward for successful sport.
A regular meeting Ct the New Haven
Yacht club will be held st the New Haven
house April 10, at O'Clock p. m
@. II. Darrow, sged seventy-dve, of Oar
row g. Roberts, Hartford carriage manu-
facturers, died yesterday of paralysis.
A months mind mass was held at st.
Mary's church yesterday morning for the
repose of the soul of the late J. B. O'B1ien.
The late Mrs. John Sullivan of "a Wal
lace street was buried yesterday in st.
Bernard's cemetery. The funeral took
place at o'clock.
Dudley Vail is at his home in Winsted
i'll with the grip, and the doctor thinks he
will be unable to return to his studies at
Yale for week or two.
Tomorrow afternoon occurs the legis-
lstive hearing regarding woman suffrage.
Large delegations from this city and Hart
ford are expected to be present.
Reilly & Gallagher, the builders, have
been awarded the contract for the mason
work on the great hotel which Millionaire
Flsgler Ia to build at Lakeworth, Fla.
The base of Che Barnum monument at
Seaside park, Bridgeport, is now about
completed, and the statue of the late Mr..
Barnum will soon be placed in position.
The body of James Butler, who died in
Roosevelt hospital, was buried yesterday
in North Haven. The funeral services
took place at the residence of his brother,
IA View street, this city.
Expert Algernon Morse testified in the
case of Goldsmith ct al. vs.. the New York
and New England road at Hartford yester-
day. Alling, Morehouse Il Webb were
counsel for the plaintiffs.
Frederick Lockwood, the Consolidated
road brakeman who was 30 seriously in
jured by being caught between two cars in
Naugatuck, Saturday morning, is dying at
the Bridgeport hospital from internal inju-
ries received.
William Cummings, we'll known old
resident and frequent visitor at the city
hall, died yesterday at the home of his
daughter, at 9sl State street, aged sixty
five. He leaves three sons and three
daughters. The funeral will be held to-
morrow at St. Patrick's church.
The members of Mattabessett council,
o. U. A. M, of Middletown, sent hand
some floral piece to this city Sunday,
which was placed on the casket of the late
council. Grand Councillor A. Dickson
represented Mattabessett council.
The st Joseph's T. A. and B. association
Of Bridgeport has decided to compete for
several of the trophies to be awarded at
the temperance tournament in this city on
Memorial day. All the temperance socie-
ties of the state have accepted the invita-
ton to participate In the field day exer
cises.
Miss Mary Dimock Mansfield, the seven
year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
G. Mansfield of West Haven, died Sunday
at the home of her parents, corner Elm
and Union streets, after an illness of two
weeks. The deceased was niece of Clarence
E. Thompson, the Orange street real estate
dealer, and was an exceptionally bright
and lovable child.
The mileage books on the Consolidated
road will be good on and after to-day over
the Old Colony system, and Old Colony
mileage books will be good over the Con-
solidated. This arrangement will be in
force until July l, when the Consolidated
takes possession of the Old Colony. After
that date all tickets will be issued under
the name of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad.
Mrs. Marvette Wetmore, the Oldest VIC
man In New Britain, died Saturday night
of pneumonia, aged ninety-two. She was
very highly esteemed. Her whole life, the
local paper says, was marked by useful
ness and good deeds. She was the Oldest
member of the New Britain Baptist church,
and was mother of the late Mrs. Helen S.
North of that city, and one son, Sylvester
Noble of New Haven, who survives her.
Her companion, Miss Stone, Is seriously
III with pnsunaonia.