Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-09
CONNECTICUT pIspArcHEs.

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selectmen Settle q Suit-A 100000
Will Case-The Will Susfafned-A
Big WORLDS Fair Contract - A
Waterbury Company's Good For.
tune-The Hazfng at Trinity.
HARTFORD, March 6.-Hasing at Trinity
10 now ended. Details said by those con
oerned to be exaggerated have already beer
printed of the recent hazing affair there
The students have now held college meet
ing and have adopted the following:
Resolved, That the statements In Mondays
newspapers concerning the recent hazing in this
college were greatly exaggerated and the un
known author of the false accounts is heartily
Resolved, That the four classes in joint session
hereby determine and agree that they shall dis
continue, disapprove and discourage all hazing
in the college 50 long as they remain In 1t and
that they hereby give assurance TO the faculty Of
discontinued.
This action is conceded on all sides to
mean that hazing has come to an end.
A ZIG CONTRACT WATERBURY, COMPANY
IN LUCK.
WATERBURY,, March S.-Ths Rogers &
Hammond company of this city, manufaot-
urer's of silverware, received this after
noon what is no doubt the largest contract
of the kind ever awarded in America. The
contract calls for at least 1O0, 900 knives
and forks and zoe, 900 spoons and is given
BY the wellington Catering company of
Chicago. This company practically con-
trolls the restaurant business on the expo
position grounds and has in process of con-
struotion at the present time over one mile
of lunch counters. Their restaurant will
be in every building on the grounds and
they expect to feed over O,OO0
people day. The Rogers & Ham
mond will also furnish the silverware
to be used in the administration building,
where government officials and distinguish
ed foreign visitors will be entertained.
The appointments of the building will be
superb, and to be In keeping with the sur
rounding grandeur the company will fur
nish the finest silverware which they man
ufaoture and which they claim is the best
ever made. A number of companies in
different parts of the United States sub
mitted bids for the contract, but although
the Connecticut company was not the low
est, 1t received the contract. The company
will begin to ship the goods Immediately,
as the Wellington company will this week
open restaurants for the accommodation
of exhibitors and employees now at the
grounds.
uOCAN1lLH, 11hICu o. uo seItctIu6u Oh
the town of Vernon have settled the suit
brought against the town by the Andrew
Lassen estate by paying $500. The estate
claimed damages of 81, 900 for the death of
Larsen by drowning in Talcottville mill
pond, owing to the highway being unsafe
at that place.
BRIDGEPORT, March S-The jury In the
Stephen Hawley will case this afternoon
sustained the will in the superior court.
Mr.. Hawley left an estate of over $50, 900,
which was inherited from his wife and her
relatives. He willed it to his relatives,
ignoring his wife's nephew, Albert W.
Gum of Brooklyn. Gum appealed from
the probate of the will.
DAR1EN, March 8.-James Oman, for
some years past head clerk in the general
store of J. B. Ballard in this town, has
and to-day the discovery was
made that he has taken several hundred
dollars belonging to his employer. Mr..
Ballard has been sick for about four weeks
and during that time Oman has had entire
charge of the business. Mr.. Ballard has
just recovered sufficiently to be about.
This forenoon he went to his store and
found 1t looked. He entered and discov-
cred the safe open. The entire receipts of
yesterday. probably about $50, and $3.50 in
cash had been taken.