Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-04
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

High water to-day at 4:12 p. m.
Once tried, used evermore; Royal shoes.
Invest money in New Haven.-R. E.
Baldwin.
Ericsson Bushnell of New York was in
Clinton yesterday.
Mrs. Joseph Irons of Boston is visiting
friends in Clinton for few days.
The Starin took about 900 people on her
excursion to Glen Island yesterday.
City lots exchanged for savings banks
books. Clark, 121 Church street, Room IS.
The veru bicycle races will be held this
afternoon at o'clock over the Pequot
course.
Joel A. Sperry is one of the guests reg
istered at the Highland house, Westfeld,
near Meriden.
R. L. Manwarring, formerly manager of
W. L. Calvert's branch, Band street, New
London, will remove to Fair Haven, next
week.
Hurd & Kelsey of Clinton caught six me-
dium sized sharks in their pound Wednes-
day. They weighed from 100 to 300
pounds.
The Waterbury, Willimantic and Nor
witch Savings banks also now require notice
from depositors commencing yesterday.
All the banks are sound.
II. G. Baldwin of Naugatuck will speak
at the w. G. T. U. hall this evening on the
subject: "Shall the Sherman Silver Pur-
chase Act be Repealeds'
Excursion tickets to Chicago ST.. 90, and
$26.4 with stop-over privileges. Morse,
Schroeder & Stock, room 10, Benedict
building. Open evenings.
James T. Moran and wife of Oakland,
GAL, who have been visiting Senator Fox
for the past two weeks, have started for
home via the worlds fair.
Ansonis's special town meeting to con-
slider the subject of erecting new city hall
comes off this afternoon at 4 o'clock. There
is apathy on the subject, however.
The silver and gold championship cup,
which was won by the Yale combination
team at Chicago last month, is on exhibit
ton in one of J. B. Mullings' window in
Waterbury.
James Weinhusen, aged twenty two, en-
ployed at the Booth Meat company on
State street, Lost four fingers in meat cut
ter yesterday morning. He was taken to
the hospital.
Many of the parishioners of st. Johns
R. G. church will go to Naugatuck to day
to attend the funeral of Rev. Father Pagan.
He was years ago located at st. Johns
church here.
Captain Walter W. Ives of New Haven
Is visiting his SOD, W. W. Ives, In Nor
wich. Captain Ives is we'll preserved
gentleman of seventy-two years, who has
travelled extensively.
Four Ansonians have chartered the
yacht Frolic of New Haven for ten days
cruise to the eastward, and now think they
will go as far east as Buzzsrd's Bay. They
are Alfred Jameisen, Thomas Kneen,
George King and Bert Sperry. They will
start this evening.
Beriad B. Champlain, Andrew J. Blake,
and several other members of the gallant
Twenty-sixth regiment, Connecticut Vol.
unteers, who now reside in New Haven, but
were quarter of century ago we'll known
New Londoners, are making arrangements
to attend the annual reunion of their old
regiment at Bushy point on Friday of next
week.
Frank B. Munson of Shelton has received
new power house of the State Street Horse
Railroad company in Fair Haven. Mr..
Munson received the contract from the
Berlin Iron Bridge company, who are to
erect the building. The roof ia 250x100
feet, and 1t will require FIVE carloads of
slate to cover it.
The special committee of the court of
common council to take action on the
recommendation of the mayor that a rail-
ing should be erected at the Union depot
in order to keep the hackmen within GER
tain limits met in the city hall last even
ing, and after hearing Mayor Sargent's
views on the subject voted to table the
matter until some future time.
O. E. Hart of New Haven, p resident of
the State Retail Butchers Protective asso-
citation, and Adam Ssttig Of this city ad-
dressed the members of the Hartford
branch of the association at Bliss hall
there Wednesday night, urging the import
ance of having branches in all parts of the
state. The associations state convention
will be held in this city September Z.
A Chester correspondent writes: Judge
William D. shipman has been spending a
week at his country seat here. This is his
native place, and he usually spends his
summer vacation here. His fine, spacious
villa overlooks the old shop, only few
rods away, where he labored in his early
boyhood over the anvil, little thinking at
that time of the distinction he would
achieve, both az a federal judge and as the
chief counsel for some of the largest cor