Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-18
CONNECTICUT NEWS.
Events and Occurrences in Ma
 Parts of the State.

Events and Occurrences in Many
 Parts of the State.
 The Waterbury Indian association will meet this p. m. at 3 o'clock, at the Louse of Mrs. Edmund Rowland, Church street, Waterbury. Accounts of the work carried on by the association at Fort Hall, Idaho, will be read, and reports of the annual meeting at New Haven will be given with extracts from Mrs. Kinney's address, de- livered at that time.
 BELOW ZERO. The thermometer Monday morning regis tered ss follows: In West Hartland ID de- grees below zero, in Riverton IA degrees be-
 low zero,in West Norfolk IS degree below l zero, in Norfolk degrees below zero. In Winsted the thermometer ranged from to IA degrees below zero. The thermometers in the village of Tariff vile at 6 o'clock
 Saturday morning registered degrees be- low zero, and Il degrees below at Spoon vile.
 RAILROAD ENGINEERS. Engineers Jim Hyde and Flannigan and Conductor Troup of the New England division of the P. and R. railroad, have been laid off from the oompany's employ for several months, due to past accidents. There have recently arrived on the Connec. ticut division of the P. and R. railroad
 nine engineers from the main line, and
 they are mostly running as engineers on the many freight trains that pass over this route.
 MIR. MURPHY INVITED TO HARTFORD. Additional steps have been taken towards securing for Hartford temperance revival through the services of Thomas E Murphy, the successful temperance worker, who has made such an impression in this city and Meriden The citizens committee, named by the pastors of Hartford, met in the Young Mems Christian Association rooms and voted to extend an invitation to MT. Murphy to hold 6 series of meetings in Hartford.
 DEATH OF ERAsTUs R. PHELPS, FORMERLY OF THIS CITY. NoRwALK, Jan. 17.-Erastus R. Phelps | died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
 Julia Wilson, in Arch street, last night. Deceased was eighty, six years of age and | dssth was due to a general breaking down of the system. He was until five weeks | ego resident of New Haven and was one
 of the oldest Odd Fellows in the state. GEOLOGICAL. Clifford M. Case, formerly of the East
 Hill, Canton, but for few years past con-
 nected with the Pops Manufacturing com 1 pany of Hartford, will leave in few days | for Florida. where he expects to spend the remainder of the winter. He Is much in terested in zoology, and he hopes to add many new and rare specimens to his col | lection, which is already large and vaiu- l able one.
 LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES.
 The house and senate are we'll organized
 as to committees and the work of the l session will begin in earnest Tuesday,
 when it next meets. Judge Wood of
 Manchester Is st the head of the judiciary
 committee, which gives him the leader l ship of the republican side of the house, | and he will have his hands full to keep
 himself at the head of the house with
 such men as Gum and Hamersley on the
 other side. Speaker Brooks placed Colonel Mowry of Norwich at the head of the very important committee of appropriations and he will have his time fully occupied, 1 as no appropriations have been granted for
 the past two years and there are great
 many needs of the state to be supplied be-
 cause of the inability to repair public
 buildings, to complete new ones and the
 like. Bartholomew of Ansonia is at the
 head of interpretations, which will be one
 of the busiest committees of the session, as
 the petitions for various charters, particu-
 larly for street railways, are very numer
 ous, and many of the charters asked for | will be contested by rival petitiOners Wal | den of Willimantic Is at the head of the
 committee on banks, one of the best com
 mittees, and it is believed he is the young
 est man ever at the head of the committee.
 Kelsey of Orange Is chairman of the finance
 committee, and many other committees are
 we'll fixed at the head of the table.-Hsrt-
 ford correspondence of Springfield Rspub-
 lican.
 l EXPENSES OF THE STATE