Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-06
LOCAL NE w 2.
Brief IN ention.

Mrs. Benjamin Pardee of Milford Is very
i'll with the grip.
Eagle-Altsir bicycles lead in perfect pro
portions and workmanship.
United States Senator o. Il. Platt and
wife are hcms from Washington.
Robert T. Merwin of this city is erecting
a handsome summer residence at Wood
mont.
Mrs Fl. B. Downs of Milford will spend
the summer with her daughter Mrs. vii,
bur Ford at Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Treat Clark of Milford have
able to be about again.
Two electric oars collided on Meadow
street early last evening and one was badly
damaged. No one was injured,
The work of driving the piles on the
railroad side at No. 2 engine house on Ar
tizan street will be commenced this morn
ing.
Miss Ida Kahn returned to this city yes
terday from New York, where she has been
spending few weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Meyers.
Professor Wsyiand of the Yale law
school, president of the state prison board
of directors, was at the state capitol yester-
day forenoon.
Judge Deming delivered an interesting
lecture Thursday evening at the South
church, Bridgeport, on "Personal Expert
ences in Guatemala"
The thirty-eighth annual meeting Of the
Connecticut Electric Medical association
will be held at the United States hotel at
Hartford next Tuesday.
The body of an unknown man about
thirty years of age was found in the canal,
near the electric light works, in Birming-
ham, early last evening.
The mustang of Samuel Rice of Monte
wese ran away in this city yesterday and
collided into horse car at the Union
depot. 1t was finally stopped on Wooster
street by DR.. James Kelly.
George and William Manville, two young
farmers living In the town of Southbury,
came to Danbury yesterday and displayed
a large and ferccious wildcat, which they
had captured in one of their traps.
The body of boy wasfound in the Con-
neoticut river at Hartford yesterday,
which is probably tibet of little Chester
Provost, the son Of Charles Provost of
West Springfield who was drowned last
December.
The Morris Cove electric road ere now
running on time, leaving each end of the
road every half hour. The company are
now fitting up their open cars with the
new Curtis motors and will put them on
the road as soon as the weather is warm
enough.
Mrs. Jane Birden, aged seventy three,
and Mrs. Charles Taylor. aged sixty three,
died in Torrington Thursday of the grip.
George Hurlburt also died in Torrington
this week. He was the father of Charles
Hurlburt of North Haven and Wilbur Hurl-
burt of Southington.
About 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a
/ horse belonging to q North Haven farmer,
whose name could not be learned, became
frightened at the electric cars on Congress
avenue and ran away. In front of Ack-
ley's fish market he was stopped by James
E. Hesslin, an employ of Ackley's, after a
short struggle. No damage was done to
either the horse or wagon.
The backward spring has forwarded tie
call at Burgess & Burgess for those nice
fashionable fur capes, spring styles. More
sold this spring than ever before. They
are indispensable for wraps, just the thing
for seaside or mountain or when the cold
breezss blow from Lake Michigan at the
worlds fair. They ward off grip and
pneumonia. Hats, all styles, imported and
domestic, including the world noted Knox
stvles