Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-30
CONNECTICUT NEWS

CONNECTICUT NEWS
OF Interest to Inhabitants of the Nut.
meg State-A Big Day for the Water
bury Butchers To.Morrow - Stone
Family Rally In Milford To-Day
Consolidated Road Stock-Winsted,s
Water supply to be DEMONSTRATORS
About Sound Pirates-Fresh Depre-
dati0ns Committed.
The members of the Waterbury Retail
Butchers association have completed ar
rangsments for the big barbecue to be held
at the West End grounds there tomorrow
butchers are making extensive preparations
to participate in the parade and have de-
cided to enter their teams gayly decorated
with bunting and American flags. The
parade will form on the green at 10 M, and |
at O'Clock will move around the soldiers |
monument and over the following course:
To Bank street, to Meadow, to South Main,
to East Main, to Cherry, to Grove, to Gem
trail avenue, to West Main street and to
the grounds, where the parade will bs dis |
missed. James Coughlan will be chief
marshal of the day, and he has chosen
for his aides such competent men as
Louis Schick, James NJ. Warner and W. A.
Guilfoile. Dinner will be served at the
grounds soon after 1880 O'Clock and the
games will follow. There will be base
ball game between the groeers and butch
ers, which promises to be very interesting,
and will undoubtedly furnish lots Of
amusement for spectators. It has been
decided that the old-time creased pole
climbing will be a feature Of the after
| moons games. @. L. Rogers, the commit
tee on gamee, has arranged for several
| other features which will certainly be
worth witnessing. All those persons wish
| ing to participate in the parade can secure
regulation sashes by applying to William
| Riethsr. A feature of the parade will be
| an immense barge filled with the butchers
| children and drawn by yoke of prize
| oxen.
sToNE-HooKKR REUNION.
The seventh annual reunion of the Stone
| family will be held at the Milford hotel on
Wednesday, August 80. All bearing the
name or affiliated by marriage are invited
| to attend this meeting at the ancestral
home. Many of the descendants of Thomas
| Hooker Of Hartford are connected with
| the Stone family. Dinner will be served
| at 12:45.
| SOUND P1RATES-YACHTS P1LLAGED, BOATS
| STOLEN, ETC.
| A Westbrook correspondent writes thus:
The band of Sound pirates which has in
tested this coast all summer has again put
in it's appearance after short respite and
once more the shore residents are in
state of fear and trepidation. The usual
| depredations are reported, such as yachts
1 rNt1I 1fn how and han
houses robbed; in fact scarcely q night
passes but some act of vandalism is re-
corded.
The shore has been free from these
| raids for two weeks, and 1t was supposed
that the pirates were under cover owing
to the efforts of the authorities of Bridge
port, New Haven and New London, to
apprehend them. The search for the
missing Bridgeport girl Annie Orr mar
rowed down to a question of abduction by
some gang of marine miscreants, which
theory was greatly strengthened by the
now fully credited escape of Louis L.
Norton of New Haven, from the clutches
of the pirates.
That the gang would stop at nothing,
not even murder, in the furtherance of their
plans, is believed by all who are familiar
with their methods. The identity of the
pirates is yet shrouded in mystery, but
, there is but little doubt that they are Ital-
ians, and portion of the populace has
made life miserable for the residents OF
Stony Creek, Branford, and other shore
towns, which seem peculiarly alluring to
l | the sons of Italy.
POOR SHOW FOR HORSE RACES.
Il The Derby Driving association have
offered purses for meeting that 1t is
: presumed will have the same fate a. the
,, | Waterbury races. The date of closing the
, entries for the Derby events Is September
D 1, so it is not definitely known whether
l they will fill or not, but the members are
a | 80 firmly of the opinion that the classes
Q will not fill that they are contemplating
}. other attractions for the park during on,
Q or more afternoons that were to be devoted
/. to the regular class recess. It has beer
q suggested that possibly an attempt will b.
n made to stop the horse races at the stat
= fair, which is to be held at Meriden Sep
tember 10 to %.
WATERBURY's LOCAL POLITICS.
The Waterbury Republican says: 1t Il
= reported on the best authority that Morit
;. Grelle, president of the Concordia society
o has been approached by leading democrat
!, with view to his becoming the nomine
for mayor on the democratic ticket. It il
3 | reported, on the best of authority also, tina
Mr.. Grelle declines to run. This narrow
= | the democratic aspirants down to Aessrs
Boughton, Moriarty and Sake, as 1t is be
ginning to be realized that Mr.. Kilduff will
. not accept a nomination. The pow-wov
over the Craftsmanship of the democratic
:. | town committee still continues.
i ELLINGTON CHURCH REDEDICATED.
: The Congregational church at Ellington
which has been undergoing extensive re
pairs, was re- dedicated Sunday. The ser
mon was preached by the Rev. Lyman
. | soloist in the Third Presbyterian church a
Paterson, N. j., sang Calvary" Mrs
. McNeill is visiting her parents, Mr.. ani
0 Mrs. M. s. Aandell. Many visitors wers
. present from Rockville city and neighbor
a ing towns.
| PRESIDENT CLARK OF THE CONSOLIDATED
I ROAD,
Commenting on the significance of the
.. fall of the New York, New Haven an6
Hartford stock nearly fifty points since
April, said the drop was largely due to the
few sales In general, and those largely il
Boston, where the New York, New Haver
8 and Hartford has dropped SO heavily, the
= stock is not very we'll known. He denied
that the old stockholders were selling, ex
! | cept in rare cases of need for money, and
, | stated that nothing had transpired to make
| the road for an instant consider the ques
ton of reduction of its dividends.
INCREASING wINsrRD's WATER SUPPLY.
WEssTED, Aug. ga tunnel about
seven feet in diameter is being cut through
the mountain between Long and Crysta
l lakes, for an additional water supply
Long lake has been supplying the city with
3 water and with this tunnel three quarters
of mile long Crystal lake can be emptied
| into the former and increase the city's sup
ply.
AT THE BEACON HOUSE.
.. Among the guests at the Beacon house
Clinton, are w. D. Barker of Meriden, Mrs
W. d. Richards of Philadelphia, E. Water.
: man and E. F. Waterman of Tarrytown,
N. Y, Miss Fleming of London, Egg, Mr..
, and Mrs. I. B. Smith of New Britain, Mrs.
, E. 8. Spencer and John P. CLARK of Hart.
) ford, Mr.. and Mrs. WA. Parmelee of Nor,
walk, Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Adams of Col,
chester, F. M. Pagan of Aiddletown, w. P.
r Nation of Springfield, J. q. Root OF
i Hartford.
Il Work of Burglars.
Early yesterday morning burglars broke
into car on q siding in the rear of Bryan,