Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-29
LOCAL NE WS.
Brief Mention.

high water to-day at 1O:42sa. m.
The Dolphin club has sheep bake next
Friday.
Invest money in New Havep.-R. E.
Baldwin.
Dwight Baldwin moved to Morris Cove
yesterday for the summer.
Miss Emile N. Shew of $40 Whitney ave-
nue is spending the summer in Winsted.
Concrete walks laid aud repaired by
Conn. Concrete company, 40 Church street.
Mrs. A. q. Kimberly, with her son, Roy
q. Wilson, is at the Ocean View. Block
Island.
DR.. and Mrs. B. A. Cheney, will leave on
Monday morning for the Profile house,
White Mountains.
Cornelius Murphy was arrested by Ser
geant Dennehy and locked up on reform
school complaint.
The state treasurer has taken steps to
sue Gum, the defaulting agent of the
school fund, for So, 1870.
Mrs. Hovey, wife of Rev. DR.. Hovey, who
has been dangerously i'll in Fair Haven, is
now rapidly improving.
Worlds fair excursion tickets $17O0.
Morse, Schroeder & Stock, Room 10, Beue-
dict building. Open evenings.
Ex-Selectman John I. Goodrich, wife
and daughter leave to. day for stay of a
few weeks at the Branford Point house.
Mrs. Romanta Wells of Trumbull street
and her daughter, Miss Lila, leave Monday
for the worlds fair, stopping at Niagara on
the return route.
The old Welles Tavern, on the Albany
turnpike, about four miles from Hartford,
was burned to the ground yesterday morn
ing. Loss, $1,000; insured.
Henry Portius, jr., of Branford, aged
sixteen, who was struck by lightning dur
ing the fierce storm of Wednesday night,
died from the result of his injuries.
Mrs. Hannah Hodge, widow of the late
George L. Hodge, died July 20 at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Jennie E. Reed, 14e
Shelton avenue, aged eighty-two years and
nine months.
The "Wilkins Tigers" will consider the
lately issued proposition of the commits
sary general respecting rations at Camp
Norris, at their meeting this evening, and
will make general arrangements for the
week.
Rev. J. W. Hubbell of Mansfield, O.,
formerly of this city, is visiting in Dan
bury, where he was pastor of the First
Congregational church for several years.
He will visit New Haven before his return
west.
Many ladies are so glad that they took
their fur shoulder capes made at Burgess
& Burgess with them to the seashore or
mountains. The firm are selling an enor-
nous number of trunks and travelling
bags to tourists also.
Station Agent Sylvester Vanhorn of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road at Thompsonville will retire from his
position August 1. Mr.. Vanhorn has been
agent for over thirty-one years and has been
in the service of the road for nearly forty
eight years. His eighty-second birthday
occurred April 8, 1898. He is still hale
and hearty, but thinks change will be
beneficial. He is succeeded by his son-in-
law, Henry Davis.
The following members of the P. D. O..
club will have picnic and clambake at
Charles Island to-day, going there by
steam launch: h. W. Sperry, L. w. West,
Fred Miles, T. Thompson, L. F. Norton,
F. n. Leonard, Fred Smith, Bert Joyce,
Ira Talmadge, Charles F. Merwin, Ed Mich
OILS, II. Stanford, Theodore West, Charles
b. Aerwin, William Campbell. n. Smith.
The members of the..club are all from Hub
bell, Merwin & Co.'s, Artizan street.