Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-23
STATE NEWS JOTTINGs.
Interesting News From All Parts OF
the State.

| Interesting News From All Parts o
the State.
Thirty three years ago yesterday tn
FRS Connecticut Heavy Artillery wa
sworn into service.
No tracs of missing Student Peck o
Wesleyan university has yet been found
He preached at Turnerville last Sunday
and was las seen Sunday afternoon.
Patrick Lslly died in Meriden yesterday
aged fifty four. He worked at the Bills
chop, and came to Meriden four years egg
from Attleboro, Mass.
| Danbury's new smallpox victim is Allie,
Hoffmsn, four year old daughter of Charles
Hoffman.
| AT New London yesterday Private Muir
ply, member of Company D, Third reg
ment, O. N. g was shot in the leg Will.
practicing at the rifle range.
The Fist regiment, c. N. G., held It'll
| field day ye :erday on the Colt meadows
The exercises ended with a street riot drill
| and a dress parade on the park.
John E. Sver son, Andrew Benson, Anna
| tus Janson and Albert johnson of Meriden
will sail May 20 on the new steamer of the
burg.
The Southington Gun club will have a
shoot at their grounds Decoration day. A
team from Collinsville is expected to con-
test with them.
The U. NJ. T. club of Southington bor-
ough have arranged to play ball with the
UNI. IT, of Hartford on the home grounds
May 80. They wiz play a return game In
Hartford July 4.
The ladies of the W R @. of southipgton
were busy in the court room yesterday FIX
ing the flowers for Decoration day. A del.
egation from Trumbull post will 60 to VOL
colt Sunday to decorate the soldiers graves
there.
The following we'll known gentlemen
acted as bearers at the funeral of J. Warren
Hubbard in Middletown yesterday: j. b.
Bunce, o. v. Coffin, George Hurlburt, A.
R. Crittenden, E P. Augur, 81. F. Board
man.
Wesleyan will play Tufts to day on the
Wesleyan campus, and the Cuban Giants
will be in Middletown Friday.
Indications point to legal contest over
the legacy of $15, 900 left BY Storrs Hub.
bard of Higganum to the Middlesex Coun-
ty Orphan home. The ladies who conduct
legacy.
The stockholders of the Winsted Metalll-
form company met yesterday morning and
organized, elected the following directorr:
James L Carson, Eugene Potter, Louis ].
Hopkins, James G. Woodruff. The capt.
tai stock is $40, 1000.
Captain Hendrick and six veterans of the
civil war left Bridgeport yesterday morn
ing on q march to Washington. Their
FIRST stop will be Norwslk. They intend
to make demands for immediate tariff leg
islstion.
Mrs. Samuel Booth, mother of W. f.
Booth of Waterbury died of pneumonia at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Bar
low, at Waterfowl, yesterday morning.
Mrs. Booth went on visit to her daughter
about q week ago.
The residence of E. Il. Higginson In
Meriden was destroyed by fire at O'Clock
yesterday morning, the inmates barely e.
Gaping In their night clothes. Mr.. Higgin-
son was eighty burned. The loss is
So 900; insurance 81 900.
The relatives of Mrs. Nancy Bailey, who
was killed in q runaway accident at Bris-
toll on Friday, will sue the town for dam
ages.
Winfield johnson, who stabbed William.
5hllson of Danbury last week was bound
over under 81, 900 bonds yesterday.
At Hartford yesterday Charles e. Gross |
and John Hall, appraisers, filed in the pro- |
bate court the inventory of the estate Of |
The late Commodore Caldwell 81. Colt. It |
amounts to $7s5, 496, $500, 900 of which is |
the value of q, 794 ehares of the Colts |
Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing company.