Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-06-22
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

Brief mNRtion.
High water to-day R12:44 a. m.
Buy q good house-R e. Baldwin.
Stamford expects to- have the trolley
system as soon ss July 4th.
Concreting and artificial stone. Con-
necticut Concrete Co., 40 Church, room 4.
The annual reunion of the Connecticut
Army and Navy club will be held at Groton
Heights to day.
Mrs. George Barrows and two children
of New Haven are the guests of Mrs. Nc
Donald in Plainville.
A new fire alarm box was placed In cir
cult yesterday. 1t is located at Beach and
Mill River streets and will be known as
No. 424.
The annual picnic of the Hartford Ma
chine Screw Compsny's Benevolent associ-
alton will be held at Savin Rock on Satur-
day, July %.
Mrs. David F. Mann of New York city
is visiting for several weeks at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Marks Jacobs,
of Day street.
President Clark of the Consolidated road
sails for Europe for his annual summer
vacation trip tomorrow. He plans to be
away about six weeks.
The Pratt & Whitney company of Hart
ford is making two one pound rapid firing
guns of the Hotohkiss type for the naval
reserve at New Haven.
The seventeen-year locusts, which have
been very plentiful in some sections of the
state, are being decimsted through the
attacks of the much despised English spar
rows.
Emil O. Knapp. the defaulting teller Of
the Chicopee bank, was in Hartford, last
Saturday, at the annual regatta of the
Hartford Canoe club, and was the clubs
guest, Sunday.
Henry Zieglsr, a shoemaker, aged sixty.
seven, of SO Lafayette place, committed
suicide yesterday afternoon in fit of de-
spoedency oy hanging himself from hat
rack in his house.
The seventeenth annual report of the
Connecticut agricultural experiment sta
ton at New Haven will be sent free to all
applicants within the state 30 far as the
limited edition permits.
A few members of the II. E. church,
Plantsville, sent prepaid yesterday box of
choice flowers as present to the Rev. Mr..
Cooper of New Haven for church decorat-
ing purposes. Britain Herald.
A Boston dispatch remarks: 'sThe pass
ing of It's July dividend by the Old Colony
Steamboat company, which used to pay 10
per cent, is creating considerable COM
ment. The Old Colony railroad owns the
line"
The College street church and Sunday
school will picnic at Lake Saltonstall on
Saturday, June 23d, going by cars to the
lake, and by steamer to the grove. Its
members and friends will turn out in large
numbers.
A still alarm of fire was sent into No. re
house about O'Clock last evening for a
slight FIRE in the cellar of Henry Sutton's
ship chandler store at 214 State street. The
incipient blaze was extinguished without
any damage.
The commencement sale of the Woman's
Exchange will take place at the New Haven
House beginning tomorrow. The atten-
ton of all interested in this highly worthy
enterprise Is called to the advertisement in
another column.
The condition of Bishop Williams is, 1t
was learned last evening, more serious
than at first supposed. He suffered light
attack of sunstroke last Sunday and a
quite long season of rest will be necessary
for his recovery.
Frank W. Hinmsn, president of the
Connecticut Associated Press, had as his
guests yesterday on his elegant schooner
yacht Diana for sail to the eastward,
Colonel N. q. Osborn, DR.. Henry Ring,
Professor Horatio Reynolds and Captain
J. 8. Petit, U. s. A.
Harry Ackrill Of West Haven, an cleo
trician in the employ of the Winchester
avenue railroad power house, was married
Wednesday night to Newark, N. j., lady.
he will reside In West Haven In his new
house that he has just built. Samuel
MacLauehlin of this city acted as best
man.
Miss Le0n1 weeks, Well-knoWn young
lady, who was taken suddenly and vio-
lently Ill at the home of friend on Green
wood street few days ago, and who has
remained very Ill since, WAS removed to
the home Of her mother on Whslley avenue
yesterday. She IL attended by Dr.. Thomp-
son, and some fears for her recovery are
entertained. Her ailment ID . rupture of q
blood vessel in her stomach.
A Aeriden dispatch yesterday says:
''Colleosor Byxbee said to-day that he had
just heard of Hon. James Gallaghsr's
candidacy for the New Haven collector
ship, and knew nothing Of II or the Pc
titions alleged to b. filing up with signa-
tures here and elsewhere in his behalf. If
there II Gallagher petition In Meriden
neither M. Byxbee nor any other leading
democrat knows of It. Though Mr.. Byx-
bee and other Meriden democrats know
nothing Of II, the fact remains that Galla-
CHER Il In the contest Tor fair, and pro-
poees 70 shy until The finish"