The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-19
DERBY.

l June 1S.-There'S a, mania Just now
 putting it's grip on all classes and con-
 ditions in this part of the Naugatuck
 Valley. The fellow who doesn't "en- ! thuse" on baseball or drop every home
 duty or mercantile care and hustle to
 the new park to witness a game-and a
 muss over an umpire's decision-hasn't
 the proper fever. The rage for horse racing was considerable few years
 ago, the pulse for this sport was up | in the hundreds for quite period. But | the passion died out In time only how | ever, to be succeeded by the baseball | craze. Politics were never in it com | pared with the bat and base runner | Everybody must go to the show and
 the crowds have delighted the manage ment of this new spot for sport. There
 is no reason why the grand stand cant | be packed at every entertainment, pro- I vided there is game interesting and l manly We say manly! We mean no l child-play or a row either why one side l cant but wants to win and bucks" | as a ruse-or browbeats an umpire to l keep out a poor exhibition of skiel on the diamond. The people are getting to look for a squabble nowadays before l the innings are played out and if this ! kind of program is to be served again and again baseball will be base The public just at this time is taking" to the game fervently. The company that had the sand" to invest nearly fifty thousand in the Lake Park and other attractions will surely realize nice return-there's lots of fun and recrea- tion ahead for all, but away with those petty demonstrations of displeasure at the referees best intentions. The league teams do not countenance it
 and a few fines for week or so for loud-mouthed wrangltng would put
 quietus on this sort of a habit local teams appear to be fostering We have a Shelton-Derby dispute still unsettled.
 Milford came near saying quits last
 Saturday because of an unpleasant an- nouncement from an umpire. Now the
 query is: Who's to be the next high
 kicker at the unenvied arbiter of base
 ball differences? Let's have no more of this snip-snap. The tickets mean
 to a peaceable exhibition of nice work. If the game isn't possible without hos tilities pull down the pennants sand close the gates.
 Two investigations in one day for the medical examiner are not common occurrence. Such was yesterdays his tory. In the afternoon pr. Beardsley was called to report the circumstances attending the death of Maggie Lane, found in the Ousatonic river above the Cove. This girl had been missing since Saturday noon, when she left the filings mill. She was seen wandering up the river road and in fit of melan- cholia over the dim prospect of steady work and sickness at home extin- guished her quiet life by an untimely departure from this field of warfare and fever.
 In the evening about half-past eleven another sudden death called for the medical examiners minutes. Austin J. Harris of shelton, prominent truck man here for fifteen years, who had conducted an immense business in the line of teaming and freight carting was driving a span home from Knights saloon when he suddenly wheeled the horses around by the Naugatuck rail- road depot and drove back. So near did the wagon course to the railroad that 1t collided with a telephone pole
 
 picked up by Knight and Lamaureaux and taken to the Mansion house, where 1 the medical examiner made his find | ing. Harris was a portly subject and | fifty-two years old. The verdict was | that Harris died of a fracture at the | base of the brain. The hemorrhage | from the left ear was very profuse. | There were no external marks of vio- lence on the body. Harris was quite a | favorite here and of a generous disposi- | tion.
 MT. Charles Nettleton, the president | of the National bank and secretary of | the Gas company, starts for Europe in | a few days with Judge Gager, This | is the third time, at least, MT. Gager has | taken an ocean voyage.
 A week from next Sunday the River 1 side Brotherhood hold an outdoor meet | ing. This organization comprises the l patients who were at Dr. Griswold's l Sanitarium and who are "liquor or drug cures" It is the purpose of this society l in their reunions to strengthen each | other in their new resolves and spread l abroad the good news of the way they | have been and others can be rescued | from the bondage of diseased appetite. | The exercises are of a religious type | and the testimonies given are a modest | earnest deep expression of gratitude for | their cure. The coming reunion prom | ises to be very interesting, music and | speeches from friends of the order being a feature of the exercises.
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