The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-20
Personal JoT41NGs.
Now in Africa-Gift From the Old Country
Very Ill--Warner Found in North Haven

Now in Africa-Gift From the Old Country
Very Ill--Warner Found in North Haven
On His Travels.
Prof. and Mrs. George ]. Brush of
Trumbull street are now In Africa near
the Desert Of Sahara.
r. T. Watson-G allaher, of the Connec-
ticut Associated Press, received large
root of shamrock by mail from friends
in the old country yesterday.
Burton Fl. Warner, who escaped from
the Connecticut hospital for the insane
at Middletown on January last, was
arrested at his home in North Haven
yesterday morning and brought to the
lookup here to await the arrival of Off
GERS from Middletown who took him
back to the asylum yesterday. Warner
was committed to the insane retreat by
Judge Wheeler in the superior court.
He was previously convicted of theft
of a bicycle which he rode out into New
York state. He sold the wheel there
and returned home, where he was ar
rested. Convicted in the city court, he
pleaded insanity and was committed to
the insane retreat. He effected his es-
cape by making a rope Of his bed
clothes If it is found that he has been
feigning insanity his case will come be-
fore the prosecuting authorities for
their consideration.
George Bohn, superintendent of con
struction of the new post office annex,
yesterday turned his accounts over to
j. Rice Winchell, custodian of the
building, his term having expired. The
work on the building Is suspended for
the present. Contractor Drscoll is Sc
riously sick att his home in Washington,
d. G. There Is about one more weeks
work necessary to complete the inn
proyements.
William j. Moore, brother of officer
Richard T. Moore, is very low with lung
trouble at his home, corner Of Canal
and Webster streets. He has been sick
about five months.
DR.. and Mrs Hawkes. ON their trip to
South America, whence they have Just
returned, visited fourteen islands dur
ing their absence, including the Bermu-
das, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, also
South America, and were, when the
American vessel Alliance was fired up
on, only a few miles away They did
not, however, know of the excitement
caused by the act, or Of the significance
of the act, till their arrival in New York
harbor The trip was delightful
throughout, and DR. and Mrs. Hawkes.
are in excellent health as result of
their voyage.
Henry Thompson, who is walking on
a wager of $4,000 three times across
the continent and once around the world
and who has been In this city for sew
eral days, having had controversy
with the police over his faithful dog
Boyle, the companion of his journey
ings, starts for Boston this afternoon.
He has walked thrice across the conti-
nent, starting from San Francisco Au-
gust so, 1893 He expects to get around
the world inside the prescribed time
and to win the wager, after which he
viii write a book, get a wife and settle
down, He has $4,000 miles of travel yet
to accomplish and has worn out twenty
four suits of clothes and ten pairs of
brogans on his journeyings already. He
looks in prime condition, eats well,
sleeps well and seems well pleased with
himself and mankind.