The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-18
STATE rELEGRAPnIC JorrINGs.
Law and Order League Busy In Meriden- Bishop Tierney's sunday Labors at Mt.

Bishop Tierney's sunday LabOrs at Mt.
 Carmel-Bridgeport EIopement Con-
 firmed-Jonah and the Whale-Steam
 Dredger Destroyed by Fire-Shot in the
 Neck--A Solid Gold Chalice for Vicar
 General Nulcahey.
 Meriden, Nov. 17,-Three agents of the State Law and Order league spent Sunday in this city, and they devoted most of their time in efforts to spot liquor law violations in the various drug stores. They were unable, how ever, to secure any evidence and no prosecutions will follow
 Merlden, Nov. T.-Bishop Tierney vis- ited Meriden to-day and confirmed the children of St. Lawrence's St. Mary's and Lady of Mount Carmel churches, about 150 in all. The first church nam ed is French, the second German and the third Italian. In the latter the bishop blessed a new bell and was tendered a reception. He left for Hartford at 6;2O,
 Waterbury, Nov. 1.-The report of the elopement of Frederick D. Wooster and Mrs. Byron Morse was confirmed A ter from Wooster dated Chicago, was received last night, He wants to come back to his wife and six children He was superintendent of the Waterbury Brass company at salary of $2, 800 per year. The woman is the wife of a caster employed by Wooster. | Twelve Waterbury Catholic business men will go to Hartford this week and present Vicar General J. A. Mulcahy with a solid gold chalice set with prec- ious stones and engrossed resolutions of regret at his leaving Waterbury. John Scully, the Rhode Island box CT, is in Waterbury for the purpose of making an offer to fight any Connec- ticut man weighing 150 pounds for any purse. He posts $50 forfeit money | Diphtheria continues to increase at Union City. There have been three deaths. The publis schools will prob ably close. County Health Officer Hoadley of New Haven has been con- suited.
 Bridgeport, Nov. 17.-Elder W. J. Da- wis, leader of Connecticut Adventists tonight preached a sermon on Jonah and the Whale" in which he maintain ed the historical truth of the belief that the whale really swallowed Jonah. Tn his concluding remarks the speaker stated that it was gross sacrilege for anyone to attempt to explain how God performed His miracles. His sermon created a considerable sensation. Jeremiah Desmond, twenty-five, of Naugatuck died yesterday, Pasqua Esposito of Bridgeport, aged forty-seven, was badly wounded in the neck yesterday. A boy of seventeen named Troopes was arrested charged with the deed. Esposito will, it is thought. recover.
 The twenty-fifth anniversary of Oliv. ct Congregational church, Bridgeport was celebrated yesterday It was also the tenth anniversary of the pastor Rev. MT Holden.
 A steam dredger owned by Boards ley, of Bridgeport, was burnt to the waters edge in the Mianus river Satur. day afternoon. Loss, $15,000.
 Hartford, Nov. f7.-Martin Sheehan an employe at the water works, sixty years old, died at the hospital las night from inhaling gas at the Ameri can house November '.
 pr. Wilson of Bristol, who was ac, quilted Saturday night of the charge o1 rape preferred by Mrs. Mary Polls, re. ceived host of congratulations yester. day on all sides from the townspeople as he was generally believed to be in nocent.
 Proprietor Houlihan of Birmingham hotel is critically i'll. Dr. Russell o1 this city is attending him.
 William Bennett of New Canaan, aget eighty-six, died yesterday
 Sneak thieves are robbing residences in New London.