The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-08
LOCAL NE WS.
Brief Mention.


 High water to-day at 11.51 p. m. P. J. Cronin and family are summer ing at their cottage in Madison. Up to midnight last night no arrests had been made by the police in this city.
 Miss Maud Smith of Seymour is vis- iting MT. and Mrs. Woodruff of 51 La- fayette street.
 Arthur G. Cottrell of Westville, has returned from a vacation, trip spent at Long Branch, N. J.
 Two new members, a lady and a gentleman. were received into the Church of Redeemer yesterday.
 Mrs. George Holcomb and daughter Miss Nellie of New Haven, are the guests of Mrs. Fred Daniels in Ches- ter.
 Professor George E. Beers of the Yale law school and family are summering in the Berkshire hills at Mt. Washing ton.
 A meeting of the woman's board of Grace hospital will be held at the hospi- tai building this afternoon at three o'clock.
 Professor Henry P Wright, dean of the Academic department of Yale uni versity is spending the summer at Oak ham, Mass.
 The two sons of T. H Porter of Stam- ford have gone to Alaska upon pleas ure trip and will return about the time Yale college opens in the fall.
 roE..o the Meriden Bronze company is taking two weeks recreation in New Haven, Morris Cove and other places.
 John Bicken of Bridgeport, aged fifty three, was drowned yesterday. It is supposed he fell off the bridge while fishing and was seized with cramps. Rev. Mir. Jernegan, pastor of the First Baptist church, Middletown, resigned his passionate yesterday owing to in- difference which has arisen in the church.
 Dr. A. F. WinchelI is now able to be about the house and is fast recovering from the effects of the accident which befel him last week while out horse back riding.
 The Fair Haven and Westville electric road will run their cars every one and half minutes to the circus to-day, and there will be plenty of cars to accommo. date the crowds.
 Mrs. Whitney, the wife of President Eli Whitney of the New Haven Water company, arrived in Norfolk, Conn. Friday. Mrs. Whitney was accompanied by two of her daughters.
 c. A. Wilcox of 496 State street Is able to be at his business again after being laid up at the hospital for two months He met with an accident at the Ire mont hotel about two months ago.
 The Shore Lime train yesterday after noon yves delayed by a slight accident at the Connecticut river drawbridge Some of the machinery got out of order and the bridge was impossible fol about three-quarters of an hour.
 Mrs. E. A. Ender and son leave fol Burlington, Conn.,, tomorrow to spend the summer. She will visit her brother in-law, MT. Serene Alderman, a member of the present legislature. MT. Alder man is the third republican representa- tive from Burlington in sixty years.
 The pretty steamer Margaret carried large crowds of people to Pawson park Pico park, Branford point. It was g delightful day for trip and all en joyed it. On both trips the boat wa: alive with orderly people taking ar outing, and everything was well man aged.
 The election of a colonel for the Sec ond regiment is called for next Thurs
 
 Frank T. Lee of this city looms up int prominence in this connection, there be ing strong demand in the New Haver battalion for colonel from New Haver this time.