The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-19
LOCAL NEVIS JoTTINGs.

l Misses Lula and Bessie Carline of New Haven are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Webb of New London for a few days. Charles L. Berger and wife of Nau- | gatuck will return from Short Beach, where they have been spending fort ! night, about the middle of this week. l R. W. Lewis of Naugatuck has re- | turned from a three days stay at Cos-
 ey Beach, East Haven. MT. Lewis re- ports having had good luck fishing for ! blue fish. A small party, three in
 number, of which he was one, caught forty-nine blue fish in a little over three hours Thursday afternoon. F. s. Nichols of Millville and several other veterans in Nauga tuck, members
 of Sixth Regiment, c. w., will be among the vets who will attend the reunion of 1 the regiment, which will be held next
 "Wednesday at Morris Cove, near New Haven
 l Maurice O'Hammerans sixty-seven, was burned to death early Saturday ! morninfi at his home in Fair Haven. | He started to descend a rickety stair- | way with a lamp in his hand, when the | stairway collapsed and threw. OHam-
 meran to the bottom breaking the | lamp and setting his clothing on fire. | Edward A. Anketell, clerk of the su- perior court for New Haven county, l has sent to the selectmen of this town
 and all the other towns of the county, a notification that the county will have | to receive a tax of two-tenths of a. mill on it's grand list, to pay for the Water l bury court house, which is in course of construction under authority from the | recent legislature. Half of this amount | is to be paid September 1 of this year and half a year from that time. Wa terbury, of course, has to pay it's share of this tax which is $2,300 as well as | half the entire cost of the building, | which is $S0,000. This will make the l entire cost to the town of Waterbury 1 SAP, 300.
 With his new balloon lecture, Cap-. l tain D. $. Thomas bids fair to revive | the newspaper acquaintance he formed | while press agent for B. q. Barnum.
 He says the success of "A Tour in the 1 Heavens, or 14,000 feet Above the Earth, is as great a surprise to him
 as it is to his friends.
 | The body of Burt E. Hyde of Rock vile, Conn.,. the young electrician who 1 died of yellow fever at Swinburne Is-
 land Friday evening, was cremated | Saturday afternoon in the Swinburne Island crematory and his ashes will be | delivered to his relatives. Hyde was
 the son of E. F. Hyde of Ellington and | went to Cuba during the winter to
 work for the Spanish American Elec. trio Light company of which F. H, Thompson of this city was manager. | He was on his way home and arrived | in New York Monday. He was a grad-
 uate of the Rockville high school in | 1892 and was quite an athlete. He was l also a member of the Rockville Wheel club and was a member of the Wheel club racing team, competing in several events last year.
 | E. George Morton, the versatile talk | CT and accomplished press agent of | the Grand opera house and the TIy- perion was welcomed among the news paper men yesterday. He has return ed from his summer vacation much im- proved in health Professor Morton | begins his thirteenth annual season as
 press agent in this city, during which time he has made legions of friends, all
 wishing him an enjoyable season. George H. Palmer, the popular and | jovial steward of the Monticello club,
 will leave tonight for a ten days va cation among the Orange mountains of
 New Jersey.