The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-11


lance. Conductor Phillips ran to her
and dragged her from under
the train, where she would most GER
tainly have met death but for his timely
She was taken into a Con-
solidated road car, where several slight |
bruises on her face were attended to |
and later she was put aboard a train
for Albany.
WON'T IMPROVE THEIR ROADS.
meeting at which the recent act of the |
legislature relative to road improve |
ment was the one topic for considera- |
ton, and, it is claimed, they handled |
the subject without gloves, they voting |
nearly unanimously to not make any |
effort to get the appropriation which |
the law allows. When the question
first came up the people Of Oxford were
very interested in it, for they saw what
looked to them to be an excellent
chance to improve their roads.
When they found, however, that by
the act they were compelled to lay
macadam they did not approve it and
the result of it all is that they decided
to let the other towns in the state have
their share of it. They do not think
that the state road commissioners
should have the privilege of saying
with what the towns shall improve
roads, either by paving stones or ma
cadam, as they claim that in such
place as Oxford they could get along
without either.
What they were first led to believe
was that an appropriation was to be
made for road improvements, their
idea being at the time to improve what
ever thoroughfare they, with the road
commissioners, should decide upon, not
wit either macadam or pavement, but
by cutting down and filing in where
it was needed by putting on q layer of
good dirt, which would make a good
roadway, and this, they claim, If done,
would make an improvement that
would be appreciated, not alone by
the residents of that place, but by all
who have occasion to pass through
the town.
A resident of Oxford said yesterday
that the town meeting, Monday, was
we'll attended, there only being two
who voted for the improvement, while
the rest were unanimous in its disap-
proval. When told that the county tax
would be called there just as much as
though they got their share, he said
that that was also considered, but they
were more anxious TO pay their pro-
portion on that than to have a short
stretch of their roads torn up and
macadam laid.
DIED IN SHELTON.
Miss Elizabeth Hunt am estimable
young lady, died at fer home on Coram
avenue yesterday morning. She resided
with her brother, John F. Hunt. The
Ansonia Sentinel Says: Miss Hunt had
been underg ding treatment for some lit
tie time for Brfght's disease, but, as is
often the case with this terrible com
| pFainit, she had suffered but little from
1T, and being of a naturally lively tenn
permanent but few imagined that she
was more than very slightly indisposed.
AS late as Saturday last she drove to
Lake Housatonic park, and with her.
| nephew witnessed the ball game,
/ Yesterday, about p. M, she was
k'SANSN
for which this disease is noted, and al
| though all the skill of the visiting ply
sician was brought into play at once,
| she passed from one conAvulsion into
another until, at about | o'clock this
| morning, death gave her relief from
her sufferings.
Beloved by a large circle of friends
and acquaintance, and favorite
| wherever she went by reason Of her
bright, cheerful, happy manner, her
death comes with a. shock felt by all
who knew her. Only nineteen years of
age, with apparently a Tong life before
her, she was called away by one Of
| those mysterious acts of the power that
| rules for good all things.
| The funeral services will be held to-
morrow from the home of her brother
John E. Hunt, on Coram avenue
When THE case took on an alarming
| appearance Dr. Cheney of New Haven
| was called in consultation, but nothing
| could be done to check the disease, and
| she passed away at last after suffering
| fearful agony A few weeks ago Miss
Hunt suffered from the bite of poison
| Jus Spiucl VII HCl looL, dilu plOOu pulSOH-
| ing from this aggravated, 1T lis thought.
| the disease. The services tomorrow
will be conducted by Rev. L. M. Kenes-
| TOM and .interment will be made at the
convenience of the family.
QUEER PLACE FOR A RAT.
William Kinney is employed at the
station at the junction on the East
| Side, Shelton. 1t is a part Of his duty
| to see that the semaphore lamps which
/ mark the switches are kept trimmed
and burning, but If one wishes to set
| him to cutting gyrations in the air all
| they have to do is to cry out rats"
| The reason for this is that, Monday,
Kinney gathered up the lamps and
! brought them to a building near the
station for cleaning, He went about
his work as usual. Finally he removed
| the top of one and he was confronted
by big rat.
| For moment he stood amazed. Had
] he been drinking man he would have
believed he was having IAN attack of
'em." He was afraid to call for a con-
sultation, but stood and wondered how
that rat ever got into the lamp, and 1t
| is hardly possible that he will ever find
/ out.
THE GILBERT SCHOOL IN WIN
STED.