The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-14
CONNECTICUT J0TTINGS.
NEVIS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
 PARTS OF THE STATE.

He Retailed Fermented Cider-An Express
 Hartford soldiers War Bounties-Look-
 ing Up the Old Reoards-Another Rail- |
 road wreck-Labor Day in Merlden-The |
 old War ship Hartford-Blg Clock Shop
 to Start Up Again-Fifteenth c. V. Re-
 union-Bristol's Big Day, Etc.
 Hartford Aug, 1S,-Morris Cohn, who I has owned a grocery store on Broad street for one week, was fined $15 and costs in the police court this morning for selling fermented cider in less quan- titles than a gallon without license. Cohn sold it by the glass and the po- lice say the place was worse than a saloon. Previous to 1889 the limit was five gallons and no less quantity could be sold without license.
 Hartford, Aug. 1S.-Steps were taken in East Hartford to-day towards pros ecuting an eXpressman who bought a keg of beer in this city Saturday and delivered it Sunday to several small boys about F years old. The young sters had a picnic in Bidwell's swamp and at night most of them were drunk There is a good deal of indignation over the affair
 Hartford, Aug. 19.-The Hartford war vouchers have been removed from the halls of record where they were in an attic, to the treasurer's office. They will be arranged and classified as calls are likely to be made for the payment of bounties alleged to be due from the town. There have been several calls for payments.
 JUDGE COZ APPOINTED.
 Middletown, Aug. Ex-Governor Coffin this morning appointed Judge Andrew J. Coe, of Meriden, a member of the state board of mediation and arbitra- tion in place of Professor Hadley, re- signed. He has accepted.
 FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK AT CHER KY BROOK.
 Winsted, Aug. 13-East bound freight No. "A, on the Philadelphia Reading & New England road, Conduc- tor Walter Cobine and Engineer Will liam Prince, of Hartford, was wrecked at Cherry Brook station eight miles east of here at 2 o'clock this morning, by the dropping of a brake beam. Four cars were smashed into kindling wood and several others damaged. A brakeman was tossed into a hay field, but escaped severe injury. A Hartford wrecking crew had the tracks laid around the wreck at 10 o'clock. Mean | time passengers were transferred. WILL DISINTER THE BODY. Waterbury, Aug. 1S Deputy Coroner
 Callahan of New Haven to-day ordered the body of Mrs. Margaret Donovan l disinterred and an autopsy held to de- termine the cause of her death. Owing | to the failure of the coroner to come to Waterbury promptly the body was buried and the authorities had no legal knowledge of the cause of her death | This is the aged woman who died from a beating administered by her son-in- | law Maurice Moriarty.
 CONNECTICUT PENSIONS. Washington. Aug. 13.-Increase-
 Thomas D. Bell, Norwalk. Reissue
 Cyrus H. Miller, West Winsted; Rob- ert Reed, Somers; George, w. Hall,
 Putnam; James w. Preston. New Ha- i ven.
 A. 0. F. IN MERTDEN LABOR DAY l PARADE.
 1 Meriden, Aug. 13.-An important and
 unusual feature of the Labor day cele- | bration here, September ?, will be the l or, ir, fJ,,a Jo af .stx- seven hundred labor men from all parts
 of the country, who will arrive in Meri- den that morning as delegates to the
 national convention of the subsidiary l high court, A. o. Y,
 NOW IT'S A BURGLARY TN WATER l BURY.
 | Waterbury, Aug. 13.--The grocery
 store of M. Blanchett on South Main
 street was entered by a burglar last
 night and about $5 in change and some l cigars and tobacco were stolen.
 Ex-PoLICE COMMISSIONER DEAD. Bridgeport, Aug. 13-Former Police | Commissioner Horace l.. Flames died
 this afternoon of softening of the brain.
 He was connected with the Wheeler & l Wilson company.
 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. | Waterbury, Aug 13.-The barn of Ed ward Price in the northwestern part of the town of Waterbury was struck by l lightning last night and consumed with l the stock, at a loss of $1,500; partially l insured.
 | A COMING MERIDEN WEDDING.
 Meriden, Aug. 13.-The engagement of l Julius Katt, the West Main street con l fectioner, to Miss Linda Christen has | been announced. Miss Christen is a sis ter of Mrs. George G. Marble, wife of | Professor Marble. The wedding is to take place during the second week in l October. The couple will reside at the corner of Cliff and Grove streets.
 THE OLD FLAGSHIP HARTFORD. Chief Constructor Hichborn of the na- wy department asserts that the histori-
 cal old Hartford, which was Farragut's | flagship at the battle of Mobile, and which is now being remodeled at the l Mare Island navy yard, will, when in
 commission again, prove to be one of the
 most serviceable vessels in the navy. Her boilers, machinery and batteries
 will be of modern construction She will be to some extent a composite ship, I I, fla 1Nn |.