The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-14
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 yesterday. He Is Q quite frequent Vlsl- tor to Meriden, where he has friends and business interests,
 Hans Munson's house at South End, near the bridge, was burned to the ground Thursday afternoon. The few people living in the vicinity made futile efforts to save the premises, They were unoccupied. The building was bought a short ime ago by MT. Munson from Charles Thompson and was unoccupied. It was valued at s2,5OO; and insured for $1,5OO.
 This evening the parlors of the St. Aoysius society, 7S1 Chapel street, the Agnes Ladies' T. A. B. society will tender a public reception in honor of Mrs. L. M. Lake of St Louis. They extend a. cordial invitation to all the ladies of the city to attend. Mrs. Lake is to lecture in the Grand Opera house Sunday evening in the interests of the local Catholic Total Abstinence soci- cites, is the third vice president of the National c. T. A. union. She is an excellent speaker and will undoubtedly be greeted by a large audience. Last year Mrs. Lake assisted in the or ganiZation of seven womens societies. She also delivered sixty lectures in the different states. From Ireland, Eng land and Mexico, besides many parts of the United States, where she could not accept. Last week she travelled through Massachusetts and next week will go to Providence. Every body is welcome Sunday evening. A fine pro gram will be rendered. A voluntary offering will be taken up at the en- trance.
 Health Officer Wright says regarding the reported epidemic of scarlet fever in the Dwight school district that since the first of November 13 cases of the disease have been officially reported. Three cases were in ten different homes. Since last Sunday no new cases have appeared. Of these 13 cases one is that of the mother of one of the children taken sick several weeks ago, who has now recoverd. One is not of school age nor does any one in the family attend school. It will be seen that since November1, Il school children in that district have had scarlet fever and several of these have so far re covered that their houses will be dis infected within a few days. There are at the present time just ten yellow cards posted indicating the presence of con- tagious diseases, one of them for diph- theria. Of 500 school children in the Dwight district, 130 have been with drawn on account of scarlet fever. l have these figures from MT. Camp, the principal, this morning, and he as- sures me that all that are not account ed for as above are attending school regularly In my humble opinion the prevalence of scarlet fever in that vi- cinity is not due to the school, as it is divided about equally between the Dwight and Orchard street schools. and it is not confined to any particular rooms"
 Captain George R. Hodgdon, manager of the Tontine hotel, will bring suit against c. s. Thompson, agent of the property The house was recently leased to George White manager Of Heublein's cafe, for s4,SG0 a year. Cap tain Hodgdon is paying s3,60o He has expended $11,000 in repairing the hotel, and claims that he was assured by Agent Thompson that the rent of the house would not be raised, in view of the improvements made.
 The directors of the Consolidated road will hold their December meeting in New York to-day. One of the most important matters to be considered will be the quarterly dividend, which the directors will declare for the quarter ending December 31 It is not gener- ally believed that the dividend will be increased, as large expenditures for in- proyements are still to be made in the near future.
 The following applications have been recommended for admission by the membership committee of the Monticello club: Michael F Brennan, E. B. Hoyt J. r. Worer, Frederick l.. Covell, Pat rick F. Reynolds, Thomas Meins, Ed ward J. Cannon, Matthew Leahy, Allen 1 Drew. A. K. Kennedy, F. B. Durant, James H. McIovern, George w. Brom- lev. Edward Sisk, John J. Sullivan, Robert Enscoe and Patrick McManus