The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-31
U,ILHING FORD.

There was disgraceful TOW up near Morrisons saloon on North Colony street late the night before Christmas in which William Hayden and Dennis 1 O'Grady were the participants. Both were drunk and O'Grady stuck knife into Hayden's arm, cutting quite gash. The wound was dressed by pr. l Wilson. who was called out of bed at 1:SO a. m. for the purpose. An attempt was made to keep the fight secret and have it settled on She quiet. Hay den'S friends offered to settle fOy $l0 and the doctors fees. O'Grady would not agree and Frank Hayden, broth CT, notified Officer Dan O'Reilly of the facts of the case and Complaint was made to Prosecuting Attorney r. c, | Bartholomew, who made out the pa pers, and yesterday Officer OReilly ar rested O'Grady and brought him before Judge Hubbard, where he was fined $2O for assault and $5 and costs, $9.52, for drunkenness, making a total of $3452, which was settled by O'Grady and his | friends.
 Undertaken Griswold found himself in a peculiar predicament yesterday and was looking for a way out. The law requires that the undertaken shall have certificate of death from the attend | ing physician before he can have bur ial Charles Shelly of North Farms died very suddenly Saturday morning and had not had a doctor in attend ance. Dr. Davis of Meriden had pre- scribed for but had never visited the patient. What the undertaken was try ling to find out was, who was to make out the certifcaterof death. Dr. Wilson of the board of health later visited North Farms and gave the necessary | certificate.
 | At the annual meeting of the Area mum club the old board of officers were reelected and,it was voted to move the clubs quarters across the street into the rooms over Murray's and Donderos stores when F. A. Wallace agrees to fit them up in a manner suited to the | clubs wants.
 | The hearing on the application of H. | s. Carpenter for a license to sell liquor on Hall avenue will come up before the county commissioners in New Haven at 10 o'clock this morning A number Ol IIlt ItSibtlliS pl lldil flN ltN 'iAii VI cinity will be present.
 The prospect for the ice crop this winter is not at present a very bright one. although Hallenbeck & Austin of the WaIlingford Ice company state that they are not alarmed as yet and pre- dict ice enough before March is over.
 George Gardner, ST., of Washington street. went to New Haven yesterday to have an operation performed by Dr Carmalt and a tumor removed from his throat.
 The Misses Lizzie and Nellie Gardner of Washington street are visiting their sister, Mrs DavidtPender, in New Bed ford, Mass,
 There will be the usual watch meet ing at the Advent church to-night,when n the members will see the old year out and the New Yearin with prayers and songs.
 R, $, Austin has been appointed trus- tee of the Buckley Burr insolvent es- tate in place of r. c. Bartholomew, re- signed.
 Accanaut lodge, I. 0. o. F., will elect officers this evening.
 A. H. Bartholomew is building q
 
 house on South Cherry street. The funeral of Charles Shelly will be held from the house at one o'clock this afternoon, with burial in the Center street cemetery.
 Janftor William RawsOn of Company Ks armory has been presented with an elegant easy chair by the members of the company in appreciation of his val luable services for the past four years. andalso with a cash present as birth day gift from the same source.
 One of the Strauss brothers horses ran away or Church street yesterday afternoon and the buggy was capsized and smashed and Strauss and a friend with him were thrown to the ground and bruised, but were not seriously in- jured
 The probability is that "The Wages of Sin" company. booked for the opera house New Years evening, will not ap- 1 pear. as up to last evening the ad- vance agent and paper had failed to matecialize.
 The case Of Buckley Burr came Up be- fore Judge Hotchkiss in the common pleas court in New Haven yesterday and occupied the entire day The ac- ton of Judge Martin of the probate court in this town in sending Burr to jail for five days for contempt of court was sustained by Judge HotchlIiss and an appeal to the supreme court was taken by Burr's counsel Attorneys H. F. Hall and Henry G. Newton. Officer Dan O'Reilly will go to Bridge port this morning with a writ for the arrest of former boarder of Bennett's on Hall avenue, who recently skipped out, leaving an unpaid board bill be-
 hind him.
 The members of Wallace Hose are 2ll
 worked up because in the plans of fhe
 new hose house there is not sufficient | space allowed between floors and also in the size Of the doors for a truck of the size that is likely to be used at no distant day and Chief Martin was in- ! terviewiHg the committee Of the board of burgesses last evening regarding g chances that shol1ld Ioa made