The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-31
CONNECTICUT J0TTINGS,
WHAT rs GOING ON IN VARIOUS
PARTS or THE STATE.

on for Nova SeotIa-To Teach in the West
To Build a Fine House in Middlebury-
Drowned mt Sandy Hook-A Copper Head
Snake in a Brass Foundry-Hartford May
Have New Theater-other Notes.
Lieutenant Governor Cooke, with his
family, left Hartford yesterday by the
Sunrise Express" of the New England
road for Boston, to sail at noon for
Digby, Nova Scotia, where he will join
the Hon. John r. Buck. He expects to
be gone about two weeks.
WILL TEACH IN NEBRASKA.
M. A. Stone, formerly principal of the
Prattsville school of Meriden, has been
elected unanimously by the school board
of Lincoln, Neb., as principal of the
high school at that place. He Will
move his family there in August and
commence his Duties at Lincoln in Sep
TENDER. He has been for three years
superintendent of schools at saltwater,
MINI.
"A $4,000 HOME AND A BIG CAR
BARN.
Meriden, July S0.-The H. Wales Lines
company has just taken two contracts
for the construction of two large build
ings, one to be summer home on the
farm of ]. H. Whittemore in Middle
bury and the other car barn for the
Hartford Street Railway company.
The summer home for Mr.. Whittemore
is to be very large and very handsome
one, and will cost $4,000. Mr.. White
more lives in Naugatuck and is well
known In Meriden. He owns large
farm in Middlebury and the house will
he built on the shores of lake on which
the farm borders. 1t will be tWo-sto-
~ building S5x35 feet, with attic, with
q wing 40x15 feet, and is to be built af-
ter the plan of many summer homes
that are seen along the shore just out
of New York The first story will be OF
rustic stone work and the others OF
wood. The interior will be finished off
with handsome hard wood and the
house when completed will be one of the
finest in the state.
The Lines company will do the ma
son work on the car barn for the Hart
ford Street Railway company. The
building is to be 2S0x1S0 feet, with a
three-story front of mottled brick and
stone trimming. 1t will front on State
street and the office room will be S0x64
feet
Work on both of these buildings will
be commenced at once.
SANDY HOOK MAN DROWNED.
Bridgeport, July 3O.-The body Of Mar
tin Leavy, the we'll known resident of
Sandy Hook, whose disappearance
caused general alarm in that place yes
terday, was found this morning near
Black Bridge in about thirty feet of
water. The bank of the stream de-
sends abruptly at this point and a
dozen persons have lost their lives there
during the past ten years. The de-
ceased was seventy years old and one
of the towns earliest Irish settlers. He
leaves three grown sons and three
daughters, one of the latter being the
wife of Judge M. J. Bradley of New
town.
WINSTED FAIR.
The annual fair of the Winsted Agri-
cultural corporation will be held in
about six weeks. There will be fair
September IS and 10, There will be
cattle and horses, and chicken con-
vention and a hall show, and races,
but the details are not yet arranged.
FREIGHT CAR APPLIANCES LAW
Boston, July 3o.-Counsel for the New
York, New Haven and Hartford, New
York and New England, Boston and
Albany, and Boston and Maine railway
companies were before the railroad com
missioners to-day in connection with
the law relative to the introduction on
freight cars of grab irons and draw
bars. 1t was stated to the commission
ers that the interstate commerce com
missioners have before them similar
law and have extended the time for the
grab irons to December 1 and the draw
bars to February 1. The railroad com
missioners were asked to make a like
extension Decision was reserved, bu
it was intimated that the extension will
be granted.
SMASHED THE MACHINE.
Southington, July 30.-Harry Cook o
Cheshire was driving pair Of horse
hitched to a moving machine along thu
road one day last week, when the ami
mails became frightened and dashed of
down the street. The wreck Of the ma
chine was complete but the driver luck
lily escaped unhurt.
1T WAS A COPPERHBAD SNAKE
southington, July 30.-The employee
in the brass foundry of the Peck, Stow
& Wilcox company were thrown into ;
state Of great excitement yesterday af
ternoon by the appearance in thei
midst of six-foot copperheaded snake
Men came from all over the factory t
look at 1t and some actually believes
1T to be dangerous creature, but o.
closer inspection 1t proved to be co
of brass tubing which an ingeniou
chap, Henry Matthews had coiled 8
as to represent a snake He made
head as large as ones fist. There ha
been such lot of snake stories her
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