The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-14
LOCAL NEws Jorr1NGs.

GIFTS beatn AnVeStlgateO-NeW maven Street Raiiway-Funeral of George M.
 Hooghkirk- Christ Church, Etc.
 Miss Maud Armstrong will go to Maine next week to spend the winter at Calais. She passed last spring and the early summer there.
 Rev. Dr. George Leon Walker of formerly of this city, who suffered stroke of paralysis in Brat tleboro last summer, and who was brought back to this home in Hartford is steadily gaining.
 An afternoon of cards will be given tomorrow by Mrs Theodore Hagaman of Edwards street. Mrs. Hagamans entertainments, whether large or small, are always delightful and unique.
 MT and Mrs. Fred H, Benton, MT and Mrs. George H. Lewis, MT and Mrs. George A. Alling and several oth- CTS went on Monday by train to Great Harrington, where they will make their headquarters for week, making trips to different places on their wheels.
 The engagement of Frank Pierson Augur, son of John P. Augur, the State street spice dealer, to Miss Emma Mae Fletcher, daughter of George Fletcher, of IFS Howard avenue, Is announced.
 John Danielson of 137 Saltonstall ave- nue, while delirious with typhoid fever, escaped from the house Monday after noon and jumped into the Quinnipiac river He was dragged out and was sent to Springside yesterday.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Bell, steward and steWardess of the Ansantewae, will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage Wednesday, October 2S, at Stewards cafe. Besides their friends Mir and Mrs. Bell have bidden all the members of the Ansantawae club.
 Cards are out for the wedding of Miss Hattie Elizabeth Moore of this city daughter of MT and Mrs, Charles Moore, to Albert Philip Langzettel of Whitney avenue, this city. The wedding will occur Thursday afternoon, October 22, at the Moore residence, No. 133 South Cliff street, Ansonia. Miss Moore is a very popular young lady of Ansonia's s leading society. MT. Langzettel, her fiance, is a skilled and accomplished watchmaker and repairer for the prom inent New Haven firm of jewelers-the George H. Ford company. He is also a fine musician, and is one of the six Langzettel brothers, all locally promi- nent as musicians.
 Austin A. Bowman, a former mem- Der of the Hartford High school and a graduate of Yale, class of 'S3, has been awarded the second prize of $500 offer ed by the Montreal Bridge company for designs for a bridge across the St. Law renee river, to be erected at an expendi- ture of S6,0oO000. Designs were receiv- ed from Europe and India
 Edmund F. Grove of Norwalk is vis- iting his brother and sister, Willis s. Grove and Mrs Will Crofut at 6S Whal- ley avenue. MT. Grove is tenor sing CT, and with Dr. Charles Vishno as pianist, and Mrs. Vishno as soprano delightful little concert entertained the half dozen guests present to greet him Monday night.
 The remains of Samuel Darling, who died suddenly Monday afternoon at the Union station, were taken to his home in Providence, R. l., yesterday by his son-in-law. Mir Darling was one of the most prominent residents of Providence He was one of the founders of the noted firm of Darling, Brown X sharp
 The Derby and New Haven Electric Railway company has made the first application to the superior court which has been made in this county under the parallel clause of the electric street rali- way law. They apply to the superior court asking that they be permitted tc construct an electric railroad from New Haven to Derby over the Derby Turnpike.
 Coroner Mix, who has been In Water bury Investigating the death of Eva
 Wilson, an 1S-year-old girl, who diee Thursday at house of i'll fame on the Thomaston road as result of crim- inal operation, said yesterday that he would not prosecute the case. Al though he is convinced as to who per formed the operation the coroner hat not sufficient evidence to warrant hls taking action in the matter. The gir formerly resided in this city and was supposed to have gone to Waterbury direct from New Haven.
 | The committee on buildings of thu 1 board of education, composed of Fred erick A. Betts, Walter J. Connor ant | John T. Manson, with Clerk George T | Hewlett and Architect Leoni w. Rob
 inson, left yesterday for a two days l trip through Massachusetts inspecting
 the new school buildings. Superintend ent Kendall left yesterday on tril | through Massachusetts to get new | ideas and plans for the night schools | of New Haven, which are to open dur
 ing the latter part of this month. Int Massachusetts night schools are consid
 cred the best in the country.
 l The New Haven Street Railway com
 pany at their annual meeting, Monday
 elected these directors: T. S. Rutz o
 New York, Thomas M. Waller of Nev
 London, s. Harrison Wagner, Davit | Corey, w. J. Atwater, Eli Whitney, J l J. Lawton, Charles A. Warren and G l A. W. Dodge of New Haven. The di | rectors selected the following officers President, David Corey; vice president l Charles A. Warren; secretary, treas
 urer and general manager, G. A. W | Dodge; superintendent, E. H. Mathel
 The funeral of the late George M
 Hooghkirk took place yesterday after l noon from his late home with his par