The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-17
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT
HARTFORD'S TEMPORARY BRIDGE
ACROSS THE BRO RIVER.

ACROSS THE Bro RIVER.
Baseballin BridSeport-In HartfOrd-That
Mysterious Skeleton-The Sad Death of
a Congregational olergyman-5O,o 900
Revolvers-An Aged Physician Killed.
Hartford, April 16-The district high
way bridge commission awarded the
contract for the temporary bridge
across the Connecticut river at this
point late this afternoon. The con-
tract price is $4,000. In accepting the
contract the company agrees to return
to the commission $1,000 for the ma
terial in the bridge which they build
as soon as the permanent bridge has
been built and there is no longer any
use for the temporary structure. There
was but one other plan considered,
which was submitted by Dean & West
brook, a New York firm. According to
the plan of the Berlin company there
will be a span of 120 feet between the
supports, and an overhead trestle work.
ATLANTIC BASEBALL LEAGUE.
Hartford, April 16.-The Hartford
Atlantic league team this afternoon de-
feated the Trinity college nine by
score of 16 to on the college campus.
The collegians did not make their
usual good showing. The attendance
was about 200
A MYSTERY STILL.
Darien, April 16.-The mysterious
skeleton found buried in the sands of
Crab Island Bar early in the week con-
tinues tonight to occupy the attention
of the people of this town and vicinity.
The finding of Medical Examiner
French has shed no light on the mys-
terry. He determined from the condi-
ton of the box in which the skeleton
was found that the coffin and it's con-
tents must have been buried in the
neighborhood for fifty years. Since
this conclusion of the medical examiner
has circulated some of the oldest resi-
dents of Darien have been visited and
piled with questions of incidents half
century back, but with no result.
REV. MR.. GRISWOLD'S SAD FATE
RAGING BRUSH FIRES.
Manchester, April 1.-THE brush fire
which resulted in the death of Rev. j.
B. Griswold, retired clergyman, this
noon on his farm, between here and
East Hartford, has spread and is now
beyond control. The news of the fate
of the clergyman spread rapidly
through town and many went out
there. They found that the brush fire
which Mr. Griswold had started in the
forenoon was threatening the forests
and buildings in the vicinity of the
Griswold place. Their efforts were not
sufficient to check the flames until
early in the evening The clergyman's
body was taken to the undertaking
rooms of Watkins brothers in South
Manchester. Rev. Mr. Griswold was a
Congregational minister His last
charge was at Lisbon, Conn. He was
sixty-five years old and leaves a wife,
a daughter and a son. The clothing
which he wore was completely burned,
as was his beard. The features We're
not burned beyond recognition.
BASEBALL IN BRIDGEPORT.
Bridgeport, April 16.-The Victors'
-bascl,rI team won their first victory
this afternoon when they defeated the
Cuban Giants by a score of IL to 8.
The game was the third to be played
by each team. Neither nine was at its
best, although fair ball was played.
Sheldon Of the Cuban Giants made
three two baggers. The only sharp
play was double by the visitors. The
batteries We're for Bridgeport Victors
ORourke and Mansfield and for the
Giants B. Williams and T. Williams.
The attendance was 800. The score in
detail:
victors .....3 0 0 2 0 0 0 PIP
Cuban Giants1 8 l 0 / o. 8
SCHOONER ARRIVED.
Stratford, April 16.-The schooner FL
la N. Lewis has arrived here from
Northport, L. l., loaded with furniture
for reshipment to Yalesville, Conn. A
portion of her cargo was taken off this
afternoon.
10000 ARMY REvOLvERS ORDER
ED.
Hartford, April 16.-A dispatch re-
ceived in this city from New Haven
last night, regarding a purchase of
arms by agents of the Cuban junta
brings to mind the visit of two dark
complexioned men, of small stature
who visited a local gun factory, last
week. The party arrived on an express
train from New York, and went direct
to the Office of the firearms company
where they were closeted with the Off
Gals for over two hours. The men
were we'll dressed, and seemed to have
plenty Of money.
They talked together on the streets
in Spanish, but We're fluent English
speakers as well. An employee of the
company in question told a reporter
afterward that the next day the men
were given extra work, the manufac-
turers having an order for $4,000 re-
volvers, of 45-calibre, for army use, to
be made as soon as possible The en-
ployes were, as usual, given no init
nation of the destination of the re-
volvers, but it is understood they are
to be completed at a given date, and
to be shipped to parties in New Ha-
ven.
1t is believed here, in view of these
facts, that the two visitors were the