The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-10
or STATE AND LOCAL INTEREST,"


 The American Ordnance company has not yet decided where it will locate its plant Bridgeport hopes to get it, It could not do better than to locate right here In New Haven. This industry will take the work of making the Hotchkiss and Calling guns away from Hartford. The combination already includes the Hotchkiss Ordnance company, the Driggs- Schroeder Ordnance company, and the Gatling Gun company, and oth- CT companies are expected to group themselves around the large combine as soon as it is located.
 Emory Stockwell died in Stamford Saturday morning of heart disease. MT. Stockwell was an inventor, and his name has been associated with many of the patents secured on locks and safe time locks. He had been connected with the Yale & Towne factory as su- perintendent since 1863.
 Henry w. Banks, aged fifty-four, a well known resident of Fairfield, died Saturday morning at his home in that place of pneumonia.
 At Plymouth church in Milford last evening there was a praise service, and an excellent program. Voices from the old plantation were heard in the old slave songs of the sweetest character.
 Major Hiram l.. Grant of North Caro- lima, nominated to be sergeant-at-arms of the United States senate, although at present a resident of Goldsboro. N. C., was born and raised in Putnam, Conn. He enlisted as a private in the Sixth Connecticut regiment and served all through the war, being promoted to major at the close ofthe war.
 The Milford Beach company, which is composed of parties residing in Derby, has been placed in the hands of re- ceived by.Judge Shumway. The com pany was organized for the purpose of booming the property at Burns Point as & shore resort, but has not proved successful.
 The announcement by William J. Mills that he has consented to accept the chairmanship of the democratic town committee is received in democrat ic circles with every manifestation of joy and satisfaction. MT. Mills was a most efficient party war horse, and very popular when in the field some time ago, and the democratic party has called him to the front again and he has heard their appeal for help and come into the traces again to bravely lead a forlorn hope. Of him the Sun day Union says: MT. Mills is not new to New Haven politics, and his record as politician is creditable and unblemish- ed. In 1880 the democratic party in this city was in even a more hopeless condition than it is at the present time. It had been brought to that pass by the kid glove prototypes of the Goo Goo element, which has helped to reduce it to its present condition. MT Mills was then younger man by sixteen years than he is even now, and he was one of the foremost among the famous com nittee of one hundred who organized to rescue the party from the destruction which faced it, and which was success- ful beyond the most sanguine anticipa- tions. The history of the Jeffersonian club and it's successes are remembered by some of the older readers of the Union. MT. Mills was the efficient sec retary Of the club, and to his activity and Judgment was due much of the success with which it was crowned New Haven was brought pack to it's old democratic love and continued true to it for many years afterwards"