The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-07
LOCAL NEVIS JoTTISGs.


 Foot Guards Trip to Waterbury-Coming
 Wedding-Dr. Lees Case--The Late Mrs.
 GaynOr-Other Notes.
 Chairman Macdonald of the repubh- can town committee requests that per sons living along the line of march of the parade tonight will illuminate their premises. The parade will start promptly at 8 o'clock. w
 The Monticello club wrestles again with its financial difficulties tonight. No plan of paying the debts with Mex ican fifty-cent dollars has been pre- scented, despite current reports to that effect.
 There were only 140 deaths last month in the city. In September, '95, the number was 159. The three principal causes of death were diseases of the nervous system, IS; heart disease, 16; diarrhoeal troubles, IA. There were four deaths from typhoid fever.
 Newtown's republican victory Mon- day was the first republican triumph in the history of this pleasant but hither- to inexorably democratic old town. All the democrats and popocrats got was one selectman (which minority repre- sentation gives anyway and the town treasurer. Things are looking pretty squally for M. J. Houlihan, the auto crat of the town hitherto.
 Center Rush Phil Stillman of Yale's football eleven arrived In town yester- day. He will remain here several days to counsel and help strengthen the team.
 The annual inspection of state prop erty held by the local militia organiza- tions will take place next Monday eve ming, and all members are urged to see that no state property is in their pos session after Saturday.
 Colonel Norris G. Osborn, editor of the Register has been appointed chair man of the finance committee of the local national democratic town com mittee.
 Professor George E. Beers of the Yale Law school has been chosen one of the commissioners to represent New Haven at the Tennessee centennial ex- position.
 Weather Observer U. G. Myers left on Monday for his home in Pennsylvania, to be absent two weeks His position will be filled during that time by Ob- server Smith from the Boston bureau.
 The following State street grocers have signed an agreement with their clerks to close their stores Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights at 6:30 o'clock: Cooper, Adams, Leigh and Coe & Fields.
 The new automatic alarm in the Hoggson & Pettis Manufacturing com- pany's factory, CATO Court street, went off at 10 o'clock yesterday and engine 2 was summoned on a still alarm. There was no fire.
 General Merwin's flying visit to Eu- rope is to hold conference with Mrs. Hoadley B. Ives. He is administrator of the Ives estate and a conference with Mrs. Ives is necessary to settle various routine matters relative to it. Mrs Ives has been nearly two years absent from this city. spending her time most ly in southern Europe. For several months, however, she has been in the British Isles and she soon Is to make a trip to India
 F. W. Cornwall Is i'll at his home 397 Crown street, with symptoms of ty- phoid malarial fever. He Is in the care of physicians and professional nurse, and while no fears are entertained of his recovery, he is sick man. His mother arrived from Paterson, N. J., Saturday night
 The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Ward Mckinley and Hobart clubs are re- quested to meet at the headquarters of the Sixth Ward club tonight at seven o'clock sharp to take part in the par ade.
 Major B. E. Brown has received a letter from Colonel Burpee of the Sec ond regiment, offering to the Second company, Governors Foot Guard, the use of the Waterbury armory and the escort of the Waterbury companies, A and G, when the Foot Guard has its field day in Waterbury. The letter sug- gested that Thursday and Friday, Oc- tober 15 and 16, would be the most convenient day for the hosts, and as that was in every way satisfactory to the Foot Guard, 1t has been decided to have the field day on Friday, October 16.
 Cards are Issued from Brooksvale for the wedding on the 18th of Miss Emma Cook, daughter of the late Theodore Cook and MT McMathers of Berlin. The wedding will be celebrated at St. Peters church in Cheshire.
 The Yale News has collected the sta- tistics showing the popularity of the various courses open to Yale juniors and seniors, American political histo- ry comes first with $50 hours, philoso- phy second with 306, economies third with 261 and science fourth with 213 hours.
 The McLagon Foundry company of this city is constructing a new set of machinery for the Charter Oak Brick company of Hartford, in order that it can fill orders for over 5000,000 brick. The new machinery will increase the capacity of the company to 50,000 a day.
 The schooner Emma B. Shaw, bound to this port from Baltimore with a cargo of oyster shells, lost two anchors and was otherwise damaged in the hur- ricane of last week. She was lowed into the Delaware breakWater. Re- pairs will be made before proceeding to New Haven.
 Miss Bird Maud Palmer, Dr. J. Ed ward Lees victim, has been discharged from Grace hospital. She was deliver ed of a still born child a week ago c,.-.