The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-08
D0INGS In WALLINGF0RD
CARELESS RIFLE SHOOTING OUT ON
THE LIKE,

In Attempting to Kill Loon Nearly Hit
fisherman In Boat-High School
Graduation Work for the Police Satur-
day Night--Dutton Post, G. A. R,-Threo
Hundred Bicycusts in Town-other
News.
Careless rifle shooting on the lake
came near resulting in the death or at
least serious injurylof fisherman Sat
urday morning. This subject has been
once before spoken Of in the Courier,
and the sooner some action is taken to
stop it the better it will be. For the
past four days large loon has been
stopping on the lake and several of the
shooters have in vain tried to get @
killing shot at the game, but without
success. Friday Tony Smith, who lives
at the north end of the lake, got out his
rifle and sent shot at the loon, which
was near the center of the lake, the
bullet striking within about fifty feet
of the bird and skipping from the water
striking a COW in the pasture on the
west side. Saturday morning William
Dickinson was one of several fishermen
in boats about the lake and was nshlng
near one of the islands and noticed the
loon on the water between himself ana
the east bank, and while he was watch
ing the same he was startled by nearing
zip" and a rifle ball skipped close TO
his head and passed into the bushes OF
the island He raised up in the boat
and shouted to the rifle shooters on the
east bank to look out, and the reply
came back, Lay down. DICKINSON
pulled up the anchor and rowed across
the lake to find out who the shooters
were, but before reaching the east side
the riflemen had made a move ana dis
appeaped, but he found out from TWO
fishermen on the bank enough to sat
isfy him where the trouble came from.
The sooner some steps are taken to pre-
vent this careless use of the rifle about
the lake, or, in fact, anywhere else, the
better 1t will be for all concerned, as
there have already been several mar
row escapes from injury and unless 1t
is attended to at once there Is a proba-
bility Of some fatal accident.
The complete program for the high
school 'e6 class graduation exercises
that will take place in the opera house
on Tuesday, June %, is as follows, the
number of graduates being nine:
Salutatory and Essay-School Life
Miss Ethel s. Norton.
Oration-Staff of Metropolitan News
paper-William E. Mix
Chorus-Lovely Appear. ..Gounod
School.
Oration-Connecticut' Share in the
Revolution-Elbert G. Chandler.
Essay Hamlet-Miss Florence A.
Wood
Class Prophecy-Walter S. Valentine
Female Chorus
(a) Voices of the Woods......
.............. Rubenstein
(b) Ebb and Flow. King
Oration-Olympic Games, Ancient and
Modern--Arthur w. Bailey
4 Oration--x Rays--Leon Z. Johnson.
Chss Will-Miss Lillian G. Harrison,
Chorus-Anchored. ;. ........ Watson
School.
Yaledictory and Oration-Cuba and
Spain-Miles Oddly.
Patrick, better known as "Packy''
sIl
evening by Officer Mooney and Special
G. H. Reilly, and after a lively scuffle,
in which Special Reillys coat front was
badly torn, the prisoner was safely
landed in the lookup. About ten O'Clock
G. E. Dowd of the Belmont house called
in Officer Mooney to take care Of Hay
den, who was making a disturbance
and smashing glasses, etc. The officer
got the disturbing element out of the
place and was trying to get him to go
home quietly. When near Gannons
grocery store on Colony street Hayden
became unruly and refused to go home
and defied the officers, and 1t became
4 necessary to use force to quiet him, and
after the scuffie a wagon was procured
] and the prisoner was placed in the
I wagon and safely landed in the lookup
Judge Hubbard will attend to his case
j this morning.
Surgeon O. B. Lane will entertain, the
I members of A. FL. Dutton post, G. A
r., on Thursday evening, June IL. The
affair will take the form of a lawn par
4 ty, and in consequence there will be nc
stove pipe to right up. but other inter
esting features after the same form will
I be in order, and it is safe to say thai
the veterans will be entertained In q
/ manner that will be pleasing, to say the
I least
The Bowery baseball club was defeat.
ed by picked nine Saturday on the
/ Meadow street grounds by a score of &
to Z.
Miss Fl. c. Lane of New York city is
| In town for short visit
Il John J. OBrien of New York city an6
| Miss Emma McNulty of Colony city
will be married Wednesday, June "a.
The only real estate change recorded
Saturday was the exchange of property
between A. D. Judd and G. NJ Hallef.
beck, whereby Hallenbeck decided tt
Judd 97x200 feet of land on WhittleseS
avenue in exchange for a tract 17x20t
: feet adjoining.
There are now over three hundred BIZ
cyclists in town and the value of thai
number of wheels is not far from $780,
900, which, like government bonds, are
not taxable and yield no revenue to the
town in the way of taxes.
r. L. Conklin of Orchard street has 8
Newfoundland dog that came to his
house and which the rightful owner car
have by paying for the cost of register
ling and care of same.
social will cyi1ea IN