The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-02
or LOCAL INTEREST,"

Attorney William P. Niles is confined
to his home with severe cold.
The police commissioners meet again
tomorrow evening. No business of
stirring interest will probably be trans
acted.
James Cairns was arrested Saturday
night, charged with stealing a coat
from Louis Hall, an employee of Burton
Dickerman, the ice man.
Josh Hartwell, the ex-Yale crew
captain and oarsman, was here Satur-
day afternoon and coached the candi-
dates for the varsity boat.
County Health Officer Hoadley has
appointed DR.. f. w Wright, who is
now city health officer to be town
health officer, to succeed DR.. Louis j.
Gaynor The appointment takes effect
at once. s.e
Bernard J. Sharfley, cashier at the
postoffice, was taken suddenly i'll Sat
lirday afternoon and was taken to his
home on Franklin street in carriage.
Mr.. Stanley had been suffering from
a severe cold for several days. but the
change for the worse was unexpected.
| Admiral Foote post, G. A. r., held
their regular meeting Saturday night.
! The storm prevented large attend
ance, and the reading of Major Patrick
| Makers paper on the service of the old
| Twenty fourth Connecticut Volunteers,
as he saw it, was postponed until next
Saturday night A poem by Comrade
Edward Hubbell, on the gunboat Coron-
| dolet, one of Admiral Foote's squadron,
which figured prominently in the cap
ture of Island No. 10, was read.
The funeral of William F. G. Falby
was conducted at st. Patrick's church
at 8 o'clock Saturday morning, a re-
QUEEN mass being celebrated by Rev.
Father Russell A large gathering at
| tended the final service, as the deceased
| had wide acquaintance and was held
| in high regard For twenty-five years
he was night Waterman at Sargent &
Co.'S factory. He belonged to Momau-
| guin lodge, A. 0. U. W., and to the
Fifth division, A. Q. H. Members of
4 ers, and the United Worlmen sent a
handsome floral Offering representing
the pin of their order
FOR s135,000.
Adolph Mendel of the dry goods firm
of Mendel & Freedman of this city has
purchased the A. A. Webster build
ing at No. 400 Fulton street, Brook
lyn, N. Y, at a cost of $135,0Q0. The
property was sold at auction the past
week. 1t was purchased twenty years
ago for $4,000 and is situated in the
very heart of the business district.
NOT BUYING THEM.
President Clark of the Consolidated
road said Saturday night in regard to
the report that Director ]. Pierpont
Morgan of his company was buying the
stock and franchises of the Boston
Elevated road in the interest of the
New Haven road: LAS for the ele-
waited railroad, we have nothing more
to do with it than we have with the
Manhattan elevated We have about
1,500 miles of good railroad and it is all
on the ground, and we do not propose
to go into the air for the sake of adding
to the plant
President Clark also said; I'VE have
never considered for one moment the
buying of the Bridgeport Steamboat
company, and Go not know any rea-
| SUI III IAlC WI III WHY VIC t2ilOhAd boS
it,"
THE CHESHIRE LIQUOR CASE.
The trial of the proceedings for the
confiscation of 81, 500 worth of liquors
seized in the raid made on Walter
Scott's Waverly Inn, in Cheshire, No
vember 9, win take place in Cheshire
next Thursday. Lawyer Bronson OF
Waterbury, and E. P Arvine of this
city will prosecute, and C. ]. Danahe1
of Meriden and L. P. Burpee of Water
bury will defend Scott
YALE INDOOR GAMES.
Curtis Gillette, secretary of the Yale
Track Athletic association. Saturday
night received a number of additional
entries for the annual Yale and c. n
G. indoor games at the Second Regi-
ment armory next Saturday night
They were: Running high jump, r
W. Baltazzi, New York Athletic club
mile run, H. ". Floyd. New York Ath-
letic club; 50 yards dash, T. G. Win
ship. Mt. Vernon. n. Y; A. P. Capen
and H. F. Benjamin, Yale. and F. H
Mason, Eillhouse high school; half mile
W. J. Law. Yale. Entries closed sat.
urday night.