The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-01
NEWS OF CONNECTICUT
LATEST BLASYEaS BY TYRE FROM MANY EARTS OF THE STATE.

Injunction Grantedr4.On a Tour of Inspec- tion--A Goint Frei ght Service-- win Make Report-Wnl Re sume operations--for or a Public Library.
 Stony Creek, Jan. 31.-The Stony Creek Red Granite company on Laete's Island has received a $4O,O0O contract, and preparations are being made to quarry the stone The plant will re- sume operations ina few days and from two hundred to three hundred hands will be employed,
 Norcross Brothers have also received another large order for stone, said to be nearly as large 9ls the $100,0 order received recently. They will increase their working force at once.
 INJUNCTION GRANTED.
 Hartford, Jan. S1.--Judge Thayer this afternoon issued teanporary iniunc- tion enjoining City Treasurer Strong from honoring any more drafts of the Hartford highway district and bridge commission
 ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
 Meriden, Jan. 31.--A delegation of city officials left this city. on the o'clock train this afternoon on a tour of in- spection of the streets in other cities. The party consisted of the chairman ot the highway commission, David T. Ly ons, Street Commissioner Julius Auger, City Engineer F. P. MCTt and eX-Coun cilman Hall. The party remained in Hartford inspecting the pavement until 6:55, when they left for Boston.
 JOINT FREIGHT SERVICE.
 Willimantic, Jan. 31.-To-moryoW the Air Line of the Consolidated and the New England will have their freight services joined in this city except along the Air Line where freight is delivered direct to the mills. The freight busi- ness will be conducted after that day at the freight offices of the New Eng land road, and employees of the Air Line who will be thrown oWt of employment by the change will, as far as possible, be given places under the new manage dnent. This action is in accordance with the policy determined upon by the Con solidated when they purchased the New England road to economize at all june tion stations by consolidating the freight traffic. There is also some talk among the railroad officials of conSoli- dating the passenger service as well It has been hinted that a new passenger station may be built in this city and also at Woonsocket, R. I. In that city the Providence and Worcester division of the Consolidated road and the New England road would use the same sta tion. The round-house of the New Eng hand road in Woonsocket will be aban- doned and the Blackstone Junction round-house used instead. A saving in expense will result from this last ar engagement
 WILL RESUME OPERATIONS.
 Manchester, Jan. 31.-The Union mills will resume operations next week. The mills are the property of the Connecti- cut Mutual Life Insurance company and have been closed for a long period. Hockheimer Brothers of Wheeling, w. Va4 are the lessees of the factory. They will bring the entire wool-pulling part of their business here. The mill for merly employed 13O hands, but will be started with fifty. Later on this num- Der will be tripled.
 FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY.
 Derby, Jan. 31-An adjourned town meeting from December 3, 1895, was held in the town hall this afternoon. The attendance was fair. The town accept ed the report of the finance committee and also appropriated funds for a sew er and for a school site. Five hundred dollars were appropriated for a public library To-day's meeting was void of the excitement which accompanied the former meeting. This was due to the fact that Mayor William c. Atwat ter is absent, having left Tuesday on a Eu- ropean trip.
 WILL MAKE A. REPORT.
 Hartford, Jan 31.-The executive committee appointed H. T. King Les ter G. Beardsley, B. W. Collins of Mer- iden, R. S. Hinman of Oxford and Dud- ley Wells of Wethersfield to revise the state premium list for agricultural ex- hibitions. Their report will be made to- morrow and some radical changes in the list are anticipated. It is well known that many societies have not been re- ceiving the amount of state aid to which they are entitled by their enter prise and rapid growth while other so- cieties which have but a few members are receiving almost as much aid as the former
 A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
 New Britain, Jan. 31.-Mrs. R. J. Vance, wife of Hon. R. J. Vance, editor of the New Britain Herald, was seri- ously burned while dissolving wax at her home on Maple street at 3;30 o'clock this afternoon. She was holding the jar containing wax over the fire and drop spilled over into the flames. The fire was communicated to the rest of the wax and an explosion resulted. Mrs. Vance's clothing took fire and after try ing to extinguish ,tihe flames without re- suit she ran outdoors and rolled her self in the snow. The flames on her
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