The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-14
LOCAL NE WS.
griei Mention.


 High water to-day at HOS a. m.
 Huyler's candies at Hewitt's.
 Buy a house-R E. Baldwin.
 SnowShovels, Bradley, Damn, Darlington. The new "cold wave" materiaMzed to some extent last night.
 Loans and insurance furnished by Charles Wilson & Co.,, AZ Church street. There were about 800 enjoying the skating at Lake Whitney yesterday af- ternpon.
 The Fayette Social club celebrate their anniversary by giving dance at old Union armory tonight.
 Miss May Bishop, daughter of Dr. T. H. Bishop, gave a delightful party at ,the Lawn club house last night
 The annual meeting of the New Eng land Tobacco Growers association will be held in room 50 at the capitol in Hartford, at Il o'clock this morning.
 At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the cylinder head of the engine at the fac tory of the Goodyear Glove company in Naugatuck blew out seriously fnjurdng Congressman Sperry of the New Ha- ven district yesterday introduced in the house a nethtion from citizens of New Haven censuring the massacre of Ar menians in Asiatic Turkey.
 Harmonic lodge, I. O. o. F., will hold their annual installation tonight. It will be a public one. It is expected that there wiM be a large crowd. Af ter the installation supper will be gerv- ed
 Nathan Phelps of Old Saybrook will bring a suit for $50 900 damages against the Consolidated railroad. While in the employ of the railroad company young Phelps was badly injured last November.
 The funeral of John F. Bassett will be held from his late residence, 290 Shelton avenue, this afternoon at 2:90. Rev. MT. Beardsley of St. Thomas Episcopal church will officiate. The burial will be in Evergreen cemetery. MT. A. F. Moore on High street, Mill fcrd celebrated his eightieth birthday on the 9th, and calls were received from his children and grandchildren, with friends from Bridgeport and Portland, Conn. Valuable gifts were presented.
 The New Haven Branch of the Wo- mans Board of Missions will hold a meeting in Center church chapel this afternoon ait 3 o'clock. Slme inter eslting missionary letters will be read; in particular some recent ones from our missionaries in Turkey.
 A meeting will be called soon to take up the matter of erecting @ nronu- ment to commemorate the services of several Connecticut regiments many of those members enlisting in this city. The project is to erect the monument in Bay View park here at a cost of $10,000.
 A public installation of officers of Lafayette coloney No. 161, U. o. P. F., will be held in their lodge room, No. 793 Chapel street, on Friday evening, January IT. at o'clock. This will be Followed by a literary and musical en- tertainment and a social and dance. Friends of the colony are cordially in- vfted to attend.
 Bridgeport's horse epidemic is dying out. The total number of deaths is thirty-four. The epidemic killed thir- ty-two horses at MT. Cooks stable, practically wiping out his fortune. Much sympathy was expressed for him
 
 headed a subscription paper in his be- half, each starting it with S100. There arc but very Few cases of the disease in New Haven.
 The Stamford Street Railroad com pany directors yesterday elected for president Colonel Hefft, formerly presi- dent of the Bridgeport Traction com pany, and now electrical engineer of the Consolidated. He was chosen president in place of General E. s. Greeley of New Haven. W. L. Squire, treasurer of the Consolidated railroad, was elected treasurer. General Greeley, who has an extensive electrical-supply business in New York, accepted the position of president last spring only after much urging, and with the un- deFstanding that he should only be asked to hold it temporarily.