The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-07
RIOUS LOCAL ITEMS.

The county commissioners made their annual inspection of the county home on Shelton avenue yesterday. The grounds were visited, and thor ough examination was made of the in- stitution. f
 Harold B. Danforth was quite seri- ously injured while riding bicycle at Narragansett Pier recently. MT. Dan forth is employed in the clerical force of the Consolidated railroad and lives at 6S Clark street. When the dispatch giving the news reached this city the young mans parents were at the shore, and their home on Clark street was closed. They were found, however, and informed of the accident. Word was received yesterday that the young man was rapidly recovering, and would be able to return to New Haven in few days.
 Yesterday noon Mayor FarnsWorth, City Treasurer c. $. Mersick and Con troller B. E. Brown burned the $140,000 city hall bonds, which were redeemed on July 1. Janitor A. M. Beebe built the fire.
 It is mistaken impression that the Winchester Repeating Arms company habitually pays $5000 to the heirs of any operative killed in it's employ President Bennett is authority for the statement that the company does not make voluntarily contributions in such cases unless the person killed leaves widow in poverty, or in case where the operator is not killed. but is severely maimed-loses an arm or leg, is render ed blind, or in other cases of extreme hardship.
 Stephen H. Thatcher is now complet- ing the construction of a boat which will be used as tender by the keeper of the lighthouse on the east breakwa- ter.
 Deputy Sheriff Adelbert F. Bradley, familiar figure in the criminal side of the superior court, is critically i'll at his home in Derby. He was stricken Wednesday with an abscess on the brain. Yesterday he began to sink rapidly, and at noon he was barely alive. The attending physician ex- presses little hope.
 Registrar Preston's mortality report for July shows decrease of 134 deaths over July of 1896. The total number of | deaths was 101, while last year there were 235. Of the deaths 26 were in pub 1 lie institutions and 9S were children un- der five years of age. The principal | causes were as follows: Accident and violence. F, of which z were at Win chester's; measles, 4; diphtheria, 4: malaria, s; consumption, IS; heart dis ease, 8; pneumonia, 4; nervous diseases, | 19
 The number of employees in Peck Brothers factory is being gradually in- creased in proportion to a slight im- provement in business. A few of the old hands are given employment each week after layoff since May or April This is reported to be true of several of | the departments.
 The board of health has received re- ports concerning thirty eight out of six ty of the bakeries in the city from the state factory inspector, and each of the bakeries reported is complained of for some violation of the new bakery law. which makes it an offence for bakers to keep their bakeries in any other but a clean and sanitary condition. As fast as possible the city sanitary inspectors are visiting the bakeries reported and notifying the owners that they must correct the condition of affairs or they will be exposed or prosecuted.