The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-13
Brief Mention.
High water to-day, 10 a. m.


 Buy farm-R. E. Baldwin
 David Ohman, clerk at the New Britain probate court, left for West Haven yesterday, where he will spend a week.
 Samuel Goodman Is to build double house on Edwards street provided with all the modern conveniences and ar ranged for four families with six rooms in each flat.
 Weather Observer Myers said yester- day that the long promised cool wave would surely be in full operation at ris- ing time this morning. The humidity was excessive yesterday, being S5 de- grees.
 Have you secured the tickets for your party for the excursion to Block Island tomorrow. Past experience warrants the belief that the demand will exceed the supply, and an advance purchase is advistable.
 A mortgage of s5s.000 has just been negotiated on the old American thea ter property on Church street, now oc- cupied by Polls theater, to Mrs. Jane K. Winchester. The rate of interest is 4 per cent.
 Yale and Princeton have decided to play their football game of next fall in New Haven. The date will be Satur- day, November 20. Yale and Harvard will play at Cambridge one week ear Her, November 13. This will close the season earlier than usual.
 Plans are being made for making the new music hall now building on Court street still larger. The rear fig to be extended forty feet, the full height of the building. This will make danc- ing hall 68x100 feet, and when complet- ed it will be the largest hall in the city.
 The New York, New Haven and Hart ford railroad will open the series of popular low rate excursion from New Britain and vicinity with rail and steamer trip to Glen Island next Sat urday. The service to be by special train to New Haven, thence by the Starin to the island
 Rev. George E. Reed, D. D., formerly pastor of Trinity M. E. church, this scity, now president of Dickinson col lege, was the principal speaker at last Sundays services associated with lay dng the corner stone of the new Method ist church in Norwalk. The stone was laid by Bishop Andrews.
 James Watson of Hartford, who was partially paralyzed by striking his head while diving at Savin Rock week ago Saturday, and who Is now in the New Haven hospital, was visited on Sunday Joy his brother. MT. Watson has recov cred the use of his limbs, and is able to sit up. He will be taken to his home in Hartford in a day or two.
 The American Lake Superior Power company of New Haven and the Du- 1uth Superior Traction company of New Haven have filed acceptances of their charters with the secretary of state. The Phoenix Brass Foundry company of Hartford has filed a certificate of an increase In it's capital stock from s6. 900 to S1S,000.
 Yesterdays New Britain Herald says: "A party of ten is being made up in town to put in a week camping near Savin Rock. In the party will be John Graham, Owen Conlin, Will Eustis Frank Mcclure, Charles Hotchkiss and Frank Wright. They have induced w P. Morgan to lend them his tent. Me Guire will be the chef, having been in training behind the counter of Owen ConIin's lunch cart a sufficient length of time. The police commissioners of West Haven will strengthen the force at the Rock"