The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-01
OF LoCAL INTEREST.

HlllnOuSe HlBH oCiool. IhS PA'ANipSh improvements are changes in the par titions, so as to enlarge certain rooms and furnishing room for a greater num- Der of pupils. There is also to be added sixty desks for the commercial depart ment, a table in the chemical labora- tory and table in the biological labor atory.
 The July Century, Munsey's and Me Clure's Magazines at T. H. Pease & Sons.
 Professor Phillip Leavenworth, Yale '92 of Castleton, Vt, is in town, the guest of John w. Champion.
 There was a great call for the new revenue stamps at the internal revenue office yesterday. One concern alone bought fifty thousand one-cent stamps Alderman and Mrs. H. H. Guernsey are stopping at "The Pines," Wood- bridge, for several weeks The New Haven taxes will be due and payable to-day, and from that time until September they may be paid to the tax collector without any additional percentage being imposed. The Concord, N. H., school boys who | live in New York and other points west | train of five cars, going home for the summer vacation.
 l City Clerk Lyon and wife have re- | turned from their visit to Ashiield. | The county commissioners yesterday morning rejected the application of Raefele Donorammo for a license to sell liquor on East street. The Grand avenue police opposed the granting of a | license.
 | The Knights Templar of this city will | hold a special conference at the asylum, | S7 Church street, tonight. About twen- 1 ty distinguished visitors from Meriden, | Bridgeport and other places will be | present. The visitors will be royalty entertained.
 Over 15,000 of the new Trans Mississ- ippi two-cent postage stamps have been sold at the New Haven postoffice this | week. These stamps are about the size ! of the Columbian stamps. There are also small installments of the one, two, four five, eight, ten and fifty-cent stamps, $1 and $2 series. This office sent for 100000 stamps, but could get | to the rush for them all over the coun- try.
 Most of the departments at Sargents factory are now running ten hours a day, six days week. Business is un- usually brisk there.
 Superintendent Baldwin of the street department says that he shall see that the ordinance prohibiting the throwing of rubbish into the street is enforced if he has to employ private detectives to do it. The police at all stations have been given instructions recently to ar rest any person who throws rubbish, fruit skins, etc, into the gutters There !. is penalty for doing SO
 The Sunday school of the Church of the Messiah will have the annual pie nic to-day at Mansfield's Grove Trol- leys for the pupils will leave the green at 10 o'clock. Friends of the school are cordially invited to attend.
 Ellsworth w. Davis, who is with J B. Judson, the fruit dealer, is i'll at his home, 139 St. John street, with erysipe- las.
 Nathan Hale camp No 1, Sons ot Veterans, will move into Admiral Foote | pOSl , IiSilltI5 III .lI6 lltW MUSIC Udl to-day. They have changed their meet ing night from Wednesday to Friday night.
 Contractor John Ruff, who suffered a severe paralytic shock last Friday is now believed to be in a critical con dition.
 Joseph Hall Hart of Cincinnati, who carried off the senior DeForest mathe, nautical prize at Yale college was awarded the same prize in his junio, year. He will come back to Yale next year as postgraduate. His two younger brothers, John and Ridge have
 done good work in athletics at Hill house, both on the football and baseball
 teams. Ridge Hart is captain of thu
 Hillhouse football team
 At the present time Connecticut has no naval battalion in fact or name
 Nor will it have until the boys return
 from the service and are discharged
 from the United States navy.
 The elevator in BohPs block, Water
 bury, fell for three stories Wednesday
 Constable Thomas F. Pryor anc
 Charles Bollman, the attendant wer,
 in the car at the time, but were not in , jured.
 After the graduation exercises at tn,
 Eaton school Wednesday the pupil
 were bidden to return in the evening when Principal Fifield and the teachers had surprise for them in the way of
 light luncheon. Dance music was als | furnished.
 The war revenue law demands tha
 on and afer July 1 a one-cent staml
 shall be put upon every telegram sent paid or collect. Every person using O
 affixing such stamp shall cancel it The telegraph offices have supplies O the stamps and they can be bought d s the office of the internal revenue col : lector.
 l The yacht Thorn of Merrill White l fleet has been chartered by a party O l and other places on the sound Tn 7 Thorn will start Sunday. The crey r has been made up as follows: F 9 Cowles, captain; R. Russell, pilot; A - Krahl, second mate; o. Wood, frs :, mate; H. Spiegel, steward; C. Bardort 3 G. Bardorf, S. Stokes, J. Couts and W l | Coleman, seamen.
 r Ezel lodge No. 3, Knights of Pythias ] has elected the following officers for tn
 ensuing term: c. C., L. F. Paul; V. c
 A. G. Hurlburt; prelate, Levi filling
 master of work, F. J. Flanigan; K. c y R. and S., F. w. Dawless; M. of F e Thomas Booth; M. E., William w. Cur