The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-20
OF LOCAL INrERE EST.

During Thursday nights thunder storm the house, 80 Trumbull street, occupied by Isaac Thomas, eX-principal of Hillhouse High school was struck by lightning, The lightning struck the top Of one of the cupolas and ripped off section of slate roofing, tumbling much of the slate and other debris onto the street. MT. Thomas was seated in his study when the crash came, but was not injured. No one in the house was hurt The damage is about $75 MT Thomas starts next week for Bur Angton, Vt., to begin his laborS as principal of the high school there.
 Admiral Foote post meets tonight to discuss the Cincinnati trip and to elect delegates, No post will go in full. At the Army of the Potomac convention at Niagara Falls September 1 and a number of New Haven veterans will be present. Among them will be Colonel John G. Healy, Captain Frank Munson and w. w. Price.
 The three-masted schooner Rachael w. Stevens was launched at Bath, Me, Thursday afternoon and will be fitted out at once for the Cuban trade. The schooner is owned largely by New Ha- ven men and will be commanded by Captain Lucius J. Stevens of Clinton, Conn. Captain Stevens Is an exper- fenced mariner and is well known to the shipping men of New Haven.
 The firemen of steamer No. As house were called, on still alarm at S:3o xrnc t,,n, ai1,n tn Wallace street. An oil stove exploded in the tenement occupied by M. Dicedo, but no damage resulted.
 Several excursions had to be post poned yesterday. The Friendly Three were to have gone to Scanlans Grove, | but chose another day, The New Ha- ven orhpan asylum decided to take another day to Cosey Beach. The Ger man Baptist Young People were going | to Mansfield's Grove. If to-day Is ' pleasant the picnic of Peck Bros. will | take place at the Lighthouse. A large | throng will attend.
 Word was received in this city yes- terday that the old monitor Wyandotte which was taken from this city to | Portland, Me-, soon after the beginning of the war with Spain. will soon be as signed to duty as station ship or the Cuban and Porto Rican coasts, It IS | not known whether or not any or the | Connecticut naval reserves will be as signed to duty on the Wyandotte, but a number will make applications for positions. The naval reserves will be mustered out as fast as possible. and will be re-enlisted when needed for fur- | ther service The Wyandotte is rated in the first class of monitors. She is 210O tons and since being dry docked at the Charleston navy yard IS said 1 to be in first class condition. Nearly $20 o00 was spent recently on the old boat by the government. She has been fitted with modern rapid-fire five and and six inch batteries but still has the old smooth-bore guns In her turrets
 "A Lost American" GA Tale of Cuoa) l is the title of the latest novel oy Gunter. Always fascinating Writer, ] this production from the pen or the author of MT. Barnes of New York" is especially interesting, from the fact of the scene being laid in Cuba. For sale at T. H. Pease & Sons, 1O2 Church street.
 Ex-senator T. J. Fox, who defended the Italian, Gandini, has received a most thankful letter from his son, thanking the attorney for his great at tanpt and successful effort in saving | the life of his father, whose sentence was changed to a life imprisonment from execution.
 l General Manager Mather of the Cen | tral Railway & Electric company, for | merly of New Haven, says that he ex- poets that joint meeting of the offl- | cials of his company and the Merlden and Southington company will be held shortly to discuss plans for extending the Southington road to Langdon's Cor ner on Ocean street, where 1t will meet an extension of the Plainville line or the Central Railway & Electric com- pany. Thence the inc will run across to Lake Compounce.
 The West Side club will give its third and last moonlight excursion on Tues day night, August 23, to Pawson Park. Music on boat and dancing at the park. | Nothing has been spared to make this excursion a most enjoyable outing.
 MT. Potter of North Guilford, while blackfshing off Nigger's Head, Bran ford. Thursday, ran fish hook into the f1shy part of his hand. The hook was extracted by Commissioner Wild, who is summering at Indian Neck and happened to be at home. MT. Potter suffered much pain.
 Lawyer Charles S. Hamilton has taken his fast little sloop the Dewey, out of commission and will not use her again until next spring. MT and Mrs. Hamilton have gone to Nova Scotia on an extended vacation. The Dewey is laid up at the Yacht club house.
 The Connecticut Pomological society has been invited to hold field day meeting on Tuesday, August 23, at the farm of A. N. Farnham, the well known | market gardener and fruit grower in | Westville. The gathering will take place early in the day, so that all who
 wish may visit and inspect the vari- ous large and interesting departments
 of MT. Farnham's establishment At
 noon we'll filled lunch baskets will be
 attended to, after which informal | speeches and other exercises will be the
 order of the day. It is expected that a large number of fruit growers from va | rious parts of the state will be present
 J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury is
 president of the society, and H. c. C.
 Milford is acting secretary.
 The New York, New Haven and
 Hartford railroad has distributed tc
 Inc enpIovas comics of A new time table