The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-02
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

February 4, at a. m., there will be an anniversary high mass of requiem for Mrs. Mary Linigan.
 Philip Pond, 2d, filed report as a trustee of the estate of Milo D. Futile, who was formerly president of the Crockett & Futile Go. He failed lit tie over six months ago, and MT. Pond was appointed as trustee. He has paid S64T6S in general claims and $6572 in preferred claims. This comprises the total claims allowed by the com l missioners. Besides this he paid all the expenses of the probate court. This is the first time in great many years that such a dividend has been paid in that court.
 T. F. Day, secretary of thessWater- bury Y. M. c. A., has rendered his res ignation. He has accepted call as secretary of the Y. M. 0. A. at Cobra do Springs.
 The Mercantile club was adjudged insolvent by Judge Cleaveland in the probate court yesterday morning. Pre- viously an application had been brought by F. M. Brown & Co. to force | the club into insolvency. The clubs rooms are in the Insurance building, and the claim of F. M Brown & Co. l is for rent. For years the club was popular and prosperous.
 Chester Earnest, young man living on the hill, while driving on Whitney avenue yesterday morning, in sleigh
 
 and demolished the sleigh and harness. | Earnest was not hurt
 | z One of the speakers at the Lincoln banquet of the Young Mems Republi- can club will be ex-Town Counsel J. P. Goodhart The committee is ar ranging for several other speakers of | prominence.
 l A meeting of the Past Masters as- sociation of the Connecticut A. o. U. | w., will be held in the Winthrop house | in Meriden on February IS. There will be a dinner at o'clock, and in the af- 1 ternoon the working of the past mas ter's degree in Silver City lodge. A large number of New Haven members of the order will attend the meeting. l Yesterdays Meriden Record says: l "Liveryman McMahon returned last night from New Haven, his second | trip in search of his stolen team and | this time he was successful, as he To- l cated the turnout in Grand avenue | stable, where it was left by two men last Thursday morning, but they gave | no instructions. The valuable team is in good condition and it's owner is now | To, l York and young Gibney of this city, | who are said to have been in posses sion of the property when last in use. ,
 President John B. Mullings and G. F. l Hughes, represented the Waterbury | Merchants association at the banquet | of the New Haven Retail Merchants association at the New Haven house l last night.
 James J. Egan, who died in Water bury Monday, aged f1fty-two years went to that city from New Haven l twenty years ago and for several years 1 was a constable there. He leaves a wife and six children.
 A letter has been received by J. N l Cowles of Norfolk, who has been trav- l cling for an electrician nrm in Toledo o. MT. Cowles has just returned from Skaguay, Alaska where he has beer considering the advisability of putting in electrical machinery. MT. Cowles says that the thermometer registered 46 below zero, and that board was $6.5( day It was so cold that he say many dogs frozen stiff in the streets
 Secretary Hine, of the state board oi education, and A. B. Morrill,, principa of the New Haven normal school, ad- dressed a meeting of teachers at Glas. tonbury Monday afternoon.
 H. J. Rodgers, the photographer o1 Hartford, will in few days leaves fol the gold fields in Alaska. MT. Rodgers
 is a member of the New Haven ant
 Alaska. Mining and Prospecting com
 pany There are twenty members ir
 the company. Each man paid $400 tt
 become a member and his outfit ant
 mining utensils will cost him abou
 $2OO more. This is the company whicl
 chartered the schooner T. H. Negus
 which left New Haven for San Fran
 cisco on November 3. MT. Rodgers
 says he does not expect to return be
 fore year. He will take many photo
 graphic views of Alaska and of Tiff
 in that region.