The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-19
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

at Chapel and Union streets, may take charge of the Fremont house after 1t is remodelled. He was negotiating with MT. Cruttenden on the subject and looking over the premises yesterday.
 The overhead wires are being strung for the New Haven Street Railway company's extension from East Haven to Cosy Beach and Bradford Cove. The new extension will be completed and ready for travel in three weeks.
 Some of the oystermen are debarred from taking up oysters on their oyster beds, the beds being in close proximity to the mines which the government has sunk in the harbor.
 Under orders from the street super intendent galvanized cans are being To- cated at various points in the city for the reception of refuse matter that city employees may gather on the streets. Fifty such cans are now in use for the purpose.
 Two missing fire alarm keys which were thought to have been stolen from the Grace hospital have been found by Superintendent Grant. They were in the hospital, but had been mislaid.
 Henry s. Johnson, managing owner of the schooner James M. Seaman, has filed formal notice at the custom house that the owners of the schooner have given the vessel up for lost.
 Work Is in progress on the new cap- tain's office at police headquarters and will soon be finished. This is the much talked of addition to the police build ing.
 The four master Wallace w. Ward of this port has just arrived in New York with a cargo of phosphate rock from Tampa, Fla.
 Joseph c. Pierpont and wife of At water street have gone to Westfleld for the summer.
 The historic and warlike aged mon- ster, Wyandotte, which has now de- parted from our waters was one of fourteen built just after the victorious Monitor which was built largely owing to the energy, enterprise and capital of New Haven men had "done up" the Merrimac. The Wyandotte was at first called the Tippecanoe, but soon after she was completed her name was changed to the one she now bears. Her keel was laid in 1862 in Cincinnati, O., and when she was finished she was taken down the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico, and thence further up the coast to the scene of conflict.
 Prof. Theodore F. Woolsey of Yale will deliver a lecture before the Con- gregational club of Hartford at 530 o'clock next Tuesday, his subject being the Cause and Conduct of the War with Spain."
 St. PauIs ald organ is being erected in the Congregational church, West Haven, which recently purchased 1t.
 James F. Brennan, second vice pres- ident of the Catholic Total Abstinence union of America, entertained on Tues day the Rev. Thomas Scully of Cam bridge, Mass, president of the Boston Archdiocesan union and chaplain of the Massachusetts G. A. R. They wis., tied East Rock and other points of in terest about the city. The Rev. Father Scully afterward went to New York
 The Young Mems Republican club < will hold a smoker tonight.
 The New London Savings bank has given a lease to the Hotel Garde com- pany of the Hotel Garde in Meadow street. The lease is dated on January 1, 1898, and is for a term of ten years at an annual retal of $6,3oo up to 1S90 and after that date the rent is to be $6,S00 a year.
 The police are after the person who stole the key and pulled the box cor ner of Maple street and Sherman ave- nue. The fine provided for such an of- fense is $25.
 General William H. Pierpont has been ill for about three weeks past with sciatica, but is able to be out again this week.
 To-day is the festival of the Ascen- sion and the order of the services at St. Paups church will be as follows Morning prayer and holy communion at 10 o'clock; evening prayer and ad- dress at 5 o'clock
 James J. Geary, who is associated with John Beattie, was married on Tuesday to Miss Azubah D. Reilly, a Waterbury school teacher, and very estimable and charming young lady, at St. Stephens church, New York. A few friends were present Miss Reilly resigned her position in Waterbury schools 8 few days ago. MT. and Mrs. Geary are now at the Vendome. Flour is now selling at $S barrel and is likely to go higher. Some of the bakers have already reduced the size of their loaves and the people are conse- quently paying more for their bread Frank B. Beckley, the genial repre- sentative of the well known tobacco manufacturers, Wilson & McCallay, is in town for a few days.
 It is said the big four-master Bayard Barnes, of this port, which was built at New London in 1891, at a cost of about $4S,000, has peid about $34000 to her owners since that time.
 A little son of John Hayes of West Haven was struck and run over by a team which was drawing the hook and ladder truck to the fire near Camp bell avenue and New street, West Ha- ven, yesterday morning. Fortunately the wagon is only a light one and the boys injuries are not serious. The two new engines, Nos. g and 10, which were ordered from the Chicago Fire Distinguishing company on Janu- ary r, are expected to arrive this week. After they are tested they will be as- 4lx@ l.