The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-06
OF LoC.iL INTEREST,


 North Haven, and a friend named liar ry K. Kirk, of 926 Grown street, were bicycling down Farnam drive at East Rock park yesterday afternoon at 2;4C gait, Policeman Schroeder espled them and shouted to them to slow up, 1 Kirk did so but Davis, who was riding a high-gear wheel, was unable to check his speed and ran plumb into the pa | trolman's horse, Davis was thrown to the ground with great force and Kirk | was also pitched off from his wh2el, Davis lay stunned for some time, and the policeman had him taken to the | hospital in the ambulance. Kirk was only bruised a little. He was arrested for fast riding. At the hospital it was found that Davis sustained concus- sion of the brain, but it is thought that he will recover.
 A meeting of the executive committee of the Connecticut Sanitary and Keller association will be held in the directors room at the New Haven Colony Histor- ical society building, IA Grove street, on August at o'clock
 | The town of Orange has obtained l temporary injunction which provides l that no barge shall attempt to pass un- der the Kimberly avenue bridge unless | there is at least a foot of clear space l between the bridge and the top of the ! barge, Captain Hull's boat, which has | several times got caught under the | bridge and raised it as the tide rose, was attached in a suit for damages caused to the bridge, but has been re-. leased under bond. Captain Hull has retained Corporation Counsel Ely and will try to have the injunction re- moved
 | Registrar Carr's monthly report of deaths, just out, shows that the whole number of deaths in the city for July is l 174; under five years, 70. The causes given are as follows: Infant diarrhoea 140, phthisis 15, heart disease IS, dis eases of tn enervous system IS, pneu- monia ', cancer 8, Bright's disease 6, bronchitis 4, diphtheria ?, typhoid fever 2. Deaths at the hospitals have been as follows: New Haven hospital S., Grace hospital 3, St. Francis orphan asylum 3, almshouse 3. The average death rate for the past five years has been 203 for July. This months record is much lower. The deaths under five years remain at about the same figure, showing that the decrease has been among adults.
 John M Weidenhammer a long dis 1 tance bicyclist, who is riding from Providence, R. l., to New York, passed through this city yesterday forenoon. He was attempting to ride the distance in sixteen hours. Two wheelmen from | Bridgeport acted as pacemakers for 1 Weidenhammer from this city to | Bridgeport.
 The striking quarrymen at the Brain erd, Shaler & Hall quarry, in Portland still refuse to return to work unless the increase demanded Is granted them. All efforts of the company to fill the strikers places with non-union men have thus far failed, and business is l consequently suspended. Many of the l strikers are almost destitute.
 A three- horse truck owned by the Parker Paper company of Westville sank into an old we'll in the roadway at the corner of Sherman avenue ard | Whalley avenue yesterday afternoon, and it was several hours before the team was extricated from the excava- ton. The truck contained three tons of coal and sank about seven feet into the | roadway. The excavation made by the truck is eight feet long and six feet wide. It is just to the right of the tracks of the Fair Haven and WescvIlla road and is a menace to vehicles of II kinds. The public works board will have the place repaired without delay.
 A lake of water was formed on Camp bell avenue yesterday by the heavy downpour of rain, and the West Haven trolley cars were delayed for some time in consequence early in the morning, and West Haven workmen at the city shops, including Winchester's, were late in getting at work. It was half hour g work to get the track cleared.
 Owing to the storm yesterday the pie nic of the Presbyterian church and Sunday school to Mansfield's Grove ar ranged for yesterday was postponed.
 The rain which set in early yesterday morning and continued until S:3o fell to the depth of 1.46 inches. It was the l heaviest rainfall since July 13, when the T6COTu was G,lU lHCUeS. l ne TdlIl was succeeded by cooler and much pleasanter weather-the best day since the dog days set in. The great humid ity of the last week was absent. But Observer Tarr says that there is more humid weather in store for us by Mon day.
 A tree was blown down at No. 20 Ed wards street, in the yard of J. B. Lucke during the high wind at about 4 o'clock yesterday morning.
 The storm of yesterday morning put a stop to work of the masonS on Fred erick D. Graves new State street build ing yesterday forenoon. There was two or three feet of water in the cellar eX- cavation and it gave half dozen men all they could do at the pumps
 Mrs. Charles Schmidt, wife of Select man Schmidt of Waterbury, was found dead in bed at an early hour yesterday morning. Mrs. Schmidt was in hel usual health apparently before retiring Her death was probably due to heart disease.
 The William H. lime club will hold it's annual clambake on the steamer LuZerne H. Ludington on Wednesday next. MT. Ihne's clambake is now ar annual affair. About sixty prominent