The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-17
OF LOCAL INTER EST.

night. The humidity of the atmosphere is extensive, and the New Haven peo- pie in the Adirondacks, White Noun tains and at the seashore are to be con graduated upon escaping most of this variety of weather.
 Milius Frank has sold his place of business on Chapel street, owing to continued i'll health, and will go to Ger many for treatment. The new pur- chasers are Grosstnan & Kupperberg of New York. MT Frank and his wife expect to leave for Germany within q week. Their son Louis will enter busi- | ness in New York. MT Frank came to this country from Hanover, Germany, in 1861, and ten years later he went into business with l.. Freedman, father | of MT. Freedman of the present dry | goods store of Mendel & Freedman. | After three years MT. Frank severed his connection and went into business alone He has long and honorable ex- perience as a merchant, and his many friends and the public in general will hope for the restoration of his health.
 Director Beecher of the public works department and James H. Macdonald, commissioner of good roadA yesterday approved the plans and specifications for the building of the new road which is to be constructed at the expense of l 1,A trxx t1,A roads law. The road is to be macadam- | ized on Dixwell avenue from Division street to the town line, which is about half or three-quarters of a mile. The plans call for the hardening of the road l to the depth of seven inches and width | of sixteen feet to the car tracks. This means that one-half of the road on the west side will be hardened.
 About fifty fine watermelons will be cut at the Young Mems Republican club meeting this evening. The party will be held on the clubs roof garden. l At the business meeting plans for the Young Republicans state convention l will be endorsed. A large attendance | is expected. Much interest is mani fested in political circles in the annual excursion of the club, which has been fixed for August 2S. Hon, John Adai- son Porter, Senator Lounsbury Sena- tor Hawley, Senator Platt, Congress- man Sperry, Samuel Fessenden ex- l Governor Bulkeley and host of other prominent politicians have been invit- ed. The excursion will go to Glen Isl- and on the steamer John H. Starin, and already nearly 300 tickets have been sold
 Quinnipiac lodge No. IS, I. o. O. F., went to Glen Island yesterday on the l John H. Starin for their annual eX0ur- sion.
 Mayor Farnsworth has received the l city government annual report of the ] city of Newport, R.tI. and in looking it over he discovered that all the names of the taxpayers of the city and the l amount of their taxable property are 1 printed. The mayor is now interested in an ordinance ifl this city to provide l for the publication of the names of per sons who own property that Is exempt from taxation, and he believes that the 1 publication of the full list of taxpay- CTS would be a good thing here.
 The City Guards will meet this even- | HE u ldlG d lltl NOlS Oil tlS pldCe Ol holding theor reunion.
 Captain Hull of Company A, Third regiment, telephoned to police head i quarters from Mantle yesterday morn ing stating that the following members | of the regiment were missing and ask l ing the police to arrest and detain them: l James w. Tierney, Philip Isaacs, Pat rick G. Shay and Thomas Gore. The patrolmen were instructed by Captain 1 Brewer to bring In all soldiers found on the streets without passes. The first man arrested yesterday was Arthur w Foote, a private belonging to the Third regiment He will be held until the colonel of the regiment is notified. All the soldiers arrested in this city com plain that they are awfully tired of the monotony of camp life at Mantle, and disappointed because they did not get away to the front.
 Cankain J. A. Mcclure. formerly mas ter of the schooner Negus, which went to the Klondike, writes home that he is now in command of the bark Hayden Brown, plying between Seattle and St. MichaeTs.
 The Typothetae, composed of the master printers ana puDllSneFS Ol the United States and Canada, will hold their annual convention in Milwaukee next week. Buffalo, which was New Haven's most formidable rival in try ing to secure the convention for 1899, has thrown its support to New Haven, as they wish to have the convention of 1901, when a Pan-American exhibition | will be held in Buffalo
 A sister of F. Coggswel of this. city has received a letter from him. Coggs- | well Is member of the Twenty-fourth infantry and was in the battle of Sam tiago and writes home that he escaped without a scratch. He was in four fights with the Spaniards and saw sev- eral of his comrades fall, victims to Spanish bullets. He hopes soon to see his New Haven friends again.
 The regimental armory has been brushed up considerably this week by Captain Allen. The rain-stained streaks on the walls have 0een washed off, the radiators have been bronzed, and down in the cellar the steam pipes and boiler have been thoroughly cleaned up, painted over with black paint. Many minor repairs have been made.
 Charles Collett, a driver for Smedley & Co.,, was bitten in the calf of the leg Monday by dog on Whalley ave nue. pr. J. J. Ryle, who dressed the wound, found that the dog had bitten