The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-23
WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
WOMAN SUICIDE IN NEW YORK FORMER RESIDENT OF THOROUGH.

HOhMEH RESIDENT OF BOROUGH. Bad Fall of George Grieb, Fainter Probable Shake Up In Police Force Antics of Town Clock Explained Other Items.
 Invitations were sent out yesterday to the wedding of Frank A. Wallace and Miss Rose Manning, which will oc- cur on Wednesday, December 7, at 12 o'clock noon.
 The town hall clock, which has done service for over fifty years, is played out, and should be replaced by new one.
 The new band stand on Main street is fast looming up and has already been christened the Lighthouse"
 Mrs. Ida Belle Rudbeck, who commit ted suicide in New York on Monday night, was formerly Miss Ida Lewis of this town. Her first husband was Thomas Goode, who died of consump- ton. Rudbeck, who is a Swede, for merly resided here. The reason given for the unfortunate woman's rash act was that her husband forbid her to go out on her bicycle early in the evening. She took laudanum and inhaled gas.
 George Grieb, a painter at work on A. l. Martins house on Church street, yesterday afternoon fell from the stag ing near the top of the house, striking on his knees and fracturing his knee cap and breaking his right leg below the hip. Dr. Smith attended.
 F. M. and T. F. Daly, D. J. Lynch and T. E. Fitzgerald took in the Cor bett-Sharkey match in NeW York last night.
 There is a probability of a general shake-up in the Wallingford police force at the meeting of the new board of burgesses Saturday evening. It is stated that Policeman Dan O'Reilly will be all that is left of the present force after the cyclone is over.
 A marriage license has been issued to Michael Houlihan and Miss Ellen Gillo- hooley.
 c. G. Hull, who has charge of the town clock, was up in the tower last evening and found that the lock on the tower had been broken off the door, and credits the late inaccuracies of the face of the clock to the work of boys who have gained an entrance to the inside workings of the ancient timepiece. The Meriden high school second team will play the local high school team here on Thanksgiving morning. Game called at 10 o'clock. The body of James H. Becroft, who died yesterday in Meriden, will be | brought here this afternoon for burial | in the Center street cemetery. | The carriers will make two collections and one delivery tomorrow. | William I. Todd is home from three | weeks trip to Seattle. c. H. Thomas and Miss Georgia Lane I will be married at o'clock this evening at the home of the bride on Center | street.
 Charles B. and G. Selden Yale are home from St. Johnsbury, Vt. 1 The Wallingfords played polo in Tor | rington last night and will play in Win sted tonight
 | The usual holiday hours will be ob- served at the postoffice to-morrow--S to 12 and lobby open for box-holders from 6:20 to 2 p. m.
 The schools will close to-day until Monday.
 F. c. Allen has gone to Halifax River, Florida, for the winter. Mrs. Allen and Miss Lillian and Robert Allen are al- ready there.
 Ernest LaBarnes is home from the Meriden hospital.
 The Ansonias, who play polo here on
 Thursday afternoon and again on Sat
 urday evening, will present four new
 men on their team.
 John P. Trowbridge of Frederick
 lodge No. IA of Plainville, aged eighty
 one years, is the latest addition at the
 Masonic home. There are now forty.
 seven at the home.
 Detective Daly of New Haven was is
 town yesterday.