The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-23
(Continued on Sixth Page.)
OF LOCAL INTER EST.

Mayor F. B. Farnsworth yesterday received the official invitation sent by
 the executive committee in charge of
 the annual convention of the League of
 American Municipalities, The session
 will take place in Detroit this year,
 from August 1 until August 4.
 The will of the late Colonel W. c.
 Mowry of Norwich leaves $1,Oo0 each
 to relatives and the residue of the es-
 tate to John M. Johnson, as trustee for
 his sister, Lucy Mowry Mason and her
 children.
 The third annual summer outing of
 the New Haven Press club will be held
 at Taylor's Lighthouse Point next
 Thursday at 490 o'clock. The Ameri-
 can Second Regiment band is to join
 in the outing and it is expected that
 the occasion will be made very enjoya-
 ble The party will leave the Green
 at o'clock in cars over the line of
 the New Haven Street railway, and af- ter the pleasant ride to the point will
 partake of one of MT. Taylor's best dinners.
 Captain Kennedy in the internal rev. enue office in this city yesterday re- ceived the following dispatch from Nathan B. Scott of the Hartford of- flee: Caution new special taxpayers, including bankers, as to the 50 per cent penalty The meaning of this is that the new law compels certain classes to make returns each month
 and if they do not make the returns in
 time there is a penalty of 50 per cent. added. Thus, if the tax was $10 the
 person in arrears would have to pay $15 and so on.
 Thomas Brooks, formerly of Ewen McIntyre's silk department, is at the New Haven hospital, suffering from an | acute attack of kidney trouble He | was taken i'll on the train at Mystic, and was brought to this city by his | wife and placed in the hospital The | hospital doctors say that his recovery l is assured.
 | Some of the New Haven letter car- | riers yesterday received from the pos- | tai department sums covering their l claims for overtime work. These are l the last of these claims. Overtime is ! not now on the programme.
 I A kettle of varnish boiled over at the works of the National Varnish conn pany on Saltonstall avenue about 10:30 | o'clock yesterday morning, and did about $10 damage. There was big l blaze and smoke for few minutes and l box 72 was struck. The fire depart ment was not, however, needed. Postmaster Howarth, a member of l the republican state central commit l tee, left yesterday for New London to attend the meeting of the committee ! held at Fishers Island last evening. l Mir Howarth said before leaving that I it was generally understood that the 1 state convention would convene in this l city in September
 At the next meeing of the mayor g cabinet, which will be held next Mon | day night, two new men will be pres l ent. Presidents G. G. Ames and J. H. 1 Townsend of the fire and health boards l will be there for the first time. The | other members are the same.
 l The gas company will soon begin the | work of laying a sixteen-inch pipe to | supply West Haven through Washing l ton avenue from Putnam street. The l line will cross Washington bridge and
 conect with the Kimberly avenue line at Wards corner.
 Myron Schermerhorn of this city is ! a candidate for principal of the Church | street school in Meriden according to | the Meriden papers Myron Schermer- 1 horn is clerk in the railroad offices l in this city and his residence is 166 l Davenport avenue.