The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-01

High water to-day, 7:44 p. m.
 Insurance &c Leans Chas. Wilson & Go.
 Two family house, S2 500. R. Baldwin.
 The thermometer at a. m. in this city was above zero; in Hartford at the same hour in was at zero.
 The engagement of Wilbur R. Cor bin of New Britain and Miss Rebekah H. Morse of this city is announced.
 Rev Charles D. Crawford of this city occupied the pulpit of the Second Con- gregational church in Danbury Sunday morning and evening.
 It was a rough night for the police force, the fierce wind and binding snow conspiring to make the hardships Of the officers doubly severe.
 The Consolidated railroad is harvest ing ice from the upper basin at Wind- sor Locks, and has a large force of men at work. The ice is about twelve inches thick.
 At the annual ball of company E, Third regiment, New Jersey National Guard, held in Elizabeth, N. J., last night, the grand march was led by \ Miss Selma Seydel of this city. 2 minstrel entertainment will be held at the Railroad Association Y M. c. A. building on Friday evening at 8 o'clock to which railroad men and their fami- lies are cordially invited to attend.
 The receipts from the tax on the sav- ings banks of the state received by the state treasurer during the month of January amounted to $1S6, ,615.21, which is about $10,OO0 more than last year.
 Harry K. Taylor, Yale '95, son of President J. P. Taylor of the Charter Oak National bank, Hartford, has gone to Cleveland, O., to open and conduct a branch for the Hartford Rubber Works company.
 William Freeman French, M. D., who died at his home in Noroton last Thursday, was a graduate of Trinity college in the class of 1879, and took his degree in medicine at the University of the City of New York in 1884.
 The Arion society of Bridgeport en- tertained 150 members of the Arion so- ciety of this city Sunday. A concert arranged for the visitors was given in the evening and won hearty coIulen- dation of the New Haven men.
 The executive committee of the Con- necticut Alumni association of Holy Cross college has extended invitations to the annual banquet, which will be held in the New Haven house Febru- ary s.
 The Firemen's Mutual Aid associa- { tion met last evening and voted the following benefits for time lost on ac- count of sickness: James E. Howe, formerly of steamer ', four weeks; Walter Hovey of truck g. four weeks, and James Tucker, engineer of steam CT 1, two weeks.
 The New Haven Merchants Retail association will have it's fourth annual banquet this evening at the New Ha- ven house beginning at 7;30 o'clock. It is expected that there will be about 150 present, consisting of members and guests. Stephen A. Howe, president of the association, will preside.
 Yesterdays Ansonia Sentinel says: Charles Williams of New Haven, the young basso whose singing was so much enjoyed at the last special musi- cal service at Christ church, has been engaged to sing regularly with the choir His services will add greatly to the attractiveness of the music.
 Col Sill of this city lectures tonight at Russell library hall, Middletown, under the auspices of the war relic and museum committee. His subject is "In and Out of a Rebel Prison," being the story of his own experiences during the war. It is the highly interesting lec- ture delivered by Colonel Sill recently before the Mems club of the United church.
 Murty Savage, the old time thief who Is in the county jail awaiting trial for horse theft, told Deputy Sheriff Stagg of Stratford yesterday that there ought to be an electric light at the corner of Church and Main streets, Stratford, and that wire ought to be run to the Washington bridge tenders house, so that the officer could intercept crimi- nals. Now that he is in jail, and like ly to stay there, Savage appears quite solicitous of Stratford people.
 THE WORLDS PROBLEM.