The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-15
WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
WALLINGFORD BASEBALL TEAM'S
 GOOD YORK SATURDAY..

An Experience With TorantuIa--A Boy and u Bicycle Cause Damage Democrats to Meet tTo-niSht-TheC Com test for the Nomination for sherlR-st. Paul's Choir Boys-Hubbard Hose Clam Blake, Etc.
 The Wallingfords had on their base ball clothes Saturday and put up a line game with the strong team from South Meriden, and won victory by score of to 0. Downey and Gardner were the Wallingford battery, and the Maroney brothers did good work for Meriden. The outfield of the local team did great work and captured every ball A-and there were many-that came their way. The home team played an almost errorless game and gave the best exhi- bition of ball playing ever seen in this town.
 c. O. Hall had quite an experience with a monster tarantula at his place of business on Center street late Friday evening. He was moving some collar boxes on the shelf, when he was star tied to find one of these venomous rep tiles in back of the boxes. After live ly skirmish with yard stick the var mint was killed It is supposed that the tarantula came from the south in a bunch of bananas, as there is a friut store in the same block.
 Blaney's "A Hired Girl' will be the attraction at the opening of the season at the opera house this evening. A bright, new story, pretty girls, funny comedians and the latest music, songs and dances will be among the interest," ing features of the play. Charles F. Mccarthy, the funny Irish comedian, for. years in Ed Harrigan's company, heads the list of artists.
 William Mix had the front wheel of his bicycle completely wrecked in Bran ford Saturday. A boy with a heavy bicycle who was learning to ride was the cause of the disaster Mix came home by train.
 B. M. Daly is home from a vacation trip to the shore resorts on Long Island and New Jersey.
 The democrats will meet in caucus this evening to nominate delegates to the various conventions The county delegation seems to be the one that at tracts the most attention at present, and for some days past there has been some lively hustling on the part of the would-be chiefs, and their work has been centered where it will do the most good work. J. F. Carney of New Ha- ven, a Tomlinson worker, was in town Saturday scattering seed.
 The choir boys of St. PauPs church went on an excursion to Woodmont on Saturday with Choirmaster H. H. Walker and enjoyed the recreation very much
 Other baseball games played here on Saturday and the results were as fol- lows: West Ends of Meriden 3, Broth erhoods 1; North Havens g, Quicksteps 5; the New Citys of the North Plains defeated the Hubbard hose team, but the exact score could not be learned.
 The clambake of the Hubbard Hose company Saturday at Ulert Grove was very enjoyable affair to those who at tended and nobody came away hungry or dry. A dance was given in the even ing.
 George White and David Eakens came in second in the double-oared race in Hanover Saturday. The winners were Messrs. Spencer and Barrett of Meriden.
 Every year about the time of the an- niversary of the tornado, August g., some of the old ghost stories that were printed twenty years ago regarding the terrible event are resurrected and given out In the various newspapers, some- times with variations. Recently a sto- ny was told by Robert Taylor of Wa terbury, who at the time lived here. His story is in the main correct, but he revives the old tale that the water was blown out of the lake, which is a mistake, as the cyclone did not touch the lake, but passed over it at some height and then swooped down quite a distance east near the railroad and be- gun it's deadly work. An old barn and two houses which stand near the edge of the lake escaped without serious in- jury, and no water, or fish, was blown out. The story about Daniel O'Reilly being carried up in boat on a water spout and landed some distance away from the shore is another of the un- founded fictions of the tornado time. The facts are that MT. Reilly was safe ly landed on the east shore when the tornado passed over. There was a heavy gale on the lake and the waves for a time ran high, but the yarn of a waterspout is all moonshine.