The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-08

! Items. Lois, infant daughter of MT. and ! Mrs. William c. Robinson of Lloyd street, died yesterday of spinal menin- | gItls, after an illness of three weeks. 1 She was sixteen months old. Every l thing possible was done for the little | sufferer and five physicians were em- | ployed, but the disease baflled all medi- | cal aid.
 President l.. P. Deming, Superintend- | ent c. D. Parmelee and H. w. Craw- ford represented the Fair Haven Ceme- tery association at the convention of American Cemetery Superintendents,
 which closed in this city yesterday. MT. 1 Crawford attended the banquet held at Mansfield's grove yesterday afternoon. | When the foundation was eXcavated Tor James B. Moran's new laundry on Grand avenue a toy flatiron was un-
 earthed five feet below the surface. Mr. Moran has had the fiatiron polished and nickel plated and it is to be mounted
 on velvet and placed in a glass case.
 The little flatiron is of the old-fash- toned style and MT. Moran says it must be at least one hundred years old. He values the find very highly. The families of H. F. Hemingway,
 Marcus Hemingway, R. G. Davis, Ed. H. Barnes and Walter A. Buck, who
 have occupied the Heminway cottage at Morris Cove through the summer, re-
 turned to their homes yesterday. They
 have had very pleasant sojourn at the
 shore
 M. J. Barnes of 50 Houston street has
 returned from a short vacation trip,
 having visited Boston and Stonington.
 In Stonington he had considerable suc-
 cess bluefishing.
 Riley Phillips the popular baritone,
 has been engaged to sing the remainder
 of the month at the Sunday evening service of the Ferry street Congrega- tional church, providing the regular
 baritone, Alfred Hall Is not able to re- sume his place in the quartette before the end of the month. Mir. Hall is slowly recovering from a severe attack of typhoid fever.
 A big fleet of oyster boats went out Wednesday and Thursday oyster catch ing has been actively resumed. The oyster shops are beginning to open stock for shipment and a busy oyster season is predicted. Shipments are being made to Boston, Worcester and to points west. The oysters are reported in fine condition.
 A turnpiking machine has been at work on several streets in the Eleventh ward. The surface of the roadway has been scraped down and rounded up in the middle and the improvement was much needed.
 The cut stone work on the west ap- proach of the East Chapel street bridge is completed and the work of filling is being pushed ahead eXpeditiously. On the east abutments gang of men are working night and day to complete the concrete foundation, so that the work of laying the abutment can be started soon. The draw is practically complet- ed and is ponderous looking affair. The electric motive apparatus has been completed as far as possible.
 Rev E. w. Stone of Carmel, N. Y., who was recently called to the pastor- ate of the Grand avenue Baptist church, has not acted upon the call as yet, but has notified the clerk of the church of his intention to do so in the near future. Matters have been delayed ow- ing to the death of his father, which occurred three weeks ago, but the mem- bers of the church are hopeful of MT. Stones acceptance