The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-08
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| The postponed entertainment Of l.. B.
Cake will be given at the SummeEfeld
M e. church this evening. Mr.. Cake 8
entertainment is funny, witty, musical
and vocal, containing representations,
character creations, new stories, mono
logues, etc. With Mr.. Cake is Mrs Ella
| June Cake, the only echo vocalist
in the United States.
The four-master Bayard Barnes of
this port went ashore on Sunday night
! near Thimble light while bound from
| Newport News for Norfolk. The ves-
| sci was light and was hauled out with
| out damage.
There are a few tickets yet unsold for
the banquet of the Retail Merchants
association at the New Haven house on
Friday evening, and members who con-
template attending should provide
themselves with them soon, as there is
quite a demand for them among out
siders They may be had on applca-
tion to James P. Earle, the secretary
of the association. There will be a
large attendance at the banquet.
The Humphrey street church will
serve it's regular tea this evening at
$3.50, followed by social and entertain
ment.
President T. B. Blackstone of the Chi
cago and Alton, the wealthy and phi
ianthropic gentleman formerly of Bran
ford, who gave to Branford it's splendid
public library, says concerning the pur-
chase of his road: 1.-The official an
nouncement of the deposit of a major
ity of the stock may be taken as set
Ting the matter beyond dispute. Moth
ing now remains for me to do but step
down and out. They have got the prop
erty and will have no more use for me
here. / have not sold my own stock,
and I do not suppose they are bother
ing much about my stock since they
have secured majority. They do not
need it very badly
The annual meeting of the local
stockholders of the American Mica Min
ing company was held in the office of
Attorney A. Mcclellan Mathewson on
Monday afternoon. The headquarters
of the corporation are in Worcester,
Mass, and the mines are located in
New Hampshire The full board Of d.
rectors, consisting of Worcester and
Boston capitalists, were reelected.
There was a full attendance at the
meeting. The stockholders meet In this
city every year because the company
was incorporated in this state in 1871
by the late Judge Henry E. Pardee. He
was assistant secretary of the company
up to the time of his death. when Mr..
Mathewson, who was associated with
Judge Pardee in legal and business ar
fairs, succeeded him. The law provides
that a corporation must have a secre-
tary residing in the state in which 1t Is
legalized.
Lang e. Phelan of Waterbury have
sold to DR.. George Robbins of that city,
a six-family brick and stone block, al
so a two family brick block. with stores
located on Water street, New Haven,
the purchase price being $4,000. Lang
& Phelan have also sold for DR.. Rob-
bins his property located on Robbins
street, Waterbury, consisting of forty
building lots to Isaac Brown OF New
Haven.
The family of Jerome Hoag at Bulls
bridge is very much afflicted. Mr..
Hoag and two children have had the
grip and pneumonia A peculiar de- |
velopment rendered surgical opera |
U1On necessary III tHt CdSN VI tuC IVY |
and large quantities of pus |
were removed from their sides 1t is |
thought Mr.. Hoag will have to be OPP !
Grated on in the same way.
The International Silver company, or |
trust, as it has come to be known, Is |
planning to absorb the sixty odd con-
Germs in New England, whose staple !
product Is coffin hardware, including |
trimmings, ornamental screws
and the like. These concerns now seek
business and furnish goods in their
line from the North river to PASSPORT. !.
It is understood that Sargent g. Co. and !
the United States Hardware company
If this city have given options on their
plants, the first for some
thing like $4,000 and the latter for
about third of that sum. There are
about a dozen such establishments in