The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
Local Weather Report. FOR JANUARY 90, 1899.
Brief Mention.

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 One hundred acres s2,oOO R. E. Baldwin.
 The Dr. Nancy Guilford case has all ready cost the state $2,307.
 Members of Crawford council, R. and g. M., are requested to be present at the next meeting, tomorrow evening, as business of importance to all will be transacted.
 Ansonia is to have a new industry. Dana Bartholomew and w. H. Plumb have organized a new company and will engage in the manufacture of brass and other metal novelties.
 Tomorrow the New Haven and Der by Railroad company will pay the semi annual interest on $225O00 7 per cent. bonds. This amount is now first mort gage, but formerly a second mortgage.
 Oscar Carlson of Derby was brought to the New Haven hospital yesterday morning by his attending physician, Dr. Sharpe, for treatment MT. Carlson had suffered an attack of the grip, which de- veloped into pneumonia.
 President Cheney of the state prison board of directors yesterday received a letter from Henry Wolfer, selected as the successor to Warden Woodbridge of ! the Connecticut state prison. He de- clines to accept the position.
 Albert c. Bacon, aged thirty-eight years, died at his home in Hartford yesterday of liver and kidney troubles. He leaves a wife and two sisters Mrs. R. R. Palmiter of New Haven and Mrs. w. D. Caulkins of Hartford
 Henry Hellman of New Haven ave- nue, Derby died of grip and pneumonia Sunday morning after an illness of about month. MT. Helliman was thir- ty-three years of age and had lived in Derby ever since the filling mills in Or ange, where he was employed, burned down. He leaves a wife and four cfil- dren.
 It is estimated that the loss to the Standard company of Bridgeport by the fire on their premises Saturday will be $10,0O0, which, however, is fully covered by insurance. The third floor is occu- pied by the Price, Lee company, direc- tory publishers, and their loss will be at least $5,000, which is likewise covered by insurance.
 Alexander Troup yesterday issued a call for a conference to be held at Labor Union hall, Il Central Row, Hartford, Wednesday, February S. at 130 p. m., and adds: You are cordially invited to be present, and are requested to invite any and all democrats in your town or district to participate who are in favor of the free and unrestricted coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Single gold standard advocates, or believers in "bi- metallism as enunciated by Jefferson" are not invited to this conference Only national platform will be welcome.
 Charles D. Sherman of this city has | received a copy of "In Memoriam" | which is being sent out by Rev. and | Mrs. John G. Davenport of Waterbury, | in memory of their only son, Clarence | Gaylord Davenport, who died in Porto Rico, October 26 in the service of his country at the age of thirty. MT. Sher- man and MT. Davenport were class. mates at Worcester, Mass, both being members of the class of go, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In the front of the book is an excellent likeness of Cor poral Davenport in his military uni form. Then follows short sketch of | his life and his military career and the high esteem in which the young man was held by his relatives, his classmates, and the officers of Company E, Twenty third New York regiment, of which he was a member