The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-24
WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
$@,50O FIRE YESTERDAY ON THE
 TREADW1Y ESTATE.

Local Baseball Team Won from Yale
 Law School Nine-Reai Estate Trans-
 ment and Dance to be Given by w. R.
 C.-SpcciaI ConyOcation of Compass
 Lodge Other Items.
 Two barns on the Treadway estate, about mile and half east of the cen ter of the borough, and rented by Will liam Poole, were destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. The loss will be fully $2,500; covered by in surance. Twenty-one cows, seven pigs and number of chickens, as well as q quantity of hay in one barn, were burn ed, but the five horses in the second barn were gotten out safely. The cracking of the flames awakened Mrs. Poole, but the fire had been in progress so long then that the roof of the barn was ready to fall in. MT. Poole was out of town, having left Saturday for Will 1lmantic. The origin of the fire is a mystery. "Bill' Youngs, a well known umbrella mender, used to make one ot the barns his sleeping place when in this vicinity, and it was supposed that he was burned to death in the fire, but later it was learned that he had trans ferred his sleeping place to another barn and he appeared on the scene and was active in the efforts to extinguish the flames.
 The case of Judge E. M. Judd against Editor F. w. Richards came up before Assistant Judge J. R. Campbell in the borough court Saturday morning. Pros ecuting Attorney Downs, assisted by Attorney c. J. Danaher of Meriden, ap- peared for the state, and Attorneys C.. "A. Harrison of Wallingford and E. P. Avine of New Haven were counsel for Richards. Judge Campbell bound the accused over to the superior court, July term, under $1,000 bonds, which were furnished by Sherman D. Johnson Of Orchard street.
 The baseball season was opened herd on Saturday by a closely contested game between the Wallingfords and the Yale Law school team. The visitors were in the lead by a score of to up to the sixth inning, when the Walllng- fords took a brace and tied the score in the next inning and then got in two runs, while the visitors succeeded in scoring another tally. In the last in ming both sides went out in one, two, three order and the game ended with the score to in favor of Wallingford, Yales heavyweight catcher had one of his finger nails torn off early in the game and had to retire. Buckley of pHo rirorira fOr seven innings, when he retired and Downs of Wallingford took his place for the rest of the game.
 Saturdays recorded real estate trans fers were: Helen M. Seeley to Bernard J. Ames, one lot 50x142 feet on Elm street; Louis White to Edmund Kahl, house and lot 50x175 feet on Cherry street; Albert M. Foerch to Frederick C. living, 125 acres with buildings in East Wallingford, known as the Henry Morse farm.
 A. H. Dutton Woman's Relief corps will give an entertainment and dance in the town hall Saturday evening, May 6. The programme of entertainment will include the following: Comic selec- tions, Ralph Booth; fancy dance, Miss Bessie Morse; specialties, Armand Hall and Silas w. Becroft For dancing Williams orchestra will furnish music and w. M Casey will prompt. Admis- sion 25 cents.
 Compass lodge No. g, F. and A. M, will hold a special communication this evening and confer the Master Mason's degree.
 Rev. William Brewster, for some time past located in Northford, and a broth ser of Bishop Brewster, is now pastor