The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-15
Local Weather Report.
Brief Mention.
High water to-day, 11:20 a. m. Rarpair1Ss in shoes at HOwarth Ere

dlBH water tO-Qay, I1.zU d. Ill.,
 Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
 Judge Townsend is holding court ir
 New York this week.
 The Grand avenue bridge baked al the gates again yesterday morning and delayed three cars. The gates were worked by hand for awhile.
 The hot wave yesterday was a good one. The thermometer ran up to S8 in the afternoon, a change of over fifty de- grees since the low recoHd of last Fri
 day.
 The following transfers of property has been recorded in Southington: Hu- ron Henry and wife of New Haven to B. V. Johnson, house and lot on Berlin avenue.
 Fire Marshal Gladwin yesterday is- sued permit to Augustus H. Kimber- ly for an addition to a barn at the cor ner of Whitney avenue and Humphrey street, the estimated cost of which is $1,2O0.
 New Haven conclave, 323 I. o. o. H., will resume the trial of Patrick Blake on Friday night. It will be an open meeting beginning at S:30 o'clock, fol- lowed by smoker, so that friends of the members may attend.
 The Second company, Governors Foot Guard, will hold their regular spring field day week from Wednesday, The command will go to West Haven by trolley cars and will have their drill there. They are ordered to report in the armory at S:30 a. m.
 Prof. E. L. Curtis of Yale university preached an able and practical sermon Sunday morning in the First Congre- gational churchGBridgepor The sub ject was "Life's Choice" He took his text from the 4th chapter of James, the 14th verse, What is your life?"
 George Haddock of Lake Place. who Is the acting commissary for c. w. Blakeslee x Sons on their big railroad contract from Hudson to Albany, is in town, and will return to-day to AL bany, taking his family will him for the summer, and they will stop at the Oscar Winters place in Nassau, Rens- Selaer county, N. Y.
 MIS- IIdIly SuSlluldI, Wllt Ol CecT6- tary Cushman of the Branford Park Driving association, was severely burn ed about the face and arms at her apartments on the corner of Crown and Temple streets yesterday after noon. In lighting match the lace curtain of her front window caught fire and her dress ignited from the curtain She was alone in the house at the time but w. B. Rees and F. H. Bunnell heard her screams and tore down the curtains. They wrapped her in a rug smothering the flames.
 Daniel Hartwell, of the neighboring town of Washington, and Courtland Trowbridge of New Haven, were in Roxbury recently. MT. Trowbridge has just returned from Nassau, where he spent the winter with his family. He is delighted with the place, charmed With the climate, on account of it's evenness, one continual summer. Mrs. Trowbridge is a daughter of the late Dr. Robert Hubbard of Bridgeport She spends her summers in Washington l where she owns a pleasant country Standard
 Chemical engine No. was put into again yesterday morning | after a months overhauling Among | the most modern improvements on the | ''ma achine" are immense pneumatic l tires that prevent any noise from dis | turbing the sleeping populace at night. | At 12:09 o'clock there was call to 79S l Chapel street, but it was merely anoth- | CT chimney cleaning, with no damage. | About 1:30 D. m. another call brought | the apparatus to the residence of Dr. | Barnsdall at 1S8 Crown street. A cur tain had caught fire The loss was about $5.