The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-30
Local Weather Report
New Haven, Jan. 20, 1901.
Brief Mention.
ter to-day, 1920 a. m.

bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros
The condition Of John Swan of Sey-
rnour, who for the past few weeks mas
been confined to his home with an at
tack Of typhoid fever, is a little improv-
ed.
Harry Carpenter of Bethany, who
some months ago was stricken with
shock. was brought to the New Haven
hospital Monday morning. He was
brought to the city in w. l.. Wards
ambulance.
Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes, the assist
ant rector at st. Paul's church, enter
tanned the members of the choir of st.
Paul's church at his residence on Elm
street Monday evening. There were
thirty present.
Horace johnson writes to say that
there are indications of a binding
snow storm from the LIST to the Sd of
February, possibly thunder and electri-
cal display, also a quaking of the earth
In some portion of it's surface.
Several inventories of large estates
have been filed in the probate court
within day or two Among them are:
Harriet M. Southworth, $79,12368 An
drew DeForest, 1874, 6S3.3O; Susan G. Cal
f7uun, $93515.3O, and James H. Foy,
$306, 170.38
Travel was delayed for an hour and
a half on the Naugatuck division of the
Consolidated road yesterday morning by
the breaking of an axle on the engine
which was attached to the passenger
train due here from Waterbury at Sal.
The accident happened about two miles
above Seymour.
The house of Charles H. Stanford, a
travelling man for o. B. North e Co.,
residing at No. 81 William street, was
slightly damaged by fire yesterday fore
noon. A rag saturated with oil caught
fire from hot stove and set fire to
wood box The chemical engine put out
the blaze quickly.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Presbyterian church will give their reg
nlar monthly supper and social this
evening Supper will be served from
$3.50 until s o'clock, after which good
programme will be rendered. An art
museum will also be an interesting fea-
ture Of the evening.
The Connecticut state board of agri-
culture and the experiment stations will
meet at Enfield by invitation of the En-
field grange on Tuesday, February u.
lat the morning seccion, commencing at
a0:30 o'clock, a paper will be read by DR..
e. H. Jenkins, of this city, on 1.-THE
fermentation of Tobacco"
Comptroller Chamberlain will receive
fees of $2,250 for signing the bonds of
the SO, 100000 issued by the Connecticut
Lighting and Power company. He re-
Gently received $5625O for signing the
refunding bonds Of the Hartford Street
railway These fees are welcome add"
lions to Mr. Chamberlain's pitiful sal
ary as comptroller Of the state, only ST."
300 per annum.
The committee on streets meets in
the city hall tonight at s O'clock, at
which time parties will be heard on a
number of petitions for new pavements
In the city. One of these is the petition
for an asphalt block pavement on
Crown street, between State and Tenn
pie street, and another is the PETITION
for an asphalt block pavement on Elm
street, between State and York streets
Both will be considered.
An increase of pension has been
granted to Horace King, Of Warehouse
Point, at So month, and to James
McEnnany, Of New London, at IS
month widows pensions have been
granted to Mrs. Regina Buchholz, of
New Haven, Mrs. Harriet E. Spohr, of
New Haven, Mrs Mary Mullen, of Stat
ford Springs, and Mrs. Catherine Grit
man, of Bridgeport, each at the rate of
SIS month.
The English people of New Britain
have arranged to fittingly observe the
funeral of Queen Victoria. On Satur-
day morning from s to 8 o'clock the
Baptist church bell win be rung by AL
fred Harmer, for twenty years, bell
ringer in the old country. The big bell
will first toll out eighty-one strokes,
symbolizing the age of the queen. Tt
will then strike the minutes during the
rest of the hour. The time of the OBJ
seryance will correspond to that in Eng
land at which the ceremony vii take
place.
envy stomach was affected by grip
and I could eat nothing but crackers