The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-09
VARIOUS ITEMS.

William D. Champion of Naugatuck left yesterday morning for Baltimore. where he will attend an executive com mittee meeting of the Improved Order of HeptasOphs Tuesday at the supreme office.
 Marcus Trail is to remove one of the old cannon from Fort Griswold to Groton Station, and it will be shipped to Hastings, Neb., where it will be used for ornamental purposes.
 | Fremont W. Tolles of Naugatuck. who last week returned with his family from Woodmont, where they have been spending the summer, left yesterday morning for hunting. trip in Canada. l The G. M. R. Co.'S factory, Nauga- tuck, after a three weeks shut down for the purpose of making necessary repairs to machinery, commenced Oper- ations in the grinding room yesterday.
 The thirty-sixth annual clambake of the Fat Mans association will occur at 1 Dorlon's Point, South Norwalk, Thurs 1 day. After dinner the handicap walk ing match of 100 yards, for the mann moth gold-lined cup, will take place. The Connecticut Sunday School as ] sociation will meet at the First Con- gregational church in Meriden, Novem- | Der Il, 13 and 13. This convention will be one of the largest, if not the larg- est, gathering of it's kind ever held in Meriden.
 1 The Connecticut Anti-Vaccination | league held a meeting in Waterbury Sunday evening with about fifty mem- bers present. Dr. S. B. Mum, presi- dent of the league, presided and made an address, as did pr. Albert Fox and Dr. W. F. Hinckley. Dr. Fox was l elected to the vice presidency of the league.
 James L. Cowles of Pennington. sec retary of the Postal Progress league, is in town for the purpose of interesting manufacturers and others in the leagues work. MT. Cowles says that he has met with great success in Norwich, New London, New Haven. ,Willimantic and other cities.
 It is expected that Yale university will receive about s500,O00 under the will of Mrs. Ella J. McPherson, widow of United States Senator John R. Me Pherson of New Jersey. Her estate, which is estimated at $600,000, is now in course of settlement after expensive and bitter litigation begun by her daughter, the cost of which has been placed ebtween s75,O00 and s100,OOO.
 A Stamford dispatch tells of an ac- cident in which Mrs. Irving Bacheller, wife of the well known author, met with serious injury. While MT. and Mrs. Bacheller were driving their horse took fight and became manageable. MT. Bacheller jumped out to take the animal by the head. Mrs. Bacheller at- tempted to follow, but, catching her skirt in the wheel, sustained a severe fracture of the left leg.
 I Workrmen in the employ of Chatfield &S Chatfeld, while digging in the ditch in the yard of the Waterbury Brass company Saturday, found a human skull, which is now in the custody of Harrison Whitney, gateman at the fac tory. The skull was found in bed of mud in the bottom of the ditch where excavations are being made. When the discovery was made search was be- gun for the rest of the skeleton, which, however, could not be found. The | SKULL WdS tileu LuIIleu over 10 MT. Whitney.
 With good weather this week and next there will be large shipments of peaches from Wallingford There is such a demand for peaches from Wall ingford that the supply will not begin to meet the demand. On Saturday there were thirteen commission men here at the Martin store house who wanted peaches. They were from Troy, Albany, lPittsburg, Springfield, Providence and Boston, five of them being from the lat ter city.
 Letters have been received from Chi cago ordering peaches. So big was the demand for them Saturday that 10000 baskets could have been readily dis posed of at the Martin store house alone. But there were only S10 baskets sold, as that was all that were ready to be shipped that day.
 The committee selected at the organi- zation of the veteran association of Co. K, c. N. G., last year, for the annual outing this year met Saturday evening at the Go. K armory four of the com- mittee selected, Colonel Leavenworth, Captain Barber, Captain Norton and Musician Austin, being present, the oth- CT two members of the committee, Cap tain Hall and M F.. Cooke, being ab- sent It was decided to have the outing on Saturday, September 20 and to be held out of town and will include a clam bake.
 Captains Norton and Barber were ap- pointed committee on place and Col lonel LeavenWorth committee on trans portation. The committee met again last evening to hear report of commit tee on place.
 The Central Tennis club closed it's season for playing and removed it's ground paraphernalia to their new grounds on Wall street, which will be opened for playing next year.
 The vital statistics for last month were: Births, 22; marriages, 3; deaths, [. For August, 1901, births, 16; mar riages, 4; deaths, 13
 William F. Marx received word yes- terday of the death of his father in New Haven at 5:30 yesterday morning. The funeral will be on Wednesday after noon.
 '"The Fatal Wedding" is booked for the opera house Friday evening, Sep