The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-03
Local Weather Report. New Haven, Oct. 2.
Brief Mention.
High water at midnight.

High water at midnight.
 Raymund V. Morris of Woodmont, while hunting in the woods near Wood mont, Wednesday killed a black snake that measured over five feet in length.
 Rev. w. A. Richard, presiding elder, will give a short address and hold quarterly conference at St. Andrews S M. E. church this evening at 7:30. All welcome.
 The Painters union has voted to pay each of the eighteen men on strike s2.5O, per day benefit, but any one of the strikers not in good standing will be debarred from receiving the benefit.
 The candidates on the democratic state ticket will hold a conference in this city this afternoon at ? o'clock in the Malley building. It is understood that they will discuss the matter of raising the sinews of war.
 There will be harvest festival in Christ Episcopal church, East Haven, Snext Sunday afternoon, commencing at o'clock. There will also be special music by vested choir, Charles Page, organist, and a harvest sermon by the rector of the church, Rev. John H. Jackson.
 The Ladies guild of Christ church, East Haven, will hold cake sale in the town hall next Wednesday after noon from to 5. There will be an en- tertainment in the evening, musical and literary, commencing at o'clock Ad- mission ten cents. Informal dancing will be indulged in and ice cream will be served.
 The Italian republicans of this state < will hold their state convention in Mer- iden on October s. The places to be represented by two delegates each are: New London, New Haven, Bridgeport, South .Norwalk. Stamford, Derby, Wa terbury, Meriden, New Britain, Middle town, Hartford, sout hington and Wind sor Locks.
 The Colt Arms company, which con- trols the Colt Patent Firearms con- pany of Hartford, has declared a quar- terly dividend of per cent, payable October il. This company has share capital of $2,5oO,oOo, so that the dividend represents $25,000. The company has also outstanding an issue of s1,2OO,0OO of 5 per cent. collateral trust bonds.
 The block signals on the trolley road from here to Bridgeport were changed on Wednesday and hereafter there will be but one stop on the meadows be- tween Burns Point and Meadows End. When the half hour schedule was in force it was necessary to have more of the signals, but now that cars are only run on the hour schedule the old sys- tenn has been done away with. In response to the order passed by the board of aldermen Tuesday night, when five members of the board were made a committee to discuss the coal strike situation, Mayor Studley yester- day appointed four citizens to cooper ate with that committee. He selected Donald G. Carmichael, Daniel F. Kelly, George A. Robinson and E. H. Sperry The entire committed will meet tonight at 8 o'clock.
 Dr. George NettIeton of this city was one of the ushers at the wedding in Asylum Hill Congregational church, Hartford, Wednesday, of William Strong Post and Miss Julia Graham Jones. The bride is daughter of Mrs. Frederick Cornelius Jones of Hartford
 There was recorded in the town clerks office yesterday a deed in which Morris F. Tyler, as trustee, loans to the trustees of the Union League club, the sum of $35,0OO. The money is bor- rowed for the Improvements that the club is making. In exchange the league issues thirty-five bonds of S1,OO0 to run for period of fifty years, each bond to carry interest at per cent.