The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-28

ing as major commandant of that or
 ganization from 1875 until 1883.
 Miss Bessie Bannister, of Ivoryton i
 visiting with relatives in this city thi
 week.
 The work of organizing a nucleus TO
 the new artillery regiment which Ad jutant General Cole has determined tt form in the state has begun In New
 London and something will be done 1T New Haven within a short time. Int
 new regiment is to be organized under
 the authority of the general assembly and its chief purpose will be to mar the Qualifications to be erected at va rious places along the Connecticut shore of Long Island sound. It was | erroneously stated several days age that the adjutant general would prop ably select an entire regiment ana des- l ignate it as an artillery regiment. AS a matter of fact it is understood that an entirely new regiment will be organ ized. That is to say, that the regiment will be new in concrete sense, although most of the officers and members will be men who have had some previous connection with the Connecticut Ma | tional Guard. It was learned in Hart ford yesterday that there will probably be eight or ten companies in the artil- l lery. Of that number either two or four will be organized in New London, two in New Haven, two in Bridgeport and two in Norwalk and Stamford.
 Miss Mai o. Curtis, daughter of MT. and Mrs. William A. Curtis, of West avenue, South Norwalk, left yesterday afternoon on a European trip in com pany with a party of Brooklyn friends They will make a short stay in Paris after which they will go to Naples, lta- ly, and return to the Atlantic by way of the Mediterranean Sea.
 A letter received yesterday morning by Walter Leigh announced the arrival at Jacksonville, Fla, on the schooner Jennie Fighter of his brother, Harry Leigh, and Major Henry Hillman, after an unusually tempestuous and stormy voyage.
 Captain Ralph Clark died in Bridge port Wednesday, aged seventy years, The nterment will be made in the Mid dle Haddam cemetery on the arrival of the ? o'clock train tomorrow after noon.
 Judge Townsend, of the United States district court yesterday at Hartford issued an order denying the motion of Simon Holstein, attorney for Harry IIolstein, of New Haven, bankrupt, for leave to take further testimony before Referee Newton in the bankrupts case. Judge Townsend also allowed the mo- tion of petitioning creditors to with draw in the matter of Pasquale Gardel- Ia, of Ansonia, bankrupt.
 The jury in the case of Henry A. Tay- lor of Milford, this state, charged with conspiracy to bribe in connection with the water scandal at Grand Rapids, Mich, reached an agreement Wednes- day night after having deliberated thir- ty-two hours. They returned verdict of guilty as charged. Taylor furnished the money with which it was proposed to saddle upon the city water supply contract of several million dollars. Judge Newham held his $5,000 bond good until yesterday morning.
 Colonel William Donaghue, John w. Coogan and Thomas J. Butler com mitee representing the Hartford Knights of St. Patrick have called on Governor Mclean at the capitol and in vited him to attend the banquet to be given on the evening of St. Patricks day by the Knights in Central hall. Governor Mclean promised that if he is back from Florida before March IF he will certainly attend the banquet. The governor thanked the committee for the invitation