The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-09
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Charles Benson, aged thirty-three years, formerly of Waterbury, was found dead in a barn in Roxbury Sun day morning. The burial certificate gives as the primary cause of his death alcoholism and the secondary cause &C., cidental poisoning. The deceased was well known in Waterbury. He worked on and off in Roxbury on the farm of George W. Leavenworth for five years or so. He was buried yesterday after noon in Naugatuck He leaves two sis ters and two brothers-Mrs. Nathan
 Reed. of Washington. Miss Emily, nurse in the Danbury hospital; J. Bur ton and a brother in Naugatuck. Orders from the adjutant generals office at Hartford to the Connecticut National Guard concerning the annual | encampment will be issued in day or two. The orders will not describe the | extraordinary line of duty, such as has been anticipated for the past three months, but will contain only the usual | instructions for routine work. The | troops will go into camp on the 11th of | August
 | Tobacco growers in the vicinity of Hartford are beginning to feel alarmed over the poor prospects of good crop | this season. The excessive moisture Of | the last fe wweeks has been detrimen-
 tai to the plants.
 | Charles Spink, the six-year-old son of
 MT and Mrs. Boone Spink, fell into the Mystic river yesterday while playing and was drowned. The body was re- | covered.
 Prosecuting Agent Wilson H. Pierce. of Waterbury, has been notified by Hi-
 ram Jacobs, county treasurer, not to appeal from the decision of the New
 Haven county common pleas court in
 deciding for the defendant in the suit of
 MT. Jacobs against William Fallon to recover a druggists bond. This case
 was decided few days ago.
 Sister Mary Josephine Marcelline, known in the world as Miss Sarah Ma honey died at St. Joseph's convent in Hartford Monday of consumption after
 a long illness. She was thirty-three
 years old and was born in Jersey City.
 but until she took religious VOWS. ten
 years ago, most of her life was spent in
 Danbury, where her mother, Mrs. Mary
 Mahoney, and three brothers and three
 sisters now live.
 A conference of the master builders
 of Waterbury yesterday resulted in an
 offer to the striking hod- carriers of the advance of two and half cents an hour
 demanded after August l. but the build- CTS refused to recognize the union. The
 representatives of the hod-carriers | Id i1a md fIn
 strike goes on.
 For an alleged assault on girl five
 years old Morton Travers, farmland.
 was held yesterday in Derby in bonds
 of $2, 900 for hearing in the local court
 next Saturday. Travers is forty-five
 years old.
 Mrs. Sarah Whttlesey, widow of the
 late Gould c. Whittlesey died of can-
 cer at her home in New Preston June
 26 aged nearly seventy-five years. Her 2 funeral was attended at her late home 2 on Saturday afternoon June 2S. Rev. MT. Evans, of Bridgeport, officiated and
 Rev A. H. Post assisted during the fu- neral service. The burial took place in 1 the cemetery by the side of MT. Whittle-
 sey's remains The latter died in Sep tember 1900 Mrs. Whittlesey was born, z married and lived continuously in the ? same house in which she died. which it
 is said. has remained in her and her an- l cestors' possession since it's erection in l 1755. It sheltered Generals Putnam and t Washington while passing there during the American Revolution.
 Miss Elizabeth Kenney and Charles f Conklin will be married in St. Johns 3 Roman Catholic church at 10 o'clock - niece of the bride, will be bridesmaid, - and J. Frawley. a cousin of the bride !; groom, will be the best man. The we'd ding will be very pretty affair The members of the St. Agnes Ladies' ], T. A. & B. society are planning to f hold an outing some day this month = A committee with Miss Julia Brennan > as chairman is to arrange for the af- l fair. A trolley ride will be enjoyed and
 dancing will follow at Hoyt's. t At the Beach house, Savin Rock, Fri. = day evening. a farewell dinner was f given to John Leonard of Palm Beach , Fla, who has been visiting his mother
 Mrs. Mary Leonard, of 24 Elliott street - The guests included Miss Margaret e Hayes, Miss Kate Leonard, Miss Mar. II garet Stamford, and Miss Celia Hayes ' also Messrs. George Entrousel of New = York, M. P. Collins of Nassau, N. Y.
 John G. Reilly and Frederick Yale o U this city. The dinner was thoroughly
 enjoyed by all present.