The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-18
VARIOUS ITEMS


 the Platt Mills company on Benedict
 street, Waterbury, blew open the safe
 and got away with $75 in cash.
 The First Methodist Episcopal church
 of Meriden, Rev. MT Scofield pastor, is
 rejoicing over it's freedom from long
 standing debts. On Sunday morning
 the pieces of paper representing ar
 amount close to $14,000 were burned one
 by one before the eyes of a large con gregation. At the close of the sermon
 thank offering of nearly $400 additiona was raised for missions.
 A cutlery manufacturing business is to be started in Cheshire by Boston par ties in the old Armstrong factory. An addition will be built to the factory.
 Hubert Marvin, bookkeeper for the Osborn Machinery company or New Haven, and wife spent Sunday visiting his mother and brother at 105 Coloney street, Meriden.
 Rev. MT. Burgess, of this city, will preach at St. Andrews church, Merl- den, Thursday evening.
 Mrs Charles Gillette, of Cheshire, wife of the grain dealer, died at her home Friday, the result of a paralytic shock, aged sixty-two years, She leaves one son, Dwight Gillette. The deceased had many friends in Meriden ana this city.
 1 President A. Clements and E. k. Lu" cas, of the Panhard-Levasseur Automo- bile works of Paris, which employs 3'Ooo hands and turns out 120 finished ma chimes of the gasoline type a month, were in Hartford yesterday and placed orders there for several heavy machine tools for use in their factory They have made an extensive business tour of this country during the past month.
 Victor M. Tyler secretary of the Southern New England Telephone com" pany, who last autumn purchased the Way house at Indian Neck was there Saturday with a party. They drove to Indian Neck and looked over the prop erty. upon which remodelling will be commenced at once, the same to be completed for next summers occupant cy.
 A certificate of the Wilbur Corpora tion of New Haven has been filed with the secretary of state. The corporation IS OfganlZeu tb ubdl III hOpl anu H''i'C screens. The capital stock is $6000. The subscribers are Francis B. Griffin, C. F. P. Sanford. Wilbur T. Smith, C. F. Scranton and Adella M, Marvin.
 A final dividend of 90 and 21-0 per cent. has been declared on the insolV- ent estate of Hall x Godfrey, Bridge port carriage makers, making 50 2-10 per cent. all told The declaring of this dividend by Referee Banks, of the Unit ed States bankruptcy court, winds up the affairs of this concern, the creditors getting fraction more than half of their accounts.
 Lewis P. Skidmore, son of Julius w Skidmore, of Bridgeport. who has been studying art In Paris for about year, has succeeded in passing the necessary examinations and is now entered in the Feole de Beaux Arts. He is one of the fourteen American students in the French governments National Acade my of Fine Arts.
 Friendship Rebekah lodge No. 13, I. o. o. F.. of Bridgeport will by invita- ton visit Deborah Rebekah lodge here tomorrow evening
 The total cost of the smallpox situa- IlOn III IOGlSlpl fldS btcll cbbul P1,o'N' VIZ which the borough will pay nearly $700, leaving balance of s3,S00 for the town to pay. Dr. Griswold has been paid about St GOO for giving his whole time to patients, The last two inmates of the quarantine house were discharged Saturday night, but Mrs. Schultz will be retained for two weeks longer and will thoroughly fumigate the place The town retains a lease of the place untR June l.
 It is expected that the manual of the coming meetings of the Southern New England Conference, which will be held in Rockville the first week in April, will be issued this week Bishop Merrill, who Is to preside, is the oldest acting bishop of the Methodist church. about seventy-five years of age He is con sidered an excellent presiding officer and has the faculty of transacting bus mess rapidly.
 The oldest inhabitsnt in Bristol does not remember a spring when the trav- cling was so bad thereabouts as it has been this spring. The mountain roads 1 out of the borough are practically im- passable, and men who must come to
  risk team in the mud. Trees of two i and three years growth, that have in that time acquired a bunch of roots | making mound three or four feet in diameter are left up in the air while 1 the earth has dropped away from them )n all sides.
 Lieutenant Colonel Moore. of New Britain, has interested himself in the 3ase of James F. Coffey. a New Britain boy, who is serving term of imprison- nent for life in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for the murder of Filipino boy al San Fer 1ando Luzon, Philippine Islands, Feb 'uary 1. 1901. Coffey served as a pri- 1ate in Troop c, Third cavalry Coffey It the time of the trial denied all of the crime.
 Corporal Frank Galinot. of East Hartford. and of Company F., Twenty hird United States infantry, is now Galinot, having been promot- d recently after the arrival of his com ,any at Plattsburg, N. Y. He has been tround the world his regiments dis 'atch to Manila having been by way of 'an Francisco and the Pacific, and the eturn by way of the Suez canal and and the Atlantic.
 Contractor c. E. Andrews, who was warded the contract for the corridors t the Hospital for the Insane, Middle own, has sub-let some of the work 'he steel work will be done by Bulard