The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-18
VARIOUS ITEMS.

of the work of building the road for the
 New Haven trolley line between Derby
 and New Haven, yesterday started
 about one hundred and fifty men at
 work near filings and Redcliffe's
 places in Orange, cutting the hills and
 widening the road, signs of coming
 trolley line,
 Fifteen years ago yesterday the Sol
 diers' and Sailors monument in East
 Rock park was dedicated with impos-
 ing exercises.
 MT and Mrs. William r. Merrill, of
 562 Orange street have gone to their
 summer home at Pine Orchard for the
 season. MT. Merrill is a vice president
 of the Consolidated road.
 | Pensions were issued yesterday as follows: Original to Roland G. Smith,
 of Meriden, $12 per month; increase to Orlando M, Carr, of Torrlngton, SS per month to Samuel Finch, of Bridgeport,
 $8 per month; to George B. Miller, of New Haven, $12 per month, and to
 Leon Coon, of New Haven, $1O per month.
 Among the out-of-town guests at the wedding in Waterbury yesterday, at the
 First Congregational church, of Miss
 Nellie Louise Bronson and Richard Ma
 son Goddard, of New York city, were Mrs. Emily R. Wilcox and Mrs. Mary E. Redfield, of Madison, Conn, MT. and Mrs, Stephen H. Mason, Dr. and Mrs. F. R. Goddard, MT. and Mrs. F. P. God dard, Mrs. Olin Warner and Miss War ner of New York city, Mrs. E. c. Ma son, of Nutley, N. J., and Miss Ada Lee of Brooklyn, N. Y,
 Freight traffic on the New York and New Haven road out of Boston Is mak ing a new record. At no previous time has the business reached its pres ent volume.
 Polar Star lodge, I. 0. O. F., of Fair Haven, works the third degree on one candidate this evening. Members are specially invited to be present, as in addition important business is to come before the lodge
 Yesterdays Waterbury American re- marks: ''The new route to New Haven by way of Cheshire is giving Waterbury people pleasant way of going to New Haven. On Saturday afternoon the speed was noted by some of the pas sengers and found to be at the rate of f1fty-fve miles an hour for the first part of the way after leaving Cheshire. while the five and one-fifth miles from Mount Carmel to the stock yards in New Haven were covered in just five That is something like it. The whole ride was made in q little over schedule time on account of hav ing to wait for another train at Mount Carmel, but it shows what can be done"
 A special service will be held in the parish house, Naugatuck. on Friday evening. Rev. Edwin s. Lines, D. D., of this city. will speak on that occasion. | Some of the members will tell of the | stirring scenes and sermons in the l during the dark days lead ing up to the civil war; of the confisca ton of cotton from church cushions; of | the choir and it's constituency before | the days of organs, and many other things of the distant and | 1eeting past.
 Judge E. F. Cole of Waterbury, will | sail from New Haven on the Southern | Cross, flagship of the New Haven Yacht | club, for New London, where he will | view the race between Harvard and | Yale. ....
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas D. Barlow, MT md Mrs J. A. Hart, MT. and Mrs. John NJ. Paige G. Miner, NJ. ClanCey and Henry Weyand all of Waterbury, left morning for a pleasure trip o Atlantic City. Incidentally, members If the party will attend the Plumbers which meets at Atlantic City this week
 Dr. B. w. Pease, of Thomaston, had a itroke of paralysis Monday night about midnight. His right side is entirely ,aralyzed and he suffered from a hem of the brain. He is still un- onscious but there is a possibility that le will recover, Dr. St. John was sum noned to attend him. pr. Pease is well ,noWn both in Thomaston and sur ounding towns,
 William McGovern, at one time one of he most popular and respected young nen in Meiden, committed suicide in ell at the police station in that city arly yesterday morning by hanging. IcGovern made one loop in his sus- enders, tied one end through the bars n the middle of the cell door, slipped he moose over his head and then fell ack, facing the interior of the cell His ,hole weight was thus brought to bear n the moose and he slowly strangled to cath. McGovern had been arrested for I Is