The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-01

High water to- -uay, 4.1o II. Hl'
 The Century and McClure's Maga- zines for March at the Pease-Lewis company's.
 The Yale Kansas City club will give a smoker tonight at 9 o'clock at the HofBrau Haus.
 The Yale Hill school smoker will be held at the University club on Monday evening, March 10
 The Yale Apollo Glee and Banjo clubs will give a concert in Calvary Baptist church on Wednesday evening March
 Among the men chosen by Harvard to debate aganst Princeton is J. K. Clark, Yale '99 who is now in the liar yard law school.
 On the 18th of March the annual din ner of the Yale Lit" will be held at the Tontine with covers laid for be- tween sixty and eighty men.
 Fire did about 5000 damage in the boiler room of the repair shops of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad in this city about 3 o'clock yes terday morning.
 Mrs. Joseph Bellman, wife of Patrol man Bellman, of S31 Grand avenue, is reported as recovering nicely from an operation performed at Grace hospital yesterday
 The committe of the senior class of the Sheffield scientific school in regard to statistics have announced them as follows: Average height, feet inch es. average weight, 152 pounds; aver age P years 1 months and 13 days
 By invitation of the Enfield grange < the Connecticut Genealogical society will hold an institute at Music hall in Enfield March 5. The programme, which will open at 10 a. m, includes addresses by Prof w. E. Britton of the Connecticut experiment station in New Haven. N H. Sherwood of Southport, I H. Merriman of Southington, Prof. A G. Guilley of Connecticut agricultur- al, Storrs, and F. M. Ives of Meriden.
 L. E. Brooks of Ansonia who was T1rOWH out Ol e lCciii tiIh ~ iilCilbii' 'ttoD and had his neck broken, was brought to the New Haven hospital Thursday, his physician, Dr. Goldstein, accom- panying him. An ambulance was pro- cured and being placed on a stretcher of special construction, he was moved about without difficulty or inconven- fence to himself MT. Brooks condition remains practically the same, and there is not much hope that he will full ly recover.
 General H. A. Bishop, the retiring purchasing agent of the New York, New ! Haven and Hartford railroad, yesterday confirmed the report that he would be vice president of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg railroad after the new management had taken hold. He stated that the company with which he was going would control the West Virginia road and other small proper ties in that section, Besides the line already in operation, the new syndicate would build on between two and three hundred, miles of property When the deal is completed the West Virginia will be an extensive system. It now has an extensive coal business and the addi- tions will greatly increase the traffic in this line as in others
 i The Columbia (S. co State of Febru- ary 25 says: Malcolm A. Shelton, after an illness of only four days. died of pneumonia at the residence of his son, Thomas Shelton, on Olympia Hill yes terday afternoon al 6 o'clock Mr. Shel- ton was born in Stratford, Conn.,, May IS, 1926, and moved to Columbia when a boy of fifteen years. MT shelton leaves a son and two daughters and many friends here in Columbia to mourn his death" MT. Shelton was a son of the late Dr. William T. and Caroline Thompson Shelton, and was a brother of Mrs. Eliza F, Fairchild and Mrs. Jane T. Dunbar, of Stratford.
 Purchases of machinery and tools for the new shops of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad at Read vile Mass, were completed Thursday afternoon. This closes another impor- tant deal in connection with the equip ment of this large plant. The purchases were signed by General Henry A. Bish- op and call for the delivery, within specified time, of machinery and tools which are valued in the neighborhood of $100, 900.