The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-21

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 High water to-day, 1923 a. m.
 Rain or snow, or both, are promised by the weather bureau for tonight or tomorrow morning.
 Mrs. J. E. Northrop and Miss Morgan of Ivoryton have gone for a pleasure trip of several months to Italy.
 Superintendent of Fire Alarm Grant yesterday installed a private fire alarm box in the Hotel Garde. The new box will be Fl.
 The annual meeting of the Y. M. C.. "A of Shelf. for the election of officers for the ensuing year will beld Wednes- day, March 12.
 The new water contract between the city of New Haven and the New Haven Water company for municipal water supply went into effect yesterday.
 MT. and Mrs. William E. Barnett and Miss Edith Barnett, of the New Haven house returned yesterday from months stay at Rock Ledge, Florida
 The addition to Yale's Kent labora tory will be finished about April 1. The extension will double the present lab oratory accommodations of the build ing
 Mrs William Rochfort, of Edwards street, who has been ill., threatened with pneumonia, is much better and recover ing, as her many friends will be glad to learn.
 Inspectors Wright and Dennis of this city are inspecting this sweek the steam ers Celtic at Bridgeport, H. s. Lock wood at Greenwich and the Jessie R. in this city.
 Washngton's birthday will be observ- ed as holiday at the postoffice. There will be only delivery. by carriers to-mor- row morning and the postoftice will close at noon.
 The geology class of the Meriden high school, under the direction of Miss Hitchcick and including Misses Budde, Norton. Sturmer, Earle, Winslow, and Douglass, visited the Peabody museum here yesterday.
 Mrs. Walker, the aged East Haven ] woman who has been seriously i'll for / some time, has been about the same for the last five days, holding her own. She is still in a very critical condition.
 The members of the company that is to present the Business Mems Carnival under the auspices of the Trinity M. F. church will have another dress rehearsal to-nightto-night This rehearsal will be held at the residence of Mrs. H. B. Armstrong, 53 Park street. z Edward P. Skinner of the Leader, who is i'll at his home on Prince street, was perhaps no worse last evening. He is threatened with an attack of typhoid fever and graduate nurse of Grace hospital Mrs. J. Piercy, is in attend ance at his bedside His many friends will hope for his speedy recovery.
 Edward A. Rourke is very ill at his home 96 Greene street, with pneumo- nia Mir Rourke is well known poli tician in the Sixth ward and is of the firm of Rourke Brothers. About ten days ago he fell i'll and his condition has been serious but yesterday he was reported as somewhat better He is attended by Dr. Stephen J. Maher,
 The ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Southington's oldest male resident, Anon Bradley, of North Main street, also the fifty-eighth birthday anniver- sary of his son, Franklin B. Bradley, of North Main street was observed yes : terQay. Infee SenefdllOHS were repre- sented at the family gathering, which was held at the home of Franklin E. Bradley.
 Wednesday afternoon after school had been dismissed Frank Brazos, of Elm street, who is known to all the children of the neighborhood as Uncle" Brazos, gathered up every child he could find and bundling them all into his big sleigh took them for a sleighride into Woodbridge, and, returning just at dusk. left each at the door of his or her own home.
 John Turney, of New York, brake man on a Harlem freight, while stand ing on g car on an incoming train yes 1 terday forenoon was struck in the head by the runway which supplies locomo- tives with coal in the freight yard near TTrirr station He sustained severe scalp wound and was taken to the New Haven hospital where the wound was dressed He was sent home in the af- ternoon
 Tax Collector Francis G. Anthony is on his way to Florida. His daughter accompanies him. He will probably remain away until the case against his former deputy, John r. McHugh, is opened for tral in the superior court l He had planned the trip several months ago, as the complications in his office had worn on him considerably, but he decided to await the assignment of the case. The suit will probably not be l tried for several weeks.