The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-14
VARIOUS ITEMS.

[ Cheney Brothers factory in South
 Manchester voted yesterday to return
 to work to-day provided all the strik-
 CTS ar taken back to work. They &C.,
 cetp the firms proposition. The strike Ehas been on eight weeks, involving 300 | hands.
 A. c, Jones, aged thirty years, col
 lector for a Providence real estate
 dealer, was probably fatally injured yesterday at a Mechanicsville grade
 crossing in Putnam. A team which he
 was driving was struck by passenger
 train.
 The Rev. Forrest F. Emerson, who l preceded the Rev. Dr. George M. Stone in the pastorate of the Asylum Ave- nue Baptist church, Hartford, died
 Saturday, at St. Vincents hospital in | New York at the age of sxty-tWo | years.
 Horace Johnson, the weather prophet,
 says he forecasted the St. Pierre disas- 1 ter. He says; ''1'he planets which
 move in orbits around the sun have
 been in positions within the past few | days whereby their attractive force has | been brought to bear upon the central | force of the earth, causing perturbat- 1 ing force upon the earth. In all such I eases an expansion or stretching of | the earth is produced resulting in | great interval commotion, which is felt | from center to surface" MT. Johnson vouchsafes the following: q am in clined to the opinion that had the mill lions that have been appropriated by the general government in aid of the weather bureau been placed in proper hands and wisely disbursed not pro- fusely squandered, great and good re- suits would have been accomplished When the money Is up the world can have the secret; until then the wealth. CT bureau must guess at the little which I know"
 In Bridgeport yestrday Annie Onder- ick, the young woman who was the object of the jealous infatuation which caused Lawrence Bessano to kill and mutilate Michael Tornish at the Allan tic hotel on Sunday, appeared before Coroner Doten and testified that she knew nothing of BesSano's affection for her until after she left her employ meft at the hotel and was twitted on it by the other kitchen girls. Others testified and the coroner returned a verdict of felonious homicide. Bessano will be alraigned in the city court on Saturday on the charge of murder in the first degree.
 The thirty-fifth annual encampment of the Connecticut G. A. R. will be held in Bridgeport to-day and to-mor- row, and representatives of every post in the state will be present The en- campment will be held at Bridgeport upon the invitation of Elias Howe, Jr., post, No 3, of that city. The headquar- ters of the G. A. R. men will be in the Atlantic hotel.
 In West Cornwall yesterday Mrs. | George Anson. aged forty-two years, | died from burned received at her home | there Monday. Her clothes caught fire while she was trying to take blazing can of varnish from the stove. She | was frightfuly burned.
 Goat Island, an extensive piece of 1 property near Calender's Point, on Long Island Sound near Stamford, has been purchased by MT. Zegler, president of a we'll known baking pow der company and will be used for summer residence. The purchase price is said to have been s125,000 A house, costing S100, GOO will be erected.
 The German Lutheran church in Tor rington is prospecting under the pastor ate of the Rev. Otto Seidenstuecker By reports presented at the anniver. sary on Sunday the church debt is shown to be reduced to $500, and $500 more of this amount will be paid on June 1, as the result of Easter offer ings.
 In Bridgeport yesterday counsel for Helen Potts Hall, whose claim for $l0- 900 cash and all the remainder of the George Francis Gilman estate was dis allowed by the commissioners, appealed to the superior court
 The fifth annual banquet of the Wa terbury Business Mems association, which will occur tomorrow evening, will without doubt be a great event in the history of the organization. Word has already been received from the fol- lowing associations saying that they will be represented by delegates at the banquet: Bridgeport, Hartford, Meri- den New Haven. Ansonla, Torrington, New London, Bristol, Norwalk, South Manchest CT. New Britain and Southing- ton Covers will be laid for 150 guests and the caterer, James W. Hodson, promises that everything will be in first class order.
 In Winsted yesterday Edwin Dauchy, q young man of about thirty years, at one time employed at the photograph gallery of K. T Shelon, and who later made two trips to the Klondike gold region. took a dose of laudanum at an early hour at MT, Sheldon's residence, where he had visited for a few days. Doctors were called but the young man vas very low last night.
 Adjutant General Cole yesterday in on the report of the mili- ary board which has been submitted, recommending certain changes in the makeup of the National Guard, said in with a reporter: "In the main the recommendations were very .ood and would probably be largely dopted. but there were some surprises which were not looked for, some of =