The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-28

High water to-day, 3:22 p. m.
 Governor Mclean was in, Torringtor Wednesday as the guest of the Hon. O R. Fyler, who is expecting to start for Florida.
 St. Nicholas for March has an article by Miss Justine Ingersoll, and the Youths Companion will also publish a 1 story by the same versatile writer in a month or so.
 At the meeting of Naomi Rebecca lodge, l. O. o. F., last night, in the Odd Fellows building, the initiatory degree was conferred on two candi- dates.
 Svea lodge, I. o. o. F., also con- ferred the second and third degrees on two candidates and they will confer the initiatory degree on one candidate at their next meeting.
 A birthday party will be given by J, Garland in honor of J. Martin this evning at the home of MT. Gartland, 10S Lloyd street, and a large number of friends of MT. Martin will be present
 J. H. Mcdonald, soloist at St. Mary S church in this city, is confined to his { home in Derby with a sort throat. He is unable to take above a whisper. It will be several weeks before he will be able to sing again.
 Connecticut pensions: Original, Chas. R. Bronson, Bridgeport $6: war with Spain, Frederick w. Hjltbrand, New Britain, $6; increase, restoration, re-is- sue, John Waters, Danbury, $S Loren 20 E. Harrison, Branford, SIP.
 A Washington special to the Hart ford Courant says: Tt is expected the nomination of James A. Platt as United States district judge will be confirmed at the next executive session of the senate. The judiciary committee has agreed unanimously to report the nom ination to the senate favorably"
 Assistant Superintendent R. G. Cur tis of the Northampton division of the Consolidated road is very i'll of pneu- monia at his home in Northampton and his many friends are anxious about him. He formerly resided on Lyn- wood street, this city, but about one Tyear ago moved to Northampton.
 The wife of Conductor Crane of the Berkshire division of the Consolidated railroad, is a niece of the late Henry D. Cogswell, who died in San Francis1 GO over year ago. Mrs. Crane resides in this city and her father, Lyman Cogswell, brother of Henry D., lives in Coventry. MT. Crane stated that yesterday morning he had heard noth- ing of fortune deposited in bank in the east, as has been reported, and did t~Jr ,,t, et, ,nJpt fx, |
 Theodore H. Macdonald chairman of the republican town committee, said yesterday that the call for democratic primaries and republican caucuses would be issued before the first week of April. Those meetings will be for the nominations of candidates for the positions of aldermen from the odd numbered wards as provided by the re- cent legislature, and for six aldermen at large. The elections for these Of fees will be held on the third Tuesday in April.
 Gottfried Ammann, the well known planting contractor of 251 Lombard street, and his wife and three children are expected home from Florida in a few days. They have been absent from I. Ammann is the possessor of a large farm in the lower part of Florida and spends four months of every winter on it. Friends here have received word to the effect that the stay this winter has been an unusually pleasan one and that large crops are expected
 The German kaisers new yacht Me teor III. was built at the shipyard where the schooner Elmina, owned by Frederick F. Brewster of this city, was built. The Elmina was designed by A. Cary Smith, who also designed the Me teor III. The Elmina was launched last spring and won almost every race in which she started last summer She Is not as large as the yacht built for the German emperor, but the yachting sharps say the kaiser would have to get ail the speed there is in his craft to beat the New Haven schooner.