The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-16
VARIOUS ITEMS.

will be held in Waterbury to-day. Rep resentatives from every town in the state are expected.
 i Lawyer Martin Conlon, formerly of this city, who was arrested in connec- tion with a check transaction in New York city, is exonerated from any crim- inal connection with the matter. The grand jury which heard the complaint of A. J. Kelley & Co.,, the New York carpet dealers, refused to indict MT. Conlon, and now there is no charge against him. Conlon was represented by Attorney Lewis Stuyvesant Chaler, of New York, and Attorney Matthew A. Reynolds, of this city. On Wednesday afternoon Conlon appeared as witness in the case of E. c. Beecher and W. J. Atwater, who are interested in $2,5OO note matter.
 The state board of health will hold it's regular quarterly meeting at the office of the secretary, Dr. Charles A. Linds- ley, on Elm street, this evening. Among the matters to be discussed is system of sewerage at the state military ren- dezvous at Mantle.
 Fully $500 is left of the street sprink- ling appropriation. This will be ex- hausted within a few days, when the people will have the pleasure of an oc- casional diet of dust. .... y.-. ..5 <. | At the inauguration as president of the Princeton Theological seminary of Rev. Dr. Francis Landley Patton, for merly president of Princeton university, on Wednesday,, Yale was represented by Professor George B. Stevens, of the Divinity school Dean Frank K. Sam ders was unable to be present. He has gone to Manchester, N. H., where he is attending the annual meeting of the l American Board of Missions. Profess I sor Williston Walker, of the Divinity lsvhool. is in Toronto representing the university at the inauguration of a new president.
 I District Deputy Supreme Archon F. A. southworth, of this city, attended lthe meeting of Groton conclace, Im- proved Order of Heptasophs, Wednes- day evening.
 I Colonel T. H. Sucher, of the Second regiment, has not come to any decision yet with regard to the filling of the two |vacancies in the organization of the Second regiment to make it a twelve- company organization. He is still re- ceiving petitions from different cities in Ithe state that want military companies organized.
 Mrs Frances E. Beckwith, widow of the late Charles F. Beckwith, of Man tic. died on Tuesday in her eightieth year. The funeral services will be held to-day.
 Governor Chamberlain was guest "Wednesday night at the banquet in Boston given by the Honorable Artil- llery company of London to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company of Boston.
 John H. Platt has brought suit against Mrs. Marietta French to recov- CT on a note of s400 Mrs. French is one of the heirs to the s110,00o Button estate. 4 &.as
 Weekly preparations are being made to handle the tickets for the Yale-Prince- ton and the Yale-Harvard football lgames for both undergraduates and Ialumni this year. There will be large force of assistants chosen to look after the routine distribution of the tickets from the office for both games. A cir lcular is being prepared which will give Hull information relative to the begin ming and closing of the applications. lThose for the Princeton game will be I given out within week.
 At the Yale observatory on Prospect street the authorities have been watch ling the sun spots and making obserya- ltions on the extraordinary group of so- lar spots on the sun.
 5 Anthony Carroll wishes his friends to understand that his lecture at Harmo- lnie hall on October 2S will be free of personalities. He says that the lecture on the Evils of Government will be no scolding match, but a legitimate dis cussion of the general subject.
 The second degree was conferred last levening by the officers of San Salvador lcouncil No. Il, assisted by the grand knights of the other local councils. IThere was class of thirty candidates leligible for this degree.
 The Connecticut board of examiners and embalmers met at the capitol on T Tuesday, all the members being pres- ent The board has granted certificates to 45S undertakers in this state Of this number only four took the examina- ltions, and this was because the others lentered the business before the first of Hast January. The board has examined nine candidates and four passed the ex- paminations.. s- ..=ts l Rice was thrown at newly married couple leaving Hartford on the 12:05 lnorthbound train on the Hartford divi- l sion Wednesday. Some time ago Super iintendent G. S. Davidson issued an or der that there should be no more rice throwing in the Union station, Hart ford, and the order was rigidly obeyed until Wednesday. Station Master Col llns saw the breach, and told woman that if she threw more rice he would have her locked up. The services of the police were not necessary.
 l Second Story thieves entered the res- idence of Goodwin stoddard at 49s Washington avenue, Bridgeport, some I time between 6:30 and 7:30 Wednesday evening, and ransacked the entire floor, Much valuable booty was stolen, the articles taken including a number of valuable wedding presents belonging to Mrs. Sanford Stoddard, among them be- ing several rings, pins an da watch, The police place the value of the articles