The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-28
TARIOCS ITEMS.

small it is one of the handsomest on the
lines Of the Consolidated.
Late yesterday afternoon three barges
were towed into the New Haven har-
Dor bringing between six and eight
| thousand tons of coal. The barges
were as soon as locked unloaded and
| the coal was carted away.
| The checks for the amounts due local
| physicians for their returns of death
| and birth certificates during last year
| are now awaiting the doctors at Con-
| troller RoWe's Office.
| Shortly after s o'clock yesterday
morning the fire department was called
| to an Italian shoemaker shop on Grand
avenue, west of Jefferson street, by an
alarm from box No. 432, A chimney
pot through a wall without proper
| shields had set the wall afire.
This evening in College street hall, at
| ) p. M, the next regular lecture in the
public lecture course will be given with
| Bliss Perry, L. H. D., the lecturer. His
| subject will be Stevenson"
The Ladies' Aid society Of the First
| Methodist church will give a campfire
supper in the church parlors this even
| ing from to O'clock. Mrs. John T.
Sloan has charge of the supper. Fol-
| lowing the supper will be an enter
| tainment of which Mrs. Charles A
| Baldwin has charge. Tents have been
| pitched in the church parlors around
which old soldiers will sing army songs.
| Professor Jepson leading. Parson Is
| bell will give Rotations, which are
| always taking There will be old army
| relics, among which is General Grants
| army chair. The Boys brigade will
| also be present and give a drill
The attention of old members of the
; Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association is
called to the limit of time fixed for
| them to apply for membership in the
reorganized society, the Connecticut
Mutual Benefit society. Applications
will be received up to January 81, in
elusive. Information may be procured
from General Secretary Botsford, or of
| Janitor George Loveland, at the Odd
Fellows building, Crown street.
The Congregational club will meet
next Monday evening at the Grand
avenue Congregational church. The
speaker of the evening will be the
Rev. DIR. Lyman, pastor of the South
| church, Brooklyn.
| The Ladies' Home Missionary society
of the Church of the Redeemer will
hold its bi-monthly meeting this after
| noon at 4:15 o'clock. A full attendance
is desired.
To-day the ladies' auxiliary of the
| Order Sons Of Hermann will meet in
annual session in South NorWalk. The
delegates from this city, who will rep
resent the local Einigkeit lodge, No. s.
are: Mrs. Antonio Loenicker, Mrs. Pau
| line Kel and Christine Ehle. Others
| from this city in attendance, among
| these Mrs. Minna Richter, grand
| treasurer of the branch; Mrs. Minna
Walker, grand lodge trustee, as also
Mrs. Emma Schulz, Mrs. AlWina Berg
man, Mrs. Gottlobine Hoffman and
number Of others.
| Friday evening next at s p. m. in
| North Sheffield hall, in the Sheffield
course. the speaker will be Herbert l..
Bridgeman and his subject, "Peary's
| Progress to the Pole
! Coroner Mix was telephoned to yes
terday by Medical Examiner Graves, of
! Waterbury, regarding the case of Mrs.
| Margaret Egan, of that city, who died
under suspicious circumstances. Cor
oner Mix placed the case in DR.. Graves
hands On investigation it was found
that the womans death Was in all prob
ability due to the salts she took to re-
lieve her Illness.
Two trolley cars were taken from the
barns of the Connecticut Railway and
Lighting company in Waterbury Mon
day and taken to Cheshire, where they
will be used on the new Mount Carmel
Cheshire line. The cars were placed on
bob sleds and made very cumbersome
load, attracting much attention as they
went out East Main street. Some peo-
pie thought the cars were the buses
which the striking trolleymen were
drawing to a repair shop to be fixed up
for use against instead of for the COM
lpany.
Howard H. Belden, superintendent of
the Connecticut Free Employment bu-
reau, died at his home in Waterbury
Monday evening after an illness OF
about two weeks with typhoid fever,
| he was porn IN MSFlueu JuiIS 49, 1oo''
and went to Waterbury when boy.
At the age of twentysiX, in 1885, he
was appointed clerk of the beard of Sc
lectmen, which office he held until his
election as town clerk on the republican
ticket in 1895.
The teamsters of Derby and Shelton
have organized and elected officers.
1.-THE organization is the result of much
work which has been goin on for some
months past. 1t is understood that
teamsters employed by Armour & Co..
Standard Oil company and Adams Ex-
press company cannot belong. When
speaking on the subject a member of
Derbys newest union declared that mo
one working for a trust is eligible to
membership
Mr.. DeForest, aged eighty-tWo years,
who lived on the corner of West and
Lake streets, Litchfield, died January
26. He had been sick and a great suf-
ferer for several months from dropsy
and heart trouble. He leaves a wife
} and three sons, George Of Ansonia, Will
1lard of New Haven and Richard of
Litchfled, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles
Moore, Of Armenia. Mr.. DeForest was
a carpenter by trade, although it has
been several years since he was able to
work.
Samuel A. York and Herbert c. War