The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-19
Local Weather Report. New Haven. Nov. IS.
Rriet Mention.
,te,. to-day. 11:s9 p. m.

High water to-day, ll:55 p. H.
 The Frederick Douglass club will hold ' speciaI meetink this evening for the election of officers. at the club rooms 40 Ashmun street. +- ....-:.
 A party of the members of the New 1Javan Aeria of Eagles went to Norwich last night to attend the opening of the Eagles fair in that place.
 Last evening at 6:45 o'clock a mass meeting of Yale university was held in Alumni hall for the purpose of rehears- ing cheers and songs for the game Sat urday. 4@.Z a. %
 To-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock a meeting will be held at Dr. Winne's, 5S Harrison street, Westville, of the w. c. IF. IT. A large attendance is requested. Refreshments will be served.
 Father Hagan, the newly appointed pastor. of St. Mary's R. c. church, has 7 arrived in. this city and he will take charge of the spiritual affairs of the church at once. On December 6, two weeks mission will be commenced in St. Mary's church, and will be conducted by the Dominicans.
 President Mellen of the Consolidated road yesterday made his first visit to Boston since he became president of the corporation. He has established an office at the South station and proposes to spend one or two days each week i'll that city. He will also have an office in New York.
 Mayor Studley has asked Corporation Counsel Daggett to give an opinion on the right of the aldermen from the out lying wards to vote on the lighting con- tract If the opinion is adverse, as is rather looked for, special meeting of the board of aldermen will be called for tomorrow or Monday nights. 4.
 work on the freight depot to be built at Middletown by the Consolidated road will be begun in a few days. The road recently purchased site for the large structure it intends to put up on which there was seven dwelling houses. A contract was awarded yesterday to c. B. Worth of Middletown to remove these so that ground may be proven for the new depot.
 Definite information was received yes- terday by the committee arranging for the Mckinley banquet in Harmonic hall on January 29 that General Stewart l.. Woodford. former United States minis ter to Madrid. would attend the ban quet. He will speak on Mckinley and the Spanish War" The banquet is un- der the auspices of the Mckinley as- sociation. General Woodford is an elo- Guent orator.
 At the service in the African M. E.. Zion church last evening there were in- teresting exercises. The lhurch this week is celebrating it's S3d anniversary. The programme last night was as fol- lows: Press Night" James R. Lyon of New Haven Palladium, presiding. Paper, ",The Relation of the Press to the Church, by F. Jones. Mrs. J. Thornton, Mrs. Mary Newcomb, Mrs. Coates, and other local talent will ap- pear.
 Congressman Sperry introduced in the house yesterday a bill in behalf of the heirs of Dr. Eneas Munson, who was one of the weaIthiest citizens of New Haven during the revolutionary period. The bill provides for the payment to his heirs of $500 with interest, this sum being the amount loaned to the United States government by Dr. Munson in TITS. It has never been paid, and if in- terest is added it would amount to a large sum. .*