The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-17
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Notice of a reduction of wages has
 been posted at the cotton mills of the Windham Manufacturing company. The reduction is general and is little less
 than 10 per cent. It is to go into effect November g.
 Burglars broke into the store of the Shelton Timing and Plumbing com
 pany Sunday night and opened the safe , by working the combination. They se- cured s70 in cash.
 Between twenty-five and thirty men in the employ of the M. I. F. Co. of Branford have been given week or 1 two off and for the present the dull condition Of business shows no sign of abating.
 In the game with the Rhode Island Agricultural college. Comstock, one of the ends of the Storrs Agricultural col- lege. sustained a fracture of the leg. He was brought home to WilIimantic with the college team and was taken 1 to Storrs college. The Rhode Island l team won the game il to 6. Storrs team
 was crippled at the end of the game. The strike at the factory of the Willi-
 mantle cotton mills corporation ended yesterday morning by the men return 1 ing to the mill office and applying for
 their positions. Only three of the men were given work, the places of the oth- l CTS having been filled while they were
 on strike. On the way down to the Yale-Prince-
 ton football game at New Haven Sat- urday, fifteen men from South Man
 chester made pool of $1 each, guessing
 the total number of points that would be scored. Some guessed as high as 30
 while some went as low as six. A northend man was more fortunate and J Init the nail on the head" and placed
 his guess at 1T. which was the total
 points of the game. The lucky man
 was given the s15 yesterday.
 i Judge Colt Of the United States cir cult court district of Massachusetts has
 handed down a decision in favor of G. F. Heublein & Co. of Hartford in their suit against Luther Adams and others l of Boston for alleged infringement of 1 their trade mark Club Cocktails" Tn substance the court says: T am the opinion that the defendants should be
 restrained from the use of the word Club as distinguishing mark for their cocktails, upon the ground of un-
 fair competition In trade
 1 Superintendent Davidson of the Hart 1 ford division of the Consolidated road
 stated in Hartford yesterday morning that amout 1.s00 people from Hartford came to the football game at New Ha- ven Saturday by the railroad. There
 were about 800 from Meriden, 400 from
 Wallingford and Waterbury and large delegation from New Britain. No ac-
 cident occurred, the trains were on time
 and the traffic was smooth.
 The following persons called at the of-
 flee of Highway Commissioner Macdon- l aid at the capitol yesterday: Selectmen
 Alfred l.. Burdick of Westbrook, Sam uel S. Webb of Chester, J. Ruick of
 Granby, ". P. Bailey of Bethel. E. P.
 Fordham of Essex, Contractor Thomas
 Kearney of Meriden, F. B. Hastings of
 Bridgeport, Bennett N. Beard of Hunt lington, A. c. Sternberg of West Haven,
 and Inspector Robert Pike of Middle town.
 A. H. Joy of Hartford has been ap-
 pointed station agent at Collinsville in
 the place of Frank M. Mills, who has
 resigned after twenty years service. MT.
 Mills Is selectman of Canton and in tends to devote his time to that po- sition.
 The Tidal Wave Consolidated Mining
 company filed a statement in the office of the state secretary yesterday. The
 capital stock is $2,o00,0Oo, and is divided
 into shares of $1 each. Of this amount
 1SoO0 shares have been sold. The prop
 erty received in payment of stock in
 cludes six lode claims or sixty-two
 acres of mineral land, in Iron sprins
 Ininingg district, San Miguel county,
 California.