The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-25


 who has been spending some time at the Hotchkiss home on Hillhouse ave- nue, returned to New York last week and will spend the remainder of the
 winter with her daughter, at the Wood
 ward, Broadway and Fifty-fifth street. She will return home in the late spring. Mir. and Mrs. A. W. Comstock and son of Ivoryton are spending the win
 ter at the New Haven house.
 Announcements have just been re-
 ceived here from the Philippine islands of the marriage of the Rev Robert Franklin Black and Miss Anna Ger trude Graner on Wednesday afternoon, November 12, 1903, on the steamship Si-
 beria, Manila bay. They will be at home after January 1, at Davao, Min
 danao. The Rev. Mir. Black has been a frequent visitor in Wallingford and is a nephew of Mrs. Emily R. Mans field of Center street in Wallingford and a grandson of the late Rev. A. L. Bar Der.
 Winfield s. Beebe of S9 Gregory street has resigned the position of con- tractor in the gun department of the Winchester Repeating Arms company, which he had held for a number of years. MT. Beebe was one of the com pany's oldest and most valued em- ployes.
 meeting of the executive board of the Connecticut Federation of Labor has been called to take place in this city, Monday, February 1. Six men instead of four as previously reported made up the crew of the schooner G. M Brainerd. when she foundered off Milford two weeks ago, according to Captain John E. Gross of the schooner Fiheman, who arrived at Rockland, Me. Saturday. Captain Gross frequently visited Captain Farr of the lost schooner when both vessels
 were ice bound, and he says there were five men in the crew in addition to Cap tain Farr. No trace has ever been found of the Brainerds crew. Patrick H. Murphy of Westport, af- ter forty-five continuous years in the service Of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company, success Esively as clerk, ticket agent, freight agent, conductor and caretaker, has been pensioned for life by President
 Mellen. Murphy has been the president of the National Fat Mems association for thirty-two years. He now weighs 310 pounds.
 John Parker Bronk, formerly cor poration counsel for the Travellers In- surance company in Hartford, Conn.,, and Denver, Col, is dead at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Caroline J. Taylor in Bridgeport His sickness
 which extended over period of sit
 years, was due to overwork, whici brought on a mental disease.
 After discussing the offer of 25 per cent. composition made by sturges Whitlock of Huntington, bankrupt,
 for over two hours, the creditors of the
 estate voted to accept the offer. According to statement by Walter
 Camp yesterday afternoon, it will be necessary to build new football stands
 on Yale field within a year or so at an expense of $50,000. A sinking fund will be immediately started to pay for the improvements, and s5,000 from the football receipts of last year will be the 1 first installment of the fund. IL " SubCSAdy CNChiit6 llCAl dt HIT lity church, Bridgeport, the choir with the assistance of the vested choir of
 Christ church, this city, will sing the cantata, *The Story of Bethlehem" by ] John F. West.
 l At the request of Senator Hawley, a
 bill has been presented granting an l increase of pension of $50 month to
 Dr. Linus s. Ludington of New Britain.
 He was formerly member of Company
 G, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery | Plymouth, Jan. 23.-Miss Maud Win
 chell was operated on successfully last
 Wednesday at the New Haven hospital
 for diseased eye.
 The members of the joint committee | of the police commission and the court of common council of Hartford, who
 are to make visit to Springfield, New
 Haven and others places with view
 of aseertaining the provisions made for dodgers in other cities have deferred their visit until the latter part of next
 week. Commissioners Whaples and
 Berry are the members of the police commission who will make the inspec- tion.