The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-29

Lecture at BushneII HaiI-Interesting
 social Items.
 John Callahan of 1sS Clay street died late Friday afternoon after a short ill., ness Of pneumonia. He was thirty years of age and unmarried and leaves his parents. Mir. and Mrs. Michael Cal lahan, one brothers and two sisters. For some time he had been in the em- ploy of the G. F. Warner Foundry con- pany, at the time of his death holding the position of foreman. The funeral will be held this morning at S:30 from his parents residence. Requiem high mass will be celebrated in St. Francis church at o'clock.
 The fifth Illustrated lecture in the course at Bushnell hall for the benefit of the kindergarten will be given We'd nesday evening, March g. by Rev. An son Phelps Stokes. Jr., subject, Tramp l ing Through Switzerland" The pre- vious lecture was "The Rhine,'' by W. F. Dickerman, and was in exchange with MT. Stokes.
 Coe & Rolf received carload of driv- ing horses from Indiana and Illinois Saturday morning.
 | But for the timely arrival of aid, one of the countless number of boys who daily risk their lives by skating on the treacherous ice on the Quinhipiac would have lost his life by drowning Saturday morning. The boy, with three others, was skating on the east side just north of the Grand avenue bridge, when he broke through. D. R. Bradley heard the boys cries and pulled him out with the aid of long pole, just in the nick | of time. The boy was so frightened that he hurried off without leaving his name
 l Harvey E. Towner of East Haven, night watchman at the Tidewater Trap Rock quarry met with painful injury last Thursday night. While getting out some coal for one of the furnaces, a heavy piece, weighing several hundred bounds, rolled onto his foot and held him fast. He was compelled to shovel himself out. The fragments of the ankle were somewhat ruptured, but no bones were broken. He is about seventy years of age and is reported to being nicely. l <4lfdu GtdllAlS llctS JOoL 1COCAfCQ q letter from Edward Squires, whose home is on Houston street and who is now on board the United States steam ship Yankee. The letter was written from San Domingo and gives descrip- tion of the trouble there a few weeks ago, when an engineer on the Yankee was shot and killed. Mir. Squires also sent a drawing of the Yankee, which is the work of his own pen and which MT. Grannis has on exhibition. The Yankee is now at Guatemala.
 1 Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle of Meriden are visiting at the home of their son, Dr. l.. T. Doolittle of Pierpont street. 1 Harry Howarth is very i'll at his home on Lewis street.
 George Graves and family of Quinni- piac avenue expect to remove to New Jersey to-day.
 | A few lady friends of Mrs. Mary Bruce surprised her at her home on l Wolcott street Friday afternoon. The occasion was Mrs. Bruces birthday an- Iniversary and the surprise was coml plete. The affair broke up in the early evening.
 I The funeral of the late Charles L.. Rowe, who died Thursday eveinng, afl ter an illness of nine weeks, was held yesterday afternoon from his late resi- ldence 67 Atwater street MT. Rowe was a lifelong resident of Fair Haven, having been born in Fair Haven heights nearly seventy eight years ago. He has always followed the oyster business l,except during the Civil War period, Iwhen he left his work and enlisted Be- sides @ widow he leaves four sons and two daughters, Selah and Gilbert B. of this city, Charles of Waterbury, a con- l ductor on the Consolidated road, Frank lin of Ansonia and Mrs. J. D. Farr and Mrs w. T. Jefferson of this city.
 A petition is being circulated for a isewer in Fillmore street, between Grand lavenue and Clay street.
 \ This evening. in Trinity Methodist lchurch the New Haven Epworth League union will hold it's annual meeting and be entertained by the chapter of that lchurch. It is desired that as many of the Epworth leaguers of this section as can attend and wear their badges The official board of the East Pearl street M. K. church will hold it's regu- lar meeting in the church parlors this levening.
 The Girls Aid society of the Grand Lavenue Congregational church will give lat their entertainment Wednesday even- ling, March 2, a farce of forty minutes length entitled An Open Secret" The characters will be taken as follows:
 Madge Apthorpe, a college girl........
 ...................... Miss Edna Sims Jean, her confidante e..................
 ................... Miss Sadie Parmelee Mrs. Apthorpe, Madge's mother......
 Miss Emma Heir Grace, Madge's sister, aged ten.......
 .................M Miss Marion Burwel
 Classmates-Mi Misses Viola Boost, Cora
 Benton, Ethel Parker, Beulah Stan-
 nard, Elsie Buckingham.
 In addition to the farce the pro. gramme will contain solos by Mrs. Clars
 Ford Okeson, duet by Dwight Chamber
 lain and Forace Smith and Miss Editf
 May Root in recitations The farce "An Open Secret" is the one given by \ the girls of the New Haven Norma
 school of gymnastics recently, and il which the juniors scored such sue
 cess.
 Mrs. G. A. Parsons of Clinton avenu, ], was the hostess at the meeting of tn,
 Igdvasyl club on last Tuesday evening
 A feature of the affair was an infOrma