The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-10
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Carl Pauley, cook at a Waterbury hotel, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself on the outside stair way of the hotel. He shot himself in the head few years ago, when impli- cated in shooting affray. but recov-
 cred.
 New London, March Civilian H.
 Thomas, a welI-known baseball player, who began his career with Ned Han
 lon on the Stars, died at the Memorial
 hospital to-day, aged forty-nine. MT. ! Thomas resided in Bridgeport for sev- eral years.
 Rev. Father O'Meara, of Ansonia, de- livered the sermon at the Lenten ser
 vices in Sacred Heart church, this city, last evening.
 Noroton, March 9.--There is an epi- ] dernic of diphtheria in this place, and the Noroton public school is closed by
 order of the health officer Wesleyan students broke into the col lege janitor's barn Tuesday night and | took off two horses and three dump carts. The horses were found yester- day stabbed on the first floor of one of | the university halls, while the carts were on the second floor. An ash sitter was swung from the peak of the caIn- ! pus flagstaff. Keyholes of all the doors leading to the university offices were filled with wooden plugs. The faculty will investigate.
 l Charles Darrow, aged seventy six years, dropped dead from heart failure 1 in the butt room in the Scovill factory, | Waterbury, yesterday afternoon. Fears of a soft coal strike in the Maryland county have had great in 1 fluence upon the placing of coal con- tracts and this demand has resulted in an advance in coastWise freights from l 75 cents to s1.25 a ton.
 l At the Soldiers home Noroton Ma | jor William Spittle, the inspector at the | home, has been appointed to the posi- tion.. The former adjutant was Captain Reynolds, who died a few weeks aga | Edward E.. Pelton has been appointed \ chief clerk.
 { Colonel Julius w. Knowlton. o1
 Bridgeport, we'll known among mem bers of the Masonic bodies all over the country, will probably be elected grant l commander of the Grand commanders l of Connecticut, Knights Templar, al 1 the annual conelaye in Danbury March 15.
 New Milford, March 9.-Mary Taylor l aged thirty-nine years, daughter oi
 Rev. James Taylor, died at the resi- dence of her brother-inlaw, John R l Peck, yesterday, of measles and other complications. At the place in Whicl she died there are sick the son and daughter of MT. Peck, also his wife, the two former with scarlet fever and the latter with pneumonia.
 At Trinity church, Seymour, las night Rev. Frederic W. Burgess, curats I of Christ church, New Haven, preach ed. The remaining three Wednesda! night preachers are: Rev. ]. A. Riddle Iof New Haven, Rev. E. B. Schmitt, oi Ansonia, and Rev. F. H. Madison, 0,
 Shelton.
 Tomorrow night in Torrington tn, supreme officers of the Fraternal Ben eft League of New Haven will insti ute Council No. 6 of the order in lowe
 Pythian hall. About fifty members ar, to be initiated and officers will be in stalled.
 In Monroe Miss Bridget Gunan, wh lives alone and runs her farm with onl. the help of a small boy taken from tn
 County home in New Haven, slipped ol the ice as she was coming from he
 barn Monday morning and fell, strik ing her head on the ice. She lay u1lcon scious until the boy had dragged her t the house, where she came to herself
 At last accounts she was slowly i'm proving.
 The funeral of Sturges Whitlock, jr. infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Surge
 Whitlock, took place from the famil.
 residence Tuesday afternoon. Rev. F
 H. Mathison officiated and the service
 were followed by interment in Oak Cliff
 cemetery, Derby.
 l Word was received in Derby yester day of the death of Frederick Basset Stephens, at New York city Tuesday, c pneumonia.
 l East Hampton, March s-The frs