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"An Exp—en‘sivciBlaze.
Tuesday’s big fire in Danbury de-
‘stroved filteen buildings and $150,000
worth of property. The insurance as-
gregates $60,000. The individual losses
were as followed: George Sherman,
$10,000. COVcrcd by insurance. E. M.
Birnum, $8,000, insurance $4,000. B at-
ley & Clancy, liquor dealers, $5.000,
fully insured. E-tite of J. 'l‘. Burtley,
$6,000, insurance $5.000. The 0. H.
Meeker block, $23,000, insurance $18,-
000. Hyatt & Wheeler, $1,000, covered
by,.insurance. 'Harry Martin, $1,800,
insurance $1,500. John Myers, gro-
cery, $1,000, insured. .H. C. Gray,
baker, $1,200, in insurance. Henry
Heyman, grocer, 81,000. no insurance.
J. H. EllsWorth, furniture dealer, $500.
no insurance. A. P. Ely, $4,000, fully
covered by insurance.
The loss to the ' 30 families whose
homes were destroyed by the fire will
aggregate $17,000. Some of them car-
ried policies for $300 and 31.000
Wedding invitations, milk tickets,
orders of d-tnce, letter heads, envelopes
and all other printing finely and quick-
ly executed at the GAZETTE oflice.
'Nervousness
13 only another name for impure
blood, for no person is weak and ner-
vous whose blood is perfectly pure.
When the blood is full of the germs
of disease, and lacking in the red cor-
puscles which give it vitality, when it
fails to properly nourish the organs
and tissues of the body, what can you
expect but that tired feeling and ner-
Tousness?
Of course Scrofula, Salt Rheum,
Catarrh and Rheumatism are uni-
versally recognized as blood diseases,
for which Hood’s Sarsaparilla, as the
best blood purifier, is everywhere
acknowled the greatest remedy.
Therefore, as Hood’s Sarsaparilla
cures all blood diseases, it is the best
remedy for that condition of the blood
which causes Nervousness.
lit is a false idea to think you are
curing your nervousness when you
are taking a preparation which. only
quiets your nerves! It is like trying to
“drown” your sorrows in the flowmg
howl. They are sure to return.
‘We wish to make most imnressive,
then, this truism:
You cannot purify your blood by
DEADENING 0r QUIETING your nerves
with opiate, narcotic or nerve com-
pounds. If you take such articles
you are only minimum with your
troubles. There is SURE to be a REAG-
’l‘lON which will leave you worse than
you were before.
Why not then, take the true course,
follow the bee-line to the state of
health, ‘ purify your blood and cure
your Nervousness by taking
r HOODS
Sarsaparilla
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. BETWEENE ..
NORWALK,
SO. NORWALK
NEW YORK.
City of Norwalk,
Vulcanand Eagle.
heave Norwalk at 5 p. in.
Leave So. Norwalk at 6p. in.
Leave New York, Pier 23,
E. R., Beekman St., 5 p in,
t‘ENTRlL NATIONAL BANK,
766 WALL SIX, NORWALK.
NUUHPORATED SEPT. 1, 1876.
Al’l'l‘AL, - - - - - - “00,000
nus: in Humans. President.
1.. Boxes, Vice-President.
WiLLmM A. CURTIS, Cashier
DIRECTORS :
.i’tnonou M. HOLMES, H. E. DANN,
P .1... CUNNINGHAM, J. T. Pnowrr'r
,,.. L. Berna, S.'H- H OLMES
J. Cousins. J a.
tissuunt Day. Saturday.
Faittield county National Bank.
44 Wall Street, Norwatk, Conn,
INCORPORATED, 1324. Capital, $200,000
EDWIN 0. KEELEB, President. .
DAVID B. MILLER, Vice-President. .
C. GREEN. Cashier
DIRECTORS .
"2.4m“ 0. KE aLEa' Moses H. GLOVEB
\{AVID H MILLER, A. J. MEEKEB,
f- :rr‘. JouN Locxwoon, Tunonoau E. SMITH
rm Conn. Cass F. Tnisraau.
accounts of Manufacturers, Merchants and
tulzvuiuals solicited.
:inl‘e Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
°- I LIGHT PARCEL and
LilliKWIllllls mosses DELIVEBYi
'iheap rates. Will also take or ers for mes-
' York. Goods called
or and delivered to all $1.135 of the town,
Hr'lers received atE P. eed’s Drug Store
3% \ValiBtreet. with telephone connection an-
i“ o E. LOCKwoon.
R ~LIJVE’S SAKE
F0 .
Frank Bates, of Sanford’s Station,
about 30 years old, shot and killed him-
self about 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon
near Hickey Bros.’ saloon at the foot
of Fairfield avenue. The weapon he
used Was a .38 calibre reVOlver. The
shot entered the head just over the
right-ear and death ensued almost in-
stantly.
When Bates’ body was removed to
the Hospital, a memorandum book was
found, and in it was written:
“If I should die notify Minnie H.
Platt, of Sanford’s Station.
Frank Bates.”
All the revealed circumstances point
to the conclusion that the man, who is
probably Frank Bates of Sanford Sta~
tion, died for love. .
Bates was first seen in Bridgeport
Monday evening, when he presented
himself to Timothy Burke, night clerk
at the Lafayette hotel. Burke observed
him with more than ordinary attention,
because when he took the pen to sign
the register his hand trembled violent-
ly, so much, in fact, that Burke wun-
dered that he was able to write legibly.
The stranger had a small grip with him,
which he caused to be sent up to the
room that was assigned to him. He
never entered. theroom himself, so far
as any body knows.
Where he spent Monday evening
cannot be ascertained.
Tuesday afternoon, shortly before
2:30 o’clock, he Walked into Hickey
Bros.’ saloon on Water street, and
asked John Hickey, the proprietor, to
loan him a lead pencil.
“Certainly I will,” replied Hickey.
The stranger took the pencil and
wrote fora moment in a little book,
which he took from his pocket. He
then left the saloon, saying to the bar-
tender:
“Say, Bill, if anything happens to
me look in this book.”
Something did happen to him imme-
diately. He knew it was going to hap-
pen.
There Was only one witness to the act
by which Bates killed himself. There
were plenty of other people in the
neighborhood when the bullet was fired,
but only 0. Howard Hall, a printer,
actually saw it done. Mr. Hall was
standing opposite the saloon engaged
in conversation with two other gentle-
men. He said: .
“ While I was talking I was idly gaz-
ing across the street, my vision prob-
ably taking in every person who passed.
I have no recollection of seeing the
dead man as he left the saloon of Mr.
Hickey, but I heard the report of the
revolver and saw the man when he fell.
It all took place in an instant. I ex-
claimed:
“ ‘That man has killed himself!’ and
turned away.”
In a minute the body was surrounded
by 200 curious persons.
Ele had'fallen face downward. His
hands drOpped to his side ani his head
seemed to fall toward his chest. A pis-
tol, from which a thin wreath of smoke
still floated, Was lying within easy
reach of his hand.
Somebody summond the ambulance.
The Emergency Hospital corps came to
the spot prepared to revive a man who
had fallen into a fit. Instead they found
an unfortunate Victim of his own folly
with a gastl y bullet wound in his head,
dead before they could reach him. The
body was removed to the Emergency
Hospital on a stretcher, and afterwards
to Bishop’s morgue. The shot had
entered the head just over the right ear
and had proved almost instantly fatal.
The weapon he used was a 38-calibre
revolver of a cheap pattern.
Coroner Doten and Medical Examiner
Downs were notified of the occurrence.
They made an examination of the effects
upon the dead man’s person. The most
striking key to the mystery was found
in the message written in the little
book about which the man had spoken
to the bartender.
The message, was written in a scrawl-
ing hand on'the inside of the cover and
the adjoining page.
On the other pages of the book were
written thename of the woman again,
together with the name of. the dead
man. There was also a sealed letter
addressed to her, which Coroner Doten
now has in his possession. The seal
will not be broken until she can be
heard from and her eyes will first,
probably, peruse the message from the
dead. If, as surmised, the dead man
loved her and his suicide was the fruit
of a quarrel With his sweetheart, or
perhaps of her hopeless rejection of
him, her emotions as she reads it will
be strange indeed.
A telegram was immediately sent to
her at the address directed by the sui-
cide. Late last night it was understood
a' message had been received by the
coroner saying that she Would arrive
today.
The man was well and comfortably
dressed. .
Late last night it was discovered that
he had a trunk at the baggage room in
the depot. It is small and cheap and
has written upon it the name “F. E.
Bates.” _ It is checked to Bridgeport
from Danbury on the Danbury & Nor-
walk railroad.
Bartender Fitzgerald does not think
the man had been drinking. Poverty
could not have been the cause. His
purse contained some $5. in greenbacks
and silver.
All the circumstances connected with
the strange suicide of Frank E. Bates, I
of Sanfords, in Bridgeport, Tuesday ’
afternoon, tend to confirm thé belief
that the rash act was the result of love,
unrequited, yet confirmation of this
theory or suspicion is rendered difficult,
because of the unwillingness of the
young lady in the case to talk. Miss
Minnie H. Platt, whom the suicide di-
rected should be notified of his death,
arrived in Bridgeport, yesterday. She
was accompanied by her father, Henry
Burr Platt, of that place, who is one of
the most prominent residents of the
town of Bedding. After viewing the
remains at the morgue, Mr. Plntt and
his daughter called on Coroner Doten,
by whom they were officially informed
of the nature and manner in which
Bates had taken his life.
Miss Platt, when spoken to regarding
the case, positively refused to say any-
thing for publication.
“Won’t you reveal the contents of
the letter which the deceased addressed
to you? ” was asked.
“ What that letter contains is between
my Maker and myself,” was the reply.
All attempts to induce the young lady
to my anything further were unsuccess—
ful. Mr, Platt was more communica-
tive than his daughter, and talked free-
ly concerning the history of the sui-
cide during his residence in Sanfords.
Bates, he said, with his father and sis-
ter, came to the Station about four
years ago to work on the memorial
monument in Putnam park. The fath-
er and son were masons, and made ex-
cellent wages, while the daughter kept
house. The father and daughter did
not remain in Bedding long, but left for
Fairfield, Oregon. The son remained
and secured employment with Mr.
Platt, where he continued until last
Saturday.
He took up his abode at the home of
the Platts, and the neighbors soon came
to look upon him as the accepted suitor
~for Miss Platt’s hand. Last Monday
morning, Bates and Miss Platt had an
understanding, the nature of which will
probably never be known. The result
was that Bates packed his trunk and
shipped it to South Norwalk, and it was
understood that he was going West to
join his father and sister. Miss Platt
helped him puck his trunk, and when
they had finished, he inquired if she
Would see to it that. his body Was gchn
a Cnrist-ain lurial if anything happen-
ed to him. .She promised to do so, and
her father remarked that she would
keep her Word.
4 Bates was inclined to consumption,
rind Sunday evening last while alone in
his room, was attacked with a hemor-
rhage. It is stated that were it not for
his tendency to this disease tuere would
never have been any occasion fOr his
leaving Santords. He was a native of
Sharon, and it was from that place he
came to Sanfords. He had $30 in his
pockets when he left Mr. Platt’s home
Monday morning, and the latter was a
little surprised to learn that only $5 of
the sum had been found on his person.
The remains Were removed to Bed
ding yesterday, and will be buried in
that place this afternoon.
PERSONAL M ENTION.
James H. Johnson, an officer of the
Michigan Central Railroad company at
Detroit, has not missed signing the pay-
roll personally every month for 25
years.
William Read, of Boston, says that the
people of Boston are't-he descendants
of Esau, and that Beston baked beans
is the identical red pottag‘e for which
Esau sold his birthright.
For 16 years Mr. Israel Cohen has
been president of the Jewish board of
deputies in London. He recently felt
impelled to resign, because, it is report-
ed, his daughter married a gentile.
Frederick Remington was a. clerk in
Mr. Platt’s express office before he es-
sayed art, and the first products of his
pencil were purchased by the Century
Magazine, which “discovered” him,
though he is now'morc of a Harper man.
John Dillon, M. P., will soon wed Mary
Mathew, grandniece of Father Mathew,
the founder of the temperance move-
ment in Ireland. Miss Mathew lives in
Thomastown, county Kilkenny. She is
the only daughter of Judge Theobald
Mathew.
George du Maurier’s friends, now that
London has finally caught the craze
with four Trilby’s on the stage, never
speak to him of “Trilby.” He has grown
so weary of the book and the heroine
that made him famous as a novelist
that he never speaks of his creation,
and objects to all reference to the same.
THE LADIES.
Mrs. S. H. Watts, of New York, shot a
moose in Maine the other'day. This is
the nearest to war that the new woman
has got. .
Some English papers say that for a
long time the pocket-money allowance
of Princess Maud of Wales was only
five dollars a month. Her mother when
a young girl had the same amount.
Mrs. Lillie Pardee, who is a, candi-
date for state senator in Utah, is 30
years old, a. teacher of Latin and Greek
and wife of at Salt Lake lawyer. She
says she is sure of election.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attends to all
of her husband’s correspondence and
carefully guards him against would-be
intruders. He is said to be the most
unapproachuble literary man in the
world.
Mrs J. Stanley Brown, who was for-
merly Mollie Garfield, the only daugh-
ter of the err—president, lives in a quiet
way in Washington, on Massachusetts
avenue, withip a very short distance of
the house once occupied by her father.
She is the mother of three children, the
youngest being a daughter about a
month old.
',
,HE KEPT HIS CANE.
And the Honest Bankrupt Found It ’Weii
Lined with Bank Bills.
It was under- some of the earlier
bankrupt laws that this exhibition of
rare shrewdness occurred, when it was
required that in case of a man’s in-
solvency he must turn over to the
' proper officer of the law every bit of his
property for the benefit of his cred-
itors. The subject of this story, says
the Syracuse Post, was yet a young
man, and wealthy; when misfortune
overtook him and failure was inevita-
ble. Some of his property was real
estate, some of it was not, the latter
consisting of securities easily converted
- into currency. A nice little bundle of
bank bills could be more safely han-
dled than certificates of stock. etc.
When the time came, being an honor-
able man. he conscientiously surren-
dered his entire effects, even a. tubular
cane, from which the handle could be
disjointed, the gift of an admiring
friend. After handing the walking
stick to the official, thus satisfying the
law, he suggested its return. It was
a present from a friend, and could be
of little value to anyone but himself as
memento. .
“Certainly,” said the officer, “take it.
It’s of no use to us.”
“Thanks. I’ll prize it highly."
Some time afterward, in his quiet
home, the shrewd financier disjointed
the handle and removed from his tubu-
lar depository several thousand dollars
of well-crumpled bank bills.
NO DO CTORS’ BILLS.
In Sweden the Price of. Service Is Left
with the Patient.
Sweden has doctors, but no doctor’s
bills. If you have occasion to call a
physician you will find him not only
skillful in his profession, but a highly
educated and most honorable gentle-
man. You will also have another proof
of the honesty of the Swedes and their
friendly confidence in each other.
Swedish doctors send no bills to their
patients.
What you shall pay your physician
is left entirely to your own choice. The
rich pay him liberally whether they have
need of his services or not, if he has been
once retained by them. The. poor pay
him nothing. Yet he visits the poor as
faithfully as he does the rich.
On the last day of the year you put-
into an envelope, addressed to your
physician, a sum of money which you
think not only sufficient to compensate
Him, but in accordance with your own
position in life, and inclosing your card
with the money, send the envelope by
a. servant toyour doctor. The servant
returns with the card of the doctor in
a sealed envelope direced to you. This
shows that he has received your money
and no word about the matter ever
passes between you.
Should you send him nothing he will
come and prescribe for you all the next
year and as long as you live, and he is
too dignified ever to say a. word about it.
him a small sum and the very poor pay «
‘ Highest of all in Beavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
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ANECDOTE OF FIELD.
The Poet Is Recalled by Means of Anec-
dote in Many Newspaper Offices. ’
Many anecdotes illustrating Eugene
Field’s character are told in the news-
paperoffices of St. Louis, where he did
his first newspaper work. The paper
with which he was connected was never
prosperous, and strikes among the re-
porters were as numerous as among
the compositors on account of failure
to get their pay.
One day a. big story occurred in
Belleville, about 14 miles away. Mr.
Field was ordered to go after it, and
given two dollars for expenses. He
spent about half of it for a meal, and
then went to the depot to get his train.
While waiting for it a woman from
Kansas, with several children with her,
trying to get east to some point in In-
diana, came into the depot stranded.
Field heard the story, and, placing his
remaining dollar in a. hat, took up a
collection for her, raising the money
necessary to send her to Indiana.
In the meantime, the train for the
scene of the story pulled away and his
paper was beaten on it the next morn-
ing. The poet’s explanation of it to
(in irate editor was: “What is a story
like that to a. woman with a starving
family who wants to get back home?”
One day the business manager, after
having vainly tried to raise the money
for salaries, stood off the stafif with
promises based on the expected suc-
cess of the paper after the election was
over.
He then went to talk to Mr. Field in
a. similar strain, but prefaced it by
saying: “If you owned this paper
What would you dd with it in this cam-
paign?”
‘ “The way I’m feeling now,” replied
the humorist, “I’d trade it for a. por-
terhouse steak and some hash brown
potatoes.” '
At another time in appreciation of
some big news beat Mr. Field had on-
gineered as cit-y editor, the business
manager said: “Gene, I’m going to
raise your salary.”
“If you’ll just raise part of it, old
man, I’ll be satisfied. If you raise it
all, I’ll lend you half of it,” replied the
humorist.—St. Louis Journal. )’
Li BOSTON’S BIG FIRE.
Destruction a. Blessing in Disguise, But
Hard to Realize.
Twenty-three years have passed since
“the great Boston fire,” which, occurred
on Saturday, November 9, 1872. Who
can forget the amazement. and the dis-
may which seized upon all classes of
Is your plate glass or safe insured ‘2
In Case of Fire
Bostonians when street after streetof
stores and warehouses, whose granite
substantiality of appearance was looked
upon as an emblem of incombustihility.
melted like butter before the advancing
flames; when the stone which has been
before its sire? ,
Who can forget the feeling of dis-
couragement, of despair, which for the
moment took possession of the people
_when thus suddenly bereft not only of
their property, but of the faith which
had hitherto been their dependence and
their glory?
, But the surprise was only momentary.
Our people were quick to see the force
of the costly demonstration, and their
idespair was but a passing emotion.
The city lost no time in vain regrets,
but it pulled itself together with true
New England energy, and, while thank-
ful for proffered aid, it insisted upon
working out its own regeneration. It
was a dreary winter that followed the
fire, and, although the work of rebuild-
ing began immediately, it was a long
time that Boston’s mercantile center
lay a desert waste of ashes.
It has acknowledged a “conflagra-
tion section” ever since, but from these
ashes of 23 years ago there has arisen a
handsomer, a more artistic and impos-
ing city; one which furnishes accom-
modations which its predecessors never
could have supplied. From the present
point of view it was a blessing rather
than a. disaster, materially speaking,
that the old structures ’were swept
away to give place to buildings that the
changed conditions of things rendered
riecessary.—Boston Transcript.
INVENTIONS AND NOVELTIES.
It is prOposed to run a street car line
in Richmond, Va., by compressed air.
A machine for unloading coal cars
is in use in Cleveland. It empties a car
in four minutes.
Hiram Maxim still believes in his
flying machine and devotes much time
and thought to it.
The wheels of roller skates are now
made of paper. The advantages claimed
for the compressed paper tires are
great toughness and flexibility.
The first patent for a. sewing ma—
chine was issued in England in 1790.
This early invention was not success-
ful, and other patents were issued in
1804, 1818 and scores of times since.
FLomEES.
Louisville has just had a. flower show
which is spoken of as an unprecedent-
ed success.
A POINTERM
If not, call on me and
\
I will write you a policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Sale Insur-
ance Company. Glass will break and burglars use dynamite.
You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance or Philadelphia;
Phoenix .of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire 01
Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific
.. of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State of Ports-
mouth will protect you against the fire fiend.
W. H. BYINGTQN,
Real Estate and General Insurance,
noon 1, GAZETTE BUILDING
. O'ANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE.
—-—_CORRESPO_ND_ENCE 5 01.1 C I TED:
I
called the “child of the fire” crumbled ,- ~'
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