WORK GLMMENGED.
Wednes lay morning 'a force of men
began work on the foundat on of the
new canning factory in West-port and
the Work will be pushed along ~as fast
as possible in order to have the factory
in Working order by July 15, the time.
specified in the contract.
The works are to include four two-
story buildings, the largest being 40x30
feet and will occupy one and one-half
acres with a frontage on the river. The
power will be derived from a thirty-live
horse horizontfi’l tubular boiler.
It is the intention of the company to
can evr‘ rything in the farm line, and a
f01ce of seventy- -five will be given em-
D': 01 ment.
The arli ales of incorporation are now
being drawn up by Attorneys Light &
Taylor.
The capital stock will be $10,000 and
Ru’us Wakeman of Saugatuck and
Clan nco B. Newland. late of Ithica,
N. Y., will hold the larger portion, Mr.
Wakeman personally holding the con-
trolling intere=t.
The work on the factory is being
done by Mr. Newland, who has the
contract. '
EVERYBOD Y S HOUTS FOR
HALE’S
LUNG
BALSAM.
It Cures Whén all Others Fall.
2511. at
HALE’S.
-BIG BUT IN PRIGE-
01"
MEAT.
Round, Sirloin and Por-
terhouse Steaks, Sausge,
P01: :1er Rib Rnsts
Reduced 211. 11 P011111
All First. Q'iality Meat.
J. W. BOGARDUS,
6 WATER ST., NORVVALK
DRINK
HATHflRll
SPRING
WATER
FOR THE
Stomach,
Bo wels,
Liver and
Kidneys.
FOR SALE BY
The 111111111, Keelei 818111111 811
NEW CAFE
WITH
RESTAURANT
AT l‘AC H E D.
[Vii K E). BATCHFORD,
44 Wain Street,
The Best Win-s, Liquors and Cigars.
GOODWIK l HE llillOll,
Ololhicr, Halter and Furnish
I70 WASHINGTON STREET
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN.
Has a large assortment of White and Blue
Silk mix d D1ag1nal Suits, hand-made, go 1d
trimmed and furnis'ied at. very reasonab e
figures. Woosted Suits $8; Blue $11, and
White and Blue, s12.
Fine Custom Work made to order._ Fine t
Hats in So Norwalk, from best shops' in town.
fiGents’ Furnishings in all varieties“: low
gures
Horace E. Darin,
EXCELSIOL
LLVGPV and Sales Stable
Muuwwwuwk\
Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depotl
Norwalk, Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers
Safe horses for women
sudohildren ‘
QADDLQ'. tngewq A (2" 7"! It
at \-‘
AN EARLY ALARM.
Thursday morning about half past 1 as
Captain Gladstone of the South Nor-
Walk police was passing the City Hotel
block on South Main street, he detected,
a sir-ong odor of burning wood and ker-
osene. While 1 nzaged in looking into the
several stores he heard the sound of
crashing glass coming from the opposite
side of tne street. Running across the
roadway he saw fl-rmes coming from
the side of the building occupied by the
NorWalk Wine company directly oppo-
site the hotel.
The Captain ran to the Washington
street railroad bridge and 0 died to Offi-
cer Pennington who promplv sent in an
alarm from Box 31h front of the Mr-
hackemo.
As soon as the alarm Was given Cap.
tain Gladstone rushed back to the
burning building and was met on the
porch by Ottmar Ludwig, the bartend-
er, who had escaped by breaking out
the glass in the door with his fist and
crawling through the aperture. Lud-
wig is broken English told the Captain
that Mrs. Jacobi, the wife ofErn‘est W.
Jacobi, the proprietor, was up stairs in
the building. Without hesitation the
Captain placed his shoulder against the
side door and forced it open. The
h‘huse was filled with a dense, black
smoke andthe woman could not be seen
but her cries were heard coming from
the floor above.
Gropeing his way through the smoke
Captain Gladstone found the stairs and
rushing up met Mrs. Jocobi in her
night clothes on the landing. Catching
hold of her he half pulled and dragged
her down to the open air and escorted
her to the City Hotel.
The fire department had arrived by
this time and Chief Baker had two lines
of hose laid from the hydrant on the
corner, and after some diflieulty the
flames were extinguished.
An inspection of the burnt building
leads to the conclusion that the fire
startedin the basement at the south
west corner of the building,and danger-
ously near a b irrel of kerosene.
was also a suspiciousa’i’smell of kerosene
pervmiing the whole house, which
could be easily detected from the street
while the em -ke poured from the build-
ing in dense black volumes.
The bar room was completely gutted
and the front room where the wine and
other liquors were hept was badly
damaged by fire and water. The flames
appeared to have enveloped the entire
inside of the building as none of the
rOoms escaped.
Ludwig, the bartender, who occupied
a room directly over the bar room told
an EVENING GAZEI‘TE- reporter that he
was awakened by the smoke that filled
his room from below Quickly putting "
on lit: trousers he called Mrs. Jacobi
and ran down :trirs to the front door.
This he found locked and after break-
ing the glass crawled out onto the
porch. Ile cut his hand quite badly
with the glass and visited Dr. Coburn
who dressed it for‘him.
Mrs. Jacobi re fuse}. to remain at the
hotel and returned to the house where
after envelopihg herself in a comfort-
able she seated herseli upon a brx in
the front room and remained until day-
lighi. She was too much overcome to
do much talking, but (1111, however,
make one or two contradictory state-
ments. She also Complained that
sorne one had stolen her money from
upstairs, but as she had nut been to
her room it was not understood how
sue knew the money was missing. It
was also said th it she advised the bar-
tender, Ludwig,’ nit to talk, speaking
to him ulWays in the German language.
Ernest Jacobi, the proprietor, was
said to be in New York or Hoboken but
Mrs. Jocobi when asked his address by
Ludwig said she did not know where
he was or his address. Ludwig and
that Jocobi left on Tuesday the day
after he, Ludwig, arrived in town a 11]
went to Work at the saloon.
About half an hour after the 111 part-
ment hi. the scene, the tire broke Out
again and Oflicer Dreiser was called in.
and titlugillshtd the 151 uses vi h sever-
al pails of water.
The build-he: belonged to the Ely
eslat . and was insured in a New York
in- 111111.103 company,
The stock anJ fixrures were insuied
for $1,0J0 by Jacobi only last week
thrtugh the agency of Walter L. Wil-
cox.
JuCrlbi returned to town Thursday
morning and ealled at Mr. Wilcox's
OIfi'JV.
0..
Bid Notinlend to Defraud.
Lou's Verlrn was in town W1 dnesda 1'
and sard that the check given by him
.to a hotel proprietor in Massachusetts
was uttered in good faith, and that it
was a surprise to him to learn that it
had been protested. He states that he
has since sent a money order in liquid‘
ation of the indebtedness. He thinks
that the afl'rir was a very small matter
to make such a hue and cry over.
The arrival of Thomas Norton, of
Lee, Mass., Thursday morning, put
Mr. Verlin’s veracity to the test Mr.
Norton states that he has never received
a money order from Verlin and that
upon inquiry at the post office he was
informed that none had been sent from
this city.
Mr. Norton has placed the matter in
the hands of an attorney and proposes
to sue Verlin.
.00
An advertisement in the Gaznrrn will
‘ brin- W good results. “it?
WEEKLYG
BOTH region OFF.
T here
A short time prior to the fire ~ in the
Norwalk Wine company building at
5S,outh Norwalk, Wednesday morning,
Officer Decker escorted two men wt 0
had been put ofi'a freight train at E 1st
Norwalk, to police headquarters. One
of them gave his name as John Sullivan
and his home Boston.
To Captain Gladstone and an EVENING
GAZETTE reporter Sullivan said, that
man named John Slattery, of Spring-
field, Mass , boarded a freight train at
Harlem River. They had been em-
ployed in a restaurant in New York,
Slattery as an oyster opener and he,
Sullivan, ‘as a waiter, but were dis-
charged in the morning, and being
without sufficient money had attempted
to steal a ride hc me on the freight.
They were both on the tdp of a freight
on and becoming chilled went down
the ladder and stood upon the car plat-1
form. When they were about ten‘miles
from South Norwalk, as Sullivan
standing with one foot on the platform
of each car, and told him to hold on
tight. He said he had hardly spoken
when Slattery. lost his grip on the iron
rail and slid down between the cars.
Sullivan says he immediately climbed
to the top of the car and informed a
brakeman of what had happened, but
that the latter paid no attention to him
until he became angry and pitched into
the brakeman, who put him 011‘ at East
N orwalk. '
Thursday a. m.Conductor McNally of
the Danbury&Norwalk express freight,
which left Stamford at 5 o’clock, dis-
covered the dead body of Slattery lying
bes1de the tracks near Gleubrook.
McNally stopped his train and pick-
ing the body up carried it to the Glen-
brook station where it now is.
Both of Slattery’s feet were cut off
and his frce crushed. He was nicely
dressed. as was Sullivan, and was about
20 years of age.
4—4 o >——»—-———
PAS'l'ORS ASSIGNED.
Methodist Conference Closes Its Annual
Session.
The New York Erst Conference at
New Haven closed its annual session at
11 o’clock last night. The evening was
devoted largely to minor routine mat-
ters and an exchange of compliments
and congratulations. No choice of a
place for the next annual conference
was made, the decision being left to
the presiding elders. The conference
voted to invite the general conference
to hold the grand session in 1900 in
Ocean Grove.
The annual apporntments were an-
nounced as follows:
NEW YORK DISTRICT—John W.
Beach, presiding rlier. (Each ap-
pointment is in the state of Connecticut,
unless otherwise indicated.)
Belhel—U. A; Kneral.
Bridgeport—~F1rst church, Joesph
Pullman; Grace church, Addis Albro;
Newlield church, DSamuelGurney;North
Main street, A. D.Knell; Summerfield,
Daniel 0. Ferris; Washington Park,
E L. ’l'horp.
Cannons,-L. W. Holmes. Cornwtdl
Bridge and Ellsworth, M. M. Gurtice.
Danbury, W. W. BJWdlSll. Dar1en, S.
r
A. Sands. East Chester, N. Y., H. 0.
Whitney. East Norwalk, A. J. Smith.
Easton, E. Warriner. Newtown cir-
cuit, James Taylor. Georgetown, G.
L. Taylor. Greenwich, B. M. Adams,
Kingstreét, N. Y, W. E. Jeflries.
Litchtield, George C. Boswell. Long
Y., J. E. Holmes. Miamus, R. S. Put-
ney. Mount Vernon, N. Y—First
church, G. B. Mains; North church, I.
E. Smith. New Canaan, E. L. Thomp-
son. New Milford, G. C. Spencer.
New Rochelle, N. Y. ~First church, J.
M. Canfield; St. John’s, A. H. Geod-
enough. Newtown and Southville,
James Taylor. New York, N. Y.—
Memorial, 0. J. CoWles; North New
York, W. H. Barton;
slreet, Alexander McLeon; Sixty-first
street, H. W. Kidd; Thirty-seventh
street, H. S. Still; Trinity church,
James Montgomery; Twenty-seventh
Street, 0. B. Pitblado. West Farms, J.
W. Eagleston. Woodstock, supplied
by J. O. Kern. Nichols T. N. Laine.
North Wilton, Alexander Mcillister.
East Norwalk, A. D Smith, Norwalk,
{A H. Wyatt yorichester, N Y., w.
'D. Thompson andB. I. Abbott. Pound
Ridge.N. Y. J. I. Mofilrt. Bedding.
B. C. Pillsbury. Ridgefield '1‘. H.
Burch. Round Hill, J. E. Zeiter.
Rowayton, H. C. Whitney; Roxbury
circuit, George Bennett. Rye, N. Y.,
W. T. Pray. Saugatuck, William Fan-
ton. Souih Norwalk, A. S. Kavan-
augh. Southport, R. Crook. Spring-
dale, to be supplied. Stamford, G. D.
,Downey. Stamford circuit, C. A. Will-
son. Stepney, Elwin War-ringer.
Stralford, W. E. Jelfries. West Gosh-
en and CornWall Center to be supplied
by Charles DlXOD.
West Reading to be supplied. West-
port, W. H. Wakeman.
oroncérown.
The little son of 00‘. Russell Frost is
ill in New York.
Georgetown readers of the EVENING
Gaznrrn get eight pages of live news
for one cent.
Wednesday night at 11 o’clock heand a ‘
thought, he spoke to Slattery who was
Ridge, R. J. Beach. Mamrroueck, N.’
Beekman Hill, D. W. Couch; Cornell“
Seventeenth
NO, It \V' A L K
THE" MUTUAL'irru
INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK.
oAiz ET», E .
RICHARD A. McCURDY President.
aemen er heYear ndin
Assets,
Liabilities
Surplus
Total Income
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895,
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895
NOTE—Insurance merely om itten, ls dlscarded from this Statement as who“ mlsleadln I
actually issued and paid for' m cash ls Included . . y g, and on y insurance
gflec. 31. 1895..
$221,213, 721 33
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 75
$48,597,439 51
$23,126,728 45
”$899 074,453 78
$6], 647, 845 36
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
fl
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual.
Report of the Examining Committee.
Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New You,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees Of this Company, held on the 18th day of
December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending Dccembcr 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
parison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
certify that the Statement is in, all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possessioii of the Company. _
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of
the investments cf the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in -
general transacted.
H. C. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
Robert Clyphant,
'Wm. P. Dixon,
Committee
J- 1.1. Herrick.-
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy.
ALBERT KLAMRO'I‘H, Asst. Secy.
'FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
lOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SAN DS. Cashier
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treas
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier.
EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
WM. W. RICHARDS. Comptroller.
JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor,
GUS l‘AVUS S. WINSEON, M. D.
H
ENRY s. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOI‘T, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D.
GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M.
J CHIN W. NICHOLS»
New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. .
A. H. cAiurr. F ,
Local Agent.
Norwalk Chronicler