Founded in 1800.] VOL. XCVI.—-NO 21 NATION_A_L_§APITAL I A Pension Bill Passed Over the President’s Veto. -lnteresting Washington News and Chat. GAZETTE’s BUREAU. } 709 EAST CAPITOL STREET ~ WASHINGTON. MAY 21. i In the Senate to-day, the session was enlivened by an angry personal alterca- tion‘between Senators Allen and Hill. The day was mostly consumed in the consideration of conference reports. . o o o In the House the discussion of the Labor Commission bill was opened and the bill pensioning Francis E. Hoover was passed over the President’s veto. Hoover, late a private in the 64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, is now a bedridden incurable and utterly helpless invalid. Four republicans voted to sustain the veto. They were Messrs. Quigg and Wadsworth, of New York, Loud of California, and Raney, of Missouri. Seven democrats voted to override the veto. They were Messrs. Cummings, of New York, Layton and Sorg, of Ohio Cockrell, of Texas, and Stokes, Strait and Talbert, of South Carolina. 0 o o A compromise was to-day reached on the free alcohol repeal question, and another obstacle to the programme of of 1 an early adjournment removed. The House will pass the bill on Satur- day, and an amendment providing for the appointment of a joint committee to report to the next session by bill for free alcohol for use in the arts and sciences, together with. the necessary law to carry it into effect if, after in- vestigation, the committee believes this should be done. The repeal bill will be taken to the Senate at once, and will probably be called up and passed on Monday. Senator Platt and others who have been antagonizing repeal are satisfied with the compromise. o o o . To-day Secretary Olney instructed Minister Taylor to protest to the Span-' ish Government against General,Weyl- er’s edict prohibiting exportation of to- bacco from Cuba. This act it is said would, it carried out not only violate our treaty stipulations with Spain, but force 100,000 American workers out of employment. 0 o o It has been believed about the Capitol Ever since the River and Harbor bill passed the House that the President would veto it. No bill for this purpose hasjyet recived his signature, and the unusual aggregate of the present meas- ure has led to the impression that in- stead of permitting the bill, by his si-_ lence, to become a law, the President would attempt to frustrate the will of the legislative branch. For several days, it is said, officials of the Treasury and War Departments have been gath- ering data which the President will use in his veto message. Friends of the measure profess their ability to pass the bill over the veto it one comes in. It is evident, howevi-r, that no such majority could be-secured as that of to day in the Hoover pension casein the House, when the vote was 196 to 47. o o o A joint expedition, consisting of the Laurada and Three Friends, is alleged in Spanish circles here to be on its way to Cuba The Laurada left New York several days ago, and the Three Friends, now in Florida waters, 'is said to be destined to join the Laurada at some point in the Florida Keys, with the in- tention of proceeding to Cuba. These suspicions are entertained by the Span- ish Minister here, and he has communi- cated them to the United States author- ities. o o o In the Judge Holt contested will case, Senator Sherman yesterday testified to the authenticity of Gen. Sherman’s, his brother’s signature, and that of General Grant, which appear as wit- nesses to the alleged will. 'Io-day Ex- Postmaster General Horatio King, testi- fied with much positiveness that the body and signature of the will were “a gross bungling fraud," but volunteered the opinion to the jury against the ob- jections of counsel on both sides of the litigation that the signatures of Presi- dent Grant aud' General Sherman and his wife, as witnesses were also spurious. Colonel Thomas S. Barr, Assistant Judge-Advocate-General, also testified that in his opinion the paper was neither written not signed by Judge Holt. 0 o o ' Joseph R. Taylor, prosecuting attor- ney of the city court of Norwalk, is here with his bride on their wedding trip. 0 o o DhGatling of Hartford, is here, and; eln‘ed ’il- the action of the Senate com- .4 n Entertaining cincl I nstrziciive Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and I niere'sis. NORWALK, CONNAFRIDAY. MAY 22.189651“). PAGES. ‘ mittee in providing an appropriation on the fortifications bill of $35,000 for machine guns, and granting an addi- tional $65,000 to test his new cast steel rifle and mortar. . THE TAILon ARBIVES. Telegrapher Dan Says His Coat Came to Town, Last Evening. Much to his relief, operator Audubon Dan’s message to the address given by the strangers who recently sold him cloth for a suit of clothes. bore fruit, and yesterday evening, according to Dan’s statement, one of the parties 'came to town with the unfinished coat for him to try on. Dan was overjoyed to see him as his heart had been in his throat for Several days and his hand has clutched his pocket book considerably tighter since suspicions arose that all was not right. After fitting the garment to Dan’s- Adonis-like form the stranger departed promising that the shit should be here to-morrow. As the stranger has proven that al- though he sold the goodslon the state- ment that they were smuggled without payment of duty, he is not a myth, and the other gentlemen who are said to have had a similar experience will breathe more freely when they learn that Dan’s suit has arrived. OBITUARY. JAMES W. HUBBELL. The Rev. James W. Hubbell, D. D. who died in Mansfield, Ohio, on Tues- day last after a brief illness, was a, na- tive of Wilton, being the eldest son of the late Deacon Wakemau Hubbell and Julia (Lyrics) Hubbell. The deceased was a graduate of Yale College and Yale Theological School and had successful pastorates at Milford, the College Street church, New Haven, First church Danbury, and died in the harness at Mansfield, Ohio, as pastor of its First Congregational church. Mr. Hubbell was an able ser- monizer, a faithful pastor and always keenly interested in public and educa- cational questions, being one of the Trustees of Marrietta College, Ohio. Mr. Hubbell was well known in Nor- walk. not only on account of his fre- quent appearance in the First Congre- gational church pulpit, but because of his relationship to some of our promi- nent Norwalk families. Dr. Hubbell married Mary, a daughter of the late Charles Gregory of Wilton, who, with two daughters, and a son survive him. His remains are to be brought to New York and sepulchred at Greenwood, Brooklyn. Sues for $350,000. Papers in a suit for $350,000 were served yesterday on the Stamford Trust company, instituted by Timothy Porter, the millionaire of that place, whose trouble with his relatives has at- tracted so much attention during the past year. In this action he alleges that on Feb- ruary 21, 1804, he was arrested by cer- tain persons and compelled to transfer certain bonds and securities amounting in value to $350,000 to the defendant company; and that subsequently he was compelled to deliver to said defendant company these bonds and securities. The defendant company still holds the Same. r not The Seeds are Here. Congressman Hill’s liberal invoice of government garden seeds are being dis- tributed to-day. They are a little late for early planting but in ampleitime for the fall campaign. Beets and Beans comprise a liberal share of the contribu- tion, but why our Congressman should send any more be(a)ts to N orwalkis not clear. Then’if he knew how reluctant many of our Norwalkers are to do any- thing as near work as gardening, he might have secured more votes by send- ing them to the rural districts. Never- theless,-—thanks to Congressman Hill. The Florence B. Probably one of the neatest and best equipped yachts in the harbor is the “Florence B.” Buflt in 1891 under the supervision of a man who could die- tinguish between a- railroad car and a yacht, she is to-day in better, as be pre' dicted, condition, that when she made her first trip to Long Island. Her owner is Captain William P. Beers. She is being ballasted and will soon be in readiness for pleasure parties. Capt. Le Roy ‘Oomstock is in command. Annual Picnic. At their meeting last night the Central Labor Union decided to hold a picnic on Labor Day and a committee consist- ing of William A. Kellogg, W. F. O’Reilley and A. Hans was appointed to secure the grounds necessary. THE STATE PRISON. The “Gazette” Makes a Visit to Wethersfield. , Everything Found in Good Order. A recent visit to the Connecticut State Prison at Wethersfield, by a represen- tative of the GAZETTE, revealed many facts of interest. The present board or directors comprise the following gen- tlemen: James W. Cheney, of South Manchester, president; Thomas D. Wells, Waterbury, secretary; Frank C. Sumner and E. C. Frisbie, Hartford, N. G. Osborn, New Haven, Wilson C. Reynolds, Deep River and Edmund E. Crowe, South Norwalk. The Warden is Jabez L. Woodbridge, of Hartford. The first thing to attract the visitor’s attention, is the unusual. and scrupu- lous cleanliness of every department of the prison. The sanitary conditions seem to have been carefully looked af- ter. A new up to date system 'of steam heating and ventilating has been intro- duced. The laundry has been equipped with a steam sterilizing apparatus, a new and. enlarged kitchen, new brick oven of a capacity adequate to the leak- ing of bread for the four hundred in- mates, have recently been introduced. Three large wire cages have been erect- ed in the rear yard to give specially vis- cious and incorrigible prisoners needed sunlight, fresh air and exercise. The manufacture of the coarser qualities of shirts, has recently been introduced which enables the Warden to keep the large numbers of convicts not ,otherwise'employed, at regular, health giving and remunerative work. Adequate chapel quarters are provided, where, Protestant and Catholic religious teaching is provided on Sundays. It was a novel feature to see Catholic Sunday School teachers on one side of the chapel aisle instructing the men of their faith in religious truths and on the other side a corps of teachers from the Hartford Y. M. C. A. zealously en- gaged in the same beneficent labor‘ There are but five women prisoners, and these are provided with seperate quarters for religious instruction. Occasional amusements and night schools two evenings a week are intro- duced and serve the double purpose ’of educating and relieving the prison life of the wretched inmates, of the dreary monotony of their incarceration. Of stimulants, tobacco alone is furnished to the men in health. The victims of this habit grow sullen, morose, viscious, nervous, and finally sicken, if not in- dulged in the habit to which they are enslaved. Alarge library is provided and all prisoners who can read are fur- nished the books. Quite a large num- ber of Government prisoners are con- fined here and boarded at $2.24 per week. The food furnished is abundant and wholesome. No better bread is issued from any city bakery and each prisoner is permitted toztake as much of it as he wishes. It is baked daily and always served fresh. Beef, pork, mutton and fish of good quality, with nearly every variety of garden vegetables are served alternate days. Coffee is served every day for breakfast and. tea for supper and milk and sugar served for both. Few prisons in the country furnish so good and ample a table for its inmates and yet so scrupulous is the care to prevent wastage, that the average cost of the food given each prisoner, is given by the Warden, as less than seven and a half cents per day. William Buckholtz, convicted to a life sentence on June 1st 1880, for the murder of the old German Schulte at South Norwalk, is our most notable prisoner. He is in reasonably good health and spirits, is a". book-keeper and still protests his innocence of the mar. der and with some reason. He has al- ways maintained a good record in the prison and has passed his fifteen weary years of incarceration with the undying hope that some day the truth will be revealed and he released. The saddest part of a visit to the prison, is to note the large percentage of youths. There are nearly one hun- dred between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one; more than two hundred between twenty-one and thirty-five. Eighty-two per cent. of the inmates have dark hair, although there are but a very small number of negro prisoners. Alarge majority have sullen, cruel and criminal looking faces, a ,few, bright, intelligent and genteel looks and actions, a still smaller number look murderous and demonical. intemperance, debased and criminal heredity and environment have had to do with these sad wrecks of our nobler humanity, no one but God may know. ~ There is at present a vacancy in the chaplaincy, and preachers are supplied How much . from Hartford and the near by towns every Sunday. In consequence of “a re- cent vacancy, Hon. E. C. Frisbie of Hartford has been selected by Gover- nor Cofiin to be a member of the prison board of Directors. He isa thorough- ly wide-awake, up-to-date, energetic business man and will make his influ- ence felt, wherever better methods, needed improvements or reforms can be introduced. The board meets reg- ularly on the second Tuesday of each month and at other times whenever any special interest requires. Presi- dent Cheney and Major Osborn, are other specially interested and active members of the board of Directors. WAS TITKEN HOME. The Father of Samuel Boyd Secures His Release From the Hospital. Last Thursday, on the recommenda- tion of Dr. Charles Bohanuan, a young man named Samuel Boyd was trans- ferred to the Norwalk hospital from the boarding house in South Norwalk con- ducted by Mrs. Sarah Larrigan, on Water street. He was suffering, as . is alleged, from lead poisoning, he being at work as an artist. It was learned that he had relatives living in Montreal, Canada, and they being advised of his condition, his father came to South Norwalk and reg- istered at the City Hotel. He said that his son was 26 years old and at the age of 21 had come into possession of about $18,000, after which he “went wrong” and squandered it. He seemed grieved at finding his boy in such a plight, and made arrangements for his return to his former home in Montreal, .where he wastaken this afternoon. To Make an Investigation. The death of Allen S. Grumman, for- merly of this city, from the effects of injuriesjinflicted by the explosion of a soda fountain cylinder at the Aero Dis- tilled Water 00., Bridgeport, may re- sult in a‘ coroner’s inquest. Coroner Doten says he has been informed that ',cylinder was the one which exploded , 70. years ago. If he found such to be the case,he would deemlit to be his duty to makeian investigation andjascertain in what condition the cylinder was at the time of the explosion; also what inspec- tions were made'of such cylinders, and how often. He thought they should be inspected as well as steam boilers and pains taken to ascertain in what manner they might be defective; and if found so, what measures were taken to rem- edy the eefects and make them safe. Memorial Day Observance. An order has been issued by Buck- ingham Post, G. A. 3., announcing the following Memorial Day observance: On Sunday, May 24th, the Comrades _ are to meet at the Post Rooms, at 2:30 p. m., to participate in Memorial Day Services to be given in the First Con- gregational church, by the Sunday Schools of the town. The Comrades will meet at the Post Rooms, at 7 o’clock to attend Divine Services at Grace church in the evening. Comradeszwill appear in citizens’ dress, badges and white gloves. Comrades will meet at the Post Booms on Memorial Day at 10 o’clock, sharp, in uniform as far as possible. Opening Day. Landlord O’Sullivan will announce in the several Norwalk papers the open- ing on Memorial day of that popular resort, Gregory’s Point, The first-class reputation established for this resort will be fully maintained, and a deserv- edly large patronage will no doubt re- sult. Mr. O’Sullivan has made exten- sive improvements about the place, all of which will be noted and no doubt appreciated by guests and visitors. Shriners. Shriners Wallace Dann, George C. Lockwood, A. E. Bohme, J. B. Ray- mond and C. Ford Seeley, mounted camels and rode over the hot sands to Pyramid Temple, at Bridgeport, last evening, and witnessed the entrance into “full communion” as Shriners, under “extraordinary ceremonies” of George Buckmaster, Fred Baxter and Samuel Watkins of Norwalk. Wedding Favors. Wedding favors announcing the mar- riage on' Tuesday, June 9th, of Sey- mour Taft of Brooklyn and Miss Gussie Gusowski, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Gusowski, as some days since an- nounced in these columns, are being received by the many friends of the contracting pa: ties. Pensions. Original—Charles Daniels, Windsor; Selden C. Williams, Meriden. In- crease—Joseph Barry, Noroton Heights. —Su‘oscribe for THE GAZETTE. [$1.00-a Y... _- PRICE Two CENTS; HUB HUNDRED llfllllll PRIZE! lumzmmmm:-n A Magnificent Piano for the Most Popular School, Lodge, Society, Club or Fire Gom- ' , pony in Foirlield County. ' ' Which is our most popular school, lodge, society, club or‘ fire company? Which one has‘the most admirers and friends? Doubtless these questions are beyond the power of'any' absolute answer, but THE EVENING GAZETTE offers an exceptional opportunity to make the test. THE GAZETTE pro- poses to poll the votes of the people. And the voting is to have zest in it. It is made worth while to vote. There is a magnificent prize at stake. 'THE GAZETTE will give A $400 ‘UPRIGHT PIANO to the school, lodge, society, club or fire company Which gets the most votes. . ; r:;‘||“\l“ll é" . . ‘ HERE IT IS! _ It is an instrument of the very finest character,E It is beautiful in its workmanship, an ornament worthy of any ' _ home, and inall its musical qualities it is unsurpassed. In . every sense it is a perfect and beautiful instrument—equal to the best that can be anywhere bought for $400 IN GOLD. The following are the rules which govern the voting: l—THE GAZETTE will print each day a blank coupon, each coupon being good for one vote for the school, lodge, society, club or fire com- pany the owner of the coupon may select—the blank lines m the coupon to be filled out with the name and address. The coupon to-day is at the end of this article. 2—The contest will close on July 2, and the winner announced on July 3. 3—Any school, lodge, society, club or fire company in Fairfield County to eligible. . . 4—A full record of the voting will be published up to date every evemng in THE GAZETTE, but votes received after 10 A. M. will not be re- corded until a day later. . . - 5—Coupons must be filled out in a plain handwnting, for otherWIse blund- ers can not be avoided and votes will be lost. Blank coupons of THE mm... tit THE so on + long. It is a piano made upon honor and sold upon merit. party buying one does not get merely a handsome case He gets a thorough musical instrument. The tone of the instru ment is full, rich, resonant and well sustained, the scale 1s magnificent. . . Following is the voting coupon, a copy of Wh1ch W111 ap- pear in THE GAZETTE daily. E were NOT coon AFTER MAY 29 _L Name, ‘ a Tower iii BATTLE‘OF THE BALLOTS. . Norwalk Yacht Club ............................. , ................................................ .12823 Hope Hose Company ............................................................... ........... 12515 St. Mary’s School ................................................................................... 7096 Welcome Stranger Lodge ........................................................... . ........ . . 1576 Center School........................., ................................................. . ............ . 936 Pequonock Pleasure Club ............................ .. ............................... .. . ........ . 568 Over River School... ......................................................................... . 347 Pioneer Castle ...................................................................................... ., 173 T. F- E. 0111b oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 'oogugoouo..aco-lv-nn-uua-uuooocu-l oooooooooooooooooooo .0 7o Arion Singing Society ................................... _ ........................... . ......... . 60 TnGo L. 0-0 ooooooooooooooooooooo co ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo arc-009.0..." 4o Norwalk Liederkranz...............................................' .................................. 24 Sword Fish Club ...................... . ................. -. ....................... . ..... 23 Lincoln Council ..................................................... . ................... 13 N. R. ‘---_ .......................... . ............. . ........................................ m The Central Club.. . . ............... ’ .................. 1 3 ‘ East Norwalk School .......... . ...... 16 Compo Engine 00., Westport ................... 19 Bishop McMahon Council ........ ‘ ......... , ......... . . 10 Catholic Union Council ................................................ . ............................ 3 Uncas Tribe .......... . ....... - .......................................................................... _. ,3 Knob Outing Club ..................... ' ............... , ............... . ........................... 2 Pine Ledge Club............ ...... ,. ................................................ 2 S. S. Club ................................... . ........................................................... ... 2 Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company -. ....................................... ....... u... " 4 Phoenix Engine Company ............................................... . ............. .. 2 ‘ Firle Police, So Nu. nnnnnnn g ................................................... o.-uoultnuu|llno 1
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