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If you intend to build, look at this before'purchasing. I Water, gas and sewer on the avenue. Will be sold at a Bargain. w. H. vacvon, Real Estate and Insurance Room I. Gazette ,B’l’d. . DAVID w. RAYMOND: Funeral 111100101 11110 Emhalmar . :39 Washington Street SonthfiNorwalk - Residence. llanachenm Hote . NAVAL Ali-A0 A SUICIDA Philo McGifiin Takes His Life In a New York Hospital. , - #9 CHEERFUL EVEN IN DEATH. Brief History of the Fearful Battle oi the Yalu, In \Vhich He. Received the Injuries Which Eventually Unsettled His ltIind. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—“1am still in the Chinese navy, ” said Captain Philo Norton McGifiin, the hero of the battle of the Yalu, lying in his cot in the Postgraduate , hospital three weeks ago, “but I am not in good standing. ” He thought a. little and laughed. “You know,” he said, “it is custom there for a. naval officer when he loses a battle to commit suicide, and they wanted me to follow the custom, but I de- clined with thanks ” He has accepted it after all. He shot and ‘ killed himself early today in his bed. His ‘ nurse, who had left him asleep, as he thought, five minutes before, returned to find him dead. On the table, beside the pistol, lay a note, hastily scribbled on the pages of a leaf torn from his notebook It read: , “ammo. “Look alive that the bed is not set afire by my shot. “My compliments and adieus to 1111.1 regret that my destination muSt remain to you unknown; but you may guess. With apologies to Miss Phelps for the row. It is a way that all guns have. Au revoir. “Please give my goodbye to Mr. Gor- ham, my compliments to Mr. Bennett. Incidentally I may note that though I ef- fect my exit it is not the hegira. anticipated by the learned staff. P. N. M. ” Gorham and Bennett were his nurses. Miss Phelps is the matron of the hospital. McGifiin never recovered from the ter- rific battle of the Chen Yuen with the Japanese navy. The injuries wrought up- M’GIFFIN. CAPTAIN on his body by splinters and shot healed, but the crash of mighty guns pounding the armor of the ship echoed in his ears till the day he was taken to the hospital, a P. N. maniac. It was his friend and classmate at Annapolis, Robert M. Thompson, who took him there. He is director in the Post- graduate hospital and saw to it that Mc- Giffin had the best of attention there. A room was given him on the second floor, and nurses put in charge of him night and day. They took a revolver away from him when he came, thinking it was all he had. No one dregmed that in the tin box in which he kept his private papers there were two others, a. Smith & Wesson re- volver and a monster navy Colt’s, both loaded. The box was within his reach, and he asked for it daily. The nurse let him have it; The Fatal Shot. . The captain was hum‘ored, as far as pos- sible, under orders of the doctor. He was excitable and nervous, but gave them nc trouble from the first. Lately he had been progressing well, as they thought, and promised ultimate recovery. They con- gratulated themselves upon this at the hospital, where Captain McGiifin was a favorite as well as its most distinguished patient. Night Nurse -£1mes D. Bennett was on duty last night... All was going well. Mid- night came and passed. McGifiin was wakeful. He called for his tin box, and the nurse gave it. to him. The captain sorted over the papers, with the lid half closed, and by degrees became drowsy, as it seemed to the nurse. He settled back upon his pillow and shut his eyes. The clock struck 2, and he seemed sound asleep. Its hands pointed to 2 :30 o’clock, when the nurse, thinking to snatch a. bite to eat while his patient slept, turned down the light and tiptoed from the room. He was gone barely five minutes. When he came back, it was to find Captain McGiflin dead, with a bullet hole' in his head just over the right temple. He lay on his bed, with his _ head hanging out over the side. The smok- ing pistol lay upon the note on the table. Sitting up in bed and taking aim, he had held his‘senses long enough to put it back. Then he had fallen over dead. Beside his cot on the floor lay the navy pistbl unused. N 0 one in the hospital had heard the shot. The nurse’s cries for help alarmed the watch, and the doctors came. But they could do nothing. McGiflin had not lived five seconds after firing the shot. The nurse told his story, and they concluded that in a. suddenly returning fit of mad- ness the captain had feigned sleep to get the nurse out of the way and set about carrying out his scheme the moment his back was turned. The attendants said that McGifiin never gave any indication of suicidal mania while in the hospital. . His madness did not take that turn. - So died the hero of the biggest of mod- ern sea, fights. A born fighter, he went abroad to have his fill of it, and he had it. In the mem- orable battle of the Yalu he was the cen- tral figure, the very spirit of the fight He came out mad with a. price on his head in the enemy’s land for his, prowess and dis- owned among his own, the Chinese, whom he led to defeat against overma-stering odds. And now he is dead, and there is an end of it. Perhaps they are satisfied in China at last. McGiflln' s Beroism. It was just a month ago that Captain McGiffin was taken to the Postgraduate hospital, where it was said he was suffer- ing from nervous prostration induced by overwork and injuries received in the war between China. and Japan, in which he took an active part. He commanded the Chen Yuen, one of the few Chinese war vessels that survived the battle of the Yal1 In the course of this battle many were ‘kiliz'd or. board the Chen Yuan, and every led. one suffered injuries. The vessel was" hit, it is said, over ‘400 times. Captain Mc- Gifiin himself was severely injured. He was wounded many times, his most serious injuries being caused by the discharge of a. gun on his own vessel. It happened that in the course of the en- gagement the ship caught fire upon the port side, an accident Of which the enemy naturally took every advahtage. No soon- er did they see the flames than the Japanese leveled their guns toward the burning spot and continued steadily to pour in shot that those on board the Chen Yucn' might be 111 evented from putting out the fire. Captain McGitfin perceived the danger and promptly called on his men for volun- teers to fight the fire. A first detachment went out for the purpose, and all were kill- There was some hesitation among the sailors when a second call was made, for not‘one of them was willing to go without an Officer, while on the other hand the Chinese officers felt no inclination to face a shower of Japanese shells and bullets, even though their ultimate safety depend- ed upon their doing so. Aware that_ delay would be fatal, Cap- tain McGithn pro tly stepped into the breach himself, andéziith a body of seamen proceeded to battle with the flames. While employed in doing this a shell from one of the Japanesevessels swept across the deck, killing the crew of one of the heavy guns, but leaving the gun itself uninjured. The next man taking command of the gun was unaware how McGifiin and 'his men were . employed, and accordingly caused the gun _ to be swung over the port with the muzzle ~ fimOst covering them. Just before‘it was discharged McGifiin happened to see 'his danger and sprang out of the way. Most of his men were killed at once, and be him- self was thrown over -by the shock. Both of his ear drums were ruptured, the sight of one eye was almost completely destroy- ed, and he was badly burned about the head. Nevertheless, as soon as he was able to do so he scrambled to his feet and con- tinued to fight. A few minutes later a shell struck a lad- der near by, and a splinter was driven into McGifiln’s hip. He withdrew it, however, in spite of the pain he suffered, and con- tinued fighting until the end, although in addition to the wounds he had already re- ceived he was struck a dozen times on the head and body. Beginning of Insanity. When the war was ended, Captain Mc- Gifl‘in, Whose health by this time was in an exceedingly precarious condition, re- ceived an indefinite leave of absence, and paid a. visit to this country, where he was received with great warmth and feted as a hero. He publisheda. number of articles on the Chinese-Japanese war. Less than half a year ago Captain Mc- Giffin took lodgings in West Twenty-third street. It was about two months since that his landlady said she began to notice that occasionally he seemed to show signs of a disturbed mind. These periods gener- ally lasted about half an hour, during which he appeared to have a great dread . of physicians, declaring “that the doctors were after him, but that he was his own doctor. ” According to his landlady, he had six revolvers of various sizes The strangest fancies would take possession 01 his mind. At one moment he believed that persons were watching him from the street; at another that rats infested his apartments; again be believed that he was full of microbes, and would cut pieces of flesh from his hands or thrust a knife intc the wound in his hip, Sometimes he would recover his senses Suddenly. On one occasion when his brother visited him Mc- Giffin drove him from the room. No soone1 had he reached the door than McGififln cried out: “What have I done? What have >, I done? I guess my head isn’t right. ” He sufiered also from insomnia, seldom sleeping for more than two hours in the morning. All night long he would stride up and down his room, and if any one_ap- preached his door he would often seize a pistol. When his landlady entered hi. room, he generally laid the pistol aside, but would declare at the same time that ii any dOctor dared to visit him he would kill him. - Sent to the Hospital. At last he was prevailed with to see a physician, who gave him a narcotic. He slept well that night, and the following ' day his doctor recommended that he go 111. ' a hospital that his wounds might be prop- erly attended to. Although he had hitherto dreaded having anything to do with doc- ' tors, he ofiered no opposition. It was generally supposed that his illness was directly due to the wounds he had re- ceived in battle, of which the most serious was that one caused by the splinter in his hip. He had also several bullets in his head and body. Captain McGiflin was a. native of Wash- ington, Pa, where he was born 34 years ago. He graduated at the Annapolis acad- emy in 1882. When the war broke out between China and Japan, he was in the Chinese navy, and all through the war be distinguished himself as well by his skill in battle as by his brzivery. _ Removal of Indiana Asked. MONTREAL, Feb. 12 .——The miners in the vicinity of Rat Portage want the Indian reservation located there removed and are petitionmg the government therefor, on the ground that while the Indians remain the miners cannot bring their families to live with them, and also that there' 15 con stant danger of fatal fights resulting from drunken brawls, giving the place a bad reputation and frightening away British capital. Wilson a College President. LEXINGTON, Va... Feb. 12. —The board or trustees of the Washington and Lee univer- sity today unanimously elected Hon. Wil- liam L. Wilson, postmaster general, presi- , dent of the university in place of General G. W. C. Lee, who recently esigned. It is well understood that Mr. W lson will ac. cept the position and will enter upon the duties of his office on July 1. Medal For 2 Heroic Chaplain. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 .-—A medal 01 henor has been presented to Francis B. Hall of Plattsburg, N. Y., late chaplain of the Sixteenth New York infantry, for distinguished gallantry' in action at Salem- Heights, Va., May. 3 -.1863 ChaplairkI-Iall voluntarily exposed himself to a heavy fire and carried won ed‘ men to the rear. Feet Tri lFroin Honxkonz. NEW Yeas, Feb. 12. —The American ship Parainita of Portland, Captain Soule, arrived today from Hongkong, after a re- markably fast passage of 99 days. There was no sickness on board, but _ owing to the prevalence of the plague at Hongkong Health Ofiicer Doty decided to hold the vessel for a thorough disinfection. Legislative Hearing. .ALBANY, Feb. 12.—The senate comnrit- tee of internal affairs gave a hearing on the Richmond county police bill of Sena- tor Higbie, over which the assembly had a spirited political debate, but no action. on the men-euro 1v. >3 t... - -. 59 - ‘ forty years ago. SECOND ,CITY OF THE WORLD. Two Months Required to Explore the Greater New York. Its Railroads \Vould Stretch Beyond Chichgo. its Threemlillions of Population. With a. pride that is wholly devoid of arrogance and vain glory, the citizens of the American metropolis. may now set out upon a journey of exploration in search of: peculiar and interesting feat- ures of the new domain of the city of New York. Greater New York now is: ' The second city in area, The second city in population. The city with the greatest length of railroads. The city with tlfi greatest number of . ferries. The city with the greatest extent of wharfage for commerce. The city with the greatest warehouse capacity. The greatest manufacturing city. The city with the greatest number of office buildings and offices. The city with the greatest area of public parks. . The city with the greatest area of - primitive forests. If all the surface and elevated roads within the limits of the Greater New York were stretched out in a single line they would reach a long way beyond Chicago, the actual length of track, as taken from Poor’s Manual, being no less than 1,100.58 miles. Of elevated roads alone the mileage is sufficient to run a. line beyond Albany, and almost to the foothills of the Adirondacks, for the distance to Albany is but 143 miles, while the length of the elevated tracks is 155.09 miles. Nor is the length of the East River Bridge tracks included in this estimate. In geographical extent the Greater New York from Mount St. Vincent to Tottenville is not far from thirtyfive miles long as the crow flies. lts width irom the North River at West Four- teenth street to the inlet bet-”ween Far Rockaway beach and Shelter Island is a. trifle over nineteen miles. Its area. is about 360 square miles. When, com— pared with other great cities it is found to be the second in size. London has 688, Paris, 297, Berlin, 242, Chicago, 189 and Philadelphia 129 square miles. The resident population of the city by census reports is 2,785,422 souls, but that is by no means-a. fair statement of the population from a commercial point- of view, for the reason that thousands of people who have their business in- terests in New York city live in New Jersey or beyond the city limits, while they come to New York every week day to attend to the affairs of life. No accurate estimate of the number of these people can be made. SENATOR MORRILL AT 86. of the Protective Tariff of Thirty Years Ago. When. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, celebrated his eightv- sixth birthday, the The Father chaplain of the Senate referred to him as “hale in body, clear, sound and vig- orous in intellect, esteemed by his bro- ther Senators, by his State, and by the whole country, and enjoying the fruits of long and honorable services in both houses of Congress.” SENATOI; MORRILL. Senator Morrill entered Congress He was a member of the Houseior six terms and took his seatin the Senate in 1867. He was the author of the Morrill Tariff law of the -. war period—the McKinley of the tariff thirty years ago. A. True Story. Here is a true romance of the woolly West and giddy Tenderloin: An actor, well known, traveled through ldaho with his wife a few sea- sons‘ago. Since that time he has been divorced. While playing in a game of poker in Butte City he quit the game holding a. resident of the city $30 in debt. On Tuesday he met the Westerner on Broadway. "Hello, Edwards,” said the Butte City man, ‘,‘you never expected to hear about that thirty, did you?” “Certainly I did,” replied Ed wards, “or I wouldn’t have played with you.” “Well, did you get it all right?” “Get what?” . “The 3.30. ’q “I’ve never received a cent.” ‘ Why, I met your wife yesterday and gave it to he1.‘ "Oh.”—Evening World. Sol id Cookery . ger ’said Mis. McSwat, with hopes pride. \ V “They look very nice, Lobelia,” plied M1. McSwat, picking one Of them up and making an effort to split it. "And they are still hot. How long ago did you—~ah——cast them?”—Ch‘icago Tri- . bune. _ “’mnen Are Gaining Recognition. Women are gradually winning lecog n1t1on1n China. Tv enty years ago due could buy a pretty good sort of a Wlfe for 25. .00. Now the price is $2.10. 00 and the 1.. :11' ' 31 s .111 1111.111" tr): Lie to). GREATER NEW YORK WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT THE_ “I made the 19 biscuits myself, Bill? .’ ‘ X x . _._.._._—___V—.._. PRAYED FOR THE PASSENGERS. An Incident of an Exciting Trip on a ‘ ' "Brooklyn Trolley Car. > The passengers on'the trolley carol! the Third avenue line, which left Bath Beach for Brooklyn at 6:30 o‘clock on Thursday evening, had ex- periences with thunder, lightning and rain that they will remember as long as they remember anything. .It is probable that none of them ever be- fore got so complete and satisfactory a notion of how really devilish a‘rain storm, with a thunder and lightning accompaniment, can ,bc.' . The car was an open one, the only protection for the passengers being the heavy canvas side curtains, which can never be fastened down when they 'should be. Of course, all the passengers were thoroughly drenched before the cur~ tains were buttoned down. Then, by way of diversion, there was more thunder and lightning. The '5‘ men were busy keeping out of the Wet, and the women and chidrcnwere becom- ing frightened. There was a lull in the storm for a moment. Then the wind came crashing through the tree branches like the rattling of light ar- tillery. Women, screamed, men shouted, and children shricked in fright. Suddenly there was a loud report like the explosion of gunpow- der, and the car was filled with flame. Two men at the rear of the car dropped as if they had been shot. In a back corner of the car something burned like a pitch pine firebrand, and the woodwork caught fire. 'It was quickly extinguished, and then it was learned that one of the incandescent lamps had burned out. The two men who stood directly under it had re- ceived shocks which overcame them. Seated in one of the rear seats was an old lady and her two little grand- daughters. ‘ The younger child, a girl of about eight years, was the most thoroughly frightened person in the car. Sitting next to her was a man who wasn’t by any means the least disturbed of the passengers. The child sat with her face buried in her hands, sobbing and shaking in every limb. The man put on :1 brave front, and said: “Don’t be frightened. little .girl. Th-th-therc is noth-nothing to hurt you.” , “011, I'm so afraid of lightning! And so is my mamma, and she is all alone at home. And my papa is on the water down at Sandy Hook. Oh, what will become of him?” A flash of lightning illuminated the car again, and all the women screamed. The child seemed about to go into hysterics. “There, there,” said the male pas- senger, his own teeth fairly chatter- ing; be a brave little girl.” A The child by sheer will pulled herself together and said, will.” Then jumping up, she cried: “Oh, there’s nothing to be afraidof. God will take care of us. I’ll ask Him to.”- IVith that she knelt down beside the seat, and raising her childish voice until it could be heard all over the car she recited the Lord’s Prayer. When the reached the “Amen’” the power l ‘1 confusion among the passengers had ceased, and not a sound was to be heard save the roar of the storm. Men, women and chidren had quieted ' down at the sound of the child’s voice and the words of her prayer seemed to give them cour.age Then, when the prayer was finished, she contin- ued: “Oh, dear Lord! Let this storm pass quickly over! lightning, and save all the souls in this car, and keep safely my mamma and papa for Thine own sake. Amen.” Hardly was the prayer finished when the fury of the storm passed, and the car, which had come to a sud- den standstill, resumed its journey.— New York Sun. A Little Surprise At Home. Von Blumer—I had the most singu- lar thing happen to me the other day. Did you ever go into a man’s place to pay a bill you owed him, and find him out? _ Plankington—No, sir. pen to you? “It did. a had a notion, or rather I nerved myself up to it, to settle up some bills that I owed. So on my way Did that hap- up from the oflice I dropped in to see my fishmonger.” “And he was out?” “Correct. Then I tried my grocer.” “He Was out?” “Right. Plenty of shopmen, but no proprietor. Of course, I left word that I called in to settle up, but wanted to see the proprietor first. Dis— putsra‘oout' bills. See?” “Oh, ,yes, that strengthens your credit.” “Exactly. Then I called to see my butcher, and I’ll be hanged if he wasn’t ,out also.” “By Jove! but you were in luck!” “No, I wasn‘t” ‘fWhy not ?” "When I got home I found them all waiting for me.”—Western Figaro. He Was in Boston. “Turning from the sombre back- ground Of history,” said the orator, ' f‘let us endeavor to take a view of the future, lighted as it is by the lamp of experience only, whose lurid glare’h-g There was a decided sensation. “And I wish to say emphatically,” he proceeded, “that I use» the word .lurid as meaning liv’i'd, ghastly, disi mal, and not as it is too often and improperly used. to denote red and fiery” A decorous murmur of applause ran through the critical Boston .audienCe, and the.;.sp,eaker went on with his re- marks. ' He had scored the oratorical : 11i= Of the swam—Chicago Tribune. .1...» :A—\ .z‘:... 'L-r."""‘;“ Stop the thunder and ' «~— l A Monkey’s lmitativeness. , A Chicago paper details the pranks. of a windowful of monkeys which a ‘ dealer in animals keeps to amuse the» . public, and attract attention to his business. There is almost always a. crowd watching them. ' One day lately a man came to wash outside of the window in which these animals spend their days. Hemad a long pole with a sponge", at its end and a pail of water. Asvhe washed, , the monkeys watched ‘hin'ti. ith great curiosity; and presently one of them, who looked like a little-E tweezened Old man, wood which lay in the bottom of the cage, dipped it carefully into the din- ner-pan, and began rubbing the barS' of the cage vigorously. He stopped; watched the move- ments of the man, resumed his rub- bing, and imitated the man as closely as he could. This he continued until after the window-washer had finished his work. The crowddwhich, observed this pro- ceeding was naturally much inter- ested, and the old-faced monkey has since been known as “window-washing Mike." ' Her Reason. The young man picked up his hat and looked sadly at the lining. "Tuere is no hope for me?” he asked faintly. " 'None whatever,” replied the beauti- ful girl, her eyes filled with compas— sion. When he reached the door he turned towargfi-her again. "I have to thank you for one thing," he said bitterly. “What is that?” she inquired. "You have not told me that you would be a sister to me." “I thought of that,” she rejoined, hurriedly; “but I suddeply remem- bered.” .“What?” he asked, shortly, as she stopped.- "That I promised. this morning, to marry your father."—Brooklyn Life. "E- ( Men Will Have honest tobacco—~they Will not be buncoed. into buying sham goods. Men know the name B. L. means best leaf tobacco, finest flavor and, most for. ’ their mOney. The “tags” On the street will showtmost chew- 1 “‘crs use " Tobaccos. S. B. 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