\ W " SM.— _Founded in 1800.] WALK .4 n Entertaining and I nstructive Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and Interests. [$1.00 a Year VOL. XCVIIL—NO 8 NORWALK CONN. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25 4898 ——12 PAGES. 71‘ SAFE BLOWN OPEN. BIIHSLAHS VISIT HAFHEH’S NEWS AND CIGAR STIIHE 0H EAST WASHINGTON STIIEET. SEEN LEAVING THE BUILDING. EFFECTED AN ENTRANCE THROUGH FRONT DOOR WITH AID OF CHISEL. The cigar and news store at the east end of the Washington street bridge conducted by Albert H. Hafner was burglarized at an early hour this morn- ing. .Cntrance was gained through the front doors of the store, the same be- ing sprung open by the use of a chisel and apparently a screw-driver. Gaining access to the store the burg- lars seemingly paid theirfirst attention to a Marvin safe located near the rear of the store. They had previously visited the car- riage shop of Joseph Shepherd near by where they had appropriated an old sledge-hammer a steel nail punch, two braces and hits, a chisel and a screw- driver the two latter of which they used in gaining an entrance to the store. The facing of the door at a point near the lock was forced off from the inside of the door by the active leverage ap- plied at a lower point from the outside. I The nail punch was tested on several" parts of the front of the safe without seemingly satisfactory suchess. It is thought that the sledge was then brought into play and the dial handle of the safe given a. rap "which'furnished a means for better work in. the use of the nail-punch. ' Three holes were made in the front of the safe and explosives introduced through the same. " Either before or during the progress of the drilling some member of the party paid attention to the cash regis- ter Which was burst open in such man- ner as to render it comparatively use- less. The explosion of the safe occurred at about ten minutes past 2 o’clock. Oddly enough it seems to have been heard by only one person in the neigh- borhood, and he a colored man, “Sam’ Henry, who lives nearly opposite the store. Henry is afflicted with a throat trouble that prevents his . sleeping soundly. He heard the report of the explosion and looking out of a front window at his home to learn the cause, paw a bright light in the Hafner store and a dense smoke issuing from the same. At the same time he saw a man stand- ing in front of the store and another man hurriedly rush out and join the other man, when both started on a run toward the railroad tracks at the rear of the building. Either through fright, or some other cause he failed to give an immediate alarm, but an hour or two afterward advised Mr. Hefner that he thought that his store had been. burglarized. Mr. Hafner on being aroused, visited the store and recognizing the fact that the safe had been blown open, hastened across the bridge to the home of Chief Vollmer, on the way advising Officer Reardon, who was on duty, of the burg- lary. - All this not until shortly before 6 o’clock. ' Chief Vollmer accompanied Mr. Haf- ner back to the scene where he made a thorough investigation, and also took (marge of the implements above men- loaned The front of the safe door lay flat ' his store remarked, on the floor near the counter. It was also found that two watches had been stolen. “The burglars secured, ” says Mr. Hafner, safe,” “only about it; 0 out of the and it is understood that 1n their haste they left behind quite a sum of nickels, as well as paying no attention to the cigar machines in which there were Sums aggregating more than the amount in the safe. It was reported that the burglars also secured a quantity of silver coin in rolls but this re- port lacks official verification. . It is believed to have been the work of some one well acquainted with the “lay” of the store, and whether or not. amounting to perhaps .‘75 it was a bold piece of business. A business man of South Norwalk had some dealings with a suave and well dressed sort of a stranger yester- day morning, and on the. party leaving “I believe that man is a crook and we will hear of a burglary in town before long.” While this stranger may have hadi nothing whatever to do with the burg- lary, it is nevertheless true that the business man’s prophecy proved to be a. verity so far as a burglary being com- mitted was concerned. Beginning of the End. To-day in the court of common pleas, Attorney John H. Light will make a motion which will tend toclose the liti- gation between Attorney Joseph A. Gray and Edward J. Wadhams. Wad- hams, through Attorney Light, recent- ly obtained judgment for $400 against Gray, and Gray has obtained a judg- ment for $60 against Wadhams. It is the purpose of Attorney Light to have the judgments cleared in such a way that Attorney Gray will be forced to pay the balance against him at once. Boxing To-night. The boxing exhibition at the Nor- walk Opera House to-night promises to draw a large crowd. The three inter- esting bouts have been arranged be- tween Tom McInerney of Winnipauk and Young Scott of Yonkers, Billy Forsythe of Danbury and Mike Kearns of Philadelphia, and Dan Keefe of Greenwich and Charles Fox of New York. Steve O’Donnell will referee, and Fred Coleman act as time-keeper. —————<..o>—————- Mrs. White’s Paper. A large gathering at the chapel of the First Congregational church last evening listened to the paper given by Mrs. G. Willis White upon “The truth as it is in Jesus.” It was a very effect- . ive presentation of the superiority of the Christian, over all the great ethnic religious. The paper closed with an original poem of great beauty. ‘ «W Capt. Vicker’s Funeral. The funeral of Capt. John Vickers will take place from David W. Ray- mond’s undertaking rooms in South Norwalk, at 8 o’clock this Friday even- ing. Members of G. A. R. are invited to attend his funeral. The remains will be taken to Albany, N. Y., to-mor- row for interment. ——————<o-o>—————- Golden Wedding, Mr. and Mrs. James K. Price of Oakland, Ca1., will celebrate their. Golden Wedding anniversary at their home in that place Saturday, March 5, at8p. m., by giving a reception to their friends. Mrs. Price 1s well knowh in Norwalk and is a sister of Mr. Wal- ter Fitch. \ PRICE TWOCENTS HIS HEAIl CUT OFF. A Brakeman’ s Horrible Death at Derby. Fell Between the Cars and His Body Badly Mangled. George Root, aged 19, a son of Con- ductor Thomas Root, who was employed as a brakeman on a Naugatuck division freight, was killed last night by falling between the cars. His body was frightfully mangled. The accident occurred about!) o’clock as a south bound freight was taking a swith on the east side of Derby. The young man was walking on top of the cars, and is supposed to have madea misstep. He fell in such a manner that he was thrown across the rails and three cars passed over him before the train was stopped. The top of his head was cut off and also both legs above the ankle. Mark Menton, an- other brakeman, saw the lantern fall- ing between the cars and at once signalled to stop the train. . .m.-.’ .. The Connecticut Mutual Life. The print elsewhere to-day the an- nual report of Colonel Greene, presi- dent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the company’s statement of its splendid strength and usefulness. During the year it has grown in all directions—in assets, in amount of in- surance, in numbers of insured, and in surplus. Its strength is absolute. With its funds invested in the choicest of securities, it has a clean surplus ex- ceeding seven and a quarter million dollars. It is insuring over 66,700 per- sons for a total of more than $157,700,- 000. The Connecticut Mutual is the largest moneyed institution in New England, and none «is stronger. " But the company is not in the wild race for costly new business and for sudden greatness thatsome .ofits com- petitors are now engaged in—and . wish they were not. The Connecticut Mu- tual is not willing to sacrifice the in- terests of its present members for the sake of getting new members at ._ their ' expense. It is already large and strong to the point of complete inde- pendence and it considers its own members first. I To these Colonel Greene says it ”gives the most protec- tion at the lowest cost.” F rom the organization of the Con- necticut Mutual to January 1, 1893, it had received from its policyholders $100,855, 215.130. It had paid to them $188,791,551AO, and it still holds for their benefit $63,588,600. 98. In these figures is found suggestiveevidence of the strength of the company and the wisdom of its conservative manage- ment. - . ‘ Colonel Greene gives a good deal of space this year to the subject of the taxation of mutual life insurance com- panics, and what he says deserves the closest attention. The policy of our own state as well as that of other states in this matter is already burdensome, and there are threats, at each session of the different Legislatures, of adding "to the load. It is time peeple looked into the reasons, and stopped to think what a mutual life insurance company is and what taxation of it means. Such action by the state is really the taxing of a 105s not of a possession. Because the money is there in sight, some per- sons assume at Once that it is a suitable subject for taxes. Let them read the clear statement in this report and they will see how illogical is such an assump- tion and how. unfair and oppressive such a tax. The real agitation to-day should be for an entire removal of the tax, which is an arbitrary and unjust measure. There is no part of the re- port more important than this, none sounder. It is a timely publication and a very proper one. The state treasuries ' everywhere need guarding. against raids from outside; all the more because the success of such raids leads to injus- tice and tyranny in the exercise of the taxing power. I The issue raised by this report should be kept before the, people, until they realize the simple jostice and commOn sense of it. The insured, whose inter- ests it affects, can secure this result. ——<o.O>—~———-—7 Boy Killed. Albert Brittain, aged 16. years, was killed at the Sterling street crossing, Bridgeport, yesterday morning, by a train. He was employed as a special delivery messenger at the post-office. -——.———.—<o.0>~—'—-——~—~ , 1 «Advertise in the GAZETTE.- MURPHY WAS EASY. Tommy West Won in [the Seventeenth Bound. L pw a1ds of 2,500 spectatms gathe1 ed in the Park City theat1e, Bl 1dgeport, last night to witness the boxing exhi- bition under the auspices of the Hori- zon Athletic club, with Tommy West .of New York and Dan Murphy of Wa- terbury as the star attractions. The men were matched for 20 rounds at catchweights but W1 st was given the decision after 2 minutes and 25 seconds of fighting in the 17th round. The opening bout was between Jack O’Brien of New York and Jack Hanni- gan of Pittsburg, 15 rounds at 125 pounds. There was seme lively work done in this bout during which O’Brien did most of the leading. IIannigan, however, more than held his own by clever ducking, and 011 more than one occasion by means of his ducking, he avoided O’Brien ’5 fierce rushes, and the latter in his impetus went clear over his back. The announcement of a draw was received with favor. Cattle Breeders to Meet. The Connecticut Jersey Cattle Breed- ers’ Association will hold a special meeting at Room 50 in the Capitol on March 3. There will be two sessions, . at 10:30 and 1:30. The circular states that the object of the meeting is to dis- cuss the Jersey cow of to-day, breeding, care and developing as demanded by the markets throughout the country. Valancey E. Fuller of New York, pres- ident of the American Jersey Cattle Club, and other prominent breeders will address the meeting. Au invita- tion is extended to all. The circular is signed byS S C. Colt, the president of the association, and by Robert A. Potter, George Austin Bowen and D. D. Bishop, a committee appointed to arrange the meeting. ' ; -——-—<o.o>—-———- Senator Keeler on Good Roads. Senator E. O. Keeler wrote tO'the Connecticut Valley Highway Associa- tion,.which met in Springfield yester- day: “I want to say" public sentiment in» favor of ‘good roads’ is simply ‘boom— ',ing’ in Connecticut, and'we have done vmo're in the last three years to educate our people up to the great benefit and to the increasing valuation of all inter- ests in our state horn good roads than has been do11e' 111' the previous 50 years or more, and the’ problem we are to Work on :now, is'hdw to get: 2them, and how can they beet be paid ‘ for ? Good roads will be a benefit to the farmers, the merchants, the manufacturers—in fact, to everyone A 'Little Bridgeport Girl’s Gift. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has sent a letter to Lalla Cook, a little Bridgeport girl, who wrote a. letter to him, enclosing $1 for the relief of “some little girl” who might have lost her father by the dis- aster to the Maine. The letter was ad- dressed to a Bridgeport newspaper, which had transmitted the money, and was as follows: “Through you I want to thank little Lalla Cook for her gift, and to say that it shall be used just as she desires, and that the people in the navy are glad that the little Amer- ican girl should have thought of the American sailors who were drowued while doing their duty.” __ ...-, m _,._, Settling Up. George F. Bearse, trustee of the in— solvent estate of D. Stow, is paying seven and one-half cents on the dollar to the creditors. The receipts from all sources are $957.45; preferred claims, $39.16; expenses paid, including money allowed to the insolvent, $701.87; bal- ance, $216.42. The liabilities are $2,- 885.63. A‘ ' WW His Hand to a Hay-Cutter. Milk-dealer J. S. Gainer, has a power cutter at his dairy in which he narrow- l y escaped sacrificing h1s right hand yesterday. That such sacrifice was not made, was, Mr. Gainer thinks, owing to a defect in one of the knives of the machine. As it was he escaped with a badly lacerated finger and a few cuts on the hand. He marvels at his good luck and regrets with pain his careless- ness. ~—-———--——-~M~ . ' Lenten Services. The services at St. Paul’s church during the Lenten season will be as fol- lows: “Tednesdays, 10 a. m.,'1‘uesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 4 p. m. The meetings in the chapel are: Fridays, omitting March 25,1011. 111., Mondays and Fridays, 4 p.v m. \Vednesdays. with sermon, 7.30 p. m. John M0110ck, M. J. Craft andlf. Henson of Danbmy W cm in town las EVE’S'RAMBLINGS. COMMENT AND GOSSIP AMONG ' THE WOMEN, BY ONE OF THEM. A dear old Quaker lady of my ac- quaintance who was asked what gave her such lovely complexion and what cosmetic she used, sweetly replied. “I use for the lips, truth; for the voice, prayer; for the eyes, pity; for the hands, charity; for the figure, up- rightness; for the heart, love.” In manner and appearance the Quak- er blood glves its own charm ____, Where others are loud-voiced, vol- uble, full of exaggerated gestures, and of ungraceful pantomime, the woman whose being is impressed with this sweet grace of self~control has a low voice, a calm manner, a subdued—not extravagant—action, and a sense of re- pose all through. She moves with a certain statelinéss that impresses you at first sight. Her whole attitude and bearing breathe dignity and proclaim self-respect. Even her children, gathered up to her heart and resting on her knees, would not dare to let their love over- flow into that kind of familiarity whlch is but the gateway to contempt. Never to the end of time are her sons her hail-fellow well-met kind of companions—never do her daughters flout, deride, or censure. “Mother” is to them the inelfacablc image of beauty and greatness. They cou’d carry to her their sorrows, and ask her counsel in their difficulties. But her sons would have held it sac- i'ilege of the worst kind had they con- fided to her the tale of their youthful indiscretions and temptations, or sul- lied her mind by impartmg the sad knowledge which must perforce rest on theirs. This phase of the new woman is as foreign to her as all theI-restyrand she trusts more to her unspoken influence than to the confidences of comradeship. She is a. grand figure when she appears in our midst; and we bless the strain which keeps her' so constant, so pure, so selfrespecting and so peaceful. me give... .7! as... Slight Fire. A lace curtain in a room habitated at night by Thomas C. Cavanagh at 2 Crescent Terrace, came in contact with a. gas jet one morning this week and was badly burned, together with some other light materials. The loss was not in excess of $20. > ~-————<o.u>———-—-— Enlcrtained. Miss Hattie McPherson of Maple street entertained a number of friends Wednesday evening. 'Those present were Misses Edna Ainsworth, Lauretta Ainsworth, Carrie Schuman, Nellie Smith, Mrs. Florence Smith, Mr, and Mrs. Edward Russell, Frederick Han- ford, A. B. Huesell, Howard Zelufi", El- bert Fitch and Frank Lauder. —————40.0>————- Y. M. C. A. Notes. The recent Benefit concert given by the Y. M. C. A. netted $57. Mrs. E. H. Hotchkiss, of N orwa‘lk, will give a stereopticon lecture at the next monthly'meeting in March. Mrs. Ira Cole has charge of the Bibfe class suppers for the month of March. Dr. McGonegal Dead. Dr. Henry G. McGonegal, who was serving a fourteen years’ sentence for manslaughter in causing the death of Annie Goodwin in New York city in 1890, died in Sing Sing Prison Wed~ nesday night, aged 84 years. Death was caused by old age and general de' bility. He was tried and sentenced in October, '1890. He had been in the hospital of the Sing Sing Prison for four y.eais His body was taken to New Y 01 k for inte1 ment. ————'————-—<0.0>—-——‘——- Confirmation. Bishop-coadjutor Brew'stcr will be at St. Paul’s church, Sunday, April 17, to administer the rite of confirmation. Classes for instruction will be held in the chapel every Tuesday and Thurs- day evenings, beginning March 1. ~——<o.o>~~ Landlord Walz and ex—sherilf Swartz will attend the hotel association ban- quet at the Atlantic hotel in Bridge- port, to-night. The price of tickets is $5 each. ' Mrs. Mary E. Holmes has nearly re- ‘-overed from her recent serious illness. ' . L ., =Mrs. S. A. Snowden Von Tagen, only John Gorman is ill at his home on Plattsville avenue. x 4 eight stitches to close. Denies that Roof Leaks. Contractor Lyon who had charge of the tin and slate covering on the roofs of the new Methodist church, has his men at work placing the same in an entirely satisfactory condltion to the church building committee. It was found that there was a leakage from under the cap flashings caused by the laying of brick during a cold spell, and the substitution of cement in the place of mortar is being made at the edge of the flashings. A report that the roof.»- leaked is denied by the contractor. ' His Hand Gashed. William O’Brien employed at the R. & G. 001 set factory 1'-cceivedaseve1c cut on his left hand this morning from the hand of a shopmate. O’Brien had playfully pinched the shopmate on the shoulder when the lattei who had .. knife in his hand suddenly swung around with the result that a gash w as cut in O’Brien’s hand that requiled It is said to. have been purely accidental. A .‘ Postmaster at Winsted. Congressman Hill has presented the name of Charles K. Hunt of West Win— sted for the postmastership of the new consolidated oliice at Winsted at a sal- ary of $2,000, and Joseph H. Vaill, for- merly editor of the “Winsted Herald” has been appointed assistant postmas- ter at a salary of $1,000. New Sizing Machine. A new sizing machine was yesterday placed in the Crofut & Knapp hat man- ufactory. ——-——<o.o>——-—-——- Miss Adella Starr entertained ‘a few friends at' whist, at her home in Bay View avenue, Wednesday in honor of her guest, Miss Isabella 0111, of Bethel. H. O. Smith, of Strawberry Hill, has recovered from a week’s Sickness of the grip. Mrs. W. B. Staples, of East Norwalk, attended the funeral of Mrs. Benjamin Northrup, in Ridgefield, Tuesday. Miss Anna Staab, a soloist of 'the Norwalk Methodist church, is seriously ill at her home, corner of East and Westport avenues, suflering from melancholic. Mrs. F. E. Stoddard and daughter Elfreda of Livingston place, are visit- ing in New York. Charles H. Harvey, Jr., has moved. from Col. Cunningham’s house on. West avenue to Chestnut street, South Norwalk. Mr. Cunningham intends remodeling the house and will com-- mence work at an early date. W The Weather. Generally fair to-night and Saturday colder. MARRIAGES. PATCHEN _ KELLOGG —-» 1n Lyons Plains, Feb. 22, by Rev. Alexander Hamilton, Clifford Patchen and Miss Jessie J. Kellogg. LvMER-BRI'r'ro—In Port Chester, Feb. 21, Raymond Lymer and Miss Katie Britto. . MONJo—ROGERs—In Stamford at the house of Robert Rogers, Weed avenue, Feb. 22, by the Rev. Samuel Scoville, Miss Jennie M. Rogers to F. N. Monjo, of Stamford. BIRTHS. DAVIES.——-ln East N orwalk, Feb. 22, a son to Mr. and Mrs. William Davies of Osborn avenue. DEATHS. DUNN——In Bridgeport, Feb. 2‘3, Iohn H. Dunn, aged 55 years. DORUS—In Bridgeport, Feb. 19th, John W. Dorus, aged 41 years. GILCHRIST~ In Noroton Soldiers’ Home, Feb. 21, John Gilchrist. HALE—~In Stratford. Feb. 21, Edna A., daughter of John P. and Hattie C. Hale, aged 2 years. JENNINGS—In Southport, Feb. 18th, Charles H. Jennings. J UNE——In Riverbank, Feb. Agustus June, aged 74 years. , KANE—In Bridgeport, Feb. 23, Cath- erine Kane, aged 7] years, 7 months. KUPFER—In Bridgeport, Feb. 24 John M. Kupfer, aged 51 years. MILLER—In Bridgeport, Feb. 17. Su— san S. Hampton, wife of Charles A. Miller, aged 36 years. . MERWIN——In Bridgeport, Feb. 20, Sarah Fl01inda Mei-u 1n, widow of the late Horace Me1w1n of New Milford, aged 79 y.ears OAKLEY—In Bethel. Edwin C. Oakley. STAPLETON—In Bridgeport, Feb. 23, George, son‘ of George and Bridget Sta- pleton, aged 30 years. 18th, Feb. 22, Mrs. VON TAGEN—‘In Stratl'ord. Feb. 21, remaining daughter of the late Art-hm H. and Laurentine B. Snowden.fo1- merly of South Norwalk.
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