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, Shaffer’s Army Ordered .lnto Camp at
unofficial way that the President’s note
,1 the Cabinet meeting to-day, and to be
. poned until next week.
- questions to be dealt with, the terms
-willingly cease hostilities could be
, Alger sent a dispatch to General Shaf-
ter yesterday, informing him that a
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The Disnés‘ition of the Philip-
pines Not Yet Settled.
Montauk Point. _
WASHINGTON, July 29.—~Speculation
on the scope and contents of President
McKinley’s expected reply to Spain’s
recent overture for peace continues
active, but so far no hint has reached
the public of the real character of the
formal answer now in course of prep-
aration. It has been announced in an
will be completed in time to be read at
presented to the French Ambassador
this afternoon. sun, it would be by
no means surprising if the delivery of
the reply—unless it be a merely formal
expression of this country’s willingness
to listen to any propositions for peace
advanced by Spain—should be post-
, It seems hardly possible for the Ad-
ministration to formulate at present
any definite scheme for the disposition
of the Philippine Islands. Were the
independence of Cuba, the annexation
of Porto-Rico, the payment of a war
indemnity, and the assumption or non-
assumption of the Cuban debt the only
on which the United States would
stated without hesitation or embai rass-
ment.
- SHAFTER’S ARMY ORDERED
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WASHINGTON, July; LEI—Secretary
camp would be directly established at“
Montauk Point, Long Island, upon the
recommendation of the Surgeon-Gene
era], for the reception of regiments
now attached to the Fifth Army Corps
at Santiago as soonas' they could be
sent home, having due regard to the
protection of American interests
Santiago, and the freedom of the
troops from infectious diseases.
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CAMPAIGN IN PORTO RICO.
WASHINGTON, July 29,—No word
has. come from General Miles, and the
War Department assumes that he is
pursuing his advice" across the island
of Porto” Rico toward San Juan. It
gives little credence to the Spanish ac-
count of a battle at Yauco, resting con-
fident in the belief that when the [facts
are known it will be found that this
was a victory of the usual Spanish type,
resulting in the complete achievement
of the object of the American com-
mander.
Considerable reinforcements are now
arriving to support General Miles, and
before the week is over the campaign
in Porto Rico will be in full swing.
E0 uneasiness is felt because Gen-
eral Miles has not sent any message to
the Department further than to
announce his landing at Guanica, as it
is necessary, in order to communicate
with Washington. that he should send
a vessel to St. Thomas, the nearest
cable station.
POWERS AND PHILIPPINES.
LONDON, July 29.—The Vienna cor-
respondent of “The Daily Telegraph”
says: ..
“The project of a EurOpean confer-
ence regarding the Philippines was
brought ferward long ago, and there is
every prospect that the conference
will meet in Paris.” '
BRIEF WAR NEWS.
While President McKinley has given
no intimation as to when his reply to
Spain’s overtures for peace will be
ready, it is expected that it will be
considered at a meeting of the Cabinet
this morning. Later in the day it may
be sent to the French Ambassador ,for
transmission to Spain. It is notknpwn
Whether there will be any'outline of,
NORWALK CONN. FRIDAY. JULY 29. 4898.
the terms the United States would
accept.
The Madrid newspapers consider the
peace terms attributed to President.
McKinley to be nceptable to Spain.
General Shafter’s troops are to be
brought north as soon as possible to a
camp at Montauk Pomt, Long Island,
to recuperate.
Major-General Brooke, with rein-
forcements for General Miles, sailed
from Nevvport News for Porto Rico
yesterday. Another expedition will
follow on Tuesday, commanded by
Brigadier-General Grant.
A
Darien jam! Noroton
Mr. and Mrs. Warren, the Misses
Warren, Dr. and Mrs. John Burke
Mr. and Mrs. John Mulgrew, Mr. and
Mrs. O’Rielly, the Misses Mulgrew,
George, James and Charles Mulgrew,
Edgar Warren, Mr. and Mrs. John
Bannon, all summer residents of
Collender’sPoint N oroton accompanied
byRev.T. M. O’Brien attended theLawn
Fete of the Catholic club at Norwalk,
Wednesday.
The wet weather Wednesday necessi-
tated a postponement of the team
match which was to have been played
between the Wee Burn Golf club and
the Litchfield Golf club.
St. John’s Roman Catholic church of
N oroton will hold a lawn party on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of
next week. Many from Darien will
attend.
Mrs. V. M. King and family, of 18
Foster street, Danbury have returned
from a two weeks’ visit at Noroton.
Mrs. Otto Kraft and daughter
Maude, of Brooklyn, are guests of Miss
Virginia M. Edney. They arrived
home, last week, accompanied by Miss
Florence Dunkley, from an extended
tour of the continent.
The German’s Sick and Death Bene-
fit association with its friends, will en-
joya picnic in the fields near Darien,
Sunday. '
.I-Ienry Wallace, J r., of New York, is
spending his vacation with his father
Henry B. Wallace, of Main street.
The W'heelmen’s rest at Roton Point
a familiar resort to local cyclers, and
conducted by Harry Hindley of Darien,
was broken into last evening by bur-
glars. The place was ransacked and
everything of value was taken, includ-
ing cigars, tobacco, cigarettes and a
lady’s new ’98 model bicycle owned by
Mrs. Hindley. No clue has yet been
obtained as to the identity of the rob-
bers but it was evidently some one
familiar with the place. '
George Wardwell, of Bridgeport, is
visiting his father,.Isaac Wardwell, of
Noroton, who is in feeble health.
William Seeley, of New York city, is
visiting his uncle, Selectman Charles
G. Waterbury, of Main street.
Frank Tooker launched his new
yacht yesterday, and believes she ' will
outdo any vessel in the cove.
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The Norins at Dorlon’s.
Oscar 'Norin, sister Olga and broth-
ers Emil and Hjalmer will give high
diving and swimming exhibitions all
next week at Dorlon Point. The dives
will be made from a tower twenty-five
feet higher than the one used at Roton
Point two weeks ago. There will be an
exhibition every afternoon at 4:30 and
evening at 8:30 o’clock, the first one
taking ‘place next Sunday.
The Straw Hat Manufactory.
Work at the "bleach” of the Wheeler
Straw Hat manufactory is well under
way, and it is expected that as soon as
Mr. Wheeler, the head of the firm, re-
turns home from his vacation trip other
departments 6f this “hive of industry”
will be started up.
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Excursions.
'l‘he steamer that touches at Roton
Point on Sunday on route to Coney
Island, starts first from Bridgeport
' with a party.
The local steamer Belle Horton
makes an excursion to Glen Island the.
same day, leaving her wharf at South
Norwalk at 10 a. m. This ought to
prove a pleasant sail for any one bent
on a Sunday outing.
Forewarned, Forearmed.
The republicans of South Norwalk
should be very careful whom they nom-
inate; for representative, as a United
States senator is to be elected by the
incoming legislature. While Norwalk
is largely republican, an unworthy
and unpopular candidate might be de‘
feated at the polls.
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_ The pond lily boys are doing a thriv_
:i’ng business.
BELL ISLE!“ FIRE.
Ex-Secretary Whitney’s Niece
lumps From a Window andli
Fractures a Leg.
The Summit House Totally Destroyed by
Flames This Morning.
Shortly after 9 o’clock this morning
the Summit House at Bell Island was
totally destroyed by fire together with
most of the furniture.
The house was owned by Ira Cox
and his sister. Miss Emily, and was
leased by Mrs. Jane James, of Brook-
lyn, who ran the same as a seaside
hotel.
overflowing and the oil caught fire
when the wick was lighted. She made
several
tinguish it, but the oil finally spread
over the floor and the building was
soon a mass of flames. ‘
Miss Mary Henderson, a niece of ex-
Secretary Whitney, and her step-sister
were among the boarders. Miss Hen-
derson when’the fire started rushed up
stairs to save her young sister, but not
finding her attempted to return, but
the smoke and flames drove her back
from the stairs and she jumped from
the third story window to the ground
below, receiving a compound fracture
of the left leg between the knee and
ankle.
She was carried to the house of Capt.
Isaac Stevens where Dr.
duced the fracture.
Mrs. James lost nearly all of her fur-‘_
niture, and the money she had received
was in a pocketbook on the upper floor
and that too was consumed. $10J‘w'hjich '
she had in her pocket was all she
saved, and she carried no insurance.
Considerable furniture and most of
the clothing of the guests was saved by
Edward Gustafson, janitor of the N or-
walk Yacht club, who rode to the scene
on his wheel and succeeded in getting
out a large quantity of furniture and
clothing in the upper rooms.
A general alarm of fire was sounded
at South Norwalk in response to a tele-
phone message from the Island, and
Old Well truck went down drawn by
four horses, but did not go into service.
The cottage next door to the burn—
ing hotel is owned by Nathaniel
Barnum, of Danbury, and occupied by
Howard Remy. This was saved by a
covering of wet carpets and comfort-
ables.
-Among the guests who lost consider-
able clothing were Mrs. HenryLemcke,
Mrs. G. H. Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Brown,
and M rs. O.
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Mrs. Foster, and Mr.
Peterson all of New York.
During the fire T. H. Foster, of Dan-
bury, was overcome by the smoke and
heat and had to be removed to his
cottage nearby.
There was an insurance of $1500 on
the hotel with Jacob M. Layton.
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Base Ball.
The Y.M.C.A.’s and the Bell Island
club will play base ball on the Baxter
grounds to-morrow afternoon.
Arrangements are being made for a
game between the North and South
Main streets and the East and West
Viashington street aggregation of base
ball players. The date has not yet
been fixed upon. '
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Court Room.
The condition of the Town Cour
room at South Norwalk should receive
the attention of the Selectmen to the
end that the same be refitted. The
city of South Norwalk has “fixed up”
the police headquarters adjoining, in
such a manner that the contrast makes
the court room appear mighty mean
coking.
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Lawn Fete.
“An adjourned meeting” of the Fe-
male Minstrels will be held at the
| Catholic club grounds to-night, in con-
! nection with the Lawn Fete given
3 under the auspices of the club. There
A will be enough pleasure for,all even
; though the crowd numbers 3,000. Fire-
works, ice cream, etc.
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‘ —Advertise in THE alzsrm
Mrs. James had filled an oil stove to :
ineffectual attempts to ex- ‘ ,
Coburn re- =
:BICYCLE"
yCIiven Away
Saturday
from her boarders during the summer ‘
STEPPED ON A CAT.
A Greens Farms Woman Thrown Down
Stairs and Injured.
A Hungarian woman who lives in
Greens Farms met with a serious ac-
cident Wednesday evening. The wom-
an was coming down the stairs back-
ward witha large chair and stepped
on a cat which was sleeping on the
stairs and was thrown to the bottom.
When picked up she was in an un-
conscious condition and was bleeding
profusely from the mouth. Word was
at once sent for Dr. R. E. Purdue, who
made an examination of the woman
and found that two of her ribs had
been fractured and that she had re-
ceived a number of bad bruises.
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E. H. Gumbart, of East Norwalk, is
in New York.
..'-The Ladies of the Yacht Whist club
will meet on Wednesday of each week
figthe club house to play whist.
as. ~—
{l‘he Christian Industrial League of
the First Methodist church, will hold
its monthly gathering this evening.
Miss Lillie Froeb and Miss Nellie
Duffy have returned from a month’s
month’s visit in Phildelphia.
Floyd T. Ruscoe, Aaron Byingt‘on
and Orlando J. Clark went buckle?
berrying yesterday in New York state.
Conductor Slauson of the Street Rail-
way line found a tort01se shell side-
comb on one of the cars yesterday,
which he is anxious to return to the
owner.
S. L. Evarts is spending a week at
Guilford.
Night !
save your due
plicate Checks
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Improved Gypsies.
A goodly share of attention was paid
to a turnout that drew up in front of
the Norwalk Hotel yesterday afternoon-
It was a "house on wheels” and the
proprietor claimed that he and his
family of wife and five children, or the
main portion of the same had set sail
from the state of Washington on March
22d, 1894, and that they had traveled
something over 7,000 miles.
The head of the family registered as
E. A. ‘Lasley, at the Norwalk Hotel.
He sells a little book and apparently
knows it from A to Z. When he left
town his horses were headed toward
BostOn.
——The Catholic club will hold its
lawn party this evening. Female
minstrels. Singing by Mr. Shaw and
Mr. Shultze. Other new attractions.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Ida Lewis Coley, of Weston, and
,Henry F Coleburn, of Norwalk.
The children’s picnic, which was to
be held at Mrs. Enoch Bowen’s, East
N orwalk, yesterday has, been post-
poned until Tuesday of next week.
Sherman Council, R. A. meets to-
night.
Members of the auditing committee
of Pioneer Castle, No.1, A. O. K. of
M. C., will meet at the lodge ”room,
Main street, this evening, at 8 o’clock.
Mrs. Frederick E. Raymond, of
Spring street, South N orwalk, who has
been quite ill, is reported better.
The VVomen’s Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs. Jeseph Rich-
ards, of Chestnut street, South Nor-
walk, this afternoon.
BOSTON
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PRICE Two GENTS
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, The Weather.
Partly cloudy
Saturday fair.
weather to-u-i‘ght;
DEATHS.
BETSCHA.—In Bridgeport, July 26th,
Herrman Betscha, aged 38 years and 11
months. '
CAHIL.—In Danbury, July 25, Pat-
rick Cahil, aged 56'years. .
GRACE—In Brooklyn,
Raymond Grace,
years.
HANSON—In Bridgeport Jul 22
Hildure W., daughter of Alfredy and.
J osephlne Hanson, aged 13 years.
KEENAN.—In Bridgeport, Jul 26
Maria Rose, daughter of Lawsencg‘a'nd
Rose Keenan, aged 1 month.
mourn—In Brid e rt Jul is“
Entered into rest, MarghapioEamesy Mg:
Grath, Wife of Franklin McGrath, aged
02 years. - b
MADIGAN.—In Bridgeport, July 27,
Annie, only child of John and Hannah
Madigan, aged 7 months.
O’TOOLE.—In Bridgeport, Jul 25
Margaret, wife of James O’Toole.y ,
SPINNINq.——In Bridgeport, July 26.
Emily J ., Wife of George H. Spinning;
aged 49 years. '
SPROUL—In Danbury, July 27, Mar-
garet Sproul, 2 Comstock street, aged
72 years.
LATHROP.—In Bridgeport Jul 24th
John W. Lathrop, aged 66 years“;
MnLMO.——In South Norwalk,July 25,
Albin Malmo, aged 50 years and six
months.
'SCOFIELD.—~At North Coscob, July
29, Myrtle, wife of Elmer Scofield, of
Stamford, aged 28 years.
WEBB—In Brid e ort Jul 26 W'l-
liam F. Webb. g p ’ y ’ 1
SAILER. -— In Danbury, July 23,
Charlotte M., infant daughter of Peter
H. and Nettie W. Sailer.
SNIFFIN.—InStamford,July 23, Hazel,
daughter of William and Edna J.
J uly‘23; ’John
of Danbury, aged 16
Sniffin, aged three months.
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Every custo=
met a chance
to win a first
class Bicycle
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THE BIG STORE or FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
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possible.
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it is always the same with us. We are always pushing ahead,
new attractions, always striving to please the people.
never lagging or going behind, never at a Stand—still,f0r that is im-
You are either going ahead or going behind. We are
always in the the van guard,with new ideas, new styles, new goods
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and our grade in the dry goods school
never fell below 100. This fact is no-
where hctter preved than in our corset
department. There’s nothing better
manufactured in this country. As we
analyze every want, we understand it
fully, and for that reason can fill it
exactly. Our prices, like our goods,
will interest you.
£1.
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all: it
500 summer comets, 380
(3 numbers or grades of R. & G.
75c to $2.50.
Langdon Batcheller & Co’s. ”(So
to $1.50.
Armorside’s ‘ $1.00
Loomer's. Her Majesties, Brewster’s,
Royal \Vorcester, “Yarner’s, Birdseye
& Somers’. and F. P.
-And all the first class makes of
corsets.
Kitchen Department.
3 burner oil stove with iron top
and tank, . $1.25
Window screens 22 to 33 inches .
wide, 190
We Study Your Comfolt'
Tanglefoot fly paper, 3 double
sheet, 50 I
Balloon fly traps, 100 '
Porch screens, 420
Any size chair seats, 5c
10 qt.‘water carrier, 390
Veranda seats, 50
Pail and shovel for children, 9c
Sink strainers, will not rust, 19c
Wire fly killers, 100
Croquet sets, ice cream freezers, oil
stoves, window screens and screen
doors at clOsing out prices.
Shirt aists.
To sellout every one we have, all
980, $1.25 and $1.50 ones. All at one
price, 500
French organdies, 25c, all for 12%0
Lawns.
12:}c, for 50.
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A great variety, 980 to $2.50
Children’s Summer flats.
Straw .trimmed hats reduced from
$1.00 to 500.
Pillow slips,
Sheets large size,
Hammocks.
Fringed hammocks, $1.09 to $4. 98
50
350
Underwear For Men
and Women.
Ladies’ pants and vests—the fifty
cent ones— 250.
Men’s long and short sleeve
French balbriggan shirts—the .
75c kind—- 5503
Bicycle seat drawers, 509
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