Local News.
Miss Nora Honan of New York spent
Sunday with friends in- town.
Sidney Adams and family have been
guests of relatives in Cranbury.
Voters will be made at the Town
Court room on Wall street Saturday.
The Klondike Social club is to hold a
ball in Arion hall on Thanksgiving
eve.
Miss Sarah Boyer and Miss Anna
Peck of Main street are visiting in New
York.
Miss Fanniebelle Curtis ofBroolclyn
spent Sunday at her home on Knight
street.
William A. Clark of Whelpley &
Clark’s is spending a week in New
Milford.
Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Jennings of West
street are spending a few days at Lis-
bon, N. H, ' . '
Mrs. Hulda J. Norton of Lowe street
possesses an immense looking glass
over 100 years old. ’
A son was born to Mean-vi M rs. James
Griffin of Alleghany, Pa, formerly
of South Norwalk.
Dr. S. L..Sh‘eedy of.,Newiburg, N. Y. ;
is a guest of 'Mr. and Mrs. Michael” ,
. Dal-bee said the company had secured
Sheedy of Winnipauk.
Mr. and Mrs. Turner ofNorth Haven '
have been visiting Dr.Emily V.D. Pan;
(ice of North Main street.
Thomas .J. Cahill. son of Timothy Cia-
hill, died Monday night at his home in
Chapel street, aged 24 years.
Mr. and Mrs George H.Raymond left
Sunday afternoon for a ride to Bethe‘l,
Danbury and other places.
Wilfred Bodwell. of Livingston street
has been entertaining.r his cousin
harles Hamrison, of Newark.
Frederick A. Lockwood of East ave-
nue is visiting his sister. Mrs. F. W.
Hubbard in Fort Austin, Mich.
Miss Christine Schultne, of Middle-
towu,has been the guest of her cousin,
Miss Etta Schsultze, of Maple street.
Miss Mabel :Curry of New York. who
has been a guest of Miss Eva L. Ferris
of West street, has returned home.
Gen. DwightJarvis, of’Tampa, Fla.,
has i een spending a. few days with
Mrs. TVilliam Id. Smith and family, of
West avenue.
Extra fl'eight't-rains were run on the
Consolidated road Sunday, some of
the-m consisting of sixty and over heav-
ily loaded cars.
Rev. W. J. Slocum of Waterbury
will lecture in the Stamford town hall
Oct. 19, under the auspices of Minor
Post of that city. _
Miss Adele Chroen of New York re-
turned to her home Saturday after a
very pleasant visit with Miss Florence
Nichols of Elmcrest.
Samuel Hathaway and daughter'Miss
Mabel Hathaway of Danbury, spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Key
ser of West N orwalk.
Mrs. Mary F, Weed, mother of Dr.
W. L. .TVeed, has been removed from
the Norwalk Hospital to her son’s home
in West Main street. -
Ruth E., Widow of Rev. John Will-
iams, died in Kent, Conn., on Mon-
day. Her remains will be brought to
Norwalk for interment.
Contractor Schelley, accompanied by
his wife and daughter, of Brooxlyn,
are guests of George S. Gregory, and
family, of East Avenue.
Miss Lucy J. Munson, formerly a
teacher in the Franklin street school,
is now taking a course in drawing at
Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. Gerald H. Beard occupied the
pulpit of the South Norwalk Congrega-
tional church, Sunday, after a month’s
vacation spent‘in the White Moun-
v tains.
Francis, the six-year-old son of John
G. Murphy, of 178 East avenue, fell
from a stall while climbing in a barn,
_,/ Saturday, and broke his leg juit above
. the ankle.
The Union Veteran Union associa-
tion and the Funeral Aid association
will hold a convention in New Haven
October 19. A large number of local
members will attend.
Mr. and Mrs...James Lycett entertain-
. ed a party of friends at their home in
Broad River Tuesday evening. A very
pleasant evening was passed with
games etc, and refreshments were
served.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown
of New York spent Sunday with rela-
tives in South Norwalk. Mr. Brown
addressed the La. Mont- club on Late
1 Hours Sunday morning in the South
Norwalk Congregational church.
The Norwalk and Fairfield Worsted
Mills will shortly put in twenty Know-
les looms, making the total number of
these looms in use in the mills fifty-
eight. Night work has been discon-
tin ued at the mills for the present.
Adeline S. Thorp,‘ daughter of the
late George B. and Eliza J. Thorp, and
who formerly resided in France street,
died at Ocean Grove, Saturday. The
funeral was held at Rosedale cemetery
Orange, N. J .’,Thursday afternoon.
Dr. and Mrs; J. c. Newkirk left town
Sunday afternoon for a week’s stay in
4 (Bostonmhere they will be the guests of,
Mr. and Mrs. Yarnell.‘ Miss Alice 'Byx-
bee suppl"ed Mrs. *Newkirk’s place in .
the Co Vregationa‘l' church choir]
Sunday 9 hing. ‘ _ .
was
The meeting of the Norwalk city
council Monday night lasted but an
hour.
Mayor Glover called the meeting to
order at 8.05 o’clock, and clerk Hurlr
butt read the minutesbf the previous
meeting and they were approved.
Bills amounting to $549.96 and dis-
tributed among the several depart
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Alumnus. lililillMHiMl
The Stamford Advocate publishes
the following as the latest from New
Canaan:
Some time ago a man named Good-
dale boarded at Benjamin F. Ruscce’s
house, in thenorthern part of New Ca-
naan.’ He claimed that he earned his
board by working on the farm. Benja-
min ordered him from the house one
ments as follows were ordered paid:
Highway, 8173.76
Police 159.00
30.70
Fire. 186.50 ._
Manager Darbee of the Connecticut
Lighting 6: Powereompany applied for
permission to erect a one—story frame
building on the east side of Harbor
avenue, and permission was granted.
The Mayor inguiredof Mr. Barbee
as to where the company proposed to
erect their new building, and was in-
formed that‘it would be erected 21.8 in-
ches inside the sidewalk line. 'Mr.
Sewer,
the consent of all property owners upon
that side of .the'stre’et, but the Mayor
- thought property owners on the op-
.posi-te side should also be considered.
On motion of Councilman Buckley
the Mayorappointed the highway com-
mittee tocoofer with the company and
fix upon albuildinglsine on that street
sucbject'to the action of the council.
-.On the motion of Councilman Meeker
432600 was voted to be added to the
sinkingfuzsd.
Councilman Meeker also spoke about
the acceptance of Lincoln avenue by
the city, and it went over to the next
meeting.
M. E. Mead having offered to supply,
the material if the city would repair
the wooden walk on Fitch’s bill, a. mo-
tion was adopted to have the work
done.
A letter from Geo. B. Walton referr-
ing to injuries received by stepping
into an exposed water box in Harriet
street on April 14 last, was referred
to the city attorney. .
The meeting then adjourned until
October.
South Norwalk Council.
M ayor Coburn called the South N or-
walk council to order Monday evening
at 8.15 o’clock.
The minutes were read and approv-
e].
A petition to order sidewalks, curbs
and gutters on Ely avenue was laid on
the table, and a bill for $25 damages
from Edwin Adams by reason of the ov-
erflow of Crescent street sewer was re-
ferred to the city attorney. A'blll of
$11. 75 damage to ex-mayclr Bohan‘nan’s
sleigh by reason of a rock -in the road"
under the Spring street bridge, was
referred to Councilman Bean.
The council voted to maintain the
highway on Connecticut turnpike ly-
ing in the city limits.
The clerk was instructed to give no-
ticc that the council would appropriate
$1,000 to the street department at the
next meeting. ,
The Ely avenue hearing was then
taken up and 'a 'number of property
owners were heard. '
It was finally voted to lay out the
avenue from Lowe street to the city
line so as to make it 40 feet wide, and
to establish a grade. Matthew Cor-
bett, R. H. Golden and V. A. Scofield
were appointed to make such layout.
The” Seymour pond nuisance was re-
ferred to the board of health with
power.
It was voted to lay
Water street on the land deeded to the
a sidewalk on
» city by Frank C. Becker.
The tax of Amelia Raymond was or-
dered abated, also several taxes on the
list of 1893, amOuting to $9.83.
The meeting then adjourned to Go
tober 2.
Bishop Tierney Lays a Cornerstone. .
The cornersmne of the new Church
of the Assumption at Westport was
laid, Sunday afternoon, by Bishop.
Tierney. Many priests from adjoining
parishes assisted in the ceremonies.
The sermon was preached by the Rev.
P. McLean of Milford. The church is
to be a granite Structure.
To Lay Corner Stone-
The corner-stone of TrinityEpiscopal
church will be laid on Sunday,0ct. 1st,
in the afternoon, the bishop, Rev.
Chauncey Bunce Brewster, officiating.
There was evidently no special corner-
stone laid when the original chapel
was-.builtas none can be found.
place on'.Tua;nllI¢lvfng‘eve.
day and tried to enforce his order with
a good-sized club. For this act he was
arrested and sent to the town farm,
where he has been staying ever since.
William Frazer, who was foreman on
Dr. Thompson ’5 place, later, it is claim-
ed, neglected his wife and children.
The family , has become broken up.‘
MrsFa-azer Went to her sister’s in Nor-
walk, and the children were disposed
of here and there. The husband and
father has moved his household effects
to the home of Mrs. ltuscoe and makes
his albode there
Dr. Thompson discharged" Frazer.
Mrs. Ruscoe, who hash. little boy about
five years old, is entitled to the use of
Line property whereshe resides as long
assoc lives, and Russell L. Hall has
been appointed as guardian of the
child. , ‘
:Several days ago,lRuscoe interviewed
Mr. Hall, and asked him if he could go
home, Mr. Hall remarked to him that
he had a perfect- right to go to his
home. whereupon Roscoe left the town
fauna one day this week and wended his
way to the place where he once enjoy-
ed the hospitality of his better half.
He attempted to enter his home, but
he was met at the threshold by Frazer
and ordered to “gene. moveon him and
fly the coop.” under penalty of getting
his head smashed. ,
This frightened Ruscoe, and he has
appealed to the authoritio 5 for help.
The grand juror does not seeminclin-
ed to interfere, and if Roscoe brings a.
civil action he must furnish bonds. "He
has been trying hard to get bonds. but
no one .seems to want to furnish them.
In the meantime Frazer “holds the
fort.” ‘
The case has been discussed by num-
erousgitizens. If some official action is
not soon taken, it is declared that a.
special committee will bestow a. suit 0'
tar and feathers upon somebody.
DIED IN TllE AMBULANCE.
Hiram 'E. Smith, an old soldier, an
inmate of Fitch’s soldiers’ home at
Noroton, committed suicide in 'New
Haven Monday. Smith, after drawing
his pension money, went to New Ha-
ven and got on a spree. Monday after-
noon li‘e‘was fdund unconscious in an out
house. ”A four Oun'ce bottle containing
about Ian 'ounce of carbolic acid was.
found by his side. His lips were badly
burned and he had evidently taken a
big ”dose of thepdison.
The Newi‘HaVcn hospital ambulance
' was called'an'd two physicians- went
with it and pumped out the victim’s
stomach on the premises. Then they
put him in the ambulance, but he died
before the hospital was reached.
Eighth Connecticut Volunteers, and
was between 55 and 60 years old.
Reward for Horse Thieves.
In the superior court on Tuesday,
J udgc Roraback granted Chief George
Bowman of Stamford a reward of $72
for the capture 7 of the horse thief
Thomas Fisher, and granted $60 more
to be divided between Sheriff Fitzroy
of Greenwich and officer Nevins cl
Stamford, for the capture of F. W. C.
Stahl, another horse thief.
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‘ Whist' Party.
Miss couch of'Bayview avenue, ens“
tertained friends at iwhist' on Monday
evening. The highest points were scor-
ed by Miss Libbie M. Sammie, of New
Haven, and Jerome S. Higgins of St.
Louis. , . ‘
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Mrs. Thomas W. Wood. Dead.
Henrietta, wife of Thomas W. Wood
~city editor of the Bridgeport-Telegram
died at her home in that city, at 10
o’clock Saturday morning after a, brief
illness. Mrs. Wood was a‘ native of
Norwalk.
Mrs. W. B. Rider Dead. .
‘ Mary J ., wife of Engineer William
B. Rider, died at her home on West
avenue, Sunday evening. aged 65 years.
The entertainment dummittee of the
Norwalk Yacht club havedecided'itb
give three or four receptions, each,
to be full dress, in AriOn Hall, this win:
ter. The first one is scheduled!» take
Smith wasa veteran of Company E,
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‘Notwithstanding the notice.
the people on‘ Raierad square, the
members of the Socialistic Labor party
made the attempt Saturday night and
Emil: Singewald, the speaker, was
taken off the box upon which he stood
and locked up-in a cell at police head
quarters. _
It was shortly before 8 o’clock Sat-
ered on the square, and procuring a.
the Socialist ticket for selectman,
mounted the rostrum.
As;Singewald stood up to address
the crowd, which blocked the sidewalk
and extended out into the street as far
as the trolley tracks. his gaze fell upon
Chief Vollmer and Captain Gladstone
and Officer Pennington. "
Before Singewald commenced his
address the Chief stepped forward and
informed him that he could not make
an address in the square and block up
the street and sidewalk with a crowd
as he was doing.
The chief stated to him that he
could'adjournto the city lot on Frank-
lin street and talk as much as be
pleased, but that no address could he
made there.
There was a peculiar inflection in
the Chief’s voice when he stated that
an address could not be made there
which Singewald failed to recognize.
Instead of obeying, however, Singe-
wald started out to address the crowd
in a halting way, but he had hardly
finished his first sentence when Chief
Vollmer drawing himself up said in a
loud voice, "In the name of the law I
demand that you cease speaking and
' dispel this crowd that is blocking up
the city streets.”
Without noticing the Chief Singe
' wald started to continue.
“Do you intend to obey,” inquired
the chief.
“No sir,” replied Singewald.
"Officer do your duty,” commanded
, the Chief, and Captain Gladstone reach-
ed up and grabbed the orator by the
coat and’wpulled him from his perch
with wetsuit-E77333 are my prison-
es.”
singewald was then marched to pc-
lice headquarters and locked up in a.
cell. A large crowd followed the party
to headquarters but soon dispersed,
,while a few went to Germanic. hall to
listen to a further address by another
member of the party.
Singcwald was later in the evening
released by order of Judge Gregory
upona bond of $25 furnished by his
fellow members.
This morning in the town court
Judge Gregory continued the case until
next Monday.
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TRAIN KILLED fl WOMAN.
Mrs. Patrick Hughes, a widow, aged
40 years, was struck and instantly kill-
ed by a milk train on the Berkshire
division of the Consolidated railroad,
near Hawleyvllle, Monday afternoon.
The woman was walking on the rail-
road tracks in the direction of New-
town when the train suddenly rounded
a. curve and the woman was struck be-
fore she had time to leave, the track.
She was thrown a considerable distance
and when the train was stopped and
she was picked up it was apparent that
she had been instantly killed.
Hospital Directors Meet-
The hospital directors met Tuesday
night and transacted routine business
and ordered several bills paid.
As there remains some $8,000 indebt-
edness on the new building, Messrs.
Frank A. Ferris, Robert Van Buren,
W, F. Bishop and E. A. Woodward
were appointed a committee to raise
the debt. a. guarantee that it will be
accomplished at an-early day.
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Broke His Thumb.
- Amos London of Harbor avenue, an
employee 'of the Richardson & Morgan
00., broke the thumb on his right hand
while at work yesterday afternoon
by catching it in the crank of the
engine. Dr. J. M. Coburn attended
him.
The Yacht “Kit” Sold.
James T. Dunne of Southport has
sold his crack-a-jack catboat “Kit” to
J. H. McDonald of. the Bridgeport
Yacht club.‘ The “Kit” is the fastest
catboat in Long Island sound and has
newer been defeated. ‘
Ungvary Pleads Guilty.
John 'Ungvary who was arrested
Monday night for selling liquor with-
outgp license, pleaded guilty in the
Town court this morning andwus fined
Jitters} costs, willi'ch"nc paid.
from .
the police that they could not address I
urday night when the Socialistsgath- l
box Emil Singewald, a candidate 'on ‘
,. Hamel;
iTMl Bil HIS infill HTE lull Mil.
South Norwalk has a fire bug.
His work was seen Tuesday in four
attempts to. destroy the large box
factory of C. S. Trowbridge & Son at
129 Washington street.
”Two attempts were discovered in
time and the flames extinguished, but
i the other two caused considerable
; damage, especially by water which was
' poured into the building in an attempt
' to check what threatened to be a ser-
. ious confiagration. _
Two attempts were made by placing
cotton waste between the boxes in the
stor -- rooms and igniting it, but the
methods used by the fire fiend in his
other attempts have not as yet been
revealed.
The factory is crowded with work
and the employees are ‘ working until
late in order to fill the orders.
from what is known as the spring room
in the north end of the factory. An
investigation found a large wad of cot-
ton waste between a pile of boxes burn-
ing briskly. It had ignited several
serious fire when discovered. It was
promptly extinguished and the facts
reported to the office. .
About an hour after another strong
smell of smoke became noticeable in
the cutting room. This time it came
from the direction of the third floor in
the south end of the factory where a
large number of R. & G. boxes were
stored.
A search was at once made and an-
other wad of waste was found burning
between the boxes. which
tinguished. It had destroyed several
of the boxes and had eaten its
[through the floor when discovered.
Several of the men hzld been worl-
was ex-
w a y
ing in this room only a short time be-
fore, but as the boxes were piled near-
ly to the ceiling the fire bug could eas-
ily have entered and done his work
Without their seeing him.
When the second attempt to burn the
bridge concluded it was time to discov-
er the fire bug, if pissiblc, and em-
ployed four watchmen and. stationed
them about the building, intending to
have a thorough search made of the
premises as soon as work stopped.
One of these watchmen had gone
home to supper, leaving three on duty,
when suddenly at 6:20 o'clock, fiames
were discovered in the store room on
the third floor in the north end of the
building. ..
As the fire had gained great head-
‘ way an alarm was ordered turned in,
and one of the employees started up
Washingtop street for box 3 in front of
the Mahackemo.
About the same time assistant fire
engineer Harford. the railroad bridge
tender, saw the flames and seeing a
man passing on Water street under the
trestle threw him his key and told him
to pull box 16 at the Iron Works,
which he did, and which started the
erroneous report of the Iron Works
being on fire,
This report was further spread by
seeing the hose wagon going down
Marshall street at a furious gait.
Driver McGovern, however, when he
reached box 16 learned where the fire
was located and was soon at the scene
and had several. streams of water on
the burning building.
While the fireman were at work at
the north end of the factory, George
S. Trowbridge discovered the base-
ment of the case shOp in the extreme
southern end to b: 0:1 lire.
The flames were making their way
to the floor above and be secured a
garden hose and extinguished them,
but almOst immediately the .second
floor burst into flames and the depart-
ment was called".lpon.to put this'out.
After an hour’s hard work the fire-
men succeeded in getting the flames
under contrnl, but not before a. large.
amount of damage had been done by.
fire and water. ‘ ‘
While the firemen were at work on
the~ fire willing, hands assisted in get-
ting a. large number of boxes out of‘the
building and toe place of safety.‘ '
The fire bug is at present unknown,
but steps may be taken to fasten the
crime upon the guiltyparty.
On Aprt113th', 1897, the factory was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
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of West street i I
New Haven and
Edward Robinson 3
spending a vacati in m
About 4:30 o’clock Tuesday ef:er--
noon the m- n employed in the cutting
room noticed a smell of smoke coming ‘
boxes and was in a fair way to start a
factory was reported, Mr. C. S. Trow-'
JIM [LLlSaINEHUHEll
James Ellis, of Norwalk, was. in,
Bridgeport on Sunday, and the follow-
.i'g from the Bridgeport Telegram
tells how he behaved himself.
James Ellis, a Norwalk terror, who
base. record of "doing. up” the Nor—
walk police on several occasions, came
to Bridgeport yesterday and mixed his
liquors. Whether Ellis in consequence
was filled with religious fervor .orgot
mixed with the liquor is a. question,
. but about 7:30 o’clock'he staggered in--
to the South Congregational lchurch
and took his seat.
With a. little diplomacy, some pore.
suasion‘and assistance, he was finally
removed, but as soon as he got on {like
sidewalk he awoke to a. realization that
he had been altogether .too lamb-like
and was on the point of returning
when Special Officer Deas and Driver
‘CharlesNear, who had been sent over
to the church, came on the scenealnd
engaged Ellis "in conversation. may
told him they bad business with him
and induced him to Start along Court
street with them. H3 had proceeded
but a. little way when he concluded
that their company was not good
enough for him, and proposed to leave
them, but this the police offi 3ials
would not have.
Then Ellis began. He prepared to
upper cut Deas and at the same time
give Near the foot. With a yell that
drove the Elks under cover be started;
they were with him and it was nip
and tuck until the center. of State
street was reached, when Ellis bound-
ed from his feet with a view to break-
ing their hold, and down came the
trio on the road. Ellis stiffened out
and insisted on either being carried or
in spending the night where he was.
Sergt. Otis appeared on the scene at
this juncture and Started to - take a.
hand in the festivities. He laid hands
on Ellis, who nearly doubled him up
with a kick. Otis wants encourage-
ment of this sort; those- who. see the
mild gentlemanly sergeant behind the.
desk needn’t be carried away with
the hallucinatioujhat he. can’t take;
care of himself. He buckled into Ellis
and before the bluffelgknew where he
was, be had been landed in the sta-
tion house. I
There he started to. demOlish offi-
cers, railing and all, and Supt. Bir-
mingham came outside. His corpora-
tion was too tempting to miss, so Ellis
aimed one blow at the super’s solar
plexus. He missed and with a. rush
that would have done credit to a cham-
pion football team, Ellis was pushed
over the line and caged. He is a big,
brawny man and evidently proves to
be a handful generally. The Only man
a match for him in South' Norwalk is
Capt. GladstOne, and at a catch-as—
catch-can arrest, no blue-coat west of
Bridgeport can catch as the captain
can.
Ellis will be introduced to the city
court judge to-day and will be asked to
settle, in some way, for drynkenness
breach of the peace and resistance.
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SAVAGE’S T/ITLA BURlilED.
Entirely Destroyed, But Fire. Department Did
l'Some'Hard Fighting.
At 7 o’clock Tuesdayjnight an alarm
summoned Ridgefield’s fire department
to the home of Dr. Henry B. Savagein
Whipstick district, three miles from
Ridgefield village. The fire depart-
ment made good time, but when it ar- ~
rived all it could do was to save. the
out buildings.
.Dr. Savage’s handsome' villa \ as a
mass of flames and in a short time'all
that was. left was a heap of charred and
blackened ruins.
The fire originated in the gurret so
that some of the household effects were
saved. ‘
The fireman saved the barn, chicken
house, a store house. full of provisions,
and some sheds were saved by the "de-
partmeut afterhard work.
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Reception to Father Winters.
The T. A. B. and L. Society of St.
Joseph’s church will tender 3 recep-
tion to their late pastor, Reerohn T.
Winters, next Monday evening. Fath-
er .Winters on his arrival in town will
be escorted from the station by a dcle~
gation from the church and society and
also by the South Norwalk Fife &Dr um
corps.
-Miss Ethel Keep has gone to :North-'
,hcmpmn,1Muss,,_tp;I-eéumd' her studies ‘
Norwalk Chronicler