-_ bookkeeping of the firm of John Mullen dz
vita-am whidl will ex-
' ”1...!” the protection
that ladies-edit. Ind.
Md“ Instance! eczema
“do. It won’t”
I‘ Hflwmpiha. That’s
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ihadeleitiaiiaadrodlot
mem and G. C.
”continental“ abut.
hp martial of diseases in
“mummaboet
'afld.’ at” Dr. Cyrus Edson.
asked-pl- ain; and so oom-
Itatvuylewpeoplemnleuit is a
dMfliwlamuon to
(Mutant-nuanc- of
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deuydaylife. The mall:
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bunmamldlm we will.
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never obtained and gave a wrcentage to
' well acquainted with the wagonload of
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. ‘ II 1 d" you 0100 dud. and an SIR olllu lililll‘\\ll’ll mint
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[- Wliwk the State Appear-to Have Been
med—Furniture Beat in sown-nu
wru- lvytle State.
Tunes. March 9. —»When Eugene Mur
Phi. the principal witness before the New
Janey senate investigating committee,
laid. "Buncy Ford was gettinglmpatleut
and wanted his dlvvy,” the several hun-
dred spectators drew such long hreathl
that the noise confused the witness.
Murphy had been on the stand for more
than an hour explaining the mysterious
Co. of Newark. This firm sold $48,750
of New Jersey. They charged the'siute
exorbitant prices.“ charged for goods it
B. J. Ford, the superintendent of the
statchouse.
Murphy had been the bookkeeper for
Mullen 8: ()0. In seven years and was
lodgers. dayboolls and eashhcoks that
were piled upon the table in front of him.
The investigating committee, when it
examined the books, discovered that a
ledger that contained the statehousc ao-
oounts had been mutilated, and 3.5 pages
were missing. Other books hall also been
mutilated. It was asserted by Mr. Mullen
when allied to the stand that on election
night, 1893, after his establishment was
vilified, some one cut the wlges from the
book. It was never known who did it. al-
though detectives employed on the case
said the theft was done by some one on
the inside.
One Partner It Away.
The firm consists of John Mullen and
John Moriarty. The latter reprcscnts the
company and is at the hcad of the count-
ing room, and he knows more about the
books and accounts than his partncr. Mr.
Moriarty was the witness the investigating
committee wanted, but lllr. Mullen cx-
plaincd that his [ulrtner had taken no va-
cation for several yours, but had taken
one new because he had to go away to at-
tcnd a funeral, and aftcr that would go to
Prince Edward island and Canada.
Mr. Mullen tcstilicd that he tranmctcd
his busincss principally through Mr. Ford,
making only a fair profit on the goods de-
livered. He could give no explanation
why so many loaves had been cut out of
the books containing the account of the
firm with the state, nor could he explain
why in all cases where the books did show
the charges against the state that the item
was written in the hook in ink and the
amount charged was filled in with. lead
pencil.
This fact was proved because the foot-
ings of the pages containing those lead
pcncll marks did not include the amount
charged, but did correspond to the totals
of all the other items charged on thc page.
Eugene Murphy was then called to the
stand. He was discharged from Mullcn’s
Immuse he played the races, his discharge
coming on the day after elcction. 1893.
when it was discovered that the hook con-
taining the important items in the state-
houso account had been mutilated. lie
was assured by Mr. Mullen that his dis
charge had no connection whatever with
the book's mutilation. “’ ,4,
Prices \Verc Arranged.
Mr. Murphy identified thcvarious books,
and thou told the committee that unlyunc
was mutilated when he left. and that the
others had since been tampered with, and
that the lead pcncil flgurcs had liel-n in-
ecrtcd lately. llc said noone in the count
lug room kncw the price charged to the
state for various articlcs; that the goods
mid wcrc cntcrcd in regular form; that
the })ilM'A‘ for price was lcft blank by the
lapccial ordcm of Mr. Moriarty, and that
when the bills wore made to the slate
thosc itcms wuro copied from the ledger
and llic prim-s fixed after lhc firm had a
mmfcn-nl'c with Mr. Ford, who frcqucntly
visits tbc slcrc.
iic illlli oftcn askcll for the figures, so
as to close up this page, but he was told
not to fool any time away on the slum
houseaccuunl. and hc said boconl-ludl-d
that lhcsc onlcrs “'l'l'll made because thc
firm did not want it known what it was
charging the stalcbousu. lie pointed out-
pcnsc of the sall'lnnen and othcr agents
firm, and although the contract for the
senate and Mscmbly carpet called for main
lug and laying. the stoic. was charged with
the cxpcnwe of the scwlng women and up-
holltemrll who laid it.
tenth» Senator Michael "flf'rl‘lbllf l‘luwx
wnnly were charged In lilo Multcbcusc ac-
count nnd paid for by the mute; that. n
to thc home or 1mm Abbott. .lr., during
the time he was private uccrclary to the
geycrnor and the goods charged mthc
0km of Now Jersey.
Wet Good- Kopi For Legislator-a.
Asher liuinlwri, who was the hood car-
penter of the stutohousc, llbwbargcd once
during Mr. Ford's term and mmnploylxl
by him, lmtiilml that in his line of work
all the «ill-[minor he cmclcd two ice boxed
and n'frlgurutorsaa large one in the cellar
and anntlm made of walnut in tho retir-
ing room attached to the unwrlntendlmt'l
ofllm. Thom. he said, were kept filled
with wet goodu.
When askcd to explain what kind of
wet goods. be mild. "llmr. whisky, wine.
gin, soft drinks and cigars." They wore
given to members of the legislature, Mate
officials and all who called on the minoriti-
tendent. Mr. Ford kept a man employed
to hand cut them liquors. These loo Iioxel
cost the state 02%.
Belem machine of the M‘flifm John Mul-
: testified that he mat a limit and a half
ma chairs to Senator llamtt'ul office
without a bill because he refused to take
a fee for acting M mulnllel in ll mil estate
transaction. ilc said Senator Hermit nov-
tr received any allele, and he could not an,
dashed the strange cutrll-ll on the ledger.
Oliunueilor col-bin read moral acts un-
dn' which appmpriaticns have been made
for rebuilding and fumllllllng the stale—
bouna. and mulled the «nominee by
stating that "£8,909 had been expanded
for furniture alone. In five yam the cap
idol bed halal stripped from cellar to gar-
ut and new furniture put in.
Some of the nuns had been furnished
twice in five years. Expensive walnut
furniture had lma taken away and cheap
nah m laminae substituted for it.
The prices Were exorbitant. to my the
fault. The slips-mm courtroom, by
all the Madman chamber of the kind
I In Jenn y, if not in lilo country. was
m and aluminium with cheap m8.
lie creati'd quite a sensation when he
said a dining room table and six chairs
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lonnatlon that the vessel was wrecked
during a desperate mutiny on board, in
which the captain and mental his crew
were killed.
Shortly after the bark left Junin with
a valuable cargo of nitrate it was reported
that she had struck a rock at the entrance
to the bay of Junin and that all hands
were drowned.
Jones' letter, which was to a relative,
declares that the affair was a planned at-
tempt by the revolutionary party in Peru
to seize the vessel and cargo for use against
the government. While the ship was work-
Ing out of the harbor several Peruvlaus
appeared on deck. The captain was knock—
ed down with u handsplke, the chief mate
was shot dead and two of the sailors stab
bed. The man at the wheel, seeing that
they were at the memy of a slit of despera-
does, purposely steered the bark on the
wells.
The steward and A. B. Jellusson, a
seamen. were the only ones of the Amer-
ican crew saved. They endurcd great hard—
ships and had to lie concealed for some
days before they could escape the ruflillns.
i‘he leader of the niutincers is said to be
Gonzales d’l’iotro, a notorious character,
who had shipped as a wnnan on the Port-
land Lloyd and had a gang of cutthrouts
concealed on board.
It isbclicvcd that. most of these men per-
ished in the wreck. D‘Plctre when last
seen was clinging to the bowsprit and
may have been saved. An inquiry will he
made into the affair by the American con-
sul at Callao. The story is borne out by a
telegram received by linger & (10.. agents
of the vessel in this city, stating that the
wreck had been preceded by a mutiny, in
which the captain and all hands but two
were killed.
PEEL TO RESIGN.‘
the Speaker of the Home of Common to
Withdraw Soon.
Lennon, March i).—'l‘he Times an-
nounces that Spcaker l‘ccl will in a few
days resign. Editorially The Times says
that members of the house of commons
and the country will bear with unfelgncd
regret of the determination of the speaker
to resign. Nobody within the memory of
living man has presided over the debates
of the enormous with grciuer firmness, ini-
partiallty, authority and dignity.
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SPEAKER PEEL
The Times stutcsthat Mr. l’ccl imparted
his intention to withdraw from thc ollico
of Sik‘llkl‘l‘ of the house of commons to Sir
William \’crnou llllrcouri. chum-.cllor of
the cxcbcqucr. and the Right ilun. A. J.
Balfour. lhc. ("mm-rvatlvc loader in the
house. The paper adds that Mr. i‘ccl will
ceasc his occupancy of the chair directly
after his succcssur is clcclcd.
Mr. I’ccl’s hcnlth has dcclincd since lilll
dcnlh of his wife. 'i‘hc approaching mnr~
rlagc of his dnughtcr to .Iamcs llochfort
Muguin‘, ll I’nrncllitc Incinbcr of par-
Ilamcnt from thc West. division of Clare.
will dcprivo him of the chief aid in the
discharge of the social duties attached to
his oilll-c. Therefore his rctlrcmcnt is not
a surprise.
The Right. lion. Arthur Wclhwllcy l’ccl,
spcakcr of thc house of l‘llllllllllllrl, is the
youngest son of the late Right lion. .H‘lr
llobcrt. l’ccl and was born in use. lie
was l'llllcllll'll at Eton and Iialliol college,
Oxford. and in not first entered parlla~
met for Warwick. 0n the retirement of
Sir Henry Brand in lunl Mr. l’ml was
elected slnmkcr, Mid hchus continued to
hold the post amid general expressions of
good will from all parth
Mr. (lowland Shooting Dacha.
Carl-z llA'rTru/ls. N. 0., March ll.—’I‘ho
president spud about four hours in a
ilind ycslcrdny and had fair luck, killing
18 birds. The other gentlemen of the pars
ty aboard the Violet spent the day ashore
on the cape Inspecting the lighthouse) and
grounds. M r. l‘luvcland will apcnll today
among the ducks if the Weather will per-
mil.
Murderous Assault on a Minister.
Nllll’lllAllKH’l‘, N. 11., March o.--A murc
llcrcuil ail-unlit wan made on llcv. A. J.
Wheeler. uccrculry of the Law and Order
league of New ilmnpllhlre, at the Ilmlmn
and Maine railmuiuiatlou. The leaders
in the mull. were arrestlxl.
TELEGRA HlC BRIEFS.
herd llonolmry Is flowering slowly.
Nell lllmth, ll. IL, committed suicide
in a field near Vlcwrill, ll. (3.
Walter Sanger. the bicycle champion, ill
dangerously Ill with typhoid fever at his
home in Milwaukee.
At Illusion. Pa. while buying a bill of
goods in a stem. Benjamin Keck. a mur-
ollant of Broadway. N. J.. dropped dead
of heart dime.
Them in little change in the rumour
strike in the i'lttllhurg district. The men
are holding out for the 05 wilt rate and
reject all compromises.
Two American mine pmpocm salted
a mine west of Viacom. Mexico, and
than will it tolionis Fruit. agent of a Brit-
lali syndicate. for 3100.000, with ”0.000
The house at Guthrie, 0. 'l‘.. wood a
bill prohibiting the manufacture or giv-
ing away of cigarettes or cigarette paper
under a permit of 0500, half of which is
to so to the in ovum.
The annual term of the supreme court
of New York returned an oral owl-ion to
moving Police Justice James F. Qulgiq
avenue court. Bmklyn. for
he intentional violation of his official (in:
y la the dummies of can will“
will till we trolley Mu
usual atmospheric placement almost 11'
my: name impatiently announced and
work damage which might be averted if
theencttime and natured their oom-
lng were only subject to precise predic-
tion. An eclipse of the moon is to take
place“ Sunday evening. March 10, and II
this is a phenomenon which can be accu-
rately foretold every one who may have
occasion to travel on country roads should
remember that for an hour and a half
during the evening the moon's rays will
be WithdraWn. and only the feeble light of
the stars will remain to light the way.
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Standard time:
mstcrli....9p.m ...... l0p.nl.
)cntral ..... 8 p. m ............. ii p. m.
Mountain. 7 p. m ............. 8 p. m.
Piwiflc......6p.m ..... 7p.m.
If the sky is not overcast, an eclipse
gives nearly two hours' warning by the
gradual encrmlchment of the earth’s shad-
ow on the moon’s disk. but on Sunday
night this warning will be given to places,
east of the Mississippi after people have set
out for church or are engaged in evening
‘We will centinue our balfl- rice sale on ‘
TnIs Season’s Men’s an Boys’ Suite, A
and Overcoats one week longer:
lIlIIiBlE REASIIN.
. We want the room for our Spring Dis-
play, and looking ahead we see if we
do not carry these Goods that next fall
we can come out boldy andhonestly
with an announcement of all new
goods.
W Some New Things In Furnishings this Week.
.A. BENEDIBT & 80..
Sentinel Building, Washington Street, South Norwalk.
Branch Store, 19 Main Street, Norwalk.
service. It therefore behooves all whose
way to church is over tmrcherous country
roads to remember before they start that
it will be quite dark on their return.
The accompanying illustrations show
four positions which the moon will take
with respcct to the earth's shadow. These
are exactly an hour apart. The first shows
the moon after it has [Missed entirely into
the partial shadow and with the eastern
edge just catering the total shadow. An
hour later the moon will be entirely cov-
ered by the black shadow of the earth and
perhaps absolutely invisible, but whether
it will be invisible or can be faintly dill-
cerned will depend somewhat on the con-
dition of the earth's atmosphere. The last
position shown. which is three hours after
the first, is when the moon has emerged
partly from the total shadow, but is still
veiled in the partial one. These successive
phenomena are to be seen, provided there
are no clouds, at exactly the some instant
of time from all parts of the United States.
However. owing to the differences in local
and standard time as kept In various places,
the eclipse will seem to begin at mlier
hours in the west than in the cast.
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Eastern . . ii p.
Central. it) p.
Mountain. lip.
leillc..... 8p.
For New York the total shadow will
first touch thc mmm’s disk shortly before 9,
and it will be fully covered shortly before
10 in the evening.
TROOPS FOR CUBA.
Spain Sending Largo Form"- 10 I'll! Down
the llamlful of Patriot».
MADRID. March il.-’l‘bcwork of dia-
patl-hing rc-cnforccnwnts to thc army in
l‘uha is now fully undcr way. The steam-
or Alfonso Xlli sturtcd from llarcclona
for a l‘ubau port. having on board two
battalions of infantry. Large crowds gath~
crud along the roulc from the barracks to
the wharf where the Alfonso Xlll was ly-
ing. and the suldicrs as they marched
along Worn green-d with chem and-patri-
otic cries. .\t the wharf the military bands
played patriotic aim
A battalion loft Madrid for i‘adlz, whcre
it will embark for Cuba. Un the way to
the railway station thc troops dclllcd be.
fore the palace. from a window of which
thc quccn rcgcnt won-bod their departure.
Sulyecqucntly llicy passed the building in
which the corn-s sits. ’i‘lio memlwrs of the
chmnber of dcputlcs enthusiast ically cheer-
ed the soldier» as they marl-bod twist, as
(lililllrm the dcnsecrowds that liucd the
entire route.
Death of an Alleged Murderer.
Minimizrmvs, N. ii. \iurcl) li.——Samucl
1’. Hill, late of Sidney, ‘cfondllnt in the
cclcbrntcll i'l-usIm-liill “order (Ml, Is
dead. l'lllmcr won the direct (some of his
death. lllll in Scptcmlmr, land, killed
Hubert I'l-mdce in Sidney. l’cllslcc alleged
that Ilill ball littered slanderous remarks
about iilll mother anll atllwkcd lllm. Aft»
or long litigation and ilcrcellghtlng. in
which the crow wcnt no luau than three
times to the court of amends. the attmnptl
to convict llill Were finally alrlndcncd
llIll wan lltl yuanl of age. lie wall born in
llolhury and is said to have been on old
mhuuluultc of Jay Gould.
Liberian Emigrant» Doped.
SAVANNAH. March ltw'i'hrm mrlnadl
of negro lunlgrllllln for Lilmrla arrived
have and are uiduinwkml on the outskirts
of the city. Neither of the stlvinnlllip mm-
pllulcll has made arrangement. tomrry
them north, and there is no veascl In purl
to take them either north crtoAfrica.
The leaders are confident tlmt everything
will come out all right.
Hewaboy flu a Windfall.
vanmscs, Mnmh 9.-W«ml harbour
mlml hum that Jimmy Cawmaugh. a
10-year-old boy, who fennorly acid papers
In this city. ilM fallen heir to a valuable
70 acre farm near 'l‘clcdo through the
death of his atepgraudmothcr, Katharine
Kevanaugh.
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lie-I‘ll" llernohofl‘ Balm.
Search. It. 1.. numb u.-—Nal Harro-
ahofl In much Ill-tier. and arrangement. are
being made to take him away from Brie-
tol all norm M his condltlon plmnm to a
plies Where Illa uncovery will hemmrapld.
l’rTmr Ill-u Dead.
Hines. prelim
when Phlladel
W from an attack of amplexy.
r- “Still. rm. « new.
PM
on good
In.“ rail
m m in melanin prim
A‘l‘ul'ric Cm‘. March 9.-Dr. Elmer
of physiology in Girard
phla. died at the Peril!
Lkltlm‘llld. March animal-shied
authority that the independent
aerial have enabled with the
The Leadlng Dry GoodsStore.
Tristram & Hyatt,
No. 2 Gazette Building.
Beginning right at the season's start makes it easy to keep up the pace and
increase it, and ’with the spirit oi’ the season inspiring the whole house and with
each stock in happy harmony with the new conditions the forward pace is quick-
ened as we never new it before.
WASH DRESS FABRISS.
We have never known a time when so many uniquely pretty Wash Fabrice
were in the first harvest of a season's style. 50 different styles of Jaconet in
stripes. Fancy and Floral effects @ 12h: yd., 30 inches wide.
100 different patterns Females in light grounds with dots. sprays and stripe.
for shirt Wants, dark grounds for street and house wear @ l2§c yd., yard wide. 20
different styles Fancy Cotton Crepon for fancy wanna to wear with black shirt,
DRESS loans.
3 styles 38 inch wide. New Spring Novelties. 300 yd.
Checked Cheviot, .50 in. wide, all wool,proper weight, weaju and finish,50cyd
Bergen of the finest grade are 500. instead of "the, as they were last season.
A dozen different colors and black. width 46 in. I
All sorts of Black Dress Stuffs. such as Crepone. Chevioia, Bergen. Diagonal,
Figured J acquarde. from 390 to $1.50 per yd. , for odd skirts and lull—animal:
found. 10 different patterns Wash Silks. 30c yd.
libido & Hyatt, Norwalk, flfl
LOTHING.
This week we shall sell
OYS’ SUITS
——-——-AT———-
ALF PRICE.
Ages from 4 to 14 years.
Hm...
illilillIS & S .,
RELIABLE CLOTHIERS,
86 Washington Street. - South Norwall. Conn.
"""" The Benedict collar Button.
A time Having, Labor Saving, Temper Saving,
Collar Button. The top is wedge shaped; the upper
mm part ofthe poetie flat, the lower part is round. It
can't help working, its :as simplefiae (a: clothes; Pin.
Made in:
......... Gold. Silver and GoldIPlate.
Fllfl SALE BY A. W. AUSTIN, iiWElEll,
Mill IIIllISE Bill“. “Mill. Hill.
The only uh. tare
unable I
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MIDAS.
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