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WEATHER FORECAST.
For Norwalk and vicinity':: Rain or
snow tonight. ‘Thursday‘falr. A dis‘
tnrbance is central this morning over
Lake Erie. It is producing cloudy
weather with light rain or snow in
the Lake region and the Ohio Valley.
A ridge of high pressure betheen the
Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi
River is producing pleasant weather in
the Western sections. The disturbance
that is now in the Lake region will
pass over this vicinity tonight, caus-
ing cloudy weather with1iighf. rain or
snow. followed on Thursday by clem-
ing weather and lovvei tempera'tule.
Northeast storm warnings the display
ad along the coast.
Attorneys Walsh and Hubbell, of
Norwalk, are in Bridgeport today, try-
ing a case in the Superior Court.
,Star or Columbia. Ulrcle,'Compan—
ions of the Forest, will have a meeting
Thursday evening, in Mystic Chain
Hall, Washington street; ‘1
Selectmen 11.111111311111113, Alfred Avi-
son and James A; Brown. of Norwalk.
are in Mount Vernon today viewing
a stone crusher that is in operation
there.
The Men’s Club, of St. Paul' a
Church Norwalk, have postponed their
regular monthly meeting owing to
their being unable to secure a speaker
for that evening.
Rev. Louis B. .Howell, rector of St.
Paul's Church, Norwalk, preached the
service at St. Andrew's Mission, Win-
nipauk, last evening. The meeting
was largely attended.
, The regular monthly meeting of
Phoenix Engine Company was held
last evening, at their quarters in‘ Main
street, No1 walk Nothing important
was brought up, ,however.
, Frank DePlerne, of Glover's shoe
store, Norwalk, tell and sprained his
knee, yesterday and is confined to his
home, but expects to resume ills duties
at thestore in a day or two.
-'-Shouidcr Steak 12c lb. Gelst's Mkt.
An illustrated lecture on the “Life
and Teaching of Our Lord” will be giv.
on this evening, by the Rev. Louis E.
Howell, at the chapel of 0111' Holy Sa-
vior. In Berkeley street, Norwalk.
A hearing into the estate of the late
Janet Bennett. of Wilton, to determine
the heirs and distributecs was held be-
fore Judge A. B? Gregory, in the Pro-
bate court, this morning, at 10 o ’clock.
Edward Shea, of Charles street,
toast Norwalk. underwent an operation
‘ at the Norwalk Hospital this morning,
the same being performed by Dr. Wib
liam J. Tracey, assisted by Dr F. I
iiurnell.
The fourth quarterly conference of
the Norwalk M. E. Church will be held
this evening at 8 o‘clock. Rev. J. E.
Adams. district superintendent, will
preside. The official board meeting
will be‘held at 7: 30.
Pioneer- Hook and Ladder Company
holds its regular monthly meeting, last
evening, at: the truck house in Main
street. Four new members were elect-
ed into the company, but further than
that nothing of any importance was
brought, up. After the. meeting a good
"Dutch" supper was enjoyed by all
present.
The Norwalk Fire Police held a reg-
11lar monthly meeting, last evening,
, at its quarters in Wall street. 1A com.
mittee was appointed to look into the
much talked of p00,] tournament be1
tween Hope Hose Company and the
iirre police, and see if the Hope Hose
boys and themselves could not come to
some. agreement, as there has been
some dispute over the players.
Buckingham Women’s Relief Corps
will entertain as their guests the de-
partment presidentand her staff, also
the ofti’cersand members of theNew
Canaan corps,1at their meeting Thurs.
day afternoon, at 2: 30., o'clock. in the
Sons of Temperance Hall, Wail street
A bountiful collation will be served at
for the meeting in” the G1 A. R. rooms
All members are urged to be present.
William Miller, of South Norwalk.
gIeat sa'chem of the Improved Order
of lied Men 01001111111111.1111, was among
the guests, last1night,at‘the twenty-
aecond anniversary of the institution
of Panguessett Tribe 'i'h Danbm‘yu A
“heap big ieed"1ai. this hHotel Green
was the feature of, the celebration.
Judg Carl Foster,“ of Bridgeport, the
= grout J'unior sagamt‘ire'f of “the great
council oi the United States, ,was also,
present. 1, ,
" ”Foss’ High Grade Quality
, ChocOlates
1 pound com 50 and 6'01:
_ 1/2 pound Boxes 1 . . . . .30 and 85c
Small Boxes ..... ,.,........,.....10c
' Salmon-Powell Corporation. ,1
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octagonal-y- .
' 74 Washington street, South Norwalk.
South Norwalk ,
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'1 LET us WRITE YOURO.
TAYLOR 81 GOLDEN}
ran. loss.
RUSSELL’S
'3 Varsity Chocolates and
Saturday Candy
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,BAXTERS
' ANDERSONTS
." Launch Works
Boat Frames set up and. ready to
plank.
All kinds of repair work.
Launches of all sizes built to order
by competent workmen.
Oyster Shell PoinLNorwalk
1 us'lo'u'lhus STARIN.
Still Seems to be on the Rocks.
How'cvcr.
BRIDGET’ORT, March 3. —~lt was In-
ported here today that it. will be at.
least ten days before the big wreck-
ing crew at work on the Starla will
be able to swing her clear of the rocks
into the immense wooden crib which
is being constructed.
Divers are at work on the hull of
the vessel patching with planking and
canvas the numerous rents torn by
contact. with the rocks. 10sec she is
landed in the crib some little difficulty
is anticipated in pulling her some
thil'ty feet away into deep watcr.S1hc
went on the rocks in an exceptionllllv
high tide. .
TAFT’S LAST DAY'AS PRIVATE
. CITIZEN.
WASHINGTON. March 3.-—-'i‘hls,thc
last day of Presideuteloct 'I‘aft‘s pri-
vate citizenship, he devoted to those
who might wish to call on him at the
Boardman residence. The callers bo-
gan arriving early. Mr. Taft was In
his usual happy mood, uudlisicncd to
“political situations," to suggestions
for appointments and to. innumerable
projections of ideas from various DOW
sons. Mr. Taft will go for a. walk or
a. ride this afternoon, and intends ‘to
stop at the White House to r11 moment
before returning to till; "Boaldmun res-
ide11ce.P1esidcntaud Mrs. Roosevelt
will entertain MI. and Mrs Taft at
dinner tonight, and have invited their
guests to remain as house guests for
the night. This invitation has been
accepted. and tomorrow Mr. Taft will
begin there the. important events
the day, which at noon will make him
the next four years.
PONAssus DEFEATS SHERMAN.
Ponussus Council, Royal Arcauunl,
Wall sheet. Nothing of special i111
portance was brought up. however. Aft
ter the meeting. however, a game of
carpet bowls was played with Sherman
Council. of South Norwalk, but the
Pouassns boys were too strong for
their opponents, and the score stood it
to II at the and of the game. A seller;
of three games will be played with
South No1ualk and Stamford lodges.
and a beautiful cup will go to the win-
nel.TI1‘c next game will be played
Thursday evening at the rooms of Pa-
nassus Council
‘TAFT'S INAUGURAL TROUSERS.
WASHINGTON, March 3,~William
H. Taft. will wear on the occasion of
his inauguration a pair of‘ t.1rousels
Which were presented to him today fol
the Republican state committee of
Texas by Col Cecil Lyon, cl1ul11.n1au
a pair which the Texas delegation took
to Chicago with them at the time of
the Republican convention. intending
present them to Mr. "aft. They wear
entrusted to a corpulent. policeman.
who could not be found later by the.
Texans when they were ready to make
their presentation The present pair
are dark grey str.iped made or pool
raised In_ the Lone StarState.
ARMED POSSE AFTER NAHALIC.
WEST PAWL‘E’I‘. Vermont, March
3.—-An armed posse is searching the
woods in this vicinity today for Joseph
Nuhalic. a Hungarian quarrymsn, who
is alleged to have. shot. and killed An«
drew Stulvatsky, a fellow countryman,
late yesterday. The crime was conr
mitted in a slate quarly where both?
men were employed Friends of the
two state that Nahalic had long entru-
tained a g1 udge against Stulvatsky as
the result of a dispute over some triv
ial matter.
SOUTH NORWALK CLUB POOL.
In the South Norwalk Club pool
games. last night, Frank J. Finnegan
substituted for George R. Van Alstyne
In the game inwhlch he was schedul
ed to play with George In Woodward.
They were each rated 110. The-game
was, won by Mr. Finnegan by a1 score
of 110 to 52. . “
The second game was between A1
C Knorr and J. E. Slater, each rated
511101 e of 80 to 56.
The New HighSchooi
AND 25 OTHER
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COLEMAN’S
NEWS a stone .
10 North Main St. South' Norwalk
Agent for A. G. apaldlng'c
. Baseball and Sporting Goods 1
of
master of the Executive mansion for '
held a. regular meeting last night at "
their rooms in the Gazette building in 1:
These trousers will take the place of '
80. end was won by Mr. Knmr by 111
New Post Cards"
' in vogue on the. change of administla- '
Randy for Your
Spring Overcoat
With the least bit of encouragement from the
weather we are going to do a rousing busincss in
Spring Overcoats-dor we never have shown such
handsome Coats; such winning colors; such graceful
shapes, and suéh a lot of them.
High colors are slated far the entire season, and
they get a good start' in the Spring 0vcrcoats~olives.
greens, stone shades, smoky grays, 'browns,1tans, dull
tones and quiet self stripe effects. ‘
From $10 to $25
Raincoat weather finds us prepared to raincoat any ,3
, man who wants a real rain- -proof cost at the right
' price. From $1010 525, and genuine Cravenettesdoo.
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In the light iol frudr at, the small prolit on which grain dealers
do business nowadays it good deal is licald of cutting grades and
otllvi dclnmalizing methods. 111 making and selling
BONNIE HOME GROUND FEEDS ,
I make them as If the old time profits were still to be had. i don' t,
figulc that I can’t afford to keep 11p the highest quality. but that I
cannot afford to do anything else.
And that's equally flue otcvcryfhlngl scll.
Quality First. Last and All thcfi‘lme.
Proprietor MANUEL TORO HATCH.
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MOSES H GLOVER,
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fish. 120 Ill; Small Shall lilo li1.;l'iuiiblli.1-l.'5c and "ZOC "1.;
Salmon. Inc and 201: 1b.; Burk and lion Shad Steak Cod, EcIS,
Flnnall Hulldlcs Exllu and No. I Smelt. Escallops. Long and
Round Clams: Rockawuy l.ouc,(‘lnu1s :lill qt; Gosling Clams for
lipid 11a; I‘orghs and Buttcl'fish. ‘1
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AMBASSADOR GRISCOM RESIGNS. BATTLESHIPS OFF BO‘BTON.
WASHINGTON. March 3.-Lloyd C. .1 BOSTON. March tile-Two of the
Grlscom. Amer‘ican Ambassador in world girdllng fleet, the New Jersey
home, has sent his resignation to the and Mlssou11,i came into- port in the
"State Department He intends to do, grey morning light today and ranging
vote himself to business affairs in the up alongside the navy y,ard woke the
United States. Follownig the practice echoes of the old North, End by a 13-
gun salute to Rear- Admiral Swift, the
commandant. The two battleships Willi
tion, the resignations of all the mem-
"1%.
‘ turned to‘tho burning «building.
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IHIIAI IN Hill SIRIII
(if storing broke with some violence in
the opening dealings under the influ-
ence of the refusal of the public 11er-
vlce commission of New York to modi‘
i'y the tonne of the lyric bond issue
18nd the defeat of the ship subsidy bill
in congress.11 The latter factor was re-
sponsible for the 3% points decline in
Pacific Mull. There were besides loss—
as in American Sillciting of 1%, Son-
thern Pacific and American Car 11%.
Erie, Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific.
Reading and Amalgamated Copper 11.
point; and most of the other active
trading stocks a largo fraction. The
market was active and broad. Wis-
consin Ccull a1 Illadc an isolated gain
‘ of a point.
WALL STREET. ll 11. m.--Stocks
were unloaded freely for a time. Read-
ing and the copper stocks bore the
blunt of the selling. Railroad stocks
received support later and the entire
list rallied. Reading Iccovcring most
of its loss of '11/1. Declines of i and
respectively, in Alohison and
Allmlgamuled Copper, were also partly
made 11p.
WALL STREET, Noon—Tile activ~
ity of the first. hour gave place to a
condition of lethargy with p1 ices
scarcely moving except III special
cases. Canadian Pacific bloke 21-4,.
Bonds were irr'cgulhl.
WALL STREET. 1 11 n1. —~'l‘here was
1 no movement to the market outside of
a few unimpoltant stocks
IH IIIHIS
(Continued from first page)
Mulada Nomad and Nicholas Bardalio
were overcome by smoke. and suffered
severe burns and they, with an uniden-
tified girl, four years old, who was ov-
ercome by smoke, were taken to bos-
pitals.
Dominick Fillberfi suffered the frac-
ture of several ribs.
The only member of the Travisallo
family who survived the fire was Min.
nle 'l‘l'nvlsano, aired in, who left home
last night. to visit friends.
’l'hcre were about. thirty families.
mostly of liniians, in the tenement
house, alld'poiiccnicn and firemen res:
cued many of lhcm by ladders and by
swinging them across from windows
to neighboring buildings. Several bu.
bics were thmwn from the windows
and caught by fil'cnivn who were slanti-
lug on the. extension ladders. Police-
men .Iamos P. Reilly and William Gul-
Isgher. who were tho. first to arrive at
the1 fire. had a prominent part I11 the
rescue work.
The street floor or the building was
occupied by Ihc undertaking rooms of
Patrick McDonald and the Lincoln res-
taurant, while Antonio Urso, a barber,
occupied the basement. The fire start-
cd III the bottom of 1111 airs “lit, and
. was discovered by Patrick l1 ouks, a
watchman ill the undertaking rooms.
Monks ran upstairs and awakened thc
Mr‘llouuld family and Mr. and Mrs. {tic-
Donuld and their four children werl1
passcd across a narrow alleyway lo
the windows of an adjoining building.
whence they escaped. Monks then re-
the
hull ways of which were then blazing
and filled with smoke. Ho rapped on
tile doors of the apartments up to the
third floor, awakening the occupants.
and then turned in 11 fire. alarm.
Most of the occupants of the touc-
meut were asleep when the fire began
as It. Was discovered byllionks short
ly before 3 o‘clock. and many were
overcome by the smoke before awak
chins.
Policemen Relilx and Gallagher ob
talncd Access to the upprl llools of
the burning building by climbing to
the roof of an adjolniug structure. and
creeping along 11 cornice to the rooms
of an apartment occupied by Attila Pa-
siio, who with his wife and son Louis.
aged 7, were taken out of the window
and carried along the cornice to the.
adjoining building. ubence the file
men took them to the. street.
Two other childIen of Fannie were
found unconscious on the lloor, but
wererescucd by firemen. Little Eve
lyn Pasifo, agelpi years. attempted to
run down the stairs. and latter her
charred body was found on the stair-
way. Fireman Frank C. Clark found
Mrs. Muila‘na Aranol unconscious in
her rooms on the fourth floor. and at.
tempted to carry her down a ladder to
a window. but was himself overcome.
Other firemen saved them both.
Three babies were taken from the
rooms on the fourth 11001 by thrilling
work of two firemen, Robert Nelson
one of the firemen. caught two of1the
children as they were thrown to him
by another firenmn from the windows.
As Nelson started down the ladder
with the two babies in his ends, the
man again appealed at the window and
called cut "1 have got another baby
here; catch it " Before Nelson could
reply the man thlew the baby out of
the window, and Nelson with two ba~
bies already in his in ms managed to
catch the third. and carried 'them all‘
down the ladder to the. sheet
All but two of those who perished
lived on the upper floor of the burned
building. Apparently they were over.
c‘ome by smoke before they could es
cape to the front Windows. The llam-
es. passing 11p he hallways,b111ned
out the rear of be building, but the
apartments in the flout were not badly
damaged“
The work of rescue was delayed by
the falling of three firemen from the
second and third floors, when ‘heir
scaling laddels slipped off the window
sills The ilrcm 111:,Wel'e not much
hu11.t
Many of the o upant's were taken
down on extenslo 1 ladders which
reached to the fou’i'th'. and fifth doors.
Firemen say that the fire escape in
the rear was Cloggedmith‘ refuse which-
had to be cleared.‘ ff before the fire:
men could mount.‘,. 1
The 'I‘ravisano trial were evidently
trapped in their rooms on the top
floor. and made no effort, to escape
The bodies of- Mr. and Mrs: Travisn‘no
ward found. lying on 11.-crutch, while
the son and daughter. Were kneeling
on the floor with 1 etc faces in their
remain hole several months for ‘re-
fitting.
hers' (11' the diplomatic corps will be
forthcdming in the next few Weeks.
lb
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mother s 111111 and see ed to halve suii'o-.
oated‘ while prayinm The, members or
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Night Robes
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South Norwalk»?
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' You might as well as to let some in-
experienced man'tr'y to make‘the ten
pairs. We can fix your rigs Satisfac-
torily with but small cost. Fromm
attention will be given to any business , '
1:, vou may favol us with.
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Apricots, per 1b., -
3 pugs Fancv Seeded Raisins ..... 25c
5 lbs. l’lullcs .................. 25c
ll 0:1 Pancake Flour, pkg. ........ 7c
3 Mcc Salt Mackerci.. ........ 25c
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20 lbs. Sugar .................... $1.00 ' 1
3 Calls String Beans ......... ..25o . 1
3 Cans Corn ..................... 25c
........... 25c, 30c,35c,1 40¢ per dOI. , ‘ 1 " 1
MAIN STREET. SOUTHNQRWALK.
Elm]:
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the Fliibcrti. Gruppi and Placin fami-
Ii‘es were found in their beds on the
fifth floor, where'thcy had been over-
come in the smoke while asleep. The
belief that the fire was the work of
blackmailers arose from the statement
of Antonio Urso. the barber, who said
he had received a black‘ hand letter
about two months ago demanding
S 200 Urso said he paid no attention
to the letter, expecting that others
would follow: Firemen said that the
fire seemed to have originated in a
store room of the Inidertaker‘s estab
lishmcnt which contained much in-
{flammable material.
JUDGE BURNES APPOINTED.
Apparently No Ground for Opposition
to Greenwich Man.
HARTFORD March 3.-- .\’hen the
resolution appointing Charles D.
Burnes judge of the Borough Court of
Greenwich came up. for action in the
senate yesterday. Senator F. Searls
moved the suspension.- of“ the. rules and
the adoption of the report and. the
pas‘sing of the resolutidn. He made a
brief address in the senate and at. its
close the resolution was passed by a
voice vote
Senator Seal Is said m'lill. liurnes was
a distinguished member of the genexnl
assembly whom they kneu1 mid to
spected. At the hearing before the
commitee on judiciary an attack had
been made upon his administration of
the borough coult affails.:Tl1e out-‘
come of this attack. said Senator
Sear'ls was the unanimous dedision
of the committee f1 irable t0‘ Judge
Burnos. He said l11_1.~ 111111111311: 11;
that Judge Barnes came out (little
hearing with his skirts unsmhchod
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B'ATTLESIHIP'S VISIT TO' NEW
Nebraska. built and‘ commissioned on
pa'uied the Atlantic fleet, on tho‘ rc-‘
malnder of Its wo1ld' tour, arrived it
the harbor today. Aftel landing her
ammunition she will go to me Brook
lyn 11.1.1111 Yard for dry 1dockiii3.. The
Rhode Island. down the bay, since 8““,
‘1dny, will plocc‘ed thelc'soon. 1 1' 1
Seed
the schools. teachers w
- such obligation :on‘ i.
YORK 1..
NEW YORK. Martll '3'—Pt't'yi'ng her
first visit. 'to'; this port, the battleship
the. Pacific coast, whence she 1-accom1
Sayes' Your '
Strength and
womenpssmt: .,
- Your Carpets. N
M k is
ploagufes. “Him,“ a:
you want? ‘ 1‘
F. A. Mitchell 1 ' ‘ '
HOUSE FUFI'NISH'ER’
NORWALKi‘ FONN.
GOOD TEACHERS Magneto.
Competent Young‘WomcnvFi‘nd'Better ' '
Employment Elsewhere.
HARTFORD. March 3.»The social
level from which teachers in the pub. ' '1
lic schools ale taken teddy is some-
what lower than formerly, that non
economic and material conditions havt 1
arisen which tend to draw away the
more vigorous girls from the prdfes~ ,1
siou of school teaching, Which condi 1‘
tious must be met if the schools are ‘
to keep pace with the times.were?1
points brought out by Prof. ‘.C. H Judd
of Yale, in an address this morning
below the Farmers' Association. ”
The supply of good teachers was ‘
growing less and less, he 'said. and fre;
quently it was necessary to put into “
lewm'flt 110i
fully qualified. or late Ma achusetts
t‘m example. has- been‘ 1 h
say that the rare "1: ,7 ,
the ones that suffer mast" ,, "
of, good teacllelsIas. t, .
the best of the supplv , -‘
He referred to the applgca ation from
Waterbury for the erecti‘ {1 of 3. nor
mal school1ands‘aid tit hejde'pin
of the petition was prop
ent tilne.1He said th
the present normal
commodating only half.
he urged that a good
the efficiency of the t 'c i g
would be to have the 11 _1,1 ,
under certain conditionplll through
it no thon‘t',‘
competitive exlnninn‘tio
state could demand of 't
nation that thev 895%
where they are 11103
pII ‘; collidd be: culprit
paying the living
students (111111.111
He: thought that.
111325.000 11’ ‘vcur would.
111t1 one bundled he.
teachers into the to ’
itate annually. '
Ohio reached the want today and the
Wigg—filt is be
bottom or, the it:
then you dont have.
H’hiladclphla, Record “
Norwalk Chronicler