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SOUTH INORWALK. CONN. TUESDAY. APRIL 3. 1912
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WIATH El FORECAST
Rain or snow tonight and Wednesday.“
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Adding Machine Unnecessary,
Say Farmers—~Business lien
Slightly Higher Tex
Against Some of the Proposed Methods oi Construction. and
Believes Court House and tail Should Be Included in the
Building, Rather Thad Located Elsewhere
% RR‘IJNRIEMAN iiiiHER flRJECiS ill iHE SURRESIIRNS.
Bill EHEY WERE REFERRED ii] iHE Bill Hill GRMMHEEE
New House to he Erected at the City Filtration Plant“ In Wilton
1 for the Use of the Assistant Keeper "
Former Councilman William 1" Mo: Mr. McMahon s obit-(lions were met
Mullen appeared before the Board or squarely by Councilman Hairy ll
Councilmen at its meeting held last Mather who took the lormor to tank,
evening and criticised some or the prov ‘ 'i‘he (Ioiuy‘ii, after considering the rec
: posed methods of construction in tlIe' omnIonIdniioIIs made in the neutchIionI
“ new city hall, intluding the nicer iooi‘. Noted to rotor them to the city hall
the wooden columns and other lnI-i— cmnmiltoc for (onsidcruiion
genesis. lie also maintained that the} Little other business, exoept
com me and jail should be included regular routine was transacted
in than oty hall, rather than being as! 'l he martin; was called to order byI
inblisliedfijtthe Putnam Hose building‘ Mayor William F‘. Tammany. (J-Ionnrii
and recommended that instead of men William Miller, George l.. Olivner
building an entirely new the house in F‘mdmlok ll. Field leorge iii. Wm
Franklin street an addition he ereot- William H. Hoyt and linrry W. Mather
oil to the present Putnam Hose build-
ring
iRREiiRE i Still
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DEATH DDE TD ,
VIDLEIDE WHITE
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NEW HAVEN. April!
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Will Take liver Another Section
March according to unolliclal records
' “uh. DDDDVDD BiDDk were 86. one more than the total tor
‘ 1 ‘ ‘ _, the month preceding Oi this number}
on tiny 181“ 63 were accidental as against 48 in:
should we?" asked one at the farmers.
February. 12 suicidal as against is in:
three for the preceding month. 01 that
accidental deaths the largest number.
10. were due to burns, 9. each occur-
red on the railroad and by drowning.
seven by tails. tour by poison, three by:
automobile two each by suffocation:
and trolley, and one each by beingE
kicked crushing. electricity, gas. irao
Itnro oi the skull, exposure and dyns-I
mite.
TW‘D DDVS TAKEN TD
:PADTEDD INSTITUTE
A report from thsIstate laboratory
Extensive improvements are being
made at the A. J. Angevine & Son
ates-syrup Wtshlngton street, the com-
psny iihvtn3 taken War the entire
Donovan block with the exception of
the four small stores in the west end.
it “Willi“ yesterday that the com-
pany expected to spend 82. 500 in malt-
in; the improvements and that the
1 new store would probably be ready tor
the public's inspection a?)' July 1st,
barring accidents. ' ‘
At the p.resent Elms the A. .I Ange-
vine A Son Company occupies the two
large stores at the east. end or the
building. ItOgether with the two upper
floors. it is proposed to take over the
floor space in the building now occu- on the sumpsy oi the been or the do:
pied by the Butler Lodge.I. 0 0 F" at Charles LaCrolx that indicted a
other they have moved to the” new: wound with his teeth on Harry, son
building, in South Main street on or Mr. and Mrs Harry Waterbury.
Mary 13" : says that the dog was a buttered irom
With the occupation of this Md! rabies Consequently the selectnIsn
tlonsl floor space, great. changes will have issued an order for Pasteur treat.
be made in the arrangement of the merit tor the is d
building and lot” the convenience oi This morning Selectmen Alfred Av-
the patrons 0' the company A" Otis lson issued the order for Mr. water-
electric elevator will be installed, and bury and shortly an“ be had complet-
'1 will be so arranged as to connect with ed this work Mrs Ainsworth ~°f East.
not only the upper floors of the build- Norwalk, “mama and asked tor a
yin; now occupied by the opium”: but similar order, reporting that her son.
‘ ”1°“ ““3“ “‘5’" "m “cu," °" and 'Arlel, had also been bitten by this
“t" May 1“ Th9 ““5 have been dog. Selectman vison prepared an
mm“ '0 u to ”Wide for “we“ order ior Mrs. Answorth and both
into the ,0“ Fellows’ rooms and WEE boys were taken to New York today
arrangement of the latter portion of for immediate treatment at the Pae-
ilk hulldlnc will be so changed as to tour institute. '
“’9‘” W” “M“ °‘ ““ ”9““ “m" ""' The dog was killed and Dr. William
J. Tracey sent the head to the state
posed to move the carpet
«II-ooh harem the tirst liner to the sec-
' ‘” ”Anti on the first tloor radical
‘ Mil, be made which will make
1th and better facilities
bush ‘ The front or the build
unheated, the entrance
" win the center and two
windows provided tor.
ill be changed from its
nation The boy was attended by Dr.
recommended
, been pursued.
expressing his regret that en "99
dent h's‘d scanned. ._ ,
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W it???» “in“ "mm" °°“ - n is thousht nun In. this "
' 1 north ,_1 “9°" ”hm ”W ‘nions student with how
i be provided
Connecticut due to violence durinli
laboratory at Middletown for exami-
Robert M Wolfe, and that physician
the course that has
I The dog was killed shortly sitar
he had suitcase Its-tor Waterbury. I!“
Mr: LaOrcix slving his mundane
I the
WESTPORT. April 2.——'i‘he special
:town meeting held on Butiiiday at-
‘: tel-noon in the town hall was largely
tnttended, owing to the tact probably,
. that there was a tax to be laid, some-
} thing that hits the hearts of the tax-
i payers. And here is in Weetport.
. just the same as in any other town.
:a whole lot of them who believe
I that We should have everything must-
hle to have and pay a tax rate that
a paid 50 years go. With this in
'IIIlnd t'he taxpayers went to the
meeting of Saturday. and utter hear-
ing what the aeincimcn had to pay
I relative to the coming year's expenses
:Ioted that an 8% mill tax be laid.
Good. sound business men tried to
argue the question of making a to
i mill mix and thus not a chanre to pay
on some oi" the town debt instead of
adding to it. but this could not, be
seen by the majority of these pres
out.
The question at buying an adding
Iinuchinc for tho ustI oi‘ the town of
.flIIce was brought up and after lilllih
discussion it was voted down. but not
I until alter the vote had been dmubud
:and then had to be dccldmi by a ris-
lnp vote. Those who had used the
adding machine loaned by the manu
Erectors" stated that it was a ilrent
: time saver in the work of the asses-
:sors. the auditors and others. but it
was decided not to buy it. “Our
Math ers didn’p need such a thing, why
would. a?!” . oi the ”it!
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wmunnimm prieeoi "
the mm “ on both houses at Com-
po beach wsa'bmght up. There were
3 some oi the opinion that the townspeo-
ple should have the privilege'or rent-
E in; the bath homes at the same rate
Ias now. it. but that rho price to out-
Esidsrs should be more Alter much
discussion it was voted to allow the
Ilocal people the prtvltege or selecting
I the bath houses up to the first oi June
and that alter that date the out at
i town people could come in for an in-
Icresse of 26 percent.
“All. HIDIIVIAT
IIDDIEIIV liEPDiiTED
There was a mild case oi highway
robbery at the South Norwelk railroad
station last night. when a Poialt irmn
‘Now Milford was robbed at a dollar
bill by s. well-dressed ltailsh lad, who
first appeared as a irisnd and then
pulled a. rasor upon the Polak, tabla;
from him his hard earned money.
I The Poiak, whose name is not
'known, some to South Neinalit late
and about midnight mode it known
that he wanted a boarding place. A
man who is described as having been
a weildmsed [cation Iproil'ered his as
slat-anon and too the man to a hotel
thought to hsvs been the Central itc-
tei. when the Polak was uttered a
room for 75 cents. This was too much
for the visitor and the italisn young
men offered to take him to another
place where he count get a room ior
iord party readily agreed and they
started in the direction at Whistiev
ville, going by Way of the west-bound
station. When they reached the lower
end at the station the ltsllan asked
his companion it he carried a revolv-
er. The minus sentiemsn protested
that he did not and that he was a pest!
man. when“ the Italian drew s. rasor
money. Manhood and
surprise :1 the Point:
bill which lie handed
“to sis-spouse.
" Ticket Agent El-
. up the police head
' 1M that there was I
fill muiptbn who was in trou-
' mm H. Toothlli respond-
ice til I... us took the once! so:
Harwell investment Company
, banding. institutes at the Central Ho.-
1 tel rushed in a list denial than any
Wanted to'Psy till Debts with ‘
6o cents. To this proposition the Mil- ,
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Bishop Hamimtnpllusiness
So that astounded lay an
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Bishop One at salutary. Marv-
lsIId, on Wednesd‘ ey
M
Iierouce session in the Nostrnnd Avev
lioutlno business occupied the i'or‘o-l
noon hours of the New York East Con-i
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Norwalk Congressman Experts
to Speak on Wool Tariil in
the Fall
WASHINGTON. April 2.-—When ite-
presentntlve Hill finished his speech
on the Republican substitute for the
Democratic wool hill. Friday night
Representative Reilly. secured the
door and said that in his opinion Mr.
Hill was not a compentent witness on
the wool question. He charged that
Mr. Hill was interested in the Nor-
wailt Wooicn Milt company, and wns
vice president oi the company and
that his son was its treasurer. Mr.
Hill, he claimed. should not be ul-
iowed to sit on a jury where the in-
terests oi' the wool manufacturers
were in question.
He said that it was unfortunate
for Mr. Hill that while he was doing
Ibis best to till the coffers oi thet
American Wool company that same‘:
company was trying to crush his:
nne Church. Wigs, yesterday. Bib
hop Hamilton was
be is anxious to
business which is nil; quite so in: bed
bin-Ii an it was on Maxims butatlll loci
King a little.
night when the dmhtmente are
made. but it is thougfit how it will be
at a late hour
cabinet are putting much time on
the ndiustmont at n intments. and it
is found that there in be a large num-
ber di changes 1 uly in the
country districtsrai
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TM“ Till IAIL
TORNNGTON, April 2.—-P‘al.riclt
Humphries. an employee oi one a the
tutorial here. noelved a botnb
through the mail yesterday. .lt con-
stated of a wooden spectacle box till-
ed with bisclt‘powder in a vial. a shot-
cun shall. a revolver shell and lying
loose atom cotton.‘ The lid was lin-
ed with sand paper against whloh‘were
the heads oi a dosen matches Forte
nstely the also used to tastes the
sandpaper to the lid had run and the
lid would not. slide. Mr. Humanities
thereupon pulled the lid upwardsud
the matches were not ignited The run
ning of the glue saved his lite or saved
him from severe initiries The bomb-
was delivered at 10 o‘clock in the
morning. When Mr. Humphries re-
turned irom work at noon the bomb
was handed to him by his wlie.
opened it, thinking the bomb was
some April Fool joke. When he ro-
‘ .
workmen oi the incident, at llrst tak-
ing the matter as a joke. but later he
realised the seriousness oi the thing
and he took the batch to the postmas-
ter Ivrho promptly notified the chief
postofllce inspector at Washington
and the inspector oi this division.
There is no clue to the identity of
the sender.
stooouousos lasts. '
tries stirs outlaws
mammoth. Nprii 2.-—A uoond
ottempt to run down Shins Allen and
Wesley Edwards with bloodhounds he'-
man today. when the docs were carried
to a new trail in the Fancy one section
oi the Blue Ridge. nels- Floyd Allen‘s
home. Positive interruption that the
hon who are believed to have played
the lending parts in the Carroll court-
twuee shooting, were seen in that sec-
tion yesterday, had been bronchi no
the detectives by Sclpci Gray and Al-
exander Meat-aw, residents oi the
neishborhood ' ‘ .
The two boss being used in ' the
‘sssreh are the prise pullers or the
sisters tar-a
Accordion
MW. the fugitives have. has
to I‘ll. latest theory oi the
musse-
mwhmtbsywsrsusnm,
duplicationhfil been made em to.
man. we truss sic the unlicens-
Hot
tinned to his work he told his fellow.
towns-low Manatemsum' ”A
stipends. one beinu the ' I,
betas at s' relative. Hubbard. Issue, .. ,
mmmtslmiles worshippin-
o
solver.
When ”Md this morning if he oi Main street occupied a great deal Av. Kent Company ‘to block up a
it is the molar outer: W01!" ‘3‘“? the “00" and “W" the: oi uni, and then building lines were street. Mr. Daniels explained t
that the conference shall adjourn to; remarks “”40 0" meflmanl’e: petitioned tor, complaints resiStel‘ed. street is rather well blocked it
Mr- Hi" and some accumulated business since that people cannot cross at thl'
”Reilly last Friday night.
said he would not here but would
The bishop said his: answer hlr. Reilly from the stumpl sideratiou
in ( onneciicut this tall. He said it
that the reasons he gave why be (Mr.-
Hill) ought not to take part in the
iormstlon oi tariii legislation sol
plied with double torus to the chair
man oi the ways and means cem-
invested in the iron, till steel W
need. 1 air. mesa draws an
income inom his investment while
Mr. Hill‘s investment never paid a
cent. '
The Norwslk Mills 00., Mr. Hill
said. was strictly a local company;
and never paid. The entire plant was?
turned over to its creditors by vote
oi the stockholders two years sac
and. the property will soon be sold to
satiety judgment. Mr. Hill said he
had not been an smear in the com-
psny tor a number of years and that
his son. one time treasurer oi the
jeompsny, had been dead ior five
years.
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:IIEDDED ATTEMPTED
TD Kill. HIIBELF
GREENWICH. April 2.-—hiore ,sor-
m‘ tor the death oi James 6. Stewart.
than tor his own situation was ex-
presaed during the night and this
morning by Roland nudges. who. is
held in the local jail pending an in-
vestigation into the death oi Stewart.
The latter died after I quarrel with
Hedges during which Hedges struck
him on the head with a hammer, at
the grocery store where both were
employed. The ‘qusrrel was the out-
come oi' an April Fool joke played on
Stewart by Hedges. The prisoner.
who made an attempt upon his lite
yesterday aiternoon by cutting his
threat. was reported to be in a fair
condition. and his‘ recovery, barring
complications, is expected. Hound a
rather poor night, however. sleeping
only about thm hours.
1 t is said, that yesterday Hedges
laughed with his customers over the
chair. as he told them about: it. and
had sppardntly‘ no idea of the serious
results. Even when being taken to
ths'police ‘ststisn 'he treated the
whole slisir as a Joke. 1
ITRIKIRO RITURN To WORK.
noit'ron. Mesa. April s.-—rna its
itsilan operatives at the mill oi the
Talbot Wool Cumulus Dempsey. in
this town, who have been on strike tor
several days. returned to work today.
The moment out because they con-
fist a recent advance in
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mittse. who admits Jim, in; all My},
Never Accepted Same as a Highway
Jiiilii iiiiRiiE REEERES-iilii EiiilRliiSii iR‘
Work~invitation to Capt. Byxhee’s Birthday Reception .
At the longest meeting since the
new council at the City oi Nuiwulk
small W001 company. “0 said h"iiiuIetit into since many matters reioi- utes of the previous meeting
it on hand. as i understood that the Nomflih com- in: to the citv’s welfare were discuss- were accepted on robe. ' ‘
W gm. the pony was now in the hands of a N- ed last evening
Troubles relating to the widening
the last meeting some up for con-
The meeting was called to order
“NW D“ "0‘ occurred ‘0 1‘" itellly; shortly after eight o'clock by Mayor appealed to the council to have
Finnegan Counllmen Howard, Ben-
edict. Hoyt. Reed Worden and Thomp-
sans: assumes Til
scales establishes
That ‘ are A progressing nicely
toward buildinptho new bridge is ovi-
dsnoed by the announcement made to
fdsy by the bridge construction com-
mittee that all the buildings recently
purchased by the committee will be
sold at public auction on April 6 at 2
o‘clock in the afternoon.
The announcement is welcomed as
it is but another indication that the
bridge committee is on the square in
its proceedings. it has been rumored
lrom time to time that the committee
had it in mind to dispose of the build-
ing purchased to their particular
friends at rates quite reasonable.
As was explained at the recent town
meeting, litigation is all that is hold-
ing up the speedy construction oi the
new bridge; The case of Bridge Com-
mittee vs. William Potimore is in the
courts now. having been appealed to
the Supreme Court oi Errors. where
it is hoped a decision will be forthcom-
ing in may. Should the decision or
this couri'be adverse to the town. in-
dications are that the construction at
the bridge will be delayed until next
year. until the present bridge bill has
been amended by the legislature so as
to clarity certain provisions which at
present otter the stumbling block to
procrea-
At. the auction on the 6th inst. all
will be given an equal opportunity to
bid on and secure the buildings it they
so desire.
RUNAWAY IOY CAUGHT.
GREENWlCH. April 2.—-ll.aymond
Gunther, aged 15 years. son of Con-
stantine P. Gunther. oi Ansonia. is be»
ing held by the police pending word
from his father. his was arrested this
morning. He had with him a bicycle.
to the-handlebars of which was strap-
ped a bundle containing a slouch hat.
leather belt and holster and .38 calibre
revolver. To the trams oi the wheel
was strapped a bayonet. The boy bald
he-ielt Ansonis yesterday morning.
riding the is miles to this rises on
his wheel. lie secured lodging last
night wishbone italisns on psy'm‘sni
ot‘ilitssn cents. lie had twenty cents
lsit. its said that some ltmqtslo his
lather has told him he might» west
and seek his terrain and he had Its-1
gm to do so.
-poration tried to ‘swipe' 150 t
son were present. .
City Clerk Dllworth read the ‘
C M Daniels asked if martini“!y
had been given no the Holmes, K
Mr. Daniels said: “This can
the public highway recently," an it!
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utensils tilt R I "
maul!“ .
miners who in the ’
least willing to strike for ill
of a minimum wage than their} ‘
and Scottish concedes are now, at
so one tigums of the build tell;
less willing to return to emit.
Welshman who were the I -
the original strike. are now
strongly in favor of returniu to:
pits.
This change of opinion asap
nuns-Is themselves has upset will
lotions, and although the of
the leaders or the minors mum
fut that the line! result of t
will be in favor of catfish om
strike the majority either way
es to be only a narrow one.‘
Reports thus far received
about 200.000. votes. The exact,
portion is not known, and I,.,
wry greatly. in some cases it
elated that the majority in favor
sunsptlon is nearly 10,000. want.
others a majority of 2.500 urinal. .
turning to the pits is given. on
cinl count will be made tomprro .,
the executive committee of the int ‘
Mention and Ithe result will ‘
pounced on Thursday, ‘
The object of the bulk of the
lion 'minsrs in voting against rat
to worst appears tobethe opini
they are more likely to obtain
tem‘irom the district M
appointed under the minimum
not while they remain on stri
the would get it they were
The action of the Welsh minis
log for a resumption he) bout 1
cod largely by the isotths’t '
of their union are estimated
slender sarinzs oi the miners
appearing. Those ot the hit
an opposing the return to the
doing so in direct opposition
vice of their leaders. the ...
whom believe that the then he i
a victory with which they fill " ’ '
satisfied tot-she present at l‘ _
With a view to saving idol a ‘ '
oi factories which have huh, ‘ {I
continue in operation during the :
hue decided to prolong the
holidays.
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