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Bishop John J. Nilan, ct Harttérd,
Visits St. Ladislaus Hun-
garian Church
SIIIIRIII IIIIRRIIIIIR
ISSISI IN SIRIISIS
Nearly 900 in Attendance, Des~
pile Weather Conditions
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Yesterday proved a. memorable day
for the members of St, Ladislaus‘ tinn-
garian Catholic Church, when a class
of 225 was confirmed by Right. Rev.
ilohn J. Nilan, Bishop of Hartford?
While the weather proved unfavora-
ble the greater part of the afternoon,
it deterred very few people from at-
iending the ceremonies, and it is es-
timated between 800 and 900 gathered
at the spacious building in Clitf
street.
The bishop and several visiting
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‘SIIIIIIIISIIIR IIIIIIII
RI I’IISSIIIR SIR
Get Off His Own Car on Wrong
Side and is Hit by Another
Apd Dies in Few Minutes
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At about midnight last night, J. F.
Johnson, conductor on a south-bound
trolley car on North Main street, near
iliawley avenue, Bridgeport, for some
unexplained reason swung himself off
the left hand sideof his car and a trol-
ley approaching in the opposite direc
tion knocked him to the street, trac-
turing his skull and he died in a ten
minutes.
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PISIIIR IIIIS IRII
WHIII RIIMIRIIIIRII
Rev. L. H. Caswell, Ot Norwalk
n. E. Church, Uniniured 1.1
Auto Smash Saturday
Thoroughly wrapped up in his
thoughts about a ’book he had been
reading, turning 'over in his mind the
depth of thought occasioned by the
theme, and paying but secondary at-
tention to his automobile, Rev. Lin-
coln Hollister Caswell, pastor of the
Norwalk Methodist church, brought
up suddenly against a stout tree on
the south side of the Wilson's Point
railroad crossing, near the Standard
Oil Company plant, on Saturday after-
noon, bndly damaging his Cadillac au~
tomohile. The preacher escaped in-
jury, although this seems miraculous,
for the seat upon which he had been
reclining was hurled from beneath
him and over the stone fence which
this point.
Rev. Mr. Caswell was on his way
to pay a visit to Rev. William H.
Thomas, of Thomas' Hill, Hickory
Bluff, and was considering a most (111-
gaging book which he and the learned
brother pastor had been reading and
studying. lie was humming along at
m
.gnards the Burchard salt meadows at. 1
a good rate, but was so engrossed in,
Annotated Fuel New. from All Pert- ot the World I” I Oneal-i Wire and Our Own Operator.
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some NORWALK. court. MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13 1913
SI AMER
IIIIIIII
Tug Sachem Accomplishes Task
At High Title On Saturday At-
ternoon Quite Easily
11111 tilllillllllli L
111111111 WIIRIIIIIS
“Middletown” Sails for New
York Under Own Steam
’l‘he floating 0f the stranded steam-
er "Middletown," of the Hartford and
New York Transportation Company
Line which ran‘ around on Goose Is-
land early on Saturday morning was
accomplished at the flow of the tide
on Saturday afternoon, and with a.
full head of steam the vessel sailed for
New York about 3 o‘clock. The Iron
his thoughts, that be temporarily for-Iplates 0“ ”‘9 boat’s “ml" 5mg were
got what he “as doing, until the soda 1 etidently but slightly damaged for
den collision with a giant of the for; line steamer had not taken in any up-
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WEATHER Iroaacnsr.
Showers This Afternoon or Tonight:
I’IIIRII I’ll’Ii
PRIIIIR SHEIIIII
Great Oanger‘io American Lives
and Propsrtv-ldexican
:Troops Loss
In“.
wasn‘morotv. ISept. 8,—Puerta
Plate, in the Dominican Republic,
where a revolution is in progress. is
being shelled by Dominican gunboats,
with great danger to American lives
and property. Jose 1M. Esteva, Amer-
ican Vice Consul there, so reported
today. The gunboat Des Moines is on
the way there. I
Mexican Federals Lose.
BROWNSVLLLE, Tex., Sept. 8.—
Mexicnn federals lost heavily in re—
cent battles with the Constitutions
lists in the vicinity of Tampieo. ac-
cording to advices received here today.
At Tamponl the entire garrison of gov-
ernment troops is said to have been
killed by Constitutiolmlists, who oc-
cupied the town. In another fight 43
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Preliminary Hearing on Charge
ot Gambling on Railroad Pro-
1 party at Coatlcook
SIIIII’IAIRANI RIIIRISH
IAIIIS A [III [III
Says He Was Once in Trouble
for Playing Cards in New
of the so fed dernl troops engaged were HamDShll‘B
killed, according to the rebel eati- I
mates. i, . COATICOOK, Que, Sept. S.——}iarry.
K. Thaw was temporarily forgotten by;
the townspeople of Coatlcook today
and all paths led to the red brick
court house. where William T. Jerome'
had promised to appear this afternoon
for a preliminary heating on a char‘Igo:
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RSIIIIIIN IS
est brought him back to every dav
life.
Taking toll of the damage with Duke
White, driver of the Knob Club bun,
IRev_.'liIr. Caswell found that although
his headlights had been smashed al-
most beyond recognition, and his
leaky,1the engine would stiil'beat its
old familiar tune, and in a short time
Rev. Mr. Caswell had turned the ma-
chine around aud was running it
homeward
'All who witnessed the accident, and
its after effects remarked upon the
fact that the occupant of the auto was
not injured.
AIITOISTS euro in
Two uunonvntn
AUTOIST—lf.’ PT.
age actions against A. Miller. of
Johnson was about lib years oldI
and had been in the employ oi the'
Bridgeport 'l‘tollcy company for about
three months. At. a into both the coin-
puny officials had not. been able to as
("ellnln his nddwss, but It is thought‘
l11:li1(dll1 Westport.
The accident. happened within a
block of St. Vincent's Hospital nndI
some (if the passengers rushed there,
at once. ‘llr. Scholt 01 the hospital
thl’f responded and when he reached
Johnson's side, where the latter Iwna‘
lying in tho middlewi‘ the trucks, he
found him breathing. A stretches was
sent for, but the ('onductor 11ch us
he was being placed on It. I
The motormnn in charge of John-
son's 1111' was named Shipper: and the
crew of the other (or nun Moloi 1111111I
‘iirown 11nd (.olnluctm Smith. I
lutst evening Undertaker '(‘hnt'lnsI
III‘nhlo, of Weuyort, was called up lin
the ilridgepofi authorities and asked1
to locate the family of Mr. Johnson.
U ndertnkcr Fable started to look upI
tho dnceuswd a family and found that
ho had 11 alto living on Cuinpo street.
Him was at once notified of her huu~‘
bnnd‘ a (tenth and wont. to 1U! ldgoport
U. s. AND CANADA TiED.
CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. 8.-—At
the end of the first. stage of the Palmu.
trophy match, on the BOO-yard range,
today, the United tiltatce and Canada
were tied for first place, each with 11.
score of 1588 out of a possible 000. 01111
or acorns were: Argentine Republic,
587; Sweden, 556; Porn. 530.
SEEKING FOR MGMiEEHO.
The recently appointed captains and
their committees to secure members
for the new chamber of Commerce
in Namath were today seeking mom-
me. The success of the committees
on a whole had not been reported.
. 1-41
i I11 thc
Iacterlzed as one of the
Montclnir, N. J.. and John Meyers,
chauffeur. of Newark N. J., as the
result' of a collision hetwen the Loco,
mobile of the defendants and Lewes
‘lnnndry delivery wagon 011 which theI
plaintiffs were riding at the time.
lioth mon claim extensive injuries as
the riotson for their stilts, and claim.
complaint $1 000 damages
Attorney John J. Cohen representsI
the plaintiffs 111111 with Deputy Sheriff
.1), Louis Lutlrignn is in llurlen this
.nl‘telnoon, where they are attending;
the criminal case against the men.
,'l‘l111 automobile of the defendants will
be attached to cover the costs of the
,,-proceedlnga
The papers in the case are return
able to the1 (‘ourt of (‘ommml Plcns on
the that Tuesday of ()(. tober
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TENNIS CHAMPIONS
RECEIVE FINE CUPS
William (3. tiniltb, Jr. and 11“.. .i.
Quinn. Jr are the acknowledged tour
llig champions of liellc island. and
yctcrliuv won the delldlng 111111111
against Philip Klein and Allie Bell-
man The games were witnessed 1in
over a hundred excited enthusiasts.
who applauded the many remarkable
plays with whith the match was chur-
tlncst ever
played on the Belle island Courts
Ming lilthel Smith a charming young
lady of the island recently donated
tWo handsome cups for the winners‘
at the championship and these were
presented after the games The many
guests who viewed the prizes were
loud in their prairies of them an the
most beautiful they had ever 11111111.
The scores of the games in m1 or of
Quinn and fimith ware as follows: C-
2; on; so; and 6-1. The match was
arranged for three out of live.
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radiator badly rent and rendered,
.iinrold Burr and Frank 11‘. Allen, of}
Norwalk, have brought similar dam-I,
Ipreciable amount of. water during her
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AIJIIIMIIRIIE IRIII
IIHIIIII SIRSIZIII
Accident to the Big Truck ot the
Fairiield County Dairy Com-
pany at Ridgetield
RSIIIII SIIIIRHI
Appliestierrtor‘irmter ot Ley-
den Saloon WIII Have
Remonslrance
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It is several months since the Got»
Me Hill district has been honored with
any attention on the part of liquor
dealers, and indeed the residents of
Yesterday morning, while delivering “10 section were I’BIEIDHIIIE to believe
milk on their route from Norwnlk tothflt their D8308 01' mind was secure
Danbury, the large automobile truckImfter the last application for a trans-
of the Fairfield County bum Coin Iter of license to the 01d cafe in that
many, of Norwalk, went down the bunk 890W"! “’33 denied by the commis'
in Sugar Hollow, near Ridgelluld log sinners. But it has proved to be mere-
IBuppllcs the different and this quietudc, and 110w the vicinity is
hodses along the line.
dairies
known. Ilmyden place. Remonstruncea
Iples, of Noru 1th was hu1't.nnd at oneI most recent mote
time it has thought that his arm unsI it Is understood that application has
b. 'okcn. Dr. R. W Lowe oidtldgcflold, Iheen made to the county veilinilssioti
was called to attend him and on ex- Ieru for the transfer of the license of
aminntiou, It was found that he had John b“ linyden, in North Main street,
onlyr received a few painful bruises Ito the property in question and a bear
IF. K. .tustin 1111 son Kenneth, who lug will probably beheld 011 the mat-
Iwore out of town yesterday, did notI ter in the Norquk town Colirt next.
hear of the accident until this morn- I\v.eok
ing and left for Sugai fiction to lnvsc- it is not thought that the
tlgate. 1 commissioners have changed their
A number of witnesses who saw the minds re intrdlng the establlalunont ofI
accident said that the road gate 11 by a saloon Wilt‘l'l‘ the one there Drf'vions-I
and let the car down the ten foot (1111Ily proved such a trouble maker The
bnnkmcnt, 111.1111 which it 11 ill be tukonI luck of police protection made the
Itoduy. hangout one to be feared in times‘
WM” past and over were the disgraceful,
conditions uppnient in the old days.
,IANNuAIL FAMEL' 'lho rammubrnncc or these will proba-
BLAMBAKE "ELDIIIII brim,1 forth 11 storm or plotost in
llhr,1 way of n romonst'runce from those
,ftffected.
'll111 annual tntnlly clninbnke wusl ()i’ course, after election, IHHI lit'l‘
Iheld in llnrcbnrd'u 1111111111,,11111I111'dny, hops at present. the 1111 ution will I111
Innd despite the heavy ahowr-r in the In the city limits l’oil'o protection
early afternoon ovolytlilng was
linhtful throughout the (luv. tlu1 un-
liiI‘ilt-tililtlit'iib (- aimed by the min being
Iforgottun in the good time which pro-
'Icoded and followed About one hun-
:dred were present, including the men.
Ithoir wives, children and sweethearts.
in the morning there was a sheep
ironat. Expert chetu prepared the feast
Iand all agreed it was the bent over.
in the afternoon, after the rain. there
was the usual bake, and clams. sweet
and white potatoes. blueiluh. chicken.
Iiobster. sweet corn, and the other
Ithingu which make a dinner of this
Inst-re no palatableunil' were there.
Much credit. is accorded Hermon n.
Matteo and Fred Tyrreli. who arrang-
WI for the affair. and they received
mm been: compliment: yesterday.
”WV .
A good adv“ pan out in the but
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IIIIII' until this tI1uo,nnd perhaps even,
then the residents will protest
against the re opening of the place as
a. liquor shop.
in the matter and it In hoped that
nothing will come of tht1 (installer.
cent to turn doun by npplicntlon.I
There In every indication that the re
monetruncc hearing will be a their
one,
PEOPLE'S PARTY CAUCUC.
The recently formed People a party
will hold a caucus. this evening. at it
o‘clock, in the City Hall. in South Nor-
walk. All interested are invited to at.
tend. .
Hone-cookers notch Sentinel Want
Me. for light on the "ohm to bar?
mic. ,
log all of the 250 gallons of with which 1y the calm WIIICII DWCCdeS 11 storm,
iiow Iimily the again startled by another attempt to.
machine was damaged is not yeti!“ fl IIUSIDBSS located in “19 former:
will
I The driver, who Is Anthony Schnp-I no doubt. be registered against the
county '
tie-I lell likel1 be given the section 11111113;
Not a little interest In Inunlteutodv
of gambling.
James MceKe, the aged justice of‘
the peace. who signed the warrant for‘
Jerome’s arrest, will haie no part inI
today s proceedings. He has been su~§.
perceded by a district. magistrate, ii.‘
111. Muttena, of Sherbrooke A. C:
Henson, joint Crown prosecutor for
the district, 11 ill appear for the prose-I
cutton, and Jacob Nicol. of Sher-
brookoJJmn prosecutor of the dis-
trict. for the defense This stronge‘
state of affairs developed out of Ni
col’s aiding the New York forces in
getting Thaw out of the Sherbrooke
jail. He has since been identified
with anti Thaw interests and, after do I
Inouncing Jeromes arrest as an out-‘ .
rage, volunteered to defend him.
I Milford Aldrich, the compinlnuntI
Iaaginst Jerome, got leave of absence
from the mill wlte.e he ls employed,I
Iso that he could be in court. He sold
I this morning that he had no sympathy
Iwith Thaw and had acted against Je~I
Irome because he thought it'was his
duty. “I got in a little trouble one
time for playing cents in New Hump-I
shire” he confessed, “and tilts will:
sort of even things up.,"
Thaw evinced great interest in theI
IJerome hearing, but could get little
I information from his guards. No one
. except his lawyer s was allow ed to see
hint. and most of them are In Mon-I
trenl. it was still uncertain today!
when Thaw would be removed there.
Jerome was due in Conticook about
noon and his case was to be called at
It o'clock.
I William Travers Jerome stepped off
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SHOT SOUINNELS
I ' ON SUNDAY
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(‘onnty lame Warden Wilbur 11‘.
‘Smitb. having received information
that some one was in the habit of got
ting up early in the thinning 11111115111101-
;i‘ng gray squirrels, left his home in.
My avenue, Sunday 1norning,et 51
o 'ciock for West Norwalk. Soon after
ranching the place he was rewarded
by seeing a young man with a gun
coming through the lot. Two squir-
rein were in the tree above Mr.
Smith's head, and the youth took a
Iahot at them. As he did so, oir.
Smith placed him under arrest. lie
gave his name an Rocco Clnln, and
1lived on the bill a short distance
away. He went to the house and anti»
find his father, and then all hands
came to police headquarters. where
Rocco was admitted in ball of $18 for
trial this morning. Judge Keogh
found the accused guilty of huntingon
Banday. and imposed a fine of .10 and
costs. 011 the charge of shouting my
squirrels the case was continued until
December 3111. and Chief of Police
Pennington will have custody of the
young” man's tun until that hw'
fir. Smith went WWW W
to tool: on evidenced)“ m titers for I
RRRIIIIIII RRIIIIIRI SIIIII
IARSI IIRISS SARIIIIRI
One of the Greatest Successes
ot the Season Held Last
Saturday Evening
The fancy dress carnival held at the
News”: Country Club, last Saturday
evening, proved to be one of the big-
gest successes of its kind that the
, club has ever had. Various characters
were in evidence, Yams. Yamas, I11-
dians, Chinese laundry men, Buster
Brown boys and girls, clowns, gypsies,
Mexicans, old-fashioned southIIer'n girls,
to.
The spirit of the young people was
such that, it made the dance unusually
lively and great fun was enjoyed
throughout she evening. The guests
t‘b
unmasked after a few dances, at
which time there were many sur-
prises.
At 9 o‘clock the parade started and
the «participants formed in front of
the club house. marched around the
building and lawn, out. on the pier, 11p
to the porch, and through the dance
"hall and then disbanded and had the
first dance with their partners.
The building and grounds never in
all their history looked so beautiful
as they did Satnday evening with all
of 400 electric lights glow.ing They
could be seen a great distance out
'Iin the water and from the various
points on the shore.
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Lightning Burns Quaker Hill Barn
With Fourteen Cows, Three
Horses and ImplementsI I
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from Sunday’s Storm
necticut early today was exceptionab
ly sharp, and it did considerable dam-
age.
fourths of an inch.
and fourteen cows and three horses,
plements were burned. The 'loss is
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Waterbury and Vicinity Suiteriill'?
The rain fall was about three- 5,:
in Monti/111e, the.
barn of Ezra J. Hempstead, on Qua- '
ker Hill, was set on fire by lightning, ,.
many tens of hay, and the farming im-
P.
«1
,tbnt has been upon them tin1 past few
hunting 1without a license.
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The older folks as well as the
young ones were masked and attired
in fancy costumes. in many cases. \-. I
they caused much laughter. HEADlESS Buoy
played
Spiedel‘s Orchestra, which
for the dancing, was at its best, andI
erand Raymond who was in:
change of the affair. deserves no lit-I
its credit for his hard and sinCere
work which made the carnival so greatl‘
a success. '
John '1‘. Hayes, of Norwalk, was ati
the club and sold masks and:
ticklers.
Paris of him wrapped in Pet-.-
per—Bambiing Letter. lie-
c'eived at Morgue
I NEW YORK. Sept. 8.-—'An embroiq
Idered letter “ " begun with a. flourish
BIG STRIKE THRE‘TinED and finished with uncertain hand, gave
VE" RAILROAD detectives today their first tangible
ON NEW “A Iclue in New York‘s latest murder mym '
Itery, the body of whose victim, 11 girl
The \eW listen road I6 faring a in the twenties. has been surrendered
most serious situation. Unless a rallld' in two pieces by the Hudson river.
Iv 11 Moving IH‘GRCII between OITICII‘IS Through this hand worked letter
and men Is In some manner healed a which adorned the corner of the stain.
strike will take place in the next three ed pillow Bill! containing the Iowa, I
months according to those in a posi- ilBI‘I of the body. found yesterday, d9.
ties to know. Today men of the var-
ions branches of the service are work
ing hard to (omblne to handle the at-
fair. .
For weeks 110w the engineers and
firemen have been in conference over
a change in rates proposed by C. L.
liardo. He had to give the men 110—
tlcc or the pending change. incident-
ally Mr. iiat'do made it known he
would never tolerate interference by
woman's identity, although her head.
Iarms and legs had not been found.
It is believed that the river still
holds these members of the body, and
that the crime was committed in New
York by a person or persons versed in,
surgery. This theory is strengthened
by the skill with which the body was
dissected and the flailing In the pillow
Isllp with the lower torso of a nine. ,
labor unions. ‘pound rock of a kind which abounds "I
[Engineers and firemen have come in Manhattfin’ pm 1,, “eklam seen all
together In practically out1 body after ”119 19mm. mm, of the river, A prob- .
efforts exit oiling over about (.11 years. 91,19 motive for the crime 13 found with
New 1111 eil‘ort Is being intuit! to bring the discovery that, the young woman
the ('oluluctbrs 11nd trnlnnwn together, was to have become a motherIwithifi
thou the .four will work together in a few months. W
the impending struggle. A rumbling letter unsigned to the
"Not 11 wheel will turn on the New “01mm.“ Morgum where the body is‘
iiuvcn road three months hence.“ lying p, also piling lnvogtlggtod. in
said 11 man I11 close. touch with 111‘1 gm“ letter the writer bewnlls the dill»1
fairs, this morning, "11111111113 something appearance of “1121111," and names on
la done to relieve the 11111.11 of the load pp,“ 914143 phygkilan,
”MN... 1.me .
“WELL, HAVE YOU '
months. it will be a grant blow to
the New Haven for everyone will
quit."
Mbmwi
TWO BIBVOLISTB
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A lung ulna. letters nearlyiwo foot
K.LLE“ I" “ERMA"Y high, to be owing I11 East Norwaik’n
Icenter. was seen by a reporter this
Imoruing. ”Have you joined the“
COLOGNE, Germany, Betti. 1”erlliharmy?” until the sign. The reporter
Lawaon, and American cy,cllst and A did not answer but 1101111111: informer»
Scheurmnnn, alderman rider, are dead, ”on regarding up, 31199; p, was
and Meiuhold, the (tertnln
pacemaker, Ia dying as the result of Immeg with up. 1.13“ i some wan”.
I‘M! accident today in lithe 111"“!!de Luann“ to the 313er "
kilometre motor paced bicycle chain
plonshtp race here.
While Lawson was peeing Claimant
a Frenchman. a tire of the motor
cycle ham and the racers were hurt-
at to the bottom of Ibo trunk Lew-
son 11 shall and both arms were free-
tuned and harm injured internally.
"Mr. 3.1111111 who ,_
Joined the army? mean". allied A
reporter later. “What army? the m
vetted Army?" asked Mr Smith a
he disappeared in the direction of ob
Telephone building, with much am.
but no apparent haste. i'
“Try eioefofourroflihm
MWIH'IOK 111 me “Milli. Wednesday. banner 1113., 11m its
“11‘6th found that Edward if. timith was cote- ,1
NORWICH, Sept. 8.—JI‘he electrich
storm which passed over Eastern 00111 '
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added greatly to the enjoyment ofI1 [If WHHAN fuuun
all. I a
tectlves hope to establish the young . .
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