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Great Home
Newspaper
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EIBHHHB WHICH
,‘Iwelve Cannon, Nine Military Trains, 6,000 Rifles and Two Car-
loads of Ammunition Taken, Togeather With 5,000
Prisoners—Retreating Army Blows Up Forts
and Many public Buildings
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lllSlllllllES NUMBER 500 Hill All] 800 WHHHHEH
City Believed to Have Been Taken by a Sudden Infantry Attack As
Villa Was Unable to Use His Artillery Because of
Lack of Ammunition
ZACATECAS, Mex, June 271.—~Aftcr
[our 1111,15” preliminary lighting,
filial assault on Zacatecas took place:
'June 23, resulting in the capture of
the city at 1. 30 p. n1
present revolution in the belief
leaders here. Fourteen thousand Fed-
jerals were entrenched in seemingly
impregnahle positions.
Ii‘ive thousand prisoners were cup-1‘
lured by General Villa‘s troops. Twelve
cannon nine military trains, six thou-
sand rifles and three carloads of can-
non and rifle ammunition were cap-
tured.
the ‘
lntsrsd I! the South Nor-walk Pesto-on
as Second Clul W.
lSl I4 HAYS
The dead on the Federal side, ac-
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Associated Press News from All Parts of the World by a Spoolsl Wire and Our Own Operator
HllllllERlIlEll lll
Bill? Hill llllHlHl.
Humor Persistent That Conn-
eolicul Troops Are to be
Mobilized at Fort Terry
FORT H. G. WRIGHT, New York.
June 25.——There is a. very persistent
rumor around the encampment that
the Connecticut Coast Artillery Corps
is to remain in camp for a month
and that at the end of that time the
corps will be transferred to Fort Ter-
ry for mobilization. The mobilization
camp at Fort Terry has been prepar- l
ed by the regulars and put in condi~l
tion for the retention of a large num-
ber of men. The rumor is persistent,l
but cannot be definitely coniirmedl
here. "
Things commenced to move faster
at the Fort Tuesday, the two sectional
taking art in subcalibre practice inE
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preparation for the full service fir-
ing, which will take place Friday.
The company is allowed six shots
four record shots and two trial shotsl
There being two gun secuons each
section will fire one trial shot and,
two record shots,
cording to official figures. numbered
four thousand and two thousand
wounded while the losses to the at-
The battle was l tacking side were not stated definitely,
,the most. hotly contested during the’
of.
though \‘iila estimates his casualities
at five hundred dead and eight huh-i
dred wounded.
Private Feeney, range seller 011 sec-
tion No, 2. had the misfortune to give
his hand a bad jam on the gun Tues-
day. It required the services of the
corps doctor, but he. is still able to
continue his duties all right.
I’ritate Thomas Ilonneil1 of Main
‘JESHPV 0th
SOUTH NORWALK, CONN" THURSDAY. JUNE 25.1914
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Sheriff Elwood Was Arrainged
in Westport
m
Westport Woman Arrested by
l Lying on a cot. at St. \iucent‘s
Hoepital yesterday afternoon. Frank
830“” Willow Adds ‘5 000 Forday, of 303 Charles street Bridge
port contradicted the assertions
000 III IIIO $1,000,000 HB made Tuesday night by Miss Annie
Selleck, the wealthy artist of Turkey
6m l0 MUSEUM 0' NIIUI'DH Hill road. \lestport, whose automo-l
“mm.” m MISSIBII Boards bile collided with Fordays
Gets Big Sums.
cycle on the Connecticut turnpike 0and
tansed Forday to be thrown to the
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roadway and seriously injured The
automobile ran into me.‘ he declared.
Bette, Bissell and Lockwood Fam-
ilies Eel $5.000 Each
“and I was trawling only .5 miles
an hour ”
Miss Selleck was arrested at 11: 45
H'ociodt yesterday morning b1 Deput)t
Sheriff H R. Elwood and later re-
1leaned on her own recognizance. Shel
‘11'as arraigned. today before .IUdge
Samuel A. Purdy In the Westport‘
Htown court and her case will be con
jtinued until Forday recovers.
‘ Forday's Btory,
Mrs. Maria Van Antwerp De Witt'
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Twelve Pages
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Reliable Local
and
General N ewe ‘
Every Day
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L:TWO CENTS
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CH. HAMEH‘
New York Concern, Capitaliu
orcises Held Last Evening E tor5l0000000 Controlled
'" the Armory Many Concerns .
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PilllllllHlHS lH lElElHHHH. [if LHEHHS cunts
Messrs. Cheney and Chandler
Deliver the Addresses United Dry Goods Company, it to
Said, Not Affected
Fair tonight and Friday.
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IN HHRW-ll
High School Commencement Ex-
) .
Before an audience that occupied‘
e1 erv seat and available standing rooml
\‘EW YORK. June Zi—RmmIM
in the auditorium. with a. number be were named today for the vast wholo ‘
ing forced to stand outside at either sale drygoods establishment of the a.
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liesup. widow of Morris K. Jesup, be-
queathed $3,000,000 to the American
Museum of Natural. History, in addi-
tion to a remainder interest in a
$300,000 trust fund.
lier Ewill, executed in February,
was tiles‘ yesterday in the Sur-
rogate‘s court, in New York. The to-
tal bequests to public institutions are
The Federals were reported to have street who drives the Texas oil Ms- 0”,, $11.1.l000o0
d1namited manv buildings of the city
before evacuating, slaying those of
Villa‘s trOops are bad occupied the1
buildings in the street fighting.
General Villa himself gave the fol-'time he has not been able to get on Januarv 22, 1903
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Richard Lamont. 0ld Weather
Prophet, Victim of Air
Line Train
on, arri1ed in camp Tuesday for a
four days’ stay. » H
Private Peterson is expected in
lcamp tomorrow. I’p to the present
away from his duties at the gas
Win-ks. l
Private Brown receiied his diei
charge Monday and immediately “ME
home his time being out.
We how some great comedians upa
well, Samuel Riley, Tanner ltritto andf
Young Shorty Ilritto. Tanner Ilritto‘
says his only trouble is that when
{he gets' to sleep some one will throw
a rubber shoe at him. Outside of that
Tanner gets along good.
Bill <(‘ogswell has the record up
here at (amp. The1 are lllll Coggs 1 .
‘walk Lodge. .‘o.
Mrs. Jesup died at her residence,
1N0. 197 Madison avenue, on June 17.
She inherited an immense
estate from her husband, who died
He was a re-
tired banker and philanthropist. who
last.
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EMS NEW “DUE
TO 0081' $12, 000'
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Plans and specifications for the new
Elks Home were approved last. night.
at the regular meeting of Sonth Nor-
Protectlve=0rder of Elks, and detail-E
Sheriff Elwood, who is investigat
ing the accident. interviewed Fords)
yesterday afternoon. l‘orday admits
that he was traveling in the middle
of the roadway. but declares it was
for the purpose of avoiding any ma
chine or other vehicle coming out of
the Turkey iiill road. lie says he
was traveling 25 miles an hour and
not 40 miles an hour, as Miss Selleck
claimed. lie. places the blame for
the accident upon tier,
Miss Sclleck yesterday reiterated
her statement that Forday was to
blame for the «olden.
Sheriff Elwood investigated yester-
day the assertion that Forday was
iriding his machine without placing
ihis hands on the bars of it, From
,e1ldence he had gathered, he belie1es 1
lit is impossible to drive a machine at
that speed without keeping the hands
on the controlling bars.
BIKER GEDIIEY
Yesterday morning, a gentleman|
i MEETS A FLIMFLAMEHH
709. Benevolent and-E
entrance the commencement exercises B (‘laflin and Company. Aacoolate‘
or‘ the Norwalk High SthOOI were held companies were not involved
last night under most auspicious cir~ The receivers were named as ‘ IQ
cumstances. Despite the intense heat suit of a 5““ in mum, filed in W
of the evening, which was felt espe- federal district court. Judge learn“ ,
ciaily by those in the auditorium, there had named as receivers Joseph B. m
was none the less enthusiasm 11nd each I iindale president of the Chemical 8', .
”1‘" “E “‘9 ”08“” 0; ”‘1‘” ”a “’85 tional Bank. and Frederick a. annuals
“9" recei1ed, The a air was very amember of the firm ofA. B. Jutlllnll‘
impressive and some extellent speak and Company. under bonds of ‘m’
ing was heard when Hon. George B. 0.00 each 1
(‘ handler state compensation commie, ~
sinner. made the principal address ofZ
the evening.
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PHHHH HHLIEH HHHSEHEH HHSlEHlHH
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Colonel Declares G. w. is Most
Woman Held tor; Investigation .
. '9‘
Useful Member of Moose
Party ' H
OYSTER 13.111, x. Y,, June 2:..— Col.
.Ellll BRIJH‘PHRE
:22.
,here for chewing tobacco, he having
MIDDLETOWN. June 25. r—Rlchardlconumed nine papers since he has tractors of the city will be.secured
Lamont. who vied with‘ Uncle Hor- been here, in a few days. The 11's“ addition will
ace" Johnson in predicting the weath H Short) Britta has been appointed (‘08! 81301“ $10 000 and the alterations
ed estimates from the various con-'
claiming to be a representative of
Atwater & Company of New York.
called on George H. Gedney, who rt
Theodore Roosevelt. who returned in COMIEOIIOI’I \VIIII Death Of
last night from Europe, where he had
gone to attend the wedding of this; Stamford Man SIEIII
Explains That He Was Not Invit-
ed to Recent “Harmony"
Dinner in Bridgeport
this 111 ill HIKE
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Congressman Reilly’s Sen Bob-
eri Dangerously III in New
York Hospital
It .
WASHINGTON, D. 0., ‘June 25.—
,Congressman Donovan personally will
not confirm stories published in
Bridgeport that the nominations for'
collector of customs with headquar-
‘ tears at Bridgeport and fpr postmaster
it. Bridgeport will soon be made. The
names certainly have not yet been ,
Sent to the senate, but the Connecticut
' - colony here is watching the n‘omina-J
pious, lists with care just now.
dictions
er, was killed last night by an Air
Line train on the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford railroad, near his
home in the Staddle Hill district H61
corporal of the midget squad
The recruits are on the jump, look-
‘ ing up their general orders in prepara-
tion for the guard mount, which takes
to the old house, including a new
.front, will cost less than $2,000.
It was voted to deter the initiation,
scheduled for Sunday afternoon. until
apparently become confused while place Frill“) 9”?“an The older meme Sunday e1 ening at 7 o'CIocl't. and am-
crossing the tracks
death occurring on the train.
Mr. Lamont was 81 years old and
was a veteran of the Civil War. 'He
was a farmer by occupation. Of late
yeard'he achieved notoriety through
the local press. by making weather
predictions. He “poked fun" at the
predictions made by Horace Johnson.
the Middle Haddom soar. and his pro-
mere ~~ usually contrary to
those of Mr. Johnson's. ‘
He leaves a daughter residing, in
Merlden.
—-New York Giants play'Newbui-gh
at. Amusement Park, Eunday, 3:15.
suven TEA ~ _
ron MISSIONS
Mrs. John H. Knapp gave a very
pretty silver tea at her home on
cam-p got jacked up. and as a result
the company commander put. the ki-
bosh on it for keeps.
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—New York-Newburgh. Amusement
Park, Sunday.
socioeum ,siior -
or MAVUH MITCHEI.
NEW YORK. June 25,—Wllliom 'H.
Reynolds, a former state senator. may
ed Saturday by the accidental dis-
charge of Mayor John Purroy Mltchels
pistol. The bullet entered Mr. Rey-
nolds’ left thigh, passed through, and
in homing out shattered the bone of. a
finger. It was said at the hospital to-
'C0ng'ressmen Don'ovan has ex:
plained his absence from' the Dem-
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101: All
10c LB
Fresh mackerel, 12 12c.
Bless «Most and Prov. Go.
Adolphus Young ofwster street.
as Bacall, Dlstr‘lct.1vaa admitted to the
«Warmth hospital last night, entering
3min rheumatism. .
Ville-a Mary Shaehln, of Rodsyton,
'tain ant: Mrs. E. K. Sims sang sev-
. the chorus
West street yesterday afternoon, the
proceeds of which are to be used in
the missionary work of the Trin'ityi;
Episcopal church.
decorated with roses and pennies, and.
presented a very pretty sight.
Miss Helen Hobart. of the New York,
Mission House. gave an interesting
tail: on general missionary Work,
which was greatly enjoyed by thoi
thirty-five or more ladies who were
present.‘
Miss Helen" Taylor pleased With sev-
oral excellent musical numbers, and
at. the close of the afternoon’s enter-
oral hymns, the assemblage Joining in
i /
”filmed from the institution,
day that although Mr. Reynolds had
had a restless night. he was doing well
and would soon recover unless compil-
The house was” “t ‘5 developed,
The mayor expressed keen regret
quent visitor at the hospital. die ex
plained that Mr. Reynolds, Mrs. iMitch‘
al, a friend of Mrs. Mitchel a‘ud him-
self had returned from the Mitchel
farm. at Croton, where the forty has
been shooting at a. target. '- -
The pistol slipped from the holster
as the mayor was carrying it into the!n
house and in its fall broke the safety
mechanism, driving the hdmmar point
into the cartridge.
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_ ‘——Ses the Giants. Amusement Park'
~New York (Manta hero Sunder,
Sunday afternoon, 3:15 o’clock.
The train stop- he” that were k9!“ 0“ the jump Nt' oral candidates will be ready by that
pod and brought him to this city, his line the recruits through the mill at ume
Refreshments will be served
after the work:
, The report of. the charity ball com-
mittee was accepted. and the commits
tee discharged with avote of thanks;
A lodge of sorrow, for the. late
brother Carl A. Palltsch was conduct-
ed by the omcers of the lodge.
1111. r. e. cousin; . ,
HA8 inuiveosnnv
”~
ce‘dtiy opened a bakery next to the
Central Food block on Washington
street, and explained to Mr. Gedneyl
that the company's regular salesman
was ill, and that he had come around
for the usual order for supplies.
The man claimed to be Mr. Ativaten
himself, the head of the company. and
lhe receipted a bill for Mr. Gedney,
telling him to ‘send the check on to
his New York office. 1
1 He also explained how a local bak?
,er had bmfgtit from him a crate 0:
Sega. but as he had not paid for them.
he was going to re-ship the crate, but:
would consent to sell them at a sac-
rifice for 18c. a dozen to anyone pay-
ing bim' cash. As Mr,,Gedney has to‘
pay around 24c a dozen for eggs, hel
saw a bargain in the offer, and paid
Ein cold cash $5. «10 The man refus;
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The jolliest kind of a time was 1311- ed to accept a check-1
joy ed last o1 suing at a surprise party
a splendid dinner was served. Mr.5
Coleman came in for hearty congratu-
Neither the eggs nor the man have
, 29:33“: w Ste “:9 5 “059““ forl given in honor of the 50111 birthday of out in an appearance. and .11: Gedne“
B 0 more Y I e wound lnfiict- Fred B Coleman, the popular n‘ews- is sure that he has been film dammed
tdealer, at his home on High out Of his money.
street ’1 During the course or ’ ---~- - -—«~———
the evening games; music and ST. GEORGE'B CRlCKET CLUB TO
dancing were enjoyed, and PLAY.
The St. Georges Crocketfllu’b will
play its second league match with
son, Kermit, permitted himself no: Bill thl'e
rest today, but immediately got toll
work 011 his correspondence and other .
matters which had accunmlatedln hlslHER {AIHER SAYS
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absence. E
be Mr. Roosevelt‘s
lCounsel for Accused Claims Sits» H
Politics will. l
chief pursuit for the next four months, 'l
according to his own statement made!
inst before he retired early today at l
ter reaching his home at Sagamore
Illll
“My career as a geographer ended - ' .
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tonight," he declared. “For the next, w” "M tesmy THIS
four monthsl suppose I shall be a poli- E AEIBI'IIOOII
tician." l ..._...._..' .
. Colonel Roosevelt appears to be i'l ST AMFORD, .lune 25.—An invests-4'71! ,
much better health than before he gallon. independent of that .10th
sailed for Europe. He ea 11 thatr he made by Coroner John J. Phelfin m
had ne1er felt better. despite the fact ordered today by Prosecuting AM
that on the return voyage he suffered ne-y Albert Phillips into the death
from severe oh‘113-111111110 11. Ballon, which occurred ’
The colonel following his arrival in yesterdfi __
New York harbor last night, in con- of Q,“
versation and in a carefully prepared in , ’
statement. touched on subjects of Tu: .
large interest in both national “dla {353,111,312 apartment 5‘
[Progressive politics. lwhere earlier in the evening be
In his talk he spoke. of the attempt called on Mrs Helen H. AIME.“ '
lto read George W. Perkins out of the,
Progressive Part1, ‘ E
“Mr Perkins “has been, on their
midnight. of the, a
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for the accident, and has been a fre- '
ilatlons from his many friends, and he
.was also in receipt of many remem-
brances. Among the guests present
w:ere
Mr and Mrs. Charles Coleman. Mr.
aners Fred. Jaynes,1Mr. and Mrs. E
the club grounds at Norwalk: The
team for Saturday will be as follows.
Tom Parr, captain.
F_ Howley, vice captain,
James Coleman, of Members, Mr. and A- D- ”7779'
(Mrs. Lester Wheeler, of Bridgeport, 47- iHunt. . ,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller, of New 'H- Norman.
Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Reph- F- 30115031 .
iermel,ofBrooklyn,N. 1'..Ju1na Gale A. Haves.
man, Miss May Dowd, Earl Coleman, . ‘1 _8l8"9n1150n-
man. Miles Adelaide Essen, Irving Cole W. Spray 1 . ,
man, 1811:. Down, Mr. and 1111's. area. '8 Stevenson. .
B.Colemap.-I1‘red,T.Coleman, Arthur J. T. Wrong .
EBenger and Miss Irene Colemosf’ "The
guests were taken to their respoétivo
' homes in automobiles.
W a“
ADVIRTI‘B IN THE OINTINII:
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Reserves—4 Wrogs. F Post
Umpire~,-‘R Lamb. "
Good mounts are to be nod—for
the advertising .
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lBridgepol‘t. Saturday. June 27th, on whole " he said "the most useful mem- l
ber of the Progressive Party."
After enumerating some of
'onal said:
“As for reading him out of the par-
.iy, when that is done they will have
lto read me out, too."
His prepared statement denounced
the Colombian treaty with its propos-
‘en’ payment or 325.009.0011 to 0010111-
Ebit because of the Panama Canal, as
‘the belated payment of blackmail.
. with an apology to the blackmailers,"
and said that th'e handling of our for-
eign affairs by President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan “has been such as
:to make the United States a figure of.
,tun lo the international world."
, ,
I
the .
ithings Mr. Perkins has done, the col~l
~iGlIII. PIUIIHED
THllUlHlII SKYLIBII.‘ _
While playing on the roof of ti"
Mansion House. Loretta Finnegan, t,
Spears-old daughter of Mrs. Bea '
Finnegan of 84 Washington T
plunged» through a sky-light, and
18 feet into a haIIWay of the 111s '
House this afternoon. She won
verely cut by glass, with pro
more “serious injuries. Dr. F. 1
bell was called, and rendered in
treatment. a ‘
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