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SOUTH NORWALK, CONN .,
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1915
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Fair Monday; Tuesday. cloudy.
Greens Farms Man
Roasted Alive in Fire
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John Barer, Well Known Character Meets
' Horrible Death When the Flames Swept
Building on Property Owned by Chas.
Kane—Medical Examiner Makes ln-
vestigation.——Wife of Owner Discovers
Blaze.
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When flames consutued an out- one of these visitations Saturday after-
buiIding on the property of Citarleahnoon. He went into the house. whichE
'Kane. 01‘ Long Lots street, Greens! was a store and tool house and sleep-
Farms late Saturday afternoon, .lohniing quarters for himself on the sec-
Barer.. a well-known character of theiond floor. about 5:30,
town, was roasted alive.
tht tire went the secret of how the‘that allrer attempted to kindle a tire
blaze. started and this is doomed (band that some of the embers got
forever remain an unsolved‘mystery. Sawny front the Stove with the
The first intimation of any unto-results,
ward happening was when Mrs. Kano Trapped by Flames.
saw from a window in the residence ludicatiohg are that Barer made a
some distance awav a sudden spurt desperate effort to save himself but
of flame within the smaller stru<ture. that he was trapped by the flames
Before anyone could reath the place and Qvercome b_\ the smoke em be
the fire had spread all over the build- could get to the open air. His re-
ing and it was too late to save llleimaius were found at a point which
man or those articles stored therein. .would indicate that he had either
Charred Bones Found. fallen or walked down to the bottom
Mr lutue arrived home shortly al- of the mail-g
ter the fire broke out apd with the Medical Examiner llr. F. Powers.
others who had gathered watched his of Westport, was notified. He. viewed
with its human life rise ‘0 the body’and gave permission for its
property
its tower of heat and finally burn 011! removal for burial preparation. U11:
\‘one, new sure of the fate of Barcr dertaker Charles F Fable took the
until the ruins had so111ewl1at cooled, body to his morgue.
and then his remains, but a bundle Barer was single, at ungar' and
or Cinders. charred bones and tieslnhud no close reiativ€it Va
came. to the view of the searchers. ismurday night. Fune anytgem
Hart-r had worked for Mr. Kanelhave not been anuounc
for .1 score of years. lndustrious and In the first floor of the
a good worker. his services had al- 'a, building 15 by 20 feet,
ways sheen satisfactory. Periodically many farming plemen up
he went awtiy for a few hours to 111‘‘ Mr, Kane. euty e \ecesby of
dulge in a good time and it was the ham and c , Tbtbwhi were htmg in
0 01801316 expressed Saturday the house re con as well.
night th- ‘ he had but returned froml'i‘he loss was “KN she
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EllliR YEAR lllll Bill
William Toto. four years old of.) i
Bailey street, Springwood Saturday
afternoon was attached by a tramp
. _ dog, win badly bit the boy on the eye. l
lid 101' F l Burnell who rendered
medical treatment says the sight of,
the boy" S eye will not be impaired.
‘. The incident caused considerable ex-
citement in the vicinity of Bailey St profit or 52'119'07
The screams of pain from the boy, ‘ It is expected that there will be
roused the excited neighbors who chas- some additional receipts. and there
ed the dog for some distance After i may be one or two bills outstanding,
Another meeting of the fair commit-
'tee of South Norwalk Lodge. No 709,
tBenevolent and Protective Order of
iElks, w_as held yesterday afternoon.
iThe reports of the various committees
showed that the total receipts to date
were 33. 75213. and the expenses
amounted to $1, 633. 56. which left a net
The tire start-‘
With him 1n1ed about 6:30 o'clock. Some bellevol
lllurx Said to Have Met line of the
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Colored Men Hunted Montague and
Porter Said to be Cat’s-Pans for
William S. llurx, of Brooklyn i
GAME PLAYED HERE
5 NEflEl) MAN $30
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1. Two “cat's paws" for the clever bad
check man, William S. Hurx. of Brook-
lyn: X. Y.. who. at times, also answers
to William Davenport and Henry Kel-‘
Ier. are now locked up in the City Hall
station. They are Thomas Parker
stud Luke Montague. botit colored. ofl
Dav and Raymond streets. i
ilnrx. who is an expert in his petu
1liar line of business. made out the
worthless checks on the ilarrlman.
Bank. of New York city, in the name“.
of Montague and Parker. who cashed
them. For this little fnvor it is claim‘
ed they received from liurx little over
a dollar as their share of the huul.
liree checks were passed by the local
men for ilurx. Two were cashed by-
: Magner & Flynn and the third one byi
‘ilentou imposlty. a Day street grocer.
$30 was thus received l
'wti‘trm n: Horm'who'is”sa!d‘to’beim is presuming llouse Ml
the j‘blaok sheep" or a wealthy Brook-
lvn family. was some time ago lli'l'eBl-l
ed, iii Brooklyn. for the same offense.
.lt was while' 11 Bridgeport Jail. where.
he was serving a nine months' sen-.1
'tcnce, that he met L'uke Montague. of
'South Norwalk. Montague was serv
ting time for having run amuok while
crazy drunk and stabbing'Mr..nnd Mrs;
Slgsway. saloon-keepers, on Day‘
street, and John Lombak When the
two were released they renewed their:
friendship with the result that an.
tague again got m’Wrong.
1 The two coin? men it" e. arrested
at their homes. turday a fieffiodif. by
Detective~Sergeant [soothes-logo; and?
Officer John H. Toothlll. The police.
are still trying to locate Hurx, and
hope to do so within a short time. al-
though it is difficult to find a clue.
Hurx having had considerable head-.
way before the police were notified
‘ about the matter
Barker and Montague will be tried
before Judge John Keogh this morn-
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American Ship Elvyn
ls Blown Up
Secretary-Bryan Receives Word That the
Crew is Saved But Ship and Cargo
Are Los't.--Details of the Altair Are
Still Lacking.
VVASIIIN'GTO‘N. Feb. 21.—Secretary Bryan an—
nounced the receipt of a telegram tonight from the Amer-
ican ('ousul at Bremen reporting the loss of the American
steamer Elvyn. The cause was not stated. The
was saved.
American Consul Fee’s telegram which was given out
by the Stategificparttncnt was as follows: . .
"Sir. ill, yn. Captain S1niti1.ag‘c11ts 111111 8: Company, ‘
New York, l01v11 11p early Friday (‘rcvv
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at llorkum.
saved. Shi] and cargo lost."
Sk‘t‘i‘t‘lil?’ Bryan repeated the A111cric2111 (fousul's thc- f
gram i111111c‘iatcly to rhubnssador Page at London (illtl ‘
.'\lllli(l$$lltlt)l‘; Gerard ttt. lit-11in. with instructions to learn
all possibltwfacts concerning: the occurrence and give
cvcr_v care to the crew if landed in their respective juris~
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mflim Committee in Wash-1 to be Connected Under the Rail-i
ington. road bridge and South Main?
i Street Snitch removed
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“imitate-inlaiplllefiitl! . .
sinner No limit: Mao» whim, Street to be in
stalcd in Short Time
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For. the first time in history the U.
S, Government Saturday morning was
formally requested to pay the lines of
men convicted by the United States
Courts.
The request was made by Judge Al-
ton B. Parker. of New York, Samuel
Gompers. president of the American
Federation of Labor. John W. Sculley,
of this city, and others before the
House Appropriations Committee.-
They urged an appropriation of $290,-
000 to enable the defendants in the fa-
mous Danbury Hatters case, to pay.
their tines. ‘
In speaking of the matter last eve-
ning at his home on Monroe street.
Mr. sculley, president of the United
1 The Connecticut Company is making
plans to do a great amount of work
in Norwalk and vicinity during the
coming spring. the officials at
present time only desiring suitable
weather to make; extensive changes
and repairs to the Norwalk system.
Already great quantities of new ties.
have arrived here. and in all it is
stated that about 30.000 will be used
during the coming year. New; steel
rails are also arriving. having been
specially Ordered for the work it is
proposed to do. especially in South
Norwalk.
A new track will be laid under the
Washington street railroad bridge,
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GERMAN SUBMiRlNE
ElNDS-VMEIM IN ,IRISM A
CMASMNG SlEAMER
The Downshire Sunk Not Far FrOm
the Place Where the British
Steamer Cambank ‘ as Torpe-
doed on Sunday---In the North
Sea, Near the Island of Burkum,
the American Steamer Elvyn-
Was Sent to the Bottom by a
Mine-«Submarines Appear to
Attack Only Slow Moving Craft,
or Boats at Anchor-«Big Battles
in Progress Near the East Prus-
sian Frontiers
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Lt iXiX)N. Feb. _ . 111:45 p. tin-A German subma-
riuc. tit-scribed by some as the i112 and by others as
tlu- {331. which is t)])'_fl‘.llil‘:;; in the irish Sea, yesterday.
found another victim in the little irish coasting: steamer
'l‘l1t- Downshh“: was sunk not far from the
spot 11 llt'l't‘ tl1c liritish nlt‘iiliit'l' torpctlocd
i)t1\1‘1tsliirt', the
crew 1vc1'c given time ll: 1:.~t‘.’1])t' in their boats anti, instead
of wasting a torpedo, the Germans used :1 bomb which
destroyed the vessel in a fc1v111i11utcs.
(in the other side of the British isles.
Sea. near“ the Island of Btt‘rkum.
Elvyn. cotton-laden,
crew were saved.
Downshtrc.
l‘hntbztuk was
it few hours earlier. in the case of thc
in the North-. ‘
the American steamer
She sank, but her
This constitutes the total of steamers destroyed 1);“
submarines and mines durinnthc past twenty-four hours,
as far as is known. The ~11bmarincs 11p to the present
have dc111o11stratctl their ability only to attack Slow
steamers or those lying at anchor, as a number of liners
have passed to anti fro in the irisb Sea, where the
German craft have been at work, without being ap— .
proaclied. in fact. with respect to Liverpool and other
west coast ports. the arrivals and departures have been
above the Saturday and Sunday average, according to -
Lloyd's list. None of the official reports of the fighting .
on land contain any i111portant information, although‘there ‘
are big battles in progress near ihe East Prussian frontier,
where the Russians claim to have stemmed the German
advance;- in \\ cstcru italicia.wl1erc the Russ1ans have be-
come more active; in the Carpath1a11s.1vl1cr the troops
have been fighting for nearly two months and in Buko- '
wind, where again the Russians have been rcinforifed add "
arc resisting the Austro-Gcrman advance.
Pctrograd dispatches say that the Germans have met,
an impenetrable barrier in the vicinity 'of Osowetz and
that. their difficulties have been increased by the overflow-n
ing of the Nicmcn River. They are in great force. bow;
ocvcr, and the battle which is only just beginning, prom-
ises to bc a sever one.
There seems to be little change in the relative posi-
tions in West Galigia, although both sides have been
struck :1 mine.
connecting the tract“! in Railroad “9' making an effort to move forward. while in the Carpa-
capturing it the police station was; b-ut the profit is bound to exceed $2,-
‘by Dog Warden Thomas F. Walsh, the member” 1 l in to
assisted by Officer John H. Toothlll. ‘ The spec1al committee 5 pann g
' collar being found on it. vassers and fair workers immediately
Warden Walsh may order that an after Lent
determine whether .there was any- 1 awarded the contract for Tejmlfymltlfft:
thing wrong with the animal. for the ladies‘ parlor to. 0
estimate ‘ If present plans are concluded the Hatters Of North Amenca said ""
' 'We consider it we ould be bad taste
The house committee has adopted 11.1 W0 Councils 0f the Knights 0f Colum l
l to be held shortly after the Lentenl
:at once. I I
MAN DR PS DEAD season The stamp of approval has
i each Council and William Howard of'
The residents of Darien were shock- iBRflOKI-YN MAN iCatholic Union Council. and William
S11 idea death of .1 red B.Cl1adderto11,%ti1ave been named as chairmen of a
.1110 dropped dead from apoplexy. Mnl icommlttee, from their respective Coun-‘,
Darien About twenty- -five years ago be] John Rice. of Brooklyn, N_ Y.. yes- select their own aides to conduct the
“7‘3““! I“ that place. opening a barb 'terday afternoon shortly before three l affair
. been to: about twelve years. be open- Darlen depot. Mr Rice was crossing and decide 011 the time and place forl
ed a tent estate and insurance office. the tracks, when the 2. 44 train from'lhe event. The previous affairs of thel
“a" 111 Darien 5 public affairs He ‘5 flinging the man some little distance.
5“”in besides his wife by one 110nm“e was hurt quite badly about tbei DANCE AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. i
“'"— l'rhe train stopped. and the crew se- of the Norwalk Country 011111 The'
Hernant Thomas Hunt is a proud' cured a stretcher and rushed the injur- music will be furnished by the Will I
day by Sergeant and Mrs. Hunt that The Sentinel inquired at the hos-lholiday supper will be. served at!
an eight-pound boy has arrived at the‘ pltnt last night. and was informed Mr eleven o‘.rlock
notified, The matter was investigated'100 which is most gratifying to all of
Warden Walsh shot, the dog, on tag or give a reception and dance to the can-
autopsy be performed in the effort mi The housefurnishing committee has
& Company, who submitted the lowest
‘ BARIEN INSURANCE .new set of rules, which go into effecttbua will unite in a grand social event,‘
llbeen given to the scheme by vote of
ed testeldny mor ing to learn of the Ward, of South Norwalk Counci1,1
SlRlll‘M Bl lRAINl
t‘dnadderton was-a prominent resient of! oils, and delegated with authority lot
or shop. After conducting that busi-' io‘clock was struck by a train near thel The committee will meet this week
Mr t‘ haddetton alwavs took an active South Norwalk passed striking and Knights have been huge successes.
“mm” Hague Chadderm“ i.l1ead and bruised all over his body. A dance will be held this eveningi
8"!“ 1W “ 0rd was received yester- od man to the Stamford Hospital. llriitz Sterling orchestra. and a special:
110“" 0" ‘lf- Mid Mrs Raymond Wood Rice. although quite badly" hurt I Steward Millard has spared no ex
Gilli. of Washington. Mrs. Hill before would survive There were a number! pause in regard to demrations and interview given out to The Sentinel front of the railroad” DI‘OWNY and MC-
} her marriage was Miss Aldrin Hunt. of of South Norwalk people on the train! favors. and his delectable supper will
N1rbulk.ot the time of the accident. he sure to please.
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to speculate on the outcome of our
nue with those in East Washington
street and South Main street. This
track will run across the new Wash-
iington street bridge, connecting with
The appropriations committee extend-51318 East avenue and Gregory Point
ed us e1ery courtesy. and put at our lines. The company is hopeful that
service unlimited time. They asked a it Will only be obliged to lay one rail
number of questions of the defendants 0‘ er the bridge, While the bridge com.
present and seemed desirous of ob. mil-tee and many citizens desire to
talning all the information possible re- “3‘9 a double track
garding the case. We have every rea-z The new curve connecting Monroe
son to believe that we will receive s'treet with South Main street on the
proper consideration," south side, will also .he located, and
Last night Mr. .Sculley discussed tile‘ it is reported that when this is done,
country wide famous case at sometall cars front the northem end of the
length city will go down ’Raihoad avenue to
“No man can be guilty of any the 'Railroad station. through Monroe
wrong unless he is echelons of wrong “Wet and thence to the Stamford
doing. if something wrong and unlaw. 101W Hall.
fat was done in this case, it is perfect-i All along the line from the terminus
ly right that some one should be pun-~ 3" Winnipauk t0 the Stamford City
isl1ed;but that some one must be the 1 line. new ties have been spread. and
guilty person in is not the defen‘dntiley will soon be placed under the
ants in this suit w‘ho have been guilty 'trm'ks the work being carried out as
and that is what we intend to show." 1apidly as possible,
This. was the pith of a remarkable The switch in South Main street, in
petition W e can only hope that it will
be favorably considered, as there is
no other relief in sight for the men
:lliahon's block will be. taken up, anti
2“ stretch of new block pavement laid ‘
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thians. although the fightiu is unditninished in violence,
the battle lines remain abOut as they were. A big bat—
tlc is being fought north of the Nadworna-Kolomea line
in Smithwcstcrn Galicit. and according to German cor—
respondents. the Russians have brought up large rein-
forcements from Stanislau. . . l
The Russian and Turkish forces again come into I
touch in the. Caucasus, in thefl‘raus-Tchoruk region, but
the result of the encounters is not given.
There has again been :1 slackening in the activity in
the west. although at a number of points. one Side or the
other has made an attack, with the usual result of a
gain or a loss of a few yards of ti t‘llt‘ilCS
No further word has btc British and French fleets.
the Dardanelies forts by then received of the attack on
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LIVERPOOL, via London, Feb. 21. 10:10 p.“ n1.———'
First to sight a German sul'marinc and than to sec-the;
track of torpedo making its way toward their ship was
"the experience of the crew cf the British, steamer Cam—
bani-1. vhf-V was sunk Satu day morning in the lrisb Sea
‘ ‘ of? Lime P11 ill. The Sill'Yi ors of the dcstroyctl ship ar- 5
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