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WILL EEEEGIRIG
SAVING [IN NEW
IIRI ADDIIIGN
Budding Committee Reports to
County‘Meeting in Bridgeport‘ a
Cat of $25,000 1
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SPECIAL SESSION HELD;
GRMIIIIIEE SUPPORTED
Houses Senators and Represent-
atives
That Fairiieid county is going to
make something of a record in the
special county meeting yesterday by
the committee on building of which
Justice George W. Wheeler is chain
man.
At the county meeting held in
Hartford it was voted to allow the
committee $273,000 for building pur‘
poses. According .to the committee's
report the entire work, including the
purchase of the lot, will cost; $248-
000. '
Saving of $25,900
This means a saving under the or- '
iginal estimate or 325,000 and. 11 the
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RAIILE RGIAL III 1
SIAIE lIIIS. EEA[L
IlII [AGEIISE IGIIE
Pl'oilillltionists and Alliis lining lip
Forces For Big Struggle
Connecticut will‘witness, this fall,
the start of a state- wide battle royal
between the prohibition and liquor in-
terests. Both sides have their prelim-
inary campaigns under way, and the
first skirmisheswiil come in October
and Nevember when votes on the 111
cause question will be held in practi-
cally every town inthe state.
Encouraged by the passage in the
last Legislature of the 3750 license bill,
the prohibition {brces have issued this
slogan for its workers:
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RIIRGIARS SLEEP IN
EDIIGR’S BESI RED
Fairfield Summer Resident Finds
advising him not Ito make any recom-
"BE! VOTE House a WI’OGII 0|! Re' mendations for increases in the sat
hull from country ~ ._._.._....
When Mr. and Mrs. R, G. Belts re~
limited from milk summer home in
Fairileld to their New York residence
4w west OnesHundred and Forty- ~slxth
street they found the house had been
thoroughly ransacked by burglars, who
apparently had made their home there
Chairs divested or
their summer wrapping: lay iupsloe
for several days.
wood floors.
over a bent chandelierl
train their ironies.
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- the Los Angeles dynamiters. the Fed-Ithat it has no authority to raise the
Business like Account of 11111111.
Entered at the South Norwalk Post
Ollice as Second Class Hatter. .,
Will Mr. Gornpe‘rs Leave
The Hatters of North
America in the torch?
Resident of Los Angeles Tells of Great
Fund Collected by Union Men for De-
tense of the Dynamiters
From farofi' California is heard the When the Los Angeies dynamiters of
voice of condemnation against Samuel The Times building andrthe murderers
Gompers, of the American Federation‘ot twenty innocent men were about to
of Labor. geceuse of Mr. Gompers' be tried the American Federation of
statement to the effect that the Feder-' Labor raised tram union labor S236,-
ation of Labor has no authority to‘000, presumably for their defence. But
wise the Si. 50, 000 necessary to pay the Samuel Gompers, president of the or-
Loewe judgment, when in the attair ot ganlzation. is reported to have said
eration raised from union labor the 8250, 000 to $300, 000 necessary to pay
sum of $236,000, ‘presumable for the damage} awarded to D. E. Loewe'
Itllelr‘deteuse." ‘ & Co of Danbury, 001111., in the suit‘
The following letter. from" the penI known as the Danbury hatters’ ca“.
of Walter J. Ballard; of Los Angelou! As the matter stands, payment is
Salifornla. which was printed in The required-from the 186 men. followers
Sun. this morning. concernlns the or Mr. dampers and contributors to his
famous 'ilatters' case, involving local leash box. who were made the defend
mud Danbury batters. was read with ants in the suit; officers or the united,
Egreat interest by Norwalk batters and Hatters' Union of America and mem-
the local defendants in the famous here or the local hatter-3' union, who
azuit I
To the Editor at The Sun—Sir:I
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decision or Staten likely To Be
Made'Ihis Week 011 ills Plea
For commutation—lest Set
Fortune 22
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Milan‘s m
NEW YORK. June 17.—Cannon Cof-
nelltts, a Iweilvto- -do merchant, summon-
ed neighbors to his apartment in East
New York. early today. with the an-
nouncement that a burglar had shot
and killed his wife. Those who re-
turned with Gin-nouns to his suite
Sound his beautiful young wife, Bar-
bdrm dead in bed Willi three bullet
holes in her head
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ATLANTA, Ga., June 17.-Leo M.
Flank'a final appeal for Commutation:
of his death sentence to his imprint
onment was completed here late you1
Iterdny and his fate was placed in the
been shot through the temple. Tinglin-
truder. whom neither the police nor
facts exacts an added tax of opehaif of
Nearby on the floor'
wits the body of a young man, who hadl
[REWAIIGE IIEII
SEEII LAW’S REPEAL
Say'llol sauna lino-n Precli-
cdll 1o norm and Quote
Fight—4th! Seven Companies
faded o aural—ciao: of
come “likely lire. listed to
Enter the Homoent to item!
Insurance companies throughout
Connecticut are up in arms over the
additional tax imposed upon them to-
gether with other companies and pub-
lic utilities by an act of the‘last legis-
lature. which under section 21 of the
one per cent. on the marketivalue of
each share of the capital stock of all
insurance companies in the state.
in view of the alleged heavy taxes
already paid byinsnrance corporat-
1tlona, they‘deolare the new demands
amount practically to extortion and
are entering upon a state-wide cam-
paign to have that part of the act
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wrung; 1111an
willie tor house's Fatality
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Confidence in'hls ability because
he had been employed for years with-
out accident by thc New Haven rail-
rodl‘t and had safely. worked during
the electrification of the road, indi-
rectly caused the death last week of
Michael J. Dugan. a Stamford line-
111nm. who was electrocuted, according
110 the information received by Cor-
oner J. J. Phelan.
Dilgon, a veteran electric worker,
hands of Governor Staten, who took. Cornelius 00“” “BMW. still clutched
the petition under advisement a pistol. Cornelius declared that" the
with the announcement that he would ma‘n entered his bedroom to commit
make 1158 decision as early as postbie. I robbery and fired a shot at “him, which
it 15 not expected before prmay 0!. killed Mrs. Cornelius. He believed, be
Saturday at the earliest. 3said. that the supposed burglar com-
An oriental rugI hung
Pictures torn
from the wall hooks littered the floor
. and some canvasses had been pried
cum and cigarette
‘ IbllItts littered the dirty door! and there ~
Next Tuesday, June 22, is the date
*set for Frank’s execution for the mar-
der of Mary Phagan.
The conclusion of the proceedings
today beflore Gov. Slaton exhausted
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NORWALII SARRIERS’ SALARI
RAISE WILL BE HELD IIP
Letter _ carriers in
aomefears about. receiving salary in.
creases thatrare due July 1, byIreason
of the failure of the 63d Congress to
pass the post ofllce appropriation bill.
Some time ago Postmaster Andrew
Leary, of the downtown post oilice, re-
ceived a communication from the glue
tal department, at Washington, D. 0.,
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A delegation at the Whales Lodge;
No 6.0.01 IL, assembled in front
of the Nor-walk Library last evening,
with lots of good \htngs to eat, and
of their president rs. Jennie John-
son, 5ft Cross street. first district. “It
gave; her a\ pleasant surprise.“
11 was inoeo'n “_ surprise, as this
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Norwalk have I ..
mitted suicide while the murdered
woman's husband was seeking help.
ing could not get Cornelius to change
his story ‘
Mrs. Cornelius was 25 years old.
time: The dead man looked to be
about 35'years of agew ‘ He was well-
dressed. A seal ring on his' finger
boot the initials “G. M." ' ‘
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ed in them, has been made by Eli
gene E. Chamberlain; United states
partment of Commerce, it became
known here today 111149113111 letter to
that effect received by the New Yer
Maratilne Register from the Commis-
sinner at Washington.
action. are said to have sailed .in the
past variously'under the German. Dan-
ish, Dutch and Not‘vvegian flags.
In his. letter Commissioner-I Chamber-
1111 says that the Danish steamship
Gotland. until recently the Greek
steamship Leonidas Criminals. report-
Pitt "to have been sold to Americans, is
not entitled to American registry. ‘ibe-
ed in this or seven other ships remot-
.‘lm'
whom on m M)‘
The pelice after two hours' Iquestion-I
She had been married but a short;
NEW YORK, June 17. "Refusal to
transform number of so-calied Danish1
steamships to American registry be
cause no American money was invest.
Commissioner of Navigation’vin the De
Tlie steamships involved in the trade
attempted to help another employee
inlthough his efforts were not neces-
3sary and he refused to heed a warn-
3in g to get of! a pole he had climbed
He descended calmly and carelessly.
with the result that an electric curr
rent passed through the spur on his
right shoe. He received a shock, and
at the same time another employee.
Albert Arnold, «of Norwaik. cut of! the
current. Dugan then was dashed to
the pavement below, where his skull
was shattered Coroner Phelnn has
found the death to be accidental.
Mr Arnold, who lives with his
mother in Ely avenue. hasalso been
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.. THURSDAY. JUNE 17, 1191.5
AMERICA
CAN SEEILE
WAR SGGN
Speakers at tile~ league of Peace
fleeting Say We Should Stand for
our lights on the High Seas
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We of Great Witt!
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vented
PHILADELPHIA. Junev 17.—The
American Government may, by its so 1
tion within the next few days or
weeks, determine the kind of settle—
ment that Europe will have after the
war, Edward A. Filene, representing‘.
the Chandler of Commerce of the Uni-I
ted States, declared in an address at
the League of Peace meeting here to-
day. "This settlement. he said, fluids-
mentaily would be of great importance
to the peace and prosperity of the
‘U‘nlt’ed sum.
fill. America," Mr. Filene decldhd.
“stands now tor the rights of her cit-
izens on the high semiotic will help
In
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IIIE GIIIIIIEIIGEIIEIII
EXCERGISES AI IIILLSIDE
Mrs. lolln 0oIdey, of Philadelphia,
Delivers In Address of Much
Interest
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Lost evening at eight o’clock thet
Commencement exercises of the Hill-
side Sfihool were held in the Horne-
stead. As the guests entered the hali— '
way they were surprised with the
beauty and simplicity of the decora-g
rations" The rolling of the rounding
stairway leading to the second floor,
had been twined with long sprays or,
honeysuckle and in the center, the
class numerals, 1915, made of daisies.
were placed. The onlydecorations in
employed by the railroad company for
several years Dugan weighed about
225 pounds. and it was impossible for
Mr. Arnold to hold him after the
wires were cut, so that in the tail of
35 feet his head was crushed to a
.throngh his body. Mr. Arnold was
called ,on at the ~1various ‘hearingmto
testify as to the facts of the case.
'EIIIIWAIILE AIIG IOII PARII
Very pleasant indeed was an auc-
tion'dlrildge lawn party, given to a num-
ber of friends, yesterday unashamedly
Mrs Wilfred Bodwell. on the lawn of
her home on Seymour street; '
There were five tables. The lawn
was most bountiruily decorated With
flags, and the natural decorations of
rolled. peoples and other handsome
11mm lent a most picturesque air to
the noon.
at 8: 15 “my, “and for the “WWW“ no American money was inveot- Winnie: the playing dainty ro-
«coma wera served, and a flower.
ly 11111111111111 under similar conditioned-trash iron ill-i.- aodweil's cordon,
and the boredom! wal- rick mm was presented to each guest as b son-
and Austrian consuls)“. been not- venir. The Moon you: In
WWW. summon
inn-“firm ‘
pulp. Death was caused, however, by -
the current of 2.300 volts passing ‘
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the reception room were the large
vases filled with (anglers; and a large
'bowl of roses. The library Was truly
beautiful with its profusion of roses,
«on—.—
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PIG BARRERS’ GGIIIEIIIIIIN
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Nor-walk members of the Connecti~
cut ‘Bankers' association are today
busy preparing for the annual conven
tion of the combined New England
held tomorrow and Saturday in New
London, Conn. .-
Enti’rbly through the efforts of
Charles E. oyt, or this city. secre-
tary of' the Connecticut Bahkers' as-
sociatlon. on? of the finest programs'
ever carried out by the associations
wig be presented this year.
: he list of speakers, which has .111-
good one. .1111“ included, tomor- Pres»
--'1
Bankers associations. which will be '
ready been published. is an unusually .
on»,
Generally lair tonight and Friday.
Russians Are Being Pushed Back By
Poland.
lllallS
' Dillc‘stcr region.
Official advices from the
represent the Italians as gaining advantages all along the ,
lront, prtlcularjy in the Adige Valley, which [odds to:
Trent. 011 the lsonzo front, which centers in the battle
for possession of Tricst. Italian successes also are clain'l‘e
no
cd.
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Those" Found in Dorian Wen
Those of Ills insalleflite
A new and important twist develop-
Ied in the Justly mysteridus Mrs. Mar-
garet Fair case, of Dorian, today.
was said this morning that the
clothes which were found strewn
about the body of the woman found
last August in the Barton woods, and
alleged to be that of Mrs. Fair, were
identified, according to reports. by a
Mr. Mathews. of. Brooklyn, N. Y., as
those of his wife, who was' declared
to be insane. This identification was'
ni‘ade Some time ago, but the'Ii’ntlerest-
log information did not leak out until
today.
It will be remembered that months
ago the body was identified as Mrs
Kane, of New York, by her husband,
on ex- policeman of that city. Later
Mr. Kane denied the body was that of
his wife’ s. It was after t is denial
that Mr. Mathews. or Brook ' ,Icame
to Darlen, and, it is said. after exam-
ining [the clothes. identified them as
his wile' s.
As reported in The Sentinel recent
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'SRIGGEGIIIIAPSE
PRISM
ident .of the United States, William
l-lotvard Tait. Governor of Connecti-
out. Marcus 3. Holcomb.Willlam A.
In. president of tide antennae Bank—
nen known throughout the country.
on“ Wood other W30"! the
injured when stool work
high level W WI!
lieu this tab-eon.
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Triest Fronts—Turkish Forces on
GaIIipoli Peninsula Are on the aliens
The (alllpaign against the Russians /on which the
(rerlnalls are non concentrating their offensive efforts, is
developing another phase, in a violent attack in Russian '
\t the same time the Germans are pushing
back the Russians in the Baltic Provinces and with t
[1pr of the Austrlans, in Galicia.
An official communication from Pctrograd contains
the admission that the Germans have “occupied additions
villages near Shavli. in the Baltic region, but states that
the Russians regained lost ground near PrzaSnysz. It1i ,
in the vicinitv of Przasnysz, which lies to the north of "
\\ arsaw that the Germans apparently are making their
most determined cfi‘brt on the Polish front, although the
fortress of (issowctz is again being attacked
[In (rallcian campaign has reached a critical stage in I
How of thc continued successes oi the Austrians and Ger ‘
The Pctrogradnommunications says little of the
battle along the San, but stated that the Russians have
won some advantages 111 the fighting further south, in the.
The Turkish forces on GaIIipoIi Peninsula have talc-
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CLEVELAND. 0.. June 11.—l'run[ "Fill the past «Vent
[wotosix [1].an tomatrIIbeI-rieolmebeenon'
beenkillednndfmflxtot'ntylconimrhm An 111111
one nevlilitmllrodtilo'sl‘oltivnn‘r is
W let this mean. no
Carson-I1 rtv'or mummmmwu
, [lot in the 1W1: oi so
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Italian army headquarter
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Mrs. lda Hadden-Turner
ford, Conn. the twenty-live rem
white girl, who Tuesday night.
colored (‘husbandi’ William
0! uxtngton avenue arrested
leged assault, yesterday (level
serious an attack of insanity
morning she was locked upi the ‘
dad-cell in police headquart
after receiving medical trea
sent to Dr. F. ID. .Ruiand’ s so;
in Westport, [’01- treatment. Is
James A Brown, or the
'Board of Charities.
‘Mrs. Turner has three/ch
girl, ten years old, a boy
The little ones are [being on
sympathetic. neighbors on
avenue. O'Brien; who said it
ly Indian and Irishnwas
sentenced to thirty «days _i
misconduct by Judge Geol-
burgh
Awarding to locaizgroc
last man, nativefgreen
in the Norwalk markets" _
Incl-ted to be quite plentiful
'nd the rlocai stores the first
meat of native peas arriv
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