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Rain In [ally Morning Fails ToI
Dampen Ardent Holiday Spirit
That Sent Thousands To Shore}
Resorts
Entered atthe South Norwalk‘ Post
Office as Second Class Matter.
Attempt Made To
Blow Up New York
Police Headquarters
“m—
Door of the Detective Bureau Sent Ten
l Feet by. Terrific ExplosiOn Last Night,
' But No One Was Injured
l
NEW YORK ,July 6. -A dynamite
;ob mb was exploded last night in an
Iareaway outside the detective bureau
’I' at public headquarters. While a heavy
{door was blown ten feet and a number
was exploded. also escaped injury, al-
though fragments of metal pierced the
ceiling of their cells.
I The damaged part of the building
is close To inspector Fourot's oilic.
R I N "AS RECORD CROWD»: I of windows on one side of the build- l + Th police at first worked on the
ing were shattered, no one was ln-‘ theory that a jail delivery had beer!
. jured.
ty gear from the place where the bomb
lattempied. 'Séveral pieces of metal
Five prisoners locked in a cell twen were found, but there was practicallyl
nothing which led to a definite clue.
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Dell island Events Postponed; “nobllllllUBEEs 00m ”8]
Club Has Usual Pleasant Dhser
vance; Day At Court laurel Was
Notable Che; .
Country Club Busy; Italians Cele-3
brate
Son Killed By Train; House is
9' Struck By lighting, Then Wife
The on rs of the Weather Man, speak-I
ing figuratively. must have burned and Dies from SMIOGM
tingled, if all signs were fulfilled, be-I
cause of the many uncomplimentary; HAWLEYV’LLR C0“, July 0“
. and $.an things that were said That trouble never comes in single vie»
about hm yesterday morning Therel itations can he testified to by best
new several brisk and heavy showers Russell of Hawleyvillo, who was hurt:
of rain during the morning, old up ult-i'éd out drhouse and home last Wednes-
til noon it looked as if the Fourth of." day night as a result of a bolt of light-
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lllll MAWiEllIUE MAMI
Members of! l .
”or “
July this year was- to be observed; plug which struck his dwelling during
with o dampened spirit Mr. Weather;
Man, however, relented, later in the
day, and the scheduled sports, with a
few exceptions, were all carried out at
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Mllillllll MAM MEAR
DRSMMIMS Al SSMI’SI
A Norwalk man, whose name could
not be learned, was reporte ed this
morning as being saved twice by mem-.
bers of the Compo Life Guards, at
Conlpo Beach, Wesiport, yesterday aft
eruoou.
According to the members of the
-crew, the stranger waded out to the
raft with his daughter, at low tide.
W hen the water was deeper he started
- back but the water was too deep, and'
he started to sink. ‘
Members of the life-saving crew
drew him up on the beach, where stim-
ulants were administered, and he was
revived. A short time later, it is said,
tile same man, was again rescued. He
tried to go out to the raft with his
wife, who clung to him, carrying him
under water.
The name of the local man was not
secured by those who rescued‘him yes-
terday
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.SElilllllS lllllBIlEAMS
EXPESlEll IN INDIA
MANILA, July 5.—JSerlous unrest
throughout India is reported by oili-
, oers and pasengers of the Spanish
.mail steamer Allocate, which has ar-
rived here after touching at Aden, Ara-
bia; Colombo. .Ceyion and Singapore
The. official. explanation is that the
troubles are‘due to the present inter-I
national differences, but it is said they
are in reality the result of'animoslty
felt by the natives against the white
population.
There have been several outbreaks,
it is reported, ln‘vthe vicinity of Colom-
.bo. where it is understood rovoitln‘g
the heavy electric storm of that even-
ing, and who Monday afternoon suffer-
Eed the profound grief of losing his
I wife, who suddenly dropped dead as n
l result of shock probably auperinducedl
lby the“excitemeut incident to the tire
Iand subsequent loss of her home last
A week Only three years ago a son of
Mir. Russdll met death when he was
run down and killed by a train on the
Berkshire division near Hawleyvllle.
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CHICAGO, July 6,—Nineteen per-
sons dend and 903 injured was the na-
ltion‘s sacrifice to the two days‘ cele-
' bration of Fourth of J uly, according to
corrected figures compiled today by
the Chicago Tribune.
These figures show an increase over
the totals of 1914, when there t'vere
twelve persons killed and 879 persons
injured. A large increase was also
shown in the fire loss, the total for
with $99,545 last year. Causes of the
fatalities this yearwere distributed as
follows ;Flreworks,,,9; cannon, 4; fire-
arms, 4; gunpowder, 2.
In Chicago only 'one person was
killed and two Were injured.
SMllllllEM’S MAMMEE
MAE MADE A Mll
carnival parade, was preceded by a
group of farmer boys dressed in over-
alls with big farm bats and carrying
rakes. fie bannerfivhich read "Chll
dren’s Market, Civic. League,” was
carried onIhoes by farmors in over-
ails and wearing big hats. Then
came a giant mirket basket nine feet
long, filled with garden vogetables,
known in privatehllfel as the children
who won the oldies or honoI‘able
mention in the garden contest last
season. There were tomatoes. car-
this year \being $239,325, as compared,
The Children's market Float in the V
names were severely punlahod by
- British utilitary forces. Several lan-
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rots, corn and lettuce. and presiding
’over them was the Spirit of the (tar.
, IIContlnueIl on W‘M);
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tomorrow afternoon.
AEMM SlMSEllS
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l SAPlllME llllllll PRIZE
The Schtaebisciler Maennercller of
Bridgeport, captured first prize at the
ISaeugerfest held in Danbury ms
{Fourth of July, scoring 136 points
against a. number of. competitors.
There ware 80 men in the chorus and
their interpretation of their numbers
reflected credit, not on‘y upon the
singers themselves but upon their d!-
haa been successful in a. number of
magnum winning Irst prize in
Philadelphia three years ago besides
carryingoff the honors in a number of
less important events.
The-South ‘Norwelk Quartet club
and the Junger Maennerchor, of Or-
ange alley. N.‘J.. were tied for second
prize, which was awarded to the New
Jersey organization because their so»
lectiou was moro'difilcult. The“ third
prize was awarded the South Norwalk
society and the chairinan of the com-
mittee explained in presenting the all-
ver cups that “the second and third
prizes were equal in value.
no EilMMEN lililill
lision between." a Michigan Central
passenger train and an automobile
fire engine at a grade crossing last
night," two firemen were killed, one
was fatally hurt and three others
were seriously injured. The dead
are: Edward Jolly and Henry Fletch-
er. , \
Martin Thiesmyer,
cannot survive.
The locomotive carried the fire en-
glue along on its pilot for fifty feet
and then jumped the track.~ A horse
drawn hook and ladder. truck, re-
sponding t‘o'zthe same fire alarm. was
thrown dov‘vn an embankment at a
bridge approach when the team he—
came frightened. Three firemen on
the truclt Were dangerously injured.
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SMIMMER [lllllllMEll
’surgeons say,
lAndrus Asplund, a wire drawer em-
ployed in the Gilbert & Bennett Mills
in Georgetown, ‘loat his life yesterday
pond. Ashlund had been entertainlng
two friends from New Yo. city dur-
ing the day, and shortly before -' 4
o'clock, all hands went in bathing.
It is presumed that Ashlund was
taken with cramps as he Sank some
distance from the shore, and‘failed to'
years of are. ~ ’
Tiler moot-oi services will be bold
7.
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rector. r. K. 0.1VWITEHMW
'IM liAlUl0All WRESM
par CITE-Mich, July 6.—-ln a col-E
lM Mill IlllMllm
afternoon, while bathing in the mill .
lM MlS SELL
AlanWhofietll’lupult Aim
SlidtOBC Willi m
Wreck and MI! W
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Also to Settle tile Questinnlllietb
er He is Wife Wale
lee-tor
GLEN co'l'sl, N. Y., July fir—Frank
Iloit, J. P. Morgan’s assailant. who
has also confessed to setting the
bomb that exploded in the Capitol at
Washington last Friday night, at—
tempted to kill himself at midnight
by trying to open an artery in his left
wrist with a lead pencil. The at-
tempt was unsuccessful.
Holt, lying on his side in a cell in
the Nassau county jail, at Mineoll.
mustang annexiendent to wrlihe
with pain.
The attendbnt entered the cell.
foundblood flowing from the wound,
summoned the warden. and bound up
the. wrist, checking the flow of blood.
Notwithstanding the promptness
withwhlch Hell’s attempt was dis—
covered. he lost much blood. ,
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ElEllM ISAlS SME Mill
ME IN Slllllll lllllAl
Knows tier Constitutional Iligirts‘,
and VIII liot Appear Ageinit ller
Husband, She Says
NEW YORK, July 6.—Evelyn Nose
bit Thaw, summoned by the state to
testify against her husband. Harry K.
Thaw, in the jury proceedings to de-
termine his mental condition, reached
New York today from her camp at
Chateaugay Lake, near Malone, N. Y.,
and 'anounced that she would stand
upon her constitutional rights and
would not take the stand against her
husband. -
Mrs. Thaw made her statement to
newspaper men and when Deputy At-
torney General Cook was informed of
what she had said it was asserted in-
as uch as the hearing was'a civil
proceeding and not a' criminal case
that the court could direct her to tes-
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CHICAGO, July
Johnston, secretary and treasurer of
the Brickmakers’ Union, was shot
twice below the heart as he answered
» a ring of his doorbell early today.
Physicians said his wounds probably
llsoo'o m a settled. ,-_
‘f
\ .
he failed to recounts, escaped.
rise again. After considerable effort,I - IPollce attributed the shooting toL
“the body was located and taken labor troubles. The bhlcklnakm have meet again toerards evening.
ashore. «He leaves a. widow and tour been thrown but of employment as a- 'aald to have had considerable 1110110! ”(Mull thousand men undid ‘0
children, and *was about thirty-live result of the notion of the construction’ with him at the time. and during the have been engaged in the battle,
' lnIdtorisl lame-ti in reruns; to can». utmost: to niv'o Vllllod a number total casualties on both na- of neon.
otealoons. Nannie!" rounds. leomnnretnfoe'eeuanla mowed!»
attack to”. My
or building supplies until the1trlke at
llll.’ MAVAMASM
. . ..—-cnarles u.
would be fatal. His assailant, whom .
RESISNS lll0M
lME MllSPllAl
Superintendent for Fourteen Years,
of the flatbdist institute in
Brooklyn, itevv York, Decides to
leave.
III. I. H0llli8
hottest Cline to Take Effect
at Next Conference. - Dr. layton
Chet-oil Society Superintendent
The Rev, Dr, A, S. Kavanagh, for
fourteen years superintendent of theI
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Seventh
avenue and Sixth street, has resigned,
and the Rev. Dr. J. E. Holmes, super
intendent of the Brooklyn Church So-
.ciety, has been elected to succeed him.
it is understood that Dr. Holmes has
accepted the election. to take effect at
the next annual conference ,ill April,
1918, to be held in Stamford, Conn,
‘ the consent of the bishop of course * .
being necessary.
Dr, Kavanagli after a very success-
ful pastorate at the New York Avenue
on. A.‘ s.‘ kAVANAGt-i.‘
‘ .
Fair tonight and Wednesday.
Near Krasnik the.
Been Ponctured,
Russians Are Offering
Stiffer Resistance To ..
Adi/ance of Teutonic Allies
Troops Are Continuing AdIIance to llhi-
Polish Capifal—Gernlans Are Continue
ing Hammering of the French Lines—~"
ltalians Report a Satisfactory Developinv»
ent of Offensive on the Carnia Plates?
.u—nu—n—np—u—n
‘frwo cams...
Russian ' Line flan:
and the Kaiser‘s;
Mill. BE HIS SUSSESSOR'
Stiller resistance to the Teutonic advance towards
Warsaw is being oficrcd by the Russians from day to
(Ell). tilI latest official reports indicate \long the entire
castI‘ru battle front of approximately 850 miles from the .
Baltic to Bessarabia, in fact the Russian lines apparently
are holding the Anstm-Germans. except at one time.
Near Krasnik in Southern Poland, the ArchdukeFerdi- I‘
mnd’s army has broken through toward the Polish capi—
tal.
G
lighting described as desperate ill the official Pe~
troglnIl reports, is raging be tween the Vistllla and Bugm
Rim-rs alongr the base of a triangle of which Warsaw A
forms an apex. The country there is marshy and it is
predicted in London that because of the character of
the terrain this compaign will be a constant strain on the
German resources until cvcn victory vvl ll be almost as
costly as defeat. . ' .
In France the Germans continue pounding the ‘
’Frcnch .MIDCS, but toward the north. the silence which for . .
some time has prevailed along the front held By the Bill} '
‘.‘ lSl‘l remains unbrowen.
Doberdo. Severe fighting is
(Contlnqeri on
The Italians report the satisfactory developmentI of
their offensive on the Cal-Ilia Plateau and the success of V‘
air attacks on Austrianencampments in the vicinity of l.
the Dobcrdo Plateau, according to the latest Austrian -
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in progress on the edge of
. A
Third Palm. _}
l’llUSE SMEM UlMS .
SMASE Bl Alll0lSl
Bridgeport Mali, Wanted for fleck-
less Driving, finally Ciptured in
Hollie City
.WESTPORT, July 6.’-After a chase
through three towns finally ending in
Bridgeport, State Policeman 'Rowe H.
Chllrch, where he had been for five!
years, during which time he had'
cleared of! the indebtedness troml
the church property, amounting to
$80,000, has been very successful
as superintendent of the hospital.
There has been no deficit'for several
years. During Dr. Kav anagh’s admin-
istration the buildings, which we're in
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STAMFORD-31m! 6.-The~body of
Thomas Collins, of Noroton, was
found in the rear-cf a hotel here,
early today, and an investigation to
determine the cause of death is be-
ing made by the pollen. The latter
say that while there are indications
that the death may have been due to
foul play; there were no marks (I
Wheeler of stratford, captured James
Richards, of Bridgeport, wanted for
not heading 8 local officer and driving
his car with the muffler open. Riel:
ards was seen near the State street
bridge in this town by Constable RE
Sturges early Sunday morning. Officer
Sturges put out his arms but the man
did not stop. Harry Shorwood,lora1
juror, was called to aid and the chase
began in his touring car. State Po-
liceman Wheeler was overtaken on the
way to Bridgeport, which direction the
man had taken. A description was giv
on to Officer Wheeler and in his tour-
ing car be burned up the road after
Richards leaving Representative Sher-
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SIX lllllMllllEll 0E
‘SARMAMZA MEM MlllEll
LAW, Tex., July C.-- Six hun-
‘violence .vislble on the body.
Collins came to this city 'yester- all day battle yesterday in a fruitless inch cut on the shoulder of Paul
day with his wife and two children attempt to capture Paredon. a Vllll vas, oi Olljon street, this morninb.
and during the morning left them with atronshold 5W thirty .mllon north-Nudge George H. Vosburgh was A
In}, solo.
[to la
.1],
~dred Carranza troops were killed in an
an understanding that they wire to w'est of Monterey, accordl‘itg to reports 325 and actual costs. Luckily for
.-
reaching here today.
lllEllE Milli “EMF?
New llaven Municipal Display Ml
red By Accident—40m Pom
Fatality
NEW HAVEN, July 6.«—TWelve par
sons were injured, one perhaps fatulfi
when a rocket exploded at a manic
fireworks displayln the ”Green”
lnight in the present or a croWd
20, 000 Most of the injured were chilies
dren Several baby‘ carriages weeds
smashed to pieces. Ruth Pope, ag'
11, is not expected to live. ‘
The rocket failed to explodouh
it had been shot into the aid an ,' '
Iturned to the ground. Then it ‘b
Iamong hundreds of spectators grbu
ed near the county court house. W
Itwelve were taken to hospitals
police believe many more wéro
but. not enough to require medic
lteution.
l Comparatively few in the vast c
Iknew of the seriousness of the
ldent, for soon after the: expldst
many rockets were fired simultane,
ly, thus engaging the attention 0
throng. The rocket exploded fly!
terrific force, knocking down bran...
women and children. Hurry calls
sent for amubliinces, the injured
I taken to the New Haven General-
‘St. Raphael's hospitals. '
KOROSY PAID $25 FINEJ
-George Korosy, f Snowdon s
who, Salfirday night Indicted a
m WM
lKorosy the complaining witness wail»
drew his complaint, the state thalid-
with fore recommending a email has.
:not nu. been done Juan v
stated the line would have
lie so or non.
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