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Entered :t—tho. South Norwalk Post
one as Second Clue Hotter.
CAR WAlCiiERS
Will WELCOME
illllE 1916
Various Observances Will Be lleld
Tonight To Watch the Old Tear
Out and the lien in
MASDDERADE DAll UNDER
MDDSE ADSPACES
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Elks to Gather—Watch Night Ser-
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Young 1916 will be royally welcom-
ed in Norwalk at 12:01 tonight. A
_ variety of entertainments and services
will be held to while away the hours
before the coming of the new year
_ and the. vanishing of the old.
“Probably the most elaborate affair
will be the Moose Masquerade Ball.
This will be held ill Music Hall, on
‘South Main street. There will be
plenty of music. At 9 o'clock the
dancing starts. The grand march will
take. place at 10 o'clock, and Company
A, Moose Defe‘lldt‘ffi, ill full uniform.
will lend. Prizes, for the best cos-
tumes will be awarded. The ball
'promlses to outdo that of last year,
which was in every respect a bum
mer.
There will be dancing at the Nor—
walk Country Club. A special supper
~ is to be served tonight at 11:30
o'clock.
At the Rdyal James Inn there will
be. special music. and dancing. Tables
Save, been reserved for genuine New
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CHICAGO. Dec. 3L—«Statewide pro-
hibition of the sale and manufacture
of intoxicating liquors will become
‘effective in seven states at midnight
tonight; putting out of business more
than three thousand saloons. a large
number of breweries. wholesale liquor
houses and distillerles.
The states which are to enter the
dry column are lowa, Colorado, Ore-
gon. Washington, idaho, Arkansas and
South Carolina. Many counties in all
of the seven states have prohibited
the sale of liquor for a number of
' years under local option laws.
According to one authority between
42,000,000 and $3,000,000 have been
expended for liquor in Colorado with
in the last week. ,
«Arkansas will have its first experA
icons with prohibition when the state- .
wide law passed by the last legislal
. ture goes into effect with the coming'
' of the New Year. A
Jr Iowa “bargain .day sales" in the
902 down of the state are in prog-
ress‘ today preparatory to the final
- _closlng tonight.
_ In :Oregon the. manufacture or sale
of any kind of intoxicating liquor is
absolutelyprohibited by constitution.
al amendment. Drug stores are not
permitted to sell liquor for any pur-
pose with or without a doctor’s pre-,
1 é’itliltu than
g‘ltllttDWlijSCAi’iS nun
_ A young boy, sliding down Garner
. , street across West avenue, yesterday,
chine so very near being run over by
‘gn‘glsn‘tautomobile truck, that pedes—
Tiffanie averted their heads in horror.‘
”The anticipated crash did not occur,
‘« fortunhtely; as the driver of the
truckeciamped son the emergency
brakes, [with the result that the car
*whirledsaround on the ice in a half-A
circle; The boy's life was spared.
, ionic”, milk 8. Strattou visited
' ._ (rn, r stratum emphatically warn,
at 116“pr «that further .coastmgl
would uotfbe allowed. some-i
up, other, it .15 ball .00nvince
tamooalltegfihgflar h J": Axel.
W . . ‘ .. Wists; an. .2 says
y. hill in some, been.
. pd . downtown. ‘..is'
avenue. ‘4 The. policedntend
oi the marathon is .imé
. "npongtha youthful mind.
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'and he was painfully bruised.
.per lip was so badly split that
DAMS EXPRESS EMPlDiE
PAiMlDili INJURED
CharlesE. Lockwood llas Six Teeth
Knocked Out and Upper lip
lacerated at Grand Oenird
Station
Charles E. inckwood is confined to.
his home in Hamilton Ave, suffering]
.t'rom painful injuries sustained SEW-l
eral days ago. Mr. Lockwood is em-
.thpresr Company, d on DecembsrA
18th was riding on top of one of the}
big trucks in the Grand Central Sta—A
tion, New York. While looking at a]
timetable, and not noticing things.
about him, his head came into violentA
contact with an iron girder. He was
thrown to the platform of the stationA
with great force. Six of his teeth;
were knocked out, and be swallowed-
two of them. His face was badly cut,
llis companions rendered prompt'
aid, and he was removed to the Flow-
er Hospital, in New York. The up-
it
required six stitches to close. the!
wound. it was also found that his:
neck was sprained, and it was con-
sidered fortunate that it was not frac-A
lured. A few days ago Mr. Lockwood
was brought to his home here. ills
face is still covered with bandages,|
and it will be some weeks before heA
fully recovers. Mr. Lockwood was lot"
a number of years an officer of Put-A
nam Hose Company and secretary of;
the South Norwalk Fire Departmentl
lie is a member of several fraternal-
organizntions, and popular with allA
who know him. General regret is ex—A
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Dressed over his unfortunate lneident.< bastile after he had be?“ removed ‘0‘
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PAllili’tC AND REPAAR
won William
A bl-weckly meeting of the execu-
‘tive committee of the Norwalk Hos-
pital was held yesterday afternoon, at
the hospital. All members of the
committee were present. Bills were
audited and handed to the treasurer
for payment. During the past two
weeks, there have been twentydlve
patients admitted to the hospital. The
smallest number of patients in the
hospital any one day was eighteen, and
the largest number was thirty-three.
The average number of patients per
day was twenty-one. There has been
received from church collections, 350
from St. Mary‘s church, and $98.65
from Grace Episcopal church, making
a total of $148.65. The ceiling and
walls of the directors' room, which
were cracked and in a bad condition,
have been repaired and painted. and
the room has been placed in a very at-
tractive form. This work was the
gift of Mrs. AL. H. :Lehmaier, the presi-
dent of the lndies‘ Board.
SCHMIDl lD RECtili
SENTENCE Dtl ruin
ALOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 31.—
Mathew A. Schmidt, who was convict—
ed of murder in the first degree last
night, as an accomplice of James B.
McNamara, in the blowing up of the
Los 'Angeles Times Building here,
October 1, 1910, will appear in court
next Monday for sentence. The jury
'fixed the penalty at' life-imprison-
merit.
tl-lis counsel will file a motion for a
new trial, and it as been agreed that
the case will b continued until Jan-
uary 12 for at ments on the motion.
David Capian, who was indicted
with Schmidt on the same charge of
which the latter was convicted—that ‘
of having murdered Charles Huggerty,
one of the twenty victims of the ’Los
Angeles 'l‘lmes’ explosion, also ‘will
appear in court Monday. Capian's
case was to have been set for trial
that day. but this matter also will be
continued until January 12.
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warn can * _
unison filliil
SHANGHAI, China, lDec. ills—A tor
egram from ‘Cheng‘tn, capital of the
Province ot Szeflhuen, says there are
indications that a rising in Western
China is being.pianned.»seooet. , r-
ations beingmadefor the revolt; . o
opinion is expressed; lathe dispatch, .
however, that the. channel. for Ltbe‘
success oi'tlle movement marina-u;
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SOUTH NORWALK. CONN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1915.
start the Year. 7'
av lunucme vo ,
rnlsnos T0 asap
as“. newseaa
DURMNG 1915. E I
PERATOR.
Fair tonight; Saturday cloudy.
TWO CENTS
tritium" »
ESCAPE Al lME
CDDMlY JAM
Hammer and Other Implements
Found Beneath leak of Self
(lonfessed Forget can: it. liing
DEEACIAAS EXPiAIM
PRESENCE DE lDDlS
Deny That Another Man llas llis-
_ appeared and Score Probation
Officer
The ease with which prisoners at
the county jail only throw od‘ their
shackles was further exemplified yea-
terday, when, following the announce-
ment of a third escape in four days,
it was learned that a hammer which
might have enabled China All. King.
former representative and convicted
l'orger, to secure his release, was
found beneath his bank in the county
the state prison at Wethersfleld. An
authentic report that ”Mike Shupchlck.
a convicted burglar, had gotten free,
was received last night.
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EDR MDRDERED lAMlii
Bethel Murderer, Who killed Four
Will list Be Bolted With Wife
and Ohilhn- Moment of leaf-
on: liege
BETHAE1.. Conn, Dec. 31.—-1"nr-
ther. investigation today of the cm,
cumstances attending the slaying by
William A. Steele of four members of'
his family at their home here Wednes-
day nlght, and the subsequent suicide
of Steele, failed to disclose any mo-
tive for the crime. The authorities
are convinced. however, that Steele
attacked his wife
jealous rage and that his brother-tn-
law, James L Riley, fell victim of the
murderer‘s axe while trying to de—
fend the woman.
lt is conjectured that after killing
his wife and her brother, Steele’s
frenzy took full possession of him
and led him to batter in the heads
of the two little daughters of his
wife, Winnie and dlaunah Hubbard,
aged six and four years, respec
tively.
The authorities believe that the
murders took place before half-past
four in the afternoon, at which time
‘Steele purchased the. poison~ with
which he ended his own life.
The live bodies rested until today
in an undertaker‘s establishment.
Mrs. Hannah Riley, mother of the
murdered woman, has refused to
permit the murderer to be buried
with the other members of the
family.
He will have a separate funeral to-
day..
A quadruple funeral will be held
over the bodies of the others.
WESl AVE. ERDM ‘ .
MEADOW SlREEl DRIDCE
. lA petition is being circulated am:
downtown residents addressed to
Mayor C. A. Harstrom and the city
council in which“; request is voiced
that “combination be. taken dry the
city fathers in doing - ,3an with the
namesv'fio'uth Main“ dudNul-th Maid”,
andchrlaten that W; which
alarmist the Mendowestreet‘rallmed
bridge elm unto the. minim lemon.-
at the corner-rot» wrrnastmt. solemn
“fingerlamser’f - . .
will . WWW
ingot liltofthe- housesaion‘msoutb.
in a moment ~ orA
800D tilt"
Mill lulu
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Saaii Chicazaflaaleftilehulicaa
Linseed Company Set on'Fil-e by
- the Mishap
tittitlilt litllti l0
Three Men Burned to Death in
, Iiotel Fire in Michigan
Cilil‘lAlGO. Dec. 3l.~—<lieporta that
fifteen or twenty” had been killed
in an explosion which set fire to the
plant of the American Linseed Com-
pany in South Chicago, were received
by the police today. After the ex—
plosion the flames spread rapidly, and
firemen were unable to enter the
building.
Hotel Fin Fatal.
TRAVERSE CWT, Mich. Dec. 81.-——
Three men were burned to death here
today in a fire which practically de-
stroyed the Farmers' Inn, the leading
hotel of Traverse City. The property
loss was small.
utilitarian
° will canon
in Italian. Oeprivedof ills reason,
flees Rampage ‘
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trying to poison him, Michele Noroal.
an llalian resident of Ridgeileld, who
is employed at the Gilbert a: Bennett
factory in Georgetown, is at war with
the world as a whole. Up to yesterday
his condition had apparently been nor-
mal, but during the morning he be-
came enraged at imaginary injuries
and attacked Guiaippe. Delleannl, a
fiftee year-old boy, knocking him
(low bruising him generally and re.
‘ llevlng him of two or three teeth.
Constable Frank Taylor was called
by members of the family and Moroni
was placed in a cell at the Ridgedeld
lock-up, where he is howling, break-'
ing lights and behaving like a mad-
, man. A consultation of doctors will
be held to determine what dispoaal
shall be made of him, for it is clearly
unsafe to leave him in the Ridgelleld
Jail.
lMERE’S Pillili DDXDAC
‘ PRDMDlDRS AM Milli Clll
February seems to be a favorite
month with Norwalk's’ boxing pro«
motors. Mayor Carl Axel Haretrom
has received three requests for per-
mits to hold a show during that
month. Two are from William Smith,
of the East Side, and from Harry J.
Smith. ‘The latest bid, received yes-
terday aftg'inoon, is from Joseph P.
Mulvlhlll. The mayor states he
hasn’t made up his mind who will re
ceive the coveted permission.
llllTMEll CLUBSMOKER
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\A very successful smoker was held
last evening by the members of the
Nutmeg Club in their rooms on Wall
street. There was a large croWd of
members present, and the good time
was enjoyed until a late hour. 0n
next Tuesday evening. the annual
election of officers for the coming
year will be held.
HUNTINGTON BUYS LIBRARY.
NEW YORlxbbec. 31.——Hen'ry E.
Huntington, financier and railroad
new purchased the. great library
of erlokdltt Il-‘lalsey fol-about 3160,-
filth. Mr. Halsey.'.a..~iii‘oke'r:undt‘bib‘llo~
puller was the where! a library con:
fainting of about-Joann {murmucom
prising many early rungliah‘ editions
.badhoen. collecting for estrous-e. 1‘ not.
solution ~ crime, Kaiser‘bolloc‘lion
giveaMn-dluntlntmtt‘oneofthe lava-
«innermost oomplet
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Main .andriortlr Matn‘~su'eew.s~ ‘ ~ ~ ;
e libraries in the
world;
ind "valuable Americans. which» he»
mm mumps: 1W0 OTHERS Billttfll?
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Under the delusion that everyone is.
A
DlliER RACE
WARS ilMEli
IN CEDRCIA
Seven Colored Men liilled and Two
Whites Suieusly injured During
Fighting at Blakeley
flit Mitt snot town.
WMM REPEV _ ERDM AMSl i
elitist SlilMflt ' t ”—
Agrees to Pay For S IA IL.“ .:
DMRMS DASlRESS SACMAA
oi the Antenna and y
of the Punish-lent of ’
The Coast Guard: Cutter Seneca
A llears the Thessdoniki. on
Submarine Captain
Sandy llook
Failure to Take
Account Panic on ll
WASHINGTON, Dec.
The official text of Austria
cons note was received earl -
day at the State Department.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Tha crippled
steamer Thessaloniki, which has been
slowly nearing this port since last
Wednesday was burning signals 01
distress early today and the steamer work of translating from the,
Florizel was searching for her. Radio
SONIA Hundred Whites RCMI’tGd’ messages picked up by shore stations lomatlc cede mu take ”
. . brought this information. The loca- hours and. arrangements {0‘
in the lenses Passes Ill the our of the Thessaloniki was then in.licatlonw11lbemadelater.
fl
County
’uoubt, but one message had' reported’ The reply, came in sec
Aher 190 miles east of handy Hook. Secretary Lansing said thin
Whether the coast guard cutter .
BLAKE-LEV (in. Dec. 3i.—-Excite- Seneca. which left here Wednesday,n‘3°n that one ““10“ had
- morning to succor the distresseditranslated, and that be ex
My"Wingl'éie‘ileiMi‘LAKWl‘il‘te‘”335:3333 S‘eflnltr- had reached her» “mm “with: complete translation .
and negroes, near here yesterday. in be learned “HY “Pd”- Abe in his hands before m
which seven degrees were killed and . Officials who had read fly
two whites seriously hurt, had not Aofficial version of the rep}
entirely died down today. influential A , . .
white citizens who were busy until ,cetved in press dispatches
.lale last night in efforts to prevent -London apparently were _
further possible outbreaks, expressed Agratificd at its nature. Dill l ‘
the belief, however. that there would in break of diplomfic ”‘
be no more trouble. " ‘ .. A t .,
ro-Hungary m
Five of the negroes were shot an “nth us . . .
longer . considered inmunent.
flMDMAS MEMMY, ME”.
killed, and two others were burned to “Nowu REPORIER, DIES .
death, according to reports here, as Aficials said. however, that
“ A tional correspondence on th
a result of three pitched battles be- ,
tween the negroes and various bands , .
- d , yect was wrote ensue, -
Water For the ‘Ebenin,J Lam“ d‘chned’to‘wm ,
of whites seeking to capture Grandii- Political
son (loolsby, a negro farmer. and h s _ , _ _
Telegram" Married a "breathable reply until he hadlhe
".‘,plete official tell:
two sons. Mike and Ulysses. accused‘
of assassinatlng Henry .1. Villiplgue.‘
,I‘Iwas considered . a
.4: Iomdal text '1! .
an overseer, Who bed thrashed one of
.tbe r _, ,aby . ..Villlplgue
was fit in 'm‘e‘: ,lia .- . . . . .. .
Thomas A. Kenny, political reporter" {at publicm gym
.for The New York Telegram. died; "
. ~{Wednesday
nigh , (:13 Wife narrowly escaping
death not so W
Ayesterday in the German Hospitals. - _, . _
New York, from a valvular disease til-£01551“!1 Pubhumnm .
. yerul other shots fired
after he It’ll. - A ' ‘
The negroes reported dead were; : _
Grandlson Goolsby. his two sons, both the heart. thlr. Kenny was married! pended to the tel} by , .
to Mary Knit, of this city, on January do, Penfield at View.
6. 1910. Besides his wife he lenvesl Secretary Lansing M,
of whom were burned in a cabin in
““01! they sought refuge; "Hosh" C h | Th
four children, at er no, among ‘ , .‘
Charles and Margaret. The Neofrom Ambassador Penfield,‘
Jewell, Charles diolmes, James Bur?
vork Tribune said this morning: -~ {resume of the contents
ton and Early Hightower.
Jewell and Holmes were killed in .
"Tom" Kenny was one of the mosilnote. He declined, 11:, .
. this dim
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posses, and it was said that probably,
led by sheriff Howell, of Early County.‘
political reporters in the city. a was.
search their cabin. with whom he worked, and his loss is . '
assigned since 1913. r \r Dec. 1
half a dozen were wounded. l A. ~ ONDOA ' 3‘
aiding the Goosbys stand off it poses;
popular and capable of the younger make public
Burton and Hightower met death re~1 Ac out upon it.
slstlng another posse which sought to; held high in the affections of the mom 0mm ' _
it was estimated that there were; a personal one to the newspaper menANOT MUCH OPPOSIT _
several hundred whites in the various, at the City Hall. where he had beeni TO COMPULSORY 3
He was born in this city thirty-live . .
Samuel Pittman and O. B. Hudspethh years ago. He began his newspaperi lnSPCCUOIlflf the 7913'}. of:
members of the Sheriff's posse, were work on "The Evening Sun" in 1902.'pulsory military Semc
the only two whites who were known‘ He was on “The Evening World" from . cntly has dissipated man,
here to have been wounded. Pittman‘s, 1903 to 1905. when he went to "Theiimacrincd terrors. The
right arm was broken by a shot, and 5
Evening Telegram." He covered nannyA . . ‘ , - ‘
Hudspeth was shot in the head. He' famous criminal trials while assignedAbEAwf 15 that, while that
is expected to recover.
lie the Criminal tCourta Building. to always be a certain on
The killings took place in the west-f cluding‘the two Becker trials. persons whom no argum
em part of this (Early) county. about John Kenny, a brother, is employed, win over. the governors“
ten miles west of here, and near the] in the Controller‘s office. and James?! . h 't ation wen i ‘
Alabama‘border. A another brother, is in the District At-t 13“? t ‘2 5‘ u , , ,1, , .
by the time the ormectcd.
A tomeyas office. His mother, Muguctg .
ANOIHER MAN WANIS Kenny. died Christmas Eve, while her‘ tire is presented to Fathom
INSPEClDtt’S Billli
A son was unconscious. When he rallied . k h
w cc encc.
. in the hospital he said he had a. prc~A ‘ ~
Amonition that his mother was deadi From present appearance
and
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it is understood on good authority’P_ o_ Busmzss “A"
that Stephen Ungvary, of this city.i
will put in his application with the; Rusmflc [on "m mas
Postmaster Andrew Leary, of thal
A asked if it were true. He was told
AM her death.
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littiCtil Siliil nun
rr'lev. l. A. McCoy. of Portsmouth;
Va... is expected in this city today.
:Mr. tilfoCoy is the successor of Rev.
Henry M; Shields as pastor'ot the
Atrium for. :E. ‘ Church, Off‘ Knight
street, uptown. The Renoir. Shields
khan .left. for a pastorstedn Alabama.
into retiring. pastor." met; with cousin-
—
'oooosition by that time will
dwindled to casdy mana‘
iproportioos. '
aSITUATION AT SALONTKI
A ‘ ONE OF WAIT ,
city councillor the position of build-A PARIS, Dec. 31. 5303. ml
$833,933.} “fificfiertfi‘nfi :2: Eggt The situation at Salonik'i as.
for the past two yeays, The progeny” downtown post-office, stated thlsieral Edouard Castelnau. clue
inspector's term expires on February morningnthat the post-omen business the General Staff of the_rFrein
20th. The council will probably rc- yes‘tefiavenags 30:1; 3:: 133%;ng Army, is said to view ,t a;
celve llcntlons at its re ular Jan» ma. 9 ' ,- .‘ . . . .
nary rigging, the second 'l‘guesday or rush, he said. There are, howaver. “5““? “19mm?“ forge at All .
that month, and will make the ap- quite a large number of New Year'slpiace. is given by the cm: .
pointment at the February‘meetlng. greeting cards being sent from this respondent of the Journal as O..-
The application of Joseph 1-1. Brown, city through the malls. 1.0f waiting. T he General is
Jr., has been received-thy the council Aported as saying: . .
It was rumored that Mr. Brown has n z, - -
withdrawn from the race, but theiflljncfl SERVIOESEHDR . _\\t are ath‘alomkt aha,
truth of the report is questioned. ._ ' .noar‘itentlon o eavmg‘. , e
NEW YEAR S Dill, waitingr for them to attack us
Atilat they have. made up ,th
Tomorrow morning. in St. Joseph's minds to great sacrifices. I ,_
church, massesrwill be celebrated at; more than satisfied. I am eat},
5:30. 7 and 8 o'clock, - . . r r
The Feast of tile Circumcision otjs‘ait‘c at g” dfffenffiz P 39:” .
Christ will tomorrow morning he orll-I j mcm 9" ~" 2'5. .. it
served at Trinity Episcopal church.~sulte declared: An offensiv,
uoiy Communion Wm be oelebntedfiaionik‘, “rould COSQ themvad
at 9‘30 °'°A°°“'-~ ' ‘lrsopoo men. ‘ AncioFl-‘eh
é _ ,troops continue to lam .”
secondment issue. - . . . ——.———-—
r»orrs.*»w1ulomncmu,rol-1s School 5- I 2
_ . street,- motmith‘n-very‘r natural neel- .B-ERTJN,
erablenotorietyf recon” tlyr ‘a‘s‘the jre «neurons- niornins."wmn unrefined t Sayv i
mull" “oi-“aimlt Mt15.000!l-brotlzht'fionfitihedoein her *M nod~leilrdls~:r Db“, -
‘~»s'oulnnt-:hlm-throushr'httomeydnhn a; lunatic: handle“: nonhuman”; . soon:
x
consummation-tumlistenerarssnmboorwrs reuderrdbymz'rnc- . . ”All
in;showmanavenuegdomeattc;who oyfimcacrslcabnn- gnaw-mun; WM , ,,
_ alleged slender. - -
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quite mummy. ..
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