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should be without The
Evening Sentinel.
.I mamas; 1370';
muffin
till 0th 0f
itiNDiN, in.
Thirty-nine business Buildings and’
Residences Ssept0ut of Exist—i
erce With loss of $250,000
maintains
count iiitioiii
Too iiged Members of the College
Faculty lost Their Lives
’ glitzxoox, Mich. Oct. 5.—-—The viiv
iage rit' Mention. which has a popula-
tion -if 1,000, was virtually destroyed
by fire yesterday. The blaze swept :50
hilr-Liit‘ns buildings and reside-ices and
burned itself out last night. The los<
was tbout $250.00", partly covered by
insumnre. There were no casualties.
but several hundred persons were
rwiiiiitil homes or extra clothing to
day
When the fire started the voiuntet :'
dirt- vll’plllllllt‘ili responded to call. but
in hurrying their steamer to the fire
it inoke away troiii them and rotted
down a bank into "‘0 St. Joseph ltiver.
'l‘ii-- city was without lire deteuse iiii
til apparatus arrived from Kalatiiazoo
and other cities.
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fellows flakes Round lip—ill
Found Cin'ity and llominally
lined Gypsies With Cattle and
Bears Rooted out of Term l
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WESTPORT. Ot-t. 5.~A large band
of gypstes on their way to the Dan-
iiuvy l-‘air passeS‘through town Tues-
day morning. They stopped in town
dor .i short while and would have made
Iheir stay longer. but the local author-
ities decided that they were not de-
uiratde‘characters to have around the
town for any length of time. Several
Morekeepers complained that they
were making themselves obnoxious.
prid they were told to move along.
They had a number of head of fine
cattle with them and one of theft]
plated they were going to put them
on exhibition at the fair. They also
had two trained bears with them and
they put them through their antics
in the square.
. Automobile Cases.
'. A number of automobile on; < were
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leaz'd in the local court ' .iesdsy
morning by Justice of the Peace
Samuel A. Purdy. All the arrests
revere made by Constable Fellows. For
the last few months autOniohilists
have been able to pass tlirougsi town
(in any manner that they pleas‘ d and
the local authorities recently came to
the conclusion that it was true toI
fitup reckless driving and tiny also'
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WilSiiN & Mliiiiill
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William 1. Device Chairman and
Rttorney'0iiiiilan secretary ‘
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:‘~ Uptown Democrats held at suthus-I
lastic meeting last evenjig in the
former Wail street schbbl building,
(which .has been rented as the head-
» punt-tors of tho uptown Democratic
party‘. snd.fomally founded the‘Wll-
son and Isabel! Club. of \‘orwslk.
The meeting tires well blended and
(was called to order by William J.
Devlne, chairman of the Democratic
down oommittoe,»shortly after eight
p’clock. bfr. Dovine -“9 nominated
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‘egtma u-tneawnasarns;.7*
l Vera E. Wyekoff oi‘~ Stamford, who is
'possble for her to defend the tiuti in!
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Office so Second Gloss Mutter.
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ruin it tinnitus
loiig Talked of Iovenrent lied its
Birth at llolel Clifford, Tester-y
day Ifternoos
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ABMOIATID PRESS NEWS FRO/M ALL~ PAH‘l’I I’ THE
SOUTH NORWALK
WORLD IV A IPICIAL WIRI AND OUR OWN O
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Crime Grips Fairfield, Sosthport
and Westpert, With its Protect-
ion, it is Claimed
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vote was passed bringing into ex» “fl! Tl'l“ stores in “C ”in”.
party workers urnl iRepublir-ans itt gen-i
chairmen of Republican town com-t Pent!
iican ticket in the coming campaign. I
matter or a county organisation, bringn
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unanimously voted that those presentg‘n Charged "ll. Destroyinglilk.
port. the national coinmitteeiiiaa from!
tar). and Arthur t‘. Wheeler, of” .\'or ‘ NEW‘ YORK 0"" ”TIN” "0mg“?
probably accept. n“. president “.‘U this city. announced today that it
manner of choosing future iiictiiiiei':. ”if” WM ‘” “mm” M 4‘.‘ cents per
mm will be. field in u“, d otit of the milk situation took place
than live hundred women, mostly for-
ASKS 00m“ 10 .milk stations in Harlem.
Organization had its birth at the Hotel:
istciice a body of political workers; . _
hood to Cat Supplies For Babies
eral. At 1 o‘clock there assembled int
itiittees, members of the State t‘entral
the (‘ouiity Sheriff, making the hody'IEN fARMERs 'N 5
mi; all the towns of the county iii1
ly discussed. at the close of which tt‘.
resolve themselves into such all
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and liiiuriilg Delivery Wagons .
Connecticut. was elected president.:
unik. ”MSW". Mr. Kim: was n“[‘t‘otideiised Milk Company, which Hilli-
authorized _m appoint “ mmmm‘,” of- wotild meet the demand of the Dairy-
ot’ the organisation, etc. i “m pounds.
Stanifo: i
early today. when it was necessary to
eignern. many with babies in arms.
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Clifford. yesterday afternoon. when a!
which has long been advocated by
ill Their Arms and Became Des-
llie. large hotel parlor about forty;
f‘oriiiiiitlee, candidates on the Repub-
as representative as possible. Thei .
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close touch with each other. was free i w JERSEY ARRESIE l
was. on motion of Edmund it). t‘rowe..
organization. .loiiti Thing, of ltridge .
billion it‘cssenden. of Stamford. seci'e V
“11.3““ m the Illeell'tg. m“ be wimplies one-fifth of all the iiiiik sold in
lllt‘ to draft by-laws. lirovidilig for the "WU.“ League for an increase "‘ ”“5
The next meeting of the organisa»I Tm” llrsl disorder here growing
Suburban Club on Saturday afternoon. , ,
‘cail police reserves to disperse more
who stormed two health department
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The women had previously CltTl-,
vassed stores in the neighborhood in
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Returns From Small Towns sen
Republican Trend—Democrats
lose Tons of lithium
Wrs- Wyckcil Wants Injunction
to Prevent Husband Securing
Divorce in Distant State
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A short calendar session of the
(‘ivil Superior (‘ourt will be held in
Bridgeport. Friday and Judge Edwin
ll. Gager will preside. There are a
number of motions to come up and six
uncontested divorce cases are sched-
uled to be tried.
Among the motions will be one b
In addition to the returns from
Monday's election printed in Tuesday's
Sentinel. there follows returns from
all but a score of the smaller towns,
and the result confirms what has been
said as to the strength of the Re-
publican party in the state. Of the
returns given only fifteen towns in the
state show it larger vote for the deiti-
ocratic registrar than for the one. on
the Republican ticket. in two towns.
Montville and lit‘lhali)‘, the registrars
of the two parties received the same
number of votes and in Stratford
party lines were.eliminated in the
town election because of the use, of
the direct primary.
in the town of Warren the first
selectmaii declined to qualify and the.
seiectman elected in 1915 will hold}
suing Spofford F. Wyckoff for divorce.
She asks for an injunction restraining
the defendant from further prosecu-
tion of a divorce action in Nevada
umil after her case in this county is
disposed of.
Mrs. Wyckoff claims that Nevada is
not the legal residence of her hus-
band and she claims that most of the
witnesses reside in this section of the
country and as she is without finan-
cial means it would be praclcally ini-
the Nevada court.
The Wyckoffs were married! on
April 17. 1900, the plaintiff's maiden
name being Bailey. Mrs. Wyckolf
charges her husband with cruelty and
she wants alimony, claiming her hus-
band is worth $100,000.
.oble to disarm 'Saulter.
in lltoe+, Pennsylvania
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SevenCmslSlooit TreinCrunpled Public Entertainments Werred by
lip, m Rails ""f Acts of Roudyisnl
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Ai.’i‘()0NA. PL, Oct. 3 TWO men
““7“ be'bl! “NHL an engineman .\ “reign of terror," striking in its
“'3’? selfisl sealded and a dmpnill?ellfi of during and bold lawlessness,
""“l ”"1"" 3 d mscngers were "’0'" is diamaying Southport and h‘uiriield
"r '9" WWW. ”"1" today. “h“ “‘9 residents. virtually forcing them to
Mercantile 3“va on “'9 Pennsyl-f barricade themselves in their homes
“in“ ltuilmsd “1'99“ Pittsburgh “m: with the coming of darkness and fore-
New \ork. ‘5'“th into the "a" ”I ' ‘ go attendance upon church services,
“00k "'81“ M ”“5 weal PM] 0' the enjoyment of various amusements.
Lewistown ”“15- Th’ ”'3'“ were and the pleasure of neighborly visits.
blocked 'for more ”“9“ four hourl. Highwaymen are holding tip and
“i“ ”“59“!" train was rushing robbing on the public roads of the
through the Yards “'ht’“ ”‘9 "3h“ 9" town pedestrians courageous enough
the stock train were seen directly in m “mm". forth. Thieves. "m “.9“
"0'“ M ll pulled through 0“ a ”033' waiting for residents to temporarily
over. Enginelnan J. it}. Stewart, of leave their homes. break in and coolly
.11"me “‘ once “’91le the ““9739“? ‘ ransack houses. Automobiles are
bmki’s- b‘" V” unable ‘0 “mp the used by the terrorists, it is believed.
"“"" ibecnuae of their swift arrivals and
‘llllll‘ly. clever gcl‘uwsyil. leaving be-
lilnd them no trace of their identity.
Residents Wrathful.
i “incidents of the tvvo villages,
iwrsthlul so well as frightened over so
i alarming a state of affairs. or. Nud-
Jing themselves together for muluiil
protection. and that they may turtle
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South Woodstock mun-i ‘
Attached bye-ram wisdom ifi-iilliiil Willi
SOUTH \VOODSTOCK. Oct. 53-}, “trusts Io RUN
Peter Sanitary: wanderer, tried to kill!
his benefactor. Fred H. Berger. a;
blacksmith of South Woodstock. yes-
terday morning with a knife. Berger
gave the man a Job and kept him all
summer in his house. Saulter gave
Berger a deep slash in the right arm
and a triangular cut in the left arm
before he with overpowered.
Saulter appeared in Woodstock
the first of the summer. down and
out. and Berger, took him in. For.
thét last few days Saulter had been
acting queerly and yesterday morning
began, throwing things around his
room. When Berger told him to stop
Saulter took out a large inckknlfe
sud slashed Berger. A scuffle foi-
Iowed. and Mrs. Berger ran to her
husband's assistance. They were unv
We of the Twenty-Sixth Dis-
trict busy looking for a Candl-
date
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Upon good authority this morning
it was learned by The mntlnel that
stSenator Hartford S. Weed. of New
Canaan, had absolutely refused to llC-
cept the Democratic nomination for
senator from this district.
This news has had a bombastic ef-
fect upon the Democratic political cir-
etc and strenuous efforts are being
made to find wndldotc who will no
cent the nomination. it was reported
this morning that William K. Hubbell.
of Wilton. had been approached in re
gard to the matter, but that he re.
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Berger's ”years-old boy. Arthur,.
went to the blacksmith's shop and.‘
getting a pair of tongs, grabbed
Saulter‘s wrists with them and
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ENDS DISASIR
Repbrts from Scolia State That inv
Number of 12.000 to 16,000 Were Scaling
Ilhlly Wipcd 0m, as They Were Without
Supyort or Guns
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iiiiiitll 2 fiiiis, Bill iiiitl us in
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:i‘rcnch Claim to Have Made Advances on the . .
Road. and Capture Nine 3-inch Germ ,Cuns
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i ithe Danube near Rahovoy.‘
l llili l0 aunt BOiJIiSmr‘or .. m- m
t ,Dobrudja. has ended .. .
itrously for the invs is, ,
. - ~ing to Sofia, their one ‘
Must Show Cause of Evasion of scattered and mm“). Vi-
Taxes levled by State Shell, To combat the it ~-
- : who apparently were from .,
com‘i" itO t6.ooo strong, but d
be without artillery, the
, Oyster growers in the slate Verdi-[ans sent troops from‘ _
'gl‘llllt‘fl a continuance of hearing year-1 and Tunukai, .n aw
ttrday when they met with members; - tossing.
o(f the iitste Shell l-‘tsh commissioni the 1101352030 . 7
Via New Juvon'for the purpose of pro} mi. . . ,. m g ,
lducing their books to show cause why ' lino are “id ‘to.
th _ should nu pay the assessment their pontoon bndgek"
lev ed on, their oyster beds by theifound (160th b
state.- Under an act by the last leg/r i m’onitors. 'Sofil'k .
lature. the commission holds power to, ._
demand that the companies producel“c“flmemem m “I!
their books for investigation whenlvnding force broke in
called upon . 1and that yesterdhythe ~
F. 1. Human of New Haven saldl
were engaged in .. .. .‘;-
destruction.
that his company had no books in this
state. The Stevens Oyster Companyl . a .
of Rowayton was not represented at. Regarding the 0W0".
the meeting. in the absence of Attor- the Dobnldja from ”ugh
ney General George E. Hinman. i-‘red-
erick L Perry of the commission act-
'ed in his stead.
it is the object of the commission
to probe the books of" the oystermeu
in an effort to ascertain to just what
extent their claims of “no profit" a’re
justified. The fight made by the oys~
ter dealers to prevent the passing of
legislation prowling for a heavier tax
was one of the most vigorous waged;
Tchemavoda-Conetsnn
the current Solis bulletln' ,
the repulse of all the '
Romanian attempts-to
Bucharest has claimed .
tial progress with these: it
near the center and to _
Black Sea coast, and yu ‘5
reported the capture of“
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i‘t‘lj‘ei‘rs- H m Mme“ haw than r.ooo prisoners’snd .
t or some me e OYS ' - I ll 1 .
‘mainlalned that the industry was guns from Flew M‘ "t'
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proving to be a failure from a finan- Mackensen's {Om
tcial standpoint. Reports that pollu- On the western end
°‘ Ti‘fi’sdfliiiiltifig‘ili an Macedonian from the ~
was cons n y -
'fish have been spread broadcast. ill :26 ”fulfill???
its believed that the oystermen have onas “'- 8 0 ”Mi
'purpoaely endeavored to have the taxyto the southeast and elm
repealed at the coming session of the‘horder further may-6.1.)
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legislature. Hatter region they have .
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The. divorce cases which will be. over. In Newtown, once one ofthe
heard Friday are: Joseph Sacnury dependable Democratic: towns in
vs. Susie 0nder Sachury: Lulu A. l-‘alrfield County. the Republicans
Dwyer vs. John A. Dwyer; Willetta
May Cook Larkln vs. William H. Lar-
kin: Amelia Miller Carpenter vs. Ed-
ward Carpenter: Katherine A. Hauser
vs. George E. Hauser; Dorothy Dodge
elected candidates to all site offices
which the majority party can hold
anti in Trumbull. one of the smaller
towns in the same county. the. dem-
ocrats filled the majority places.
fused to accept the nomination. Judge.
squeezed them until he dropped the James T. Hubbeii. of Norwalk. is alsoi
kill. “9 was bound over [0‘ the bu" in view of this fact does not wish to;
knife. Swing“ ::: straws 3:932:11 reported to have been offered the mm | [A81 NORWAlK IMPROVE. dav while am a" . ‘
"ed' 9', Ch “(3 i Pcrrlii on . instion. but it is known that he also ' ‘ -' . fig
before “3‘va ' she with intent l0Irefuaed to run. Judge Hubbeil is out‘ l1“ V371“ a“? .
5 charge 9 “5““ . Ifor the representative candidacy and; ” still nearer their M
m to fill
in: W
Monastir.
The current Bulvitiatt
l Thomas Benedict.
(‘ha‘lnberlatn vs. Herbert Clayton
Chamberlain.
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(ill 0!” iiiiliiliiliili'
As the outcome of the indignation
‘raised last Thursday among the resi-
dents of Seaview avenue when the.
Connecticut Company attempted to
plant telegraph poles on land which,
the people in that vicinity alleged to:
be theirs, an injunction was served oni
élsbiimlfiny tshis mornTng by Conn the same room where \Vetterer was
. ry elser. The case will fund with tw b llet . d ‘ h'
come up before the City Court n the (end ° u “05'“ 5 3 “
£331“; mill; (at: “£132.32me ‘3 ! ,No one witnessed the shooting but
Vosburgh will preside‘ ' lilies Houclt left a note addressed to
There are four complaining parties her ”in" ' Ruth Houck, ““011 ”I“
all of whom are substintial residents police and Coroner Foertmeyer said
of the Third District. Their names ml indicated that she shot Wetterer‘ and
CINCINNATI, 0., Oct. 5.—-Aifonso
Wettersr, 49 years old. vice-president
and secretary of the Wetterer Brew-
.ing Company of this city. ”who, it is
ibeiieved, was shot by Helen Honck, 30
years old. at the. latter’s home, on
iWalnut Hills. last night, died at the
’City General Hospital early today
Miss Houck was found dead with a
bullet hole through her right temple in
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loin ilioicli litiMill ,_
iSIitllllS Mill iii ulnarmum mm
curl and taken to jail.
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run for senator.
it will be remembered that at the
senatorial convention held in the
perior C
Friday evening,
Mr. was refused
to discuss the matted. Hts silence. a
that time taken as his consent,
wrongly judged.
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.Shsberts Orders list to loner
Rates Deletions ray—Fisher
flldIsCensiihcy
NEW YORK. Oct. 5.-f-Th058 gay
Gothsmites who find pleddure in the
Broadway Boheniisnis , that costs
more a night than a. Domitian
ever nawin his ilfetime,have.sonae-
thing to tilt about nowe They will no
doubt be shocked to learn that some
one has been trying to take sit the.
fun out of their peripstetic life by re-
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Leslie Gamble” “‘9“ “m“
. The note left by Helen Hooch stab
Robert Jos iovsky and Morris Epstein: .
The co fning parties claim that ed that site had been keeping cmnpsny
, ~ .with Wettsrsr for several months and
{$6923 ”1:30;? mew; “3‘ charged that be had wronged her.
look after their end of this matter . ’Hélen Houck was the divorced "I.
. ' of Wii in Everhhrdt. formerly of
Norw A suburb of Cincinnati, but
now residing in Colorado.
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duciug the prlc of liquid beverages
and food to a rat such that. even one
attire proletsrlst may be enabled to
indulge. in the early morning Bohemian
tnvelry.
nee attrition, Jacob J. staunch until
Ben lotion are ’ held responsible for
improvement Anabel-tion,
log of Community Hell.
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town assembly hall in Wall street on mar
September 29th, that , 5953
the nomination.
After a short recess Mr. Weed was their annual "1993118,
again nominated. but refused this time. “it? home 01 Mrs- E-
t‘ v law
was‘
Evidently the senatorial nomination
not hankered for by Eny of the
prominent members of the local Dem-
-‘tiitiiuitiiu
John J. Cavunsgh. chairmen of the
finance committee of the East Norvulk
is raising
the 82.000 necessary to start the build-
Contribu-
:tlone are coming in to him generously.
nine hundred douprs of the amount
hush- already been raised. The build-
lng is now an assured feet and it will.
be a credit to tho District and!
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An unusually large sttendance‘tion in the Monastic d' 3
had one of the moat interesting.in a general my, but
ions ever held by the East Nor-”kc Serbians alonz the A.
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,walk improvement Association, a ‘the east were foiled m 3
October 3. all .
F. Smith, Sea-Ho advance in five Haul . ,
ley, near Strupino. Ar
(the British with the
3,011 the eastern flank of the
Mrs. Hipson, the president of the as-l (“mt- 315.0 ‘3 "Pom ..
sociation and chairman of the building‘ Bulgarian troops from .
committee, again explained to timings“- 0f Rmuk and '
meeting the plans for Community i defeated the Rumnniin
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Hall. for the benefit of tie members some Evan h. 18f!!!“
who were unable to be present at the. , . 13,.
special meeting. September 23, which centiy crossed the D
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avenue. '
. The treasurer's report. showing thei
$3,000 mark was in sight, was receiv-
ed with great acclamotion.
was called for the purpose of dis- Bulgaria: territory new
cussing Community Hall. , the War Offia a
The structure proposed by the build name“! WY-
lng committee and sccqpted’by the as-
isociatton is a building 40x80 feet with
two rooms in front—one for an as.
socistton meeting room and the other
for library purposes, and in the rear
an auditorium fitted with stage, to
have s seating capacity of dbl). It
was originally intended to finish the
cellar suitable for a kitchen. dining-
room. ctc., but the necessitated cost
was greater than could be cared for
now. and it was thought advisable to
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