One Cent. 1 Absolutely Independent. \VEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1891. BY ilIAIL. The duties of the average postmaster are by no means so simple as people who come to the stamp window to grum- ble because their letters are five min- utes late seem to think. The postmaster at New Haven has just been directed by one of his-sover- eign masters, a citizen ofIGreenville N‘ C.. to abduct a certain child, which is now with its mother in New Haven, and send it to the said citizen, its al— leged father, in'North Carolina. As no intimation is given regarding sex of the child desired, and as the government only provides mail bags for the trans- mission of packages, the postmaster is expected to decline till he is informed that the child is not a female. Even then, there is some question as to his authority to act in the premises. But there is no doubt whatever as to the conviction on the part of the North Carolina man that it is part Of every postmaster’s sworn duty to abduct children for his fellow-citizens, when- ever called upon to do so. Postmaster Van Cott is constantly suggesting improvements in the mail service of New York, and as constantly securing their adoption at \Vashington. His latest recommendations are for in- creased messenger mail service on the elevated roads ; for the departure of the Chicago mail at 12 noon, instead of 9.30 a. m., so that business letters writ- ten prior to 10.30 can be distributed in Chicago the following afternoon ; and for the consolidation of the night mails from Boston for New York and their transfer here by a railway postal car, in which they can be asserted. These are all important suggestions, for which the public will be indebted to Mr. Van Cott if he secures their adoption. -» coo — w THE IRISH DIFFICULTY. A Scheme That Both Sections of the Party Will Agree To. LONDON, Feb. 4.—The Standard says: "\Ve believe that the Liberal leaders have promised the Healyites a home rule scheme that will empower the Irish parliament to control the police and deal with the land question if it is still unsettled; but they insist that the right of veto shall be re- served to the imperial parliament, as in the bill of 1880. “Both sections of the Irish party will agree to this, and Mr. Parnell will tempo— rarily retire and go to America. It is stated that Sir '\\'illiam Vernon Harcourt did not take part in these negotiations, and that be entirely disapproves of the scheme. It is also stated that the surrender on the land question is the result of a Radical ‘cave.’ " The Times says: “it is reported that a settlement between Mr. Parnell and Mr. O‘Brien will be effected in America, and that Mr. Dillon will surrender himself to the police on the understanding that he shall be nominated to the irish leadership at the next session, Mr. McCarthy remain- ing for the present the leader of the re- united party.” Expelled from the Army. LlSBOX, Feb. -l.—The king has signed a. decree ordering that the insurgent regi- ments at ()porto shall no longer be con— sidered as a part of the Portuguese army. Senator Hearst’s Condition. \VAsnlxcrox. Feb. 4.—Senator Hearst was resting comfortably Tuesday after- noon. There was no change to herein his condition from the day before. Against Free Silver. Pirrsnune, Pa, Feb. 4.—The Pittsburg chamber of commerce has protested against free coinage. An amendment indorsing the present monthly purchase of silver was killed. Big Shoemaker-5’ Strike. Loxnox, Jan. 4.—Ten thousand shoemak- ers of this city have gone on strike for in- creased wages. BRIEF hIENTION. Superintendent Keighley, of the Mam- moth mine, near Youngwood, was at- tacked by a woman whose husband had been killed in the recent disaster there. Several Hungarian men and Women came to the woman’s assistance and Mr. Kcigh- ley narrowly escaped being mobbed. The ways and means committee of the World’s fair has decided to recommend to ihe board of directors that it call for an additional subscription of $500000 to the stock of the association, thus making the amount available, including the $5,000,00C of bonds issued by the city, $15,000,000. Senor Castelar was rc—elected a member of the Spanish chamber of deputies. In Barcelona the elections were accompanied by rioting at many of the polling places. The rioters attacked the Officials guarding the polling,r stations and succeeded in smashing ballot boxes. Mrs. Maria Keene, a widow of 48, with five children, who three years ago married a boy of 17' at Riverside, R. l., is now try- ing to obtain possession of her youthful husband’s property. The youth’s guardian is believed to have sent him to Europe. The result of the recent trouble at the Carbon Hill (Ala) mines is four colored men killed and several wounded. Order has been restored and the troops recalled. Much destitution prevails in northwest- ern Kansas. Many families are living on sixty cents a week, allotted them by county commissioners, and furniture is being chopped up for fuel. A sensation was created in the Cumber- land county license court in Carlisle by several Lock Haven ministers indorsing the petition of a hotel keeper for a liquor license. William M. Singerly, of Philadelphia, has sold his yacht Restless. It is rumored in Chester that he intends to build a new vessel superior to any private boat afloat. The United States cruiser Newark went into commission at Cramps’ shipyard, un- der command of Capt. Silas Casey, U. S. N. Adelina Patti is lying dangerously. ill at Bristol, England, having succumbed to an attack of the grippe. Rosine Bloch, the prima donna. is dead. DAILY - NORWALK- GAZETTE. HIS HEAD MBASKET. Eyraud, the Parisian Strangler, Dies by the Guillotine. AN UNOANNY PROCESSION. 0n the \Vay to the Place of Execution a_Crowd of Drunken Women Sang in Chorus "It’s Eyraud “’0 Want; His Road We Blast Have.” PARIS, Feb. 4.—Michael Eyraud, the strangler, who in July, 1889, murdered the notary, Goufie,‘in Paris, was executed by the guillotine Tuesday morning. The morning was a bitterly cold one, but at an early hour, long before the lovers of law and order were out of their beds, a great crowd rapidly congregated in the Place de la Rocquette. It was such a crowd as Paris alone of all the great cities of the world can invoke from doubtful holes and corners. It was distinctly a vicious, criminal and even murderous crowd. It was a crowd made up of scoundrels— of discharged convicts, of club croupiers, sneak thieves and all the other vile inhabitants of the vilest quarters of the great French capital. As the time drew near for the execution of the sentence of the law the swarming throng was re- cruited by an army of shady characters who accomplish their evil works by day- EYRAUD- light, and by great numbers of the simply curious. A Ghastly Chorus. In the place two great barriers had been erected to prevent the crushing or inrush— ing of the mob. Presently the drums of the Republican guard were heard, and a moment later that famous corps, preceded by the gens-de—armes, swept into the great rope-warded open space about the guillo- tine. Streaming along beside the march- ing troops and policemen came a crowd of carousers—men and women—from the low . A PERFECT RAIN 0F BLO‘VS. I A Vicious Prize Fight That Wound Up in the Seventeenth Round. . HOPKINTON, Mass, Feb. 4.—Ear1y Tues day morning Henry McGloan, of N atick, a well known wrestler, and John Burns, ol Lynn, who recently fought Tracy, of Lynn at the Cribb club, Boston, met in a twc ounce glove fight to a finish for a purse and two-thirds of the gross receipts. The men fought at about 130 pounds. The con- test took place in a sixteen foot ring pitched in the pavilion at Echo Lake. From start‘to finish the fight was a per feet rain of blows. Burns get first blood in the first round, and from the fourth round to the sixteenth seemed to haw much the best of the battle. Burns was covered with blood and had his left eye closed. In the seventeenth round, however, when an offer of $150 tc $50 on Burns found no takers, McGloan landed a heavy blow on the back of the neck, sending Burns almost senseless tc the ground, and upon his rising knocked him out byablow in the face. A largt number of sports from Lynn, Boston and Worcester witnessed the fight. While the crowd was waiting for th( arrival of the pugilists Charles l‘lilferty. of Hopkinton. and Michael Mahoney, ol Marlboro, engaged in a friendly wrestling bout, in which Mahoncy was thrown upor his head and received injuries which have resulted in congestion of the brain, and i1 is feared they will result fatally. ALBANY LEGISLATION. Proceedings in the Senate and in the ’ Assembly. ALBANY, Feb. 4.—In the senate no busi. ness of moment was transacted, and only a very short session was held. In the Assembly. The ways and means committee intro duced the annual appropriation bill intc the assembly. It appropriates in full $8,- 842,306.67. It was placed on the special or- der for one week from today. Bills introduced: By Mr. Guenther—Tm canal tax bill. It makes tax of the state twenty—two one-hundredths of a mill Eight hundred and nine thousand dollars is appropriated for general expenses as fol- lows: !S.‘35,000 for salaries of superintend- ents and assistants; $30,000 for section su- perintendents, clerk hire in canal bureau for engineers, $30,000; for collectors, $30,000 miscellaneous and sinking debt, 10,000; for lock tending, $670,000. Mr. Guenther—The sinking fund canal tax making it one-eightlkof a mill on each . dollar for the payment to sinking fund oi all night cafes of the vicinity. As the ,- drunken, disheveled women staggered and swayed along they sang in monoton- ous rythm the words: “It is Eyraud we must have; yes, his head we must have.” Inside of La Rocquette, patiently wait~ , ing the inevitable, sat the strangler Eyraud. He had been told early in the morning that the chief executive had re- $447,540. Mr. Stein’s resolution asking the gov- ernment to protest against the cruel treat ment of the Jews in Russia was adopted. Mr. Stewart int-reduced a bill appro- priating $250,000 for New York’s \Vorld’s fair exhibit. This is a substitute for the = present bill and is drawn in conformance . with the laws of other states. fused to grant the petition for his pardon. : When the governor of the prison conveyed ' t the mur lerer the news that the last 3 . . o ( i N. Beckman, who is confined 11) Ports- faint hope for him was gone, Eyraud simply replied, “Very well.” Askedif he had any statement which he wished to make, Michael Eyraud, obstinately firm to the last, said, “I have nothing to say.” i ‘ ' t the Abbe Faure whose re-v 'lurmng O ’ : toxicated, assaulted her: that she picked ligious ministrations he had sternly re- pulsed, the condemned man said: “Mon- ‘ ’ t 11 'f .nd dau hter I l Sleur 1 Abbe, e my W1 e a g i that she had the weapon in her hand, and j that she had no idea of killing him. ‘bid them adieu. May they be happy.” He Refused Brandy. “It would do me no good.” Almost im- claimed that Minister Constans was right. He had gained his case, and what a grand one it was! He wound up his tirade by sneeringly saying, “They are going to dec- orate Bompard!” The prisoner then walked steadily out into the corridor. As he moved along in his place in the dismal procession, .Eyraud closely scanned the features of the few spectators who on his right and left lined the way to the death platform. When the guillotine loomed in view the strangler fixed his eyes upon it, and kept them fastened there until he had arrived within a few feet of the block. Then sud- denly turning upon the guards he fiercely shouted: “Constans is a. murderer! More of a murderer than am I. Constans”— I Beheaded. Before this sentence could be finished the assistants of “La Guillotine” had seized Eyraud, flung him upon the inclined plank and fastened him there. \Vhen Eyraud had been pinioned to the plank the Abbe Fame bent over him to place upon his fore- head a last kiss. \Vith so much of con- temptuous movement as his bonds would allow, and with an air of sullen resentment, the strangler repelled the priest. Then straightening himself out Eyraud awaited the knife. A moment later the great knife dashed downward, and the murderer’s head fell away from the body and dropped into the sawdust filled basket beneath the platform. As the head of Eyraud fell beneath the knife the crowd made a terrific rush to- ward the guillotine, but were beaten back by the Republican guard and the gen- darmes. The body was given to relatives. Eyraud’s Crime. The crime for which Michael Eyraud suf- fered death by the guillotine consisted in his having, in Paris, in July,.18b9, and with the assistance of his mistress, Gabrielle Bompard, strangled to death a notary of Paris named Toussaint Goufic. After the commission of the crime the body of the victim was conveyed in a trunk to Millery, in the department of the Rhone, and deposited in a thicket, where, on Aug. 13, 1889, it was discovered in a state of decomposition. January of the following year Gabrielle Bompard made the confession to the Pari- sian police which led to her arrest and im- prisonment, and finally, after a most ex- citing chase, to the capture in Havana of the strangler Eyraud, who was brought back to Paris for trial. The most remarkable feature in the sen- sational legal proceeding which culmi- nated in the sentencing to death of Eyraud, and to twenty years’ imprisonment at hard labor of Gabrielle, was the unsuccess- ful attempt. of the counsel for the Bom— pard woman to prove that in the murder she acted her part while under the control of an hypnotic influence exercised by Michael Eyraud. head on His Sweetheart’s Doorstep. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 4.—Wi11iam Mitchell called on his sweetheart, Miss Jennie Mot— ley, and left her at 2 o’clock in the morn- ing, after having had a quarrel. Two hours later he returned to the doorstep of her home and shot himself dead. Fell and Fractured His Skull. BROOKLYN, Feb 4.—Benjamin Davis, 25 years of age, third mate of the steamship Connie Mara, fell from the gangplank Tuesday morning, fracturing his skull and dying in a few hours. . ‘ Self Defense Her Plea. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Feb. 4.—:\i:'s. Mattie mouth jail charged with the murder of her husband, Edgar lieckman, at Seabrook, a short time ago, has made a confession, but claims that the act was done in self de~ fense. She says her husband, who was in- up a knife to defend herself, and in the ex- citement of the quarrel she even forgot She : said he husband 'a.' a: rbl 'h 1 When the brandy was offered to Eyraud ; r “ 5 pl" we t e “ en no he declined it with a slow shake of the . head, and remarked slowly and cynically, E under the influence of liquor, but when in- toxicated he became crazy and treated her shamefully. Still she loved him for her _ :children"sak=, d ' ld th ' k' ’ mediately after this Eyraud angrily ex-; s c an “ on no ave 111w him had she had time'to recollect that she held the weapon in her hands. Our \Varships South. GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. 4.—-—Three ships of the white squadron—the flagship Chi- cago, the dispatch boat Dolphin and the gunboat Yorktown—arrived yesterday to maneuver in these waters before going to New Orleans. They are lying in the outer roadstead, being of too heavy draft to come inside. The fleet is in command of Rear Admiral John G. \Valker. The officers and crew number 888 men. The appearance of the squadron here is prelim- ‘ inary to the Mardi Gras festivities, which commence next week. A large number of visitors have already arrived in the city from different parts of the state to see the fleet. A very elaborate programme has been arranged for the entertainment of the officers during their stay in this city, which continues until the 7th inst. Another Land Contest. PORTLAND, Me, Feb. 4.—A section of land in the center of the city of Portland was leased ninety—nine years ago next April by Samuel Skillin gs to one Enoch Lisloy. The lease has been dormant for some fifty years, no rent having been collected dur— ing that time. In 1885 it is alleged that Lisloy gave a quit claim deed to the couu~ ty of Cumberland, which claimed the land, and it finally came into the possession of the city of Portland. It is now mostly covered with business blocks. Skillings’ heirs have formed an association, and will on April 10 claim the land under the old lease. These new in possession will con- test the claim. The Vacancies Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—In the senate a a. bill reported from the finance committee amending the revised stat/ates so as to al- low the president to fill vacancies caused by the death, resignation or otherwise of heads of departments for more than ten days, was rejected, and the bill adopted by the house yesterday, limiting the time to thirty days, was passed. - The Reading Gets It. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.—The Philadel- phia and Easton railroad which is pro- jected to run from New Hope, Bucks county, to Eastou, has passed under the control of the Reading railroad. Arra nge— ments have been made for the construc- tion and work will probably be begun in a few weeks. A Cold Blooded Blur-der. . ISHPEMING, Mich, Feb. 4.—A cold blood- ed murder was committed here, ~Patrick Sullivan being the victim. lie was walk— ing home with a companion when one Toomey stepped behind him and fractured his skull with a heavy club. Sullivan died before a physician could reach him. Too- mey is not under arrest. Should Have Been Killed Sooner. COLUMBUS, Ind. Feb. 4.—Several persons were bitten here by a dog which was known to have rabies and which has been killed. There is great fear lest the disease should manifest itself in the victims of the rabid brute. A Train Derailed. Pains, Feb. 4 ——'<)ne passenger was killed and 'th-nly u'ere myured by the derailment of airmz. in:l"-"‘t‘ll ilouai and Paris this mornm:-. ’l». e lr‘womotive and coaches were be ill,“ . "JLlile l i l One Cent. ll . to subscribers every week $5.00 ELY :: llWl Weekly and Daily combined sent day in the year for 10 cents $1.50 Delivered by carriers in N orwa'lk, per week, Weekly, for. 1891, g - WAN subscriptions strictly in advance. ‘ ADVERTISING CHEAPER and More Copies Circulated than any other Paper. In llail llN ~ Nl a Word. [ll llN EiNla lineh elea. Specials among Reading Matter 10 Cents a Line. SEVEN Will’dlS AVERAGE A LINE. lll * llll . 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