)3 3> I 1/ ‘5“,1‘.‘ .1 . I r -ilh‘ ,. ex GAZETTE. “Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or Political.”—Jofltrson Vol. I, No. 83. Norwalk, Conn, Monday Evianing, April 20, 189]. Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette Is issued every week-clay at 3 1’. JIL, at ONE CENT PER corr. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette, [Combined with Saturday’s Daily.] Is issued every Saturday at Noon, at THREE CENTS PER com. on $1.50 PER YEAR. The Daily and Weekly. ’ Served to Local Subscribers at [EN GENTS PEn WEEK, on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. BrINGTON. Proprietor. 0 UR JOBBIN G DEPARTJIIENT. MR. HARRY M. GARDNER, JIL. of New York, has charge of the GAZETTE’s Engraving, Book and Jobbing Department. He is an expert and experienced Job Printer, and no work en- trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. This paper has the largest circulation of mt}, paper in. the State west ofBritlgcport. ITO oun ADVERTeEns To insure changes being made in advertise- ments running in this paper the same must be handed in not later than 3 p. In. on the preced- ing day. THE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY. Straw hats are ripe. Regular meeting of the Court of Bur- gesses to-night. Actor F. G. Mead, of the Irish Cor- poral company, is in town. Miss Lemon of Bridgeport is a guest of the Misses St. John. —\VANTED—Boy to learn the drug business. Apply to Riggs, Druggist. 83-2 »--I. Hall, piano and furniture mover. Office and residence. 106 Main street. Second Assistant Engineer Kelley has just recovered from an attack of la grippc. Butler lodge, I. O. O. F., 00 strong, will visit the lodge in New Canaan, to- night. _ . Rev. W. A. Masher, of New York city, was a guest at the Norwalk hotel over Sunday. Mr. Harry Benedict, of West Main street, 15 reported very much better this morning. Miss Hattie L. Hubbell is assisting her brother, Postmaster Hubbell, at the Norwalk postoflice. The Norwalk public schools reopen— cd this morning after the usual Easter vacation. Mr. Hubert E. Bishop has photo- graphed Will Olsen’s and Thornton Prowitt’s new saddle horses. At the regular meeting this evening of Our Brothers’ Lodge, I. O. O. F., the second degree will be worked. —-Carpet weaving still carried on at No. 30 Merwin street. A housekeeper wanted at same address. 83-17—pd Miss Lena Rowland, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has been visiting friends in town, left for home this morning. Rev. S. H. Watkins, the new rector of Grace Church, will move into the parsonage on Belden Avenue, to-mor— row. Church services yesterday w ere large- ly attended, but the weather during the entire day was unseasonably warm, causing serious discomfort. Steamer hydrants with sewer connec- tions, are being put in to—day at the corner of Wall and \Vater streets, and near the house of Hope Hose company. The prompt appearance of burglars here on the announcement of the acci- dent to our street lights, goes to show that those gentry read the papers. During Saturday night’s storm 0. large deciduous tree on the Hoyt lot was struck by lightning, and a large limb, cut as with an ax, came crashing to the ground. Says a South Wilton correspondent : The rumor is abroad that Frederick M. Taylor of this place and Miss Rosenal, of East Norwalk were quietly married a few evenings ago. This is just the weather for the babies to be out in their perambulators. But mothers should be careful and put on hats or bonnets that will shade the young eyes frOm the glaring sunshine. The neat little close-fitting bonnets and hoods are stylish-looking, but they are hard on the eyes. The tongue of the Pioneer truck has been mended by Surgeon E. M. Mer- ritt, and the apparatus is again in good shape. If Mr. Merritt could only mend broken hearts in as good shape as he -can broken tongues, he would have .more patients than there are people in «the town. See advertisement of watch lost. Speaker Paige was in town to-day and says he will sail for Europe early in May. The sympathy felt for Mr. J ackSon over his terrible loss, is universal throughout the town and deep and sin- cere. Lawyer Scofield of Stamford is in town to-day to take out letters of ad- ministration on the estate of Ebenezer Weed. Saturday night’s rain brought out a brilliant display of spring flowers on young, and some not so young, ladies’ hats, on Sunday. On the vacant lot adjoining Hogan’s liquor store on Main street a tent is be— ing put up, in which some sort ofa pan- orama is to be exhibited. A number of Norwalk’s exponents of the “Manly art of self-defense” are ad- vertised to give exhibitions of their skill at Frank Conley’s benefit in Bridgeport to-night. The reeommendatiOns prepared by the Board of' engineers and foremen of the different fire companies willbe pre— sented to the Court of Burgesses at their meeting this evening. Mrs. Maud Grant. who has been in Meriden canvassing for an elaborate work published by a New York firm, is in Norwalk. Mrs. Grant is a lady of much culture and makes a very success- ful agent. Burgess Bowe is in receipt of a letter from his brother, who is a member of the 'Wisconsin legislature, in which he says he does not, like the way we elect our Governors in Connecticut, neither does Isaac. Mr. J. B. Avery, :hc new superin- tendent of the Electric Light Co., is credited with having, at the peril of his life, gone out and out certain of the electric wires that were threatening danger during Saturday night’s electric storm. Mr. \Vm. H. Hayward, aformcr resi- dent of Saugatuck and Norwalk, died in Washington on Friday at 10 1). n1. He had long been a sufferer from lung and heart troubles, the result of his long army service. He was a member of Lincoln Post, G. A. R., of Washing- ton. George Honnecker was 22 years old on the 16th inst. (tell it not in Gath), and in recognition of this interesting fact a New York friend sent him a pretty and ingenious combination of time piece, calendar and memoranda tablet which adorns his desk to-day in Justice Hurlbutt’s office. The borough Board of Relief com- pleted their labors Saturday. Fifty-six persons and corporations appeared be- fore the board for abatement of taxes, of which 18 were remitted to the amount of $3,745. Three thousand dollars was abated for a blind man, and 82 veterans had taxes abated to the amount of $71,325. Mr. John T. Tierney, of New Haven, who has been in town representing the Commercial Retail Merchants’ Agency. was joined by his wife and child Satur- day evening, and spent Sunday with Mr. Thomas Kilboy on Plymouth. avenue. Mr. Tierney is a brother-in- law of Mr. John M. Kilboy, formerly of the GAZETTE jobbing department. A well-knownrounder,who chanced(?) to be under the “inflooence” Was left in charge of a local meat market tem- porarily on Saturday night. While acting as salesman he charged a woman a dollar for two slices of ham, and then pitched into a barrel head-foremost, from which he was extricated by the woman. As a salesman he was not a conspicuous success. A Souvenir Bell Social will be given by the “King’s Daughters” in the chap- el on Friday evening of this week. A musical and literary programme has been arranged and all are cordially in- vited to be present. It is requested that a generous supply of cake be sent to the chapel on Friday afternoon. The “new bells” will be given to those who have previously ordered them, and enough remain to supply others who may wish to purchase. Those members of the fire depart- ment who live on the west side miss the toot of the electric light whistle when an alarm offire is sounded. The fire bell in its present position can be heard on the South Norwalk draw- bridg'e much better than by residents of the west side. Would it not be a good idea for the Court of Burgesses to - buy more hose for the fire department, build a tower of sufficient height to dry the hose in and plac e the bell on the tower '3 nna Minn _1§ INQUIRY. Testimony in Favon’ of Lieut. Matheis. MOI’G The Lieutenant Deniesthe Charges. We give below the balance of the tes- timony in the Matheis ease up to the time the Court adjourned until Tues- day, which includes the testimony of Captain Rose and part of Lieutenant Matheis, the latter being on the stand when the Court adjourned. We would also call especial attention to the testi- mony of Corporal S. M. Sterling, who attended the target when both Lieuten- ants Matheis and Aiken shot. which corroborates that of Hall in regard to the pencil holes in the target. Corporal Sterling testified as follows; I attended the shooting and was the third man that shot, Lieut. Pratt shoot- ing before me. Latson and Rile were tending target, and I did not see either of them come outside of the butts and watch-for a signal. Soon after I fired I went to the butts with Hall and re- lieved Latson and Rile, who started for the firing point. As Latson was leav- ing he said toE me, “Remembers.” I examined the target and found ‘one or two pencil holes in it. (\Vitness was here shown the target and pointed out the position of the holes he saw in it at that time.) \Vhen I left the shooting point for the butts Lieut. Matheis had not shot. I remained at the butts until the last man shot, and when I left the pencil holes now in the target were not there, and have been put there since the shooting. W. E. J amcs testified that he was not at the shoot, but he was present at the Armory when Lieut. Matheis said that all who went to the shoot would receive a badge. The Lieutenant did not make the remark to him personally, but pub- licly before a number of the company present. Latson was there at the time, but I did not hear Matheis order” Lat- son to mark up any one. Latson after- wards told me that he had marked up the scores. I was one of the parties who went after the target. The door was not locked and anyone Could have gained access to the target. There had been no key used for a long time, and it was usual to leave target at the butts. Sergt. W. Buttery testified that he was not at the shoot and did not qual- ify. He heard Lieut. Matheis make the remark that if they went over to the shoot they would receive a badge. There were a number of the members present when the remark was made. Met Latson after the shoot and Latson said it was a skin racket as he had been ordered to mark up the score and he had done. so. Latson told him about the signals. All he knew about the matter was what Latson had told him. Latson said nothing about punching the holes in the target at that time, but had since told him about punching them. He never knew of any one be- ing marked up, and was not intimate with Latson, but in harmony with him in company affairs. Henry 0. Smith testified that he was present at the shoot and had since been told that he did not qualify at the 100 yards range and would not get a badge. His brother was not at the shoot. Was not positive that Latson and Rile tended target when he shot. Had not seen Matheis making signals. Captain Rose testified to the particu— lars of the case, and said that when Latson told him about Matheis order~ ing him to mark up the scores when— ever he, Matheis, made a signal, he had not reported it to headquarters because he did not think he had anything to do with the matter, as he was not in the company at the time it had occurred. - , He denied having brought Latson to the DAILY GAZETTE office to get the matter published. When it came out in the Hour and was brought to the at- tention of the Adjutant General, he had been ordered to investigate the matter. He had called upon the mem- bers of his company to make state- ments and these statements had been forwarded to the Adjutant Generaland the order issued for a Court of Inquiry. He knew nothing personally about the matter and his first information had come from Latson. Lieutenant Matheis made a denial of each and every charge as presented. He never gave Latson orders to mark up the scores, nor had he made signals to Latson. He did not fire the first qualifying shot, but had fired about ninth or tenth, immediately before Lieut. Aiken. When he shot Latson and Rile were not attending target but had been relieved by Sterling and Hall. He refused to swear to the statement made to Captain Rose which the Cap- tain had sent to the Adjutant General, for the reason that the Captain had told him that he had not sent the state- ment to the General when he had done so. There were also statements now conItained in what purported to be his statement which were not in it when he heard it read, and furthermore he wouéld not swear to anything which had passed through Captain Rose’s hands. When the Court adjourned until 2 p. m; tp-morrow, Lieut. Matheis was still on the stand. » --—-< .- >———~~—————~ THE JACKSON BURGLARY. False Reports Respecting [Identifi- cation—Detective Price’s Theory. There are no particularly new or startling developments in the J aekson burglary investigation up to date, al: though Detective Price, of the Pinker- ton‘fé'rce, is domiciled'at' the Nerwalk hotel." He brought to Norwalk a col- lection of pictures of more or less noted crooks, hoping that some of them might be identified. Indeed, it was asserted that three of the employees of Dann’s livery stable, McGrath, Toohey and Ca- hill, had positively identified one of the pictures as that of a man they had seen loitering .‘tbout the premises, but this proved to be incorrect, although from them, as'well as from other townspeo- ple, a pretty accurate description of one of the men has been obtained. Aboflt 1 o’clock Saturday morning a stringy}. who paid for his lodging in adva )ce, was provided with a room at the NIorwalk hotel. their is that he was a confederate of the urglars, and that when Mrs. Rich- ardsoi lighted her lamp, the scoundrels became alarmed and sent one of their number to the hotel to get a room and go on watch. to see whether the inmates generally of the hotel had become alarmed at the suspicious noises. This theory seems quite plausible and may be fruitful of results. Detective Price’s . “.74.“-.— Armature Burned Out. During the fierce storm of Saturday evening, with its accompanying electri- cal disturbance. an armature of one of the new are machines at the electric light plant was burned out, shutting off incanchescclit lights throughout the borough as if by magic. In its anxiety to serive the public at the earliest practicable moment the Electric Light comngy started up Saturday evening before putting in what' are known as lightning arrestcrs. Hence. between 8 and 9 o’clock, while the celestial pyro- technics were in full exhibition, elec- tric lights in the borough were shut off without warning in the manner de- scribed. Last night our people had to use oil instead of electricity, but it is hoped everything will be all right by to—night. ~ WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS: That Miss Florence Sclleck has ar- rived home, having spent a delightful winter with relatives at Troy. That Mrs. Arthur Earle, Mrs. How- ard Earle and Miss Alice Earle have returned to New York. That Mr. and Mrs. Van Buren give an informal reception for the Rev. and Mrs. \Vatkins on Thursday evening from 8 to 10. That Mr. Charles C. Betts is sorely afflicted with gout. Rich living twinges the nerves. ' . That at Prof. Newell’s last reception there wasa grand coming out of “buds.” That ctherial mildness has gotten here. That Mr. Blaine may be looking ill, but Marquis Rudini must be sicker. That it looks bad to see Miss Dickin- son and Mr. Train condoling with each other. That suggestions for the new designs for the standard dollar are beginning to come in. The chances are that the. face of the Philadelphia schoolma’am, which has so long served to represent Liberty, will give way to something more artistic, if not more beautiful. This change will prevent husbands from annoying their jealous wives by intimating that they have got a picture of a pretty schoolma’am in their pockets- That the late Count Lewenhaupt is said to have died from over-work. That is an odd Count and the lives of several “nice young men” in Norwalk are safe from that fatality. That'the Babylonish cylinders in the British Museum, found from the in- taglios cut on them that the street dress of a society lady and presumptive leader of fashion, in the year 2300 B. 0., had a tight fitting bodice and a flounce or accordion pleated clinging skirt, sueh- as hangs in most women’s ward- robes to-day. Moreover, the hat was high, and in dress a general slenderness and length of line was visibly sought, the Babylonian Worth having antici- pated his French successor by nearly four thousand years. Mr. Fred. Betts, late of the GAZETTE, who went to Springfield, but had to re- turn home on account of an attack of chills and fever, will return to Spring- field this week. ' ' II SWIN-DLER. He Represents Himself in New York to be John Spencer. Scareely had the excitement over the Jackson burglary begun to wane ere Norwalk people were given something else to talk about in connection with an attempt, or seve 8 attempts, to , swindle New Yorkjewelcrs by a-sleek operator who tried, it is hoped in- efi‘ectually, to do business on the strength of an alleged connection with reputable Norwalk firms. On Saturday last, while Mr. John Spencer, the Main street jeweler, was in New York on business he called at Hodenpyl’s wholesale jewelry estab— lishment in Maiden Lane and learned from that gentleman the details of a rather ingenious attempt to get a lot of expensive jewelry without the custom- ary formality of leaving an 'equivalent therefor. It seems that a few days ago a tall and rather prepossessing young fellow, glib of tongue, and with check of adamantine hardness, called at Hodenpyl’s and representing himself as John Spencer, of Norwalk, under- took to get credit for a big bill of jewelry. He was taken aback, how- ever, when Mr. Hodenpyl remarked: “0, no, you’re not John Spencer. I know him well, and he’s a heavier and shorter man than you are.” The smooth tongucd swindler then tried to pass himself off as Mr. Spencer’s nephew, but in being again foiled he left the store in disgust. When Mr. Spencer returned home Saturday evening he found three lots of jewelry which had been received by express during the day and which had never been ordered. As they came from three different firms it is quite probable that the fellow above referred to had been operating quite extensively, but having failed to induce the respec- tive firms to deliver the goods to him in person had told them, as the easiest way out of a hole, to express them direct to Mr. Spencer. Although im- posed upon grossly the jewelry dealers may thank their stars that they are only out of pocket the express charges on their goods. .. ,, . ' After referring to this incident the fact was elicited that Mr. Spencer is a member of the Jewelers’ Security Alliance. It has been in operation ten years, and although during that time several of its members have had their stores burglarized the plunder was, in every instance, recovered by the detec- tives and lawyers employed by the Alliance, who are paid out of the mem— bership fees, dues, ete., although the cost to each member is but five dollars a year. - — »-3—.~< .p.-,..,,___ —— A Misunderstanding. Several Norwalk people have asked the DAILY GAZETTE reporters whether to-night’s meeting of the court of bur— gesses is a regular or special meeting, and if the former whether it takes the place of the meeting heretofore held on the first Monday evening of the month. The explanation is as follows : Last month, under the old order of things, with but one regular meeting a month, borough laborers and their creditors were compelled to wait five weeks for their pay, no claims being audited at other than regular monthly meetings. In view of the inconvenience and annoyance resulting therefrom it was resolved at the last regular meeting as the situation had been explalned by Burgess Bowe. to hold regular meet- ings semi-monthly thereafter, hence to-night’s meeting is a regular meet- ing, and the first one to be held under the new rule. It is understood that matters of especial interest to our fire department are to be brought up for consideration, but that the question of cutting down Mill hill is likely to go over to a future meeting. coca-~- _lIElC.A.NOTESJ Special meeting this evening, at 8 o’clock. Assistant State Secretary Ladner will be present, and it is im- portant that every member should be present. To-morrow evening at 8 o’clock a meeting of the members will be held for the purpose of organizing an outing, boat and base ball clubs. At the Dry—Goods’ Stores. The new dress fabrics are very pret- ty in the Norwalk stores. Rough gravs, in homespun, soft wool cream-colored goods shot with brown, wash goods in new designs and new fabrics, all attract a fair proportion of the contents of the Spring pocketbook. . In hosiery the most dainty colors and textures appear, and at reasonable prices. Black, which has been so long fashionable. has been superseded to a . great extent by colors, but soft colors. Bodices and belts :in leathers and metal are to be worn extensively, and they are in stock in our stores in taste— ful array. NEW ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. What a Gazette Representative Saw This Morning at the House of the Electric Plant. This morning a GAZETTE representa- tive visited the plant of the Electric Lighting company, was courteously shown about the premises by Superin- tendent J. D. Avery, and learned a great deal which will interest our road crs generally. While employees of the company were unloading new apparatus at the main entrance, attention was directed to the new 1,400 incandescent alternat- ing dynamo exciter, etc., which was in full operation and working beautifully. It is one of the newestmachines turned out by the Thompson-Houston company and is considered one of the most per- fect ever made. By to-night each of the three engines, formerly in use in the building, will be running and it is hoped to generate sufficient electric— ity for all of the arc lights and at least 1,000 of the incandescents. This morning three 50-light Schuyler are machines were received, and tWO 25 -0horse power Compound engines have been shipped and will arrive with- in a week, barring unusual detention. It is the intention of the company to erect a brick addition to the main build- ing, on the site of the building recent- ly burned, in which will be put a nest of three 150-horse power boilers, which have been ordered and are on the way. The chimney is to be one hundred feet high. There will be no exhausts from the new engines, and the water supply will be taken from the river. The new condensers were shipped Saturday. By the new arrangement noise will be re- duced to a minimum. Superintendent Avery’s Office, is being done off in Georgia pine, and at an early day the interior of the entire building will be ceilcd with the same material. Struck by Lightning. A small barn on the old Shufeldt place, Talmage hill, New Canaan, now owned by a Mr. Howe, was struck by lightning Saturday night and burned to the ground. It contained guano to the value of about $300, which, with the barn represents a lossof aboutfiSQQ, BASE BALL NEWS. Gorhams vs. Cuban Giants. The opening base ball game of the season was played on the Baxter grounds Saturday afternoon between the noted colored clubs, the Gorhams and Cuban Giants, in the presence of four or five hundred people, and was won by the Gorhams by a score of 12 to 4. The result was a surprise to many of the “knowing ones,” some of whom drop- ped their cash on the defeated club. It is fair to remark, however, that the Cubans’ crack players were not present, otherwise the result might have been somewhat different. The game opened with the Gorhams at the bat, and the first batter hit safely to first, stole sec- ond and third, and reached home on a passed ball. This ended the run-gct~ ting on either side until the sixth in— ning of the Gorhams. The bases were filled, the next man made a hit, and the three men on bases reached home while he went to third and came home on the next hit. In the Cubans’ seventh in- ning they secured four runs, all on er- rors of their opponents, after which they were blanked to the end of the game, evidently being broken up by the seven additional runs gained by the Gorhams in their seventh and eighth innings. The following is the score : Gorhams, 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 4 0—12 Cuban Giants, 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0—~ 4 Base hits, Gorhams, 9; Cubans, 4. Bases on balls, Gorhams, 2; Cubans, 5. Double plays, Cubans, 1. Two—base hits, Gorhams, 3; Cubans, 2. Three- base hits, Cubans, 1. Roberts’ School ,vs. the Betts Nine at Stamford. On Saturday a base ball nine of Col. Roberts’ Military Institute. went to Stamford and crossed bats with the Betts nine of that place. The game was an interesting one, resulting in a vic- tory for the Norwalk nine by a score of 13 to 3. Next Saturday the Cadets will go to Bridgeport and play with the High school nine. Col. The Gorhams were beaten by the Senators at Astoria yesterday, and the ‘ Cuban Giants defeated the Metropoli- tans at Long Island City. Sullivan and Lane will be the battery for “Art” Miller’s new South Norwalk club. --—-———-—~ <§»»»-— UNCLAIMED LETTERs.—Letters re— maining uncalled for at‘the Norwalk postoflice for the week ending April 18th, 1891: Robert Z. Barton, Gaylor Burden, J. S. Holland. . To obtain the above the applicant must call for advertised letters. ' CARMI G. HUBBELL, P. -M. .
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