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Vol. 1,110. 85.
Norwalk, Conn, Wednesday Evening, April 22, 189].
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THE LIVE NEWS OF TO- DAY.
Dr. Baldwin’s second little girl is
now radiant with the measles.
Miss Mabel Bush of Wilton avenue,
is ill with the measles.
Ex- Senator Cragin’ s frank and tru th
ful letter was a bit discouraging to our
Nor11 alk claimants.
The mortality in New York yester-
day was the largest recorded 1n the city
for neaily twenty years.
Anarchists throughout Europe are
preparing for a general strike on the
approaching May-day.
The breaking of ground for the Grant
monuwent will occur on the 27th, with
very impressive ceremonies.
-—I. Hall, piano and furniture mover.
Office and residence, 106 Main street.
Bock beer and the early spring vege-
tables seem to be more than ordinarily
intoxicating this year.
—Carpet weaving still carried on at
No. 30 Merwin street. A housekeeper
wanted at same address. 83-17-1111
A woman who died in New Jersey the
other day had received 10,950 visits
from her family physician.
Little “Jean” Gregory, the eldest
daughter of the Doctor, has the pre-
vailing measles.
Journalist Rodemeyer was in town
last evening looking much improved in
health. He went on up to Bethel.
Mr. James L. Ambler has accepted a
clerkship with H. C. Catch, a leading
Harlem dry goods man, at 125th street,
New York.
The Union Manufacturing Company
have this week had a portion of their
felt machinery in operation for the first
time in a long while.
—If you want your carpets cleaned,
have them done at the Norwalk Carpet
Cleaning Works, 14 Knight street.
Perfect satisfaction guaranteed. 1w-84
Plumber and Gas Fitter Barrett is
putting in the “neat and not gaudy”
chandeliers and gas fixtures in Grace
church to-day.
A farmer in Kansas bears the name
of Gotobed Fenn. In order to square
up things he should name his first son
Getup.
Several hard looking characters were
seen lounging alongside the railroad
track, just above the electric light sta-
tion, yesterday afternoon.
Anna Dickinson has scored one.
Through her lawyers she has secured
all of her personal property, which her
sister Susan was holding.
Mr. John W. Nichols, general agent,
New York Mutual Life, has just re-
turned from a trip to Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington.
The terrors of house cleaning have
commenced, and the good hubbie has
to eat on the kitchen shelf and stay out
late 0’ night at his lodge or club.
It seems stiange that” so many of our
policemen have caught the grip. It is
about the only thing some {of them ever
succeeeded in catching. —'[Mail and Ex-
p1 ess
An exceptionally important meeting
of Kabaosa encampment, I. O. O. F.,
is to be held to- morrow evening and a
geneial attendance of members is re-
quested
People who were in haste to exchange
heavy nnderclothing for' something
more in harmony with palm leaf fans,
need not be surprised to be visited by
la grippe or anything else.
The annual Congress of the Sons of
the Revolution is to meet at Hartford
on Thursday, April 30th.
Edward A. Street, representing the
Gutta Percha Rubber Co., of New
York, was in town yesterday and called
on Chief Engineer Prowitt and Mr.
Gus Franke.
Miss Sherman and her sister will ac-
cept the fund now being raised by the
friends of the general, because it is to
be given as a token of the subscribers
love for their father.
General Benjamin F. Butler yester-
day attempted to argue a motion in the
United States district court, in Boston,
and was forcibly removed by the
marshal upon the order of Judge Car-
penter.
Rev. Arza Hill, a highly esteemed
member of the New York East Confer-
ence, and stationed of Simsbury, Conn. ,
died of pneumonia at New Britain,
Sabbath afternoon. His sickness was
very short, being only four 01' five days.
William Sheldon commenced, to day,
the re-laying of the flag stone walks up
Mott avenue, which the borough author-
ities have ordered done. This good
work is to be made general throughout
the borough.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Van Rensselaei, of New York,
daughter of the late William P. Van
Rensselaer, and granddaughter of the
last patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer,
of Albany, to the Rev. Anton P. Atter-
bury. ______
Rev. Mr. Hopkins, of New Canaan,
was in town, yesterday. Next Sunday
will be his last in New Canaan, he go-
ing to Dubuque, Iowa, 8. much larger
field than his present. Last Sunday
several Norwalk people drove to New
Canaan to hear him and undoubtedly
the number will be greater who will
hear him next Sunday.
At half past eight this morning about
thirty of Contractor Rider’s gang of
Italians 11 ere stationed on the bridge
on Wall street, awaiting his appearance
in town. They looked as if they 11 ere
in anything but a happy frame of mind.
They lined both Sldes of the b‘ri‘d'gé',‘
and 0111 citizens passed 1n review before
them.
Some persons in the billiard and pool
rooms on Main street have been in the
habit of firing shots from the rear win-
dows with an air gun at objects across
and on the river. They succeeded in
breaking a pane of glass in Readman’ s
studio, and that 1s the only damage re-
ported so far. The firing of air guns,
where buildings are so thick, is a nui-
sance and ought to be stopped.
If Officer Adams were really cross-
eyed he couldn’tdo better service than
he was doing yesterday. Standing at
the corner of Main and \Vall street he
had one eye on a chap reeling up Wall
street, carrying an assortment of tin
ware under his arm, while the other
followed the uncertain wanderings of a
full load of beer up Main street. It
was a close call for both chaps.
The Boy Choir of Grace church re-
hearsed last night in the new church
for the first time. The committee
could notice with advantage to the
church that the floor underneath the
choir seats is carpeted, contrary to the
custom of all churches which strive for
pleasing effect, as this effectually ‘ ‘kills”
the tone of the voice and such was the
case last night.
Ex-Governor Foraker stirred up a
lively row yesterday, in Cincinnati, at
the meeting of the Republican League
of the United States by praising the
“magnificent administration” of James
G. Blaine. He and the other speakers
avoided mentioning the president’s
name, but eulogized the secretary of
state, and some of Mr. Harrison’s
friends were quite angry. '
Samuel M. Pettengill, one of the old-
est and best known newspaper advertis-
ing agents in the country, died from
pneumonia at Brooklyn. He was the
fifth son of the Rev. Amos Pe ttengill,
a noted New England Congregational-
ist, and was born at Naugatuck, in 1823.
When sixteen years old he went to the
office of “The Bridgeport Standard,”
then run by his eldest brother, A. A.
Pettengill, and learned the printer’s
tr: de. ‘
Bishop Williams recently wrote in a,
reply to a young Hartford man about
to be married: “I regret, sir, that it is
without my province to order the word
‘obey’ omitted from the marriage ser-
vice. ' There is no way that this can be
done except by vote of the house of
bishops. The house next convenes in
1892, and if you will postpone your
marriage until then, I will take pleas—
ure in presenting your petition to the
house for its ac ion ." The young man
concluded not to wait.
the base ball cranks are happy.
is in town. _
overhauled and remodeled.
Mr. William R. Lockwood contem-
plates an early trip to Washington.
President J. W. Hyatt was in New
York yesterday on business.
Potatoes are now being planted 011
Ward McAllister’ s Newport farm. Four
hunched in a hill expected. ~Enepub-
lican, Meriden.
Dollie Roberts died this morning at
Chicago fr om burns received last night,
the result of going to bed with a cigar-
ette in her month.
The Yankee who can invent a chim-
ney that will not smoke and a roof
that will not leak, has a fortune in this
world, and heaven in the next.
Letter Carrier Nickerson is off duty
to- day and Glendenning suspects that
he is trying to catch a bigger st1ing of
trout or concoct a bigger fish story
than he did.
Mr. Charles Benedict, of East Nor-
walk, is now at Salt Lake city, and is
wending his way home from the Pacific
slope. His’widow, and ancient maiden
friends, are in a state of mind over his
visit to the Mormon capital.
Undertaker George Raymond took
the remains ‘of Major Thomas, who
died last fall at the Dr. Smith Sani-
tarium and which have lain in the
Riverside cemetery receiving vault, 11p
to lVest Point yesterday, where they
were buried with military honors.
We think we have mentioned that
Druggist Vogel is the proud possessor
of a spandy new bicycle. But that
simple fact is not all that there is to
the story. Few have any idea of the
struggle a resolute and matured man
like Vogel, determined on conquering
the refractory implement of locomo-
tion, has to suffer and endure before a
complete mastery is 11011. The fight
‘11:. th 11 Texas Bronclio" "is“as rimming
compared with it. In the case of a boy
or immature young man, whose joints
are limber and supple, it is different.
Nevertheless, neighbor Vogel has get-
ten his untamed wheel under such con-
trol as to be able to strike the square
of a circle, cut a pigeon wing, perform
all sorts of dizzy gyrations, without
making more than a two feet hole in
the ground, and all this with no
thought or feeling of selfish elation be-
cause he gets his mutton suet and
arnica at wholesale.
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WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS:
That this is great weather for birds.
That next Saturday is Arbor Day.
Get your tree ready.
That Mr. Robert Bowen received the
sad news of his mother’s illness and
started for Fishkill this morning.
That the East avenue horse railway
seems to be only a memory and a tra-
dition. The daily cry in East Norwalk
is, “Where, oh where, is the Hon. E.
J. Hill?”
That Venus during April will travel
rapidly toward the sun. Her business
is quite urgent, as she rises two hours
ahead of the sun each morning, and
making a hasty toilet, proceeds 011 her
jocund way. As she approaches the
superior conjunction she at the same
time recedes from the earth, but would
probably do this anyhow on account of
the prevalence of la grippe. It may be
noted that Jupiter is also leaving the
earth at a high rate of speed and trav-
eling directly in the path of Venus, a
circumstance which has'not escaped the
gossiper.
That although a woman’s gowns fre-
quently deserve and receive honorable
mention, there are only three times in
her life when they are entered for the
blue ribbon. These are important oc-
casions, and these gowns are the result
of anxious _ thought and laborious re-
search in the fields of gown literature.
First, the dress she wears as a gradu-
ate; secondly. the wedding gown. The
third gown is worn by the young moth-
er when she receives the relatives and
friends who have come to ofi'ercongrat-
ulations to her, and their gifts to her
first born child. School girl, bride and
mother. '
That a word to the wise is sufficient.
Be not bewitched by snakes and vipers,
their coils look spiteful. ‘ Have a care
of overloading yourselves with jet and
mock jewels, they. look stagey, and
though life is a comedy from daybreak
to sunset, all the gloss we are putting
011 reveals its glossiness too frankly.
Do not take your eyes from the high
sleeves, for they are preparing to fold
their tents like the Arabs and as si-
lently steal away.
The league season opens to-day, and
Dr. George W. Bennett of Brooklyn
St. Paul’s rec tory is being thoroughly
Painter Cornell is treating the Wil-
, son building roof to, a fresh coat of
paint. _..._.___
Judge Coolidge is home from his
southern trip improved in health and
spirifi. _ .1 _
A small portion of blood-spattered
mailfhas arrived in Bridgeport, from
the Blake Shore road, when six postal
clerks were killed in the smashup.
The boy choir of Grace chu1ch were
111acticing their Monday’s chants last
evening and making the neighborhood
vocal with their melodious voices.
—Wanted—Trimmers on Straw Hats
also operators on' Wilcox & Gibbs ma-
chine, Apply at once to Arthur C.
~ Wheeler, 13 Butler St. St 85
Mi'. Barney Kaiser, of Birmingham,
who has been connected many years
with the Southern New England Tele-
phone company and is considered one
of its? most valued employees, is visit-
ing his numerous fr'iends 1n Nor walk
to- day. He has nearly recovered f1 om
aseVere illness.
School Board Meeting.
All'of the members of the school
board, save Messrs. Le Count and
Swar‘tz, we1e present at the regular
meeting last evening.
idipurities 1n the drinking water used
by the East N01 walk school, repelted
progress. after which it was voted that
the district committee be requested to
examine into the matter, and report to
the board at or before its next regular
meeting.
,A petition received from several of
the principals of the N orwalk schools
£01 permission to use “Hyde’s Second
Book in English” was tabled after a
brief discussion.
C arles H. Hendricks made com-
11mlai3t of cruel and unnecessary punish-
by P1incipal Gumbart, 1ecent1y
infliligted upon his son Richai d, and re-
quested an investigation, whereupon it
was £voted to meet nextl Monday even-
ing or that purpose, and that the Sec-
retaty notify all parties interested to
appirw if they see cause theief01.
, acting school visitors reported
tha the text books now 1n use in our
schools on the subjects of Histo1y and
Grammar, ought to be superseded by
other and better books. This matter
will. however be disposed of at the
next meeting.
The Wheels of Justice.
Our borough police had something of
an old-time carnival,yesterday, and the
Hotel DeForest contained five unfor-
tunates last night.
Officer Adams had credited to him
“Lean” Sherwood, (who escaped from
the poor house a short time ago, taking
as souvenirs all of the square-tailed
shirts he could find on the clothesline,)
and John Davis, of Bridgeport, who
had a tussle with Norwalk intoxicants
and was floored, of course. This morn-
ing Sherwood was returned to the poor
house and Davis was assessed $1 and
costs by Justice Mead.
Officer Gormley found Jim Smith on
the rampage and expressing a burning
desire to whip every 125 pounder in the
borough. This morning he didn’t
weigh as much as he thought he did
yesterday, and was fined $1 and costs
by Justice Mead. ' ,
Chief DeForest found a respectable
Stamford resident 011 Berkeley street
suffering from “a bad spell” withwhich
he is sometimes overtaken when in
Norwalk and other license towns, but
as there were extenuating circum-
stances in his case the subject was
dropped.
Chief DeForest had Charles McClel-
lan before J list-ice Coolidge this morn-
ing. Charles came to Norwalk to work
for Mr. Turney and put in his spare
moments “roughing it” in Norwalk sa-
loons. One dollar and costs was the
finding in his case, also.
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Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
The Outing club of the association
was organized Tuesday night and the
following officers chosen: President,
William E. Smith; vice-president, Ed-
mund Hyatt; secretary and treasurer,
W. F. Hubbell. Regular meetings
will be held on the first Monday in
each month, and outings will be had to
different places during the summer.
The base ball department of the
_ Outing club held a meeting last night
and elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent, W. F. Hubbell; vice-president,
A. McPherson; secretary and treasurer,
Will Hunter. A game will be played
next Saturday between clubs picked
from the association, after which the
association club will be selected.
To-night’s session of the gymnasium
class will be the last one before the
coming athletic contest, and eveiy
membe1 of the class should be piesent
if possible
ANOTHEwgcovai
Sergeant Latson Caught in the
Equipment Room at the Armory.
The Matheis Court of Inquiry was a
scene of considerable excitement yes-
terday when Lieut. Matheis arose and
stated to the Court that Latson, the
man who had made the charges against
him, had been secreted in the equip-
ment room listening to the testimony
Latson was at once summoned, and
stated to the Court that he had only
been in there about three minutes get-
ting some handkerchiefs that he had left
there. As this statement did not satis-
fy the Court, Luther W. Whitney, the
Armorer was called in and he stated
that Latson had been in there fifteen
minutes instead of three. Latson was
re-called and again stated that he was
sure that he had been in there only
three minutes. Whitney was re-called
and again stated positively that Latson
had been secreted in the room fifteen
minutes, and that the door was locked.
This satisfied the Court as to which was
telling the truth, and both were sent
out of the room and the testimony con-
tinued.
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The~ Matheis Case.
The Court of Inquiry met yesterday
The committee to investigate alleged '. and completed the testimony in the
Matheis case. As there were a num-
ber of witnesses examined the DAILY
GAZETTE will be unable to publish the
testimony of all of them before to-mor-
row.
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Sidewalk Relaying.
Owing to the wretched condition of
the sidewalk on the north side of Mott
avenue last year’s Court of Burgesses
ordered it relaid. ' The work is now in
progress, the intention being to raise
the walk about three inches all told.
Other sidewalks in the borough, equal-
ly in need of improvement, will be at-
tended to at the earliest moment prac-
ticable.
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Italians After Him.
Clerk Camp, of the Water Commis-
sion, may have to send to the War de-
partment for protection. Failing to
get their monev fr om Contractor Rider
this folenoon,_ our Italian visit01s con-
deluded- to get the amount due them 01ft
of Clerk Camp, if it took all summer.
Meantime Brother Camp anxiously
scans the financial horizon for a ray or
two of light, and may call 011 Gover-
nor Bulkeley to order out the “me-
lishy.”
“Souvenlr Bell Sociable.”
A very attractive programme is being
arranged for the Bell Sociable to be
held 1n the Chapel of the First Congr e-
gational Church Friday evening. Theie
will be no admission fee and 1ef1esh-
ments will be served free. The object
is to sell all the bells in order to raise
money toward the debt on the Chapel.
There will be a variety of bells to be
seen, including “Ye ancient Belle” who
will 11 car a costume ovei one hund1ed
years old, and some “Modern Belles’
who will play the banjo. The Y. M. C.
A. orchestra will be present. Also Ma—
dame Lassague, formerly President of
the “Musical College of California,”
will be present and sing the song by
Tito Mattei, entitled “Dear Heart.”
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Culver—Clark.
A wedding of more than usual beauty
and splendor, even for New York, took
place at St. Thomas’ church at half past
three 11. m. yesterday The contract-
ing parties were Dr. Everett Mallory
Culver and Mary J oaquina Charlotte
Clark. The groom is the son of M1s.
Delos E. Culver, formerly of Norwalk,
and now of New York, and a grandson
of the venerable Mrs. James Mallory
of our town. The bride is the daugh-
ter of Hon. William A. Clark, of Mon-
tana, said to be a fifteen times
millionaire of Butte City, and the con-
testing U. S. Senator from that far- off
state. He spends his 11 inters in New
York. The bride’s trousseau was Paris-
ian and made by Worth, and the floral
decorations were said to have cost five
thousand dollars, while the bridalgifts
were marvelous in profusion and costli-
ness. ‘ The happy couple make a bridal
tour of Canada and on their return
will stop over at Norwalk and pay their
respects to their aged grandmother.
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Milton E. Walker and Miss Sarah
Holiday of New Haven were married
Monday night, shortly after midnight,
in an intermission of a ball which they
were attending. Rev. I. C. Meserve,
who was awakened from his slumbers
to perform the ceremony, did not seem
at all distuibed and made the twain
one in a very brief time, after which
they returned to the ball- room and re-
sumed dancing saying nothing of their
union.
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“His Nibs The Baron, ”played in
Nichols’ Opera House, New Canaan,
last evening to a large audience. The
company is a good one, and the singing
gf'the male quartette is exceptionally
ne
PRESS TEEEGRAMS
Specially Wired to the Norwalk
Daily Gazette.
ltallan Murderer on Trial. _
NEW HAVEN, April" as. —Thc trial of
Angelo Petrillo charged with the mur-
der of Michel Dimeo, was begun in the
City Court this morning. The wife of
the murdered man was the first witness.
The trial will probably last a day or
two.
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Costello Convicted.
ROCKVILLE, April 22.—James Costel
10, who was convicted yesterday after-
noon of defacing the Mansfield church,
was to have been sentenced at Tolland
this morning. Judge Hall decided,
this morning, hence Costello will not
be sentenced till next Tuesday.
Alarming Death Rate.
N Ew YORK, April
Department announced on Monday,
when the number of deaths had only
reached 136 at noon for the preceding
24 hours, that the grip and all its at-
tending evils had gone for good. Yes-
terday, however, the number of deaths
reached 251. Dr. Nagle, the chief of
the Bureau of Vital Statistics, was
alarmed, and for the first time since
the grip epidemic set in admitted that
there was occasion for anxiety. This is
the largest number of deaths in a. single
day since 1872, when the figure went
over 300. But this was in the summer
and sunstroke was responsible for the
large increase.
The death record for April thus far
exceeds that of any other spring or
winter month since the Bureau of Vital
Statistics was established, and if the
average is kept 11p until the end of the
month it will exceed that of any other
month in the history of the city.
Among the deaths yesterday, 153 were
due to pulmonary complaints, a larger
number than was ever-known before in
the same time. There were 57 deaths
from pneumonia; from bronchitis, 34;
from consumption, 38; from pneumonia
and grip, 17; from bronchitis and grip,
3; from consumption and grip, 3; from
'heart disease and grip, ' 3, and one
death from grip pure and simple. Dur-
ing the month of January, when the
grip was in full swing. the deaths
reached 250 in one day. The records
show that April has been the most
healthful month in the year, and Dr.
N agle cannot understand the sudden
invasion of death which has made this
April the worst month.
Death of Mrs. James Reed.
Mrs. James Reed, well known to all
the older readers of the GAZETTE as
the wife of James Reed, its proprietor
for several years prior to its passing in-
to present hands, died at Ashtabula,
Ohio, on Thursday last and was buried
there on Saturday. She had been a
sufferer from heart trouble for several
years, yet outlived her more robust
husband several years. Mrs. Reed was
a most estimable, Christian woman, ex-
ceptionally attractive and lovely in
character and person, and was beloved
by everyone who was ever privileged
to know her. As a kind and affection-
ate foster mother to the writer of these
lines in his boyhood, he would fain lay
the chaplet of his deepest gratitude on
her bier and pay her memory the hom-
age of his tears. She leaves two sons
and two daughters to mourn for one of
the noblest of women and mothers.
Our borough authorities are certain-
ly to be commended for their good
judgment and prudence in the pressure
put upon them for all sorts of improve-
ments and new things, which mean an
outlay of the people’s money. They
show a ready willingness to do all that
is pressingly needful, and a prudence
in not yielding to extravagant demands.
J orgina Peterson and her sister
Christine are to sail on the City of Par-
is, May 26th, to spend the summer in
faderland, among friends at Copenha-
gen, Denmark. J orgina lives with
Mrs. Geo. Ward Selleck, and Christine
with Mrs. Gen. Charles Olmstead.
They will return to their places here
in autumn.
At an entertainment which is to be
given in the Assembly rooms, at No.
404 Fifth avenue, New York city, Thurs-
day, in aid of the French Home for
Young Girls, the patronesses will be
Mrs. Richard Irwin, Miss Grace Dodge,
Mrs. Charles Lanier, Miss C. Furniss,
Mrs. Richard Hunt, Mrs. M. L. Stone,
Mrs. F. Appleton, Mrs. H. Fellows
Morgan, Mrs. Henry B. Hyde, Mrs.
William Steinway, Mrs H. S. Leavitt
and Mrs. Augusta Richard.
The first regular monthly practice
run of this season of Pioneer Hook
and Ladder company will be held to-
morrow evening. Members are to
meet for same at 8 o’clock sharp.
however, to hold court in Rockville -.
22—Th0 Health ,
Norwalk Chronicler