' (our; ‘ grzsxrem g I II II 1. ”II—II ITIII'THI'II‘IT'TI'II'TETI'II'ICII II II‘TI l‘ dihey that won’t be counseled Llcant he helped. ---Franklln. .;.: We therefore counsel you to Adrerhse In the Daily Gazette. UUWUUUEHJUUDDUUUUUUU‘ M—ILU—IUULIIJUU Vol. I, Ila-$133. A—L Norwalk,001_1n., Tuesday Evening, June 30,1891 -'5'. Advertise in the'llarly Gazette, ,1 . o-NE CENT A worm. - -ml II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II ' Price One Cent. The Daily Gazette I: issued eatery week-arm} at 3 RE. at on: 011111: r1111 cost. The Cheapest Rani for Advertising. amt grun finals-r cmcnmrrou. The Weekly Gazette, [combined with Fridav’ s Dailv. ] Is (311qu every Friday at Noon, at ' I‘HBEE cnurs r113 com. on $1. 50 PER 1111111. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers at max timers r1111 WEEK, on $5. 00 P1111 run. A. H. Bnuc'roN.Propr1etor rwu-mea 191k men ribs the largest circulation of «1&1»,szch in the State at est omedgeport. L 11 r} . ‘3' . to Ufa #0313111 0 DEPARTIIENT. Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER. Jn.. of New York,’ has charge of the Gaza-Inn's Engraving, Book and Jobbing Department: He is an expert and experienced Job Printer, and no w ork en trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done. “.-me-'1; .. . '“"‘ hTHE LIVE NEWS OF TO- DAY Gen. Charles Olmstead is at Hartford to-day. ' ' There is a letter for “ Permanent” at this office. Work commences today upon the foundations for the New Norwalk club house. ' —Boy Wanted, who understands the running of Job Presses. Apply at this ofl‘ice. Grumman Brothers are kept working night and day to supply the daily in- creasing demand for their Old Time Rdot Beer. Mr. and Mrs. George Ward Selleck returned last night from a pleasant visit to Gotham. John Belden Hurlbutt is at Green- wich to- day engaged on the Hunger- fol d-Parallel case. Drug-gist Vogel was down stairs to- day for the first time since his painful accident Memorial day. It is seldom that a woman gets re- ligion enough to love' people who do not praise her baby—[The Ram’s Horn. The Grant statue, the largest bronze ever cast in America, arrived in Chica- go yesterday, ready to be erected in Lincoln park. Geo. C. Comstock of Broad River, is down to-day with five hundred quarts of strawberries. He will be down with his last picking Friday. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Wilson have gone to Harwinton to attend the golden wedding of Mr. Wilson’ s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wilson. One million, two hundred and fifty t housand dollars in gold was taken from the sub-treasury at New Yerk yes- terday for shipment to Europe. Miss Julia Lockwood, daughter of Col. F. St. John Lockwood, will'enterr tain the T. G. L. C. at tea this after- noon in honor of her birthday. Town Clerk Smith registered 42 dogs this morning. In order to give the re- maining dog owners a chance to regis- ter to- day he will be at his office this evening. Herace Hubbell’s valuable truck horse has died of an accute attack of colic, probably caused, as is so fre- quently the case, by something wrong in its feed. ~ The condition of Mrs. Levi Warner is said to be less hopeful to-day. The tenderest sympathies of our people, will go out in unstinted measure to this stricken: family. Patrick Chine, who has been on the N. Y. city police force for over twenty years, was a visitor over Sunday, with his daughter, at Mrs. Murray’s 'of Franklin avenue. Who 1s Hoyt going to get to bring 1n the string of shoes he still persists 1n leaving hanging out on the peg, when he closes up his store nights, now that DeForest is off the police force 9 ‘ A poor tramp named Slay, either de- mented or discouraged, ‘ hung himself in the Bridgeport lockup last night. When fofindhe was dead, and who he. was or where he came from no one seems to knew. The Portland Me., police-court record the other day was as follows: Three men for drunkenness, fined $3 each, one small boy, for playing ball in the street, fined 35. And this 13 the native .“land of the Maine law! Can’t something be done towards suppressing the careless habit of throw- ing papers into our streets? One quite serious accident has already occurred in consequence of a flying paper frightening a horse, which threw its rider )1. ‘. . Scofleld &'Hoyt are out :with a new advertisement _to-day and it will pay I you to read it.. Hannah Turney, Fairfield’s oldest" resident, died at the age of 91 years and 6 months at her residence yester-_ _ day morning. The Leary raft from Jogg1ns,‘.N S., for New York, broke apart near Mount" Desert rock and was towed to Bar Har~ bor for repairs. ‘ ‘ - ~ Mrs. Coon of the U. S. Patent oflice, who came on to attend the wedding of her niece, Miss Cox, of Roton hill, re; turned to. Washington to day.‘ The Board of Education met last night and adopted South'worth & God- dard’s grammar for the public schools, in place of the one now in use. The drawings of the Lawn Tennis toui nament were made under the Bag- nall-Wild system authorized by the national LaWn Tennis association. Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Shoverling of. New Milford, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John P. Treadwell, re- turned home this morning. The pic-nic party of Douglas Fowler Post,_0n-the4th, will leave the, steam- boat dock on the steamer Irene D. Con- nor at9 a. m. sharp, the Post paying expenses. Supt. J. A. M—cGinnis of the H. & O. Cigar Co. starts for the scenes of his nae tivity in Lancaster, Pa., today. His family preceded his visit two weeks. The youngster will no doubt give the “ old man ” points as where to fish on 'his arrival. Dr. Stevenson, who was thejisurgeon in charge of the Andersonville prison during the American civ1l war, died at Halifax, N. S., vesterday. He went there at the close of the war and wrote a book in defence of the starvation of prisoners at Andersonville. General Benjamin F. Butler will call his forthcoming autobiography “But- ler’s Book.” religious woman, and she struck a bar- gain with Ben by which he was to com- mit to memory as many verses of: Scripture as she explained chapters of the book to him. President Dunham, of the Mechanics 5, . _ _ _ . National Bank, and President Morris, 5 ”‘3 Reuben W111 “Qt pay the frelght thls of the Girard Trust Co., testified that they had held aKeystone bank certificate His mother was a very‘t for 200 shares, which was in Mr. Wan- -‘ amaker’s name, thus clearly contradict- ing the Postmaster General’s statement that he never owned any stock. The receipts at the Bridgeport Cus- tom house for the month of June amOunted to $21,300 in roundnumbers. gratifying to the customs oflicers and next Fourth of July morning. to the people of this district. ‘ The Army and Navy club. of Con- ' nec’ticut held its annualreunion at Fen- SaybrOok, last evening. ; . Judge A. H. Fenn was toastmaster and among those who spoke were Governor ; . Bulkeley, General Hawley, Henry I. i Hayden of Brooklyn N Y' and Judge :_ censed dog. In court Samuel produced , . ., _ . wick hall, V. B. Chamberlain of New Britain. . The latest news from Hayti indicates that quiet will not be of long duration. It appears that ex-President Legitime, taking advantage of the'late disturban- ces, is preparing a descent upon. the island with a large party of adherents. This means a revolution :-_ in ear-nest, with bloodshed "to be stayed only byithe success or failure of the revolutionists. Isn’t it about time that this “was, law sham was changed in someway or abolished altogether. Constable John Lockwood could easily have captured the wretch who attempted so brutally to assault Mrs. Britto, except for the delay necessitated in getting out a writ. While getting _‘the writ the villain “skipped,” of course. The little daughter of Anton. Stom- mell essayed to ride the old, family dobbin last night, without a saddle. Dobbin deeming it its time to be sport; ive also, reared and pitched the child off just in front of Dr'. Gregory, (who unlike the police) was on hand, and picked her up and carried her home in his carriage, but fortunately, the child was not hurt. The new suburban service was put in Operation by the New York, New ‘Haven_& Hartford Railroad over the Harlem river branch yesterday. "It is a line of cars similar to these in use on the “L” roads. It is proposed to run them across the Harlem River over the Second avenue bridge and down ,to the Battery, as soon as all the arrange- ments are compteted'. At present they will run as far as 125 street. 3 twelve years. go up into the broad, 'VIfé-you don’t'register your dog to-day look out for Col. Samuel Daskam The City band will have a rehearsal in their rooms in the Hardenbrook building this evening. , a. A marble bust of Henry J. Raymond, the gift of his widow, has bwn placed in the Billings Library, University of Vermont. The Governor of Newfoundland has been directed by the Imperial Govern- ment to revoke his assent to the Order“! in Council refusing bait to Canadian as well as French fishermen. Hon. James W. Hyatt is in Boston again signing Georgia-Alabama Invest- ment Co. bonds, a boom to which, has recently been given by the attack of the New York Herald. Alvah B. Lockwood is packing up his household efi'ects preparatory to mov- ing his family to Bridgeport to-morrow where he has opened a market business. What is Nerwalk’s loss is Bridgeport’s gain. , Norwalk’s pauper expense is the low- est in the state, being only 78} cents per capita. This includes alms house, children’s home, outside poor, town doctors, Bridgeport hospital and Mid- dletown asylum. The party suspected of assaulting Mrs. Britto, drove down yesterday .:morning and left his team, which be- longed to Wm. Finch of East Norwalk, ran home changed his clothes and fled from the town. His actions certainly indicate guilt. Carmi Hubbell got home from Sena- tor Edmund’s state last evening, and after breathing that stimulating Green Mountain air and devouring gallons of Vermont maple syrup on his cakes, Carmi’s hair stands up.-straighter and he is more unanimous than ever. Even Mail Carrier Bennett now takes a seat below him. - The Original members of Company F’s Minstrels are arranging for a trip down east some time in August. Alex- ander Leslie Austin has been elected commissary, and has thus far succeed- ed in securing a barrel of beans. The troupe will be obliged for any contri- bution of cold victuals, however small, time. ' Billy Buxton has been laboriously devoted to the express business for He has tried all these weary years to get an afternoon off to green country, i with his wife or down the harbor fish- =ing with his—bait, but the afternoon never came. But now he authorizes ': the DAILY GAZETTE to publish the fact This is the largest total ever taken in . ‘one month, and shows a steady pro- - ‘gress in business that should be alike that “sink or swim, survive or perish.” : he won’t haul a trunk or do a speck of § work (except to eat) after 10 o’clock He’s I going to have his day off. Samuel Waterbury, whose little farm is partly in the towns of Norwalk and New Canaan, was recently conveyed to s the borough of New Canaan by an ofl‘i- c’er, charged with keeping an unli- the town clerk’s receipt (which the lat- ter had forgotten about) dated 1n May last, proving his payment of the license. He was then kindly told that he could go home.' ‘“ That’s all right,” said samuel, “ but I desire to be sent home by team, and also desire cash payment for loss of time in being brought here. Both desires were fully complied with. There are no more flies on Sammy now than some years ago when he hunted “ J ohnnies ” along the reedy shores of " Albemarle Sound and confiscated the corn juice “bladders.” - — — ~~<+>~~~~~ It Scared the Roblns but Not the Sparrows. J. B. Fairchild of Winnipauk, read the DAILY V' Gaznrrn’s descriptive ac- count of the original scare-crow built and set up in‘ his garden by Rev. Dr. Noble, to keep the robins away from the good parson’s strawberry bed, and he thought; as Dr. Noble had not pat- ented his invention he would adopt a slmilar device to save his luscious cherries. So he rigged out a counter- feit presentiment and adorned the fig ure with an old bonnet of his wifé's.’ It did its Work well, fer not a robin dared visit the tree with such a figure as a sentinel, the cherries being all picked, yesterday he took his scare- crow ’down'and lo beneath" his wife’s bonnet a sparrow had built its nest and was trying to hatch‘its young. ———4"o A Notice to Subscribers. ' To Gaznrrn- subscribers: You can have the paper mailed to you while on your summer vacations. When a change' 1s desired, both old andnew ad- dresses should be given. many varieties (If years; FIRE III EAST NORWHLK Fred W. Starr’ s HQuse on Osborne AvenUe Destroyed. Valuable Papers arid $100 VBurned. ' At about 10:20 this morning thehouse of Fred W. Starr. of Osborn .-ayenue East Norwalk was discovered to be on fire by some Qhfldrenvphssingby. An alarm was mug and the two fire , com- T panics were quickly there and‘succeed- ed in subduing the flames, but not unr til they had consumed nearly thewhole interior. of the house.- The loss is esti- mated at $3,000, and was insured by O. E. Wilson for $2,000. A desk contain- ing $100 in cash and valuable papers was destroyed.» At the time of the fire Mr. Starr and family were away, and it is believed that the fire was caused by a defective flue . ~ . an..- A Narrow Escape. Our good friend druggist Riggs has been sorely tempted of late to purchase a bicycle,but when the DAILY GAZETTE published the accident that befell drug- gist Vogel,the doctor gave it up for the time being. Yesterday, however, he could stand it no longer, and after tak- ing a generous meal at Landlord Mc- Pherson’s hostelry he hied himself to Louis Potter’s, where he examined the untamed steeds, noted their handsome appearance. easy seats, electric bells, etc., and finally wound up by hiring one of the decep- tive animals. His next move was to get away where no. one would see him, so. he. walked. the machine up past “Horry” Dann’s stable until he reached Cross street where he turned it around, and with the assistance of Fred Lock— wood, (who .by the way is afraid to ride one himself) Riggs mounted the ma- chine. Everything went well until he neared the “long house,” by the rail- road bridge, when all of a sudden the animal took the bit between its teeth and started on a double quick for the river, the doctor holding on like grim death and working his feet faster and faster as the machine flew over the road, while Fred Lockwood, hatless and hair streaming in the wind, was making a frantic effort to catch him. As the doctor was descending the last‘ flight of stairs that lead to the river and a watery grave, he was intercepted by one-of the residents of the house, who hearing the clatter d0wn the steps and supposing bedlam had gotten" loose, opened the door just in the nick of time to catch him in her arms and save ‘ him. With the assistance of Fred, the doctor and the machine Were gotten back up stairs and on terra firms. once more, and the trio returned to Potter’s where the animal was turned overwith strict injunctions that not a word should be said about the doctor’s John Gilpin ride for fear that hustling DAILY -Gaznrrn should get the story, as it does everything, and publish it to a cruel and unfeeling world. Well, the exploit was too good to be kept and so here it is.“ Aged Connectlcut People. In the New York Herald 'of yester- day appeared portraits and short biog- raphies of fourteen old people in Con- necticut whose ages range between 80 and 105 years. They include Mrs. Vio- let Chappell (colored) of Ellington, __‘who is nearly 108 years old, Mrs. Mehit— able Dayton of Glastonbury, who' 13 ap- proaching her 105th birthday, Mrs. Theodosia Lampson . of Stratford, who was .101 years old yesterday. and Mrs. Hannah Plumb of Wollcott, who 'isf98 years old. Then fellowed theses Mrs. Charles Tattle, aged. 94 years, who lives in New Fairfield; Miss Katie Moore, of Black Rock, 90 yearsj'Capt. Enos Frisele of Harwinton, 100 years old; Israel Coe of Waterbury, .98 years; John I. Murray of Westport, 92 years; Horace Staples of Westport, 90 years; Monson Hawley of Bridgeport, 88 . Colonel Orlando B. Hall of Bridgeport, 83 years; General Darius N. Couch of Norwalk,- no age given; Carlos Curtis of Trumbull, 80 years old; George Mallory of Bridgeport, no age given. . In the Herald’s article no mention was made of Mrs. Sally Can- non of New Haven, who is 101 years old. "Mrs. Cannon is gradually sinking at her home on College street and is not expected to live many days. Nor does the Herald mention Lewis 0 Wilson, aged 91, John Dingee, 94, Mrs. J ames Mallory, 87, Mrs. Chichester 86, Mrs. Johnathan Camp 85, Mrs. Sarah Byington 87, Stephen Stanley 89, all of Norwalk, and Ezra Hawley 85, Edward Nash 85, Andrew Nash 80, Josiah Bay- mond 83, all of Westport. Mr. Haw: ley 1s the oldest communicant in St. Paul’s church. '_sharp eye to business. -Alrno‘st Bunco'ed. ' "Jeems”Mitchell Norwalk’s renown; ed real estate salesman, and auctiOneer, as everybody knows, always has a In fact, large tracts of real estate move whenever he lifts his feet. Yesterday at sharp eight o ’,clock a well dressed stranger walked up to Jeems, and asking him to step one side, said, “this is ,Mr. J ames Mitchell, I_ believe.” “ch, ”2 said the excedsively agreeable J eems, seeing visions of real estate sales and commis- Sions galore. ' -“You"are the man I was recommended to employ. Glad to have met you, and to come right to business, I want to engage ycur services in a very important matter. I am a private detective sent up here from NemYork; and I want your help. You will be lib- erally paid for all- you do for ..me By the way, I suppose like most men of your profession, you want to take a drink the first thing.” So rattled on the detective at a rate faster .l-than Mitchell could talk himself. “No, ”, said Mitchell,‘ ‘I’m not thirsty and be-' sides I have lost all confidence in Nor-e, walk tangle-foot since the Rice-Hanlon-i‘ scrap No I’m obl'e'ged to ye, but I'; never indulge in hard- ware drinks” ' “All right, all right, let us step in here andhave a glass of soda-water then "for I am deucedly thirsty.” The twain dropped into Hale’ 's and drank of his efi'ervescing tonic and no “wink” in it. “Then,” said the detective to Jeems, “you meet me at the Model market at nine o’clock, nine sharp, remember, for I have a matter of the utmost import- ance to entrust to‘ you. Meantime I want you to find out'all you possibly can about the investments, financial standing, responsibility, etc., of two noted Norwalk horse men, and don’t fail to be at the market at exactly nine.” Jeems promised to do all and a good deal more and they parted. Thinking something serious was 11p he took time, to run 11p and hurriedly look over the town . records to see if there were any traces of legal service, etc., but finding no evidence of at; tachments, mortgages, transfers, etc.,f against either of property owing ‘hors'ei men. Then Jeems clipped it back to the market to await developments. Nine o’clock came, but no detective. Detained, bethouget J eems, so he wait- ed till ten, then till eleven, and with in- creasing restlessness till twelve. If there is any one thing Mitchell never- lets business drive out of his head, it is his dinner. But still he held on till nearly one o’clock, with a mile to car- ry those big feet to his waiting dinner. Then it occurred to J eems that he bet: ter go and interview the implicated” horsemen. He hunted fer them in vain at their place of business, an- other suspicious fact to Mitchell. Per- plexed beyond further endurance he .made'a clean breast of it to a close friend of the horsedeale'rsli and closely described his _man. “Why” said the party confided in, ‘ ‘that man is Dutch Charley Smith, of New Canaan. He has got his head mixed and twisted up. fooling around our gin mills,that’s all.” Well, no man ever saw a wet hen mad: der than Mitchell when he stamped off for his dinner. Unlon Excurslon To-morrow. The grand union excursion of the Young Men" s Christian Association and Sunday schools of Norwalk will take place to- m-orrow providing the weather is favorable to the same. ' No‘ doubt a large number of our. residents will im- prove themselves of this opportunity to spend the daytin lone of the loveliest spots in the state and'all who are plan- ning to go should read carefiilly the fol- lowing notes so that no mistakes will be made: The party will go by special train, leaving South Norwalk at precisely 9' a. 111., and the tickets will not be good on any other train. Arrangements have been made with thehorse railroad company to run special cars from the heme car depOt at 8.30 for all who are there and wish toego, but none will be run on any other trip: = ‘A baggage car will be run for all carrying baskets or packages, but anyone, placing a pack- age in it should be sure that theirname is plainly marked upon it. . The bell in the Congregational church will be rung at 7. 30 in the, morning, if, , the excursion is to g6, and all should. listen for it. Tickets for the round trip‘ . will be sold at one dollar for adults and 60 cents for children twelve years and tinder and can be purchased at the fol- ”lowing places. Y. M. C. Arooms, J. A. Pinneo’ s, F. J. Curtis 8: Co.’ s, of- S. H. Holmes, Fihney & Benedict, Keeler & Selleck Co. and at the depot to-morrow. The committee 1n charge of- the tickets that morning, request all who. can to bring the exact change with them. .. . , ' The Illinois Central railroad has se- cured a fairly good thing in the mom opoly of. carrying people to the Chicago exposition grounds, just granted by the -r‘ _._ -' warld’s fair officlals. r _' f" (in the farming enterprise and will be school-boys, from the-West Indies and THE BIGGEST FARM YET A company has just organized with a capital of $1,000, 000 for cultivating a farm of 112, 000 acres in Florida. ' This will be the largest farm in the world, ' and upon it encugh could be raised to, suppl‘p the city of New York with food. ,The name of the company is the San :Sebastian Land Improvement, Sugar and Investment company. The -'farm . lies between the Indian, San Sebastian and St. John’s rivers, and is drained 1n~ to the St. J ohn s, The farm has a muck soil, similar to that in the valley of the Nile. Most people think'of Florida as a sand lieap, striated here andlthere with hammock lands, but the presence of this great tract of most fertile land, of a soil rare- ly found in tropical countries, proves the general idea erroneous. The com, pany does not propose to raise cereals or garden stufl', but sugar cane and cocoa'nuts. especially cecoanuts. will be m the nature of an experiment, as cocoanuts are not indigenous to ‘ Florida. The company is composed of New York and . Southern capitalists. The land was bought from a syndicate of young men of New-Orleans, headed by Mr. W. W. Wallis, who has some stock president of it. —TSun 40’ A Visit to the Pequot Mllls. on Friday last Rev. Mr. Selleck, ac? companied by several East avenue South America, took a very pleasant and interesting outing. The party’s first objective point was the miniature wilderness about seven miles northwest _of Norwalk, and a portion, probably, of the conveyance on Sept. 30th,'1708, of the Indian Sagamore Catoonah to J chn Belden and others of this section ' . of the New England colony. Leaving their horSes‘ mm the shaded by-road that connects the two Candatowa ridges . the boys and their guide entered the woods, a well Echosen Indian site, in search of the Indian rocks. The soli-' tary spot is studded with tall trees, and filled underneath with shrubbery, ferns and wild flowers, and is to-day, what it could be, wished it may long continue to be, a veritable reminder of our abo- riginal proprietors’ “Harahamis.” After about a half 'hour’s northerly wanderings, the curious f‘ Mills ” were found, to the right of the serpentine path, and rising some twenty-five feet, perhaps, above it. In the sunset side of “The Rock” are out three circular excavations or basins, the lower one holding [See Barber’ s Conn. Collec- » tions] about eight gallons,"the middle one, five gallons, and the upper one about one quart. There is a second rock, or a second section of the same rock into which 18 out another cavity of generous diameter and depth. These basins or mortars were formed by the Indians, as Barber and Boulton claim, for the purpose of grinding corn, or salt, or the stone material which was a tempering ingredient in the clay of which the red man’ s, cooking utensils were made.' The region, some four or so hundred feet above the beech level at Gregorv’ 3 Point, is a romantic and historically inviting one. The boys’ voices rang over the rocks, and one of them an engaging and en- thusiastic N. M. I. youth, carved his name, Rafael Valiente, in the bark of an over-stretching bough. The Indian , spring of pure water, and claimed to be perpetual, which 1s in the vicinity, as well as the Indian “Mount Misery,”‘ and the Hawley territory some miles to the northward, where are frequently discovered arrow- heads, axes and gouges, were left for visit later on, per-‘ haps. Emerging from the Pequot groundsthe party was driven into the Oblong, and passed, on. the way to one of the beautiful Westchester .inland sheets of water, the erratic granite kneiss some nine or ten feet high Which stands, sentinel like, on the old New Canaan and Ridgefield roadway. Af- ter climbing Hon. John Lewis’ cherry trees, and taking their supper on the ancient .,Aunt Peggy Lewis home lot, the: excursionists reached Norwalk again at about IO-o’clock p. - m. I OBITUARY. Mrs. Almira Ambler, widow of the late Rev. E. C. Ambler, of Danbury, Valley, N. Y. last Fr1day, aged eighty- four years. Mrs. Ambler was one of the first women inlthe country to vol-‘ unteer as a nurse during the late war and was one of the first women to re- ceive a pension from the United States , government for her services as an army- nurse. She was in~the field‘ over four years, much 'of the time 'with Penn'sle vania troops, her husband being .chap-_ lain of a regiment from that state. was; prominent in Grand Army circles, being one - of the organizers 'of the This ‘ She ' ' ‘club has been lost and anyone finding WOman’s Relief Corps Auxiliaryg stirred"TELLEGRIIMS Specially Wired to the Norwalk Daily Gazette. And It’s Down In Our Florida. I . AnArmy Officer In Dlsgrace, Sm anorsco, June 30. —First Lient. Benjamin S. Weaver of the First United States Infantry, stationed at Ban'ic'ia, 03.1., is missing, and it is irumored he has deserted and gone to ' Chili witha young woman from Fort. ::Bidwell, who passed under the name 20f Miss Rose Hooper. ported that the funds of the company are missing. Lieut. Weaver has awife living at Columbus, Ohio, 9. daughter It is also re- of Capt. Callin of the First Infantry Weaver was court martialled and dis- missed from the army in 1886 for dis- obedience, unbecoming conduct and absence without leave, but was rein- stated by PreSident Cleveland. . —_.___——~o ' Qullty of Negligence. Wrnm'imsric, Conn , June 30. —A verdict has been rendered 1n the case of Barbour vs Turner & Wilson which we! 'before the superior court last week' The suit was for $10, 000 and was brought by Mrs. Barbour of Provi- dence for injuries received by being thrown from a team owned by the de- fendants._ The decision was that the defendants were guilty of negligence' in sending a vicious horse to carry Mrs. ‘ Barbour to her home and they are or- .dered to .pay $800 and costs. The horse ran away and Mrs. Barbour was badly injured. Defendants are proprietors of a livery stable. Severe Earthquakes. SAN JOSE, Cal. June 30. ——A series of sharp concussions of the earth occurred in this city shortly after 3 o’clock this morning. They were the most severe shocks of earthquake that have been experienced here since 1868. The vi- brations Were from northwest to south- east. The shocks lasted about twenty seconds each. The first shock was very violent and caused the electric tower at the "corner of. Market and Santa Clara streets to sway perceptibly. The to .ver is 240feet high and it swayed at least tento a dozen feet out of the per- pendicular. ' A panic prevailed among the eastern tourists stopping at the hotels here. and men and women rushed from their rooms frenzied with fear. The second shock caused buildings to rise and fall with the undulating motion of a billow. Considerable glass, crock- ery, etc. was destroyed and not a few chimneys were thrown down. Lorlllards Shut DOWn. ’NEwYonx, June 30.——Lorillards’ to- bacco, factory in Jersey City has shut doWn, and the large army of employees are idle. Several of the latter say the shut-down is due to a strike in the dip- ping department, but all stories of a strike are denied by the Lorillards. Dr. L. J Gordon, the superintendent, said that the shut-down was the usual semi-annual stoppage of work in order that an account of stock may be taken, and that the factory will surely open on July 6. ' The story ofgthe employees is that. twelve boys employed in the dipping department demanded an increase of fifty cents a week. The. firm refused and _put Poles in their places. The Poles, however, could not do the work, and the boys were taken back and given the increase. The Poles were put on piece work, and they worked hardhtoiprevent the boys from making full .time. The boys struck and the Poles left. Others were taken on in their. places, but 5 did not prove satis- factory, and as tobacco must be dipped before it 'can‘be used, the factory was , shut down. . - Meeting of the Senate. TheSenate. met yesterday at 1.45 p. m. After appointing a few ferry com- miSsioners, making E. K. Hubbard a trustee of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane" at Middletown to fill the place of the late Dr. Alsop, and ap- pointing Senators Fox, Holden and Shumway a committee to draw up res- olutions on the death of Dr. Alsop, an adjournment was taken to the first Monday in’ September. That day will be given up to considering the report of the committee on resolutions on Dr. ' ‘Alsop’ 3 death. died while visiting relatives in Pleasant ‘ w-—~ _.- Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Ladies’ Auxiliary are holding their last meeting of the present season thisafternoon. . iTh'e’ball club will take advantage of the excursion rates to High Rock Grove tomorrow, and go to Water- bury' where they will play a game, with the association team of that city. One of the new suits of the base ball it will confer a great favor by return- , ing . the same to the association rooms.
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