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THE LIVE NEWS OF TO- DAY.
The employees of P. W. Bates are ,
picnicing at Compo beach to-day.
James N. Wood left at noon to- day'
for a two week’s vacation in Westford.
-S utherland has a good camping?
tent to rent by the day, week 01' month.
The Danbury fire department will
picnic at Boton Point, Monday July.
27th.
There is a break in the borough’s
pasteboard water main near Grace
church.
B. G. .Holt, father of the late Cor-
oner Holt, died yesterday at his home
at Bockville. -_
Mrs. Mary Eastwood of Poughkeep-
sie is visiting Mrs. Charles Hyatt of
Stuart avenue.
-—If you intend camping out this
Summer Sutherland has a fine tent to
rent.
The inventory of the estate of the
late Secretary Windom places its value
at $199,700.98. ____ -1
Mrs. James E. Hayt, of Danbury is
visiting her sisters the Misses Bennett,
on East avenue.
Ella Anderson, a Swede, was given
39 days in jail by Judge Austin this
morning for street walking
Fond Papa—I’ve brought you home
an English pug ,my dear. I .
Enraptured DIaughter—Oh, you dear,
good papa; it’s just like you.
Quidlups wants the DAILy GAZETTE
to inquire what has become of the plans
of the Norw alk Club building, and who
took them out west ? ‘ I “ '
\
John Cushman, aged forty-five, Q.
'vellI known res1dent of Bridgeport
~gas found dead in bed at his boardrno
house yesterday morning.
"Mrs. Frederick St. ,John, who has
been slightly indisposed from the bent
and humid weather and an attack of in:
digestion, is much better and quite her-
self again.
TheNew England Railroad has pre-
sented a claim for $350,000 damages
against the city of Hartford because of
the abandonment of their tracks on
Spruce street.
Dr. Gail, a well known Bridge ort
veterrnary surgeoh, waIsI afrested inihat
city yesterday charged with forgery 3f
Ian $18 check, apparently signed by H
Chapman, 1). Ilivery stablIQ mgnl '
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vii J Stephenson Instructions giv:
on in. horsemonshing goodsacldlo horses;
best references. Circulars and inform;
ation to be obtained. at J .- A. Pinneo‘s
and of 001. Roberts. 143—1w
One of Mr. S. B. Wilson’s children
is reported ill of diphtheretic sore
throat, and though not deemed dan-
gerously ill, too much care cannot be
taken in keeping other children away
for the present.
The only dread the Parallel railroad
people now have, they say, is that the
onsolrdated 1,21an compan wiTl
{5:011:1in at some urglerhanded degé
or schemeI to create clays and than tr‘y
to tire them out.
Bev. Mr. Fisher of Bridgeport has
handed in his resignsti n to biquople.
He has been pastor of te Universalist
phnrch in that city for the last four
years. He has accepted a professor.-
Iship 1n the St. Lawrence University of
Canton, New York.
Rev. Dr. VanAlstyne has not yet def-
initely decided as to whether he will re-
main two years more in Nor walk, 01' go
- elsewhere at an increase of a. thousand
dollars in salary for that period. What
is the matter with his liberal and lqv-
ing church putting him 11? another $500
a year 2
i » Miss
Bromfield,
I on Main street.
At the annual meeting of the NorI-
iwalk Savings society the old officers
I'weie re elected
As Dr. Schuppan had an urgent call
' this morning the Slattery case was ad-
journed again until tomorrow morn-
‘ ing at 9 o’clock.
The explosion of a cannon cracker 1151
his hand on the morning of the Fourth
; of July has cost Robert Winkler his
I life. He died of tetanus, or lockjaw, at
I 9 o’clock last night at Harthrd.
It 1s reported that Mr. Burr Smith
contemplates removing his family into
his newly acquired Dr. Br own place on
Main street. He is now having it
I thoroughly overhauled . and recon-
structedq
I
I
Berlin people are very indignant over
I a cruel act of some of the town toughs,
who recently entered the barn of Wil-
liam Nye, a peaceful, law-abiding citi-
zen, and cut the knee-joint of his
horse s leg and allowed him to bleed to
death _
George Platt of Danbury, was
.dr owned while bathing at Ball’s Pond,
Monday. Platt was about $35 years
old and an expert swimmer, but it is
Isupposed that he was slightly under
.the influence of liquor. He leaves. a
. wife and one child.
Sheriff Toner stopped us this morn-
ing and asked what we thought of agirl
getting thirteen hundred five thousand.
On inquiring what he meant, he told us
to ask somebody whose name we could
not quite catch, but it sounded very
much like Fahan.
The police are looking for a man
about twenty-five years of age with a
smooth face. He is charged with steal-
ing a horse and carriage from No’ s.
and 7 Mather street, Hartford. The
horse is a sorrel about seven years old,
and the carriage is of the piano box
pattern. .
The borough board of engineers met
the Pioneer boys last night at their.
parlors to investigate the cause of the.
trouble in that cempany. Eth mem~
her of the company was called on to
give his version of the situation, which
was taken down, in writing and a report
will soon be made
Arepresentative of the DAILY GA-
IZETTE called on Col. Daskam this morn-
ing looking for news and found the
genial Colonel with tears in his eyes.
Upon inquiring the cause of his sad-
that he did not lrnqw what to make IIoIf
tne dog question. ‘fWhyI don’t you
know,” said he, I “they are hanging
their unregistered dogs in West NIQr'Iu
walk and drowning them in Winnrpank
chloroformino themI Iall over the 1931;-
ough and we have to bury themI at the
. expense of the town.”
Our whole community will rejoice to
learn that all of the stricken. members
of the. Mend family are improving.
Mrs. Mead is up and about the house
again, although still very weak, while
Mr. Mead is making decided advances
toward recovery. The little girl, who
has been the most dangerously ill,
while not decidedly better, still holds
its own which is deemed very encour a:
ging, and if the littlg Qnels strength
Qontrnues 1911qu out, the crisis of the
diseaSe being past, thereI are reasonable
hIopeIs of its recovery.
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R onrter. TthQs 1s alr. eady. famous
as a “hustler. ’-’ Tuesday evening he
went up on the Fair Ground track to,
show how quickly a mile could be run
on his bicycle. He sprang to his work
with the intense energy he exhibits
when running down a local item and
made the circuit twice around the track
in 3: 32. He then hied himself to the
dressing room when turning as white
as Banquo’ s ghost he glaspcd his hands
over his abdominal viscera and ex-
claimed, “0, my, I feel as if I was
chuck full of green apples. ’I’ Then a
terrible fit of vomiting seized him and
he was so Seriously ill as to excite the
compassron of all bs’holderst I
Runaway AQCIdent
Yesterday. as a young daughter of
GeorgeE. Van IHQIQsaer, was dri ving
down, past tbQ IanidanQ of Chas. AI.
Beyngldls at Cranberry Plains, the lat-
ter’s lrorsn was Qut at pastur-e in the
homo lotand. seeing the Van Hoosaer -
horse he kicked up his heels and began
a frollcsome race about the paddock.
This so inspired the Van Hoosacr dob-
bin that it flopped up its tail and start-
ed ofi‘ on a furious run. The driver
was unable to control the animal and
it giving a sudden shy, threw the young
lady out, jarring and bruising her quite
badly but fortunately not seriously in-
.juring. her.’ The animal ran a short dis-
tance and was caught with only the
wagon damaged.
I of Glenbrook,I is
/ . visiting her brother George Bromfield
' dispose .of their litter.
WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS
ThatI havq been a close observer,
among other things, of the condition
of the streets, and I would like to offer
a suggestion which may. or may not be
practical, but which might avoid the
nuisance arising from the carelessly
thrown papers, bananna skins, etc.,
which litter the streets. My sugges-
tion is that receptacles for such litter
be placed at convenient intervals, let-I
tered with a request to the public to so
I believe that
in time this request would be very gen-
erally observed, and that cleanliness
would result.
That the young woman of to- day who
is swe oping the streets with tne tail of
her frock would do well to remember
the story that was told in the middle
ag es about 'a proud dame who Haunted
along with her tail behind her as vain
as 3. peacock, and yet presenting a most
horrible appearance. For on the tail
sat a collection of little devils, all fight-
ing as hard as they could and making
her burden very hard to bear. At last.
however, she becomes conscious of her
folly, and, reaching a sloppy place, she
lifted up the train, and all the devils
fell in the mire. Her sense returned
to her, and she cut off the nonsensical
length and gave it to be made into flanl
n'el petticoats for the poor. History
doesn’t relate now many petticoats were
made out of this tail, but it is fair to
conclude that there must have been
several, Ielse they would not have been
referred to in the plural number. It
may be mentioned quite casually, that
the little devils sitting on the trained
skirts of today are named Dirt and
Bags. She who runs ought to read the
moral of this story.
That midsummer drowsiness enwraps
the people, and we no longer move
about with the old time rush and bus-
tle, but saunter with a leisurely air, as
if to-morrow would serve quite as well
as to- day for whatever business we
have to do. At the same time there
has: been a perceptible increase of
ozone in the atmOSphere around East
avenue. I hope the agitation this sea-
sQn has not extended tQ New YQrk but;
I received a package by Adamst emu ess
this, week. for “Miss Spinster, Nor
walk.”
That a public meeting at the Armory
is to be called to enlist your sympathy
and co-operation, always so cheerfully
accorded, in a plan to raise "a fund for
buildings. Hospital. - No one'can form
an adequate idea what a suffering peo-
ple need, unless they move among them
and see for themselves thir Qondltion .11.);
.whivt the subject Qf thQse QanQrQnQes,
.1. It”? 130 ahosotions to, make.
and snvrounqrngs, 61,1111 the time has ar-_
rived when we need ahosprtal A pron),-
inent physician told me. yesterday tth
the town is now.- snipqr’vmg th or morQ
atrents ”it: hospitals, paying seven, dQl~
lars aIwe_el_1,aInId we IQQuld sur- elyI start a
cottage hospital. I ask the large heart
of Norwalk to respond to the call for
funds, and I believe all who can will
contribute to a work that must appeal
to every heQrt.T11Ie child of affluence,
the (1an orhter of beauty, the youth of
promise. the matron of wealth, the law-
yer, the man of leisure and merchant
can all give, and any contribution,
however small, will be thankfully re-
ceived.
That here’ s hoping for sunshine tQ-
morrow, for the sake of an the holiday.
people. And if. it rains, herIe’ s hoping
for the good of- the fields and thQ lawns.
Qnd the fruit crops.
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NewI. ICI—ganaams Fair- _
—The ladies Qf the Congregational
church, of New Canaan, Will give their
annual fair- and social . gathering on
Thursday, July 16th, in Nichols’ Opera
House. Being a moonlight night, the
young men can enjoy a delightful drive
from New Canaan to Norwalk after
having enjoyed a tasteful dinner Q11:
ranged by the ladiesIz to be served at 6
P--m There is no question but that
the ladies will eclipse all other previous
efforts. <§ ,. 28,7t. .
Their First DivldIend.
At a meeting of thQ directors of the
S011tbern New Encland Telephone com-
pany a dividend Qf 1 per cent” payable
to the stockthers July 16, wag de-
clar. ed.
It re the fir st dividend declared by
the company in abOut three years.- All
the earnings in that period have been
used. in making permanent improve-
ments. The capital stock is $1, 500, 000.
This 1 per cent. dividend will probably
be paid quarterly from this quarter on.
. Maln’ s Circus.
The circus struck Norwalk on drainy
day, but. this did not prevent a good
sized audience from attending both qt:-
ternoon andl evening. , Thgse who re-‘
mained away missed a first-class exhi-
bition 1n ever y Way. The absence of
coarse jokes was remarked on all sides,
and we predict for Mr.- Mam 11. 81100988-_
_ in] season. . ,
I track at the Long
.Bridgeport, yesterday morning.
THE PARALLEL AGAIN
The Railroad Commissmner's Have
Approved the Layout
”‘I‘I—I“;i
Will the Road be' Built?
The railroad commissioners have
unanimously approved the layout and
location of the New York, Bridgeport
& Eastern B. B. Co. in accordance with
its petition of last February. In March
the commissioners gave a bearing upon
a petition from certain- land .aners,
praying that the petition of the rail-
road company be dismissed on account
of defects of organization, and of im—
proper proceedings, and also because
the road was not necessary, and, if es-
tablished, would be a great injury to
property owners along the line. 001.
Hoyt appeared for the Byrum Land
Improvement Co. and others of Green-
mob, and a strong fight against the
railroad company was made. The
commissioners found, however, . that
pear in the papers of theoase, did not
come within their jurisdiction. They
failed to find that any damage to prop-
er ty wQuld be serious enough to war-
rant a disapproval of therailroad com-
pany’ s petition. '
The proposed railroad, known as the
“parallel” has been surveyed and laid
out from North street, New Haven, to
New York. but the Connecticut com”-
missioners have jurisdiction only as far
as where the road crosses Byrum river
at the state bonndary line. It is pro-
posed to have not a single grade cross-
ing in the entire distance. Through
Norwalk the road will run through a
tunnel nearly 3,000 fee‘.”long. It will
owes the Derby and Housatonic rail-
roads underneath, and will pass above
the Danbury and Norwalk, the Ridge,
field and New York, and the Stamford
and New Canaan railr' Qads.
CHAIRMAN. BENTQN’S MEWS.
Ho Hits Mr. Harrison Her—o.
“Mr. Benton, it has been charged
that Judge Lynde Harrison was in col-
lusion with the democrats to secure a
democratic Senate in the interest of the
Consolidated railroad. What do you
know about it?”
Mr. Benton said. “Well, I do know
that Judge Harrison was mops them
once in conferchQ with the chairman
of thQ democratic state central com-
ittee in New York, bnt I do th knew
was.
Qoains'v any. individnal. I am satisfied,
howevegr, that. the steps taken to secure
a majority 1n the Senate friendly to the
interests of the Consolidated road and
other corporations materially afiecth
the result of the election in at least five
senatorial distriiotS, and that the repub-
lioan party suffered therefrom. This
was. foreseen before the election, and
the result so far as the Senate was con-
cerned was no surprise.”—[New Haven
Register.
I A Bad §§am.
Last evening Charles M’ Graw, an
employee of the Horse Railway Co. .,
was found in an insensrble condition
on, Franklin avean, His poor wife on
learni ,Qg of his condition, immediately
went into a violent fit of hysteria,
thinking it is said. that owing to a lit.
tle difficulty he had had with her be-
fore leaving the house in the morning,
he had attempted to commit suicide
and she was sure she could smell the
odor of laudanum in his heavy sten-
torian breathing. She summoned a
doctor with all haste Stating he}; dread
suspicion. HQ (1an and instantly forg-
ed the- tubes of his stomach pump down
chine into vigorous action. Soon the
contents of his overloaded stomach were
surrendered to the searching influences
of the pumping process going on out—
side, but while thQrQ was an odor- Qf
sQur- beg); stalQ whiskey IwashI onions,
turnips and cabbag 'e, no opium could
be detected. And finally the good. doo-
tor amused the justly excited wife. that
he would soon be all right, that it was a
case where he had swallowed too much
of what Charley Adams calls "larbard”
milk and whiskey.
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Paris Green and Lead.
The trainmen on the Housatonic
railroad discover ed the dead body of a
man lying a short distance from the
Hill station, near
He
had taken Paris green and then put a
bullet throng 11 his heart. Coroner
Dalton made an inVestigation. In the
It was Henry
Tuber, Lewiston, Maine. He is sup-
posed to have been a man of 35 year-s
defects of organization, unlessthey ap- ‘
p.00): M’ Graw‘s throat and set the- map '
man s pocket was found a card bearing.
his name and address.
:and became despondent in notg'j.’ finding.
employment.
ATTEMPTED ASSAULT
Ii- West Norwalk Lady has a only
,Tyssle With a Misereant.
Her~ Assailant said to be _a Little Off.
A young lady named Stratton, who
lives with her parents in West Nor-
walk, started out to drive the cows
home yesterday afternoon. As she was
walking Iquietly along she was seen by
a; man named Hami-lton who followed
her.” On catching up with Miss Strat.
ton Hamilton grabbed hold of her and
tried to kiss her and' take other. liber-
ties. 'Miss IStrattonI struggled with her
assailant and finally escaped. Hamil-
ton -is said to be a married man but
does 'not live with his wife. He is also
said to be a little light-headed and
seems to believe that every woman he
meets is in love with him. In view of
this affliction it is not believed that the
Strattons will prosecute him. I
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THE NAVAL VETERAN REUNION.
The Association of Naval Veterans
Meet at Suvln Rock.
The eighth annual reunion of the
Connecticut Association of Naval Vet-
erans was held at Savin Bock yesterday.
Many members from all parts of the
state were present, many of whom were
attended by their families.
A number of the veterans were clad
in their old uniforms, which had seen
service on many an occasion and were
begrimed with the smoke of battle.
At 11 o‘clock occurred the business
meeting of the association. It was call—1
ed to order by Vice- President Francis
B. Allen of Hartford who presided,
the pr esident Qf_ the association, William
C. Staples of Westport, having died
during the year. Prayer was offered
by‘th'e chaplain, Rev. Henry SQStile,
of Westport.
{1.31.9 inlou-ingoffioera were til en elect-
e91
Hartford; lieutenant commander, Sher-
man‘W; Adams, of Hartford; lieuten.
ant, V. E. Stannard, of Clinton; Sur-
geon, J. H. Granuis of Saybrook; pay-
mastcr‘, Edward Hubbell of New Ha-
ven; secretary, Thomas S. Collier of
New London; chaplain, Rev. H. St.
Stile of Westport; boatswgvin, W. E.
Goodenough of New Haven; gunner,
J ohne J. Butlei' of West Haven; car-
penter, Robert C. Nefl‘ of New London;
sail maker, James W. 81111139113 of New
Haven.
Thelast thing done by the. meeting
was to, pass resolutions on the death of
the late President Staples of Westport.
Dinner was served in the large din-
ing room beneath the hall.
At the close of the meeting a general
meeting washeld which was presided
over by the newly elected commander,
Francis B.Allen of Hartford. Short
impromptu addresses were made by
many of those present. The princxpal
feature was the passage of a resolution
introduced by Sherman A. Adams. The
resolution reQith that in the judg-
mqnt of the Naval Veteran association
of Connecticut there should be (1113 re-
cognition and prominent memoria
erected at the capital for the services
of distinguished naval oflicers’ sons of
Connecticut and that among the first
to receive such recognition should be
Isaac Hull a native of Derby, nephew
and adopted son of General William
Hull, also of Derby, who among other
achievements rendered was made fam-
.ous by his victory in the engagement
between the Constitution and the
GuerriereI- A. committee was appoint-
ed tQ bring the matter before the gen-
oral assembly __’*h_
Theatrical.
An interesting fact came to the knowl'
edge of the hustling DAILY GAZETTE
yesterday, which we believe has never
happened to get into Iprint. A short
time before the death of Lawrence Bar~
rett our Miss Ada Dyas had signed a
contract with him and Edwin Booth to
play for twenty-five weeks as leading
lady in the , Booth-Barrett combine.
The sudden and all too early death of
Barrett of course ended the engage—
ment.
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Pleasant Outing.
Yesterday Rev. Mr. Selleck took sev‘
*eral of his students 1n a wagonette and
drove to Greenfield Hill, viewing the
ancient home of President Dwight, the
house, which is still standing, where
the French statesman, writer and cyn-
ic, Talleyrand, was once entertained.
To-day he‘ takes his students up ‘to the
historical Katonah regions about West-
cheater connty,_< N. Y.
RI iot Duty.
The first test of the speed: there 15 in
the national guard of Connecticut was
made Tuesday. The New Britain com-
pany of the First Regiment and Com-
pany I, Fourth regiment, received the
telegraphic orders and assembled at.
their armones
j: .~-. .
Commander, Francis B. Allen, of
HEADQUARTERS
.__0_N WHEELS.
The Police RoOms Move up the
Street and then they Move
Down Again.
Who is Warden, Anyway?
Burgess O’Reilly this morning
ordered a removal of Police Head-
quarters somewhere up Main street.-
Their traps were carried out of the old
rooms and loaded upon the truck, and
carted up to the new quarters selected
by O’Reilly, but whether he was un-
able to give satisfactory security for
the rent of the new rooms or not, has
not been learned, but a few minutes
later the truckman carted the things
back to the old quarters. O’Beilly had
probably learned from Warden Keeler
that he had been a little too previous,
as all power and control of the police
force, is by borough law vested in the
Warden, who had not been consulted
in the matter, as none of the other
burgesses had. At latest advices police
headquarters were on wheels.
«~0» — - -— ~
Charles F. Tristram.
[From the Dry Goods Retailer and J obber.l
The necessary qualifications of a suc~
cessful doorman are so many that in
the space of this article it would be im-
possible to give them. I All houses do
not know the value of a proficient man
at the door, or, if they do know, they
do not care; for while there are many
doormen, there are but few good ones.
The. doorman’s province is not only to
see that packages are properly checked
before they leave the house. His duties
are vastly more important and numer-
ous. He should know the trade. He
should never greet Mr. Thompson of
St. Louis as Mr. Simpson from St. Paul.
He should have the faculty of making
a customer 01' visitor feel at ease as
soon as he enters the door, and he
should have the. ability and tact to
hold the visitor if the salesman whom
he is seeking is engaged. He should
be a man of iudgment, so that he may
not offend and yet perform his duty
thoroughly. In short, as the head of a
house once expressed it to the writer
concerning a similar position, he must
have the patience 013011, the meekness
of Moses, the wisdom of Solomon, the
eloquence of St. Paul and a few other
folks thrown in as ballast.
All this the subject of this sketchII
possessed, for he filled the most difficult
post of doorman in the trade. The
house of Calhoun, Robbins if: 00. nev-
er forget-s, that discipline and system
tend to success, and one of the rules of
that house is nobody can pass the door
without his business is known. It
makes no difference who he is. He
. i
may be one of those numerous frauds-
who have ‘ ‘important business with Mr.
Calhoun,“ who has been dead several
years, or he may be honest and have
an appointment with one of the firm or
one of the buyers. He must state his
business. It is quite safe to say that if
Mr. Tristram had not been a good man
for this important position and had let
all who wished go up to Mr. Inslee or
Mr. Beer's, or had sent to Mr. King ev-
ery one who wished to interview him,
he would not have held his position for
11 years.
Born in Darien, Conn. ., in 1855, a
circumstance or or which he had no
control, he got to New York as soon as
he could, and took a position with the
dry goods firm of William Lambert &
Co. of Greenwich street in 1869. He
left, and was for several years with
another firm, and then took the posi-
tion with Calhoun, Bobbins & Co. ,'
which position he left to enter into
business in Norwalk, Conn., under the
firm name of Tristram & Hyatt. Mr.
Tristram has made friends in the dry
goods trade without number, and it is
said of him that he can call by name
more merchants than any other man in
the trade. The people of Norwalk are
to be congratulated upon having two
such enterprising business men and
gentlemen as the members of this new
firm. They will make a good team,
and the other merchants of the place
will have to watch them closely, for
they know where and how to buy goods,
and they will get many a bar 0pin from
their friends 1n the trade. That gr eat
success may attend them in their new
enterprise will be the hearty wish of
thousands of friends 1n the trade.
. A Defaulter. .
Fred Wilson, recently deputy in the
office of internal “revenue, is short in
his accounts about $1, 000. His bonds-
men are good and no loss is possible.
Wilson expects, to make good the defi- I
ciency himself. Wilson is adjutant of
the First Regiment. I
A Natural Suspicion.
A large advertisement once, and then
discontinued, creates the impression
that the man has fizzled. ——[Herald.
l WESTINGHOUSE REORGANIZATION..
‘I’rominent New York Capitalist in the
! ' New Board of Directors.
A PITTSBURG, Pa., July 16.—At a meeting
of the stockholders of the Westinghouse
Electric Company yesterday it “as unani-
mously decided to accept the pl' L11 of re-
organization recently proposed. The fol-
lowing new board of directorsw as elected:
Charles Francis Adams, Boston; Lemuel
Bannister,‘ Pittsburg; August Belmont,
New York; A. M. Byers, Pittsburg;
Charles Fairchild, New York; Marcellus
Hartley, New York; George W. Hebard,
New York; Henry B. Hyde, New York;
Brayton Ives, New York; George West-
inghouse, J r., New York. .
By the plauof reorganization adopted
$4,000,000 of 7 per cent. cumulative pre-
ferred stock is created, of which $3,000,000
has been taken at par by the reorganiza-
tion syndicate 'to care for the company’s
floating debt and provide additional capi-
tal. The assenting stockholders give up
40 per cent. of their stock, aggregating
over $2, 500 H000 par value, for the use of
the company, and are. given upon the 60
per cent. of stock which they retain a. 7
per cent. preference over the small amount
of non-assenting stock remaining out.
' A Cyclone in Maine.
Four FAIBFIELD, Ma, July 16.—A cy-
clone in Easton, nine miles from here, yes-
terday unroofcct several buildings and
moved others fr om their foundations. A
number of trees were also blown down by
the hcav y wind.
Commercial Treaty With Portugal.
LISBON, July 16.»—Mr. Batcheller‘,
the American Minister, has had a
conference with the Portuguese Foreign
and Finance Ministers in reference to a
commercial treaty between Portugal and
the United States.
A Big strike Decided Upon in France.
PARIS, J uty 16.—At a meeting to-day of
about 4,000 railroad cmploycs it was de-
cided to order an immediate strike along
thclinos of the five great railroad com-
panies entering Paris.
Fench Duties on Petroleum.
PARIS, July 16.—The Chamber of Depu-
ties to-day agreed upon the following
duties upon petroleum: Raw petroleum,
18 francs; refined, 23 francs.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
Jacob King. of York, Penn., was drowned
Wednesday,.whllc fishing in the Susque-
hanna River at York Haven.
The striking miners at Spring Valley,
111., have offered to resume work under
certain mild conditions.
Captain Peterson of the canalboat struck
by the explosion of the gasomotcr, at
Rochester, Tuesday night, has died.
Vice-President Gardiner M. Lane of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company has re-
signed, and will step out Aug. 15.
Davis Abell of Saratoga, became over-
heated on Tuesday and jumpodinto atank
of cold water. It killed him instantly.
E. L. Bagg, traveling from Boston to
Chicago on a bicycle, has reached Troy.
He allows himself thnty days for the
trip.
A man supposed to be H. Tuber commit-
ted suicido near Long Hill, Conn., Tues-
day night. He first took poison and then
shot himself.
Poisoned food has. caused the death of
two members of the family of J. H. Cor-
nelius of Russellvillc, Ky., and five others
are seriously ill.
Three little girls were badly bitten by a
dog supposed to be mad at Ashland, Mass,
Wednesday. They will go to New
York for treatment.
A dispatch from Chicago announces that
the Times newspaper has been sold to two
New York newspaper men and a son of
Henry Green,a. New York broker.
Contracts for the construction of the
Administration Building of the World’s
Fair have'been awarded. The total cost
of the building will be $278,492.
Merchandiso cleared on the State canals
for the week ending July 14 amounted to
124,462 tons, against 205,451 tons for the
corresponding week last year.
0. W. Gilbert, of Woburn, Mass, is re-
ported to have disappeared. He was agent
for his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. S. True, and
she and his wife are said to have lost
money by his operations.
The schooner F. D. Hodgkins,which was
seized last June for violation of the fishing
laws at Anticosti and: was fined $2,000, ar-
rived at Eastport, Me, Wednesday with
700 barrels of herring on board.
Vice President Young of the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad discredits the re-
ports that an attempt was made to wreck
the Adirondack sleeping car express on
Tuesday night near Mechanicsville.
New Road- in Connecticut.
JEwnr'r CITY, Conn., July 16.—The ques-
tion of building a. short line of railroad
from this town to Voluntown, a busy
manufacturing city seven miles from here,
is settled without doubt by the determina-
tion of the gentlemen who have charge of
the stock subscription of the Westerly
and Jewett City railroad to close their
books August 1 and commence work on
the road. The heaviest stockholders are
the Ashaway Woolen Company and
Thomas H. Peabody of Westerly.
White Squadron in‘ New York Waters.
New YORK, July 16.‘-At 4 :30 o’clock yes-
terday afternoon the Newark, flying Ad-
miral Walker‘s pennant-led the eXpected
.White Squadron through the Upper Bay
and into .the North River and up to
Twenty-third street. '- She was closely fol- '
lowed by- the Atlanta, Boston, Yorktown
and Vesuvius. They stOpped where the
Chicago and Concord were already an-
chored. - ,
A Strike of Steel Workers at Hand.
HARRISBURG, Par, July 16. ——IThe Penn-
sylvania Steel Company declines to con-
sider the scale presented by the Amal-
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, and a. strike will probably be
ordered seen. The Steelton branch of. the ,
Association held a meeting to—day but it is. '-
not known what action was taken.‘ ' ‘
Norwalk Chronicler