IT HAS No RIVAL. PEOPLE BUY, IF YOU HAVE READ, _, A WANT STUDY AND . UT. ADVERTISE ADMIRE IT IN THE DAILY GAZETTE. V01. 1,No_;1_58. Norwalk, Conn, Wednesday, EYenlng, August 5 ,3.3,3._3 891 ....‘ , 34.- 3‘3 FoE .oNE'si: E35 3‘3cENT YOU ., . ,,,sAY TEE ‘ HiAllE _ TGAZETTE DAILY A Is A First?- class NeIIspapeI Everyway l i - . 311"’._ The Daily Gazette I: issued ever u week-day at uP. 111.. at ' . ONE cENT rEE COPY. I'm! Cheapest Rates for Advertising, and. THE LARGEST cmcULATION. The '-Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday’s Daile Is issued every Fri-day at Noon, at rImEE CENTS PEIB com. on $1.50IPEB YEAR. The Daily and Weekly. Served to Local Subscribers in m cure PER WEEK. on $5.00 PER YEAR. A. H. BYINGTON. Proprietor. This paper has the largest circulation of o. :1.” paper in the Slate west of Bridgeport. arm. a 01min 9 DEPARTMENT. Mn. HAEEY M. GARDNER, JE.. 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. TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. Edward C. Betts, Of Pueblo, 001., rived 1n town yesterday. the bay for a fortnight’s camping out. It has been the hottest July on re- cord—for the Court of Burgesses. —Get yoUrImeat at Keeler’s market, No. 6 water street. . ' Some thief stole a pair of cars from one of LeGrand Jennings’ boats Mon- day night. Mrs. Henry Biss3ell is pronounced one of Norwalk’s beautiful and accomphsh- ed equestriennes. A fairly good gutter brass band is re- galing our citizens, to- day, in the ab- sence of Dwver’ 5 band. The Daily Union, Bridgeport’s new and sparkling little newspaper, is a welcome visitor at this office. Mrs. and Mrs. George Ward Selleck took intlie K. of C. excursion to Long Island’s sea girt shore to-day. Ed. Donnelly, the handsome propri- tor of the meat market at No.7 Main street, attended the K. of C. picnic to- day The wheel club took a run to Dorlon Point last evening, and after partaking of refreshments held a meeting in the Dorlon House _ -. ——Bib roasts 16 cents a pound at Ke eler’ 5 market Postmaster Hubbell’s ears must tin- gle at the uncomplimentary remarks being made about him bygthe ladies on Henry Matheis’ route. The light from the burning of the Hoyts’ biglbarns at New Canaan, was plainly visible here in Norwalk, from, about 12. t9 1 0391001: this. morning- The twenty-fifth annual reunion of the Second Connecticut Light Battery. Association is to be held August 29th at Seaside Park, their old camping ground. ——S. D. Bayles, 18 N. Main street, South Norwalk, only graduate opti- cian in town. Eyes tested and glasses perfectly fitted in only sure manner; Test case. 156 St. Miss Sarah Henderson left her- grand. mother, Mrs. Charles Mallory, last WEEK, to accompany Mrs. James N all home to Detroit, where she expects to make quite an extended visit. The Chief Engineer has notified the members of Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company to appear at a special meet- ing of the Fire Committee and Board of Engineers, to-morrow evening, at the Pioneer rooms. A poor fellow with his head cut open, was gathered in about 3 o’clock this morning, who said ‘some one had as- saulted him in Water street. He had an ugly wound in the head and was dazed either from drink or the hurt, or both. The attempt made to throw Mr. An- ton Stommel into bankruptcy is viewed by his largest creditors as ill advised, unwise in every way and as sure to re- sult in heavy loss to all the creditors, while no one but the lawyers will prof- it thereby. The rum-crazed tramp, who so terri- fied the quiet residents of Hurlbutt street, Wilton, Saturday night, was let go from the lock~up on his agreeing to return to Stamford, where he claimed to belong. Iiast seen of him he was scratching gravel westward he The Bridgeport Standard has order - ed a new. web perfecting press and will soon become an eight page paper. We congratulate our neighbor on their en- terprise and hope that some day the little DAILY GAZETTE will grow to be as big and influential as the staunch Burgess Bewe was awakened out of a profound sleep justbefOre morning by hearing an outcry as he thought, for ,help. couch and flew to the window and full length. All he could hear was the loud calls “All hands ’,round ” coming ZETTE office. _ John Lockwood, of SOuth Norwalk, became under the influence yesterday and wandered 11p town and laid him-, self down;on the railroad track for a rest, but Chief Gormley and Officer Morehouse broke up his slumbers and took him to the hotel Gehebe, where he was supplied with a folding 1. 33nd and hair mattress. This morning Judge Coolidge gave him $5 and costs for his outing. Mr. GibsOn, with the programme committee of the Music Teachers’I as- sociation, is engaged in preparing a circular to musical composers, asking them to send in music of all classes for performance at the next convention. Music in the larger forms must be sent by January 15th, smaller compositions by April 1st. Messrs. Dudley Buck, Arthur Foote and G. W. Chadwick committee. 3 Ex-Chief Albert DeForest, and Mrs. Henry Seymour and daughter, were on the express train that ran into the freight at West Haven, yesterday morning, in trying to make a “flying switch.” The Chief brought home with him a long pine splinter off of one of the freight cars. It seems a miricle that no one was seriously hurt, but the Consolidated road is proverbially the luckiest road in existence. Michael Kearney, who says he hails from Hartford, was found by Oflicer Adams about 3 o’clock this morning, staggering ab out the sidewalk in front of the Bank of Norwalk. Not being able to give an account of himself and being covered with blood from numer- our cuts-on hisface and head, he'was locked up. This morning he told Judge Coolidge that he had been waylaid on the track and beaten by ' two roughs. The Judge, however, gave him $5 and costs for intoxication, and not having the “wherewith” he was sent to Bridge- port. The other pictures which it was claimed had been spirited away by Dr. Munson, were hanging on the walls when the board assembled this morn- ing. They were silent witnesses that at least a portion of the charges were false. —Farmer. away in the attic and not hanging on the wall, as is duly stated in the GA- ZETTE’s report and it would be an in- teresting fact for the Farmer to inves- tigate, as to how many miles from No- roton its correspondent was when he wrote up his romancing mosaic as a3 re: port of the B0 ard meeting at the SOI- ~ diersl Home, Lawn Tennls. . . The next few weeks promise to be full of interest to the members of the Lawn Tennis Club, and lovers of ten- nis not only in Norwalk, but in_3fact all over the country. At the board of man- agers of the local tennis club this week arrangements were made by which a tournament with Westport will be had next week Wednesday and successive days, all the‘games being played here. Each club will enter three men in sin- gles and three teams in doubles, each team playing each opposing- team. Each match won, scores one point for the club and the trophy, a banner cost- ing $10, will become theproperty of the winning club. This match will be in charge of Dr. Acton and F. H. Hill. The Bridgeport tournament will be on the same terms as the Westport one, excepting that the value of the trophy is $40 and the games will be played al- ternately in Bridgeport and- Norwalk, . the games here being on Thursday Au- gust 20. Invitations have been sent to all the clubs 1n the county to send delegates to a convention to be held in the Nor- walk Tennis Club casino, Monday, Au- gust 10, at 4 p. m., to, make arrange- ments for a tournament of Fairfield county clubs. Play Will begin on Wednesday, August 26, and in view of the, central location of Norwalk, it is more than likely that the tournament will be held here. Norwalk’s delegates to this convention are Pres. J. A. Pin-33 neo and Dr. W. F. Acton. 33 3 33 Builder Charles Hoyt will to-morrow‘ begin the erection of a piazza across the entire south side of the club house, ofl’ering accommodations for a large number of spectators. A grand stand will be built on the west [side 3of the grounds and thereby seating about 150 more. To Be Examined. Rose has been ordered to appear for his second examination before going old Standard. into camp. He sprang from his virtuous. stretched his- delicate form out to its from the colored ball over the GA-’ have consented to act as the examining The missing pictures were all stored _ the marble statue of the. returned sol- dier greeting his child for which he said : those that came into their hands as, . . . _ lwill be furnished by Heine’s string .malfeasance, or even Carelessness' 1n the special value, many in broken sets, It is reported this morning that Capt. 3 . , . ‘vote of ' the managers, as old lumber, THE SOLDIERS HOME. HIS BOOKS and Pictures AOOOUlltOd FOP. Dr Munson’s Admlnlstratlon to be Investigated by Inspector—Genr- eral Averill. Yesterday, at the request of Govern- .or. Bulkeley the Editor of the DADDY GAZETTE visited , the, State Soldiers. Home at N oroton for the purpose of examining the ofl‘icial records of the i Home and ascertaining the facts-as to the clandestine taking away of the valu- able collection-Of bOoks, . pictures, .&c."' There wefe present there Generals Em- bler, F. E. Camp and White, Judge A. B. Beers of Bridgeport, Surgeon-Gen, Hunger-ford of Stamerd, the new Su- perintendent Capt James M Coe. and the late Superintendent. Dr. Munson. The investigation, hurriedly made, had reference only to the charges that books, pictures and other property of the Home had been improperly abstract- ed, »as charged by members of Doug- , las Fowler Post, G. A. B. The first matter considered was a certain picture, alleged to have been Sent to Bridge- port and now in the possession of Judge Beers. The official record of the meet- ings of the Board showed that at a meeting Of the Board held on the 29th day of December, 1887, a picture named “The Lambs,” the canvass of which had been accidentally torn, 3was ordered sold. No one had been found to pur- chase it, when on June lst, 1889, ,a vote 3of the Board was taken (Beers not vot- ing) that Judge Beers’ offer of $25 for the picture be accepted. Beers paid the money, and to divert the attention of theinmates, as he says, from him- self as a member of the Board,he had it addressed to his friend, Lawyer L. K. Gould, of Bridgeport." He had the pic- ture repaired, and it is‘now hanging in 3 hisparlor as charged by the G. A. R. investigators, This money was passed tothe credit of the “Benjamin Fitch permanent fund,” as it is called. - This exhibit of record and the Board’s action -'co3mpletely exonerates Judge Beers ~ from any impropriety in connecMVfl beenfavoredhy one of the modern with that picture and this is the only picture so far as is known, that has been taken from the Home. The old Picture Gallery hadlto, be dismantled . from a3 forced necessity of using it as a dormitory and the paintings'were taken out, numbered and are safely stored away in an upper story room to l the number of 159, where they now are. Upon the managing Beard taking possession of the“ Home and meeting the necessity of removing the pictures from the gallery, they called in three art experts, headed by David B. Secor . of Bridgeport, who was atthe head of- the Art Department at the New Or- leans Exposition, 1884—5, and had them scheduled and appraised. IThese ex- perts, at the time, took the paintings. one by one and carefully considered ’ their probable merchantable value and recorded their judgment that the whole 159 could not be sold for a total sum ex- . ceeding $1,500. So here goes into thin air the cherished tradition, originally ' 3 the clOse of the clam bake Mr,. promulgated, as we know, by the found- . er of the Home, Mr.'Benjamin Fitch, that they had cost him, (together with he paid Larkin G. Mead $15, 000, ) a sum? total of $60, 000. It was found there were i no pictures by any eminent artist, and; most of the work was of coarse and very inferior artistic execution, show-‘ 2 ing that Mr. Fitch, if he had ever paid; any. great sum for them,- was as poor a 3 judge of art as he must have beenreck- 1 less In his purchases. There were a few- fine and costly paintings ascertained to i be at the private home of Mr. Fitch at l the time Of his death, said to have been purchased at the same time thoseat the ; Soldiers’ Home Were, and shipped there with them, but with such as ‘these the Board had nothing to do. Their responSibility began and ended - . with a proper inventory and care of guardians of the State’s interest in the property. And so far as all facts and records were “made to show, they stand. fully exonerated from any charge of care of the State’ s property. So much for the pictures. There was a miscel- laneous collection of, books, none of most. of them entirely unsuited to the Wants of the inmates of the Home. Avote was pasSed to sell them, but to date theyhave been unable to doIIso and they are all in and about the home. There are nineteen engravings also- stored aWay, as useless to the needs of the Home. The book case sold for 35. turns out to have been a cumbersome, rickety pine- oné', grained in walnut, andas it"w’as in the way, it. Was sold by and the $5 turned into the Home Treas- ury and duly credited onthe books. 3port boys rendered3 1., The matter cf D13, Munson’ s admin- istration was not gone into. The state— ‘ment being made that the Board had by unanimous resolution, invited Gen- Averill, the inspector of Natibnal and State Soldiers’ Homes, to investigate ‘3t3h3e Home and Dr. Munson’s entire, 3' management and that his report should be given to the public. Every courtesey Was shown the GA- EETTE representative, and every possi- ble effort made to prove to him the . erroneous. conclusions to which the. cf necessity, partial ”investigations, made by different members of Douglas E Fowler Post, had lEd them. No un- kind werd was spoken on either side and no unkind feeling manifested. The one sole purpose sought by all par- ties unquestionably being, to get at the" I exact truth, the whale truth and noth- I ing but the truth. 3 l 3 Another -.Fake - The BridgepOIt Farmer last evening published what purported to be, but 1s not, a report of the meeting of the 3 Board of Managers at the Noroton Sol- diers’ Home, yesterday. It also errone- ously says. “This meeting was held for the pur- pose of hearin the report of A. H. Byington, Of orwalk, recently ap- pointed a committee to investigate the charges which he had madeo a ainst the management of the Soldiers’ ome under the superintendency. of Dr. Munstm. While dot exactly a “star chamber’ session it was intended to have the meeting as secret as possible. Exactly what transpired, and how far Mr. Byington succeeded 1n convincing the members of the board of the truth- fulness of his allegations will not be known or made public until the official report is made, which Is not likely to occur until Governor Bulkeley returns from his vacation two weeks hence. That Mr. Byington met with rather a cool reception is indicated from a re- mark made by a member of the board in the hearing of the Farmer’ s repre- sentative. This is what he said. yianwfl has made charges that are false prove that he is in the wrong, and unles he retracts and apologises as he should, we will—- As no charges were ever made by Mr. Byington, and the GAZETTE only gave publicity to those made by members Of Douglas Fowler Post, and as there was no “cool reception,” the Farmer must fake correspondents. - Grace Church Picnic. The first picnic of Grace Church Sunday School took place at Boton Point yesterday. Notwithstanding the threatening weather it took three large carryalls to carry all of the children and teachers of the school to the Point. A sumptuous lunch was served at noon and heartily enjoyed by the children. At 4:30 a surprise in the shape of aclam bake was given by Mr. Robert Van Buren to which all present did ample justice. Mr. Van Buren also furnished- some beautiful day fireworks, which were successfully set off; Numerous races were inaugurated. in which the children of the'school participated, the winners being rewarded with prizes. The children were not alone in their games, hoWever, as some.- of the Older members of the party created Jmuch amusement by attempting to jump the rope, as in their younger days. At called the choir boys together and with the assistance of the visiting Bridge- several songs, while the gifted George Moore favored the company with a 8010, which was highly appreciated. At 5:30 they. left. the Point for heme all voting-a most successful day, and returning many thanks to the congregation and kind rector for their happy day’s outing. The Catholic Plcnlc. Twelve hundred or more persons boarded the big steamer Cygnus at Wil- son Point this morning, for Laurelton Grove, L. I. The occasion was the an- nual picnic of Catholic Union, Council, No. 46. The party was transferred to the Point by a Housatonic train and ,a happier appearing gathering one does not see in many a day. The Norwalk City band furnisIhed Sweet music. Ar- riving at the Grove music for dancing band, Prof. Yost prompter. ~—-——-—«+>——————-——— ‘ That Robbery. We were informed yesterday, and so stated, that “Jim” Sutherland was one of the parties who hypnotized the DeKlyn lunch, 'but we have since learned that the lunch was carried into Taylor’s store and that “Dec. " Hyatt stoOd in the door and told the boys it was his birthday and he was giving a Iblow- -,out which no doubt accounts for «the rapid disappearance of the lobsters, ,etc., as the Doctor’sfriends are legion. -————— ——<+>—-—— 3 ‘ - . Dentistry ’—Dr. W. H. Baldwin, D. -'D. S.~3 :Will be at home and ready for professional work about August 15th. 3 Appoint-3‘ .ments can now be ,seguredgforany. time after said date by calling at the office, 64 Wall street, Norwalk. 1574f. Baker 3 B"8‘33””MISOII: The Casualtiesmindseserseantu Lat§QaDeforethe Whole . ' ' ; ifCo’mpany. . .. Latsonpamandsae Apolosv- w-Never since the completion of N or- scene been enacted as“ occuredz last evening during the drill of CompanyF. Captain Rose was in command and the company marching in platOOns When the Captain gave the order “platoon fours left,” followed by;- the command "éoldmn left, ” Which brings the second platoon' 1n- front joining the company in cOlumns of fours. This command releases the chiefs of the platoons and they cease to act. .being' acquainted with the tactics, gave Captain Bose not no other command, thus allowing the 'cOmpany to march into the brick wall where they stood and pawed the white- wash, until the Captain gave them the order “about face,” followed by “halt,” when I~heproceeded to repri-_ mand Sergeant LatSOn before the en-. tire company for his neglect in not wheeling the company. As Latson had ceased to act and was simply a file closer, the mistake was entirely the Captain’s, but he could not OverIOOk. his own 3 laughable blunder withOut heaping inSult on poor Latson. - After the drill, and when 1n company meeting, Sergeant Latson arose and demanded an apology from Captain Bose, forginsulting him before the com- pany, but the bold Captain continued the business of the meeting as though Latson was not visible. What the outcome Will be, is not known, but as Latson us not likely to rest under the insult heaped upon him, and of which he Was in no way deserv- ing, some lively developments may be looked for. , There were a number Of visitors at the Armory at thetime, among whom was Capt A. A. Betts, the former com— mander of Company F, and ’tis said that as soon as Captam Bose recognized him he halted the company and turned them over to Ineut Aiken to, complete the drill. , That Investigation. The committee appointed by the Warden to investigate the Highway committee and the account of street Contractor Connolly held a star cham- ber meeting last evening behind locked doors._ Connolly’s bill was gone over and fon- correct andjno doubt will be paid.» It is expected that the workmen employed by Connolly . will soon be called'upon to testify as to what they know about the work on the different Borough streets, While the DAIl'IY’ GAZETTE believes "in sifting the' ugly rumors to the bottom, it believes that the investigation should be open and above board Where all can hear the testimony, and not behind lOcked doors where an innocent party can be stabbed ,in the back without a chance of de- fence. I‘The DAILY GAZETTE is against star chamber trials whether 3military, civil or political. A Terrlble Fate. .Bichard Costello, the conductor on a local New England freight train and for many years the yardmaster for that road in Waterbury, was instantly killed at New Britainyesterday forenoon. He. was assisting 'in making up his train when he stepped between the cars to couple them. In doing so his foot: caught 1131 a frog and he could not ex-- _ 3 tax, due next month, is 20 per cent. tricate 1t. The train passed over him and one arm and his neck was broken and his body 'cOnsiderably crushed; al- though not badly mangled. The body was taken to Waterbury where Costel- lo has a wife and three small children. He was about 35 years of age. . _ A Lucky Escape. Yesterday afternoon while the young daughter of Wm. A. Curtis was riding her bicycle, the machine made a lurch toWard the gutter and 1n straightening it Ont again, she turned it directly in- to the carriage of Thomas Lawlor, who was driving quietly dewn'West avenue. '3 Miss ,Curtis seeing her danger under- took to jump" off, Ebut her' iskirts" catch- ing, She fell Under the wagon. As Mr. Lawlor was driving slowly the horse. was immediately stopped without in- jury to the rider, but the scare was so great that she fainted after all danger was ever. —-—-T—-—O 3 1'.; . 3_ II-A Notable Eyent. 1:15.31,“ 3,»? Nearly 2, 000 invitations have been sent out to people' In this country and Europe to attend the celebration of the golden wedding of John and Isabella Beccher Hookel, at Hartford, this af- ternoon Senator. Hawley wlll act as. master 3of ceremomes .131 ‘- —Meat cheap for cash at Keeler’ 3 market. walk’s Armory has such a ridiculous 'nue matter. ’ FIRE IN NEW CANAAN. The IHoyts’ Barns Agaln Destroyed 1 333At about a quarter of twelve last: - night fire Was discovered issuing from the hay loft of the Stephen Hoyt Sons’ , big barn. The Hoyts and their large - force of men were hurried out as soon . .as possible and everything movable gotten out, except a hundred andmore tons of hay and over a thousand bush- els of oats,=which with the barn were entirely consumed. The cows and an- imals werealso hurried from their two :large animal barns, and every effort made tosave these two structures, but to no avail for they in turn were. quick- .ly consumed. Then desperate efi'orts were made to save their horse barn, which luckily , were more successful, owing to its slate roof and tinned sides. This building is somewhat scorched but not seriously damaged, while the other three barns were consumed. ,The Hoyts had about $6,000 on these three barnsand contents, with agent 0. E. Wilson, which Will about cover loss on buildings, leaving their hay and grain, fixtures etc. , as total losses. Their loss over and above insurance is thought to be about $3,000, aside from loss of time, inconvenience and vexa- tion: in rebuilding, which cannot be es- timated. While it is possible that the fire could have originated by sponta- neous combustion, the almost univer- salfear is that these repeated fires are ' thework of some soulless incendiary. East Avenue Again. EDITOB'GAZETTE :——The evidence al- ready taken showing that the expense of tearing up the Daskam property on East avenue would be in the neighbor- ' ‘hood of two or three thousand dollars, should make the blood of our tax-rid- den people boil and cause them to de- mand of our Court of Burgesses that the matter be dropped right Whereit is. Go a little further down the eve. nue and see what the damage to the Bennett and Hunter properties and What the expense to the borough will be°of destroying the trees, and remov- ing: the immense amount of earth in front of them and Of cutting into the small mountain on the Buck Lockwood '3'lot adjoining'the Bennett property, if the dare-devil plan should be carried out, and then you will be brought face to face with the fact that another extra five mills borough tax will be required to put these outrages through. What advantage will the borough de- rive frOm thisenormous expenditure ? Will thebeauty of the avenue be en- .hanced by the destruction of fifteen or twenty shade trees ? Is it necessary that East avenue should be made fifty feet wide throngh the middle and only forty feet at each end? Any half dozen fair and reasonable men, who are not bent upon a rule or ruin policy, could readily efi'ect an am. icable adjustment with Messrs. Ben- nett and Hunter, whereby they might be accorded decent treatment and Bor- ough obtain 3a highway of suflicient width for all practical purposes, and at small expense to our taxpayers. As to the Daskam matter, the street. in front of this place is wide enough al- ready, and there is no earthly reason for'laying out an immense sum, or any money other than What would be nec- essary to wind up this litigation. But if Burgess Vanderhoef wants it done let him pay the cost as compensation for the 30 and more feet of the old highway he has fenced' 1n. If our taxpayers have had all the ex- tra taxes they care for at present, (and it should not be forgotten that the town higher than usual.) they had better en- ter a protest against the proposed ac- tion ,of the Burgesses in this East ave- A VICTIM. «— » ~- »~«o >-——- What Does lt.Mean ? The DAILY GAZETTE copied an article from the Bridgeport Farmer yesterday ref‘érring to rumored changes in the Fourth Regiment. The. Sentinel pub- lished the same article, but omitted the sentence “Lieutenant Col. Crowe, who in «the regular course of events, would naturally. succeed to the position, is said to have no desire 3_to accept the command.” Can it be possible that 1001. Crowe 1s to be a candidate, and this the reason the Sentinel omitted the sentence ? - _—_._4 - A Midnight Cry. . It is ascertained that -' a loud outcry was made from the neighborhood of Union Park about one o’clock this morning, the voice being that of a woman. The theory of the police is that it was some couple 1n attendance on the colored ball last night, who had strolled.- up there to get some fresh air. O . .33'_3 New Ticket Agent. Edward Glenn, son of the Bidgefieldj 3 - station agent assumes the position- of ticket agent at the Norwalk office of the Housatonic R. B. to-day.‘ PRESSlELEGHHl/IS. Specially Wired to the Nerwalk ' Dalily Gazette DEAD BODY .FOUND. Foul Play Suspected. BEIDcEroaT, August. 5. 3—3-3The body .3 of an unknown man, aged about 35 or 40, was rescued from the harbor this morning. His head had a bad gash on his forehead and‘anOther behind the car which looked as if made by some sharp instrument. He was dressed as a boatman and in his pcckets were $102. Foul play'is‘ suspected, though, it is not impossible . that the wounds may have been caused bye. nail in fall- ing 011‘ the dock. MurderousAssault; 3 DANBUBY, Aug. 5.3—A man named Frank Wélls was serious13y and it was thought fatally stabbed here last night by a man named Wordin, in a drunken brawl, but to the surprise of everybody he was present this morning at the - trial of his assailant to testify against him and it is now thought he will re- cover.. v———————~o-O->—-——-— , El! LEFT HIS WIFE To DIE. AI Shocking Case Of Brutality and Crimi- . _ nal Neglech‘ 3 BUFFALO, Aug. 5. —The little village of Clarence, this county, is alive with excite- ment over a case of inhumanity and bru- tality resulting in the death of the victim. Coroner Kenney, of this city, is making a thorough investigation. Three and a half miles from the village lives Joseph Eekhart, a well to do farmer, Worth at least $25, 000. This' Is haying time, and last Tuesday Jilckhart and his wife were at work in the fields. , ‘ They were on top of a haystack, when she lost her foot- ing‘and fell, breaking her leg. Some say her husband pushed her off. Eckhart let her lay there until twilight fell, when be dragged the suffering woman by the feet to the woodshed, where she Was left all night. In the morning he took her into the house, where she remained until Friday Without medical aid, when she died from the shock and exhaustion: .Neighbors say that Eckhart has been habitually cruel to his wife and has abused her' In a terrible manner. Eckhart says he did not strike or maltreat his wife after she fell, as is al- leged, but does not deny the charges of neglect. The indignation of the villagers has been aroused to such a pitch that threats of lynching have been freely made. The cor; oner is holding an inquest, and Eckhart will likely be arrested at its conclusion. He is under surveillance. It Was a. Sensational Hoax. BURLINGTON, W. Va. , Aug 5. ——A thorough investigation into the story of the horrible murder of the Brumfield fam- ily in Wayne county, about two miles ’ from this place, shows there is no truth in the story. A neighbor of the Brumfield family was here yesterday, and said: “I just left Shoals, and nothing was known of the affair there. The only foundation for the rumor is the fact that one of the . Brumfleld children was badly burned on Friday night by accident, and anumber of the neighbors of the family Went Over. The story of the murder may have arisen from this fact coupled with the further fact that one of the Brumfield boys shot an Italian about a week ago. Cattletsburg is about twenty miles from Shoals, while I live but a couple of miles from the Brum- fields, and would know the fact if the family had been murdered, as stated.” Panni, an Italian foreman, was here yes- Eerday from Wayne county, and he also enounced the story as false. 7 An Alliance Sensation in Nebraska. LINCOLN, Aug. 5.—Governor Thayer, is 11111 Detroit at the G. A. B. encampment, eutenant GOvernor MajOrs’ whereabouts is not known. He is not in Lincoln, and ' is supposed to be at Detroit also, or out of the state at least. Under the constitution the president of the senate is acting gover- nor in that state. Poynter, who is a strong Alliance man, has announced his inten- tion of ascertaining whether Majors was in the state. If he found that he was not he said he would assume the duties of governor and run things until Majors or Thayer turned up. He said that he would probably call a special session of the legis- lature to pass a. maximum freight bill. The Republican ofiicers at Lincoln are panic stricken, and the Wire‘s are kept hot call- ing on Thayer and Majors 3to' return and save the state from Alliance usurpation, Killed His Daughter’s Sultor. OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 5.-—JohnC. Howell shot and killed R. J. Colvin. Three years ago Colvin was engaged to marry Howell’s daughter, but the match was broken off. Since then Colvin has tried several times to meet the young lady, and several quar- rels with Howell have been the result. Last night a friend of Colvin’ s named Maxwell was discussing the subject with Howell. On Colvin’s expressing a desire to' marry the girl Howell said, "Hold up your hands!” and immediately began shooting. He fired three shots, all taking efiect. Howell then surrendered to the police. Howell was prominent in politics, was clerk of the asse bly for three years and was at one times eriif of Plumes county, Ida. Looks Elke a Case of33 3Murder. NEW Your, ,Augifi .-—The body or Pro- , fessor Charles A rofl’, president of the Krofi Institute of LangUEges, at 798 First avenue, was found floating“ 1n LongIsland sound in front of Oak Point pavilion yes- terday afternoon. Cuts and bruises on the body raise strong suspicion that he was murdered. Professor. Krofi started 3 from his home for a walk Saturday after- , noOn and was not seen alive afterward. He had several hundred dollars in his pockets when he left home and only fifty cents remained when he was found.
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