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OUR J OBBIL‘ G DEPARTMENT.
Mn HARRY ll. GARDNER, J n. of New York,
has charge of the GAZETTE'S Engraving, Book
nd Jobbing Department. “He is an expert
and experienced Job Printer. and no work en-
trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done.
Halt!
A borough meeting is to be held next
Tuesday evening at the Town House,
to consider the expenditure of $12,000
for the repair of the Grupe reservoir
dam, so that it will hold the watel‘
stored there. That is an immediate and
unavoidable necessity, and there is no
sense or economy in its postponement.
Then comes the other propositions to
pave Wall street from the foot of Mill
' Hill to the post office, $11,928; Wall to
Hoyt, $7,810; Main street from Hoyt to
New Canaan road, $10,269; or a total
proposed expenditure, as above of
$42,007. N ow. with our already on-
erous borough tax and heavy town tax,
aggregating On the rates of appraisal
prevalent here only a few years ago,
fully four per cent, with school taxes
sure to come, is it not about time for
the tax-payers of this borough to “call
a halt,” on all matters of expenditures
that can reasonably wait. As all know,
the GAZETTE is and always has been,
an earnest advocate of good roads, but
we can endure the present condition of
these roadways for some months to
come, more comfortably than our tax-
payers can now pay for their improve-
ment. ' Then again, some fairer and
more equitable method of assessing
benefits and damages in the matter of
special highway improvements should
be adopted. In many other places, in
the concreting, paving or macadamiz-
ing of roadways, a rule prevails that
the public pays only one third, while
the other two thirds is assessed on the
property fronting on either side of the,
streets, on the very just theory that all
adjoining property on such specially
improved roadways are made corre-
spondingly more valuable. This might
be too high a rate of assessment here in
the centre of the borough, or on such
a public thoroughfare as West avenue,
but surely onequarter would not be.
Nor is this assessment on adjoining
property an only good feature. It pre-
vents a clamor for unnecessary im~
provements of the kind, But the im-
mediate question is, as to the wisdom
of the borough now going into a still
further expenditure of forty thousand
dollars, when only $12,000 is an imme-
diate necessity. That is the question
every good citizen should think over
candidly and then attend the meeting
next Tuesday evening and vote on the
question of road improvements intelli-
gently and honestly, '
.9.
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.
It is said there was a light frost in
the low lands, last night.
Regular meeting of Pioneer Hook &
Ladder company this evening.
Daniel Mitchell arrived home yes-
terday from Batapolis, Mexico.
I The floor beams on the last story of
the club building are now laid.
Read the notice of the Borough
Board of Registration in another col-
umn.
Engineer Wood is putting down a tar
Wilaltk in front of his pretty East ’avenue
co age.
Miss Emilie F. Whitney and little
Estelle, have gone to Hackensack, N.
J ., for a prolonged visit.
Arthur L. Benedict, of Brooklyn,was
a Visitor to his father John Benedict,
of 21 River street, yesterd ay.
James J. Scofield is disgusted with
driven wells and is now at work digging
an old timer.
.MiSS Julia Bennett of New York, is
Visiting Miss Mabel Vanderhoef, on
East avenue.
Mrs. Field, who has been a guest at
Mrs. Newkirk’s, on Lewis street, left -
for her home in New York, yesterday.
The Bennett family, to the number
of a dozen, picnicked at Roton Point,
jéestefiday. Tosmorrow they try Compo
eac . .
Le Grand Jennings took George H.
Raymond, Charles Burl-,Edward Fitch,
Fred Smith and. Charles Barrett to
Long Island, this morning, in his
1
Gist out. your OvOTCOats. "
W. Frank Hyatt, of Brooklyn, is in
town to-day.
Moore has res1gned. -
‘ Secretary Blaine returns to Washing-
ton on the first of October.
Harry Merrrill is at Springfield, to-
day; attending the bicycle races.
The Mackay—Bennett cable between
Cansoand St. Pierre has parted.
Y., is the guest of manager Adams.
Mr. Harry Good, of New York, is
visiting his grandfather,Henry I. Hoyt.
Four were killed by. the collapse of
an iron foundry at Leeds, Eng, yes-
terday.
John Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, N eb.,
president of the Irish National League,
is very low. '
Two truck loads of stoves arrived on
the propeller, this morning, for F. J.
Curtis & 00.
.Car No. 13, of the Norwalk Horse
Railroad has been treated to a new set
of wheels.
There will be a short calendar session
tember 11. ”M __,____
—“A Little Irish Girl,” the “Duch—
ess” Latest Book. For Sale by Bene-
dict. 181 tf
Mrs. Merritt has moved from Mer-
win street to the house owned by the
S. E. Olmstead estate on Main street.
—Miss Annie E. Hall has returned to
Norwalk and will .resume teaching on
and after September 12.
Mr. Winfield S. Moody, J r., with his
mother, left for a short visit to New
Jersey, yesterday.
George Miller, who stole John H.
Ferris’ horse, was given three months
in jail and fined $50 in the Superior
court yesterday.
Burr Smith and John O’Sullivan, of
Norwalk, are on the jury impanelled
for the criminal term of the Superior
court for the September term.
N. Y., who has been staying in Nor-
walk during the summer months, re-
turned to her home this morning.
Judge Perry has removed from Har-
bor avenue back to his own house on
Berkley street, his former tenant, Mr.
Seigel, having removed to Yonkers.
They are now trying to curb Senator ’
John S. Seymour ; lhe curbing and
gutterng of East avenue having
reached the front of his residence.
Following St. Peter’s example, Rev.
Mr. MoGonegal was out this morning.
a little after six o’clock, rod in hand,
and “I go a fishing” look in his larbord,
eye. —
Tailor O’Brien. of 31 Belden avenue,
has connected his house with the sewer
and is putting in u. hot-air furnace an
all modern improvements into his newly
purchased residence. ‘ ' »
The Rice-Hanlon case is down for
trial today in the- Superior court at
Bridgeport. Ofiicers Morehouee and
Howard were kept busy yesterday af-
ternoon serving subpoenas on the wit?
nesses. ' . -
The annual reunion of the 29th and
30th Regiments, C. V., (colored) takes
place in New Haven today. John L.
Weston, John King and Hon. Jackson
J ohn’son, are the Norwalk veteranswho
are present. "
Clinton Seeley was entered in two bi-
cycle races at Hartford, yesterday, but
did not start in either, in order to save
himself for the twenty mile race at
Springfield, to-day. He will return
home Monday.
~Union Relief Lodge, I. 0. 8., gave a
peach sociable in their rooms in the
GAZETTE Building last “evening. An
abundance of peaches and cream were
served, and dancing was indulged in
until a late hour. .
President James W. Hyatt leaves for
Boston to-day'to attend a meeting of"
the directors of the Georgia-Alabama
company, which takesplace to morrow.
It is expected that agood dividend will
be declared and the price of stock ad-
vanced. '
Major Bundy, the able editor-in-ehief
of the New York Mail and Express,
who recently went to Europe on a voy-
age for rest, was stricken with appo-
plexy a few days since, ‘indu‘Ced by
his hotel in Paris. He was the author
of what Gen. Garfield deemed the best
campaign life of himself that was is-
sued, and a universal favorite among
men and politicians of all parties. He
was unmarried and leaves two sisters
as his only relatives.
The engagement of Mr. William Bett-
berg, a barber, employed by' Conrad
'Engel, and Miss Catinka Geiscler, of
Sullivan county, N. Y., is announced.
It is customary with the Germans,
when an engagement is announced, for
the prospective groom to give a party,
or fete, and the ring is placed on the to'-'
be-bride’s finger in the presence of the
multitude, and a sort of ante-wedding
feast takes place, so Mr. Rettberg is
now in Sullivan county attending to all
yacht Nellie, beach plumming.
these little necessities.
Third Assistant Secretary of State
“Liney” Tracey, of Brooklyn, N.
of the Superior court at Danbury, Sepa
MrsJFi‘ancis-V Abbott, of BrSSkigifi‘,'lWCcSioiiéi Jam G. "Leé, “thirty-four
.cess.
, judgment was suspended in the case
,meantime to have another and decrepit
without further expense to the society.
Bright’s disease, and died yesterday at .7
and
'=at the ‘2 ol
Norwalk, Com, Thursday Evening, September 10, 1891.
R sad the “ Found ” cOlumn to-day.
The Northern lights'were very bril-
lant last night, especially between 11
and 12 o’clock. -
Read, the call for a special borough
meeting in another column.
In the absence of John Wade, Bar-.
ney Feeney is doing'reportorial work.
on the :Hour,‘ -’ _. ,_ '
James J. Scofield and wife,of Belden
avenue, have gone_to Bergen POint to
end up their vacation season.
—Broken Stone for Walks, Drives,
Concrete. etc, P. W. BATEs, .
181-5t . . 42Waterrstreet.‘
The New Haven Yacht Club will ive
their 10th annual regatta on Thurs ay,
Sept. 17. A large number of yachts
have entered for the race.
Judge Cooley, chairman of the in-
ter-state commerce commission, has
tendered his resignation on account of
ill health. '
The G. A.R. veterans and old, Con-
federate soldiers marched side by side
in the Confederate re-union at Owens-
burg. Ky., yesterday.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has donated
propertyvalued at $100,000 to the bene-
fit of the Society for the Relief of Or-
phans and Destitute Children in Albany.
Mayor Frank F. Clark, of Cranberry
Plains, and Mayor \Vm. L. James, of
Broad River, met On neutral ground
in the Borough this -morning,to discuss
the issues of the coming tar walk cam-
paign.
Miss Bertha. White and Mr. Homer
Buttery will be married at the Broad
River chapel this evening, at 6 o'clock.
After a short wedding trip, the happy
couple will return and oc'cupy a house
on Academy street. '
Mrs. Jonathan Camp, who has been
seriously ill all'summer, is now conva-
lescent, and will begin teaching at the
Over-River school October 1. During
her absence Miss Benedict is acting as
substitute for her.
By her great transatlantic dash the
steamer City of New York succeeded
on Tuesday in getting the mails which
left Japan on August 29 to QueenstO'wn,
within twenty days. This is the great-
est “long distance” triumph of steam
yet recorded.
years old, and an officer in the United
States army, was found dead in his
room, in the Hoffman house, New
York, at noon yesterday. He’ was in
excellent spirits when/he retired. The
coroner found that Lee had’died of
cerebral apoplexy.
Manager Adams has secured the ce-
lebrated Milton Aborn, and the Gaiety
Opera Company of 35 artists, for the
week of September 21. During the
week The Mascot, Chimes of Norman-v
dy, :H. ,',M. S. Pinafore, Olivette, the
Bohemian Girl and Three Black Cloaks;
will be presented. . ' - 7.
The Merchants Retail Commercial '1
association held a meeting at theivgro- g
cery store of George’ W.Raymond,- lasti
evening, but no business was transact-
ed, and the meeting adjourned sub-:
ject to the call of the president; —’It is
more than: probable that a state organi-‘ ,
zation of this association will soon be'
formed; ‘ '
. We regret to learn that Parson ,Rob- :
bins Was {50' indignant because he was:
not-invited to join the Labor Day Pa-
rade as a man of iron, that he went and
got Judge Perry, Bo'ss 'Turney‘and
other lesser spirits, up on top of the
Baptist church roof, and had a sort of
shingling bee, as it were, all the time
the procession was paintin town, city
and’bOrough, the brightes vermilion.
The following butchers visited the
barbecue at Danbury, yesterday, and
report having been royally entertained:
Eben Husted, Lew Lockwood, Jacob
Schaub, J. 'E. Wi'xon, Royal W. Ad-
ams, John Lockwood, Al. Adams, Dana
Bissell and B. D, Lewis, all wearing
white helmets. Bomas . and Biltz were“-
the barbeCuins, and the feast was asuc-
After the barbecue the visitors
were driven about town, and later
5110“? the workings of the fire depart-
men . , > .
Attorney Hurlbutt appeared before
Justice Coolidge, yesterday, as prose-
outing attorney for the- Conn. Humane
Society vs. Daniel and Thomas Sco- .
field, of Middle Five Mile River, two
youths charged with inhumanly driv- -
ing and beating an Old and worn out .
horse. Thomas was acquitted, and
of aniel for two months, he agreeing
and disabled horse humanely killed,
Oflicer Morehouse had been over and
shot the first poor old animal they 'had
tortured, until it could not rise from
where it fell.
John Benedict, who now lives at 21
River street, tells us of his vivid re-
membrance of the terrible September
gale that swept over the country just 70
years ago. He had been to “ training”
at New Canaan, the first Monday of
September, 1821, and on his way" home ,
that afternoon was overtaken by e:
the devastating ,
rain. He passed the night
(1 . Deacon Seth Hick-
"ock house, and on going home in the
morning his path through the woods
was strewn with broken limbs and trees,
and all the valley up to Grupe’s was .
flooded. The swollen stream carried
away all the bridges and dams between
iGrupe’s and Norwalk Brid e, .and the
disasters on'the water were eart-rend-V
'ing. He was then nine years old, but
says he willnever forget the terrors of ,1
that night. , _
_ casket.
hurricane of wind T
An Undertaker’s Ex‘p’er‘l'enc’e.
The experiences of'undertak'ers are as
varied as the funerals they attend.
Sometimes they are of a decidedly pro-
vocative nature, at others of a humor-
ous. ,But the successful undertaker is
he who soothes and pleases, letting
naught rufile his temper or naught
cause him to smile. .But he is at times
terriblytried. 'As ”for: instance, at a
death in South Norwalk, not many
weeks since, the undertaker wail-called;
upon to drape the corpse ready for the.
Being warm, he took ofi‘ his
coat, threwit on a chair and proceeded
to business. The habiliments in which
the" corpse was'to be . laid-out in,71ay on
a chair near by. To\ better facilitate
the putting on of the shirt, he passed it
to an assistant to cut up the back, also
the vest and coat to be served likewise.
The undertaker placed the vest and
shirt on the man, and started to do the
same with the coat, which had been cut
up the back, when he observed that.
there were G. A. R. insignia On it.
While having known the deceased in life
he did not suppose that he was a Grand
Army man, and asked “Was Mr. ———
a soldier?” “Oh, no! ” said the assist-
ant. This led to an investigation,
when it was found that it was the un-_
dertaker’s coat that had been slit up
the back. The undertaker was mad,
but those about him would never have
thought it, as he said "Never mind,
that’s only a mistake, but I guess I’ll
do all furthur cutting,pass me the other
coat please.” This in answer to the
correspondent who asks : “What was
that undertaker driving up town with
so many pins in the back of his coat for
the other day. ”
Watch Thelr Return.
At a early hour this morning, a head.
wearing a white helmet, was cautiously
poked out of the rear entrance of a
house on Water street, and as quickly
withdrawn, but not before aDAILY GA-
ZETTE reporter had caught on to the
fairy form of Burgess Bows, and had
secreted himself to learn what was go:
ing on. Seeing the ' coast clear Isaac
quickly emerged from his hiding place
carrying upon his sliOulder a keg of the
‘.‘Orienta1’s” best-German disturbance,
and made for the dock. Depositing his
burden upon the dock, he removed his
helmet and wiped his forehead, which
extends to the back of his neck, and sat
himselfldown to wait. In a few minutes
the reporter heard singing, and glan-
cing up towards Water street, he was
astonished to see Ed. Sloan and Charley
Glover with a hymn book in their
hand, singing songs of encouragement
as they journeyed towards the roadway ,
leading down to the dock, where Isaac:
was patiently waiting. As soon as they I_
a arrived; .Isaac lifted his oil skin, which ;
had been carbfully placed over‘the am- :
ber fluid,to hide it from curious'eyes, .
and-exposed it to the view of‘his p'art- ‘
n'ers. A ringing cheer went up from the
two musical fishermen, and eachgrasp-
ed the other by the hand andregistered 3
a vow that if there were any fish in the _
‘ harbor, they would havethem, Before
proceeding to lower the bait keg, veach
took from the leg of his trousers ajoint
fish rod, while Isaac removed three
sandwiches-from'his helmet and threw
them into the boatswith the remark,
"While'the bait holds out, we’ll fish it
out.” Gathering (around the little
woo’den barrel that contained their
precious bait, our three friends, with
the assistance of a plank, lowered it in-
to the boat and with their fishing rods
quickly followed. The last the report-
er saw of the trio they were rounding
the bend below the freight house, Isaac
pulling .a regular Hanlon stroke, with
his helmet perched on the back ' of his
head, .whileEd. and Charley had" out
their hymn book and were making the
hills resound with their melodious
voices. What they will bring back with
them to-night, excepting fish stories,
we cannot say, but a large0 delegation
with Dw'yer’s band at the head, should
meet them at the wharf on their ar-
rival.
Thrown From Hls Wagon.
Yesterday morning, asMr. Michael
O’Brien,- the contractor,who has charge .
I of the laying of the water pipes on
Stewart, avenue was rounding the cor-
ner of the turnpike and‘Stewart ave-
nue with his wagon, he ran over a
large stone lying in the road. His
wagon - seat happened to be out of
place and loose, and the jar and joun-
cing Of the wagon caused it to pitch
forward, throwing Mr. {O’Brien to the
ground. As he went out of the wagon
he carried part of the dashboard with
him. He landed on his face in the
gutter, and sustained quite painful
injuries to his face and foot, although
he is around and at work as usual, to-
day. It was a lucky escape for him,
for had he been a foot nearer the gut-
ter when he fell, he would have landed
on a pile of jagged rocks, and in all
probability killed, as he is quite a
heavy man. After Mr. O’Brien fell,
' the horse turned the corner, and started
to run up Stewart avenue, but was
stopped by letter-carrier Nickerson be-
fore he had done "any. further damage.
Seeking a Stolen Horse.
The New Haven police have sent out
postal cards to all .the'large towns in
the state stating the theft of a valuable
bay horse: five years old, fourteen
hands high and having a white spot on
his forehead, which was stolen from
Edward. Condon’s barn at Five Mile
Brook, in North Haven Tuesday night.
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Seventh Regiment Reunlon.
The twenty-second annual reunion of
:theLSeventh Re iment association will
beheld at New ritain September 23.
The Grand Army hall on Main street
Willbe open all day for the accommo-
dation of the association. and the busi-
ness meeting will be held there at 11
o’clock a. m. It is hoped that Gener-
als Porter, ‘Badeau and others will be
present as guests of the association.
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J. Sloat Fassett Nominated.
In the New York republican “conven-
tion at Rochester, yesterday, J. Sloat
Fassett, of Elmira, was nominated for
Governor; John Vrooman, of Herki—
mer, for Lieutenant-Governor; Eugene
O’Connor, of Brookl n, for Secretary
of State; Arthur C. ade, of James-
town, for Comptroller; I. M. Hedges,
of Rockland county for State Treas-
urer; William E. Sutherland, of Mon-
roe, for Attorney-General ; Verplanck
Colvin, of Albany, for State Engineer.
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Opera House.
Says the New York Morning J our-
nal : At the Windsor Theatre last night
a large audience applauded the excel-
lent company which presented “ True
Irish Hearts.” It is a picturesque Irish
melo-drama, filled with sparkling Irish
wit, interspersed with songs and dances
and charmingly set with several very
pretty scene. Dan McCarthy, as Lan-
tyLanagan, is a clever young actor,
while Danny McCarthy, as Little Bright
Eyes, won constant applause.
True Irish Hearts will appear at the
Norwalk Opera House Thursday even-
ing, September 17.‘
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The White Squadron.
The white squadron arrived in Bridge-
port harbor yesterday noon. The squad-
ron consists of six gunboats and three
torpedo boats, and anchored yesterday
afternoon about three miles to the west-
ward of the Bridgeport lighthouse.
The squadron will remain at Bridge-
portuntil to-morrow morning. The gen-
eral public are invited to visit the war
vessels from 10.30 to 5 o’clock to-day,
and will be allowed on board. To-ni ht
at 9 o’clock the" electric search-Jig ts
will be displayed. _ At 1.30 p. m. Admi-
ral Walker and all the officers will come
ashore at Rosedale wharf and be taken
in carriages by the entertainment com-
mittee to the Geor e hotel, where a
shore‘dinner will be old.
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Collision at Danbury.
Two trains collided head on a few
yards below the New York and New
England station in Danbury yesterday
afternoon, derailing the engines of
both trains and wrecking several cars.
Passenger train No. 1 from Hartford,
'dueat 3.15, registered green signals,
signifying a train followmg. Conduc
tor Perry, Of the east-bound through
freight No. 70, failed to see the regis-
tered signals, and ran to the lower end
of Ithe yard, where his train collided
with -.a west-bound work train which
was following the. passenger train.
A;wrecking-tra1n was summoned and .
the tracks were cleared before midnight.
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She Never Wore Corsets.
. Mrs. Sarah Van Nostrand,’ who is
now entering upon her one hundred
and fourth year, and~ is 'still hale and
hearty, attributes her lon evity and
good physical Cbndition to t e fact that
she never wore acorset.
The hale'old lady celebrated the an-
niversary of her one hundred and third
birthday the other day, at her home in
East Millstone, Me. She was conced-
ed to be one of the “youngest” in the
party, so lively and sociable was she.
On that occasion she did not hesitate to
make it known that her disobedience
to fashionable decrees, especially that
which ordained the corset, was the
cause of her hale old age. .
' “If our girls would abandon the cor-
set” said she, “they would live longer
and be healthier. I always hated cor-
sets, and would never wear them." '
Mrs. Van Nostrand was married in
1810, and during her fift -five years of
married life she ave irth to eight
children. The 01 lady says she thinks
she will live to see her one undred and
twenty-fifth year.
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Hop klns Will Fight.
In the Salem. Mass, probate court,
yesterday, the will of Mary N. .
Scarles was offered for probate b Sol—
omon Lincoln and Frederick Do ge of
Boston.
Timothy Hopkins, adopted son of
Mrs. Searles, who was disinherited,
will contest the will. A well-known
gentleman, conversant With the case,
said that Timothy had $1,000,000 when
he was married, and was offered $2,225,-
000 to withdraw from this contest, but
refused to take it. ,
These persons have alsdfiled notices
of contest in the Searles Will case : Geo.
I“. Hibbard, Nathaniel J. Hibbard,
William H. Hibbard, J ane A. Hollin s-
worth, Josephine Dams and Ame 9.
Wheeler of Bridgeport. An appear-
ance has been entered for them by
Frank L. Rogers of Bridgeport.
Rev. John ' Zeilitz, of Stockholm,
Sweden, will deliver a temperance ad-
dress in the hall of the U. G. T. R. A.,
to-night, for the edification of our
Scandinavian citizens. The reverend
gentleman is said to be an able speaker,
and all who are interested in the sub-
'ect, and who understand the Swedish
language, will, no doubt, be present.
9.—
By the explosion of a locomotiveat
Oyster Bay, L 1., yesterday, an en m-
eer, brakeman and fireman were kil ed.
“Equal and Exact Justice to all ' Men of Whatever State- or “Persuasion, Religious or Politico, .1’—Je17'erson
Killed a cow.
Conductor Beeman’s train on its wa
up to_ Danbury this morning, struck
and killed a cow at South Wilton.
White Brandy.
T—For ‘Brandy Peach preserving,
mince pies, etc.
tf 183 BETTs & FABRINCTON’S.
CO.
Brown Gets Seven Years.
Brown, Ludington’s pal in the many
burglaries in Fairfield and this vicinity
has been sentenced to seven years in
the state prison. Ludington received a
sentence 'of eight years.
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Cheese.
~Roquefort, Edam, Brie, Limbur-
ger, Cream, Breet and all other kinds
of rich cheese at
tf 183 BETTs & FARBINGTON’S.
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Base Ball.
The league games resulted yesterday
asfollows : Boston played two games
With Cleveland and won bothf: score 14
to 10 and 10 to 8. The other games
were: New York 9, Cincinnati 3 ; Chi-
cago 4,_Brooklyn 2; Pittsburgh 6, Phil-
adelphia 5. -
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Y. M. G. A. NOTES.
The educational class committee will
hold a meeting this evening at 9
o’clock.
The football club will be organized
next week.
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Soldlers, Remember.
_ —Comrade Fred A. Farley, the Pen-
sion Agent, Will be at the Wooster
House. Danbury, September 8 and 9;
at New England House, New Milford,
September 10; at Savin Rock. Septem-
ber 11, and willarrive at City Hotel,
South Nerwalk. about 5 p. m. the 11th
and remain until Septembergl4th. Com-
rades call and see me. I can benefit
most of you. ‘
Sheepshead Bay Races.
The races at this track yesterday re-
sulted as follows:
First race—Bermuda 1, Tommy 2,
Worth 3; time 1:41 2-5. Second~—I‘om
Hurding 1, Azra 2. Gleanor 3; time
1:12 '2-4. Third—Promenade 1, Re-
fraction 2, Cokena3 ; time 1:11. Fourth
—Busteed 1, LadyPulsifier 2,Sequence
3; time 1:30 5-8. Fifth—Carroll 1,
Now-or-Never 2, Vergie 3; time 1:54.
Sixth—Willie L. 1, Pagan 2, Void 3;
time 1:46. ‘
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Bicycle Tournament.
The Hartford bicycle tournament
closed yesterday. The one-mile safety
2.40 class, G. M. Worden Of the ~Man-
hattan Athletic club, won in 2.37 4-5.
The last quarter was made by Worden
in 29 4-5, equaling Zimmerman’s time
yesterday when he broke the record.
The two-mile safety race was hotly con-
tested by Berlo and Windle at the .fin-
ish. It was declared a dead heat. The
quarter-mile ordinary was won by
Zimmerman, time, 33 3-5. The one-
mile tandem safety for the world’s rec-
ord for the mile in competition was
iHlOken by Banker and Brinker of Buf-
a o.
A.‘ B. Rich ot the New York Athletic
club, made a new American record for
a two-mile race, safety bie cle. He was
scratch man in the ham icap and his
time was 5.11 1-5, lowering the previ-
ous record about twelve seconds. H.
A. Githens, of Chicago, won the two-
mile ordinary in 5.46 4-5. The one-
mile safety race was won by Zimmer-
man in 2.34 3-5.
The one-mile team race, Open only to
Connecticut clubs, was won by' the
Hartford club with eighteen points.
The Columbia Cycle club of Hartford
was second with fourteen points, and
the New Haven Bicycle club third with
thirteen points. he winner of the
race was H. B.Hewitt, of New Haven,
in 3.08. L A mile safet consolation race
was won by J. W. Sc oefer of the Man-
hattan Athletic club in 2.54 ‘4-5.‘ In the
last quarter Sehoefer equaled the
world’s record of 29 4-5, made by Zim-
merman yesterday. The last race of
the afternoon was the second trial of
the two-mile safety,which was declared
no race at the first trial, because the
time limit was not reached. The first
trial was a dead heat between Berlo
and Windle. The second trial of the
race resulted in Berlo’s winning, but
he was disqualified by fouling on the
home-stretch. The race then went to
the nextin order, Hoyland Smith, in
3.25 ' 1-5. This closed the tournament.
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out His Throat ,fro'm_ Ear to Ear.
, NEWARK, N. J ., Sept. 10.4Henry A. Witte
committed suicide by cutting his throat
from ear to ear. He had just attempted to
clean out a saloon, breaking the glasses
and furniture in the place and chasing the
proprietor with a knife and a. razor. A
policeman was summoned, but Witte ran
a short distance and then cut his throat.
‘ Powell Can Be ConsuL
CAMDEN, N. J.,. Sept. 10.——William .F.
Powell, principal of the sixth public
school district, has been offered the San
Domingo consulship, made vacant by the
appointment of John S. Durham to the
Haytian post. He has not yet decided
whether he will accept or not.
President Fitzgerald Dying.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10.—A private telegram
received here from Lincoln, Neb., states
that John Fitzgerald, president of the
Irish National league, is very ill, and that
no hopes of his recovery are entertained.
I Laner Hanged Himself in 1115 Cell.
HARTFORD, Sept. 10.—-Louis Lauer, the
German charged with the murder of the
Bushenhagen couple at Bloomfield, com-
mitted suicide by hanging himself in his
cell. '
Killed by a. Train.
RIVERHEAD, L. 1., Sept. 10.— Warren
Lane, section master of the Long Island
railroad, while riding on the track with
his “railroad tryeicle,” was struck by a
train and instantly killed.
. three real contestants.
Price One Cent.
A FIGHT as MILLIONS. ,
The Coming Contest to Break Mrs. -
Hopkins-Searies’ Will.
SPIRITUALISM ENTERS IN}
The Dead Woman Was a Devout 12c-
llever in the DIystic Theory—A Queer
Story of How Timothy Hopkins
Got the Menlo Park‘ Castle.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.——In spite of the pre-
cautions of J. Russell Wilson and J udgt .
J ohn‘ H. Boult, the California lawyers, the
plan of campaign of Timothy Hopkins in
his coming struggle for Mark Hopkins-
thirty or more, millions left by the widow
to her second husband, Edward F. Searles,
is beginning to unfold. The son of hum-
ble Pat Nolan, the gardener, who was
adopted by Mark Hopkins’ widow and
then disinherited by her after her second
marriage, will set up that his benefactres:
was of unsound mind.
In support of this he will allege that the
old lady embraced spiritualism in her do
cliningyears and that Edward F. Scarles, _
at the time employed by her as an archi-
tect and decorator, played upon her weak-
ness and thus gained over her mind a
supremacy which rendered. her inc'omv
potent to make a will. .
The story is that after the death Ol
Mark Hopkins the widow lived in the Nol; ,
Hill mansion, San Francisco, with twc
sons of her family physician, Dr. Crook, -
for her only companions. To these young-
sters she talked a great deal about the fu
ture life, wondering eagerly if there was
any communicatiOn between mortals and
departed spirits. She was inclined to be-
lieve that there was, and expressed a. do
sire to fathom the mystery.
She Was a Devout Spiritualist.
The eldest of the youths, anxious to
serve Mrs. Hopkins, became an “investi-
gator” of spiritualism, and was soon well
versed. Then Mrs. Hopkins invited a
medium to her home, and he became a
part of the household and the widow soon
a. devot Spiritualist, and her elegant draw-
ing room a sanctuary where there were
“circles” nightly.
About this time Edward F. Searles was
called much into her company, as he was
superintending the erection of the first 01
her famous castles. He was quick to join
the mystic circle, and proclaimed himself
not only a believer but an apostle of spirit-
ualism and a medium. .
In connection with this, young Crook
relates that when the widow first thought
of giving the $100,000 Menlo Park resi-
dence to her adopted son she consulted the
spirits. Crook Was the medium, and
Searles sat across the seance table from
him. Crook says he realized instantly
that Searles was opposed to this gift tc
Tim Hopkins, for he did not desire that
the adopted son should grow any closer to
his foster mother. , ' >-
How Timothy Got His Castle.
It was a. test of muscle between young «
Crook and the house painter, but Crook
proved the stronger. The table careened
on its legs, which was interpreted, accord.
l ing to the best spiritualistic lexicon,'as
meaning that the spirit of Dr. Crook, to
whom the question had been _ put, had re-
plied in the aflirmative. And so Timothy
Hopkins got the Menlo Park castle, f0]
Beatles would not presume to oppose the
Wisdom of the spirits. From that time,
young Crook says, Searles exerted himsell
to control Mrs. Hopkins, and he succeeded
in deposing the young man from the
mediumship and lousting him from‘ the
Nob Hill mansion. , -__ ;.
'About a. year after the entrance,_,ol
Beatles into the mystic circle he married
the widow. - - .
Timothy Hopkins, who married “Mrs
Hopkins-Searles.’ favorite niece long be-
fore SCarles came upon the scene, is now a
guest of ex-Secretary Endicott, at Salem,
and the fight Will open all'along" the Iim
on Sept. 27. Ex-Secretary Endicott has
also been taken in as counsel to Hopkins
and the nieces, but Joseph H. Choate, ol
this city, will conduct the proceedings,
and the contest will have to go on in the
probate courts of any state in which any
of the disputed preperty is located.
May Reach Ninety Million Dollars;
Register of Deeds’ Mahoney, of Salem,
says that the properties enumerated in the
will of Mrs. Hopkins-Searles would'i'n:
ventory at not less than $75,000,000, and
might aggregate $90,000,000. This state
ment is made on the word of Edward F;
Searles himself. .
Timothy Hopkins received $1,000,000
from his mother-by-adoption when he
married her niece, and it is said that he
was offered $2,225,000 to Withdraw from
the will contest. . . '
Elbridge T. Burley, the Salem lawyei
who acts as Mr. Hopkins’ local attorney,
says: "It is all nonsense to talk about
twenty different heirs. There are only
They are Timothy
Hopkins, the adopted son, and two nieces
of Mrs. Hopkins-Searles.
kins after herself.
“Even if Mr. Hopkins had no standing at
all, he could contest the will in the name
of his wife. The contest will be on the
’ ground of unsound mind and undue influ-'
ence.” .
This statement makes the spiritualism
4 story of particular point, especially as 13110.
courts of New York and some other states
have set their mark of disapproval upon
. spirit influences, stamping them as frauds
Three Mortally Wounded.
PEMBROKE, Ga, Sept, 10,—Three young
Two
of them were sons of J. B. Brown, ex—org
men‘were mortally wounded here.
dinary of Bryan county, and'the third was
P. H. Patrick. - One of‘the Browns and.
Patrick came to blows over a settlement.
The other Brown tried to separate them
when Patrick, mistaking his motive, drew
,a pistol- and. shot him. . Then all three.
When?
_ drew pistols and 'began to shoot
their pistols were emptied all three lay on
the ground with fatal Wounds.
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Mr. Hopkins,
' married one of these, and their ‘ little
g daughter was named by the Widow Hop-~
il-Lulw “
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