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OUR JOBBIL 0 DEPARTMENT.
tin HARRY M. GARDNER. JR. 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.
The Sentlnel Unduly Excited.
Some one “put up a job” on the es-
teemed Sentinel, yesterday, telling it
an “awful Whopper” anent what it
graciously as well as truly calls the
Bright Little DAILY GAZETTE.” With-
out taking the trouble to learn that its
accusation against us was an unmiti-
gated- lie, as it easily could have done
by calling up Mr. Malone, whom it
quotes, the esteemed Sentinel goes off
in one of its accustomed fits of insane
rage and jealousy and proceeds to un-
fold again’j several sections Of its long
ears, tread on their trailing tips and to
lash its own back with their superfluous
cartilages. To give emphasis to its
“hailing cry of distress,” it double
leads its “forcible feeble” diatribe,
which is as follows:
UNWARRANTED INTERFERENCE.
The Bright Little DAILr’s weakness
for meddling with matters which do
not concern it, cropped out again last
Saturday, when the junior editor of
that paper attempted to prevent the
Sentinels sent by mail to its up-town
subscribers from being delivered.
Carrying out its mission as :a news-
paper, the Sentinel printed the num-
bers which drew gate prizes at the re-
cent Labor Day picnic, after first 'r-e~
ceiving Postmaster Doty’s assurance
that in so doing, we were not amenable
to the so-called lottery law. When the
sub-editor of the GAZETTE saw that we
had “scooped” them, to speak in news-
paper parlance, he made it his special
business to rush over to the Norwalk
post-office and suggest that the Senti-
nel had violated the law and should
not be allowed to pass through the
mail. Postmaster Hubbell was not in
his office, but his assistant,Mr. Malone,
like a sensible young man, informed
the Gazette man that he had no au-
thority to prevent the delivery of "the
papers, so our subscribers at that end
of the town were not deprived of. the
privilege of reading Saturday evening’s
Sentinel. _
It cannot be that our gift-enterprise
contemporary has forgotten the game
of chance it recently engineered, pub-
lishing from day to day the vote in .ltS
watch contest, and finally the winning
figures; so we must attribute its inter-
ference in this affair to a desire to “get
even” with the united labor organiza-
tions, because their printing did not
find its way into the greedy maw of
' the grouty Gazette.
Were not our esteemed contemporary
so subject to these “spells,” we should
suspect he} had been drinking. Cer-
tainly either its digestion or liver is out
of kilter‘, and we earnestly entreat low
diet and-blue mass pills, till a better
frame of mind is attained.
The “sub editor" nor any other edi-‘-
tor of the GAZETTE,never did any of the,
~ things charged in the above. The Sen-
tinel having raised the question of le-
. gality, we do not hesitate to say that
its publication of the Labor Day prizes
as drawn on previously numbered
tickets, was clearly a violation of the
recently enacted anti-lottery law. Any
lawyer would have told it so, or its own
sense, if it had any, would have made
that plain to it, but that the GAZETTE
attempted or desired to have the half
dozen exchange and dead-head copies
of the Sentinel coming to the Borough
postoflicemot delivered is preposterous.
It is, on the contrary, always a joy to
contrast its lack of news and its pro-
verbial dullness with the GAZETTE’s
bristling array of all important daily
events and that :cheerful “brightness”
conferred even by the esteemed Senti-
nel. “Mr. Malone, like a sensible
young man,” as he is, as well as truth-
ful, has assured the Sentinel’s up-town
representative of the falsity of its
charges, and now will it retract the
falsehood. The “scooped” taunt, is as
baseless as all the rest. The GAZETTE '
had the facts and probably from the ‘
same source the Sentinel did, as there
was no secret about the matter, and we
only refrained from their publication,
because in the shape given, it was ille-
gal to do so, and it strikes us that it is
the esteemed Sentinel that has tum-
bled into its own “scoop” and has given
itself an unnecessary and very uncom-
fortable shaking up, all for nothing.
It is with the last paragraph of the
Sentinel’s “bill of complaint,” that we
would fain‘ reason with our irascible
contemporary. If he cannot discern
the difference, however, between a lot- J
out by tea or baking powder men, or
newspapers, to their customers, it is
to thetest of reasoning, so we waste no
time on the gold watch gib‘e. 'But by
what far-fetched and strained conclu-
sion does the esteemed Sentinel assume
to lug us intothe Labor Day job print-
ing affair ? The GAZETTE has had no
grievance and has made no comments
on that matter, nor has any other pa.-
per in Norwalk, except the Sentinel,
get it. ,
We think the Labor organizations, as
a matter of good policy and good citi-
zenship, made a mistake, when they
went about town and solicited Norwalk
patronage and took our people’s money
for their bulletin and then carried their
work and their money out of town.-
But we do not think they were .under
any obligation to give it to the es:
and we are not afraid to say» so. In
our opinion, they should have given
theirwork to their own Special organ,
the Mechanics’ Journal. If that paper
could not have executed it all in its own
office, it could have had it done as
cheaply as anyone else and have made
a small business profit on it, which
would have helped it andjthe men em~
ployed by it. So the GAZETTE thinks,
as it has so often said, that every lady
who goes to the city to shop for arti-
cles she can get of our own home mer-
chants, makes a mistake, as does every
man who buys goods of any description
abroad, that can be procured at home.
This principle should hold good of hats—
and iron, and whatsoever is made here
by our home wage earners and sold by
home dealers. The past records of the
GAZETTE and Sentinel, on the labor
issues of our town, are too well known
and remembered, to require iteration.
If the Sentinel sees fit now to crawl O 11
its abdomen in that direction, that
thrift may follow fawning, it is at lib-
erty to do so, but it must “go it alone.”
The GAZETTE is not “greedy” enough
to wish to accompany it. But why, oh
why, gentle and lovable neighbor can’t
you mount up to the top, where to ere
is no crowding and where the condi-
tions are serene and} joyous, and not
stay constantly whimpering and whin-
ing down below and at the foot. The
“bright little DAILY” again extends you,
its uplifting right hand of fellowship.
Cheer up and subdue your sobs, di s-
gruntled one.
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TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.
. Mrs..Edward Kellogg, of New York,
is Visiting Mrs.‘Isaac Bowe.
Cashier Curtis and family returned
from Washington, Conn., yesterday.
Carpenter Wilson is putting the roof-
ing beams on the Club-Hones to-day.
A cross-walk is now being laid across
from Grace church to the Bishop plaCe.
Builder Wilson now swings the “old
Oaken Bucket” in his newly dug well.
Mrs. .Henry Morehouse, of Five Mile
River, is Visiting friends in East Bridge-
port. ‘ " -
E'. J. Hill goes to Hartford to-day, to
attend a meeting of the Connecticut _
'Sons of the Revolution.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ward Selleck.
have returned from their Saratoga and;
Lake George trip.
Governor Bulkeley and his stafi‘, in
full uniform, will attend the state fair
at Meriden to-morrow.
Miss Helen Sanford, neice. of Mrs.
George R. Cowles, goes to New Haven
to—morrow for a short visit.
LaWyer Richard C. Ambler expired
suddenly at his home in Nichols about
9 o’clock Saturday evening.
Thomas B. Hopper and George L.
Lockwood took the first degree in Our
Brothers’ Lodge, last evening.
Mr. Asa Smith, who has been a, su-
perintendent at ' Glen Island the past
summer, is home'for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. J abez Wheater, Of Bel-
den avenue, left for New _York' this
morning, where they Will visit friends.
Mr. Geo. W. Selleck, of Merwin
street, continues ill of his recent severe
cold, his symptoms taking on a slow
typhoid character- , . . .
Mrs. Howell Hoppock, of New YOrk,
who has been the guest of Mrs. ' Mary
Stone, On Camp street, has returned to
her home in the city. _. ‘
‘ There was a full meeting of young.
ladies at the St. Paul parish rooms yes-
terday, and a societ formed and called
“Daughters of the ing.”
There will be a ladies meeting at St..
Paul's parish rooms to-morrow at 3.30
to continue the work of making the
vestments for boy choir.
The value of all farm products in the
states Of Minnesota, North and South
Dakota for this year amounts to $225,
000,000. The wheat crop alone amounts
useless to try to invite ,such- stupidity .
betrayed irritation because it did not“
teemed Sentinel, or to the GZAETTE,‘
Norwalk, Conn"
greenhouse at Ledgewood Farm.
Another Farmers’ Alliance circular
has beenlissued calling upon the farm-
ers to hold their wheat for higher prices.
dict. ' .
Jeweler John S. Spencer land wife
sail from Southampton, next Week Sat-
urday, on the steamer Tuerst Bismark,
for home. - ' > - '
The annual banquet of the Fairfield
County Bar will be held at the Georgie
hotel next Saturday. An enjoyab 0
time is looked for.
ess” Latest Book. For Sale by Bene-
181 tf
St. Mary’s T. 'A. B. Society voted at
their meeting last evening, to hold a
sociable in the Opera House, Friday?
evening, Oct. 2nd. -
Secretar Blaine and family will
probably lcave Bar Harbor on Sep-
tember 19 for Augusta, where they ex-‘
pect to remain about a month.
A grand free-for-all, oo-as-you-please,
catch-as-catch-can fight occurred in a
lower Water street saloon this morn-
ing, but no arrests were made.
0. E. Wilson has sold five lots on the
Connecticut turnpike 'ust south of the
Armory, to A. B. Mal in, who expects
at, once to erect cottages thereon.
Mrs. F. K. Madden, of New York,
who has been making a three weeks’
visit with her brother Mr. Lewis Kalt,
On Main street, returns home to-mor-
row.
The Whatsoever Local Workers, K.
D. of F. B. church, would like‘ to see
‘all their frigids at ,A. J. Downe’s, 7
Mott avenue, at their “Golden Web”
social to-night. ‘ ‘
The Hon. George B. Loring, ex-min-
sioner of agriculture, died suddenly
at Salem, Mass, yesterday morninggof
heart trouble, aged 74. - ‘ la
Geo. E. Miller, Esq, is putting :1 oil--
pola on his coach house. He has spent
most of his life putting mortgages on
peeple’s houses and this must be a re“
freshing change to him. , -
John F. Kilboy and John Hogan left
this morning for a two days’ trip _ to
Middletown, Hartford and Meriden.
While in Meriden they will take in the
state fair, which opens to—day.
There is a movement on foot tore-
organize the old Canton, Norwalk»,:1?a—
triarchs Militant. A meeting to t at
effect will beheld in the rooms of Our
Brothers’ Lodge, Thursday evening.
Five thousand Democrats reached
Saratoga yesterday to attend the De-
mocratic State Convention; the Demo-
cratic State Committee voted, 24 to 10,
to give Tammany Hall all the seats in
the convention from New York city.
At the regular weekly meeting in the
Congregational chapel to-morrow even—
ing, it is expected that there will be'in-
teresting papers read by several ladies,
upon “Habitual Prayerfulness” . the
theme for the hour. All will be wel- .
come. .
Engineer Wood, Burgess Burrand
Justus F. Hoyt, went to Danbury: yes-H
terday to survey a portionnof Elmf
were appointed a commission to decide
the matter.
. .It looks as though Bridgeport was to
become the prey of harlots and rum-
‘sellers, but’it is probable that ,it will be i
only for a short time. The decent peo-
ple Of all partieswill arise at the next
election and teach the rim stersa lesson .
the); will never forget.— Ansonia Sen-
tine .
Miss Alice Mabel, .dau hter of Pre.
siding Elder Charles S. ing, and Mr.
A. Cornell Hafi', will be married in
Stamford this evening. Hon. . .'
Hill’s family, D. Warren Fitch and
family, Rev. George Van Alstyne and
wife and Miss Mary Selleck, will drive
over and attend the wedding. ’
Charley St. Claire, a New York lad,
who is a pupil at Whitlock’s school, in
Wilton, ran aWay from that‘place three
weeks ago,‘as hesays,becaufse he was ill-
treated and did not get enough to eat.
The police have been on the; lookout
for him, and this morning Officer Ad-
ams found him on Water street. The
principal of the school was notified and
came dOwn this noon for him.
Some practicaljoker turned off the
electric light in the Chinese laundry at
No. 51 Main street, last' night, and the
Chinaman thinking that . another acci-
dent had occurred at the electric light
station, lighted his lamps and waited
for the electricity to be turned _on.
customer finally suggested turning the
I shut-off ’On, which the, proprietor did,
eOnee damee f-lesh.” ..
remarking asthe light appeared : ‘ ,‘Som-
At the meeting of the Fire Depart.»
ment, held in the rooms of Pioneer
Hook and Ladder Company last. even-
ing it was voted to accept the mutation
of JVolunteer Hose Company of East
'Norwalk, and attend their fair, Thurs-
day evening in a body. . The members
of thedifi‘erent companies Will meet‘at
the truck house at-7. 30 p. m. and, pre-
ceded by a dr'fim corps, .w111 march to
East Norwalk.‘
.——o——.———-v——ooo ——— -———-—-—- --
\ White Brandy.
—For Brandy, Peach preserving,
mince pies, etc .
tcry ticket and a gift or prize, given
tof140,000, 000 bushels. :;
tf 183 BETTs & FARRIEGT'ON’s.
Miss F. M. Peaslee is building a new i
- -—“A Little Irish our”; the “Duct-"
ister to Portugal, and former commis- .
street. There was some. bitch in regard f
to paying for the work done in that '
street, and the above named gentlemen .
“Equal and Exact Justice to. all ' Men 0/ Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or
Tuesday! Evening, Septéniber 15, 1891.
Borough Meeting To-hlght.
‘ Don’t forget to attend the borough ,
." meeting to-nightat the 'Town House,
as. matters of grave public interest are
, to be considered. - »
' The mother and children of the Ger-
, manfam-ily, on Union Place, which has
3 been so larlglely and generously aided
- lay Grace 0 , urch were hfelpe‘d ~tO_North
: _aroli_ii last week, where the invalid
; husban‘,‘ has found work he can do and
-, where he thinks he can pass the winter
3 in reasonable hope of ligvmg. He was,
3 anxious-to have his a‘ Hg with him
and they- were; squall - canons of
joining hini,“and so the; ”cod people of
Grace Oh'lll'OhfSSBiSlm-‘(Et em off.
The 'PittSburgDispatch says Of Ed.
.Wnl‘d Bax-ter Perry: " e is not only at
the front of-his’p’rofess' n in- this coun-
try', but. a writer of- , nsiderable re-
pute, and hisrec'itals were interspersed
with talks- which charmed all who
heard him. His hearers must have been
tempted to wish the Bord would put
out the eyes of all the pianists.” At
the concert in the :Congregational
church, Friday evenin {the 25th inst.,
Mr. Perry will render: e of his finest
selections. ‘ ~ ' ' -
Chester Ball, 9. y, ung man from
South Norwalk, whu‘i quite an adept-
at snake charming, entertained a se-
lect audience “in ffio‘nt ”of, “Hen”
Hoyt’s, on Water’street, ~esterday af-
ternoon. Ball had a blac snake about
a foot and a half leng, far-hick he caught
near Partrick’s cider alarm which he
seemed to have complete control of,
picking it up, tying it "nto all sorts of
knots and finall put ,. ng it inside of
his shirt and wa kin . off. ’ Whether the
cider mill and Hoyt 5 had any connec-
tion with the snake is not known.
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That Mrs. Jones’ Money.
It transpires that the $1,300 depo sited
in the‘Southport Savings Bank to the
credit Of Mrs. J ones; ' was. put there by
her son Charley on his discharge from
the navy, it being'his prize money.
The $200 found among the old lady’s
efl‘ects here was no doubt from the in-
terest-of this deposit, which she was
anthor’iZed to .draw' and use. Our
'selectmen have relinquished ,all claim
to the-bank deposit, and her son gives
back: to the towu the $200. A set of
old family relic silver teaspoons were
also found, and these her son greatly
prizes. He, with his wife, will return
to their home in Vermont as soon as
Judge Austin can settle up the ordered
administration. .
I
A Close Shave.
A woman, whose name we did not
learn, had a narrow escape from being
run over by the cars this morning. The
New York train was backing up to con-
nect with the through car from Dan-
bury, as the woman stepped from the
platform to cross the tracks ahead of it.
'ger and in her excitement she stumbled
and fell. Mr. Froeb saw the woman’s
danger, and pulled her from in front of
the car, which was then within three
feet of her. 'But for Mr. Froeb’s time;
1y act, the woman would undoubtedly ,
have been mangled under the car wheels",
7 The'Body ldentlfled.
The body of John Salter, of Roway.
ton, who was drowned by being knock-
ed from an oyster boat at Bridgeport,
two weeks ago last Saturday, which was
picked up at Port Jefferson, as stated
in yesterday’s‘DAILr GAZETTE, was bu-
ried by the authorities and apiece of his
clothing and-shoes preserved for iden-
tification. Hearing that - a body .had'
been found,ia party wentto Port” . J 'ef-f
fe‘rsonan'd'identified the body as that
Rowayton, at which place the funeral
was held to-day. _
Ex—Sherlff Swat-t2 Buys a Blcycle.
Ex—Sherifi' Swartz, always bound to
keep upw1th the'processmn, came up
here yesterday and purchased a Colum-,
bia safety bicycle of the Jackson’s.
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, " G. A. R.
. A full meeting'of the members of
Buckingham Post, G. A. R. , is called
for to-‘morrOw evening to consider mat- '
ters of importance to the Post.
+
‘ AtterrlptedSulolde. .
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. , Sept. 16. —Layo
man Parmlee, a -res1dent of this . place,
cuthis throat with a razor in his barn
at one O’clock this morning. He was
A ..,discovered by his wife and removed ton
the Hartford hospital. ‘
that he will die.
M44.._._———,
It is expected
' ‘Gas- 00.. V8; Borough.
_ The somewhat noted case of the Nor-
. walk Gas 500. against the .borough is to
come on" this afternoon. at Danbur .
Senator John S. Seymour and -J. '.
Hurlbutt for Gas Co, and Warner for-
borough. The claim is for damage to
gas pipes in sewer blasting.
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‘ ~ Hospital. Meetlng.
. There will bearpublic meeting held
at the Armory on Wednesday evening,
the 30th 'of September. promotive of
the Norwalk Hospital project. A pro-
gramme covering speaking, music, etc.,
will be arranged, in order that the oc-
, caéionmay be entertaininguas, well as
.. hi
‘V practically useful.a :; 1.3::
i the backing of the dam w
of Mr.‘ Salter;'--:and‘~it~was brought . to _ '-
OUR BOROUGH WATER.
“—
An Expert's Vlews.
We are indebted to Engineer Van
.Buren for the following common sense
views anent the Borough’s situation as
to its water supply, which he kindly
sends the DAILY GAZETTE. in compli-
ance with a request therefor:
BROOKLYN, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1891.
ME. A. H. BYINGTON,
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 10th
inst, asking for m views on Norwalk’s
water supply, I su mit the following:
A safe water supply here must be based
upon the minimum supply for the
streams, together with the available
storage. The recent drought has shown
that Norwalk has not a safe supply, and
that we must increase the supply of wa-
ter or reduce .the consumption. I as—
sume thatNorwalk is destined to go on in-
creasing in population and in wealth,and
experience teaches us that as towns and
cities grow in population the consump-
tion per capita increases. _It is true
that our present consumption ls too
great, and I admit that the waste of
water should be curtailed; but after all
it is in some respects better to encour-
age the use of water than to oppose it
by too severe methods, such as meter-
ing every service, etc. Careful house
inspection, fines for wilful waste, extra
charges for special uses,etc. are proper,
but even with this done we must re-
member that the yearly increase of the
consumption is quite a large one, and
therefore we can hardly expect to re-
duce the consumption next 'year and
the year after below what it now is.
The conclusion then is that we need a
greater supply. The failure of a pub-
lic water suppl is a calamity, and no
to .vn can afi'or to be in doubt as to
this teat question. Even if the leak-
ing am be repaired and made tight,
we cannot meet the demands of the
near future in a drought like the one
"we have just passed through. Impor-
tant public works,1ike§our water supply,
should always be ahead of the growth
of the town, and, therefore, we should
nowbe preparing plans for an impor-
tant extension in our storage system.
I know it is hard for the Borough to
undertake any costly works just now,
but another water famine here means a
serious check to the growth of the Bor-
ou ‘h, and therefore delay is dangerous.
ature has given us a good location
for a reservoir about a mile or so below
the present lower dam. The water shed
is ample if the storage capacity is in-
creased so as to collect the water dur-
ing heavy rains, freshets, etc. I think
a reservoir such as here suggested
would cost about $75, 000.
Now as to the leaking dam. From
personal examinations, I, conclude that
as never prop-
erly built. The stonework on the face
of the dam is substantial but never laid
to be water tight. The upper leaks
might be stopped by,grouting and con-
crete filling behind the dam, but to
reach all'the leaks I believe that ex-
cavation must be made down to the
very bottom, and a concrete or rubble
masonry wall be built from the bottom
to the top. A complete “1:608:11: of the
:dam cannot be done for less than En-
Some one made her-aware of her dan- "gineer Wood
names. I have never
seen the design of the dam and know
very little about its construction or the
character of the interior work, and
therefore, do not Offer any details. The
Borough Engineer can determine what
is best to do after he opens up behind
the dam, and makes a few soundings to
" 'see‘ whether sheet-piling can be driven,
fete}. ' It is a difficult work to make this
Edam perfectly tight at a low cost.
,3 f 'In my Opinion the Borough should
build a new storage reserv01r ; repair
the leaking dam and clean out the res-
ervoir; connect the upper and lower
reservoirs in a proper way; extend the
iron main down to the distributing res-
ervoir; replace if possible much of the
miserable pipe through the Borough,
and by thorough engineering and prop-
'er management,
public 'works of Norwalk.
Respectfully ‘ -
, BOBT. 'VAii BURER.
., Opera HoUse. _
Says the Philadelphia Record: ‘ ‘True
Irish Hearts” opened yesterday after-
noon and evening at the Lyceum. Thea.
tre to large and appreciative audiences;
It is a beautiful play, well acted. and
the scenic effects are grand. The com-
pany. too, is first-class in every respect.
Dan McCarthy as Lanty Lanagan Is a
strongleader in the cast, and merits all
the attention he received. His 811%ng
and dancing are excellent. Miss itty
Coleman as Katie Brad shared the
honors with the star. S e is easy and
graceful and her brOgue could not be
improved upon. Little Danny McCar-
thy as Bright Eyes, is a most remarka-
ble child or his age, and sin 5 and
dances like an old-timer. . ‘His- ancing
in the second act caught the audience
by storm. '
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Double-track the Road.
EDITOR DAILY GAZETTE:
. .The‘ collision on the Danbury and
Norwalk railroad on Saturda
noon last, shows, as you. say, I. Ed-
itor, the absolute necessity of double--
tracking the‘ road between Wilson
Point and Bethe], especially in yiew of
the increased train service required by
the addition of the Oyster Bay route to
the line. : .
' The road can be. double-tracked ex-
c'ept at two points very cheaply, as they
will not be compelled to buy addition-
a1 ri ht of way, enough having been
pure ased when the road was first built
for two tracks. By all means let the
double-tracking commence. at once.
.. f STOCK-HOLDER.-
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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. ,
place the water works-
Where they should be—first among the
after- ‘
1
LEADsm ADVERT V N
A2 ETTE
Wants, I Cent 3. Word.
Political.”—Je arson
’ Fastest Traln in the World-
The fastest time ever made by a raiL
road train was made yesterday by the
fast mail which‘left New York at 7.20
a. m. and arrived at Buffalo at 2.50 p.
m: makings. run of 426;- miles in 440
minutes, allowing for three steps, which
beats anything of the kind ever accom-
plished in the history of railroading.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
The meetingjor organizing the foot-
ball club will e held this evening and
'not to-morrow evening as previously
printed. .
The board of directors will hold a
special meeting to-morrow evening at 8
o'clock.
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TWO THOUSAND LIVES LOST.
Fearful Destruction of Life and Property
by Floods In Spain.
MADRID, Sept. 15.-—The eople of this
city are horrified to learn by Official an-
nouncement from the scene of the fearful
floods now devastating the province of
Toledo, that 2,000 human beings have al-
ready lost their lives. From the same
source is obtained the information that
the loss to property in the afflicted district
is something enormous.
Little attentIOn is paid to this latter
fact, however, by the crowds who block-
ade the entrances to the government,
telegraph and newspaper offices, the all
pervading anxiety being to ascertain the
details of this awful calamity as they at-
fect the safety of the unfortunate people
residing in the pathway of the apparently
irresistible floods.
All communication by railway, highway
ortelegraph being at present cut off, noth~
ing can be learned which would serve to
lessen the apprehension of the people that
the news, bad as it is, may be followed by
worse.
A Reported Seizure by England.
PARIS, Sept. 15.—A feeling of uneasiness
has been caused in diplomatic and finan-
cial circles here by the receipt of a dis-
patch announcing that Slgrla, on the west
coast of the Island oflMitylene, an island
belonging to Turkey, near the coast of
Asia Minor, and within easy steaming dis-
tance of the Dardanelles, has been occupied
by a detachment of British troops or ma-
rines, landed there from a British ironclad.
N 0 details have been received, and the re-
port lacks confirmation.
Swept by Flames.
LONDON, Sept. 15.——News has been re-
ceived in this city that the Salvages, a
group of islands near the Canaries, were
recently the scene of a disastrous fire.
Several houses were destroyed by the
flames, while others were demolished to
prevent the conflagration spreading. The
loss was about $1,000,000.
Russia’s Awful Misery.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15.-In the cathe-
dral at Kazan enormous sacks have been
placed for the receipt'of contributions of
food, which will be sent to the famine
stricken districts. Among the contribu’
tions found in these sacks haVe been some
pieces of toasted bread no larger than a
radish.
Brigands Do Bloody Work.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 15.—A band of
brigands recently attacked and captured
the railroad station at Pavlokioi, sixty-
seven kilometers east of Adrianople. The
outlaws shot two gendarmes who attempt-
ed to oppose them.
Canada’s Burning Shame.
LONDON, Sept. 15.—The Telegraph says
that when the English speaking race
fully learns of the nature and extent of
the Canadian scandals in high Oflicial
places they will be filled with sorrow and
shame.
A Juvenile Monarch.
CALCUT'I‘A, Sept. 15.——The government
has chosen a five-year-old relative of the
ex—maharajah as the new rajah of Maui-
pur. A British Officer will administer af-
fairs during his minority.
Killed in an Explosion.
VIENNA, Sept. 15.—By the explosion. on
the rock boring vessel in the Danube on
Saturday, four persons are now kuownto
have been killed.
An Important Will Case.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.‘ A very impor-
tant case will be heard before Justice
Field of' the United States supreme court
on the 20th inst. It is the first hearing in
a suit brought by the United States gov-
ernment in California, involving the ques- '
tion whether the Southern Pacific com'
pany of Kentucky. can exercise the general
corporate powors and especially hold
leases of railroad corporations in other
states. As iszwell known, the charter for
.the Southern Pacific company of Ken‘
tucky was secured by C. P. Huntington
for the purpose of taking leases of the
Central Pacific, the California and Oregon,
the Southern Pacific of California and
other railroads forming the so called Hunt-
ington System. As the leases involve
guarantees of interest and dividends on
hundreds 'of. millions of securities, the
great importance of the case will at once
be seen. It is considered by railroad law-
yers a dangerous suit for the defendant
company. - . V. ‘
Bears for Two Missing Ships.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15.—It is feared by
the owners of the schooner Harbeson Hicks
man, which sailed fr'Om Matanzas July 28
for St. Pierre, Martinique, that the vessel
has been wrecked in the recent cyclone}
which prevailed 'on the island of Mar-
tinique. She is long overdue. The French
bark Paulet Pauline, from this port July
“for Sables d’Olonne, laden with naphtha,
has not since been heard of, and is believed
to have foundered with allliands on board.
Filth Generates Diphtheria. . ,
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Sept. 15.—This city
is infested with diphtheria, which has be«
come epidemic. Thirty deaths have been
reported within the last two days and new
cases are being reported constantly. Serv-
ices at the schools and churches have been
suspended and a general quarantine has
been established. The contagion Is
thought to be from the filth of hogpens
and slaughter houses in the east end of the
city which have not been properly disin-
fected. . , _ ,
Price One Oent.
WORLD’S FAIR MATTERS.
The Commission to Argue for a’ Modifi-
cation of the Tariff.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.——The question of
recommending to congress certain changes
in the tariff law that obstruct the free en-
try of foreign exhibits intended for the
*World’s fair exposition and amending cer-
tain treasury regulations applying to the
same law will be considered at a. confer-
ence to be held at the treasury department
'Tuesday. At this conference there will
be present besides Acting Secretary Spaul-
ding and Assistant Secretary Nettletou
representing the treasury department.
President Henry Wood and Sir J ame-
Dridge, representing Great Britain; I-Ier'
Wermuth, representing Germany, an:
Messrs. Butterworth, Handy, Peck ant
McCormick, representing the World’s fan
directors.
Messrs. Butterworth and Handy will ex;
plain to the government officials the need
of modifying certain tariff provisions so V
asto remove all possible friction in for- -
eign goods intended for the exhibition in
coming through our custom houses. The
result of their recent visit to European
countries will also be laid before the con-
ference in an informal manner.
Messrs. Butterworth, Handy, Peck and
McCormick arrived here Monday night.
The other conferees Were already here. 7
Ageneral interchange of ideas with de-
partment officials on VVorld’s fair matters
will occupy Messrs. Butterworth, Handy
and Peck most of the week. ' '
Want the Farmers to Hold Back.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 15.——The Farmers’ Alli-
ance leaders in Minnesota. and North and
South Dakota have resolved upon another
attempt to stop the tremendous flow of .
wheat to the markets. The receipts in'
Minnesota and Duluth for the last week
have run from 800 to 1,500 cars every day.
At this rate the Alliance people assert that
the 150,000,000 bushels of wheat in the
No. 1 hard belt will be out of the farmers’
hands before Jan. 1, and their haste will
drive the price to eighty cents. The A111-
ance, therefore, yesterday began the mail-
‘ing from its headquarters of a million let-
..ters to the farmers calling a halt along
.the line. The letter states that the new
Wheat Growers’ association and the Alli-
ance secretaries all over the country are
.unanimous that wheat is bound to sell as
high as $1.50 and possibly $2 per bushel,
and they give this warning to the farmers
not to sacrifice their wheat and allow the
speculators all the profit.
The Parson Will Stick to Horses.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept. 15.—Upon
recommendation of the Michigan Metho-
dist conference, Bishop Newman admon-
ished the Rev. J. W. Arney to wean him~
self Of his fondness for horses, but the lat-
ter does not take the admonition kindly.
He freely discusses the matter, and calls
attention to the weakness of some of the
brethren in the same direction. He says
he came to the conference conscious of no
violation of either morality or propriety.
He says he has no apology to make nor
excuses to offer, and when he returns home
he will continue to work and drive his
horses. He says that the Rev. J.. A. .
Sprague, who is one of his chief accuser‘s,
attended the races at Three Rivers. The
clergyman claims to have had several 61- '
cellent offers to take charge of stables, one
Of them with a salary of $1,600 and ex-
penses, which is better than $400 as a pat--
son, with a'f'wife and three children to sup-
Portii '
. Mine-'Eorgets His Own Name.
KANKAKEE, Ills, Sept. 15,—A young man
about twenty years of age was picked
by an officer and turned over to the coun
authorities. He could remember' that his
home is ten miles south of Aberdeen, Miss,
but he cannot remember his name, 1161:
can he recollect where he has been since
Sept. 1. On that day he left his father’s
house with over $100 to pay off some col-
ored hands who were working on the
plantation. He also had a fine gold watch
on his person. Both watch and money.
have disappeared. He can recall his
father’s first name, and says it is David B.
B., but beyond that his mind is a. blank.
He complains of pains in the back of the
head and neck, and it is the general belief
f all those who have talked with him that
_ e had been sandbagged and sent north
by negroes who knew he had the money.
Kansas Farm Mortgages.
TOPEKA, Sept. _15.-—Complete mortgage
Istatistics collected in fifty-four counties in
eastern and central Kansas show that the
farm mortgage indebtedness is rapidly
‘diminishing. For the four mOnths‘ preced-
ing Sept. 1, 26% per cent. more mortgages
were released than were recorded. The
total value of mortgages recorded during
this period was $4,683,805 and the releases
were $6,370,270. The estimated gain in the
seventy-four counties east’ of the one hun-
dredth meridian is $7,000,000. -'
Father McMahon’s Change.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15,—The‘ Rev. {Jame}
McMahon, for twelve years rector of St.
Andrew’s Catholic church, has- resigned
his position, and will in .a few days leave
for the quarters'that have been arranged
for him at the CathOlic "university at
-Washington. Father McMahon is the
priest who donated over $400,000 .to that
institution.
A DlsastrOus Wreck.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 15.-—-A> disastrous
freight wreck 'occurred on the middle di-
vision Of the Pennsylvania. railroad, east
of Altoona. Two engines and seven
freight cars were thrown over an: embank-
ment and totally demolished. . One of the
engineers is said to have: received serious
injuries. Both. tracks;were blOcked for
four hours. _ l
After the Chilian Assassins.
VALPARAISO, Sept. 15.—The provisional
government has issued orders forthe arrest
of all pillagers, rObbers and Slayers of con-
gressional sympathizers. 4- The murderers
of Isadore Osse, Cummings and the forty-
two students slain on Aug. .18, will be
especially sought after.
The Union Pacific Refunding Plan.
BOSTON, Sept. 15.—'Vice President Lane,
of the Union, ”Pacific rail’rOad, is in this
city. 3 He states that the refunding plan is
rapidly nearing completion, and that none
of the creditors of the road are causing any
trouble, all of them being willing to await
the company’s arrangement of its debts.
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Norwalk Chronicler