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The Daily and Weekly.
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'I‘his paper has the largest circulation of
a 1:51 paper in the Slate west ofBridgcpcrt.
(3‘ UR. J 015.3118 G 1719‘} ’ARTBIEJVT.
Mr. HAunr ll. GARDNER, Jn. of New York,
T:as charge of the GAZETTE’S Engraving, Book
and Jobbing Department. He is an expert
a nil experienced Job Printer. and no work en-
trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done.
Amusements To—night.
Opera House—Three Black Cloaks.
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How Not to Do It.
Instead of telegraph‘ng to Provi-
dence for the proper casting for con-
necting the Borough and City mains
at Broad River, as should have been
done by our Water Commissioners,
immediately on the passage by' the
Court Of Burgesses on Monday night,
of the following vote:
“ Voted, That the \Vater Commis—
sioners be requested to confer With the
auth‘brities of the South Nor‘walk water
works, with a view to connecting the
mains of the two systems where they
come together at Broad River, so. that
in case of accident or emergency,either
party may have the benefit of the other’ s
supply on equitable terms to be agreed
upon. ’
Should this vote be carried out, the
report gees on to say, and connection .
made, the work can be done inside of
three days, and at a cost of less than
3100.
Yet, to date, no notice whatever has
been taken of the above vote by the
Water Commissioners, and the excuse
given is that the Burgesses failed to
order the Borough Clerk to “officially
notify” the high and mighty Commis-
sioners that such a vote had passed.
Among the three members of that com-
mission, as we are informed, the re—
sponsibility for this setting up of dig—
nity and putting on of "frills” in the
face Of a grave danger and possibly
appalling disaster, is charged person-
ally upon Commissioner Prowitt, but
whether this be so or not, the other
two could and should have overruled
Mr. Prowitt’s determination to totally
ignore the instructions of his superior
Borough officers, and so they cannot
and do not stand before the public
blameless in this puerile, boyish con-
tempt Of both the public needs and
safety, and the Borough authorities.
One of the largest Borough tax payers
and users of the Borough water, and
we think the largest, complained last
night, after reading of the weak and
feeble makeshift Of connecting a small
pipe on Stewart avenue and a smaller
one at East N orwalk, where the Com-
missioners well knew no presure could
be obtained, and then dropping the
matter of connecting the two great
main pipes at Broad River, and the
reason ascribed for so doing, that our
out-going Water Commissioner did not
stand on such a frivolous sense of dig-
nity when he assumed to paint the Bor-
ough distributing reservoir at an ex-
pense exceeding five hundred dollars,
without any order from the Court Of
Burgesses, or recorded action of his
But
enough of this. Such indifference in
the face of the dire possibilities of the
situation, is too grave for patient criti-
two fellow Commissioners.
cism, and we feel sure that our Water
Commissioners greatly under-estimate
the sense and wide extent of public an-
noyance and indignation at their ap-
parent disregard of the gravity of the
situation.
- Water has become to residents of the
Borough, just as much, and even more
a necessity of our modern life, thanfthe
coal we consume in our furnaces. .It
was all well enough and commendable
enough to “hitch on” to the City’s four
and six ' inch pipes in these remote
places, for the action was quick and the
cost trivial, but as the Commissioners
admit, we can thus get no considerable
presstfie, What is to become of the
Borough’s customers for its public
“Equal and ExuoiJusiioo to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion,
water on the hills surrounding us, and of
the dozen and more little motors which
are so greatly contributing to our local
business activities and thrift ?
Let us hope and pray that a deluging "
rain may at once fall to help the Bor-
ough out of its water famine and re-
lieve our undoubtedly well-intentioned
but woefully misguided Water Com-I
missioners from the ill-feeling their
conduct has engendered.
The Esteemed Sentinel.
Had the Editor of the esteemed Senti-
nel known more and frothed at the
mouth less,he never would have printed,
as he did yesterday, the following :
“All the answer we have to make to '
his last rant is to pronounce the state- i
Perhaps ;
we ought to be more charitable and call '
ment below a barefaced lie.
it the effect of too much strain on a soft
pate. Here is what he says :
Was our “greed" shown when, long ago, two
dollars was paid an employee of the GAZETTE
to purloin a copy of a ballot from our Office,
that it might be counterfelted 1n the office of
the esteemed Sentlnel ?
If he had any mental control left he
knew he lied when he penned that, but
lying seems to have become a disease
with him.”
And now we invite the esteemed Sen-
tinel to this bit of ancient but exceed-
ingly interesting history :
SENTINEL OFFICE,
GEO. A. WHITE,
GAZETTE OFFICE :—
Will you meet me in my office to-
night at 7% to 8 o’clock, without fail.
Tell no one. ' Yours, x. x. x.
Answer.
Mr. George A. White, a reputable
citizen of Norwalk, who was then an
employee of the GAZETTE OFFICE, and
now at work in Bridgeport, received
the above note, went, to the Sentinel
office, heard the proposition to steal a
ballot out of our ofiice that they might
counterfeit it, and although he refused
to do so and refused to accept the mon-
ey proflered him, it was thrust upon
him, and like the honest man that he is,
he brought the two dollars to us, and
for months the bills hung publicly on a
string in the GAZETTE OFFICE with a
request that the owner come and prove
property and take them away. But the
Bridgeport Standard gave the most
concise version. of the transaction and
so we copy herewith, its statement of
the facts as follows:
From the Bridgeport Standard.
The Editor of the Norwalk GAZETTE,
charged that the Editor of the South
Norwalk Sentinel undertook to bribe
one of the workmen in the GAZETTE of-
fice to purloin a genuine republican
ticket from the latter office, so that the
Sentinel could imitate its general ap-
pearance, and yet craftily insert there-
in some democratic name, or names, so
that the republican voters should be
deceived into voting for certain demo-
crats, while they supposed they were
voting for republicans only. To this
charge the Sentinel editor replies that
he did so endeavor to procure a repub-
lican ticket, and then undertakes to ex-
cuse his conduct by claiming that, as a
job printor, he was justified in print-
ing whatever jobs came to his office.
Drag Hunt.
The first drag hunt ever held in
Norwalk, took place yesterday and was
agrand success. About forty people
rode, among whom were Mrs. Henry
Bissell, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Fred. Bax-
ter, Miss Sallie Betts, Miss Sarah Hen-
derson, Miss Clara Marvin, Mrs. El-
well, Miss Baird, of South Norwalk,
Miss Agnes Gibbs, Mme. Dixon, Mr.
Will Olsen, Thornton Prowitt,Bert and
Howard Mossman, Benny Andrews,
Dr. Bohannan, Charles Knapp, Fred.
and Harold Parsons, William Perry,
Mr. Stephenson,andR. L. Dixon. The
hounds were cut loose about, 4 o’clock
from the rear of Roberts’ school, and a
large crowd witnessed the start of the
riders from the Green, a few minutes
later. The course was through the
Lockwood property to the road,through
Saunder’s swamp, as far east as Dr.
Enos’ residence to the Marvin property
and around the Langdon estate, in all
about six miles. At the Marvin pro-
perty a stop was made and
Mme. Dixon gave a very interesting
exhibition of jumping with her splen-
did horse “B-andonne.” . The only
accident at the hunt occurred at the
fourth jump, where Benny Andrews
was thrown, but not injured, and again
mounted and proceeded with the rest
of the party. Another hunt will be
given between now and Thanksgiving
day, and one will be held on Thanks-
giving day morning. Much credit is
due Mr. Stephenson and William L.
Olsen, who were' the promoters and
conductors of the hunt.
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Fire at Five Mile Rlver.
A barn belonging to William: 3;?
Lockwood, near the old red mill, fat,-
Middlc Five Mile River, was destroyed
by fire last night. It was valued at
$300 and partly insured. NO one is
living on the premises, and the origin
of the fire was incendiary.
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Old Yale opens to-day with the
N orwalk, Conn., Thursday Evening, September 24, 1891. .‘
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.
It is so dry.
Is the equinox coming at last ?
Oh, come rain, the beautiful rain.
Fred. A. Lockwood left for Yale Col-
lege yesterday.
—Photographs, $1 per doz. at Lewis’,
11 Main Street. 193-3t.
W. J. Wadham has erected an awn-
: ing over his market on Wall street.
A scientific Winnipauk mosquito
blacked a car driver’s eye one day the
week.
1 Snipes—“It is so hard to be poor.”
I Maddox—“And yet, so many people
: accomplish it.”
Last evening Mr. W. Taylor enter-
! tained a number of his young friends
at his residence on Mott Place.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford L. Mann, of
Cross street, left to-day for a vacatlon
to be spent at North Foxboro, Mass.
A Westport man killed a black snake
yesterday, on the green, which ‘meas-
ured three feet and nine inches in
length.
Rev. Messrs. Graham and Hallock
have been cordially invited to be pres-
ent at the Grace church anniversary
services to-night.
The lady or gentleman who lost a
pocketbook in the Opera House last
evening, can have the same by calling
on Manager Adams.
James H. Jordan has severed his con-
nection with the Lawn Tennis club,and
Saturday will accept a position with
William \Vardwell, the butcher.
Something of a novelty in the veget-
able kingdom is a pumpkin growing in
a tree on the Chas. F. Sherwood place,
on the corner Union Place and Bel-
den avenue. _
There were one hundred and fifty
veterans of the Seventh Regiment at
their reunion in New Britain, yesterday.
Gen. Hawley, their old commander,
was present.
A break occurred in the water main,
corner of Main street and Center ave-
nue, day before yesterday. Yesterday
repairs were started and were not com-
pleted until tO-day. -
County Commissioner Page, who has
been ill for some time past, and stop-
ping with his son in Shelton, has so far
recovered as to be able to return to. his
own home in Danbury.
The Electric Light Co. have con-
structed a three foot dam across the
river, opposite their station. This will
help them considerably in getting wa-
ter to run their engines with.
A horse belonging to Butcher Smith,
slipped on a smooth stone in front of
Nickerson A: Betts’ grocery store, on
Main street, this morning and fell,
skinning his knees and cutting himself
slightly on the neck.
\Vhen will people ever learn that it is
useless to send anonymous communica-
tions to any respectable newspaper,
hoping to get them published. Any-
thing a writer is afraid or ashamed to
give the guarantee of his name, should
not be written.
Dry-goodsman Scofield has hispump
working finely on his pipe-well which
he sank some fifty feet below the sur-
face and seems to have struck an inex-
haustible vein of ice-cold and soft wa-
ter. He now is seen to brush a fly off
his nose, or make some such motion,
every time he passes a water commis-
sioner.
O. O’Brien, the Belden avenue mer-
chant tailor, had a man at work clean-
ing out his well, and dug out several
loads of sand, when he struck a big
spring or vein of the coldest kind of
water which came rushing in and soon
filled his well up several feet. It was a
lucky “strike” in this time of water
famine, for Mr. O’Brien and all his
friends and neighbors.
The Ansonia Sentinel, about the
brightest and newsiest, and in deed the
model provincial paper of Connecticut,
comes to us in new type and printed
on a new andmarvellously rapid press,
which prints from type 4,000 per hour.
As the DAILY GAZETTE, if it keeps on
prospering as it has begun, has got to
face the inevitable and get some such
rapid printing machine, we shall watch
Bro. Emerson’s new press enterprise
With more than ordinary interest. We
now use two presses, one the fastest
Taylor cylinder that is made and the
other a Campbell, but the two are be-
coming totally inadequate to our needs.
Yesterday afternoon, previous to the
drag hunt, Mr. B L. Dixon started
down East avenue with a horse, .thch
Miss Clara Marvin was to ride In the
hunt. He was 'riding his own horse
and leading the other horse beslde
him, and all went well until he approach-
’_"ed the railroad bridge at East Norwalk.
‘ ‘Just as he came to the bridge a fre1ght
“train passed, which scared the horse,
who made a plunge, almost unseating
Mr. Dixon, and then tore up East ave-
nue. 'After running a short .distance,
he jumped a fence and went Into W11-
liam E. Osborn’s yard where an unsuc-
cessful attempt was made to capture
him. After getting out of the yard he
continued up East avenue and was fin-
ally caught this side Of the Earle place
largest classes ever known in the his-
tory of the Umverslty.
by Dr. Bohannan.
—8 Tin-types for 517 bédts at Lewis’,
11 Main Street. y 193-3t.
Mr. Benj. Mallory left town for the
East this morning.
—Waiter wanted at Cellins’ Ameri-
can House.
Daniel Taylor was fined $1 and costs.
this morning, for drunkenness. .
Watch the vote in this WEEKLY GA-
ZETTE suit of clothes Contest in to—
morrow’s issue.
—Chambermaid wanted, at Collins’
American House. 3' ”I .
Mrs. Sylvester Brotherton suffered a
severe paralytic stroke this ‘morning
andjis lying critically 111 at her home on
Orchard street. ‘
Capt. John Lightfootgdied at Bloom-
ington, 111., last night. He was one of
five men who originated the Grand
Arri'réy of the Republic at Decatur, 111.,
in 66. i" '
——Timothy J. Byrnes has opened his
Tailoring Establishment at 20 Wall
street, andis now read to receive or-
ders for Fall and V inter Clothing.
Give him acall. ~ ' 193-317
,
The railrord commissioners will give
a hearing at South Norwalk on Octo-
ber 15, on the petition. of the Consoli-
dated road for permission to take ad-
ditional land for new tracks.
Frank D. Welton, one of the oldest
postal clerks on the New England road,
died yesterday morning at the hospital
in Waterbury of typhoid fever. He
had been fifteen years on the Boston &
Fishkill route.
If you cannot pick a winner in the
WEEKLY GAZETTE suit Of clothes con-
test, you can vote for your friend and
help him try to win the handsome
present. Read the announcement in
to-morrow’s 'WEEKLY GAZETTE.
Charles Williams was before Justice
Coolldge this morning charged with
breach of the peace. The case went
Over until to-morrow afternoon, on the
understanding that Williams will then
plead guilty and pay a fine of $1 and
costs.
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School Children In Luck.
In order’that school children may
witness the Aborn Opera Company in
Erminie, at a reduced price, Manager
Adams has made arrangements to ad-
mit. school childrenuto the Saturday
matinee for 15 cents.
Grace Church Anniversary.
At the first anniversary celebration
of Grace church, at 7:30, this evening,
the following order of service will be
observed :
Processional Hymn 306. St. Geo rge’s.
Psalm. 147. Reina-gle.
Magnificat, in D. Field.
Nunc Dimittis. Barnby .
Anthem, “0 Lord, how manifold are Thy
Works.” Barnby.
Hymn, 191. St. Thomas.
Addresses.
Offertory Anthe m, “Seek ye the Lord.”
Roberts.
Hymn, 424. Coronation.
Recessional Hymn, 495, “The Holy City.”
The offerings this evening will be for
the Parish Building.
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How is :Thls, Mr. Commissloners ?
While excavating to make a connec-
tion with the borough and city water
pipes, at the corner of the Fort Point
and Shore roads, this morning, Engi-
neer Rider discovered a leak in the
borough water pipe, which, he says,
must have been a waste sufficient to
supply fifty families per day. Now for
the startling part of it. He also found
a hole in a sewer pipe running near by,
into which the water-was running. He
surmises, aye, says that he has no doubt
but that the hole was intentionally made
for the water to run into in preference
to making repairs-on a leakage, of the
water pipe. His allegations are, to say
the least, worthy of investigation.
Veterans, Attention l
——Comrade Fred. A. Farley, Corpo-
ral Tanner’s Pension Agent, has just
returned from Washington, D. C.,
where he has been‘to look after severa
of the cases he. has been making spec
ml, so they can get It before they die.
He also vis1ted Gettysburg, Antietam,
Charleston, Winchester, Harper’s Fer-
ry, Fredericksburg and Richmond ; has
a collection of VleWS and relies, among
them a wow of the gallows upon which
John Brown was hung. He will be at
CIty Hotel, South Norwalk, until Sept.
28th. 193-111
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Cheese.
—Boquefort, Edam, Brie, Limbur-
ger, Cream, Breet and all other kinds
of rich cheese at
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Editor Martinez in Prison.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. 24.—Paulinc
Martinez, editor of a MexiCan paper in this
city, was put in jail in default of bail to
answer to a charge of violation of the
neutrality laws between the United States
and Mexico. Martinez has been publish-
ing from time to time revolutionary tele
grams from Mexico, which have stirred up
a. good deal of strife on the Rio Grande.
Index-sod Springer 101' 51168.5er
CHICAGO, Sept. 24. —The Democratic
state central committee met here yester-
day and indorsed Congressman W. M.
Springer’s candidacy for the speaker-ship
an the next congress.
Opera House.
On Thursday, Oct. 1st, Howorth’s
Grand Hibernica and Dublin Dan
Comedy company will hold the boards
at the Opera House, giving a perfect
picture of life in the Green Isle of Erin.
"‘Oh Would Some Power, etc.”
The use of the Words “nasty” and
“nastiness,” which the esteemed Senti-
nel “rolls, like a sweet morsel on its
tongue,” is pardonable, under the cir-
cumstances, as no other word in the lex-
Icon so perfectly expresses its condition
and the state of itsmind.
O.
A Warning.
During the opera last night a party
in the gallery failing to comply with
Manager Adams’ iron-clad rules about
gentlemanly behavior , was promptly
ejected from tho. hall. Persons attend-
ing the Opera House must behave
themselves or they will be ejected with—
out further notice.
Base Ball Games.
Yesterday’s games resulted as follows:
——National league—New York 9, Phil.
adelphia 7 ; second game, New York 2,
Philadelphia 3; Brooklyn 1, Boston 5 ;
second game, Brooklyn 2, Boston 9;
Cincinnati 0, Chicago 9; Cleveland 3,
Pittsburgh 12. ,
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New Depot.
The Consolidated road people are
about to erect a temporary depot on
the east side of the track near Lyon
street, Bridgeport, where the present
shed now stands. It will be enclosed,
and heated, being intended to accom-
modate passengers until the company’s
magnificent new depot can be erected.
S. of V. Field Day.
The state battalion, S. of V., held a
field day at the Derby Trotting park
yesterday. The camps sending repre-
sentatives were Camp 6, Hartford; ’7,
Meriden; 26, Ansonia; 11, Bridgeport;
29, Winsted ; 31, Lakefield; 36, Tor-
rington. The whole were under com-
mand of Lieut.-Col. Wessels.
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Three Black Cloaks.
At the Opera House tO-night the
above new and brilliant opera is to be
given by the Milton Aborn CO. This
opera has a strong dramatic story
which runs through the entire play.
The music is bright, catchy and melodi-
ous, and Mr. Aborn as Dromez, the
miller, has a strong comedy part which
is entirely different from anything he
has yet given us. -
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Party Platforms.
Builder Wilson informs a DAILY GA-
ZETTE scribe that the two great and bean-
tiful blocks of Westerly granite, now ly—
ing in frontof the club house and which
were cut by Bates, with the smaller and
central one,are designed as platforms for
the three political parties Of the country.
The right one,he says, isthe Blaine, the
left one the Cleveland and the little
middle one for the Mugwumps, or
“Campy’s” party.
Accident on the Rail.
Extra freight No. 5, bound east on
the Consolidated road, in charge of
Conductor H. C. Phelps, of New Ha-
ven, was thrown from the track by an
Open switch when passing through Sau-
gatuck, shortly before noon yesterday.
It ran fully an eighth of a mile, bump-
ing along the ties, then jumped on the
rails again by coming into contact with
a frog, proceeded several rods further
and upon the drawbridge before it
could be stopped.
Just who is responsible for the acci-
dent will not be known until an official
investigation is made. No one was
hurt. Engineer Bowman of New Ha-
ven was in the cab and his train moving
at high speed was about to pass from
one block into another when he saw the
signal was set againsthim,but too late to
stop. This signal and the derailing
switch are Only a few rods apart, are
mechanically connected and are Oper-
ated by the man in charge of the draw,
who was about to open the bridge for a
veséel, and who says they were set in
time before the train came in sight.
The statements in this respect conflict.
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A Fo'wl Deed.
Henry Cornell has one chicken less
to-day than he had yesterday, and as
chickens are scarce in this year of wa-
ter famine, Henry is despondent. _
little boy was fishing off the dock 1n
the rear of Cornell’s house yesterday
afternoon, and becoming tired of the
sport, pulled his line up and left It on
the dock, with a fat and enticing mum-
my on the hook, and went away to seek
new fields of pleasure, just as little
boys will so Often do. Just at this tIme
her henship happened along, and spy-
ing the mummy, and not noticmg the
line, swallowed the whole business,hook
and all. After the swallowing act was
over, the awful situation loomed up In
the face of the hen, and witnesses of
the sad mistake cannot descrlbe the
look of despair pictured on the poor
creature’s face. The next moment she
let out a war-whoop longer than the
fish line, which brought Cornelland
Dr. Jim Mead to the scene. Thelr ef-
forts to extract the hook were of no
avail, however, and Dr. Mead was call-
ed upon to put the hen out of misery,
which he did with the help of .a large
knife. After the “deed was d1d,” the
executioner suggested that what was
left of the hen be set for ecls, but to.
this Cornell would not agree, saying. ,.
that as the hen hadfalways been a good‘ '
friend of his during life, he would ‘fsfeéfi
her through” even in death, and this Is
the reason, gentle reader, why Cornell
had chicken for dinner to-day.
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White Brandy.
_—For .Brandy Peach preserving,
mlnce pies, etc.
tf 183 , BETTs 85 FARRINGTON’S.
Religious or . Political.”—TJqfl'erson
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HANGED BY A NEW SYSTEM.
Davis Stepped on the Gallows and the
Water Did the Rent.
CANON CXTY, 0010., Sept. 24.-—-Wllllam H.
.Davis was hanged in the state prison here.
All necessary preparations had been care
fully made and the witnesses who had
been invited were on hand. The machine
which carried out the mandate of the
courts had been given a. trial and was founc‘
to be in finejconditlon. The hanging appa-
ratus is very unique, being the inventior
of Deputy Warden Dudley. The instru
ment as described in brief is as follows:
In the upper part of a square tram!
made of four uprights a bucket of wate)
is set, the contents of which when ready
for operation weigh twenty-nine pounds.
Directly beneath the bucket, and connect
ed with it by a rubber hose with a valve,
is another bucket, and connected to the
upper bucket by a lever is a forty pound
iron ball, which connects again with an
iron rod, which keeps in place at a height
of six feet. The weight Of 250 pounds
which, when the water is drawn from the
bucket, is allowed to descend, jerking the
condemned man off his feet about thrct
feet in the air. From this large weight a
rope runs through two pulleys over a par-
tition and then down into the execution
room, where it hangs directly over a plat-
form three feet square, on which the con-
demned stands.
Everything being in readiness, Dav
was brought in and the noose and blac-
cap were placed in position. After he 1m
been given an opportunity to say goodly}
to those around him he was told to etc}
on the small platform. His weight on the
platform opened the faucet in the upper
bucket and the water flowed into the
bucket beneath. This allowed the weight
to drop and Davis was jerked into the air.
His neck was broken and he was pro-
nounced dead in seven minutes. The
crime for which Davis was hanged was
the killing of his mother and her alleged
paramour in Pueblo in July last.
CHURCHGOER AND BURGLAR.
Charles Elsten’s Escapade Causes a Son-
sation in Plainfield, N. J.
PLAINFIELD, N. J ., Sept. 24.—Charles
Elston, of the firm of W. W. Elston &
Son, 44 West Front street, house furnish-
ings, is locked up in Somerville jail, serv-
ing a five days’ sentence for stealing a. ride
on a. freight train, and awaiting the action
of the grand jury on a charge of burglary.
Elston was established in business a. few
months ago by his father, W. W. Elston,
a wealthy farmer of Ten Mile Run. He is
married and has two children. He has
been exceedingly popular and was highly
esteemed in the community. He was
prominent in church matters and wasde
cidedly the last man in the village to be
suspected of such a crime as he is charged
with.
The jewelry store of O. N. Dunham,
which adjoins Elston’s store, was broken
into and about $300 worth of watches,
rings and other jewelry was stolen. There
was no clew to the burglar. Then word
was received from Bound Brook that a
man who described himself as Charles El
ston, of Plainfield, had been arrested there
for stealing a ride on a freight train, and
that he had a lot of watches and jewelry
in his pockets.
Mr. Dunham went to Bound Brook and
identified the goods as well as his neigh‘
her. The latter confessed that he was the
burglar, and made the excuse that he was
drunk when he committed the crime.
'Elgton’s wife, a. beautiful heartbroken
woman, today pleaded with Dunham to
abandon the prosecution of her husband
without avail. The affair has caused a
wonderful sensation here.
Working Hard for him. Maybrlck.
BAR HARBOR, Sept. 24.-—The case of Mrs.
Maybrick, accused of poisoning her hue
band, in England, and sentenced to penal
servitude for life, was some time since
brought to the attention of Mrs. Blaine,
and she, together with Secretary Blaine,
has become deeply interested in it. Mrs.
Blaine has been for many months con-
stantly in receipt of letters urging her to
use her influence with the secretary of
state and induce him to communicate
with Lord Salisbury in the matter. Mrs.
Blaine has done and is doing all in her
power, while Mr. Blaine has given much
time and thought to the case. About two
weeks ago a petition for Mrs. Maybrick’s
pardon, signed by Mrs. Harrison and the
wives of the members of the cabinet, was
sent to Minister Lincoln for presentation
to the queen.
An Important Railway Issue.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24.—Another sen.
sational development in the western rail-
way world is the proposed United States
grand jury investigation of the Trans-
Missouri association at Topeka. Indict-
ments will be returned against Chairman
Smith and the head traffic officials of all
the roads in the association. They are
charged with maintaining a trust and
pool. If a case is made against the associ-
ation it will probably cause acomplete
annihilation of the present system of con-
ducting railway business in America.
Farmers Paying Ofi‘ Mortgages.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-—John J. Corcoran,
general northwestern manager for R. G.
Dun &, Co., is regarded as one of the best
posted men in the northwest about the
general condition of the farmers. “This
has beena golden year,” he said. “The
crops are immense, the prices good, and
the farmers are utilizing their money to
liquidate the mortgages which have been
grinding them down.” The wheat crop
will be about 200,000,000 bushels.
Apple Thieves Shot.
BLAIRSTOWN, N. J ., Sept. 24.——Apple
thieves have been annoying Farmer George
Jacobya. for some time. With six of his
men he lay in wait for them with shot-
guns. At 11 o’clock the marauders, eight
in number, drove up in three wagons.
When they began to strip the trees J aco-
bya and his men opened fire, putting the
rdbbers to flight. A trail of blood market-:
their passage for a mile.
A Steamer Cast Away.
GALVESTON, Sept. 24.——Cable dispatches
from Panama state that the steamship
California, from Liverpool to Aspinwall,
was cast away Sept. 10 on Oruba, one of
the islands of the Dutch Antilles. Pas-
sengers and crew, barring the second en-
gineer, were saved, as we‘re also the mails.
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The State Department Will Be Asked
to Abrogate or Modify It. .
A QUESTION OF DIPLOMAGY.
By Our Agreement of 1817 with Great . '
Britain We Are Not Allowed to Build
Naval Vessels Nor Maintain a Na-
val Militia on the Great Lakes.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.——The immense}
progress in shipbuilding industries on the
great lakes has brought anew to the atten-
tion of the state department a. question of
diplomacy that affects the industrial prog-
ress of this country and our relations with
Great Britain. The navy department is
restricted in the places for building new
vessels almost entirely to the Atlantic and
aciflc coasts.
The restriction comes from the treaty of
1817, which provides that the United States
and Great Britain shall have but four
armed vessels on the lakes, and this is con-
strued to mean that neither country shall
construct other vessels on the northern
frontier, though the new vessels may be
intended for use in other territory. It
was this restriction that caused Secretary
Tracy recently to reject the lowest bidder
for building the Naval academy practice
vessel. The shipyards of the bidders, F.
W. Wheeler & Co., are at Bay City, Mich.
Times Have Changed.
Circumstances have changed greatly in
the great lakes since the treaty of 1817
went into efiect. Immense progress has
been made in developing the resources of
the lake country and in the building up
of its mechanical industries. There is
scarcely a city on the lakes where ship~
building is not carried on successfully,
nd from Buffalo to Chicago and Duluth
there are a dozen points where plants like
that of this Bay City firm either now
exist or could soon be established capa-
ble of constructing gunboats, torpedo
boots or even armed cruisers.
Besides, the great cities of the lakes,
Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo,
Cleveland and Buffalo, desire to have their
lace in the proposed naval militia. Each
ity wishes to have its own naval reserves,
and to have them trained in the use of the
best guns and in modern naval tactics.
But from any action in this direction they
are debarred from the treaty of 1817.
Work for Blaine.
When Secretary Blaine returns to Wash-
ington he will find these important ques-
tions confronting him. By the terms of
the treaty either party to the agreement
vmay withdraw from its provisions by giv-
"in‘g six months’ notice to the other, and it
is asserted that strenuous efforts will be
made and forcible arguments brought to
bear to induce the secretary of state to
move in the direction of abrogating the
treaty or having it modified so that gov-
ernment construction work may be en-
gaged in.
Chicago’s Grant Monument.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—It appears there has
been a. misunderstanding in certain quar-
ters regarding the invitations to various
organizations to take part in the cere
monies attending the unveiling of the
Grant monument in this city Oct. 8. To
avoid such misunderstandings the trust-
ees have sent out no special invitation.
1% general invitation has been extended to
a 1 Grand Army posts of the country to be
resent and take part in the exercises. In
addition to this the trustees invite all so-
cieties of veterans and sons of veterans
and all uniformed military and civic so-
cieties throughout the country to be pres-
ent on that day.
lllrs. Harrison Entertained.
LYNN, Mass, Sept. 24.——Mrs. Harrison,
Mr. and Mrs. McKee and the McKee chil-
gren arrived here escorted by President
offin, of the Thomson-Houston Electric
company, and after inspecting the com-
any’s werks were entertained at luncheori
at Mr. Cofiin’s residence. A reception fol-
Lowed, many ladies of Lynn being intro-
uCed to the visitors. Afterward a. drive
Was taken to points of interest in the vicin-
After tea at the Coffin residence the
pérty returned to Auburndale.’
A Lively Time with Tramps.
OWOSSO, Mich, Sept. 24.——Five tramps
called at the home of Engineer Finch and
insisted that Mrs. Finch should buy a.
ring. At her call for help her husband
came, but was obliged to retreat before a
tramp’s revolver. Returning to his room
he secured a revolver and from a. window
opened fire on the tramps. They returned
the fire, wounding Finch in the arm. He
fired five shots. Two tramps are seriously
and a third is severely wounded. All five
are in jail.
The Confession of Faith.
N UNDA, N. Y., Sept. 24.—The presbytery
of Rochester is in session here and has
been devoting much attention to the re-
vision of the confession of faith. In con-
sidering the question of the revision of
chapter 3, section 3, regarding the elect
and nonelect, the presbytery decided in
favor of changing the expression, “pre-
destinated some of mankind unto life,” as
it now stands, to “predestinated a. multi-
Ede; whom no man can number, unto
e.
Echoes of White’s Failure.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 24.—S. V. White, of
New York, transferred property at 3,272
Xlestminster place, this city, to Mrs. J. E.
vi)len, who had money on deposit with
_hite’s banking house at the time of the
fellurc. The Hub ard, Bartlett Commis-
sion company has 0 tained an attachment
ilor 8450 against S. V. White & Co.’s agents
ere. '
Died by His Child’s Corpse.
INDEPENDENCE, Ia., Sept. 24.—Richard
Edgerton, one of the oldest citizens of this
county, was poisoned last night while sit-
ting by the corpse of his eldest daughter.
He experienced a. faint feeling and called
for liquor. By mistake his wife gave him
a dose of carbolic acid. He died in about
ten minutes.
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