3:. one. a... :53 ______________.__'———— Absolutely Independent. THURSDAY, SEPT. 24, 1891. SERIOUS FOREST FIRES RAGING. Minnesota Losing i:- 700 an Hour fron the Ravager. of the Flames. PINE CITY. Minn, Sept. 24.——Terrifl( fires from the intense heat are now raging in northwestern Minnesota, many thou- sand dollars’ worth of timber land havmg been destroyed. The loss to farmers “‘11. be high. Several dwellings and farm build. ings have been burned and the owners wen obliged to leave the devastated district Two school houses were destroyed by thl flames. the pupils barely escaping witl their lives. The teachers bravely led theii little hands to places of safety. The loss by the fires will amount to $700 an hour al the rate the flames are now raging, and ll is useless to attempt to extinguish them The fire is approaching Pine City and 50! men are fighting it. Got- hIore Than They Praycd For. MONMOUTH, Ills., Sept. 24.—-Two week: ago the farmers of \Varren county wen praying for warm and dry weather to save their corn crop. Their petitions werl more than granted. A big crop of corn i: assured, but the situation is alarming The oldest residents never experience: hotter weather in September. Vegetatior is literally burned up. Farmers are com_ polled to feed their stock as in winter, anc many are hauling water, as the wells and streams are dry. The mercury register: 100 degs. in the shade. The Dry “'eather Alarming. VANDALIA, Ills., Sept. %.—-The con tinucd dry weather is becoming alarming in this section. It has been over a montl since rain of any consequence has fallci: here. Pastures are completely burned up and many wells have given out. Farmers are hauling water and feeding their stock. Dust in public highways is ankle deep. A l'lIan llIurdered and Fed to Hogs. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal, Sept. 24.-—On the 7th of June last Martin Heine's disap peared, leaving no trace. Within the last few days his blankets and clothes werl found sunk in a well wired up witl: stones. Fragments of bones and flesl: were found buried in a hog wallow rice) the shanty of a pre-eniptor named John Silvia Gularte, for whom the man worked. The coroner’s jury found that Heincs was murdered by Gularte. The evidence tend: to show that Gularte killed Heincs by shooting him in the back, chopped him up and fed him in pieces to the hogs. The Innocent Child “'as Killed. MARLEY, Ills., Sept. 24—The wives Oi Gottlieb Killam and August Blunt got in a row over the use of water from the town pump. The husbands took a hand in, and Killam threw a. brick at Blunt missing him and killing Blunt’s little ten-year—old girl. Then both families joined in with sickles, corncutters and clubs. All the persons engaged are badly used up. Killam is in jail. Some One Spiked the Rails. WEST PLAINS, Mo., Sept. 24.—Some un- known person or persons spiked acoupling pin between two rails on the Memphis road here, and the south bound fast freight engine and tender were derailed and thrown down an embankment. Fireman Forester was killed and Engineer Role- man was badly scalded by escaping steam. Flint’s Consulship Revoked. NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Charles R. Flinl has received a cablegram canceling the power Of attorney by which he was au- thorized to act for the owners of the Itata. Mr. Flint’s consulship, conferred by the Balmaceda government of Chili, has alsc been revoked. Chemical Works in Flames. BROOKLYN, Sept. 24—The Columbia Chemical works on Jay street were totally destroyed by fire. The loss is over $100,000. FINANCIAL ‘ AND COMMERCIAL. New YORK, Sept. 23.—Money on call quiet at E per cent. Exchange active and weak, without actual business, at $4. [email protected]./1 for sixtylday bills and [email protected]}4 for demand; posted rates,$4,81 @431. Government bonds dull and easier; 45, :3ng013, 110% bid; 4%,s, do., currency 63, 110 l The stock market opened active, but first prices were from 34 to % per cent. lower than last evening’s figures, Louisville and N ash» ville and Northern Pacific showing the heaviest losses. Prices however improved from the opening, and the losses were generally made up with the Villards, Burlington and special- ties leading in the upward movement. Sugar was the special weak point in the market, drOp- pingto 90%., from 91%, but it recovered a large portion of this loss. In the late dealings prices again shaded off and the market became quiet, prices dropping slowly, and at noon the market was qmet and heavy at the lowest prices of the morning. Sales of stocks to noon aggregated 303,40C shares. ~ Closing prices: West. Union Tel.. 841,4 Adams Express. . .145 U. S. Express ..... 59 Del. & Hudson... .1335 Del., Lack. &. W. .144% Denver ............ 19 C., C., C. & I ...... 731/4 Er'e ............. 31 4 N. Y. Central ...... 111% La e Shore. '. Illinois Central. , .1035 Northwest ........ 110 Northern Pacific. 30% Do., pref .......... — Do.,_pref .......... 77%, Pacific Mail ....... 3 (Yntral Pacific.... 33%; Reading .......... 42% Union Pacific ...... 43% St. Paul ........... 74% Missouri Pacific... 7 4%; Wabash..... ...... 15% Texas Pacific ...... 15% Bur. 627. Quincy... 99% Alton & T. H ...... 33 Ore. By 85 Nav.. 7'9 Canada Southern. 59% Ore. & Trans ..... -— Canada Pacific. . . . 89% Rich. 8; Terminal 13% N. Y. 8.7 N. E ...... 42% Sugar Trust ...... — General Markets. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—-COTTON-—Spot lots St%%gllnéld%fing’ 89%.; futures steady. — ull; patent springs, [email protected] for old and [email protected] for new. _ WHEAT—Opened %c. higher and advanced ago. more in the early trading, then retreated 54c, and at_ noon was steady; receipts, 336,300 bushels; shipments, 199 750 bushels; No.2 red Winter, $1.0o%@1.06 casli; do., October, smog; do., December, 81.09%. CORN—Opened at $40. advance and moved up 763:. tailore, alllld at noon was strong; NO. 2 mixe, c.ca.s;do.,St ,",'.. October, 590. ep ember 09%0’ d0 ’ OATS—Steady; No. 2 mixed, 3l%@32c. cash; (10., September, 321,404 6.0., October, 32%6. RYE—Dull and unchanged. figgilggfi—Unchanged. S—Dull and unchanged. SUGAR—Unchanged; granulated, 41/é@4%0-; confectioners, A, 4%0. COFFEE—Spot lots stead ' ' ' " 190.; futures weak. y, fair R10 canoes, gICE—Dull and nominal. ORE—Quiet; new mess, 812®12.50. s’iIiiékRDwSteady; October, $7.12; December, BUTTER—Weak western extras 241169"- 7 . 1 .3 9“)“- CHEESE—Dull; Ohio factory, common to good, 6@7}§c. EGGS—Steady; state, nc laid, 21%,c.; west- ern, fresh, gathered fancy, léc. gggllinngl‘uIlNE—Weak at 37%@38c. — ' strained to 00d, 1.37 1.40. TALLOW—Strong; 5c. ma’.g 8 %@ _ PETROLEUM—Dull and unchanged. @ggfITHES—ACtbfid grfln to Liverpool, 4%; .; 0 on on 4 .' oAntwer d.'to Hamburg, 90p eniligs. ’ “5% ’ 'RUSSll uuuulu A Line of ll...ri'ac:s Erect-ed from Odessa lo .l'al‘SELW. MANEUVERIllfl—Ill SECRET. The llIllital-y Ofiicl-ls Bell-rent. and the . Local Press Forbidden to .iilnde tn the Matter—luany 3 Coming Rllllinl‘fl of Demonstration. LONDOIT, Sept. 24. — A dispatch from Odessa reports a steady movement of Rus- sian troops westward. Temporary barrac‘u accommodations have been provided in all military centers between here and “rare saw. It is not known, however, where the troops will concentrate. The military of- ficers are reticent and the local press is forbidden to allude to the matter. The movements are directed by General Vladimi’roff at Kieff and by General Gour- ko at Warsaw, two of the ablest tacticians in the army. The admiralty has ordered that all the larger vessels of the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading company, as well as the volunteer fleet, be equipped with powerful davits like men-of-waii'. These preparations have given rise to many war rumors. The Maneuvers Secret. General Mirkovitch, whois in command of the Fifteenth army corps at “Tarsaw, and is in chagge of the Russian army ma- neuvers in Poland, has issued an order for the immediate arrest of any person en- deavorin g to witness the maneuvers with- out a passport from himself, and he is said to be under special instructions to keep out all foreigners and newspaper corre- spondents. The behavior of the Russian troops un- der the fire of smokeless powder, about which much curiosity is felt in military circles, is not likely to be known. The Russian government is straining every nerve to keep the army sufficiently supplied with food, and thereby prevent discontent among the troops. It is said that the garrison at Kharkofl was on half rations during ten days of the month, owing to a failure of the supply department to do its duty. The responsi- ble oflicer was degraded in rank. “Forkmen in Revult. On the Siberian railway strikes and riots are reported, the workmen revolting on account of bad and inadequate food. Public sympathy is with the strikers, and it is demanded that inspectors be appoint- ed to protect the men from the rapacity of the contractors. The Russian minister of the interior has drafted a law providing for the deporta- tion to Tobolsk, in Siberia, of all foreign- ers coming under the decree of expulsion if their own country refuses to receive them. Poles and Jews will chiefly be af- fected by the measure. The Russian press urges that Russia observe neutrality in the Chinese rioting question. The Novoe Vremya hopes the government will take advantage of the disturbed condition of affairs to strengthen her position in the extreme east. Grand Duke Baden’s Alleged Speech. BERLIN, Sept. 24.—The alleged speech of the Grand Duke, of Baden, in which, ac- cording to The Dix Neuvieme Sieclc of Paris, he expressed the belief that the time was near “when Germany must again unsheath the sword in defense of her independence against an enemy who has not learned prudence by a. bloody de- feat,” is discredited here. It is said that the grand duke’s only recent public utterance, so far as known, is that in which he expressed his satisfac tion to the citizens of Saar-Louis, in Rhenish Prussia, that Germans were al- ways united when the emperor and the empire are in question. They Speak for Themselves. BERLIN, Sept. 24.——The Kreuz Zeituug, in a warning article on the westward movement of Russian troops, says: “The cavalry depots on the German frontier are three times as strong as formerly and new depots are being forwarded. Such meas- sures speak for themselves.” He’s Got Dioro to Spend. WOBURN, Mass, Sept. 24.—Char1es lVal- ter Gilbert, who disappeared from here about three months ago, has returned. When he left his accounts showed a short- age of $15,000 in his wife’s property and $7,000 in that of his mother-in-law’s, Mrs. True. No steps had been taken to prose- cute him. During his absence another relative left him over $7,000. A Burglar Fatally Shot. EAU CLAIRE, VVis., Sept. 24.—-Wi11iam Harriman, of California, was mortally wounded by an Indian doctor while Har- riman was burglarizing W. H. Smith’s general store. The doctor shot Harriman in the stomach. BRIEF MENTION.” Pretty thirteen-year-old Anna Johnson, who was living with her father in New- ark, N. J ., he and the child’s mother hav— ing separated some time ago, was boldly abducted by Mrs. Johnson and three men while on her way to school. It is believed that the party have started for Chicago, where the woman has been living. William Thornton, formerly a baker in Brooklyn, who, with his sister-in-law, Eva. Jewell, turned up at Jacksonville, Fla., representing that they had been car- ried out to sea at Coney island and taken to Florida, have proved to be elopers, hav- ing invented the story to conceal their true relation. The dynamite magazine of Emanuel 85 Lewis, near Catasauqua, Pa., was set on fire by some unknown person and a ter— rific explosion followed. Not a particle of. the structure remains, but only slight damage was caused to other property. No one was injured. The Butler County bank, of Millers- town, Pa, suspended payment a week ago, but its doors have not yet been closed. The embarrassment has caused a panic at Millerstown, and judgments have been entered against a number of residents. Four burglars invaded St. James’ Cath- olic cathedral, in New York city, and drank the sacred wine. Parishioners sur- rounded the building and ”wee of the burglars were captured. Father Lavelle, secretary at Archbishop Corrigan, said in New York that he un- derstood it was no longer against the law of the Roman Catholic church to be an Odd Fellow. The exhibition of the holy coat at Treves ends Oct. 4. It will have been viewed by 8,000,000 people. \.‘ BY SELLING THE - Groceries Our Teas and Coffees ARE THE BEST AND CHEAPEST. Nickersou do Belts. illegal ti. loin SUMMER MILLINERY. R3 are offering our entire stock of millincry at a GREAT REDUCTION. Our pr1cos are beyond competition. ——A Full Line of— Mourning -:- Goods Censtautly on hand. liAlil GOODS, A SPi-zcmLTY. Comma-cs MADE Ur. SEER. E3 .E‘dfi’isfi . 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REAR GOMPAEEY... E. K. LOCKWOOD. ESTHER I. JONES E. K. LOCKWOOD 8'» CO. Plumbing, Steam and Hot Air Engineering FULL LINE OF iillUSE FURNISHING G00 NORWALK. CONN . GWEN AWAY FREE -' By the Reliable Merchants oi knoll. $500~.Shoningor Upright Piano. With Stool, Cover and Lamp. SOLD BY . - V 9‘ A . ' mam; sen-m NO'VEMBER 1.. 1891.. The person holding the cards which represent the largest amount purchased will receive the Piano, with Stool, Cover and Lamp. Free of Charge. Remember the Card is obtainable only at the following stores Piano will be found on exhibition at SOME ONE or NAMED FIRMS: Edward Street, Centennial Tea 00., Dealer in Dry Goods, 5 Gazette Fine Teas, lofi‘ees, Butter, Sugar Building, Norwalk. and Spices, 18 Main Street. Blackmail, , . Jarvis Kellogg, Photographer and Artist, 53 W a1 Boots and Shoes, Leather and Street, Norwalk. Findings. Special Attention Paid Charles T, Leonard, to Repairing. 31 Main Street. Coal, Wood, Blue Stone and Ma- E_ N_ Sloan, sons’ Building Materials, 33 to 4 y W _ , Water street Norwalk. licture Frames, Stationery, foys Taylor & CO and Fancy Goods, 29 Wall Street. " H. J. & G. S. Grumman, Hardware, Cutlery, Paints, Oils _ Glass, Wall Paper, Window Manufacturers of Olden-Time Root Beer and Soda, 4-3 Main Street. Shades, Etc, 21 Main Street. J. Spencer & 00., G. A. Franke, _ Tonsorial Artist, 1 Gazette Build- Watchmakers and Jewelers, 3 Main street. ing, under Central National Bank. Anton Stommcll, George H. Raymond, Furniture Dealer and Furnishing Sash, Doors, Blinds, Hard Wood and Slate Mantels, 14 and 16 Undertaker and Embalmer, 46 and ‘48 Main Street. Water Street. Horace E. Donn, Nickerson & Betts, Livery Stables, Opposite Danbnry Family Groceries, Flour, Feed. &N0rwalk Railroad Depot. Grain, Hay, Foreign and Domes tic Fruits, 35 and 37 Main street P- W- Bates, ; W. F. Lockwood. Monumental, Building and Ceme- Dealer in Beef, Veal, Mutton, tery Work of every description, 12 p . Water street. 3 Pork, Poultry, Etc, 7 Main Street. Bryant, Bessc & 00., ! Elias Gusowski, Clothiers, Hatters and Men’s Fur- i Merchant Tailor, 31 Wall Street nishers, 29 Main Street. corner Water. Chas. L. Werner, Mrs. W. Fawcett, , Baker, Confectioner, Fine Ice Millinery Goods, Mourning Goods Cream, 6 Main Strreet. ? a specialty, 17' Main street. A. H. Hoyt & Son, John A. Riggs, Boots and Shoes, 37 Wall Street. l Pharmacist, No. 11 Main Street $500 REWARD. SPECIAL SALE AREWARD of Five Hundred Dollars will n,‘ iii q mud t. J. W. STUDWELL. Also, the. be paid by the Selectmen of the Town of ———-—OF——— Boys’ Clothing. oarty or parties setting any of the recent ncendiary fires in said town, or any suchfltthfat BOYS’ SCHOOL SUITS, ages 4 to 14, $1.25 to $2.00; worth double the money. may occur hereafter. SA UEL DASKAM, }Sclectmen of BOYS’ LONG PANTS SUITS with VESTS, $2.50 to $3.50. the Town BOYS’ KNEE PANTS, 25 cents. ' 'l‘AF’l‘ BROS, Dated at Norwalk. Februarv 16th. 1891. C. L. WERNER, 6 Main Street, Norwalk, Bake and Confectio'ner. Manufacturer of Ice Bream, WHOLESALE AND EMAIL. WPicnics and: parties supplied on short notice. ALL KINDS OF CANDIES FRESH EVERY DAY. Leave our orders for' Sundays at 6 MAIN STREE .NORWALK 1W5 23 WALL STREET, NOEWAL K‘ '9 O, ,J/
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