"'"Last year he paid on $70,000. r THE PEOPLE’S PAPER. Largest Circulation. LEABS in ADVERTISING.- .1 Wants, l Cent aIWord‘.‘ “Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Whatever State a PersuaSion, Religious or Political.”—Jqférson Vol. 11, Whole No. 259. w- The Daily Gazette Is issued cery week-day at 3 P. M.. at oNE CENT PER com. The Cheapest Rates for Advertising. and THE LARGEST CIRCULATION. The Weekly Gazette. [Combined with Friday‘s Dailv.l Is issued everyzli'a'iday at Noon, at mean CENTS PER COPY, 03 $1.50 PER YEAR. rhe Daily and, weekly; ‘ Served to Local Subscribers at TEN cENTs PER WEEK, 0R $5.00 PER YEAR. ' A. H. ”BrINeTON. Proprietor. This paper has the largest circulation of :1 n.” paper in the State we’st of Bridgeport. JOB PRINTING. MR. HARRY M. GARDNER. JR.. formerly of New York City, is the superintendent of our Printing Departments. He is an experienced Book, Job and Newspaper Printer, and all work entrusted to him will be satisfactorily done. Special care and attention given to CHURCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING. TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN. Mrs. D. E. Culver, of New York, is in town. Miss Fannie Belle Curtis is home for New Years. The Theatre Royal, Glasgow, was burned Sunday. —Silv er_Novelties at Jackson’s. ’253tf Mrs. Robert Dix, of Brooklyn, is vis- iting friends in town. - Ten were reported as having died of the grip in New York yesterday. The exhibition of the Meriden Poul- try association will open Thursday. Fully 20,000 of the residents of Ha _m- ilton, Ont., are affected With the grip. —Finest Cranberries in town 10 cts. per qt., People’s Market, 21 Wall. Slavin and Mitchell were loudly hissed at their exhibition in New York last night. Mrs. James Walsh is sick with the grip at her daughter’s res1dence on Main street. 1..-- John L. Sullivan and his best friend and trainer, Jack Barnitt, have dis- solved partnership. —CHAMBERMAID wanted immediately at the American House. 254tf The Christmas festival of the Sunday school of the First Congregational Chufi‘ch taken place in the Chapel t0- nig t. . The town of Stratford is afflicted with a ghost, whose principal business is wandering about the cemetery in a night shirt. Ormer Alanson Hall, a well known resident of Bridgeport, died suddenly of paralysis yesterday. He made a for- tune by printing. —GREAT BARGAINS IN MILLINEBY AT THE BOSTON STORE; Trimmed and Un- trimmed Hats will be sold at half price to close out. Newell J. Minor, eastern auditor for Armour 8: Co., committed suicide "in a Turkish bath establishment in Phila- delphia yesterday. Pioneer Castle No. 1, of the Mystic Chain will elect ofiicers tonight, and important matters will be brought to the attention of members. ——Dressed and undressed Dolls 180, :14 Hanlon Bros., 53 Main street. We positively close on Saturday. 1t . Charles M. Blitz, 3 meat dealer, was found in his store in Bridgeport un- conscious Saturday. The physician said he had been drugged. Dr. Rufus Baker, a physician of thirty4five years’ standing in Middle- town, died at the age of 75 yesterday. He leaves a wife and a fortune. —-—All the news of the day in the GA- ZETTE. Delivered at your house by carrier.- See adv. .The condition of Cyrus W. Field and his daughter, Mrs. Lindley, was re- ported last night to be unchanged. M. Field ate a little fish and toast yes- terday. There is a new link between man and his Darwinian ancestors, another bond of sympathy and of kinship. The monkeys have the grip—New Haven Register. E. H. King, a postal clerk on the Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Rail- road, committed suicide by shooting himself Sunday. He had been discOv- ered in a petty theft. Mr. John J. Nathans, who died in New York last Saturday, was Manager Bunnell’s first partner in the show busi- mess in 1861 with the “Maybee and Nathans Shows” in the westfiand after- wards in Cuba and Canada. . —Commence the New Year by order- ing the GAZETTE left at your house by carrier. _ . . Glen Island, owned byJohn H. Star- in, which is included in the corporate limits of New Rochelle, has been as- sessed at $75,000. Mr. Starin asks the trustees to reduce the amount $35 ,000. Mrs—Dr. Many is quite sick at her home on North avenue. ——Attend Knights of Columbus re- fioption, at the Armory, New Year’s ve. A special meeting for the election of officers of the N. S. E. 0. Will be held this evening. Walt. Whitman is improving, and ' the doctors say that he is growing stronger daily. Lumber-dealer Hubbell was in re- ceipt of two car loads of goods in his line, this morning. The annual roll-call of the First Con- gregational Church will be held Thurs- day evening at the chapel. —A fine assortment of Diamond Scarf pins, at Jackson’s. 253 tf Miss Georgia A. Hutchinson Winnipauk, is ome from the S Normal school, or the holidays. of tate Miss Minnigan, principal of the State Kindergarten at New Britain, is lying ill at the residence of D. S. Curtis on‘ East avenue. Lowell police inspectors Sunday, in the South Acton woods, found a skele- ton with little clothing left on it, and no means of identification. Arthur F. Quintard has accepted the position of manager of the Boston branch of E. C.Hazard’s wholesale gro- cery house of New York. John George Lindenan, who wanted to secure Cornelius Tanderbilt’s brains, was pronounced insane yesterday. He will be sent to an insane asylum. _mSouvenir Spoons in a variety of de- SIgns at Jackson’s. 253 tf The veteran race horse trainer, J. B. Pryor, died at his home in Holmdel, N. J ., Sunday. Mr. Pryor was 80 years old, and leavesa widow and five children. Owing to the illness of a juryman, the Daley murder trial at Willimantic has been abandoned. A new jury probably will be impaneled January 12. —'—The GAZETTE delivered at your house by carrier. See adv. on 4th page. United States Consul William T: Rice, the oldest consul in the service- died on Saturday at his post at Leg horn from acute pulmonitis, after an illness of two days. Contrary to general expectation Gov- ernor Russell yesterday afternoon re- fused to sign the pardon of James Dunlap, the Northampton bank robber now in state pris on. —Gold spectacles and eye glasses and spectacles of all kinds at J acksgg’s. 25 The country home of Henry Thomp- kins at Ardsley, \Vestchester County, New York, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday. The flames Spread With such rapidity that the family barely es- caped with their night clothing. The bright, -new silver coins, with the national coat of arms on one side and the classic head of the goddess of liberty on the other, will begin to cir- culate among the people early next year. The mints will begin soon after January 1 to turn them out. ——Now is the time to leave your or- ders for the GAZETTE by carrier. The Rev. George H. Buck, rector of St. James’ Church, Birmingham, is mentioned as a possible successor to the late Rev. Dr. Beardsley as rector of St. Thomas’ Church, New Haven. Mr. Buck is regarded as one _of the most talented clergymenin the diocese. The Tilden will case was up before Surrogate Cofiin in White Plains yes- terday and again adjourned until next Monday. The executors will now con- test in the Supreme Court the validity of the bequest of $50,000 to Yonkers and $100,000 to New Lebanon, N. Y., for the Tilden free library. ‘ —A fine line of Marble, Iron and Wood Case Clocks at J ackson’s. 253tf At a meeting of Concord Division. S. of T. held last evening, the followmg officers were elected : W. P., Jonas D. Warden; W. A., William A. Ambler ; R. S., Lewis Hubbell ; A. R. S,, Mabel Rogers; F. 8., William A. Kellogjg; Treas,, William A. Pryor; Con., d- ward Drew ; A. Con., Mrs. Hotchkiss ; I. S., William Smith; 0. S., E. S. Osterbankl. —Send in. your orders for the GA- ZETTE. ‘ One of the local insurance agents in Willimantic has been notified by one of his companies to cancel all policies covering property located in the town of Mansfield. The reasons given are that if the people of the town have not had push enough to discover the incen- diaries and put a stop to the fires in five years they (the company) do not care to do business with them any longer. ’ An animal which resembles a wild cat is raisin havoc among the farmers of White H' ls, about three mills from Shelton. It steals chickens and even has gone so far as to kill a half-grown lamb and drag it away. Charles Wheeler, 9. milkman, says he saw the animal Saturday while driving cattle from pasture, and says it was nearly as large as a common bird dog, and of a striped gray color. ~Gold-headed canes at Jackson’s. 25 NOI'Walk, Conn, Tuesday Evening, December 29, 1891. Father Coleman, pastor of the Catho- lic church in Fairfield, is laid up With the grip. The Boston board of .health reports nine deaths from the grip in that City the past week. Pilgrim Council, O. U. A, M., will hold their semi-annual election of offi- cers to-morrow evening. —Solid Silver and Plated Ware. A large Christmas stock atJackson’s 253tf Charles H. Unversagi, treasurer of the Union Square Bank, New York, was arrested yesterday afternoon, charged with a violation of the Bank- ing law. Anton Rubenstein,the Russian pianist and composer, has declined the Offer recently made him for a concert tour in America, and gives out that he has; walk. ‘ \ ceased playing in public. Twenty cars were wrecked on a heavy grade near Centralia, Pa. , yesterday, by the breaking of a couplingnwhich let a part of the first section of a freight train run back upon the second section. —See adv. Daily Carrier Service on 4th page. In a six-days’ go-aS-you—please race, which ended at St. Louis last night, “ Old Sport” Campana, of Bridgeport, made a record of 365 miles, but was not among the first four who div1ded $2,000. In an interview with a gentleman on the train going to Stamford last even- ing, Lieut. Col. Crowe when' asked if he would resign after being Colonel for a year said, ”The paper says so, I did not.” ' —Third annual concert and reception of Catholic Union Council, No. 46, K. C. , at Armory. New Year’s Eve. Don’t fail to see decoration—nothing like it ever in town. Tickets $1 ; sold by members. The steamship Southgate from Alex~ andria, Egypt, landed 4,900 bales of Egyptian cotton in New York yester- day. It is said to be superior to the American article, which it Wlll be mixed with. David Whetstine, of . the firm of Stegeman & Whetstine, lies dangerous- ly ill at his home in Bridgeport. A blood vessel bursted in his head yester- day morning. ‘Mr. Stegeman has been suffering from the grip. Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court yesterday Signed . mandate to Warden Brown,‘ of Sing Sing Prison, commanding him to pro- ceed with the execution of murderers Charles McElvaine and Nicolla Trezza. __,_._ . fi,. ._ —~For Christmas presents call at Jackson’s. 253tf Albert E. Herrick, the brakeman, whose neglect caused the Christmas eve accident on the New York Central, before he fled left with his father a written statement that he -mistook the St. Louis express for the “Crotonlocal. ” The glove contest between Andy Bowen of New Orleans and Austin Gibbons of Paterson, N. J ., for a purse of $2,500, of which $500 goes to the loser, takes place in the rooms of the Melfi'opolitan Club, New Orleans, to- nig t. The President has denied the applica- tion for pardon in the case of Harper, who was convicted on a charge of em- bezzlement of funds of the Fidelity Savings Bank of Cincinnati, O_., and sentenced in 1887 to ten years’ impris- onment. The family of Jennie W. Smith, seventeen years of age and a Roman Catholic, who eloped from Hartford last week with Ernest F. Washburn, eighteen years of age and a protestant, who married her in New York, has dis- owned her. ’ —A fine stock of Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry at lowest prices, at J ack- son’s. _ . _ 253 tf The horses of a funeral coach con- taining six, persons were struck by a passenger train on the Long Island railroad at the Greenpoint' avenue crossing in Long Island City, yester- day. The horses were killed an d the occupants’hlightly hurt. The third annual concert and recep- tion of Catholic Union. Council No. 46, K. of C., will be held in the armory on Thursday evening. Dwyer’s band will give a concert of seven selections, com- mencing at 8 o’clock, and Heine’s 0r- ohestra will furnish the music for danc- ing. ~ . Conductor Andrew Jones, formerly of the ConSolidated road and for some _years past Conductor on a railroad in Kentucky, was killed in a railroad ac- cident in that state recently. Mr. Jones was soon, it is said, to accept an ofi‘ea' to return to the employ of that roa . The action of Henry Sanford, as President of the Adams ExpreSs Com- pany, against John Hoey was discon- tinued yesterday by order of Justice Andrews of the Supreme Court, and the attachment granted on Oct. 16 has been vacated. Great preparations are being made by the Y. M. C. A. for open house on New Year day. Noless than five hund- red invitations will be issued. This will be one of the greatest events of the year. An elaborate programme has been arranged, extending through af- ternoon and evening. Refreshments will be served by the “ Ladies’ Auxili- ary,” and the rooms of the association will be beautifully decorated. This re- ception will be given to all young. men whtetherTmembers of the association or no . g \ . . ' : the ' William RSKiiapp, of East Norwalk, died at the Noroton} Soldiers’ Home this morning. / The telephone wire ”between tele- phone headquarters and the Bank of Norwalk, 150 feet, was out of order all the morning. ~ Miss Agnes Carr, of. Norwalk, was married to William Warren, .of Meri- den, yesterday by Rev. S. T. Graham of St. Paul’s Church. ' Phoenix Engine Company will keep open house on New Year'Zs day, from 1 to 4p. m. All citizens are invited to call and partake of the hospitality of the company. __ Dana C. Bissell, of the firm of F. J. Smith & Co. of Bridgeport, scaven ers, has Sold out his interest in the rm. Commencing Jan. 4th, Mr. Bissell will engage in the same bufsiness in Nor- __.__‘ , Ex-Postmaster-General Cresswell was buried yesterday at Elktjon, Md. The Post-office Department Ewas closed at noon, and was represented at the func- ral by the Third Assistant Postmaster- General. Roddy McGinnis was around town this morning with a badly damaged optic, which came in too close contact with a “stick of wooc ” which the May- or was chopping at his home on Cob- ble Hill. H. R. Parrott, of Bridgeport, and George S. Forebush, of Boston, were in town this morning and held a con- ference with C. B. Coolidge in the in- terest of the proposed Olmstead Par- allel railroad. , Solomon Haas, a well-known resident of Shamokin, Pa., was, publicly horse- whipped yesterday by J Ohn C. Snyder, proprietor of the Philadelphia Novelty Store, for insulting his 18-year—old daughter. Rev. Father Gambosville, rector of St. John’s Roman Catholic church, Newark, is lying dangerously ill at his parish from an attack of the grip. He was taken suddenly ill while celebra- ting mass, Sunday morning, and was unable to finish the services. The bond given to the United States Government by Jefferson Davis to ans- wer to the Circuit Court in Richmond, Va., for treason is missing from the court records. This paper bears the signatures of Horace Greeley, John Minor Botts, Gerrit smith and other prominent persons. James A. Davison, afwrmer resident of Massachusetts, and a Union soldier from that state, was found Sunday ly- ing near the tracks of the Valley rail- road at Hartford with his throat cut from ear to car. .A razor lay beside him. It is supposed to be a case of su- icide. Davison wasa laborer. ‘- ' Caleb Foote, who is within two months of 89 years of age, is probably the old- est newspaper man in the country in active service. For 49 «years he has been editor of the Salem (Mass) Ga- zette. and for a long time he was pro- prietor of that paper. His entire pro- fessional life, except seven months passed in Europe, has been devoted to the Gazette. The champion “stamp-sticker” of the world is probably Miss Ada M. Crawford ,of Philadelphia. She is fore- woman for the E. C. Howe Company, publishers of directories at Eighth and Locust streets. and devotes her time to addressing and sealing stamped envel- opes. She can stick 3,000 stamps an hour, and seal 12,000 envelopes (also with her tongue) in a day. The civil case of Tristram vs. Weed was again before Justice Mead this morning. The suit is for wages due the plaintiff for work done at Weed’s shoe factory at South Norwalk. The case has been up for trial on three dif- ferent occasions, but has been ad- journed on account of the alleged sick- ness of the defendant. This morning when the case was again called, Joseph Taylor for John H. Light, who repre- sents Weed, again asked for an adjourn- ment on the ground of the continued illness of the defendant, but as it was understood by the Justice that Weed was at the shoe factory yesterday, and that it was not likely that he would ap- pear, judgment was -zendered for the plaintiff for $4.85 and costs. An appeal was taken. ‘ op—w— ————- THE DEATH RECORD. Rev. A. H._ HALL, pastor of the Center Congregational church, at Meriden, Conn. JOHN HASTINGS, ex—county supervisor, at Bovina, N. Y. Rev. WILLIAM ROLLINSON, pastor of the First Baptist church, at Rahway, N. J. Rev. JAMES F. NOLAN, a Catholic priest, at Caldwell, N. J. ‘ THOMAS S. APPLEGATE, proprietor of the Adrian (Mich) Times. Dr. T. S. ARMSTRONG, superintendent of ”the State hospital, at Binghamton, N. Y. JACOB STROUD, treasurer of Crawford county, Ind., at English. Brigadier General WILLIAM RAYMOND LEE, at Roxbury, Mass. Dr. ARRAM METCALFE, 3. Knights Tem- plar, at Syracuse, N. Y. Dr. J. S. 'WALDEN, one of the best known men at Scranton, Pa, ‘4 PETER O. DYKE, a Republican committee- man and real estate dealer, at Elizabeth” N. J. , - Ex—Judge CLAYTON LIPPINCOTT, at Morris- town, N. J ' General THOMAS ALLCOCK, at New York. Sir WILLIAM ARTHUR WHITE, British em- bassador to Turkey. LEOPOLD STOCKER, formerly Joseph Bona- parte’s valet de chamber, at Avon, Ills. - Auditor Minor a Suicide. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29,—Newell J. Minor, eastern auditor for Armour & 00., com- mitted suicide at Martiudale’s Turkish bath- rooms, Tenth and Filbert/streets. 'the fashions is almost IN ll_l_E_l_OIL8. ' “ Thomas J. Earle, who Stole a Bicycle from Louis Potter Last August, Caught in New York. Identified by Mr. Potter. Last Friday afternoon a DAILY GA— ZETTE reporter called on Louis Potter, at his billiard parlors, with a clipping from the New York Sun of that date, which described the capture and arrest of Thomas J. Lumsden, in New York, for stealing and selling bicycles. It will be remembered that on Aug— ust 11th last, a young man engaged a bicycle at Mr. Potter’s store for a short ride and failed to return. The machine was a Lovell safety, No. 1669, and val- ued at $100. " Mr. Potter has expended consider- able time and money since August in hunting down clues of the lost machine, none of which have been successful. The description given of the man in the clipping tallied so minutely with the young man that hired the machine that Mr. Potter went to J efi‘erson Mar- ket Police Court to see if he could identify him. He called on Detective Carey, who had made the arrest, and the two went up stairs together to see the prisoner. When Mr, Potter saw him he imme- diately identified him as the young man who had stolen his wheel in August. Lumsden was arrested last Wednes- day in New York, and there are three charges in that city against him. The Brooklyn police also hold warrants for his arreSt. Besides these cases De- tective Carey said that over forty com- plaints have come in for stolen bicy— cles, most of which he thinks he can trace to the same enterprising young man. ' Mr. Potter had a short conversation with Lumsden during which he asked Mr. Potter not to appear against him. Mr. Potter was anxious to get at the whereabouts of his wheel but was not allowed to question the young man any :4 further. At the hearing in court, Lumsden was held for the Grand Jury under bonds of $2,000. He is a well dressed, good looking young man, about 19 years of age, and the son of William L. Lums- den, the sexton of the Fourth avenue Presbyterianchurch in New York. In August when he hired the bicycle from Mr. Potter he gave the name of T. J. Earle. and said that he was visit- ing in Stamford. —Diamond and Fancy Stone Rings at J ackson’s. ' 253tf —--.vo-—--————————— Cheating Uncle Sam- Special Treasury Agent McCoy, of, New York, reported yesterday that he has examined 131 bales of tobacco con- signed to M. Stachelberg & Co., and invOiced as fillers subject to a duty of 35 cents a pound. Fifty-one of the bales contained hardly anything except fine wrappers, which are subject to a duty of $2 a pound. Unless Mr. Mc- Coy is mistaken, Stachelberg & CO. will have to answer a charge of trying to cheat Uncle Sam out of more than $8,500. It is alleged that other tobac- conists have been following the same course and the Treasury Department Wlll continue the investigation which it began two weeks ago at the request of dealers in domestic tobacco. Christmas Service and Festival. The Sunday school of Grace church held their Christmas Service and Fes- tival last evening. The services at the church were unusually fine and highly enjoyed. After the services at the church the school adjourned to Look- wood’s Hall, where a beautiful Christ- mas tree containing presents for the scholars was presided over by Santa Claus. The distribution of presents was quickly made, after which the chil- dren were alipwed a play hour, which all enjoyed. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wat- kins were notforgotten by Santa Claus and received a handsome Christma token. + - The Legislature. The Connecticut Senate meets td-day and will probably adjourn to January 6, to which time the House adjourned. It is hoped a decision from the Supreme Court on the gubernatorial case will be received by that time. fl+h~—— Titled Kleptonianiucs. A French author gives some curious information about the ladies who are tempted, and who fall during their shopping expeditions. He says that no fewer than 4,000 women are caught every year stealing before the counter. The number of titled ladies seized with kleptomania while examining incredible. Among the most recent culprits were a Russian princess, a French coun- tess,— -an English duChess and the daughter of a reigning sovereign. As a rule, these more distinguished oflfenders are let of on the payment of a round ,sum for the relief of the poor; and when the shoplifter is known to be rich the sum exacted rises to as much as 10,000 francs. The police authorities consent to this sort of condonation.—London Tit-Bits. ' served him right. Anson B. Ricesof Waterbury, who allowed one of his horses to starve while he was on a spree, was fined $100 and costs and three months in jail, by Judge Bradstreet of that city yesterday. _-_._ _-,.____-L Democratic Caucus. A call has been issued for a caucus of the Democratic State Senators and members of the House on Tuesday evening, January 5. This is the even- ing preceding the re-assembling of the House. It “111 be held in the Supreme Court room. ‘ aa§>—_.___ Buncoed in New York. William S. Cortis, a New Canaan ba- ker, went to New York last Saturday on busmess. He went into a saloon in the lower part of the city and there met James Barry, an ex-convict. While the two_were together $415, which Cor- tishad in his pocket, in some manner got into Barry’s pocket. Barry was ar- lfislid and ocked up charged with e . ' ' < o >—-——- Opera House. As the Lester Company was unable to get their paper here in time for New Year’s night Manager Adams cancelled their contract and secured the celebra- ted Gourley & Hart in “Struck Gas” for that evening. Everybody will re- member Gourley & Hart and what fun they made in "‘Struck by the Light of the Moon.” A packed house should greet them. , _‘ '————' .0 O ‘—-—————-—._ St. Paul’s Christmas Festival. The Xmas festival given at St. Paul’s Church last evening was a brilliant success. A large number were in at- tendance, and to say that the Sunday school children enjoyed themselves would be stating it mildly. The church was handsomely decorated with ever- greens and presented a very pretty ap- pearance. Presents of books were dis- tributed to the scholars of the Sunday school up-stairs in the body of the church, after which all hands “went below” to the Sunday;school room where Santa Claus, Harry Smith, pre- sented the younger scholars with all kinds of nice things. The Brakeman Discharged. The report of the investigation into the railroad accident at Southport on Saturday has not as yet been received by General Manager Tuttle from Supt. Shephard. George W. Gibbs of Bridge- port, one of the brakemen on the work train, and acting as fiagma-n, has been discharged. The wé‘rkj-“itfaiii‘ had run on to the crossover andgw‘ras preparing to go on to _a sidingandxijt was Gibbs’, duty to flag the freight that was due, ,biit’ he did not go out far enough, and the re- sult was a collision. It was foggy at the time, and it was necessary for a flagman to go out further than usual. Had it been clear the engineer of the freight would have seen the flag in time to stop his train. —See adv. Daily Carrier Service on 4th page. _.. .v ._____‘..p___ _._ ___« New Fad Among the High School Girls. A new and extremely novel fad has takenpossession of the young ladies of the High school. In a Main street shoe store yesterday, two blushing damsels of Sixteen or thereabouts were engaged in trying on pretty little No. 2 boots, when suddenly one of the fair shoppers turned pale and uttered a frightened little shriek. At the same time she reached for her boot, from which the salesman had just extracted a bent hairpin. When asked the reason of her alarm, the young lady gave the fol- lowing explanation: “You see, every girl in the school, if she finds a hairpin, puts it in her shoe. Then she is sure, in a short time, to receive an introduc- tion to a young gentleman. After get- ting the introduction she removes the hairpin from her shoe. I had three in my boot yesterday, and now there’s only one,” she naively added—Bridge- port Union. ' . -—-‘ ->————. «_— Set the Bed on Fire. Thomas O’Gorman, Jr., aged three years, son of the proprietor of the Boston Store is a chip of the old block. By this we do not mean to say that the O’Gorman family are partial'to fires, but that Thomas, Jr. can produce as much excitement in the family when he is in the hum‘or, as Thomas. Sr. can produce among the purchasers of dry goods when he has one of his great “mark down” sales. Yesterday after- noon, about 2 o’clock, the young man, as is his usual custom, went up stairs in his father’s residence on High street, to take his daily nap. He had not been gone long, before the family smelled smoke, and on rushing up discovered that Thomas, instead of lying down and goin to sleep as every obedient boy shou (1, had in some way procured a match. and going into his aunt’s room had set the bed afire. The fire was burning briskly by the time it was discovered and had destroyed all the bed clothing and entirely ruined the foot-board of the bed. The blaze was put out and the young man who was gn the next room calmly washing his hands at the basin, was called upon for an explanation, but all that could be gotten out of him was that he wanted to have some fun. The, fun was given him, but in a way that he had not looked for, and was administered ex- ternally; and in the highest style of the art. When Thomas, Jr. wends his way up. stairs this afternoon to take his daily nap, Thomas, Sr. will follow closely in his rear, and when he is dis- robed and ready for bed, Thomas, Sr. W111 see to it that a chain is attached to the youngster and the other (and se- curely fastened in the head-board of the bed. . Down they 20. ——Boots and Shoes reduced'20 per cent. until January 1st, at Jarvis Kel- logg’s. ‘ - . A 249tf Price One Cent. f TELEGRAPHIG. BREVITIES, SCANLAN’S CASE ‘ HOPELEss. ' l The Famous Irish Comedian Shattered Both in Mind and Body. . ' NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Actor William J. Scanlan, Shattered in mind and body, has been removed, to the house of Augustus-h Pitou, his manager and friend, at 129 West 1 N inety-fifth street. Scanlan’s Irish songs were comparable to j the German melodies of Fritz Emmet, but it is unlikely that he will ever sing them again in public. The poor fellow imagines he has a. brand on the back of his neck;,has imagined for weeks that some one in the audience was speaking his lines in “Mavour- neen” before he did, and last night he be- came violent at the Imperial-hotel, rushed out into the corridor and insisted that men were disturbing his rest and that enemies were pursuing him. “gBut he obeyed Manager Pitou and sub mitted quietly to being removed in a. car- riage. He is completely broken down and. his case is regarded as hopeless. His great-' est fear is that he will be sent to an asylum, , but Mr. Pitou says he will never permit that. ‘ . " Mrs. Scanlan, the devoted wife of the famous Irish comedian, is almost distracted with grief. She was Maggie Jordan, the young woman who was famous in 1873. She was accused of having aided the condemned» murderer William J. Sharkey to escape from the Tombs in her clothing. _She had visited him with Mrs. “Wes” Allen. Shar- key used Mrs. Allen’s pass and a part of Maggie Jordan’s dress and succeeded in passing the guard. It was on Nov. 19, 1873. Maggie J ordan'joined him in Cuba. and was shamefully abused by him till he died in exile. Then she returned to New York. and was married to Scanlan. Scanlan is now only thirty—four years old. He was ' born in Springfield, Mass, and opened his last season there in “Mavourneen.” A FIERCE BLAZE IN BOSTON. Ten Firemen Injured and Half a. hIillion ' Dollars’ Damage Done. ‘ BOSTON, Dec. 29.‘—Thc most destructive fire which has raged in this city Since the Thanksgiving day blaze of 1889 occurred last night. It was of a somewhat extended area and for a time threatened illions of dollars’ worth of surroundin property. The total loss is about $500,000. The structure burned was the four story and a. half brick building, with freestone trim- - mings, with a frontage at 133 and 135 and at 141 Federal street, the rear forming a con- tinuous structure on Federal court, with a. side frontage of fifty feet on Milton place. It is owned by the Revere heirs. The dense smoke caused by the burning of leather and rubber goods rendered the fire " an extremely dangerous one for the firemen to fight. Many firemen were injured, the - following being the list: Chief Engineer Weber, hurt in. leg and internally; District. Joseph Smith, of Chemical N o. 2; Edward Chief Eagan, Daniel Stevens, Lieutenant""-' ' Sparrow, overcome by smoke; J. T. Gill- ' bride, Ladder N o. 8, cut in thigh; Mellen R. Joy, Ladder No. 17, dislocated ankle; George W. Thompson, of No. 1, cut with. glass, and John R. Ellery, of Engine No. 6, and J ohn. Manegan, Engine No. 26, taken with hem- orrhage. An ambulance with a corps Of doctors from the Emergency hospital were at the scene of the fire, and the lives of three men were probably saved by the prompt treatment they received. An Alleged Plot Against Curtis. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—The. lawyers defending M. B. Curtis, the actor, say they Shall prove that the police department have all along known the man who shot Police- man Grant, but for reasons of their own do not care to bring him to justice. They de- clare that the breaking down of the iden- tification of the pistol as Curtis’ weapon is complete, as Johnson confesses that he per- ' jured himself. Not one of the women who saw the shooting are willing to swear that Curtis was the man they saw running away. A Notable Family Reunion. MASCOUTAH, Ills., Dec. 29.—There was a notable family reunion at Marissa. of the de- scendants of Robert Hamilton, who was driven from Scotland during the persecution in that country in 1791. fifty of his descendants were at Marissa, some of whom journeyed all the way from South Carolina to attend the reunion. In Danger of Hydropliobia. TEXARKANA, Ark, Dec. 29.——A mad dog yesterday created a deal of excitement. It attacked and bit Mr. James Yost, also a. lit- tle son of George Scherer, and later on it severely mangled Mike Kelly. The dog was finally killed. All the persons bitten are Two hundred and ‘ greatly alarmed, as there is no doubt the ‘ dog was suifering with rabies. Bishop Louglilin Very Sick, BROOKLYN, Dec. 29.—Bishop Loughlin is seriously ill. The bishop’s illness is account- ed for solely on the ground of overwork." He was first stricken about two months ago, but rallied and was thought to be on the road to recovery, when he had a. re- lapse, and has since been very low. A Pretty Girl Blur-dared. PHILADELPHIA, Dec: 29.—Ella Winter, a pretty girl aged nineteen years, was found dead in the storehouse attached to the broom factory of Albert Dallenncdale with a ghastly wound in the back of her head. Three men have been arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the crime. ‘The Tilden Will Case Again: WHITE PLAINS,‘ N. Y., Dec. 29.—Argu. . ment was heard Monday in the matter of compelling the executors of the Tildenwill to render an accounting. The surrogate took the papers and adjourned the case for _ one week without giving a decision. A Brutal lVInrderer Hanged. NASHVILLE, Dec. 29.—Lem Jones was hanged at Oliver Springs. Jones met his death for the murder of his wife and child, braining his child and Splitting the Woman’s head open on the night of June 26, 1890. The prisoner was shown unusual attention ‘while in jail on account of his prominence, he having been county superintendent of schools. He was also a deacon in the Bap- tist church and every effort was made to ,. . j G have a respite granted, but the crime was such a heinous one that the governor re~ fused to favor him: ' “ ., t ". -};I\¥"‘- .w :4. ;,..‘
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