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’ THE FAVORITE HOME PAPER. .

 

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The Gazette has the largest cir—
culation of any paperln Norwalk.
and furnishes the lowest advertising
rates. ‘

A Mistake.

The action of the Court of Burgesses
in imposing rather hard conditions
upon the Norwalk Tramway with refer-
ence to Mill Hill, while apparently in
the interests of the Borough tax pay-
ers will prove to be somewhat detri-
mental to the business interests of the
Borough if the tramway does not run
into and through Wall street. The
tramway, 'if completed as projected,
will tap purchasing communities having
an aggregate population of over three
thousand people whose business is
worth having and whose purchasing-
will be largely done at our local count-

‘ ers, provided they can get to and frOm

their homes Speedily and cheaply.
Granted that the primary object of the
tramwayis to make money for its pro-
jéctors, still its completion to ~ East
Norwalk and New Canaan will benefit
the Borough, and nowhere more than
in its business center. The elevated
roads in New York have added millions
to the value of real estate in the, lower”
part of the city by bringing people to
the business centers and thereby con-
centrating business. The effect of the
tramway will be to add largely to the

‘ value of business property, and tend to

keep the business of the Borough with-
in one-half a mile' of the “ old bridge.”
The building of small stores indiffer-
ent localities will cease as peOple can

go where the goods are and not have '

thegoods brought to them. “Rapid
transit” helps any place, and heaven,
knows that the Borough of Nerwalk
needs every adventitious element that
can be summoned to her aid. 'The
good faith of the Courtof Burgesses
cannot be questioned, but we fear they
lack that foresight which builds up a'
town. We think they should allow
Mill Hill to be made feasible for the
use of the tramway and that they
should not only consent to two tracks
through Wall street, but should ask

- the legislature to compel the two com-

panies‘to get together in the matter of,

railway to control Wall street is but to
perpetuate a monopoly. The tramway
is in no sense a rival of the older com-
pany, and even if it was Norwalk’s
deep founded belief in a “parallel”
ought to urge us to favor the tramway
on general principles. I

If the Court wishes to shift the ‘re-
Sponsibility to other shoulders let them
call a Borough meeting and then We
shall see if the business men of Nor-
walk wish to stop this powerful aid to
the development of their business. Of
course we will be called “corporation
allies,” “ tools of monopoly,” etc., but
we ask would the business property of
Norwalk be worth any more if the‘ex-
isting horse railroad was ‘ torn up ?
\Vould it not be actually worth more if
there were two roads through the town
instead of one? Where would the
business part of New York city be
were it not for the “L ” roads ? True
the “ L” roads are capitalized beyond

' reason, but they have enriched the real

estate owners of New York by concen-
trating, business in the lower part of
the city, thereby making business real
estate more valuable each "year, and

they haveialso rendered acres and acres

of uptown property available for resi-
dence purposes which, without rapid
transit, would have remained cow pas-
tures, at cow pasture prices. ,

Norwalk is not New York, but an
electric road‘ reaching .into territory
not served in any way cannot but help
build up the Borough, and any unrea-

sonable obstacles thrown in the way of-

extra-urban transit is a check to the
town’s progress. We think the impor-
tance of this subject in its'bea'ring upon

I . the welfare of the Borough entitles it

to a second thought on the part of, our
Borough Fathers. and we hope they

3 will look at the matter through broad

gauge spectacles. .
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The Two Johns.

 

'. John Fairchild has an'elegant black

eye. Yesterday afternoon armed with

. a shovel handle he got into a "dispute

with a colored man named, John King,

and as if emphasize his language struck:

King a hard thwack. on the arm" with

~ the shovel handle. This ' was more
than3King could bear and he proceeded
3..., ,_ « to wipe up the grOund with. Fairchild,
.L x , getting intopossesion of him by knock-
ing himfdown. . Fairchildcaused King’s

arrest andJustice Coolidge this morn-

"93. ing impnsed a. fine of $1 and costs
from‘which decision he ,took an appeal

‘ and furnished a bondSman. .

A warrant hasgbeen, sworn out for
the arrest, :of JohnFairchil‘d. and the

/ q-finalc‘ofthe" " acting‘of the ,Two John's
' is yetunsctt 9". ,f.“ .» .

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To allow the horse »

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4 Fancy
Market. 33 ‘ 3 >
There are , now-["158- prisoners at the

Bridgeport jail. ‘

Strawbefries, 518c. at. Peoiilte’s

 

The Daughters er the King of Sta?
Paul’s churgh willmeet tc-night.

Bridgeport ishappy. Five newdoublc'
horse cars have arrived in thatcity.

 

The Grand Division S. Of T will meet
in South Norwalk next Thursday.

A son Was born to Mr. and Mrs.3Mor
ris Sloan, cf Cross street, yesterday.

 

——'Young—mau wanted to; work in Res-
taurant. Apply American House. 592tf

Last Thursdays jstorm has caused a
25 per cent. advance in the price of
oysters. ‘ ' . I _

Henry -~Keeler .. has , purchased the
horse Grey Eagle 0f Huckleberry yfllll
parties. . w . _

 

 

completed.‘ 7_ 33
The CostellO-Sullivan slid. the Me-

Quire-Sheedy weddingggwdgl take place

to-morrowmorning.’ ' , .

SehoOl and Chestnut street has been

 

The largest convention of Foresters
ever held in Connecticut will be the one
held in Danbury, May 8th. 4 ,,

 

massages. Anthony declaressthat
we are on the eve of an cra'ofiinmarried
women. She ought - to know. something
about it. - 3 3 , -

Residents of Belden” avenue complain
of a red setter dog that has a mania for
stealing poultry, and-shows a prefer-
ence for setting hens. -

The visit of the Women’s Relief
Corps of Buckinfiim Post to the S01-
diers’ Home, announced for to—night
has been indefinitely pestponed.

——Owing to the death of a member
of the circle the entertainment an-
nounced to be given at the Broad
River-chapeliiEO-morrow night has been
postponed for one week. 592-2t

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During'th’c two weeks’ missirn ofthe
Dominican fathers in Danbury,'_just
closed, fully 5,000 persons received
Holy Communion , ,d fteen converts
were received intoé’f 'e’Catholic faith.

Cooper Roberts ‘T'who yesterday took
an appeal from a fine and costs,for
drunkenness, finding no one to go
bonds for him finally prevailed on his
fatherI to pay the fine and he was re-
‘ease . '- '

‘—-Hale’s Lung Balsam relieves colds
caused by the Grip. 16-tf

Through the generosity of Alexander
M....White the Danbury library will
sco‘n'become a free one. His latest gift
to the institution is the'structure in‘ the‘
rear of the librarj , recently built at a
cost of $35,000.

,—H_ale’s Lung Balsam, 25c 16-tf
John Slattery emphatically denies
the statement published in the Senti-
nel to the effect that he had turned
State’s evidence in the case of the State
vs. .Ellison Williams charged \vith'fre-
quenting an alleged gambling resort.

The reporter of the GAZETTE over-
looked the fact, ate—Sentinel. But
the readers of the Sentinel can hardly
overlook the fact that thev daily read
revamped items in the Sentinel pub-
lished in theGAZETTE of the preceding

ay.

~Encourage the Y. M. C. A. Enter-
tainment committee in their work by
giving them your presence to-morrow
night, at the concert in the Opera
House. . ' ‘

The remains of Mrs. George Com-
stock who died at a hespital in New
York_on Sunday, were brought to Nor-
walk yesterday ,by funeral director
George H. Raymond. The funeral will
be attended from her late home at 1:30
o’clock Thursday afternoon and from
the Methodist church at 2:30 o’clock.

—Norwalk Steam Carpet Cleaning
Works, 14 Knight street. 588-tf
An stigation is on foot by a joint
stan ' committee of the Hartford
court _ common council to ascertain if
any of the city’s money was used for the
purpose of defeating the movement to
consolidate the town and city govern-
ment. The generalassembly has acted
adversely on a bill to consolidate.

Thomas Cahill and John Halsey wish
the‘ GAZETTE to refute the insinuation
made in Stamford by George Toohill
that they took the turnout belonging
to Joseph 'Ross, on Saturday night.

' They say theywent to Stamford on
' the train and met young Toohill there

and tried to prevail on him to return
home with them. Cahill says that
Toohill got on the ,train but jump-
ed oil again after it started. Toohill’s
sister went to Stamford yesterday and
securedhis release. . - ,

. ‘P. W. Bates, of Wall street, who re-
cently Opened a quarry in the vicinity
of Peat Swamp is in luck.
blasting in the quarry for facing stone
for cellars, a_ ledge of light granitewas
exposed which Mr; Bates avers is un.
equalled in vquantit . and, quality in

{of large experience, and fully believes

‘ithatzheghas discovered a stone forest in

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Wfich'tlibrc is to say the least millions

 
 

TERSE TAZCESOFTHEWES-

, walk a fraternal visit to'vnight.

The catch-basin at .thc corner "of

‘ on the charge of being incorrigible.

”by the Civil league having frightened

While '

i the State, andhe be ieves that the Snpf.
i ply'is unlimited.- 'Mr. Bates ‘is fa, man

A new fireplug hasbeeu ’set at thek
corner of Mott and South Union ave-

 

 
 

n'ues...,, , 3
-Hale’si'L‘ung Balsam cures Spring
colds?" ‘ " » , 16-tf

 

Builder,William Kemp is erecting a
fine residence in Darien' for Edward
McClellan.

Temple Lodge, F. & A. M. of West-
port, will pay St. John’s Lodge, or Nor-

Rev. W. J. Slocum has resigned from
the school board of the‘Hartford dio-
cese and Bishop McMahon has appoint-
ed Rev. Charles McElroy of Birminge
ham as his succeSsor.

—Jennie Hall Wade, Miss Marian
Short and Nina Drumm'ond will all ap-
pear in the Y. M .C. A. Concert to-
morrow. night. " i '

All the gambling paraphernalia cap-
tured in recent raidswas burned in
”the city hall park, Bridgeport, yester-

The stuff was valued at $2,000.

——Interior'phntograph3s of Grace and
St. Paul’s church on sale at Lewis’, 11
Main street; 592-21;

Miss Emma Brown was arreSte'd last
night on the charge of being drunk.
Justice Coolidge sentenced her this
morning to the County hotel at Bridge-
port where she' has registered many
times before. -

John Carroll is the fourth on the list
of deaths that have occurred at the
general hospital in Bridgeport, in the
last three days. He was a sufferer with
consumption and died of. pulmonary
hemorrhage. He was a farmer by occu-
pation and belonged in New Canaan to-
which place the body will be sent for
burial. He was 34 years old. ‘

3 —-Do not fail to attend the concert
to-morrow night in the Opera House if
you Wish a pleasant time.

Mrs. Oscar Wells of Cobble Hill had
finer son Arthur arrested this morning

The boy is thirteen years of age and,
can neither read nor write. Justice
Coolidge, believing that the lad wouldaL
be better cared for away from home
sent him to the Reform school. The
lad cried when he heard the sentence,
but he will probably some day thank
his lucky stars that he was sent there.

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Killed by a Falling Tree.
Adolph Burghardt, a woodchopper,
was instantly killed by a falling tree in
Bridgeport yesterday. Burghardt was
63 years old and belonged in Stepney.

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U. S. on Top Again.

The United States Express 00., re-
placed the American on the New. Eng-
land road last night in accord with
Judge Barrett’s refusal to make the in-
junction restraining the U. S. from
running on the N. Y. 85. N. E. perma-
nent.

 

Fire in Stamford.

The residence of Dr. Hinkley, on
Hubbard Hill, was burned yesterday
afternoon. The fire had its origin 'in
the carelessness of painters in using
gasoline torches to remove paint from
certain parts of the building. The loss
is $10,000. , "

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Fire in Waterbury.

The handsome office building of the
Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing
company on South Main street, Water-
bury wasgutted by fire last night. The
building is valued. with contents, at
$40,000 " and the loss is $20,000. Fully
insured. A blanket insurance of $1,-
030,000 covers the immense plant.

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. Election in Danbury. 3

Thebiennial city election took place
in Danbury yesterday and the demo-
crats'won by an average majority of
300. Colonel Charles S. Andrews of
Governor Morris’ stafi',‘was .the demo-
cratic nominee for mayor, and he beat
Charles S. Peck, the present incum-
bent. The board of aldermen and coun-
cilmen are both a tie.

foo. _

 

Stamford’s Dry-Sunday.
It was a dry Sunday in Stamford
last Sunday, the crusade inaugurated

the saloon keepers into closing. The
league also purposes ,to wage war
against all gambling and other resorts
forbidden by law and hopes in time to
wholly eliminate the saloon from the
town by a no-license vote.
, Found Dead.
Mary.Shay,’an'aged woman, was
found dead at her home on Union
street, Bridgeport, last night. She
was last seen alivelast Friday night
and when the door of‘ her house was
broken in she was found dead, lying
on, chairs near the stove, having been
dead several days. It is supposed that
death was due to natural causes. ‘

Big Real Estate Doal‘.

An important real estate deal was
consummated in Waterbury, yesterday.
The property otthe American Pin
company, 192 by. 23.0feet on East Main
street and 192 by ‘85 feet on Brown
street, in the heartbf the city, was
transferred to John Moriarty for $100,-‘
000. Mr. Moriarty will erect a big
warehouse on the East Main street

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Stricken With Heart Failure.

Theopolus M. Palmer, one ‘of the
oldest clerks in the employ of W. ,B:
Hall_&>Co.,_ Bridgeport, was suddenly
”stricken ,w1th' heart failure while at
work yesterday and fell to the floor ap-
parently dead. *Dr. Bronson, who w
passing, (was ”speedly' summoned an
after an hour’s eflort. he hid-the uncon:

{duly afternoon. It madeabig blaze.

7 To Reduce Time.
1 It is officially announced that the

soon to reduce the time "between, New
York and New Haven to one hour and
40 minutes. The proposed fiveehour
through train between New York and
Boston will not be put on until late in

July. .

Odd Fellows’ Home Dedication.

From present, indications there .will
be 2,500 .Odd Fellows in New London
on Wednesday of next week, when the
home atFairview is dedicated. Grand
-Master Ware has already ordered 1,500
badges with a memoria medal attach-
ed. These will be sold to the brethren
at fifty ‘cents each and the proceeds
used to defray expenses of transporti-
tion to the Home and the providing of
refreshments, each badge entitling the
holder to these privnleges.

 

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‘ ‘ THE KIND THAT CURES.”

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How Children Were Drugged.

One day last week aboy about ten
years of ' age purchased a mixture of
cantharis and laudanum in one of the
local drug stores without a prescrip-
tion, and saturated pieces of candy
3with the mixture, which he gave to
younger companions to eat. Two or
three of the little boyswho ate ,the
candy became very ill soon after, and
but for prompt medical attendance. it
is probable they would have died.
They are not yet fully recovered and

. there are apprehensions that perma-

nent injury to ,the children’s health
will be the subsequent result. The
parents of the drugged boys have dis-
covered where the drug was purchased
and threaten to bring suit against the
druggist. The boy who gave the chil-
dren the drugged candy said he thought
it fun to watch the actions of 'the chil‘
dren while under the effect of the drug.
—-Stamford Advocate. - '

 

 

USE DANA’S SABSAPARI‘LLA.IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”
Killed Two Women. .
Michael Sullivan and his son left
Bridgeport last night to walk on the
Consolidated Railroad track to their
home“ in Fairfield. They reached the
Fairficld avenue crossing just as a
west- bound express freioht was passing.
_ After the train went by they started
'down the track. They had gone only
a. short distance when One of them
stumbled across something on the
track. By lighting matches they saw
that it was the body of a young woman.
She was dead, but the body was warm.
Lying on both sides of the track was
the wreck of a carriage and harness.
The son started for a signal tower a-
few hundred feet further down the
track .to give the alarm. As he was
hurrying along he stumbled and fell
over an object lying nearthe side of
the} track. Investigation showed it to
be the lifeless body of another woman.

‘i ' The second body found was that of a'

middle-aged woman. Both bodies were
terribly mangled. No trace of the
horse attached to the carriage could be
found. The bodies were identified as
Rose Dupont and her daughter Mary,
aged 20. They lived near the scene of
the accident. '
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USE Din—Nils SARSAPARILLAJT’S
. ”THE KIND THAT CURES”.

 

 

 

On the Safe Side.

A meeting of the official board of
Connecticut division, L. was
held in Hartford Saturday evening.
About thirty weremresent. .An opin-
ion from Hyde, Gross & Hyde, as to
the effect of the anti-pool room bill on
bicycle racing was read. While they
think that racing under present condi-
tions would not be a violation of the
new law they suggest the doing away
with entry fees if possible and substi-
tuting in their place rules of admission
to the contest based on approval by the
managers, and for punishment for, un-
excused absence from a contest, for
which a party has entered by exclusion
from future contests within a given
time. This advice is given that safety
may, be secured, the lawyers saying
they prefer to have their clients keep
as faraway from the criminal law as
possible. ,

In view of this opinion a resoultion
was passed‘appointing a committee who
should endeavor to secure legislation
for protecting bicycling and other ath-
letic. sports. The national league and
amateur athletic unions and athletic
college associations Will be asked to
join in the movement for securing leg-
islative , help.

USE DANA’S SARSAPARlLLA, IT’S
“THE KIND THAT CURES.”

Monitor Daskam.

 

 

 

 

school boys assembled in New Haven
last night. They were the boys that in
the first half of the century were un-
der the tuition of, the memorable John
E. Lovell. Mr. Lovell kept school from
1822 to 1857 ‘on the Site of the present
high school in’ New Haven. The Lan-
castrian association, named after the
historic school, still has a membership
of 183. ' '

The meeting was called to order by
Samuel Daskam of Norwalk, who rang
the old handbell that he used to ring
as monitpr fifty-eight years ago. The
oldest man present, was Horace Mans-
field;he was born in 1808 and is still
halo and lively. He and \Frank A.
Jones, born in 1811, are two of the best
preserved schoolbpys of the associa-
tion. They entered the old Lancas-
trian school in 1822 on the first day
that Mr. Lovell ascended the platform
as pedagogue. ' " , ' '-

~Everything went along in a lovely

olives to Mr. Da'skam, and then there
wasa scene that-beggars description.

‘Sam” hates itjis: " ives. .

 

 

 

have Mill m.

.scibua man s' eientlyret'iygdto, be re-,

 
 
 

 

fihdaa3-l’it1myztiinb in around.

management. of the, Consolidated is"

USE mums SARSAPARILLA.IT’S~

A crowd of banqueting grey-haired.

manner until »' someone passed. the?

. t' there is anythin .so‘ugtheearth that
3 3 Quiet was; at»;
plant“ restored “and, the, festivitiesjcon- ‘
tinned-g There were;.sneephbs,~'-gaiors,;l

Many New Laws. ’

 

Many public acts take efi'ect from-

theirrpassage. Some of them are im-
portant. A survey of the laws passed
by the present Legislature that have
been signed by the governor and are
now in force, presents several instruc-
tive and interesting features.

One of these acts is _to secure uni-
formity in state legislation and the ap-
pointment of cdmmissions therefor."
Others provide not exceeding ten dol-

lars a day. for attorneys assigned by"

court to defend prisoners ; that prison-
ers be delivered at state prison by the
sheriffs of the counties; permitting
persons to join church societies .in
which there is no separate church
membership; exempting, in addition
to citizens at present exempt from jury
duty, attorneys and physicians in ac;
,tive practice and members of the state
militia, or such as cannot enlist because
of bodily infirmityor other reasonable
cause, and desire such jury exemption.

Additional ‘acts permit a special town
meeting to be called on petition of ten
legal voters outside of any city and
borough to establish a fire district, to
buy fire apparatus, to sprinkle streets,
to plant trees, to build sewers and to
employ policemen. The construction
or purchase of water works or electric
light works is not permitted.

The Superior Court in Hartford
county can .tax not exceeding $500 a113-
nually for an assistant state attorney.&

Assistant J udge, Walsh of the Hart-
ford county court of common pleas
took ofiiceApril 1' at $10 for actual,
working days for four years.

Sherifl's may appoint .all deputy jail-
ors and other jail or workhouse at-
taches, and janitors and assistants of
court houses ; their compensation to be
fixed subject‘ to the approval of a
judge of the superior court. But mes-
sengers of the courtsshall be appointed
by the courts.

All judicial nominations and ap-
pointments must be referred to the
committee on judicial appointments
after lying on the table and being
printed in the calendar three consecu—
tive days in the House where intro-
duced. .»

. Every judge and assistant judge is
allowed his necessary traveling expen-
ses, when on duty, to be paid quarterly.

A healing act enables judges who
exercised their duties during the legis-
lative, deadlock to recover their fees
and salaries.

Every person who served in the
army or navy in ,, the civil war may be
buried, if his estate is not sufficient to
bury him, at the expense of the state,
$35 being paid for hisburial in some
spot other than the .pauper’s lot.

The Storrs Agricultural grant of the
United States is diverted to its sup-

por . . .
All voluntary associations may sue
and be sued by individual members.
Important laws providing as herein-
after mentioned take effect from and
after July 1 : ‘ 3
No person under the age of 16 years,
can have the custody, care, ’operation
or management of an elevator under
penalty of from $5 to $25. -
Every owner, lessee, proprietor or
manager of a hotel, must on or before
January 1, 1894, place a knotted rope
or better appliance for fire escape in
every room except on the ground floor,
under penalty of a maximum fine of
$500 and imprisonment for 81X months

.in jail,

N o fereigi: fire insurance company
may take risks in the state unless it has
a cash capital of $200,000 or deposits
with the state treasurer, or with the
proper officer in some other state, se-
curities to the amount of $200,000—no
invalidation of risk being created by
hostilities between the United States
and the foreign country under the laws
of which the company was organized.

Anyone who lets down a bar or chain
guard on, any ferry dock or ferry boat,
shall be fined not more than $7.

No “ringer” of arhorse can be enter-
ed under a false name or in a wrong
class, under a maximum .penalty of
$1,000 or three years’ imprisonment.

The warden of state prison or jailer
of a common jail shall report imme—
diately to the governor prisoners who
become insane. The governor shall ap-
point an expert commission of not
more than three persons. If they find
the prisoners insane the prisoners shall
be sent to the insane hospital at Mid-
dletown until recovered, a like commis—
sion to certify to that fact, when they-
shall—be returned to prison if their
term has not expired. If they contin-
ue insane after their time is up, they
may be retained there by order of the
governor. '

" The chief justices and judges of the
Supreme and Superior caurt are per-
mitted to draw $1,000 instead of $500
per year for expenses. ‘

Bodies in public institutions un-
claimed for twenty-four hours shall be
given-to Yale university, such disposi-
tion being very carefully guarded. A
fine of from $50 to $500 is provided for
any one surrendering bodies except ac-
cording to this law, and the violator

. may be held civilly in from $200 to $400

damages.

Any prisoner who escapes or attempts
to escape while being taken to the
county jail shall be imprisoned for'six-
ty days. _ _

Preventing the selling of pools any-

where 'in the state under penalty for
,the proprietor or lessee of place or

grounds of a maximum fine of $500 or
imprisonment for one year or both. ~

Enabling the governor to appoint
policemen to act on the career vessels
of steam, electric or street railroad, at
the expense of the company,

In the support of paupers in public
institutions for the insane, such Sup-
port shall consist of necessary food,

clothing, medicine and medicalattend- f

'ance. , .
Shade trees, one every thirty-three

feet on thoroughfares, maybe designa-.

ted 'in cities, towns and borOughs, by

the authorities, to be retained fer orna- .

ment and’shade. « A, spike with- the let-i

ter C on it obtainedjiy the secretary of

{the board ,fof'. ‘agriculture;..,. shall be

 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

driven into ,the-tre‘e. -In‘nry. to an
intuit punishment this of . item-33,

 

 
 
 
 

to $100 and' imprisonment from ten to

thirty days. ~

Among the special acts passed, all of
which take, effect from their passage,
are those making an appropriation to
the World s Fair managers of $65,000 ;

to the Groton monument association of ~

$5,000 ; to the state topographical soci;
ety of $5,000 ; to the Willimantic state
normal school of $75,000; to the gov-
ernor ,and _stafi' $2,000 to go to the
World 8 Fair May 1 ; for the repair of
the Nathan Hale monument at Cov-
entry of $2,500 ; for a memorial tablet
at Gettysburg. Fourteenth regiment
$200. An appropriation was also made
for a new index to the digest of Con-
necticut laws.

The most noticeable. amendment to
an act incorpOrating any ‘compaiiy is
that giVing. the Consolidated road pow-

er to increase capital stock to $100,-.

000,000. .

There are as usual an innumerable
host—over; 12') exclusive of amend-
ments to city charters— of special acts
incorporating everything from a fire
district up ' to a, Mexican railway.
Many are for Young Men’s Christian
associations‘and fraternal societies.

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The Battlers Win.
The initial case in the dispute be-

33 tween the bottlers and the junk dealers
over the ownership of bottles after

they leave the bottlers’ hands was tried
before Justice E. P. Nobbs, in Bridge-
port Saturday, and resulted in a signal
Victory for the Bridgeport Bottlers as-
sociation. The plaintiffs in this test
case were Stapleton & Graether, the
Middle street bottling firm and fore-
most in the movement, and William
Goldschein, the defendant, who is a
junk dealer. , , ,

Stapleton 85 Graether recentlv learn-
ed that Goldschein had in his possession
100 bottles belonging to them which he
had purchased of various parties to
whom the firm had delivered the con-
tents, and made demand upon him for
them as their property. Goldschein
refused to give them up, but offered to
sell them back to the firm. The firm
name was upon the bottles and Staple-
ton & Graether decided to bring suit to
recover their property and at the same
time make a test case. '

Canfield 8r. Judson, the attorneys for
the local association, issued a replevin
suit and recovered the property; When
the case came up for trial Lawyer Hart
of New York, attorney for the N ation-
al Bottlers’ association, was on hand to
assist Messrs. Canfield & Judson. At-
tornev Chamberlain represented the
defendant. The plaintiffs claimed that
they did not part with the ownership of
their bottles by delivering goods in
them; and Attorney Hart quoted a de-
cision by the Supreme court of New
York upholding this position. Attor-
ney. Chamberlain claimed that it was
the custom in trade to allow the bottles
to go with the goods and that the world
at large followed this usage. Justice
Nobbs’ decision was in favor of the
plaintiffs to recover the goods and $4
and costs. ' ' ,

The announcement of the decision
was a signal for various other bottlers
to pounce upon the junk dealers and
recover whatever bottles they found be-
longing to them. Goldschein’s place
was depleted of over 9,000 bottles be-
fore 9 o’clock Saturday night, and
many hundreds were taken away from
other junk men. The latter were aware
of the decision and knew it would be
useless to offer resistance. They are
out a considerable sum, but will be
carefull in the future not to handle any
more of the same kind of goods.

Attorney Chamberlain said that he
should not appeal from the decision.
“Had I been able to prove,” said he,
“that Stapleton & Graether accepted a-
deposit for thebottles when they sold
the goods, I do not think they could
have recovered them.”> '

A prominent Bridgeport bottler ex-
pressed himself as highly pleased with
a decision, and declared that the bot-
tlers would now have some protection
against unscrupulous buyers who sold,
instead of returning, the empty bot-

es.

In the past thepjunk men have un-
scrupulously purchased bottles of who-
ever chose to sell them and would then
endeavor to sell them back to the bot-
tlers. The loss to the bottlers finally
became so great that they formed a
protective association and joined the na-
tional body. The association was pre-
pared to take Saturday’s case to the
Supreme'court if necessary. ,
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Missing Oysterman. “

John Jones of Rosette street, New
Haven-,has been missing since last week
Monday and it is feared that he was
drowned in the Bridgeport harbor
while trying to reach his oyster sloop
the Annie W. which lies off the Nauga-
tuck wharf.

The missing man was a brother-in-
law of J. P. Thomas, owner of the
oyster steamer bearing that name, and
the steamer Thomas dredged in vain
for the body Saturday afternoon.
Jones’ skifi‘ was found the latter. part of
last week near the breakwater. The

 

small boat was badly wrecked, proba-,

bly, in the storm Thursday night,

J ones ,was about 60 years old and has a‘

wife and two children living, in New
Haven.

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‘Looking for Dunell’s Body.

‘ The body of Theodore F. Dunell
who was, killed on the bridge over the
Honsatonic river Sunday night by the
Gilt Edge express is still in the river
and cannot be found: The head of the
unfortunate man was found yesterday
afternoon but the searchers we‘re un;
able to find any trace of the body it-
self. A large gangcf men are drag-
ging the river with grappling irons. ;

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, AnotherViotim anther-Rail. )
Peter Nolan an old man in the cm-

ploy of the street cleaning department

was struck .by an express train in Hart-

ford yesterday and probably will die

from his injuries. -: It is the old story
of stepping from .the tracks to avoid 'a
train only to be struck by another. One
‘leg Was cut off and: the other horribly
gangicd. .His head and side Were also

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Final Preparations forNewY-ork’vs

Great Event.

MEN WHO WILL, ACT As'nsoos'rs.

New York's fidmptroller, President of the '

_ Board of ' "Aldermen and _ Corporation
Counsel “fill Have Clmrge'of tho Presl-
dent During the Festivities. , '

NEW YORK, April 25.—Preparations for
the land celebration on Ffiay are being
rapidly pushed. The only government '
forces in the land parade will be the 1,200
marines and sailors from the fleet in the

harbor. Thciuterior of the Maritime Ex- '1

change is beautifully decorated Withflags

of all nations in anticipation of the visit of _

the foreign officers.

[Mayor Gilroy and his wife will receive
the guests at the Columbian ball to be,
held in Madison Square Garden Thursday
evening. _ -

At a little distance in the rear of the

’ mayor the committee of one hundred and

the honorary committee, with their ladies,
have arranged to participate ,in the care?
monial of the reception. An esnort of one ,
hundred of the naval reserve will meet
each specially distinguished guest on his
arrival, and each name will be announced
by the chairman. Bu glcs will announce
19‘s arrival of the president. “Hail to the
Chief” will be played as he enters the gar-
den. The following special committees
and escorts have been appointed.

To Escort the President—“Comptroller of
New York, president of board of alderman

' and corporationcounsel.

To Escort the Cabinet—Hon. ‘Benjamin
It‘. Tracy, with aides. : 3'

To Escort Judges of the Supreme Court
*TEOD. XVilliam M. Evarts, with aides.

To Escort the Governor of New York—-
General Louis Fitzgerald, General James
Cavanaugh, Colonel Francis V. Greene.

To Escort the GoVernor of Illinois— Hon.
Franklin Edson, Colonel Daniel Appleton, '
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen H. Olin. —-

To Escort the Columbus Descendants—
cheral‘ Horace Porter, CorneliusN. Bliss,
John Austin Sevens.

Hon. Edward W. Cooper and Hon.
Chauncey M. Depeiv will escort the vice
admin-11.5 commading the British and Rus-
sian fleets, respectively. The rear admirals
commanding the French, Italian, Spanish
Brnxilian and Argentine fleet will be re:
spectivcly escorted . by "Hon. Whitelaw
Reid, lion. Abram S. ll'ewitt, Hon. Perry
Belmont, Hon. Seth Low and Hon. John
Bigelow. ‘ ' . ‘

Hon. Charles S. Fairchild will escortthe
captain commanding the German fleet and
Hon. Frederick De Pcyster, the captain
commanding the Netherlands fleet.

Rear Admiral Gherardi, commanding
the United States fleet, will be escorted by
Hon. William R. Grace.

Hon. Hugh J. Grant will be the escort of
Rear Admiral Benham, United States
navy, and Rear Admiral Walker, United
States navy, will be escorted by. ' Hon. .
Samuel D. Babcock. ' '

Thirteen Killed in a. Church.

NAPLES, April 25.—A fatal panic oc-
curred 'in a church. at Torredell Annun-
ziata, about twelve miles north of this
city, Part of the drapery about the altar
was blown against a lighted candle. The 3
flames spread with great rapidity, and the
congregation made a. rush for the doors.
The fire was quickly extinguished, but be-
fore order was .restored eight women and
five children had been crushed to, death, 4
while hundreds of others had been more
or less seriously injured.

Colonel Wébster Dead. '

BELAIR, Md., April 25.——Colonel ,Edwin

H. Webster, ex-collector of the port of

Baltimore, died at his home near here,

aged 63years. Death was from Bright’s

disease of the kidneys. ,
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in Bridgeport.
Arrangements are about completed
for a finish fiaht between Danny Rus- '
sell and Dofiy L one ‘of Boston, for
$1,000 a side, the ght to be in private
at catch-weight. .

 

By Jesuit Fathers. , .

Jesuit missionary fathers .are 1
Bridgeport this week conducting a
mission at St. Patrick’s church. The'
regulations which govern their lives
are very severe. As a religious body
the Jesuits are themost advancedtheo-

 

logians in the Catholic church. It re- _

quires long years of close study to
master the dogmas of. Catholicity,
which. is essential for admission into
this order. Reva Father McDonald
conducted the services yesterday, and _
his sermon last evening was eloquent,
logical and impressive.

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Denies theRumor.
Hon. F. S. Stevens pronounces with-

out foundation a rumor that he intends 3 3

withdrawing his application , for ap-
pointment as postmaster for the Bridge-_
port post office.
reason the fact that the salary is but
$3,300, and that as his businessrrenurns
him a much better income he could not

. afferd the financial sacrifice which an
acceptance of the position would in- g

volve.

Mr. Stevens says that he was not ,. [A

aware of having said anything justify- ,

ingsiicbm rumor. If he receives, the'? -

appomtment he will. certainly accept

and devote his full time to the’admin, . i,

istration of the office.

 

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Amusements. '- ‘

 

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One of the best attractionsof the sea-
son-will be Lee’s All Star ;: Company: an}.
the Opera House. The company ens. ‘

at this hall on Thursday . for; a" _ ree~
night-s engagement: ' The .. comnaDTS'is'f
composed _of bright ; singers: danc‘ s -7
and comedians. E'Thecompany'w‘ ,.
overflowing withitaking Songs “(In

etc.., specialties ‘ and brig
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