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Daily Norwalk gazette and Saturday's Norwalk record, Monday, November 13, 1893 · page 1

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The Gazette has the largest cir-
culation of any paper In Norwalk.

and furnishes the lowest advortlslnz

rates.

 

 

Valor’s Recognition. .

The GAZETTE most heartily congratu-
lates the able and famous Washington
correspondent, Gen. H.V. BoyntOn up-
on the distinguished honor he has re-
ceived through the War Department,
and the friends and admirers of the
brave soldier and worthy gentleman, in
uncounted numbers all _over the coun-
try,will unite with us in the sentiment.
The five-pointed star, won by gallant
service in a noble cause, is a conspicu-
ous honor, and all the more so, because
unsought and unsolicited. Gen. Boyn-
ton well deserves to be thus decorated,
for so long as the names of Chicamausa
and Missionary Ridge endure, will the
story of his modest,but illustrious,hero_-
ism be held in grateful remembrance.

The Officers Should. 00.

At the investigation of officers How-
ard and Northrop by the police com-
mittee on Saturday last, the police
defended their non-arrest of Hanlon
by the statement that they were not re-
quested to arrest him and that they did
not know of any reason why he should

- have been arrested. At South Nor?
walk, William Deegan testified that he
came to police headquarters and found
officers Martin, Howard and Northrop
standing in the entrance of the GAZETTE
building; that officer Martin was not
in uniform ; that he asked them to ar-
rest Hanlon, and that they made no of-
fer to arrest him, but instead told him to
go rip-stairs into the police rooms and
lock himself in so that Hanlon could
notget hold of him, and that he did so
and remained in the room until 5 o’clock
in the morning. McNall, an employee
at Gregory’s stable, stated to a repre.
sentative of the GAZETTE, who inter-
viewed him, that he saw Hanlon kick
Weston as he lay on the lounge; that-
he recognized him ; that he went
after an officer and found North-
rop and Howard and Hanlon and
Williams together ‘on Wall street;
that as he came up to the officers
he heard one of them tell Deegan
to get out of sight; that'the oflicers ac-
companied him back. to the stables, but
on arriving there the officers told him
there was nobody to arrest.

, Strange to say that when Deegan
and McNall were examined by the po-
lice committee they .both forgot that
they wanted Hanlon arrested, and
agreed with the statement of the Ofii-
eers. Weston, the man who was kicked,
did not forget, however, that he re.
quested Northrop to arrest his assailant.

Had the several witnesses not made
contrary statements to the press their
stories, and those of the officers,
would stand, but the one great
incident which the officers seem to
overlook in stating that there was no
cause for arrest, is the fact that they
looked an innocent party in police
headquarters to keep him from being
assaulted by an intoxicated individual
who was roaming the streets without
fear of arrest.

A special meeting of the Court of
Burgesses will act on the matter to-
night, and it is to be hoped that the
great disgrace brought upon Norwalk
by its police force will be vindicated by
a speedy dismissal of the two officers
who neglected their duty. Officers
Northrop and Howard should go.

 

The Proposed Hawaiian Policy.

. Mr. Gresham startled the country
Saturday by proposing the forcible sup-
pression of the existing de facto gov-
ernment of Hawaii,and the equally for-
cible restoration of the burlesque mon-
archy deposed nearly a year ago. His
theory is, says the Washington Post,

with all the force of exact truth, that-

the power of the United States was em-
ployed to consummate a wrong in the
first instance, and that the same power
should now be invoked to vindicate jus-
tice by committing another. If Mr.
Gresham had spent the whole period of
his incumbency as Secretary of State
in planning a theatrical effect he could
not have been more bewilderingly suc-
cessful. .
With the issue of veracity raised by
Mr. Gresham as against Minister Stev-
ens and his own predecessor, Secretary
' Foster, we have nothing to do. We
prefer to keep to the undisputed facts
of the case and to seek in them such
justification of Mr. Gresham’s proposed
policy as they can be made to furnish.
Whatever may have been the circum-
stances under which the Hawaiian mon-

archy was overthrown last winter it is '

nevertheless true that the Cleveland ad-
ministration, iipon coming into power
. two or three months later", found the

 

 

present government installed ht Hone-
lulu. No matter what Mr. Cleveland
and Mr. Gresham may, as private citi-
zens, have thought Of the methods by
which that government was set up, it
remains the met that, as president and
Secretary of State,they found that gov-
ernment an accomplished and perfected
entity, and it is equally true that. they
have recognized and dealt with it as
such ever since. Of course, nobody
knows the exact nature of the instruc-
tions under which Mr. Blount acted
while he was exerting his paramount
authority by special and mysterious
commission, but there can be no ques-
tion that upon succeeding Mr. Stevens
as minister plenipotentiary he gave of-
ficial‘recognition to the then emsting
arrangement at Honolulu. Nor can it
be asserted that Mr. Blount was mere-
ly tolerating a government on paper or
conniving at a temporary expedient, for
one of the.earliest manifestations of his
paramount authority had been the
hauling down of the United States flag
and the transfer of the United States’
marines from their barracks there to
their quarters aboard the Boston. The
vessel’s presence in the harbor after
that act of official repudiation was no
more of a support of the provisional
government than of the deposed mon-
archy—perhaps not as much—and the
former, from that day to the present,
has stood upon its own feet and by vir-
tue of its own strength.

We do not find in Mr. Gresham’s
statement of the case, and we imagine
that it is about as unfavorable a state-
as could be made, the very smallest
warrent for the hypothesis that the
present government of Hawaii is des-_
titute of inherent strength and incap-
able of maintaining itself. On the
contrary, it seems to us, continues the
Post, that it has sufficiently contradict-
ed such a proposition by exerting its
authority and commanding the respect
and obedience of the Hawaiian ever
since the day on which Mr. Blount
called off the United States forces and
somewha. ostentatiously left it to stand
alone. - There may be a question as to
the means by which the. revolution was
accomplished originally, but there can
be none as to the present reality and
substance of the de facto government,
or, in our opinion, as to the impropriety
of’foreign interference -n a situation
which the parties chiefly concerned ap-
pear to have acc .pted with entire satis-
faction. If, as Mr. Gresham insists,
the deposed monarch is backed by an
overwhelming public sentiment, it will
re-establish itself without aid from us.
If not, and if the existing goverment be
rooted in the people’s sympathy, and
inherently Capable of self-support, the
empioyment of the United States forces
to overthrow it would be an act of the
grossest andmost wicked tyranny.

We do not see that the present admin-
istration need hold itself responsible
for the misdeeds, real or imagined, of
its predecessor, but even if it were re-
sponsible, we find it equally difficult to
imagine why an outrage connived at
by Mr. Harrison should be followed by
an outrage planned and executed by
Mr. Cleveland. The proposition that
two wrongs make a right has never yet
been accepted by the enlightened moral
sense of the civilized world.

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TERSE. TALES OF lHE TIMES.

 

Oui- Brothers Lodge,I. O. O. F., will
work the first degree to-night.

——Baie snung Balsam 25¢ cures all
colds 693tf

Frank Nelden—and he never came
back. Nomsnrance.

A special meeting of the Court of
Burgesses will be held this evening.

Mrs. S. Birchard of Wilton is visiting
with t_JMrs. A. B. Beers of Leonard
stree .

——20 per cent discount on all cloaks
purchased at the Boston store, Nor-
walk, this week. 727-tf

Queen Lil can trot out her roosters.
Hawaii seems to Lavelgone Democratic
by a handsome ma; ority.

A new time table will go into effect
on the several divisions of the Consoli-
dated road next Sunday. .

Connecticut pensions: Original—James
Benedict,Bethlehem. Original widows’,
etc—Mary L. Thesmg, New Haven.

——The Chicago Singer Sewing Ma-
chine is now on exhibition at the Bos-
ton Store, Norwalk. Price, only $9.?8.
. ‘ 29-13

 

Mr. W. B. Hawkins of West Main
street has bought ’the Meeker lot on
that street and will build' thereon im-
mediately.

There are now 216 prisoners in the
county Jail. A half dozen came in Sat-

urday. This is the largest number ever

in the jail at one time.

The County Commissioners will meet
at the borough court room. on Thurs-
dayi Nov. 286, for the purpose of grant-

ing i’quor licenses.

 

 

Norwalk, Conn., Mondayi Evenlng,-November 13,. l893.

The marriage bans of William Riley
and MiSs Ellen Britt were announced
at St. Mary’s church, Sunday morn-

ing. ___~___
Mr. R. Goldschmidt has an immenge

Mexican cactus that attracts consider-v

able attention. It is as full. of thorns
as a porcupine of quills.

Governor-elect Greenhalge of Massa-
chusetts wouldn’t mind a little Presi-
dential mention at the top of column
and next to pure reading matter.

 

Ma'or G. M. Holmes and wife who
have sen spending a few days in W ash-
ington, in company With Mr. 'i_homas
Cousins, are expected home to-night.

 

-—Big stock of robes and blankets.
Baby carriage robes._ Low prices.
Dann’s harness store, River street.

732-313.

Rev. Mr. Robbins of the-Baptist
church, commenced a series of sermo ns
Sunday evening, on “Heaven.” His
text was “If a man dies shall be live
again?”

A spec-.al meeting of the Ladies’
Auxiliary will be held in the Y. M. C.
A. parlor tomorrow, (Tuesday) after-
noon at 3 o’clock, to complete the plans
for the turkey dinner on Nov. 21st.

 

 

Eddie Kelly is of the opinion that a
chicken thief walked out of a back-
yard on Leonard street Saturday night,
with a charge of shot in his anatomy
that came from the hands of himself.

 

R. “Hustler” Fitch the journalist-
postmaster of Wilton has bargained for
a type-writer. He has been forced to
do this as his poetry is invariably _re-
turned, marked: “hand—writing ille-
gible. ‘

Miss Emma F. Byxbee, daughter of
Mary and the late James H. Byxbee,
died at her home in Cranberry Plains,
Sunday morning, aged 48 years Do-
ceased was a consistent christian and a
member of the Baptist church.

The County commissioners have re-
fused the application ofVJohn McManus.
to sell liquor in Stratford. The applicant
in order to test the validity of the li-
cense vote cast at the recent election,
will carry his case to the supreme court.

 

—In order to make room for holiday
stock the carpets and upholstery goods
at the Boston (Store Norwalk, will be
sold at spebial prices during the com-
ing week. 45-1w

New Canaan is without a grand juror,
as none of those elected at the last elec-
tion have qualified for the office. It is
now the duty of the selectmen to fill
vacancies. Only two of the constables
have qualified. Some of our unlucky
N orwalk aspirants might move thither.

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bowe leave to-
day for a. visit with friends in New
Haven. During his absence Mr. Bowe
will swap camp stories with his old
comrade Walter P. Hovey of the gal-
lant 10th C. V., and James E. Ells
of the 8th C. V. Mr. Bowe took his
pipe and a box of cigars With him.

 

Saturday afternoon a mare belong
ing to and driven by ”Art” Keeler be-
came cranky because the driver would
not permit her to stop and take a drink
at the tank in front Of the Methodist
church, and taking the bit in her teeth
ran away, and not until the electric
light station was reached did Mr. Kee-
ler bring the animal to a stan dstill.

 

Word has been received of the safe
arrival in Auburn, Me., of George
C astle. of this place. He reports a
tempestuous trip of! the coast of Maine
and says that at ore time he felt certain
that he was doomed to join McGinty at
the oottom of the see. He is now at
work for the shoe manufacturing firm
of Small, Pray 85 Co.

The case of the State vs. Daniel Han-
lon, called for a hearing this morning,
was adjourned until 2 o’clock this after-
noon.

P. S.—The case was furtheradj ourned
until 2 o‘clock Thursday afternon. Pat-
rick Hanlon became surety in the sum
of 125200 for Hanlon’s appearance for
ma .

Saturday last was Chester Griffin’s
10th birthday anniversary, and the
event was quite properly celebrated
With a party at his home on Center ave-
nue. There were thirteen of his play-
mates and friends present, and they
had 311le exactly as happy a time as if
the number had been more or less.
Chester was in receipt of a whole lot of
presents. A fine collation was served.
The guests reluctantly left for their
several homes, wishing their host many
happy returns of the day. ‘

A large crowd of the Sons of Best
chased a fire into the horse railway de-
.pot this noon. It was on the roof of car
No. 13. It seems that the heat from the
pipe of a_ stove recently placed in the
car had ignited the light frame of the
roof of the car. It was first discovered
when the car was on the switch near
the post-office. Driver Wardwen is a
member of Phoenix Engine company,
and taking in the situation at a glance
whipped up the the horses and on ar-
rivmg at the depot quickly put out the

fire. _______“._._____
USE DANA’S SARSAPARILLAJT’S
‘ THE KIND THAT CURES.”
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St. Mary Fair. ,

Rev. Father Slocum announced at St.
Mary’s church, Sunday mornin , that
the fair in the Opera House wou d not
close to-night,_as originally intended,but
would be continued to-morrow evening.
At the close of the fair on Saturday

 

.night something over 3,500 admission

tickets had been sold, and the net pro-
ceeds _of the fair amounted to over
$1,400. A splendidshowing during the
present business, stagnation.

 

Views of Erin’s Sons.

The GAZETTE reporter in his hunt for
rational Opinions as to “ What did it,”
focused his electric flash-light on a trio
of N orwalk’s Ewittiest. and frankest
American Irish'men, with the following
intelligent and honest'results :—

Mr. Thomas Cooney’s views are, that
the Irish voters of the country are al-
most to a man, deceived into voting
thefree trade ticket in National elec-
tions, when if '3' they understood their
own best internists aright, they would
vote for protection. There were never
more prosperous times, says_'he, than
ruled in this cpuntrv up to last fall’s
election; but the Irishman is a curious
combination and is very apt to be most
discontented add uneasy, when living
under and enjofing the best conditions.
He and his family had plenty of work
and good waged last year, but demo-
cratic missions be or emissaries, made
him believe the, the McKinley 'I‘arifl'
was making all jhe bosses rich and all
the working pe ple poorer; that with
free trade, his clbthes and fuel and food
would be cheaper, but poor Patrick did
not stop to thin g that his work and his
wages would al' 0 go with the higher
prices; that hi factory bosses could
not make good and pay him the rul-
inir wages, if . glish goods were ad-
mitted into thi“ country free; as the
poor overworked operatives'over there
get less than half the wages paid here;
so, it was no dnusual thing to hear
Irishmen, last i 1., with a five or ten
cent cigar in th ir mouths and five to
ten beers in their stomachs, kicking be-
cause their hours of labor were too
long, their pay too little, the baker's
loaves of bread too small and grocery
bills too big; so they voted for a
“ change,” and they got it. But when
an Irishman gets’knocked fiat down, it
acts as a brain tonic on him, and sets
him to thinking. Whenever Pat thinks,
he votes for American Labor every
time and againstlEnglish labor and its
products. So Pat haying deserted the
democracy last Tuesday, it went by
the board, as it Will do always in Nor-
walk and everywhere else, for it is the
Irish vote that gives that party any
majority at all. ’

 

“Pliwat it was that cloned out the
dimmecrats Chuesday, 1 doan’t know ;”
said Mayor and Borough contractor

loger McGinnis. ' “I didn’t hear there
was any election in Norwalk Chuesday,
but in Hue Yorrnck and N00 Jarsy I
hears the dimmecrats was killed intire-
ly and all because the Irishmen were
ashamed of the party. You know how
it all wus at our last Borough election,
when the boys wouldn’t vote straight,
because they’d been lied to so much by
the party bosses.’ Sure didn’t they
promise we Irish should have all the
polaceman, barrin’ the Chief, and
didn’t they say to me, I should hev one
polaceman at Cobble Hill, where he is
so much naded all the time, and where,
if any one shouts “sthop thatc,” ivery
mother’s son iv ’em runs an’ hides; an’
yez couldn’t catch Clarity wid a such-
warrant and racer? Sure if its any
place the dimmocracy wants polacemen
missionaries, its at Cobble Hill, over
Spring Hill, in Dublin, and Sthep Hill;
an’ new the bosses is promisin’ us We
shall hev an Irishman for the next Nor-
walk city post-master, but sure don’t
we boys know they’re lyin’ to us agin,
for doan’t they be sayin’ right before
our backs, ‘its good enough that they
lets us do the votiii’ while they gets the
offices.’ bad ’cess to em. An’ whin they
promised we shud have an Irishman on
the Court of Burgesses, sure didn’t
they cLatc us, till in fillin’ a vacancy,
me honest frind Billy Mullen wuz
squased in, wid the help uv the repub-
likins, an’ the only square dalin’ man
he is on the board, so he is, an’ he says
it for himself, an’ what Billy Mullen
says is thrue ivery time.”

 

. “What wonder ‘the dimmecrats is
licked iverywhere,” thought redoubt-
able Borough Burgess Wm. McMullen.
"Sure, with the bosses chatin’ an’ lyin’
and stalin’, an’ scoopin’ all the ‘whacks’
all over the wurld, isn’t it enough to
make the dacint Irish voters sick at the
stomach? Does ye think we’d be votin’
for an’ wid such a thavin’ croud Of
chatin’ blackguards? Not much. Niver
since I came to America and the Irish
commenced to rule_this country in gin-
eral and Norwalk in particular, did I
iver see or hear such disgracin’ doin’s.
An’ didn’t the bosses in N00 Yorruck
try to get our boys to vote for a man
for Judge as was a thafe, an’ do ye
think the Irish would stand that? Not
much; for sure isn’t the judges ginerally
hard enough on our poor b’ys whin
they’s honist min '8‘ An’ don’t they be
chargin’ us wid beln’ crazy fur Home
Rule in Ireland, whin the divil himself
knows it hard enough we have it, to
rule this country and Norwalk, let
alone rulin’ the grane isle? An’ now,
whin they is iverywhere bate out 0’
their boots, they’re axing all about
phwat’s caused it all? Phwat’s the com-
plaint ? Sure it’s the same as w. d Teddy
O’Toole, whin they hanged him, an’
the boys axed his ould mother what
was the complaint agin him ? ‘No com-
plaint at all,’ says she, ‘ivery one sames
to be satisfied and plas’d wid poor Tea--
dy’s hangin,’ an’ so it is wid the dim-
mocracy’s great defate.-

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Special Meeting.

The Warden and police committee
held a meeting Saturday afternoon for
the purpose of investigating the charges
made against Officers Northrop and
Howard for neglect. of duty early Fri-
day morning in failing to make certain
arrests. They listened to toe testimony
of the officers and visited youug‘Weston,
who had been so roughly handled by
Hanlon. After due deliberation it was
decided to continue the suspension of
the officers until this evening for whicn
time the Warden has called a special
mee ing of the court of burgesses to
take action on the report of the com-
mittee.

 

CO.

Killed'by a Train.
A 'man, apparent.y a Russian Jew,

was struck and killed by the 1:20 a. m.‘

express out of Ne_w_Haven early Sun-
day morning, while driving ,over the
crossing at the North Ha‘v'e'n station.

 

 

Truly Unfortunate.
The New York and New England
railroad is to be pitied. It has as presi-
dent the rocket-like McLeod; it on-

joys the warm friendship of B.. W.|

Maples and has consolidated ‘ agin” it,
three things which taken together or
singly would, in time, burst a bank.

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Black Rock Improvements.

‘ A. J_. Beardsley & Son begin a $5,000
dredging contract in Black Rock to-day,
The channel is to be widened.

A shoal formed by last summer’s
storms opposrte Fancher’s dock is to be
dug away. When the contract is fin-
ished Black Rock will have a better
harbor than it has ever had before.

+
USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, IT’S
“THE KIND I‘HAT CURES.” ‘

Furnisheda Big Band.

The bonds of Internal Revenue Col-
lector John C. Byxbee of Meriden were
accepted in the United States court
Saturday. The bond required is $220,-
000, but five bondsmen qualified in
$550,000, the largest ever recorded in
this district. The bonds will be further
examined by a solicitor of the treasury
before being finally accepted.

9
Horse Thieves in Town.

An attempt to stealtwo horses from
Walter Gray’s barn on Strawberry Hill
was made the other night. The horses
had been led from their stalls to the
barn floor, and the thieves were engag-
ed in harnessing them when a watch
dog gave the alarm, and a man in the
employ went to the barn to see what

 

 

 

 

 

 

was the matter, whereupon the thieves

made good their escape by flight.
USE DANA’S SARSAPAuiLLAJT‘S
“THE KIND THAT CURES."
Llcenses Granted.

_ The County Commissioners this morn-
ing granted the following licenses:
Mary Madden, Franklin avenue; J as.
Hadden, Wall street; J. Linxweiler,
Railroad Place; James H. Hoyt, Water
street; J. S O’Brien, Ely avenue;
Herman Quittner, Main street; John
McGovern, Turnpike; Michael Ratch-
ford, Main street; M. McGrath, Win-
nipauk; Ernest Groeschner,Fort Point
Road; Thomas McCarthy, Burbank
street; I. G. Hamilton,Warwick House;
John O’Sullivan, Wall street; Daniel
Riordan, Plattsville avenue; George C.
Stillson (druggist) Washington street.

 

 

O09

Our Weather Prophet.

Mr. James J. Vaughan, the artist and weath-
er prophet of Norwalk-has been engaged
from t is date to give his predictions to the
Valley Catholic alone. U to the present, vari-
ous papers such as t e ew York Sun. Dan-
bury News etc., have looked to, Mr. Vaughan
for the weather reports. He has now severed
all connections With other papers or journals
and the Valley Catholic only will be his
mouthpiece—Connecticut Catholic.

Mr. Vaughan is a man of more than
local celebrity and our contemporary
is to be congratulated on securing the
services of so valuable a prophet who
by the way is not without honor in his
own town.

 

A Free Country.

Let the little god of love hang up his
bow and throw aside his quiver, says
Rippowam in the Stamford Advocate.
Let him shroud his scantily clad form
in deep black and retire for a while to
grieve over the mistakes he has made
in shooting his tiny arrows at the wrong
targets. The autumn days are here, and
the divorce mill of Fairfield county,
otherwise known as the Superior court,
is holding its levees every Friday. com-
mencing at 10 a. in. Come, all ye who
chafe in the bonds which once were ties
of mutual affection, but have now be—
come clanking chains. Come, all ye
couples who would leave the home nest
and seek new quarters. The mill is
open. Divorces from $15 up. This is
a free country. Marriage is a delusion
and a snare. If you don’t like it, tear
up the contract and try again. What
a glorious state Of things this is—what
an inheritance for our children’s chil-
dren—this free and easy divorce mill of
Connecticut.

USE DANA’S SARSAPABILLA,IT’S
"‘THE KIND THAT CURES.”

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Amusements.

 

 

 

OPEI‘A HOUSE.

_The Ovide Musin Concert company
Will appear at the Opera House, to-
night. The proceeds will be for the
benefit of the hospital fund. The Cin-
oinnati Inquirer says: “Music Hall
was filled to its utmost capacity yester-
day afternoon at the “Pops” concert,
and standing room was occupied by
several hundred people. Ovide Musin,
the Belgian violin virtuoso, took the
audience by storm. His encores were
the andante from the G minor Suite
by Rice; the Carnival de Venice by
Paganini. and the last part of his own
Srotch Caprice. Mrs. Annie Louise
Tanner-Musin sang the aria of"‘I‘he
Queen of Night” brilliantly. Those
high notes, reaching up to E flat above
the staff, came out with satisfactory
clearness; ' ‘

 

Foot—Ball.

The foot-ball game at Norwalk Park
on Saturday last between the Y. M. C.
A. Juniors and the South Norwalk Ath-
letic Club was one of the most amus-
ing games ever witnessed. The Y. M.
C. A. boys won ..by a score of 30 to 4
owing to their superior team work.
The S. N. A. C.’s did splendidly for an
eleven that had never before played
foot-ball, but several of them forgot
themselves and thought more of fight-
ing than they did of playing. The
work of Kehoe indicated that with pro-

 

per training he would make a first-class

man. The action of Wicke in jumping
upon opposing players when down was
wrong and he would have been ruled
off the field had the S. N. A. C.’s had
another player to take his'p‘lace. LUn-
less the boys from South Norwalk curb
their tempers they will find it exceed-
ingly difficult to get on a game with
any other eleven. but as this was their
first game they are entitled to praise
for the splendid work. done by several
member‘s-of their team. ‘ ‘ , ,

 

 

 

 
 

“Equal and Exact J ustice to all Mien. 07‘ Whatevei; State .or Persuasion, Religious or Political.”——Jefi“erson

u

a arias: l—Elii

Bitterly Attacks Gresham’s
Hawaiian Policy.

The Restoration of the Monarchy a
Crime Against Civilization —- The
Provisional Government the Best

I Government the Island Ever Had,
and Honestly Established.

AUGUSTA, Ma, Nov. 13—11: a leader in
the Kenebec Journal to-day Hon. John L.
Stevens, late United States minister to
Hawaii, makes the following reply to
Secretary Gresham’s report:

“According to authentic reports from
Washington, a public crime of startling
import is about to be committed in the
name and under the authority of the
American government. A public crime
of less proportions, but in its moral type
similar to the stifling of national life and
the reform aspirations of Poland and Hun-
gary a few years ago by the imperial
despots, and to the crushing out of the
newly formed republic of Home by the
usurped power of Louis Napoleon.

“All that American piety, American
benevolence, American schools and Ameri-
can patriotism have accomplished in Hawaii
iii-the past 70 years are now centralized
in the provisiOnal government and stand
in its support. It is a government hon-
estly and ably administered, and the best
government that Hawaii ever had.

“I know not the influence which iii-
duced Secretary Gresham to become an
active agent in attempting such a grave
offense against American civilization, juso
tice and law. His’ intense hostility to ex-
I’rcsident Harrison and to the illustrious
aux-secretary of state, who passed to his
grave in January last, is well known. It.
was that which caused him to betray and
desert the great party whose honors he

attitude toward his former associates and
their work.

“So far as his recent manifesto on
Hawaiian affairs casts reflection upon my
official action I care little except to the de-
gree that his cruél and untruthful words
strike at the noble band of men and women
who have for ten months stood so reso-
lutely and unitedly in defence of American
civilization.

“After I had made my request to Cup-
tain Wiltse to land his men, as a precau-
tionary safeguard to American life and
property, he and his officers informed me
that their men must have shelter for the
night. Without special information in
that regard, I had supposed that the ship’s
marines had tents of their own for their
customary use in case of emergency on
shore.
by a messenger to secure a large hall that
was supposed to be available.

“Much time had already been consumed
in negotiating for a p1acc,and the Boston’s
marines and sailors were obliged to stand
Weary hours in the street before they were
able to go to their night quarters. All of
them Would have been lodged at the lega-
tion and consulate but for want of room,
where as many as possible wereyeceived at
these localities, being several stree ts and
squares from the palace and government
balding. For the occupation of Aaron
ball by the men of the Boston, the com-
mittee of public safety and the supporters
of the provisional government had no
more responsibility than Secretary Gres~
ham himself. '
~ “Secretary Gresham assumes that the
friends of annexation made the revolution
and that the provisional government,
when acknowledged by the United States
minister, existed only On paper.

“Queen Liliuokalani inaugurated the
revolution .by attempting to destroy the
constitution by revolutionary means.
From Saturday afternoon, January 14, to
January 10, there was no government in
Honolulu, except in the united and
self. possessed attitude of citizens who
assembled in a. great mass meeting
on J an. 16 and consummated their efforts
for law and order by the establishment of
a provisional government on the 17th
which was promptly acknowledged by all
the foreign representatives, who were
familiar with the circumstances of its crea-
tion. It was 50 hours after Liliuokalani
and her favorites had destroyed her throne
by a. revolutionary outbreak when the men
of the Boston landed.

“In the exciting hours preceding and
following her fall her representatives, as
well as those who formed the provisional
government, had equal acces to the lega~
tion. To all proper inquiries my answer
was that the United States marines could
not take sides, but whatever de facto gov«
ernment might exist would have to be
recognized.

“When I did recognize it late in the at.
ternoon of the 17th, the provisional gov-
ernment was complete_master of the situa—
tion, had full control of the city and of the
government archives, the police station
being surrounded and at the mercy of the
provisional government. I; was a. small
building in which the disorganized and
powerless followers of the queen’s para-
mour, Marshall, took refuge, and they
must have surrendered in a few hours by
the mere force of hunger.

“The provisional government knew its
power to possess the station at once, but
wished not to take a single life of its occu-
pants. It deemed it wisest to admit their
surrender. . Had the queen’s supporters

to do so was during Sunday and Monday,
the 15th and 16th, while the citizens were
attending their mass. meeting, selecting

 

their committees of. public safety and pre-

had shared and brought him to his present ,

I at once wrote a note and sent it'

daredto resist the organization of the new .
government then the. only possible chance .

0h account? '0] extensive-ale

temiz'ons. we will, FIRE out.

Winter €101!)th at a Sacrzfiee. ‘
. TAFT BROS.

Price One Cent.

paring to organwe a government, as
openly as public meetings are held in any
American city. They did not dare to at-
tempt to arrest or interfere with the
aroused white citizens.

“It was a united and irresistible move-
ment of the same men, with now increased
numbers, that took, away. the despotic
pOWers of King Kalakaua. in 1857, and
crushed the Wilcox revolt of 1889. They
gathered at the armory with their rifles
in hand, which were increscd by ,other
arms openly carried his carriage from a

gunstore, With only three men in charge.
or could under those circumstances was

denies this has no other basis for his de-
nials than perjured affidavits, hundreds of
which Were obtainable in the slums of
Honolulu at $2 each.

by a dispute as to the hour by the clock

days before.

relief to Americ 31’s shame.”

I assaults! _

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Leave your orders at ‘

GAZETTE OFFICE.

 

n of Norwalk, in said county. '
» Signed. J. W. SPILLANE.
. ifatc d at Norwalk t

.xpayers of said . .
.censed dealers in intoxicatin

Monso: Hoyt, 69 Main street.
-i River street,

liquors.

.hapel street.

6th day of November, 1893.
I, Town

written endorsement has been filed“ with me.
Attest, HERBERT B. SMITH.
Clerk of said Tow ii.

 

T0 the Commissioners of Fairfield County.

liquors, for hotel, pursuant to the laws of. the
State now in force relaungtothe sale of in-
toxicating liquors an the building No.29 South
Main direct, ind'fiowntof Norwalk, at South
horwa , in $3.1 ‘oun y.
Signed. MARTIN _SPAHR.
“ated at Norwalk the 28th day of October,

endorsed by the following five electors and
tax payers of said town. _none of. whom are
licensed dealers in intoxicating1 liquors. '

Elias Gusowski, Nor walk, .3 am Schmidt,
South First street, Henry D. Froeb“ Lowe
street, Wm. Mesberg,Norwa1k,Herman I‘heile,
East Norwalk. _ , .

County of Fairfield, Town of Norwalk, this
31st day of October.‘_1893. _

I, Town Clerk of said Town, hereby certify
pursuant to the statute in such case provided,
that this apphcation endorsed as aforesaidhas
been submitted to me, and .I further certify
that eachpf said endorsers is an elector and
taxpayer in said town, and that a copy of the
foregoing application. includm t e. above
written endorsement has been fi ed With me

Attest. HERBERT B. SMITH.
Clerk of said Town.

T0 RENT.
IIam'nch. or less, 250 a day or $1.00 per week.

I 0 RENE—House, 10 Isaacs street. with

besides bath, laundry and drying rooms. D.lv.
COUCH, 12 Isaacs street. 732 at

cottage; sewer connection, city water,
near railroad station and online of horse ears.
Price,$10.00 per month. Inquire of F. E. UIN-
rAnn, 146 Main street, or E. L. BOYEE. 138 am
street. 732 1w

0 BENT—East side of house. No. 5 Union
Park. All modern improvements. In-
quire on premises. D. M. PLATT. 731 1w

0 RENT.—House, NO. 11 High street. Six

painted; rent $8.
Wall street.

0 BENT—A neat and convenient cottage

post-office. Bent $12.50 per month. Inquire
of GEN. CHAS. OLMSTEAD. -

 

office.

0 RENT—First floor of NO. 4 Elm street,
T also barn. Apply to 0. E. WILSON. 68-1 t1

 

FOR SALE.
Half inch or less 250 a. day or $1,130 per week.

OB SALE.—A Phcenix Co. Piano Box End
Spring Buggy. has been .used. Will sell

 

 

condition. Applv at GAZETTE oflice.

WA N TED.

ANTED.—A situation as a. clerk in a gro—

in em loy at last place ten consecutive years.
Addregs, “ D,” GAZETTE ofhce, Norwalk. [733st

ANTED.— Agents in eyery county for
“The manufacturers of the U. S. Refer-

ence Book." Qua: to volume. 2,000 pages, con-
taining addresses ._ f the anufactui ers of over
0,000 different articles. Needed by every; mam
utacturer and dealer, Salary and commissmn.
Manufacturers Publishing Co., 150 Fifth gave-
nue. New York. . . 7,0 1w

 

WANTED, SITUATI 0N5.

young .mau would 11k

 

(815?“ B ~,Address. “ ' "r.
scuth Norwalk.Conn. , "

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IRE—SALE! - ., ‘_,. ,’ f

“The only government that existed

the provisional government. Whoever

“An effort has been made to damage my
recognition of the provisional government

at which I gave recognition. That is of no
essential importance for in fact all resist-
ance to the formation of a new govern -
nient practically ceased more than two
The committee of the house
and provisional government Constituted
the only Hawaiian government de facto,
existing for 24 hours prior to my recog»
nition, the monarchial government hav-
ing completely collapsed several days be«
fore, so. all unjust imputations on Capt.
Wiltse and myself will vanish into thin
air and the crime of the Hawaiian provi-
sional government will stand out in bold

Autumnal: mvnmors

u the Commissmners of Fairfield County.
The undersigned hereby applies for all.
us: to sell Spirituous and intoxicating liq-
rs. pursuant to the laws of the State now in
cc relating to the sale of intoxicating liq-
s nt the building, No. 20 Main street. in the

he 6th day of November,

 
 
 
 
 

 

Endorsed by the following five electors and
' town. home of whom are

orace E.Dann,
Wug. E. Penn, 8 River street, E.
iusowski, 130 Main street, P. H. IJwyer, 36

County of Fair-field, Town of Norwalk, this
Clerk of said Town, hereby certify,
pursuant to the statute in such case prQVide ,
that this application endorsed as aforsaid, has
been submittedito me, and I further certify
that each of said endorsers is an elector and

taxpayer in said town, and that a copy of the
foregomg application. including the above

The undersigned hereby applies. for a.
license to sell spirituous and intoxicating

furnace heat. gas, etc; has Seven rooms _-

.0 RENT—A pleasantly situated six room .

-rooms with water; newly paperf‘d and
TAFT Bnos. Clothiei'fia ii

of seven rooms. public water etc.,‘near
Union Park, but three minutes walk of the

o RENL—A furniseed house, centrally
located. Apply to “H" care GAZ7F0TOTtl’ .

cheap or would exchange for a sail boat in (gscgotd

Half inch or less 25c a day or $140 per week '

cery store. The best of ref erences given. ‘

Half inch 01‘ (688 25c a day 07‘ $1.00 per week. i

a Tm IROUGELY experienced and capable

' a b k a: a Feral-11.2: ’
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clerk girder tan 5 on, ‘ 1 O-bdgé‘if’g ‘ ,
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