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RETIRING
From Business. Stock must
be sold-at once.
TAFT BROS.,_ Wall Street.
“Equal and. Exact Justice to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious or Political.”-—Jéferson
{1.1. v. Whole No. l062.
.INNNENNAAN SAVED.
A Brooklynitc’s Narrow Escape From
a Long Term In Prison.
coULIi NOT PROVE AN ALIBI.
His Identification Appeared to Be Com-
plete, and Ho “rould Have Been Sen-
tenced but For the Confession
of the Real Criminals.
BROOKLYN, March 6.——S. C. Walbridge,
who has been a prisoner in Raymond street
jail for nearly two months, having been
tried and convicted for a crime which he
did not commit, was discovered to be in-
nocent today in time to save him from
sentence to a long term of imprisonment.
He was at once released, and the real
culprits, having confessed to the crime,
were placed in the jail.
On the night of Feb. 12 the shoe store
at 79 York street was entered and a num-
ber of pairs of shoes stolen.
Walbridge was arrested the next day,
charged with the burglary. He was ar-
raigned before Justice Walsh and then
identified as the burglar by a boy named
Frank Turano.
Turano swore positively that he was in
the store at the time of the burglary and
saw Wal bridge steal the shoes. When asked
by Justice Walsh how he was so positive
that Walbridge was the man, he pointed
at a new pair of shoes which the prisoner
was Wearing and said:
”Why, he has on a pair of the stolen
shoes!”
This evidence was considered conclusive,
and Walbridgg‘ was sent to Raymond
street jail to await the action of the grand
ur .
J y Protested His Innocence.
He protested that he was innocent, but
could give no account of his whereabouts
at the time the burglary was committed.
He said he had been drunk that night and
could remember nothing.
Notwithstanding the strong evidence
against Walbridge, Detectives Keyser and
Gillen of the Fulton street station kept at
work on the case and have just succeeded
in landing the real burglars.
They are Neil Gillespie of 174 Water
street, William Devine of 33 Maine street,
Edward Gray of 69 Jay street and Charles
Cullen of 25 Nassau street.
The prisoners when gathered in by the
detectives confessed to the crime and told
how the burglary had been committed.
They said they did not know Walbridge,
nor had any of them ever seen him.
After the burglars had heard the story
of Walbridge’s arrrest they seemed sorry
that they had confessed their guilt. The
four men were arraigned before Justice
Walsh in the Adams street police court this
morning and held for examination Friday.
Bob Fltzsimmons' Latest \Vhim.
BALTIMORE, March 6.—Bob Fitzsim-
moms in speaking to a reporter of his trou-
bles says: "I have been robbed right and
left by the men whom I’ve trusted, and
they have succeeded in nearly ruining me.
I have determined to stand it no longer.
My show will disband at the close of our
week here and will start fresh, with Mar-
tin Jillian at the head of it.”
lilanhattan Club Chess Team.
NEW Inns, March 6.—The names of
the players selected to play on the Man-
hattan club team against the British Chess
club are as follows: D. G. Baird, J. W.
Baird, Major Hanham, A. B. Hodges, Dr.
Isaacson. S. Lipschutz, J. S. Ryan, Dr.
Simonson. J. W. Showalter and W. De
Wlsser. The match takes place by cable on
Saturday at 10 o’clock.
Two Children Incinerated.
BRENHAM, Tex., March 6.—Wyatt May-
berry, colored, went to church and left his
three children locked up in the house.
The house caught fire. and the oldest child,
aged 7 years. escaped by climbing out of
the window. The younger two were
burned to death.
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EXPLOSINAND FIRES.
Natural Gas Does Great Damage to
Property In an Indiana Town.
AN ENTIRE BLOCK BLOWN UP
Two Fatal Fires, One In Brooklyn and the
Other In _New York City—An Incen-
diary Who Was Probably the
Victim of His Own Villainy.
ANDERSON, Ind., March 6.—The most
destructive natural gas explosion in the
history of the Indiana gas belt occurred
here today. A $75,000 business block on
the courthouse square was blown over all
the central part of the city.
In the building were the When clothing
store, Prather’s shoe store, Hadley’s drug
store and a large number of business offices
and balls on the upper floor.
Fire follovved the explosion, which oper-
ated like an earthquake, and the debris
began burning fiercely. The entire flre de-
partment was called out, and it prevented
the fire from reaching the new courthouse.
It is feared that Attorney Ballard and
County Commissioner Mctcalf have per-
ished.
The loss on the building and contents
will reach $400,000.
The fronts of all business houses in the
(neighborhood of the explosion were demol-
ished, paved streets ripped open and tele-
phone cables torn down.
“has the Incendiary the Victim?
NEW YORK, March 6.—Lying in the
morgue is the body of a man who was
charred and burned beyond recognition in
a fire which occurred early today in the
four story building at 298 Avenue A.
The police would give a good deal to
know his identity, for upon it hangs a
story of the most dramatic kind.
All the indications go to show that the
man was a thief. It is even assumed he
may have fired the building, seized consider-
able money, and that while searching for
money he delayed too long and himself fell
a victim to the blaze which he started.
The building in which the fire started is
oivned by four maiden sisters, Mary, J u-
lia, Emma and Annastina Bauer.
Annastina was first aroused by a smoth—
ering sensation, and jumping out of bed
she found the room filled with smoke. She
screamed to her sisters, who sprang out of
bed in a panic. They thought of the 18
men asleep up stairs, and without waiting
to put on a particle of clothing two of the
women, Emma and Julia, rushed out into
the street yelling: “Police! Fire!” The
other two rushed up stairs, banging at ev-
ery door and crying out at the top of their
voices.
The two women who ran into the street
had left the hall door open, but when An-
nasitina, aft-er arousing the household,
tried t 0 make her escape, a few moments
later, she found it locked.
Back she rushed to her room, where in a
drawer she had $300 in bills, the deed of
the house, the insurance policy on the
building and furniture, the account books
with the lodgers and other papers wrapped
up in a small parcel. This she seized and
then ran down the stairs again. The other
sister, Mary, was still screaming for the
men to get up and escape.
When Annastina got to the door the see-
Ond time, she found a stranger trying to
open it. He was not able to do so. Then
the woman screamed that there was a
stranger in the house. He is thought to
have been the man who fired the building
and who was afterward burned up.
A \Voman Burned to Death. .
NEW YORK, March 6.—Just how the fire
in which Mrs. Rose Kcnnelly was burned
to death in the flat house at 370 Columbus
avenue started is not clear. It began in
the apartments of John Kearns. From
there all got out in safety. So did the other
tenants in the house, for that matter,
though the fire burned fiercely and spread
rapidly for awhile and even found its way
into the building adjoining, doing about
$25,000 damage in all.
It was about 6 :45 o’clock when the
alarm was sent 'out, and then it was a
young man of the name of Kirchner, who
was in the lower flat on the south side,
who summoned the firemen. The fire
fighters came quickly enough, but the
flames had gone upward and spread out on
both sides of the building before they got
there.
The Kearns family lived in the fourth
flat on the north side of the house. Just
above them lived Frank Connellan with
his Wife, two children and his mother—in-
law, who was Mrs. Rose Kennelly.
The Connellan family had got out all
right, so every one thought, even to Con-
nellan himself. They had got out in a big
hurry and amid great confusion, and it
was supposed that Mrs. Kennelly had
found shelter with some of the neighbors.
But about 9 o’clock some one said she was
missing; and ‘ that started the firemen
searching for her.
{They found her in a doorway and burned
‘Ito'a crisp. She was 60 years of age and
weighed 200 pounds and had evidently
been trying to get out when overtaken by
the flames. '
A. Mine on Fire.
SEATTLE, Wash, March 6.-——Firc was
discovered in the pumproom of the Black
Diamond mine, 1, 300 feet from the surface,
and seen, gained such headway as to drive
the men out. The head of the 'slope has
been stopped, and steam is being forced
into the fire to smother it, which will take
a week or two.
Big Fire In Kennebunk.
KENNEBUNK, Me., March 6.——Sargent’s
block on Main street here, together with
outbuildings, was totally destroyed by fire
today. The block was the finest in the
town, and in it were located the postofiice,
Odd Fellows’ hall and several law offices.
The loss is estimated at $30, 000.
The City of St. Augustine Safe.
NEW YORK, March 6.—The long delayed
and storm tossed American coasting steam-
er City of St. Augustine reached port to-
day after a long and stormy passage, of 81
days. She usually makes the run from
JackSonvillc to this port in 4% days.
Norwalk, Conn., Wednesday‘livenlng, March 6, [895.
NORTH ANN BRIDGE.
New Plans Adopted to Meet Secretary
Lamont’s Objections.
WILL BE A NOVEL STRUCTURE
Dimensions, Purposes and Method of Build-
ing the Enormous Bridge—It Must
Sustain Six Trains Running at
a High Rate of Speed.
NEW YORK, March 6.-—A meeting of the
board of directors of the New York and
New Jersey Bridge company was held to-
day to consider the general specifications
for a suspension bridge 5.600 feet long and
3,220 feet span between the towers.
Mr. Theodore Cooper, who was a mem-
ber of the board Of experts appointed by
Secretary Lamont to decide whether the
bridge should be a cantalever or a suspen-
sion one, has been retained by the bridge
company as engineer in chief.
In his report to the board Of directors
today Mr. Cooper said that he had two
objects in view in preparing his offer for
bids from construction companies. One of
these was to make the tests of strength
and capacity absolute, and the other was
to allow the bidders as much latitude as
possible in minor details. .
. Mr. Cooper said that the railway com-
panies must be satisfied that trains would
be allowed to run at high speed across the
bridge, whether one or six of them were on
the tracks at the same time.
The new bridge should also be made
large enough and strong enough to accom-
modate all the freight traffic in New York
if necessary.
A \Vire Standard Adopted.
A standard of wire for the cables has
been adopted, Mr. Cooper said, which will
allow several suspension bridge construc-
tion companies to compete, and no bid
would be received unless it conformed
with the terms of the specifications or un-
less it came from a responsible concern.
The directors present at the meeting
were: John B. Kerr, pres'dent; Louis
Windmullcr, Charles A. Smy ie, Frederick
Potter, William Bell, William H. Ely,
Lorenzo Duncan, John Loughran, Charles
H. Swan, Daniel N. Lockwood and John
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PROPOSED NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
' BRIDGE.
C. Adams and Commissioner For the State
of New York Andrew H. Green. The
members of the construction company
present were: George Young, president;
Thomas H. Bauchlc, vice president; Jo-
seph H. Swan, treasurer; Myers Curtiss,
secretary; Adolph E. Smylic, Thomas C.
Smith and James W. Whitney.
The general specifications are interesting
because they provide for a form of bridge
not common, if it ever has been used be-
fore. in a very large structure.
The bridge is to have a clear span of
3,100 feet, the piers beinglocated inside of
the bulkhead lines on both sides of the
Hudson. The height of the center of the
span above high spring tides must not be
less than 150 feet.
A Novel Argument.
The suspension part will only be in the
middle. From the shore out to the piers
girder bridges will be used without any
dependence on the cable. In this respect
the new North river bridge will differ from
the present Brooklyn bridge.
The central span is to be stifi'cned by a
strong lattice girder, either hinged in the
middle or continuous from end to end, at
the option of the bidder.
To the eye the whole structure will look
like an immense lattice girder bridge, with
a suspension bridge dropped over it.
No height is given for the towers, but
they must be founded on rock, be of ma-
sonry until they reach a. height of some 50
feet above water level, then steel skeleton
structures for the remaining 300 feet or so.
Formulae are given for testing all strains
whether of load, weight of the structure,
wind pressure or momrntum of six fast
moving trains on each of the separate
tracks.
The plans of the bidders must be submit-
ted to the secretary of war for his approval.
The cost of the structure must not ex-
ceed $23, 000, 000, and if any of the respon-
sible suspension companies like to take the
contract below this price and to undertake
to complete it within four years the bridge
is likely to be built.
The Report of Trouble In Guiana.
LONDON, March 6.—The foreign office
has no knowledge of the report published
in New York of British troops having been
massed on the frontier of British Guinea.
If troops have been massed there, the move—
ment was not made in pursuance of orders
from. London government, as the dispatch
asserts, as no such orders have been given.
Hanged by a Skein of Yarn.
LAKEPORT, N. H., March 6.——Mrs. Jo-
seph L. Odell, wife of one of. Lakeport’s
most prominent citizens, committed suicide
by hanging herself with a skcm of yarn.
Mrs. Odell was the mother of Rev. Wllhs
P. Odell of Buffalo.
Afflicted With Rheumatism.
Mr. Geo. A. Mills, of Lebanon, Conn,
says: “I was afflicted with rheumatism in
my back all last winter. It was so severe
at times that I could not stand up straight,
but was drawn over on one side. I tried
different remedies without receiving any
relief until I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm. After using it for three days,
according to directions, my rheumatism was
gone and has not returned since. I have
since recommended it to'others and know
they have been benefited by its use. For
sale by Gregory & Co.
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HAPPY BABYHOOD.
Every mother wants her baby to thrive,
because a healthy child is a happy child.
The question of how the baby shall be fed
is demanding the attention, as never before,
not only of the mothers in the land, but a!
the entire medical profession also, because
at is now realized how much the health ofa
child can be influenced by proper nutrition
during the years of babyhood. As the re-
sult of the impreperfe'eding of the infant,
the vitality of the childds impaired, and he
grows up weak and. pony. In these days
when artificial food is being so generally re.
sorted to for infants; the demand for a sub
stitute for mother’s milk has brought out
many foods for which reat claims are
made. Gustav Mellin. an nglish chemist,
was the first to discover and combine the
requisite properties necessary for an arti-
ficial food, and with his discovery the
rational feeding of infants commenced.
Mellin’s Food is the only perfect substituti
for mother’s milk, and it has done more to
make babies strong and healthy than any
thing else that has "ever been invented-
Mellin’s Food possesses all the requisite
heat and flesh producing and bone-forming
constituents necessary to give a child
health, vigor and vitality. Infants are ex»
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nothing else can be» retained ,u n the
stomach. If their have been wee. , fretted
and troublesome they, become happy.
healthy and active; 1‘ bright gyes, rosy
)beeks, firm muscles and a strong consti-
sution are the inevrtable,results of using
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IT’S QUlTE'
A TRIGK
To write a convincing advertise-
mentabout clothing nowadays.
All tailors claim so much, and
most of them too much. All 1
do is to try and get you to look
at my new winter stock. My
constant aim is to put into the
clothes all the attractiveness of
artistic fashion and careful mak-
ing at the lowest possible price.
Ask those who wear the latest
and finest clothes where they
trade and all will tell you with
KOCOUR,
17 NORTH MAIN STREET
So. NORWALK.
Great Removal
SALE.
During the month of March, we
will sell all Crockery and House-
furnishing goods AT COST, in order
to reduce stock, before moving into
our new store, No. 17 Main street,
on Apr i1 lst.
11.11. WILLIAMS
15 Wall Street.
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKER
{Knight street. opp is to
Selling Out
WIN1 ER CLOTHING,
at less than cest,
Retiring from busrness.
TAFT BROS.
_ Price One Gent.
T E BOSTONSTORE.
GORNER MAIN AND WALL STREETS, NORWALK.
cheapness.
at 980 to $53.98 each.
SILKS.
For Dress Waists and Fancy Costumes.
‘ are marvelsoi American Manufacture only 39C.
' ful Silk DeLaines, styles controlled exclusively by us at 39c
SAKS. —
Are to be worn more than ever this spring, and
stock is without peer in quality, novelty, elegance and
We have '
CHINA SILKS.
JAPANESE SILKS,
FRENCH SILKS.
AMERICAN SILKS.
GERMAN SILKS.
Olll"
STRIPE SILKS.
FIGURED SILKS.
PLAIi} SILKS.
CREPED SILKS.
SWIVEL SILKS.
Our Swivel Silks
Beeuti
Vandyke points, 2 inches to 8 inches wide We to 590 a point.
100 different styles in cut jet collarettes, points and other new designs, from $1 to $5 each.
Palssementerie band trimmings from 20 to $1.50 per yard.
A urge assortment of the latest designs in aluminum buckles includin the “Trilbv” at 190 290, 89c 8116 49 . each.
Just look at these goods and you’ll marvel at the price ’ g ' ’ t b
DRESS' TRIMMING—S.
We have just opened our new spring line of dress trimmings. Cut jet fronts, plain and irridescent, acheice assOItmeLt
For Sale hr
8. A. Arena 8:. 80.. Norwalk.
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FOR A
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l the Latest Styles at
E. Gusowski’s,
Cor. Wall and Water Sts.
Horace E. Dann,
EXCELSIOh
Livery and Sales Stable.
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Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depot.
Norwalk, Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Teams
with or without drivers.
Safe horses for women
andchildren . . ‘
Street Railway Depo ..
NICE! BELL A T OFF! 0E5
SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY
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YOU WITH
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Happy days in th e Carpet
Department. A wealth of
handsome patterns and,
rich eolorings wholly un-
like any we’ve ever shown.
Visions of beauty are un-
rolled to every seeker of
the luxurious to tread upon.
Axministers and MO‘
quettes, with body and bor-
ders to match. Body. Brus-
sels, Tapestry and Ingrains
in the newest spring designs
and shadings. TOO hand-
some to describe; too low to
quote.
And a light, cheerful, and
roomy floor to diSplay them.
and aid you in your selec.
tion. '
It makes buying a. pleaSw
ure.
The D. M. Read. Go, Bridgeportfit
Norwalk Chronicler