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RETIRING '
From Business." Stock must ~
be sold at once.-
~_ PAFT BROS, Wall Street.
“Equal and Exact Justice to all Men of Whateve: State 'or Persuasion, Religious or Political.”——Jefmos
at. v. Whole No. 1075.
No'rwalk, Conn., Monday Evening, March 25, [895. -
I Selling Out
wmr Es” CLOTHING.
at less thanscost,
Retiring from business?
TAFT BROS. .
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Price One Cent.
1s GRESHAM TO LEAVE?
His Position In the Cabinet Is Said to
Be Very Unpleasant.
DID CLEVELAND SNUB HIM?
Statements of a Republican in \Vashington
[n as to the Secretary of State’s Rela-
tions With the President—Mu-
tuaga Will Have to Go.
WASHINGTON, March 25.—-A Republican
politician who is not particularly friendly
to the administration, but who is remark-
ably well posted on national politics, said.
yesterday when asked if Secretary Gresham
would resign:
Hourly, as the troubles that surround
the state department grow darker. there is
an increase in the rumors that this will be
the solution and only solution of the pres-
ent problem. Each cabinet meeting is fol-
lowed by all sorts of statements, all lack-
ing the ofiicial stamp. yet all agreeing up-
on one matter—that, notwithstanding
Private Secretary Thurber’s assertions,
there is trouble among the president’s ad-
visors.
‘ The return of the president has been a
serious obstacle in the path marked out for
himself by the secretary of state. This
course was so totally at odds with all the
former record of this administration and
so highly praised by people and press, that
heretofore could find little or nothing good
to say about Mr. Cleveland and his fellow-
ers, that it at once met with the emphatic
disapproval of the president. So strong
Was his disapprobation that the state de
partment became a veritable tomb. in
which has been buried all news which the
public is clamoring for.
Is Gresham Tired of It?
The old line Dc: “rats of the cabinet
have never looked with favor upon Mr.
Gresham. The president has shown him
no little coolness recently, and the bungled
condition of afl’airs is beginning to pro-
duce the conviction in the secretary’s
mind that he is not a success as a diplo-
SECRETARY GRESHAM.
matist—a conviction which has been
strengthened by the adverse criticism of
public men and the press of all political
opinions. The post is no longer attractive
to him. and rumors of his approaching
resignation are already beginning to agi-
tate Washington.
Washington would not be surprised to
hear of Gresham’s resignation at any mo-
ment now. Of course Mr. Gresham will
not go out pending the settlement of the
many difficulties which now surround the
president, and he may not resign at all,
but nine-tenths of the people in Washing-
ton think that he will follow Mr. Blssell
into retirement at an early day. In the
meantime it is regarded as significant that
the cruiser Columbia has been ordered to
the West Indies through the Windward
passage, where the Allianca incident oc-
curred.
A RECORD
of twent -five years of cures is made
by Dr. ' ierce’s Golden Medical Dis-
cove . In all blood disorders, this
reme y has numbered its cures by
the, thousands. Years of uninter-
rupted success long ago led the pro-
prietors to sell this remedy as no
other blood-purifier can be sold.
They have so much confidence in
the “Discovery” that they guaran-
tee it in all diseases that come from
a torpid liver or impure blood. As
a blood-cleanser, flesh-builder, and
strength-restorer, nothing like the
“ Discovery ” is known to medical
science. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Bil~
iousness, and the most stubborn
Skin, Scalp, or Scrofulous Aifections,
quickly yield to its purifying and
cleansrng properties.
If it doesn’t benefit or cure, you
have your money back.
For every case of Catarrh which
they cannot cure, the proprietors of
Dr.,Sage’s Catarrh Remedy agree
to pay $500 in cash. You’re cured
by Its mild, soothing, cleansing, and
heshn’g properties, 0! :‘Ju’re paid.
Spam does not answer Secretary 'Greshs
am’s demand. In the past she has treated
such matters with slowness and main-
tained her position as the correct one, tir-
ing the United States out. It is not be-
lieved that she will yield this time, and it
is said that in the present political crisis
in Spain any party that yielded to the
United States would be destroyed.
Muruaga \Vill Have to Go.
,Notwithstanding Minister Muruaga’s
? little resignation byplay with his govern-'
ment it is pretty clearly understood that
after the Thurston action this government
will not be:,content to allow the Spanish
minister to remain here. His criticism of
the secretary of state cannot be tolerated
without furnishing a powerful weapon to
Mr. Thurston. Embassador Bayard is au—
thority for an assurance which has reached
Washington that the dispute between Eng-
land and Nicaragua will be peacefully
disposed of without any infringement, of
the Monroe doctrine. The neWS is doubt-
less very Welcome to the administration,
which had every reasonL-to look forward
with some uncasinessto England’s course
of action on the Mosquito coast. Still
there are indications that Mr. Bayard’s
assurances, though grateful,'are not every-
where regarded as final. Mr. Gresham
will do well to keep his eye on Nicaragua
for a while yet.
Last and in some respects least of all the
Thurston matter is on Secretary Gresh-
am’s mind. But there is now no question
that Hawaii’s minister will be recalled,
and unless a similar invitation is extended
to Minister Willis at Honolulu that trou-
ble will be at an end.
SUGAR AND Arise—n10.
AStorm at Sea Mixes Them and Renders
the Former Useless.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.——Near1y a
million pounds of beet root sugar, which,
it is said. contains enough arsenic to poison
half the population of Philadelphia, will
be sold in this city on Friday to satisfy the
government. The sugar is part of the
cargo of the German steamer Remus. The
sale has been ordered by Collector of the
Port Read, and the weight of the sugar is
giVen as 991.808 pounds and appraised
damage 50 per cent. No mention is made
of the fact that the sugar is mixed with
arsenic, but an analysis shows the presence
of a large quantity of the drug.
The Remus cleared from Hamburg in
December last with a miscellaneous cargo.
Besides the sugar there were 100 cases of
arsenic, dry go‘ods, etc.
She encountered a most tempestuous
voyage and narrowly escaped foundering.
Captain Schwaner personally took charge
of the wheel, while the crew baled out
tons of water which poured down the
hatches. The water mixed the cargo thor-
oughly, so that when the vessel arrived at
this port the sugar was impregnated with
arsenic. The cargo was nearlya total loss
to underwriters, and it was abandoned to
the government. Now the goverment will
sell to recover, if possible, storage and du-
ties amounting to nearly $10,000. The
cargo was abandoned because of the belief
that the sugar is irretricvably ruined. The
customs officials, however, are of the opin-
ion that it is possible to separate the ar-
senic from the sugar.
Hayward Wants a Ito-Trial.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 25. —The bill of
exceptions in the case of Harry Hayward
declares that the verdict was against the
law and the evidence, and that the rulings
of the court were wrong. The new evi-
dence is that published recently going to
show that Miss Ging was eating dinner at
the Dairy restaurant on the night of the
murder after 7 o’clock and could not have
been where Blixt and Wilson claim to
have seen her.
The Charge Against Thurston.
WASHINGTON, March 25.—-The next mail
from Honolulu is awaited with interest
here. as it is expected to give a full ex-
planation of events connected with the re-
quest for Minister Thurston’s recall. It
is understood that the specific charge made
against Mr. Thurston is that he procured,
to be published, extracts from a private let-
ter from Mr. Hatch severely reflecting
upon the course of Minister Willis.
General Philip Cooke Buried.
DETROIT, March 25.—The remains of
General Philip St. George Cooke were
buried with appropriate military honors
yesterday afternoon. The funeral proces-
sion was escorted by four companies of the
Nineteenth United States infantry and
the regimental band from Fort Wayne.
Six regiments of that command were the
pail bearers.
Adam S. Hartranft Arrested.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-—Adam S.
Hartranft, who at one time was a candl-
date for congressional honors, and who
has held several positions of trust in fed-
eral offices under Democratic administra-
tions, was arrested yesterday charged with
obtaining money under false pretense.
Hartranft’s victims were all mostly min-
isters, five reverend gentlemen appearing
against him.
A lilurderer Confesses.
JASPER, Fla, March 25.—A train on
the Georgia. Savannah and Florida knock-
ed a white man OR the track. Upon ex-
amination it was found that he was James
Bullard, who had been killed by a load of
buckshot and placed upon the track. Al-
bert J ones, his brother-in-law, was arrest-
ed and confessed.
An Ice Bound Steamer In Port.
MILWAUKEE, March 25.—The Graham
and Morton steamer Petoskcy, after being
ice bound at St. Joseph, Mich., for two
months, has succeeded in reaching here.
The captain was obliged to take his boat
as far north as Grand Haven to avoid the
ice.
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
Pam 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. ,
CHAMBER __0_F towns.
It Was a Room In Which an Err-Hang-
man Kept His Trophies.
MRS. ROESLER’S CONFESSION.
Seeing Her Husband Asleep In the Boon.
of Mysteries She \V-fi Irresistibly Im-
pelled to Cut His Throat—He
Will Probably Recover.
BROOKLYN, March 25,—In the minds of
the neighbors on Evergreen avenue, Wil-
liamsburg. a blight rests on the little front
room on the top floor of the house at 277.
In this place Hangman Joe Atkinson kept
for years the nooses and black caps of 56
executions, and when he left the place,
taking with him the ghastly relics of his
trade, he could not take away the effects
of them upon the minds of the dwellers
near by, who named the room the Chamber
of Horrors.
Agnes Roesler tried to kill her husband a
fortnight ago, as she has just confessed,
and the impulse of murder which inspired
the crime is traced by many to the influ-
ence of the place wherein the implements
of death were stored so long.
It was one of Joe Atkinson’s eccentrici-
ties to involve that room as much as possi-
ble in mystery, He was the hangman in
the Tombs, and at night he used to invite
his neighbors up in his rooms to recount
to them horrible stories of executions, al-
ways embellishing these tales with refer-
ences to the caps and nooses in the big
chest. The result was that not a woman
in the neighborhood, and perhaps not a
man either. would have dared to venture
into that front room after dark, even had
Joe Atkinson allowed it, which he proba-
bly would not, as he was extremely chary
of admitting visitors to the place, on the
ground probably that familiarity would
breed contempt.
Neighborhood Superstitions.
As was to be expected, the room became
the very'center of mysterious interest in
Evergreen avenue. Gossip over the teacups
made it the scene of midnight orgies. in
which Joe Atkinson was the only human
figure, dancing madly about in the midst
of black capped wraiths. which jigged and
jolted in their nooses, hung from invisible
scafiolds, to the music of shrinks and
groans and stranglings. Such was the
Chamber of Horrors in local repute when
Joe Atkinson moved away.
It seemed probable that there would be
difficulty in renting this room and the
other two that went with it, but Ernest
Rocslcr came and took them. The rooms,
he said, would do very well for himself,
his wife and their 3—year-old child.
Roesler. who is a steel engraver, could
find no work at 'his trade, and matters be-
gan to look very black for the family, as
they had but little money. The child’s
health was poor, too, although before she
had been strong and well. , Perhaps it was
the talk of the neighbors that put into
Agnes Roesler’s head her horror of the lit-
tle front room. She would not enter it
after dark, when, she said, strange noises
came from it. _, . , .. .
But Roesler was not afraid. He said he
would sleep in the room. And he did. ,His
bed was at the side Where the hangman’s
big chest used to stand, and Roesler would
joke about this. saying that he would just
as lief have slept in the chest, with the
nooses for mattress and the caps for pil-
low, if it had been left there. But his wife
worried. Not even the arrival of the
‘Bruckners—good, sensible people, who
took the rooms in tho roar—could entirely
do away with her nervousness, though it
was a great relief to hér to have other peo-
ple at hand when her husband was away.
But as time went:on and the Rocslers
became poorer and poorer and had less to
eat, Mrs. Bruckner used to find her friend
more and more frequently standing at the
door of the front r993“: looking over in the
corner above the bed, and once Mrs. Ross-
ler said that she had seen herself hanging
there.
llIrs. Roesler’s Mad Act.
Then she took to imploring hcr hus-
band to move away, but this was impos-
sible, even had he desired it. as they had
not the money to pay for the moving. He
tried to quiet her fears, but she strenuous-
ly insisted that something terrible was im-
pending, and that it would befall them in
that very room. All this time Hoosier was
unavailingly striving to find work. He
became surly, and the neighbors say that
he beat his wife when she kept insisting
on their going away.
Finally, on the 13th of the month, they
had only a. few cents left and no place to
get more money. Mrs. Rocsler went out
to make arrangements for getting some
provisions, and on her return she stood for
a moment looking in at the door of the
front room, where her husband lay dozing.
Slowly she entered the door and moved to-
ward thc bcd. On a table near the corner
lay a razor. A sudden excess of wrath to-
ward her husband seized her and drove her
toward the table. She caught up the razor.
Her husband’s bare threat was turned to-
ward her. She opened the razor, and then,
with a leap, she was upOn the sleeping man
and had drawn it across his throat. She
would then have out her own threat, but
a darkness came over her, and something
tightened about her throat. With a shriek,
she threw the razor from her and. ran out.
Mrs. Bruckner came runnin to her aid,
and Mrs. Roesler told her that Roesler had
attempted suicide. The police were called
in, and she told them also that her hus-
band had tried to kill himself. He told
them that she had cut him, and she was
arrested, but so straightforward washer
statement that on being arraigned she was
released on her own recognizance. Captain
Kitzer went again to her house. Then she
broke down and confessed. ‘
She was taken to court. Where she re-
peated her confession, adding that her
head seemed wrong, and she had thought
and seen and heard strange things for the
past few weeks. She was held for the
grand jury. Roesler will recover.
Tracy’s Trial Postponed.
HARTFORD, March 25.—The trial of
Louis A. Tracy. charged with embezzling
$10,000 from the Security company, has
been postponed until April 6 at the re-
i quest of his_attorney. Judge W. F. Henney.
In this Chamber of Horrors
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"if AMERIEAN TBBAEEU EllMPAlY. SUCCESSDR.
new worm us.»
ABSOIIITELY PURE.
THE OLD RELIABLE
SWEEIBAPORAL
CIGARETTE
ilas stood iher'l'esi of Time
MORE som’THAN ALL Gratin
BRANDS COMBINED
' I The bstcakes,
pudding, and pastry
must have
WEhLEAMS’ ,
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sxrsacrs
(Strongest and-best, :
most economical,
because
absolutely pure.
Sold everywhere.
\VIIJJAMS & CARLETON,
Hartford, Conn.
New YorkAn nouncement.
" Our American Runes and How to Furnis‘h‘l‘hem'
Eisrner’s Furniture.
Reasons why you should buy it
in preference to any other.
(1). Because this firm have long en-
joyed the reputation of keeping only
the best Furniture that can be pro-
duced, both in medium and finest
grades; (2). Because their assortments
are unequalled; (3). Because their prices
are the lowest at which goods of stand-
ard quality can he sold.
Latest productions in Dining Room. Bedroom,
Parlor, Drawing Room, Library and Hall Furni-
ture—V: m-tian t arm-d Furuharc—Novelties in
lmportcl furniture—White and Gold Enameled
Furniture Enamecd and Brass Bedsteads-
English Brass Bcdsteads (75 patterns); Maple and
Bamboo Furniture—Rostful Easy Chairs and Set—
tees—Smoking and Billiard Room Furniture;—
Evcrything for city or country homes—Eight
spacious floors—All prices in plain figures.
.R. J. HGRNER 8:. 00.,
furniture Makers and Importers,
61-85 West 23d St., N. Y.
(Adlolnlng Eden Musee.)
Homer & Co.’s establishment is one of the sights
of New York—Newspaper Comment.
For Sale bv22
G. A. Greruv 81. 80.. Nurwalk.
Attention
Ladies!
Just received; latest styles in
Fall and Winter Millinery,
consisting of Hats,Hat Frames
Feathers, Ribbons. Velvets
and Buckles ; also a very fine
line of Walking Hats, Tur
bans, Sailors, etc, at
Fawcett’s,
Headquarters for Millinery
No. 3 Water street, Norwal
Call and examine.
‘ carpetings.
EBOSTON STORE.
cum MAIN AND WALL snrrrs, Honwnr- '
,As a. special leader, this Week we offer a
line of velvet capes, lined throughout with
changeable silk. deep point lace collar, neck
finished with black satin ribbon and lace
exceedingly stylish, at only $4.98.
canrnrs. 0.5.an rs. -
Our spring stock is now ready for inspection. If you are interested in any of the goods we carry in this do
partment, we think we can make a. visit entertaining as well as profitable. We doubt whether there is a stock in
either c1ty that Will approach it in variety or in the rich beauty and novelty of the patterns and colorings. W 9
mm to supply the best trade in the section but our selections are by no means confined to lhe higest priced
In tapestnes we have many novel effects, and we are prepared to show remarkable values in the
best grades of ingrains. ' .
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3---SPEGIAL Durance—s
As an inducement for you to visit this department, this week, anl see the new spring stock.
2,500 yards, ten different patterns, best quality Ingrain carpet, regular 75c goods, now 47c yd.
Ten pieces Japanese fancy matting, best quality, regular price, 50c, for one week only 25c yd.
Five hundred pairs fine Nottingham lace curtains, $1.50 quality, new 93c pair.
Substitute for Mother’s Milk.
, and health.
\Vorccster. Mass.
THE D. M. READ co.
Stores are like indiVId-
. . ' uals; some good; some not
1 _ quite as good. Every com-
munity has both. Some
stores give better value for
the money, than others;
others try to but can’t. All
depends. Ladies’ Muslin,
all new; cambric, lawn and
nainsock underwear. Night--
gowns, Chemises, Drawers,
including extra sizes, Corset
Covers, Short and Long
Skirts, and Umbrella Skirts,
extra width. Infant’s Out
fittings,Christening Dresses,
Slips, Long Skirtsmcambric
Nainsock and Flannel,
Bands,Short Skirts cambric
and flannel, Long Cloaks.
Short Coats, Silk and Swiss
I ' Caps, Hand made Sacques
' in wool flannel and cash-
‘ mere, Shawls and . Wrap-
pers, in cheese cloth, flan
nel and cashmere. . ‘
' Dear Sirs-.—-I feel as though “‘1 hear a baby
. that isn’t well, I must tell them of Mellin’s
Food. as it saved my first but-y and made a
- strong. healthy bal-y of my second one. Mel—
lin’a Food is all it promises.
Mrs. E. G. BRADY.
Charlestown. Mass.
Gentlemen .——Iiavc been an invalid for
several months and hicllin’s Food is the only
food I’ve had that I relished, and at the same
nourished and strengthened.
Mrs. A. B. DAVIS.
- Thompson. Conn.
Gentlemen :4 AVe have used Mellin’s Food
in our family with remarkable success for a
very delicate child, other nourishment prov-
‘ F. A. STEARNS.
Yours very truly.
ing 2 failure.
Greenfield, Mass.
- Gentlemen :—~l use If. ;:.'s Fund both for
myself and children, air link it. superior to
:‘ other prepared foods to. ..rolncting strength
Yours very truly,
Mrs. G. W. Srum'u.
Livermore Falls, Me.
- Gentlemen --—I Cannot say too much ‘ln
praise of Mellin’s Food. I commenced using
‘ it when my baby was four weeks old: she
. was not well then and I feared she was going
to be a. sickly child, but she commenced to
gain rapidly and is now a fat, healthy child.
, nearly six months old.
Mrs. F. H. Wurr'rmons.
Mechanics Falls, Me.
My baby which I fed on Mellin’s Food
fifteen months ago. is now a {at and healthy
boy to the surprise of my friends, who all
thought the child could not live. Mellin's
Food saved hint.
Mrs. HENRY A. CROOKER,
\Vallingi’crd, Conn.
My boy has never been sick a day since he
commenced taking Mellin’s Food, nor well
NOTHING
snows
GREY
FROM
HIGH
PRICES
, . J. REDMOND.
FBE ’ to anyone, anyw) ere.
our book “ Tim Care and
' lloliber-soodale to... Boston, Mass.
. a moment before he took i3.
Feeding of Info nts,"mailed
Raymond 1% Son. ,
Successors to George H, Raymond,
Furniture Dealers and General Funeral
Directors.
46 and 48 Main street, Norwalk, Ct.
Residence, 3 Berkeley Place.
Telephone Gall. v.5
Bridgeport, Conn.
J. D. Jennings.
UNDERTAKER ‘ ' " .
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Street Railway DODOa.
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