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Vol. V. Whole No
l224'
BRIDGEPORT,
' 'THE '
_ D. M. Read
company.
HARD
TO
TELL .
Which department is the
most popular nowadays; all
are busy. The delivery folks
seem to wonder where on
earth ’ all the buyers come
from ;. and they never see the
loads and loads that people
take away with them—small
parcels. '
We only mention it just to
show to which store the popu-
lar mind is. turning.
In a general sort of a way
'Colored Dress Novelties are
having the liveliest kind of
demand, one almost as much
as the other—400nservative,
extreme and medium. [is
we do not duplicate on these,
the knowledge ought to
quicken your decision; lines
are not broken, but from
present indications they soon
will be. -
Sash Draperies, without
any extended remarks.
About 500 yds. figured, fancy
and tamboured edge Sash
'Muslin that is slightly soiled,
worth from 25 to 35 c. a yard,
for 14 c. a yard.
$1.25 will also buy a ‘3 x G
Jap. Rug, $2.39 a 4 x 7, and
$8.40 a 9 X 12.
These, in connection with
the big lace cui lain sale, will
make pretty lively times in
the Upholstery department.
Brand - new children’s
colored Short Coats; cute
little thin gs in more different
styles than ever before——
every one a beauty.
Also additional Bonnets,
pokes, in all the new shades
-—stunningly trimmed and
pretty beyond, description.
New colored silk Caps, trim—
med with beaver. Cream
silk Caps, hand embroidered.
Handsome Hats, in colors
and white.
Robe Flannels, made
especially in patterns suitable
for dressing sacks, wrappers
and bath robes—grays, black,
browns, blues, rose and reds
‘——Persian figures, 17 c. a yd.
The Wash Goods department
is full ofj ust such goodness.
“Equal and Exact J ustice to all Men of Whatever State or Persuasion, Religious
. __ ”*
viii—Tina Willis?
Wortendyke Took Manning’sand Man-
ning Took Wortendyke’s.
SMALL TOWN; BIG SCANDAL.
Yark' Ridge Stands Agliast at Worten-
dyke's Luminous and Uncredltabic Ca-
reer—Embezzlement the Latest
Charge Against Him.
PARK RIDGE, N. J., Oct. 26.—The ar-
rest of Mrs. John Jake Wortendyke and
Robert Manning of Woodcliff. has devel-
oped a story as black as the beard of
"Silas the Pure, ” one of the band of “Au-
gel Dancers” who called down the curse
of heaven on the central figure in the pres-
ent afi'air when he ordered their arrest
four months ago.
To conceive how a young man of con-
siderable means, good social position and
breeding could make more of a mess of it
than John Jake Wortendyke has done is
next thing to impossible. Heis now said
to be in New York city with the wife of
Robert Manning, and while he is wanted
here on a charge of embezzling the funds
of the Washington Township Building and
Loan association, of which he was secre-
tary, his own wife, who has been living
with-Manning, is under arrest with her
partnerin misfortune, charged with re—
ceiving a part of her husband’s pecula-
tlons and harboring a criminal.
An arrangementhas been made by Wil-
liam B. Smith, counsel for the associa-
tion, by which Wortendyke may escape
punishment if he and his wife, who was
arrested with Manning, assign to the cor-
poration the land in Park Ridge which, it
is charged, Wortendyke made over to his
wife to save it after the officials of the as
sociation learned that its funds had been
misappropriated.
Wortendyke’s career in Park Ridge has
been the most remarkable ever known in
this part of the country. He is a justice
of the peace and a notary public here.
Wortendyke’s Career.
- Wortendyke is a son of Cornelius Wor-
tendyke, who was one of the most promi-
nent residents of this section of the coun-
try. Hc died some years ago, and left his
property. which was considerable, to his
wife. When she died, a year ago, she
named her son as her principal heir, and
as it was known he had inherited some
wealth the members of the building and
loan association paid little attention to
the fact that the young man who was their
secretary was spending more money than
he earned and was apparently the earning
member of two families, his own and that
of Robert Manning.
Mrs. Manning is young and good look-
ing. She is the mother of two children.
Wortendyke is the father of three, and his
own wife is still young and prepossessing.
Wortendyke became treasurer of the
Pequannock club, a Democratic political
organization which is in this township
what Tammany is in New York. He fell
in the way of several positions of trust,
notably that of executor of the estate of
the wife of Albert LT Rawson, an artist
of note,who married a daughter of Laura
Keene, the once famous ectress. -Raw-
son's daughter, at the age of 14, was mar-
ried to a middle aged Spaniard, and he in
time had Wortendyke placed in Rawson’s
stead as executor. Complications follow-
ed. A woman in whom the artist had
become interested, and who played an im-
portant part in his domestic affairs, be-
came infatuated with Wortendyke. She
died a year or two ago, it is said from an
overdose of laudanum.
Park Ridge and the surrounding vil-
lages began to talk about Wortendyke's
attention to Mrs. Manning, whose hus-
band was employed by Mr. Rawson, the
artist, who lived midway between Hills.
dale and Wortendyke’s house. Worten-
dyke was a constant visitor there. When
his conduct had become the subject of
gossip along the country side, the Man-
nings packed up their goods and chattels
and moved to a house in Park Ridge
known as “the castle.” Wortendyke was
a frequent visitor at “the castle.”
More Complications.
Gossip over this new development had
scarcely begun to have free play when
Wortendyke 'arrived at. the house one
morning and assisted Manning and his
wife to move their belongings to his own
house in Woodcliff.
Such was the state of affairs when,
some weeks ago, the community was
startled by the new; that Wortendkye
and Mrs. Manning had gone to New York
together and that the man had made over
his property to his wife.
No sooner had the announcement of
the flitting of Wortendyke and Mrs. Man-
ning been made than the news came that
Manning and Mrs. Wortendyke had also
gone away together. Following this came
two significant assertions that Wortendyke
had borrowed $1,000 on his estate here
and that his successor as secretary of the
Building and Loan association had dis-
covered evidence of systematic embezzlc.
ment. -
William B. Smith then advised Mr?
Park, the president, to swear out warrants
for the arrest of Wortendyke, Manning
and Mrs. Wortendyke, and the last two
were locked up in Hackensack and held
in hail of $500 each, charged with conspir-
ing to defraud and with harcoring a crim-
inal, said criminal being Wortendyke.
The latter is said to be living at 88
Charles street, N ew York, with Mrs. Mani
ning- It is also said that he has agreed
to give to the association a mortgage on
his property here, signed by himself and
wife, in settlement of his monetary obli-
gations to the association.
A dds-man Ship Founders.
LONDON, Oct. 26.—-The German steam:
shlp Thasos has foundered in six fathoms
,of water near Tarschelling, an island of
the Netherlands in the North sea. Three
of her crew were drowned.
Bankers Against Free Silver.
OWENSDURG, Ky., Oct. fad—The bank-
ers of Kentucky, in session here, unani-
mously adopted resolutions declaring
themselves against the free and unlimited
“ coinageoffisilver. . .
Norwalk, Conn.
OMINOUWRCLQUD.
Russia’s Eastern Aggressions May
Bring About Hostilities.
,EXGITEMENT, IN ENGLAND.
l‘he Probability of “’ar Almost the Sole
Topic of Discussion—Emphatio Ex-
pressions of Leading Jour-
nals—Russia‘s Attitude.
LONDON, Oct. 26.—-‘Tho dispatch from
Shanghai announcing the departure of 19
Russian warships from Vladivostok for
Korea and The Times dispatch from
Hongkong announcing that Russia has
obtained the right to anchor her fleet at
Port Arthur and construct railroads on
the Lian-Tong peninsula have caused in-
tense excitement in official circles here as
well as in \the business community con-
nected with the far east.
These statements are looked upon gen-
erally as being a sudden reopening in an
unexpected quarter of the for eastern ques.
tion in its widest sense.
The dispatch added that the Japanese
fleet in Formosan waters had been re
called, that several British warships had
been ordered to Korea and that prepara-
tions for a struggle were visible on all
ides.
The Hongkong message to The Times
caused that paper to remark editorially
today: “Russia cannot possibly imagine
that the great powers will view with in-
difference such a destruction of the bal.
ance of power, which is almost unparal-
leled in its audacity. China’s option to
purchase the railways is a jest almost too
cynical to find a place in any serious dip-
lomatic transaction. Under the indicated
conditions Manchuria would practically
become a Russian province, while Peking
would be within Russia :4 grip.”
War Is Probable.
It is admitted here that the situation
prekented is so grave that should the news
prove true it would make war, in which
several nations will take part more than
probable. ,
There is every reason to believe that the
story from Hongkong is authentic and all
sources of information agree that the pew-
are interested 'in the far cast will find
themselves confronted by a condition of
seriousness which cannot be overestimat-
ad.
The afternoon papers of this city all
publish long articles agreeing that British
intervention in the far east is necessary.
The St. James Gazette says: “Even war
with Russia would be less disastrous than
to allow her, without a blow, to get such
a grip upon China.
"She could throttle all the other powers
and choke off their commerce. Unless
Russia and China give the necessary as-
surances, it is a case for an ultimatum
and perhaps the most serious step our
diplomacy has had since the Crimean
war.”
The impression is general in the official
world, and it is re—echocd by the press,
that neither America nor Germany can
allow the Pacific to become :1 “France-
Russian lake,” as The Globe puts it, and
it is generally thought that the diplomats
will be sufficiently strong to combine to
resis‘o Russian aggression.
The Pall Mall Gazette sums up the
newe from the far east with the statement '
that “Russia has annexed China,” and
adds, “If this treaty is to stand, roll up
the map of Asia.”
The Pall Mall Gazette urges the reoc-
cupation of Fort Hamilton by the British
and the immediate strengthening of the
British fleet in Chinese waters, “lest
Japan lose her fleet at the first blow.”
Since this important news was circu-
latcd the greatest activity has been dis-
playod in the government offices here, par-
ticularly at the foreign ofl‘lc’e and at the
admiralty, and the coming and going of
messengers was continuous throughout
the morning and business hours of the
afternoon. .
Discussing the \‘Var Scare.
At the different clubs the “war score”
is easily discussed, the grave situation of
affairs in Venezuela having almost com-
pletely dropped out of recollection in the
alarm of the moment. Nobody seems to
doubt the report that by the new Russo-
Cliina treaty Russia has obtained rights
to which the most favored nation clause
ls not applicable, which may cause a great
war.
The correspondent of The Times at
chgkong who sent the news is described
by his newspaper as being in ”close rela-
tions with men who are able to penetrate
beneath the surface cf things,” and it is
therefore concluded that the news he has
just sent cannot be disregarded.
Naturally, the public mind will be in a
state of great unrest until some ofi‘icial
utterance either denies or confirms the
important announcement which would
leave Great Britain with her hands full of
troubles, large and small, including the
dispute with Brazil regarding Trinidad,
the serious misunderstanding with Vene-
zuela on the subject of the boundary lines,
the expedition preparing to reduce the
king of Ashanti to submission, the still
serious state of affairs in Armenia, the
unsettled state of the Egyptian question,
and, now, the‘most gravo‘ccndition ofaf~
fairs in the far east.
Sixty Armenians Killed. '
,CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 26.—Fierce dis-
turbances, accompanied ' by seriOus blood-
shed. are reported to have taken place at
'Erzinajan. Sixty Armenians are said to
(have been killed. The Turkish govern-
ment has sent a circular note to .the rep-
resentatives of the powers and to itsrep-
rcsentatives abroad announcing that the
outbreak was‘provoked-by‘the Armenians.
The United-States‘cru-iser Marblehead has
arrived at Mersina, Asia Minor, in order.
to protect the missionaries of that district.
VALEPPO,‘ Oct;- 26.—According to advices
received here, thezArmenians of the dis-
trict of Murash have attacked the inhabit-
cuts of four Turkish villages.
. -» ' The Weather.
‘ Fair; warmer; westerly winds:- -
Saturday Evening, October 26, folio.~
CANADI ANS’ TACTICS.
They Are Trying Hard to Get an Entrance
to the Yukon. ,
SAN FRANCIsco, Oct. 26.—Captaln E.
F. Dickinson, the chief in charge of the
American survey in Alaska to determine
the boundary between the territory of the
United States and Canada, has arrived in
this city. Captain Dickinson said of the
work accomplished to date:
“The first year of the survey the Cana-
dian parties worked with us to some ex—
tent. We had one of our. members with
the Canadians and theyvi‘iad one of their
surveyors with us. Since then they have
gone by themselves, and5§his year we have
not met them. The Canadians never dis-
covered until about one year ago that they
had any claim, "when? they suddenly
changed their maps an _, boundary. We
have proceeded accordin" to our under-
standing of the terms of. he treaty under
which Alaska was acqniged by the United
States, which rests on? the agreement
reached some years ago between Russia
and Great Britain concerning the bound-
ary. ‘ z ,
“The Canadians want to get a port of
entry atthelhead of Lynn canal for the
Yukon, andalso to get everything east of
Clarence strait. , They are ignoring the
Portlandcanal. . Last year we saw the
Canadians .on Chilcatzand Chilcoal inlets,
but; this year we have not seen them.”
. 7 A RAILROAD WREOK.
Nine Persons Injured on the Burlington‘s
‘ Denver-St. Louis East Express.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 26.—-The Denver-St.
Louis fast express on the Burlington was
wrecked at Waldron, Mo., and nine per-
sons were hurt, two of 'them seriously.
The train was late and Was running full
60 miles} per hour. When it reached
Waldronfln passing a switch, the rails
spread and mail; baggage, one. chair car
and smoker were wrecked. That no one
was killed outright is a miracle. The in-
jured Were brought to this city. They
are:
James Hearn, Kansas City, cut on hand
and wrist and shoulder bruised.
R. J. Light, St. Joseph, hand out and
badly bruised. ~
W. T. Ford, Kansas City, bruised on
right cheek and body. ‘
Charles M. Moore of the Ninth Street
theater, Kansas City, left foot crushed,
body bruised and cut seriOusly.
J. _S. Caldrec of the Ninth Street thea-
ter, Kansas City, left leg and side bruised.
Henry F reggany, Leavenworth, hand
and wrist out by glass.
Joel B. Hart-sell, 89 Pensie street, Chi-
cago, head out and badly bruised; serious.
’Ed C. Rapage, Kansas City, mail clerk,
scalp wound and badly bruised.
MAI—.-
Susan B. Anthony Will Stick.
ASHTABULA, 0., Oct. 26.—Susan B.
Anthony was seen’here in regard to the
dispatch stating that she would retire
from public life. She denies the stateincnt
and says she has devoted the best part of
her life to the uplifting of her sex and
does not new purpose to abandon the
work. She is 76 years. old and enjoying
excellent health and says she expects to
remain in harness until she goes to pieces
all at once.
Troops Removed From Jackson’s Hole.
PocATELLc, Ida, Oct. 26.——Four com-
panies of United States soldiers passed
through hero on route to Fort Robinson.
Two of these companies are from Jackson’s
Hole and one from Ross Fork Indian
agency. Jackson’s Hole is now left with-
out government troops.
Massachusetts Ballot ‘ Law.
BOSTON, Oct. 25.—The supreme court of
this state, in a decision filed by the full
bench in the case of J. W. Cole versus
George Tucker and others, holds that the
Australian ballot act of 1893 is constitu<
tional. The defendants were election offi-
cers at Northampton, and refused to allow
the ballot offered by the plaintiff to be de-
posited in the ballot box.
The Venezuelan Trouble.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—So far as can
he learned here there are no fresh develop-
IDents in the Venezuelan affair, and ap-
parently none is expected for some days.
It is said that the present unpublished
British demand on Venezuela is areit-
eration of a former demand, but couched
in considerably stronger language.
Enormous Apple Crop.I
NEW YORK, Oct.- 26.—The apple crop re-
port shows that the output of the United
States this year is 6?», 250,000 barrels, an in
crease of 8,627,000 barrels over last year.
As near this city as Tarrytown apples have
been rotting on the ground because it does
not pay to cart them to the depot. The
crop of .this state is 6,375,000 as against
5,918,000 barrels last year.
' Sweet
Caper-a1
‘ Pitt's
Cigars
for cts.
l"'¢v‘
DEALERS. '
,soto av 3.51:1;
$5 each.
\Ve are now prepared to supply
the public with a. good reliable i‘tady
mixed 1): int in i} It, 1 qt, 2 qt. and
4 qt. 1 ails. Also raw and boiled
oils, turpentine, dryer, varnish.
white lead by the pound or hundred
weight, white and colored kalsomine
Putty. rails by the pound or keg
Good line of paint brushes.
Our prices aze all- right—same as
the goods.
H. H. WILLIAMS
17 Main St.
. OPEN ED.
i’rol‘. George Yoerger has
opened his Boxing School
forvthe winter.
Private instructions at the
pupils home if desired.
Full course, 12 lessons,
$10.
~ Annunss'
Prof. George Yoerger. _
Norwalk', Conn.
Or apply at this Office.
””oAVio .w. RAYMOND
' Funeral Hirsch and ’Emhalmer.
3 W vshingtou tract South Norwalk
Residence, Mahackemo Hotel-
§hort Jackets—Ripple back and lat-
est sleeve. black, navy and brown,
lee satisfaction as well
your purchase or bring
TELEPHONE CALL, 57-4.
TH BUSTUN Slim .00.. Main and Wall is.
run;
.:::I- .2:
l’m anxious to make my selection here.”
Here Are A Few Of The Many Styles.
Black Cloth ’ {rapes—Velvet collar,
$3.50 each.
Heavy Boucle Jackets‘—-Latest cut, Sea: Plush Capes-Fur trimmed, very
$7.50 each.
full swe :p.
“ . stylish
ADDISON Brown.
Gnocrsirs.
Alaska Salmon, 100. can.
'Ariuonr’n‘ Potted Hum, 100. can.
Armour’s Potted Tongue, 10c. can.
Armour’s Devilled Hum, 100. can.
ADDS-flit BRDWN.
15 V ALL STREET,
FALL AND wmvfii
‘ suns. '
Trousers to order from
$3.50 up. ,,
Suits from $18 up.
E. GU80 WSKI,
Cor. WALL and WATER,§;STS.
Dress Suits to hire.
Horace E. Dann,
EXOELBIOL -
Livery and Sales Stable.
Opposite Danbury and
Norwalk Railroad depot!
,Norwalk, Conn. Stylish
Single or Double Team
with or without drivers.
Safe {horses for women
andchildren. . .
SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTA,
MUSIC.
Southern Employment Agency.
Thebest of‘help furnished to good respon-
sible person's.” We as" also cbnnected With
the great J ."P. Justiic Employment Agency of
Richmond. Vii." ‘
' J. H- LOUDEB. Manager.
Main St, Norwalk. .
Lessons on the Violin. Guitar
Mandolin and' Piano. Terms
Moderate. Music furnished
for Balls and Entertainment
with from two to ten men.
0. A. FREEMAN,
Leader Hoyt’s Theatr670rchestrmj ‘
9 Hunter-i P1. 80. Norwalk,
O.F. Hendeo's. Nor-walk
swim _. v. '~ v = “r -~..
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' ' PriceOnc Cent.
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Never before in our history were we unable to Wait properly on our customers
in the Cloak room. Snob, however, was the fact last Saturday. Itmwould seem: that
everybody wanted a Coat or Cape. And why this great rush? The cause is easilv
explained: Our stock is by big odds the largest ever” shown in these parts, the
quality and finish of our garments are the very best, and the prices arelower, than
can be found in any house in the state. That a wellésatisfied customer is .tlie’best
kind of an advertisement, was evidenced last Saturday. It was not an uncommon ire-
mark to hear—“Well, [heard that your line of Cloaks was the finest, and that’s why
537.50 each.
. If you are disappointed in anything you buy here it. is your fault. We g11aran-,
as quality. If you change your mind, change
it back. Your money back if you want it.
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