, TATIONoLoAPITAL ' ._‘ x, _. Vcann. Vol. VI. Whole No. ’4 .4...— 13% VENIN' THE ONL Y EIGHT-PAGE ONE-CENT BAIL YfIN THE WORWALKS. Norwalk,Con'n., Tuesday Evening,‘May' 26, 1896. AZ ~‘ Price One: Cent. ‘ Congressman Hill Opposes the Alcohol Rebate Repeal Bill. Interesting Washington News and Chat. GAEETTE’S BUREAU. ) 709 EAST CAPITOL STREET ~ WASHINGTON, MAY 25. i In the Senate to-day the General Deficiency bill was passed after nearly doubling the House appropriations. o o 0 :Among the amendments carried in the senate to theXDeficiency Bill was $3,027,000 to pay: iudg-me'nts reported from the Court of Claims for French speliations. , O 0 0 «It is today reported that the Presi- dent has expressed his purpose to veto "the River and Harbor bill. It is deemed certain that he willfinot sign it. 0 O 0 The Supreme Court today sustained ajudg-ment of $7,000 against the New Y‘ork‘Wond for libel. - O 0 0 - . In the House, the Alcohol rebate. clause of the Wilson bill came up again and a long and tedious debate resulted. .No one'seems to-question the justice of the rebate, but many follow the lead of. Senator Sherman and-others in oppos‘ ing it because the treasury cannotspare the money to pay the rebate. o o o The compromise proposition devised by ourCongressman Russell,,andinsisted upon by the friendsof free alcohol (for the appointment of a joint committee to examine all questions relating to free alcohol and report at the short session next December) was offered as an amendment to the bill. Mr. Hill also earnestly supported the bill which would perfect the provision, instead of one for its repeal. Mr. “Russell further said the platform of WBE’ought on by Major McKinley (applause) contained a declaration for ~ free alcohol. “How do you account for the fact,” interrupted Mr. McMillan. (Dem., Tenn), that Major McKinley while chairman of the committee on ways and means made no provisionfor free alco- hol in what was known as the McKinley bill?” O 0 0 Mr. Russell in reply called attention to the fact that the McKinley law re- duced the tax on alcohol 37% per cent. and at the same time increased the im‘ port duties on goods in the manufacture of which alcohol was used. “Give us the McKinley law as a substitute and we will forego the demand for free alcohol,” he said. Proceeding, Mr. Russell said that all the great countries . of Europe gave free alcohol for use in the arts. Our Mr. Hill said there were three advocates of the repeal—the whiskey trust, from profit; the wood alcohol trust, for the same reason, and the Democratic party because it be- lieved in large internal revenue taxes and low customs duties. He‘ believed it the ways and means Committee had not yielded to the dictates of a Demo- cratic administration, regulations for the enforcement of the law would have been forthcoming. (Applause) The matter then went over till to-morrow.: o o" o The House Pension committee to- day agreed to a report that the House pass over the President’s veto the bill to pension Lydia A. Taft. Mrs. Taft is the widow of Lowell G. Taft, private in the 18th Connecticut Volunteers, who served in the war for nearly three years. She separated in 3,882 from Taft for his - habitual drunkenness, and his death ‘ occufied nine years later. The report shows Mrs. Taft to be advanced in years and in needy circumstances. '0 o o The House Committee on Labor to- day amended the bill authorizing the appointment of a non-partisan com- mission to collate information to meet the problems presented by labor, agri‘ culture and capital, by reducing the number of members from twenty to twelve. These will be three represen- tatives of labor, three of agriculture, three ,of manufactures and three of business.- 0 o 0 Francis J. Kieckhofer, disbursing clerk of the Department of State, was locked up in a police station yesterday On three warrants, charging him with the embezzlement of about $37,000, The reason for his arrest at this time is said to be a rumor that reached thé Department that he was preparing to join his family in Europe. '0 'o o The President to-day appointed George H. Pa‘ge,.postmaster at Morris, SEVERELY SOALDED. A Three-Year-Cld Boy Sits in A Pail of Boiling Water. Thick Trousers Prevented Fatal Results. Alfred, the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Hodson of Orchard street was the victim of what might have proven a fatal accident, yesterday, and which as it is will keep him confined to his bed and a sufi'erer for some days. The-child‘s mother had placed a pail of scalding hot water on the floor to cool; In the room was her little son who last Week for the first time had been placed in trousers. In some manner not yet understood, the little fellow backed up to and by a misstep as is thought, , sat squarely down into the hot water. His mother’s attention was attracted by a splash and the screams of her child, and she was ' horrified to see the predicament into which he had fallen. She hastily grabbed him up scalding ;l her hands in so doing, and as quickly as possible tore the steaming garments from his body and called for help, which call was promptly answered. Dr. Dexter Hitchcock was summoned, and in the meantime everything pos- sible had been done to relieve the agony which the child was suffering. The doctor after his arrival prescribed cool- ing lotions and otherwise cared for the burns which were quite severe. Fortunately the little trousers worn by the child were of thick material which in a great measure prevented the burns from being of a fatal nature. Much sympathy is expressed for the bright litile fellow and his parents. He was this morning reported as getting along as well as could be expected. . O FLEW THE COOP. Lew: Price’s Setting Hen Proves to he a -— .7 - Rooster. ' For a week past “Low” Price has had what he believed was a hen, setting on a dozen eggs in a nest at the-rear of W. A. Benedict & Co’s. store on Main street. (Sub rosa, it was a rooster.) Yesterday the bird “flew the coop” and alighted on the opposite side of the river where from a rear window of the store it was discovered by its owner. Securing a hat box in which to place the bird, and the services of Fred Betts, Price started in pursuit. Stealth- ily he approached the chanticleer and just as he was about to put his hand on it away it flew and landed on a rock in the middle of the river. By the aid of sticks and stones hurled at it from the shore, the bird was dis- lodged and flew back to the base of the bank wall near where it had been cooped up under the supposition that it was a setting hen. With the aid of a lad who waded across the river, without even removing his shoes or stockings, the rooster which by this time was pretty well fagged out, was captured and again placed in the coop. _ Later in the day he was traded off for a thoroughbred hen which was placed on the nest and tied down, with the expectancy that she will hatch out a brood of chickens or ducklets. I. “ Sich is Fame.” The Bridgeport Telegram in its Con- gressional report on the free alcohol discussion says: f‘ Mr. ‘ Hall’ discussed the hat manu- facturing industry and the general question of the tariff. ” Of course, our own and only Hon. E. J. Hill, was meant. Gets His Appointment. Clarence E. Slauson of ;No. 15 Union Place, one of Norwalk’s most worthy young men, has received notice of his appointment" to the Railway Mail Ser- vice. He is summoned to report to New Haven for duty. - ‘ Rodemeyer Supports Fessenden. Two United States Senators 'from one city is out of the question. .Platt’s‘suc- cessor ought to be a Democrat, but if he cannot be a'Democrat he should at least be a Fairfield county mam—News. O A Card. ODD FELnows’ ACCIDENT COMPANY, BOSTON, Mass. . GENTLEMEN: 'I am pleased to ac- knowledge receipt of draft in full satis- faction of my claim against your com- pany, and will recommend without hesitation your company to, all brother Odd Fellows. ' H. S. BROWN. ; The Odd Fellows’ Accident. Company is represented iii Norwalk by Jarvis Kellogg. ' ' - smut Ell cm.- A Groceyman Battles with an lnfuriated‘ Feline. His Trousers Torn in the Fight. This morning it strange cat. wandered into 0. K. Scnfield’s store on Main street, and for a time all efforts to get rid of the animal were unavailing. After a while it was chased out and sought refuge in an outbuilding near the store, Mr. Scofield following‘in hot- pursuit. Cornering the animal he made a grab at it and caught it by one of its hind legs. But no-sooner-had he done so teeth in the fleshy part of his leg and dug its claws into his flesh. ‘ Mr. Scofield then let. go hisgrasp on the cat’s leg and howled, and aftera time succeded in breaking its hold on his leg, but not until he had knocked the animal senseless. The smart and pain from the clawing and biting was exasperating, and the claws had torn quite a rent in Mr. Scofield’s trousers. .Mr. Scofield fearing that poisoning might result from the wounds visited Dr. S. H. Huntington who adminis- tered the usual restoratives and the victim is about to-day apparently but little the worse off by the encounter. But the cat will never repeat the per- formance. It is dead. v OBITUARY. runs. EMMA J. CHURCH. ‘9 Mrs. Emma J. Church, widow of the late Geo. T. Church, and daughter of Thomas and Delia Sanford, died yester- day afternoon aged about 50 years. Mrs. Church was universally esteemed for her earnest Christian character and her death will be deeply mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends. She wasa faithful member for many years of the Methodist church. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from her late home. MRS. HOWARD P. MANSFIELD. Edith, wife of Dr. Howard P. Mans- field, died at her home in Georgetown, yesterday. The deceased was a daugh- ter of Judge Benjamin Grifi'en of Brookfield, and was 23 years of age. ,A little son, born on Saturday last, sur- vives her. WILLIE SMITH. ' Willie Smith, an old resident of New Haven, died yesterday from general de- bility. He was seventy years old and a business partner of Representative N. D. Sperry. c. LAWREECE YERRANCE. The less than one year old son of Charles D. and Harriet Yerrance died at his home in Broad River, last night. He was a grandchild of Norman Knapp. The funeral will be held Thursday after- noon. The funeral of the late Howard dc Forest Earle takes place to-day at San Diego, Cal. His. remains wrll be brought home and interred at the con- venience of the family in Woodlawn Cemetery. .9.— Town Court. 0. Willets a young man implicated in the escapade with a horse taken from the New York Grocery store stables, was fined $15 yesterday by Judge Hub- bell. The‘continued case of Edward Kelly, who was also a party to the escapade, came up this morning. Kelly pleaded guilty to three counts, intoxication. breach of the peace and using a horse without permission. The case was con- tinued until June 3d at which time sen- tence will be pronounced. 0 Bicycle Given Away. The Norwalk BOSton Store, always in the lead, will give away a ladies’,bicv— cle on Friday evening. Every purchas- er to the amount of twenty-five cents is given a coupon, and in order to possess the bicycle the. number on the coupon must agree with the number selected. This enterprise on the part of the Bos- ton Store proprietors will no doubt create a lively coptest among their many customers. Stopped the Racket. 'Ihe snoring of a certain wholesale liquor dealer who sleeps on Main street caused considerable alarm last night to residents of the neighborhood and the police. A blonde moustached reporter who was on his way home with a dozen patent clothes-pins came to the reScue and snapping one of them on the pro- boscis of the sleeperstopp'ed the racket. ._’_.'__—————.. . —Boy wanted at this office. Apply immediately. ~ than it turned on him and buried its ' rosonmoospnu. The “ Hammersley Place” on. .‘i‘East Avenue Purchased. A Committee Appointed to Sell the Old Site. AI,_,meeting of the board cf directors of the Norwalk Hospital association was held at the Norwalk Club rooms last evening to consider the advisability of selling the lot purchased some time since on the Connecticut turnpike and Opticsite the homestead of William H. Earle, on East avenue, and built some years ago by William Mallory deceased. The property is perhaps the better knotty as the Hammersley place. It was the sense of the meeting that the property be purchased for the price asked, $6,000, and a committee was ap- pointed to consummate the sale. The agent of the property was visited and he accepted the individual check of Hon. John H. Ferris for $100 to bind the bargain. . . The deed of the property will proba- bly be signed and delivered tc-day. Agommittee was appointed to nego~ tiate the sale of the 10‘. owned by the association on the turnpike. A. committee was also appointed to se- cure estimates of the cost of fitting up the, newly purchased property for hos- pital purposes. Commenting on the then proposed purchase, yesterday’s GAZETTE said : “Senator John H. Ferris is. credited with originating this every way sensible change of program. The house is large and airy, a well of the purest water is on the place, it is connected with the publiczwater, gas and sewer and has a barn of ample proportions and so well constructed that it .can be easily con- verted into and utilized, if required, for the care of such patients as it might not be desirable to. place in the main building. The grounds are also ample for ahy reasonable enlargement of the moiri’ledifice. ” Opening Day. Next Saturday will be “opening day” at the popular summer resort, Gregory’s Point, at which, time the proprietor will be in readiness to welcome everybody, and he will be assisted by a corps of cusine artists and the most favorable breezes that waft their health giving and invigorating arriness at any resort on the shores of Long Island Sound, interspersed with enchanting strains of music by a band engaged especially for the occasion. All this not for Saturday only but for every day during the sea- son. The proprietor wishes it understood that the published statement that a Danbury party was negotiating for a lease of the Point is not true, and in that connection the Danbury News says: “Mr. William McPhelemy, (the party mentioned in connection with the sale) said to-day that he had never con- sidered the purchase of the hotel and was unable to account for the Norwalk stcry. Satan Rehuking Sin. . A woman in New York, charged with murder, has been ten days in court, waiting for a jury before which she is to be tried for her life. During those ten days this woman has been “written up” by the New York newspapers in every form which their ingenuity could conceive. She has been made infamous by the gross familiarity of sensational report. ers, and the crowning outrage was com- mitted by a Connecticut woman, having a reputation as an- authoress, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in an article printed in the foul columns of the New York World, yesterday. Sunday. This woman may be innocent of the crime laid to her charge. If she is, and is acquitted, she is still made in- famous, in the popular opinion, by the infamous treatment to which she has been subjected. . It is not to the credit of this people that newspaper writers have found that this style of writing “sells the paper.”— Ho‘ur. ' —The Track Was Damp. Miss Nellie Bishop while rounding the corner of Wall and Main streets yesterday afternoon, on her bicycle, suffered a. fall, caused by her wheel striking the damp track. She was as- sisted to her feet by Chief Bradley and mounting her wheel rode ofl‘, having beyond dampening her bloomers suf- fered no injury. l _ Real Estate. The Commercial Record announces twelve real . estate sales in Norwalk for last week, and mortgages aggregating 86,350. For the corresponding week last year there were twelvesales and the mortgages amounted to $15,050. .1 to purchase the Chichester property, _ nun Huh I] no ,AH'PHIZE!’ “Ova-mm A Magnificent Plano for the Moot Popular School, Lodge, Society, Club- or Fire Gom- ~ : pony in ~l‘cirlicld County. - Which is'our most popular school, lodge, society, club or“ fire company? , _ . Which one has the most admirers and friends 2‘ _ , Doubtless these questions are beyond. JchEDOW‘er‘ofany‘ absolute answer, but THE . . . EVE‘sise GAZETTE offers , an exceptional opportunity” to make the test; THE GAZETTE pro-v poses to poll the votes of the people. And the voting is to: have zest in it. it is made werth while to vote. There is a, magnificent prize at stake. ' . THE GAZETTE will give A $400 UPRIGH'I‘ PIANO to the school, lodge, society, club or fire company which gets the most votes. . ‘ m.‘ It is an instrument Of the very finest character,” It is beautlful in its workmanship, an ornament worthy of any home, and in all its musical qualities it is unsurpassed. In every sense it is a perfect and beautiful instrument—equal to the best that can be anywhere bought for $400 IN GOLD. The following are the rules which govern the voting: l—THE GAZETTE will print each day a blank coupon, each coupon being good for one vote for the school, lodge, society, club or fire com- pany the owner of the coupon may select—the blank lines in the coupon to be filled out with the name and address. The coupon to-day is at the end of this article. . 2—The contest will close on July 2, and the winner announced on July 3. 3—Any school, lodge, society, club or fire company in F airfield County is eligible. 4—A full record of the voting will be published up to date every evening in THE GAZETTE, but votes received after 10 A. M. will not be re— corded until a day later. 5—Coupons must be filled out in a plain handwriting, for otherwise blund- ers can not be avoided and votes will be lost.‘ Blank coupons, of THE illiinciib’ limit THE so no . tools.- It is a piano made upon honor and sold upon merit. A party buying one does" not get merely a handsome case He' gets a thorough musical instrument. The tone of the instru ment is full, rich, resonant and well sustained, the scale is magnificent. " , ’ Following is the voting coupon, a copy of which will ap- pear in THE GAZETTE daily. ‘ .1. ‘ Townk BATTLE or THE BALLorsf Hope Hose Company........ ................................................ . ........... . ........... 12877 Norwalk Yacht Club ............ ........................... ....'.. ............ ...... ......12874 St. Mary’s School .............. . ................................. ............... 7096 Welcome Stranger Lodge.... ............................... ........ ......... . 1576 Center School .................. . .............. ....................... ........ ............ .- 936 Pequonock Pleasure Club ........................... .. ............................... ..... .. 568 Over River School.. ................... . ......................... ‘ ..................... 347 Pioneer Castle.... ............. ' .................................... ..... . ....... 173 T. F! E. 0111b" ........................... no uuuuuuuu an...“ ...... .... ooooooooo "no nnnnn Ocullouuoinolfi 70 ‘ Arion Singing Society ..... .. . .................... . ......... .. ................................. . 60, 1 ‘ ToGa Lu 0 oooooooooooooooooooo no. oooooooooooooooooooooooo 1.... ...... c ooooooooooooooo one. IIIIIIIIO. ooooo o 40 Norwalk‘Liederkranz ......................... . .......... . .......... . ..... . ........ ......... 24 Sword Fish Club .................. .. ......... ............. ... ..... 1 ....... .............. 23 Lincoln Council ............... ........ ........... 18 . N. . C----...... . - ..' ..................................... ..... ---- 16 The Central Club... . ................................. . ......................... -.. 1:; East Norwalk School ................. ............................. ............... _ 16 Compo Engine 00., Westport.....~......'.’ ........... . ..... ....... 10 Bishop McMahon Council .................................. . ....... 10 Catholic Union Council... ................. . 3 Uncas Tribe ........... . ............. .......... ...... . ...... . . 3 ‘ Knob Outing Club ........................ .. .......... .. . 2 ‘ Pine Ledge Club.... .......................................... . 2 . S._ S. Chlbfi. ......................... o ......... 1;. ............. on..." ..... u. . an 2 ‘ Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company -- ................ . ...... . .,.-.... 4 thmx Engine Company .. "...... . 2 ' u FlrePOliOe, sr’N‘flOI‘ullo‘OlIt’llIuoovooolo'toinoulnult unu-n---ugc----Ionusuuncul-o-ooo-u-n-outot-a 1 ,,
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