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“ - THE ONLY EIGHT-PAGE ONE-CENT DAILY IN THE' WORWALKS.

Vol.-V.I. Whole No. 1147

Norwalk, Conn, Thursday Evening, July 16, 1896.

 

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Price One Cent.

 

DEGK HAND MISSING.

Feared That" He Was Drowned
at South Norwalk. '

Belonged to the Crew of the Steamer lsabel

 

 

 

The steamer -' Isabel came into the

harbor at South Norwalk Tuesday eve-

. ning, and anchored at the steamboat
wharf from which point it yesterday
morning took the St. Paul’s church
Sunday schools on an excursion to Rye
Beach and return, and in the evening
took the Court Narruk excursion party
to Pleasure Beach. , The boat returned
to Bridgeport this morning.

Yesterday there was a‘ rumor to the
effect that the cook on the propeller
City of Norwalk had fallen overboard
and was drowned. Inquiries at the
offices of the company owning the boat
elicited the information that there was
no truth in the rumor. .

This morning, Chief Bradley, was i

' receipt of a telephone message from the
captain of the steamer Isabel stating
that one of his deck hands a colored

’ man about_23 years of age had been
missing from the boat since Wednes-
day morning.

He further stated that the man had

retired to his bunk the night before at
11 o’clock. In the morning as they
were getting the craft in readiness for
the excursion the colored man did not
appear, and a search was made for him
with the result that his bunk was found
to be unoccupied and that his clothes
lay on a bench near by.
', A further search was made for him
but without satisfactory result. And
the boat proceeded on the excursion
without him, the Captain thinking that
perhaps he had gone ashore and would
board the boat on its return.

As the man has not since put in an
appearance the Captain of the Isabel
inclines to the belief that the man got
up early in the morning and jumped
from the boat for a swim and that he
was taken with cramps and suffered
death from drowning.

He says that the missing man hr. 8 been
in his employ for nearly two years and
that he was a sober and reliable man,
and he is unable to account for his sud-
den disappearance. only on the theory
that the man was accidently drowned,
and arrives at this conclusion partly
from the fact that the man left his wear-
ing apparel near his bunk.

The South Norwalk police have been
notified and will makeproper investiga-
tions.

 

 

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Funeral of Roswell S. Benedict.

The funeral of Roswell S. Benedict,
who died in Brooklyn, Tuesday after-
noon, will occur at his late residence at
5 o’clock this afternoon. Dr. Charles
Weitzel, assistant pastor of Plymouth
church, Will have charge of the services.
Burial will be in Greenwood. Mr.

, Benedict was quite prominent in Ply-
mouth church circles, and for twenty
years was one of the trustees of the
church. His death was .caused by a
general breaking down, due to old age,
and hastened by the excessively warm
weather. Until within :i week Mr.
Benedict seemed to '«l' :u his usual
good health, and was quite active. The
family had made all arrangements for
leaving the city for the summer.

He leaves a large number of relatives
and friends in his native town of New
Ca’naan, where the family has been
among the oldest and most highly
esteemed of its population.

 

OBITUARY.

 

MRS. MARY HARLAN.

Mrs. Mary Harlan, of Rockville, Ind,
mother of the aged ex-Senator Harlan,
of Iowa, died yesterday. She was one
hundred years old on March 201ast.-
She kept her mental faculties to the
last. Her distinguished son was a dele-
gate from the Iowa Conference to the
recent General conference of the M. E.
church and is the only surviving mem-
ber of President Lincoln’s Cabinet.
His daughter is the wife of Mr. Robert
Lincoln. The editor' of the GAZETTE

was the recipient of a recent letter from

the venerable err-Secretary of the Inte-
rior, written with all the clearness, force
and kindliness of spirit, of Mr. Harlan’s
meridian, days. All in all, his is an

honored and remarkable family history.-

 

The Hour Has it Right.(?) .

E. B. Wilcox, of Westport, has pur-
chased the interest of James Mitchell,
in the firm of Mitchell & Son, and
formed a partnership with Frederick
W. Mitchell,under the name of Wil-
cox & Mitchell. The business will be
conducted as forme_rly.—Hour.

Mr. Fred W. Mitchell says that the
above “is a lie, and nothing else. The

old manghasn’t sold out,” etc-

-Advertise in the GAZETTE. ,

 

 

DEFICIENCIES CARED FDR.

 

The 'Board of School Visitors Vote More
Money to the School Districts.

 

At a recent meeting of the Board of.

School Visitors and Selectmen, the fol-

lowing, deficiencies asked for were al-_

lowed:
South Norwalk District, $171.34
Over River “ 223.34
Center I . “ 163.87,
East Norwalk " ' 264.40
North Center ” 10.91
Northwest “ 8.53-
Total, $842.39

At a subsequent meeting of the Board
of School Visitors the following school
terms were fixed.

First term to commence Monday,
August 31, 1896, and end Wednesday,
December 24. Length of term, seventy-
nine days, Labor Day, Lincoln Day,
Convention Day, Thanksgiving and the
day after not included.

Second term to commence Monday,
January 4, 1897, and end Thursday,
April 15. Length of term seventy-three
days, Washington’s birthday not in-
eluded.

Third term to commence Monday,
April 26, and end July 1. Length of
term, forty-eight days, Convention Day
and Memorial Day not included, mak-
ing a total of 200 actual school days.

Henry P. Price was appointed treas-
urer of the Over River School District
vice William E. Montgomery who was
previously elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the resrgnation of Mr. Price.
The following resolution was passed:

Resolved, That the district committee
be and they are hereby requested to
hire their teachers with the under-
standing that they shall attend the , re-
spective state and county teachers’ cou-
ventions during the school year as a
part of their contract as teachers.

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Noroton Soldiers’ Home.

Miss Georgie W. Taylor and Mrs.
Clarisa Bates of the Woman’s G. A. R.
Relief Corps, visited the Soldiers’ Home
yesterday and found the veteran in-
mates as comfortable as could be ex-
pected, considering the severely warm
weather. A donation of palm leaf fans
was made them by one of the Connecti-
cut Women’s Corps, which were very
acceptable.

There are now seventy-five men in
the hospital, but tables were set for
two hundred and forty-eight well ones
and kept the cooks very busy, while the
bakers supplied these with one hundred
and thirty loaves of good bread.

The funeral of Private Riggs of New
Haven was held at the Home on Tues-
day p. in.

Several Norwalk soldiers are there
and they all speak well of their care
and like the Home.

Dr. Brownson and wife have gone to
Ashville, N. C.

Everything seems to be in a satisfac-
tory condition at the Home, these ladies
report.

 

 

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Lured From Home.

Jennie Foster, aged 16, who disap-
peared from her home in Chester Cen-
ter, Mass., June 28, was found in
Bridgeport yesterday afternoon by De-
tective (310mm and Agent H. W. Bul.
lock, ,of the Massachusetts Humane
Society. She was enticed from her
home by W. R. Curtis, 45', who is now
under arrest at Chester Center awaiting
trial. He dressed her as a boy and tried
to get her out of the state with him.
Her parents have been notified. She
,was employed in Huber’s Bridgeport
ice cream saloon, where it was supposed
that she was a boy.

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Mortuary Record.

The mortality report for June has
just been issued by the State Board of
health. There 1,099 deaths in the State
during the month, 138 more than the
average number of deaths in J one for
the five years proceding the present.
There were 29 deaths in Norwalk repre-
senting a death rate of 15.0. Seven
were of children under 5 years of age.

- The causes of death were scarlet fever,

1; whooping cough, 1; malarial fever, 1;
diarrhoea, :1; consumption, 3; pneu—.
monia, 2; nervous diseases, .4; heart
disease, 1; accidental, 1; all other dis-
easese, 14.

Under Martial Law.

Yesterday, strikers at the Brown
Hoisting Works, in Cleveland, Ohio,
waylaid non-union men on their way to
work and assaulted them with stones
and clubs. Two men were badly hurt.
The city is now under martial law.

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Army Worm.
Startling reports of the ravages of
the army worm have been made to the
Agricultural Department. The pests
are particularly abundant in New York,
Connecticut,Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and Pennsylvania.

 

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- eSubs'cribe for the \GAZET’I‘E. '

' them lodged in her oesphagus.

 

'GHOKED TO DEATH. '
A Blackburn—dyed in... Miss
~ Delia Thorpe’s Throat. -

 

Deceased Well Known Resident of Fairfield.

A very peculiar death was that of
Miss Delia Thorpe, of Fairfield, which
occurred last evening. Miss Thorpe

was eating blackberries and one of'

She
was immediately attacked with a‘fit of
coughing. Drs. Donaldson and Ewing
were at once summoned, but before
they reached there, Miss Thorpe had
choked to death. This .theory was
abandoned after an examination by Dr.
Donaldson.
would hardly be large enough to suffo-
cate anyone. He thought that the
coughing had burst a blood vessel or

that the weakened muscles of the throat l,

succumbed to the strain of coughing
and a paralytic shock followed. In
either case death would come quickly.

The dead woman was nearly 70 years
old. She was well-known and univer-
sally respected in the town where she
had lived nearly all her life. Her fa-
ther was the late Gen. Charles W.
Thorpe, who was quite a character in
the days of the old militia. For a num-
ber of years Miss Thorpe has been con-
ducting a summer boarding house.
She has several sisters and one brother,
all of them living out of Fairfield.

 

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HIS cousin—on CRITICAL.‘

 

 

It is Not Thought that John Cox will Sur-
vive His Injuries.

 

John Cox of Chapel street lies at the
Norwalk hospital the victim of injuries
received on Monday evening by a rail-
road train. -

Two of his ribs are crushed and one
of his feet frightfully injured. Last
evening he became delirious and his
cries could be heard for along distance.

He was resting comfortably when ‘a
GAZETIE reporter called at the hospital
this afternoon, but the'nurse in charge
said that the attending physician, Dr.
Baker considered the man’s condition
as critical. “But we shall do all we
possibly can for him,” added the nurse,
and “we never give up a patient as long
as he breathes.”

It is such nurses as she that have
saved many lives.

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To Narragansett Pier.

An opportunity to enjoy the attrac-
tions of one of the most noted and
fashionable watering place resorts on
the New England coast, will be offered
at nominal cost in the Excursion of the
N. Y. N. H. 8r. H. R. R. Co., to Nara
ragansett Pier next Monday.

Special train leaves South Norwalk
at 7:56 a. m., Westport 8:03 a. m., South-
port at 8:14 a. m., Fairfield 8:17 a. m.,
and Bridgeport at 8:30, and will be due
at the Pier at 12:20 p. m.

Ample time will be allowed for visit-
ing all the points of interest and to in-
dulge in the unsurpassed sea bathing
offered by the magnificent beach which
is upwards of a mile in length, and of
fine white sand.

The special train will be run through
to the Pier without change of cars.
Fare only One Dollar and Fifty Cents.

C.

 

As Others Knew Him.

The Danbury News prints the follow-
ing in reference to the late John Can-
field:

“Until a few months ago he was a
resident of Danbury. He was a printer
and was employed by theNews until he
left Danbury with the hope that a
change of air would benefit his health.
Consumption had too strong a hold on
him, however, and he had been failing
gradually for some time.

“Mr. Canfield was an excellent work-
man aud even when he should have
been under the nurse’s care he was
found at his case. He was a pleasant
companion and a staunch friend, and
his death is regretted by the many to
whom he had endeared himself by his
patience and fortitude.”

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A Grand Excursion.

As was expected the moonlight excur-
sion given by Court Narruk A. of F.
was a grand success. Fully 400 people
enjoyed a delightful sail and returned
home in time for an heur’s sleep before
it was time for breakfast. *Court Nar-
ruk is to be complimented on the suc-
cess of the'excursion and the committee
of arrangements come in for their meed
of praise. Music. dancing, invigora-
ting breezes, etc. tended to make all
happy.

 

 

, —-You want fish to-morrow, and you
can find a fullsupply at Gregory’s Wall
street market. - ' .

He said that a blackberry ‘

HERE [AND THERE.

A-n Epitome of Happenings of
' Interest to the Public.

 

 

Garnered with Scissors and Pencil.

The Central Labor Union will meet
this evening.

Lockwood’s hall is being wired for
incandescent lamps.

The letter box swindlers found sev-
eral victims in Stamford. ,

I The’annual reunion of the Sixth C. V.
will be held in Stamford. August 16th.

It is estimated that fully 150 bicycles
riders wheeled to Gregory’s Point last
night. '

The front of the Prowitt building on
Main street is being painted a cream
white.

 

Arrangements are being made for a
yacht race to take place off Gregory’s
Point. .

The Daughters of Liberty will meet
at their hall in the GAZETTE building
to-night.

Security Council, N. P. U., will meet
at their hall in the GAZETTE building
to-night.

A foundation for an addition is being
built at the rear of the E. K. Lockwood
building on Wall street.

—Round clams, fresh out of their
beds, at Gregory’s Wall street market.

The funeral of the late John Canfield
will be held to'-morrow afternoon, Rev.
S. H. Watkins officiating.

Mrs. D. A. Fillow, of Cranbury, has
returned home from a two weeks’ visit
in Massachusetts. .

 

Warner and Ferris, Attorneys at.Law
have placed new and artistically painted
signs at the entrance to their offices.

 

Mr. and Mrs, William Dufl’ left to-
day for their home in Ashland, Ohio,
after a week’s visit with relatives in
Norwalk.

Mrs. Mary Frier of Ashland Ohio,
who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Jasper Pryer on Spring Hill. left'for
home to-day.

About 600 persons went on the St.
Paul’s Sunday school picnic to Rye
Beach yesterday. They had a fine sail
on the steamer Isabel.

Captain Enos Kellogg who was struck
by a Tramway car on Riverside avenue,
July 8th is slowly improving but is not
yet able to leave his bed.

Howard Bogardus severely burned
both of his hands yesterday afternoon
while examining into the explosive
powers of a wheel cartridge. ‘ '

A party who took the trouble to
count them says that there were over
$10,000 worth of bicycles on the Gregory
Point dock at one time last night. ’

See adv. of place wanted. The young
southern colored man is unusually
capable and worthy and has the best of
recommendations from his last em-
ployer.

~Gregory, the Wall street butcher,
buys the best meats and it is there that
you will find it to your advantage to
trade.

Main street in front of the Ratchford
cafe is being torn up for the introduc-
tion ofa larger service pipe into the
building. The newly introduced fans
will be on the move on Saturday.

There will be a “blowout” at Hope
Hose company’s headquarters to-mor-
row night, at which time the members
will arrange with their captain to_bring
each of them a blackthorn stick and
wish him a lion voyage to Europe and
return. He sails the next day.

Mrs. W. J. Davis of North Wilton
who was injured about two weeks ago
by the running away of a pair, of horses
attached to an ice-wagon, at Winnipauk,
and who has since been under a physi-.
cian’s care at the home of a relative in
this city, was able to return home to-
day. , .

Mr. W. F. Bishop having requested
that a grade be given him by the city,
for the Lawn Tennis lot fronting on
Belden avenue, the same has been done
and he has now ordered a curb and
gutter to be put down and the widened
side-walk relaid with flagstones. Mr.
Bishop has generously given’a foot and
a half on this front, in order to widen
the roadway at its narrowest point.
The front of thelot is to teraced and

 

. not fenced again.

There will be no band concerton the
Green, to-morrow night.

L. E. Gardner is doing some artistic
sign painting in town.

nue is visiting friends in New York city.

A-lot of new furniture for the Norwalk
Savings Society arrived‘ this morning .

There will be a dance at the St. John
grove in Broad River to-night. Carry-
all will leave Boston Store corner at 8
o’clock. ‘

Carl Lerz was in this city last night
looking for a white horse and two seat-
ed wagon stolen from Carl Shaffer of
Mamaroneck.

Ofiicer John H. Kenney has recover-
ed from his four days vacation and, will
resume work at 12:05 o’clock to-mor-
row morning.

Mrs. J. W. Spicer, of New York city,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. N.
Clarke, at her home on South Main
street. ' .

Officer Hunt accompanied Robert
Macey to the Bridgeport jail this morn-
ing. Meet-y will make an extended
stay at that institution.

—Have you seen those watermelons
at Gregory ’3 Wall street market? The
finest in town.

Mrs. R. E. Goldsc‘nmidt who has
been quite ill with an attack of dysen-
tery is convalescent under the care of
Dr. S. H. Huntington.

Arthur "and Louise Belden, and Lena
Kenecht of Newark, N. J. are spending
a few days with Mrs. Charles F.
Loomis of Belden avenue.

The Fawcett vs. Light case is set
down for a hearing before Judge Huh-
bell, this afternoon. The plaintiff asks
for an increase of bonds. ‘

 

J.‘-,_Warren Andrews and. family of
Brooklyn are enjoying a vacation with
C. C. 3:0 herton and family in the Red
Clover "cottage at Calf Pasture beach.

 

Captain James B. Costello leaves for
Europe on th‘esteamer Campania, Sat-
urday mornings": He purchased his
ticket from Newsdeal‘erJohn T. Hayes.

Hon. Andrew D. White addressed an
open letter to leading democ\rats,
urging them to plane country before
party and vote for McKinley, yesterday.

E. J. Wadhams, the well-known mar-
ketman was in town this morning ap-
parently as happy as ever. He is now
engaged ata wholesale house in New
York.

The funeral of William J. Hanna
will be attended from his late home in
Winnipauk, this afternoon, Rev. C. M.
Selleck ofliciating. Burial at Riverside
cemetery.

 

The following marriage notice ap-
pears in last night’s Bridgeport Far-
mer: “In Norwalk, July 13th, Mrs.
Martha Baxter and Mr.Rensselaer Ten
Broeck, both of Danbury.

Business is simply booming at the
Star Laundry on Main street, and extra
help is being put on to keep up with the
rapidly increasing patronage. Good
work is the motto at this laundry.

‘ Mr. David E. Hughes and wife and
Mr. Hughes, pater, are visiting friends
in Boston. During the farmer’s ab-
sence John H. Hoyt of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. is reporting the
arrival and departure of trains.

Conductor McMahon and Patrick
Curry, pilot, of the Consolidated rail-
road, went fishing atter blackfish one
day this week. They hooked two sharks
which they dispatched with a revolver,
but if they caught any blackfish the
fish were not in evidence when they
returned home.

 

street Railway Notes.

The closed cars are being repainted
and made to look as bright as when
new.

A number of cars were in waiting at
South Norwalk this morning on the re-
turn of the Court Narruk excursionists.

One of the busiest places in town is
at the Street Railway station. Every
car receives a bath every day, and
every employee is busily engaged about
the place at work of some kind.

Dynamite In Unmarked Boxes.

Consolidated railroad ofiicial’s made
complaint to the police of Bridgeport,
yesterday afternoon that L. W. “Booth
&Co., local druggists, had been ship-
ing dynamite for blasting purposes to
Saybrook, without marking the boxes.
Manager Stevens of the firm, was ar-

 

 

rested and released on, furnishing a
$500.bond. . '

Mifs Katherine Burns of Wilton ave- ,

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The Latest Ads. Received Be-
fore Going to Press.

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OR SALE—Benedict. Norwalk, newsdeal-

er. is selling an excellent Fountain Pen

and Holder for 250. Call and see it. j12tf

FORSALE. Asecond hand
Columbia bicycle. Will be
sold cheap if applied for at
once at this office.

 

 

 

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A GOOD CHANCE.

To Rent stones, the store and fixtures in
James’ Block lately occupied by William M
Bates as a meat market.

3'6 tf F. ST. JOHN Looxwoon. Trustee.

NOTICE.

East Wall Street Hearing.

 

 

To Frank E. Quintard and Lydia
E. Quintard, Platt Price, Ann E. Allen,
Charles H. Allen, Mary E. Honnecker,
The Norwalk Savings Society, Julia A.
Lockwood, Manice De F. Lockwood,
Franklin J. Mallory and William K.
Lewis EXecutors of the Last Will and
l‘estament of Rebecca Mallory, de-
ceased, Eugene L. Boyer, Trustee of
the Estate of Samuel B. S. Bissell,
deceased, The Town of Norwalk,
The Norwalk Tramway Company,
J eremiah Donovan, George W. Selleck,
Isaac Selleck and Henry Selleck, The
Norwalk Street Railway Company,
William Meseberg, William'B. E. Lock-
wood, Edward K. Lockwood, Franklin
J. Mallory Executor of the last Will
and Testament. of James Mallory de-
ceased, George R. Cowles Executor of
the last Will and Testament of L. L.
Beebe, deceased, Frederick St. J. Lock-
wood, John O’Sullivan; and to all other
persons interested by reason of the
proposed grading or Widening of East
Wall Street, or the taking of the neces-
sary land therefore:
WHEREAS, Eugene L. Boyer, Charles
F. Tristram, William H. Smith, Harvey
M. Kent, Alfred A. Ohinery, Jr., and
Arthur R. Hill were appointed a Com-
mittee by the Council of the City of
Norwalk June Sih, 1896, to make such
alteration as to them should seem props
er in the grade and width of East Wall
Street from the westerly end of the
Quintard Building easterly to a point
opposite the Bissell Homestead, With a
descriptive survey . of said street so
Widened, and an estlmate and appraisal
of the benefits and damages by reason
thereof as the ease might be; and _
WHEREAS, a majority of said Com-
mittee have made a report to said
council of the City of Norwalk, showing
said proposed alterations, grading and
widening, together with a descriptive
survey of said street so widened and an
estimate and appraisal of the benefits
and damages resulting or accruing
therefrom; and
- WHEREAS, in and by said proposed
alterations, and for the purpose of said
widening,1- it is proposed to take land of
Frank E. Quintard, Lydia E. Quintard,
Platt Price, Ann E. Allen, Mary E.
Honnecker and Julia A. Lockwood; and
WHEREAS, in and by said estimate
and appraisal of benefits in said report
all the persons herein first above named
are benefited,—all of which more fully
appears in the report of said Committee
together with the Map thereto annexed "
and made a part thereof, on file in the
office of the City Clerk.

’Now THEREFORE, you and each of
you are hereby notified that a hearing‘
will be had before the Council of the
City of Norwalk, in the CouncilRoom
u said City, July 26th, 1896, at 8 o’clock
P. .J., at which time and place said
Council Will hear objections to such al-
teration, survey, estimate and appraisal,
and snail hear all parties interested in
relation to the acceptance of such re-
port of its Committee, in whole or in
part, and in regard to any modification .
or change thereof. ‘

Dated at the City of Norwalk, July
15th, 1896.
By_ order of the Mayor and Council
of said City. Attest:
E. M. Looxwoop, City Clerk.‘

 

Vacation Days.-_
THE LADIES —"

going on their vacation like a varied as
sortment of light reading matter. We
keep the largest and best line in town at
lowest prices ,. ‘

. nouns: soon omnmrnr.
AID GENTLEMEII

we haveallkinds of books and .papers. 7
Just what you want and at prices that
will asuonish you. The best cigars and
tobacco’s in any quantity.

Jon-m 1'. HAYES‘ 1 ,'

 

N0. 5 MAIN 'sTREET.

NORWALK.‘