\4.’ 14th street. V ‘ ' u, ’ V ‘ a- . . ,6“ . :- T ‘ ' a)“ H E L VENI .J._\ G‘ "h! AZ “" _' THE ONL Y EIGHT—PAGE ONE-CENT DAILY IN THE WORWALKS. Vol. VII Whole No. 1567 HATIUNgMAPITAL Large Crowd Visits the White House. No Appointments Untii May I. GAZETTE’S BUREAU, l 700 EAST CAPITOL STREET, WASHINGTON. MARCH, 8. l DEAR GAZETTE—If President McKin- ley expected to be relieved today of the crush of visitors which have be- sieged the White *House for the past four days he was very much disap- pointed. He was up and at his desk at his usual early hour, but before he had time to attend to any business, the walks leading to the White House were thronged with people. 0 o 0 Among the early callers were John Hay and a number of Senators, among whom was Mr. Plait of Connecticut. o o,. 0 There were many‘members of the House who were forced to wait some time before they were given an audi- ence, because the crowd was so large. 0 o 0 At 12 o’clock orders were given not to allow the general public upstairs, but that at 3 o’clock a public reception would be held in the East parlor. o o 0 Mr. Wood, Kentucky’s new Senator, called on the President this morning with Senator Lindsay, but has not yet presented his credentials to the Senate. 0 o o ‘ In the afternoon the secretary of ex- Queen Lil of Hawaii, brought a note addressed to Mr. Porter the secretary to the PreSident. It is supposed that the note contained a request of Presi- dent McKinley to give to the ex-queen an audience. 0 o 0‘ It was authoritatively announced to— ' day that the President would not take up the question of appointments, except .those of an urgent value, until about the let of May. It is surmised the President proposes to do the Cleveland act, on many of the Senators and Rep- resentatives, by withholding patronage until after the tariff bill is well on the Wfi. Y 0 O 0 The members of the new Cabinet are today giving audience to statesmen, politicians,' “leaders” and their constit- uents. o o o The aspirants are going to be num- erous, and already the men of influence are whispering into the ears of the de- partment chiefs the merits of those whose interests they are serving. ' o o o The Connecticut Congressional dele- gation met informally to consider the multitudes of applications for office and found a stack of them as high as a butter firkin. Though the immense number was a bit dispiriting, the fact was inspiring that so many Connecticut patriots were willing to serve their country “fcr'thoir country’s good.” 0 u H U. S. Pat‘ent Commissioner Seymour, has received no intimation yet, when his place will be desired for some good Republican successor. ' . o o 0 There was much disappointment among impatient applicants when it was known that the appointment of Jones as pension. agent'at Detroit, was the only one made today. This was an urgent appointment, however,there be- ing a vacancy, the Senate having failed to confirm Griffin, nominated by Presi- dent Cleveland. The business, at the Detroit office, therefore, was at a stand- still. . ' o o o The Senate assembled at noon and a message in writing from the President was presented by Mr. Pruden, the Secretary who has been performing like duties under successive Presidents for many years. ' o-- o o The Vice President presented a me- morial from the New York Chamber «of Commerce favoring the ratification of the arbitration treaty; and a protest against the same. , The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business, but at 1 p. m. adjourned until Wednes- day, after confirming the nomination of Oscar A. Jones to be pension agent at Detroit, Mich. ‘- o o o \ The President and Mrs. McKinley at- tended church yesterday at the Metro- : apolitan M. E. and sat in .Gen. Grant’s dildl‘pew. Bishop Newman preached. ThePresident and family will attend a regulirly the Foundry M. E. church on + j—Advortise in THE GAZETTE. HELLO WESIPDRT. Ground Was Broken Here this Morning for an Electric ‘ Line to Your Town. Keep a Lookout for the Tracklayers. The other day "it was announced in these columns that work on, the build- ing of an Electric Street railway line from a point near St. Paul’s church would be commenced this week. As usual there were doubters, who today could have had there doubts set to flight had-they had occasion to ride or walk over Westport avenue. This morning the Tramway company set a gang of perhaps fifty Hungarians and Italians at work with pick and shovel tearing up the street for the purpose of laying the tracks. It is understood that this afternoon, or to. morrow,the gang will be increased by 100 or more laborers and the work pushed through to as rapid a comple. tion as possible. Rails are being strung along the line, but there was a noticeable absence of ties, which fact was explained by one of the employees-who said that the ties were in readiness» at the plant of the company and would be transferred to the avenue as soon as needed. It now looks more than ever yet,that the people of Norwalk and Westport were to be given an opportunity of visiting each other by simply boarding an electric car and carried to their des- tination. Again we say “Hello, Westport," and hope for a rapid 'completion of the work. Indeed it must if finished at all be done within a few weeks, or more expliCitly by the 1st of June. ...>_______. BURGLARS IN BRIDGEPORT. Blow Open a Safe by Means of Giant Pow- der, and Obtain $l0 for Their Trouble. Burglars entered Lund Brothers’ market on Park avenue Bridgeport, early yesterday morning and with a charge of giant powder blew up the safe and made a wreck of the entire store. The firm does a large business, but the thieves only found 1510 in the safe. A woman in the rear stuck her head out of the window of her bedroom and called for the police, but she subsided when one of the burglars aimed. a re- volver at her, and told her if she made any more noise he would blow out her brains. The police arrested “Billy” Williams, a local safe blower, who was released from the State Prison a short time ago. No real clue to the identity of the thieves has yet been secured. The Sick. Mrs. Harry Bailwilz is seriously ill at her home on Union avenue. Chief Engineer Prowitt is convales- cent of a somewhat severe illness. The condition of George Shellhoos is reported as not being as favorable this morning. Mrs. Mary Madden’s condition is thought to be critical. William H. Swords’ mains about the same. Alfred H. Knapp was not as well this morning, which his nurse attributes to the “measley mean” atmosphere, that has put in an appearance. . Mrs. Stebbins Adams, who is ill at her home on Academy street, is slowly improving. . Clifford Pepper is dangerously ill. Mrs. George Ward Selleck was it is thought a trifle more comfortable this morning. . condition re- 00 Street Blocked. The Water street crossing was blocked for a long time last night by a freight train. Some there were who did not risk the climbing over cars and went a roundabout way to their homes. The delay it is alleged was caused by the breaking in twain of the train, as it neared the station. Has Arrived. The town stone-crusher reached Nor- walk yesterday afternoon and was taken to the Blue‘Mountain quarry at- tracting more or less attention on its way through the streets. The boiler and engine is hourly expected, and it is‘ thought that the plant will be in full Working orderthis week. <-o~ -—-Advertise in THE GAZETTE. Norwalk, Conn, Tuesday Evening, March 9, 1.897. SPRINULHILL FIRE. A House Known‘ as the Smith Place Threatened With Destruction. The Building Saved by a Bucket Brigade. Late yesterday afternoon an alarm of fire was sent in from Box 21, at the. corner of Belden avenue and Union place. Merchants and others owning property in this section lost no time in responding to the alarm, and in some instances returned almost as quickly when they learned that the fire was in the Smith house on t0p of Spring Hill. The firemen, however, and a large crowd, waded up the hill and through the mud to the scene. Hope Hose be- fore the alarm stopped ringing swung out of Water street, to Wall up River to Belden avenue where a kindly die- posed truckman gave them a hitch as far as the foot of the hill. At this juncture the supply wagon came along and the Hopes followed it up the hill and in readiness for service, which happily was not needed. .The Phoenix boys with their jumper and the Pioneers with their truck crossed the River street bridge by way of Cross street not far behind the Hopes and the Supply wagon. It was a hard tug for the Truck boys through the mud but another truckman came to their assistance and the unwieldy and heavy apparatus was drawn to the top of the hill. As stated, the services of the firemen were not needed for Will Casey, Alfred Harris and others had succeeded in putting out the blaze with buckets of water drawn from a well on the prem- less. The house is occupied by the family. of the late Rev. J. H. Smith, colored, and the family of Richard Taylor. The fire was first discovered as near as could be learned, by a grandchild of Mrs. Smith’s. At about the sametime it was seen by others, among the rest being Freddie Harris who “didn’t lose his head,” but ran to the Greenwood store at the foot of the hill and gave the alarm and box 21 was pulled. The blaze originated in a closet in the second story of the building. and worked its way through the roof. In an adjoining room across the hall from the closet was a six year old child asleep on a bed, which was awakened and gotten out of harm’s way. The damage done will probably not be in excess of $200 if indeed it reaches 3150, it having been by reason of the exertions of the bucket brigade kept confined to the closet. The occupants can offer no explana- tion as to the cause of the fire other than that matches had been carelrssly left in the closet. This is the second fire that has - occurred on the hill within a few days, the other was the total destruction of the Du Pierne residence almost within a stone’s throw of the scene of last evening’s fire. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Lynes of the firm of Coolidge & Lynes, accompanied an insurance adjuster to the scene of the DuPierne fire and shortly after his return to his office, Oswald R. Smith, who lives in the house where last even- ing’s fire occurred, called. Smith seemed to be, as he is said to have ex- pressed himself, very mnch in fear that a fire might occur at his home, and pro- fessed to feel worried about the lack of water supply in case a fire should break out at his residence. -Mr. Lynes informed him that he thought there was little or no cause'for worry and the matter was dropped. But for the second time in one after- noon Mr. Lynes waded through the mud up and down Spring Hill. The Smith place is insured through the agency of Coolidge Sr Lynes for about $1,200, and is, if we mistake not, the same place that Oswald R. Smith has been trying to boom for a Colored Odd Fellows’ Home. As the Truck company was on the way home drawn by Morrell the tack- man’s team and when swinging out of Cross street into Main, the driver of the horse made a miscaiculation and the truck struck a telegraph pole. “Billy” Powell who was on the tiller was thrown quite a distance and severely injured. ”The truck was too tough” to use the expression of a fire- man, to be greatly harmed. The truck-drivers who gave valuable aid to the department in reaching the fire were Messrs. Morrell and Ferris. + Bridgeport Follows South Norwalk. At a meeting of the directors of the Bridgeport free public library last night it was voted to exclude the New York World, and the New York J ournalfrom its reading, room. , - . ‘ Court, will preside. BEFORE ELAN” JURY. Guiseppe Fuda and Nicodemo Imapassino Taken'to Bridgeport This MOrning. Their Trial Will Probably Commencethe Latter Part ofthe Week. State Attorney Fessenden having. had bench warrants issued, the accused mur- derers Guiseppe Fuda and Nicodemo Imapassinc, were re-arrested’ilin Stam- ford this morning and esCorted by Chief Vollmer, of South Norwalk, and Chief Bowman, of Stamford, to Bridge- port, Where they were brought before the grand jurors who had been sum- moned and‘were in readiness to enter the jury box. The trial of the men may not com- mence before the latter part of the week as the Criminal Superior Court has yet to deal with the remainder of the men arrested in the Stamford pool room raid. The men, two of whom are John Lee and John McDevitt, of Stamford, are the owners of the build- ings in which the pool rooms were lo- cated, and are accused of renting property for illegal use. The case of John Lee better known as Silver Dollar Lee, will be called first. It is expected that the men will make a srtong fight. They have engaged the best legal talent and are prepared to escape conviction.. ' The state claims to have a strong case and:are sure to convict. On the length of thsse cases depends the calling of the trial of the alleged murderers. It is thought, however, that the business of the pool room men Will be finished up in one, two, three order. In that event, Fuda and his companion will commence their stand between freedom and the gallows or imprisonment to morrow. Judge Torrance, of the Supreme _ He is the on‘ly judge available The Superior Court judges are all busy and will be for some time to come. Judge Prentice should be on the bench, but he has not yet rc- ' covered the time lost during the long- drawn out Porter-Bitch trial. Horace Staples’ Funeral. The funeral of the late Horace Sta- ples, the philanthropist of Westport, who died Saturday night, was held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. There were services at the Westport Congre- gational church and the Rev. Jabez Backus, the pastor, officiated. The lat'er was assisted by the ministers of the other denominations from the vari- ous churches. The bearers‘ selected were eight graduates of the Staples’ High School, which was founded by the deceased. The directors of the First National bank, of which Mr. Staples was the president, acted as honorary pall bearers. The interment was in the old cemetery at Greens Farms". Mr. Staples leaves an estate which is variously estimated at from $200,000 to 5:51.100. ‘ 4-. .. The Intelligent Compositor. The GAZETTE, yesterday, attempted to call attention to the large line of handsome shirts just received by the Boston Store, Norwalk, and the intelli- gent compositor, who generally knows more than the editor, made it read skirts. Ho builded better than he knew, however, in this instance, as the Boston Store has just as large a line of handsome skirts as shirts. In fact had he substituted any word connected with ladies’ or gentlemen’s wearing apparel, he would have hit the mark, as the Boston Store carries the largest and best lines to be found in town. .9 Forfeited His Bond. The case of Robert H. Cronk of Stamford, who is charged with de- frauding M. D. Randall, and who was out under a cash bailbond, failed to put in an appearance at the Town Court this afternoon the time assigned for his hearing. Three New York officers were here after him on similar charges. The deputy sheriff of Stamford was discomfited in not finding Cronk, but inclines to the belief that Cronk will be discomfited when he gets his clutches. on him. Knapman—Beers. Burdett Knapman, of New Haven, and Miss Amelia H. Beers, of Union- ville, daughter of James H. Beers, were married last Saturday afternoon, at the residence of" the bride’s sister, Mrs. Walter E. Lewis on St. John ave- nue. Rev. R. . Sherwood pastor of the South N orwalk Baptist church per- formed the ceremony. ,,____._'.__.. ' as GAZETTE ad. will pay: you}. i' KILLED ligiiiiiunv. A Former South Norwalk Resi- dent Meets a Horrible Death. The Accident Occurred This Morning. A telegram was received from Dan- bury by Mrs. Sarah Murphy of Cross street, South Norwalk, this morning, stating that her son Robert Murphy had been killed on the railroad tracks, in that city. » As soon after the receipt of the dis- patch as posmble Mrs. Murphy got her- self in readiness and accompanied by one of her sons took a train for Dan- bury. ' Nothing definite is known as to how the accident occurred, .the only infor- mation being that set forth in the tele- gram. . It is learned that the victim’s wife lives in Matteawan, N. Y. The dispatch was signed by Chief Bevans of the Danbury police force. _.___‘_._ A PARALLEL ROAD. Judge Fenn Grants a Petition For one From Torrington to Winsted. the Superior court at Winstedyes-i terday, Judge Fenn granted a petition for the construction of a trol'ey road from Torrington to Winstcl, parallel- ing the Naiia'atuck division of the Con- solidated road. _ - -- — — ~——~ -——-ooo—3————-———-> He Resisted. Robert Roberts, the worse off for a too free indulgence in intoxicante was placed under arrest by Chief Bradley yesterday afternoon. Robert objected to going to the station-house and made - a strong but vain attempt to get away from the big chief who enjoys the dis- tinction of always landing his prisoners at the point started for. And Robert was no exception to the rule. This morning Judge Hubbell fined him 35 and costs for intoxication and $5 for resistance. Roberts is a war veteran and when not in liquor is a peaceable citizen, a who has many friends. 4-- Whist. The Monday Afternoon Whist club met at the home of Miss Anna Cole last evening and were splendidly enter- tained. The prize winners in the first series of games were Mr. John P. Treadwell and Miss Estelle Smith. Later honors went to Mr. Treadwell and Mrs. James C. Newkirk. O For Health. The board of health met last evening and considered matters of importance in reference to sanitation. They also instructed inspector Thomas Hunt to inspect alleged nuisances on Academy and Merwin streets. \. Burglars at Work. Burglars entered six houses in Stam- ford early yesterday morning and secured considerable booty. There is no clue. o AMUSEMENTS. The Twelve Temptations. Alarge audience attended the pro- duction of Charles H. Yale’s “The Twelve Temptations,” at Hoyt’s Thea- tre last night. It was one of the best spectacles ever seen here. The costumes were elegant and the specialties for above the averagefi The ballets were all good and the entire performance met with a hearty reception from the audience. 0 . Mother and Son Reunited. SYRACUSE, March 9.—A special from Cortland says: After 17 years of life in the Cortland county almshouse Mrs. Ann Benn was taken from the institution by her son, Darius Hurd of Marshfield, Pa., who supposed his mother to be dead, and from Whom Mrs. Benn had received no tidings for 47 years. Sensible Rochester Wheelmen. ROCHESTER, March 9.—The cycle show to be held under the auspices of the Roch— ester association of the League of Ameri- can Wheelmen will open in this city to- morrow. The show will continue the re- mainder of the week. The proceeds are to be used for constructing side paths in this vicinity. \Voolen Mill on, Full Time. OAKLAND, Me, March 9.—The Oakland Woolen mill began running on full time today. The mill employs 250 operatives and has been running on short time for several months. The management an- nounces that it is probable the mill will continue to run at its full capacity from now on. “ ‘ u. ,.,.__ .. iwfi , i ~ l. Pi ice One Cent DON’T MISS THEM. The Latest Ads. Received Be? fore Going to Pressi it By the People and For the People. 1'0 REN '1'. ' ~0 RENT.—To adults only ‘ centrally located. Also ’fgr usea‘l'e-E'Iiiigl‘f gochin eggs for setting, 750 and $1 per thirteen. lso cockerels. Enquire on the premises of J orus D. WoaDEN, )8 Gross street, Norwalk. FOR 8A.]. 8’. 0R SALE or to re F now occupied by FPIt'Jt'he 9 room house fi . h _ . . ones. First floor hnis‘ edin hard wood. mantels and mirrors- i “(Big $51869 for 1elect-neity. 1almd all modern _ new so carriage ouse. S. B. Wilson. 92 Wall street. Apiplllffto WA. NTE D, ANTED.—Mrs R R Doswell E _ . . : . mnlo _ merit Agency: White or colored hell; ' supplied. Girls from Virginia for city or couniry ffrst and third week of every month Address Adams avenue, Stamford, Conn. 3-1iv ISTRICT of Nor .1 , ) , D March 1st. A. Ditalgwss. lrobate court . Estate of UHARLSS F.0énonNJate of Norwalk infigfiid gistrgctkdficease . e our 0_ .robate for the Di. ' ’ glorwalk hath limited and allowed sixsigiihciitloi: mm the date iii-rent for the Creditors of said getate to exhibit their claims for settlement. iose who neglect to pvesent their accounts properly attested. Within said time. will be de- barred a recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to EOItGE E. MILLER. Executor. HORSES FOR SALE. . A car load of Horses,just arrived, which will be sold cheap. -___ M. TABLOV, BIISTIIII rumours, - - - scum nonwar STORE ' — IN THE — NORWALK GLUE BIULDIHG . To LEASE. . The store 110W under lee-.8 to Adams Brothers to rent from April lst, 1897 Apply to IRA COLE, Committee for the Pompany. At a Hawaii; a. i assume PORTLAND. MAEIIE, sour ——FOR s‘ZiLE'h—r— $18.00 IF APPLIED FOR SOON‘. Enquire at this oflice.‘ DAVID W. RAYMOND. Funeral Director an inhaler 149 Washington Street South Norwalk Residence. Mahaekemo Hotel. MEEKER GOAL 00, son, you), BRICK,“ LIME, SEMENI, lILE PIPE. OFFICE WITH G. WARD SELLECK WALL STREET. NOR-WA LK. Mrs. MEAD’S...‘ - ' Van—SCHOOL At Hillside -:- NOW OPEN. ALL ' . I APPLICATIONS For admission should be made at Hillside. LUGKWUUDI LIGHT PARCEL' and ‘ _ PACKAGE DELIVERY Cheap rates, W_111also take orders for mes- senger service in New York. Goods called for and dehyered to all arts of the town. Orders received at E. P. eed’s Drug Store. , WallStreet,withtelephoneconnection nn.’ "0' c E LOCKWOOD. C
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