WHAT THEY SAY
EVERY EVENING WHEN THE
GAZETTE COMES, THERE Is A
SORAMBHE FOR IT. WE DIVIDE
IT INTO FOUR PARTS, AND
EACH OF US TAKE ONE.
V 11ng
te.
WHAT IT IHDIGATESI,
THAT THE GAZETTE is A HOME
PAPER- THAT THE GAZETTE Is
A NEWSY PAPER. THAT THE
GAZETTE IS A CLEAN PAPER.
THAT EVERY PAGE OF THE
GAZETTE IS READ.
VOL. VII. NO. 1634.
NORWALK ,CONN., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 14,1897.
PRICE ONE CENT.
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“Old Glory.”
Stand by your colors without fear,
In spite of cynic, scoff and jeer.
See that you treat “Old Glory” dear
With reve‘ent manner.
God help the day—God help the hour
If hearts degenerate lose thepower
To thrill—to glow at sight of our
Star Spangled Banner.
To-da-y is the 120th anniversary of
the adoption of the Stars and Stripes
as the National ensign by the Conti-
nental Congress, June 14, 1777, and
“Old Glory” is largely displayed about
town. ’
IHIHIIIIIEERIIWSIII
But Previous to Doing 80 Ban
Away and Injured His
Driver.
He Also Wrecked a Wagon and Broke a
Pair of Traces.
Eddie Holmes, a delivery clerk at
Bates’ Cash grocery on Main street is
laid up at his home on Orchard street,
the result of injuries received by being
thrown or rather drawn from a wagon
on West avenue, Saturday afternoon.
The Victim was driving down West
avenue in Mr. Bates’ covered devivery
wagon, at an easy pace when the horse
suddenly became frightened and shot
ahead, at the same time breaking the
traces, with a force that drew the
driver headforemost over the dashboard
and on to the street.
Holmes in his fall lost his grasp on
the lines, and the animal sped on, leav-
ing an overturned wagon and his driver
sprawling on the street. Parties who
witnessed the affair ran to Holmes’ as~
sistance and he was assisted to his feet.
At this junction Mrs. E. H. Hotchkiss
drove along and Offered to take the
young man home, an invitation which
he in part accepted, with the request
that instead of taking him home, she
assist him in finding the runaway. And
be it is said to her credit, his wishes
weIe gratified.
The horse was fOund browsing on
Butlerst1eet, and the young man thank—
ing Mrs. Hotchkiss for her kindness,
jumped out Of the wagon, antl pluckily
mounting the runaway drove to the
stable. whom he fell in a dead faint
IIOm the pain of his 1nd11 ies.
Later he was assisted home since
which time he has been confined to his
be d with a sprained ankle and bruises
that aret lecidedh painful.
Tee 1' unhing paI ts of the wagon were
considerably damaged. The horse has
‘Iecognize Il traits Of being lazy but he
UL CIl-1011Illl\ pI ov cs that it i I not thr 01 11c
OI constitutional by 11111111110 auav.
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St. Mary’s.
The Catholic club will meet to- IIIOI.—
row night.
At the services in St Ma 1 v 's chIIIc 11,
yesterday, Father FurlOI 11g read a Ic—
port Of the recent entertainment given
for the benefit of the society, which
conveyed the flattering news that over
$200 had been netted.
The dedication Of the Catholic club
and grounds has been postponed until
the 1:3th of August.
The different Catholic organizations
have been advised that a grand fair
will be given in October, under the
auspices of the St. Mary’s church so-
ciety.
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PERSONAL NOTES.
Miss Lottie Coleman who has been
visiting friends in Providence, R. I. re-
turned home Saturday accompanied
by her cousin Florence Coleman.
The Arions held a regular “seance”
last night.
The Messrs. Baxter have engaged an
expert to attend their soda fountain, in
the person of Mr. Edward Maas.
Druggist Fred Baxter is slowly but
surely improving of ,a severe illness,
and expects to be at the store within a
few days.
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The annual meeting of the Norwalk
Christian Endeavor Union will be held
to-morrow evening in j the Norfield
' church at Weston.
NEW STEAMBDAT.
The Belle Horton to Run On
the New York Route.
The First Trip Will be Made Next Monday-
After a great deal Of difficulty Secre-
tary George H. Frew of the New York
and Norwalk Steamboat company has
succeeded in chartering a steamboat to
run to New York this season.
The steamer selected is the Belle
Horton belonging to Commodore Cor-
nell’s fleet, and which ran to Keyport
last season.
The Horton made her trial trip up
on Saturday in three hours with ten
pounds of steam to spare. She is 110w
lying at the steamboat dock in South
Norwalk, where she will remain until
Sunday,,when the first Of the popular
summer excursions will be given, and
on the Monday following the first trip
to New York will be made.
In appearance the Horton is much
like the old City Of Albany but some-
what smaller. She has been newly
painted and presents a cleanness that
is especially inviting. The freight
space is small, but she is allowed to
carry 700 passengers, which is plenty
large enough for this route.
Capt. Moses Wilson will be in com-
mand, with Capt. A. A. Betts as pur-
ser, which will be welcome news to pa-
trons of the line.
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With Equal Promptness.
Did Hercules undertake a greater
task than to try and get that money
back from the Gazette, or Ackerman?
——H0ur.
Mr. Ackerman will probably return
the money as promptly as the Hours
editor returned that 8500 he took from
the town treasury.
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——-All the successful Merchants of
this City Advertise in THE GAZETTE.
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THE GAZETTE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
More flags displayed about town 011
Flag Day.
Dave Hughes grow fat.
Seem (Juitis and COOIgc Gregory
discussing ev idence 1n the 111111 der trial.
\Villiam Mitchell win a on a
slot 1nachine.,
Doctor Acton ride a wheel and be
happy.
l'Iast avenue placed in decent condi-
Alpha road race on
cigar
tion before the
Thursday.
The new steamboat beco me popular.
The G \le’l‘TE
p or ous business.
Eadv CthlsClS do 1. pics-
Drunken“ men kept Off the streets of
South Norwalk on Sunday,
Henry Matheis wear his new trolley
cap after dark.
A bicycle race Ihetween Chief Voll-
lllCl' and Chief Bradley with Edgar
‘loughton as referee.
The stones on South Main street re- .
moved.
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FRATERNAL NEWS.
Secretaries of fraternal, or secret so-
cieties are invited to send to the
GAZETTE, the elections Of Officers and
otheI news peItaining to their lodges
to be minted in this column. The
names of officers should be brought in
on the evening of their election and
all other news with equal promptness.
Buckingham W. R. C. will give a
fair and supper in G. A. R. hall on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of
this week.
The “Always Ready” circle of the
Methodist church will with theh
friends be in readiness at 2:15 to-‘mor-
row afternoon to take a trolley ride
over the Tramway line for which the
“A. R.” has contracted with the com-
pany to furnish ample accommodations.
The degree team of Pequonnock
lodge of Bridgeport will visit Our
Brothers’ Lodge, 1. O. O. F. tO-night.
It is expected that a large number of
visiting “Odds” will be present. The
first is to be cOnfeI-red.
Members Of Concord division S. of T.
will visit Rising Star division of RO-
_ wayton, to-night.
DROPPED DEAD.
ledediah Wilcox EXpires Sud-
denly in a Hotel at Louis-
ville, Ky.
Was a Frequent Visitor in Norwalk and
Known Throughout the State.
A telegram was received Saturday by
Mrs. J edediah .VVilcox of -.70 Howe
street,
sudden death in Louisville, Ky., of her
husband, Mr. J edediah Wilcox, a bus-
iness man and former manufacturer,
well known in Norwalk and through-
out the state. Mr. Wilcox had been
on an extended business trip in the west
and was on his way home, having
stopped at Louisville to attend to some
business, when his death occurred at
the Galt house in that city. Since re-
ceiving the dispatch announcing the
death, Mrs. Wilcox has wired to Louis-
ville tO learn particulars, but has as yet
been unable to ascertain the cause of
death. From the fact, however, that
his demise was preceded by no illness,
it is concluded by his friends and mem-
bers of his family that death was due to
apoplexy or heart disease, although it
is not known that he had ever been af-
flicted with heart trouble or apoplectic
symptoms.
Directions have been sent to Louis-
ville to have the remains embalmed
and sent at once to New Haven. When
they will arrive is not known and con-
sequently no definite arrangements for
the funeral have yet been made. It is
expected, however, that particulars of
the death and other information will
be received to-day, so that the funeral
canI be arranged for.
IuVVilcox, although seventy years
ofM age, was wonder fully well preserved
and scaI cely appeaI ed to be mOI e than
MAW?
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I» APATTEBN DEPARTMENT.‘ .
{O5 T he EVEJVI .N G GAZETTE Talia/n5, published in
the latest Tom's designs, and will 3
h rccelfil 0f 10 cents.
fifty yea1s of age at the most. He had
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resided in New Haven about twenty-
One years, having removed to that city
from Meriden, where he was a promi-
nent manufacturer of woolen goods.
Previous to that he organized and con-
ducted a silverware manufacturing bus-
iness in Meriden, which eventually was
combined with the Moriden Britannia
OI 111.1111 s inteI csts. During recent
yeaIs his chief business had been the
promoting and organizing of companies
of various kinds, and in this he had
been 1119st successful. He also owned
a large interest in the famous Hathorn
Spring at Saratoga, and business in
connection with this spring had occu-
pied much of his time and attention
during the past eight or ten years.
\Yhile he was in business in Meridcn
he built a large and elegant I-esidence
that city, which is now owned by
(‘harles Parker, one of the leading
manufacturers of the place and one of
the wealthiest men in the state. Mr.
Wilcox was at one time president Of
the Meriden Fire Insurance company,
and the Wilcox Hose company of Meri-
den was named for him. He was a
brother of Horace C. \Vilcox, founder
of the Meriden Britannia company,
who died of apoplexy about five years
in
ago. Another brother was DennisVVil-
cox, a broker in New York who died
some years ago.
Mr. TVilcox leaves, besides his wife
and daughter in New Haven, two sis-
ters. who residein Meriden, and also
two brothers, one of whom is Edmund
Wilcox of Meriden and the other is
Watson Wilcox, who conducts the
Highland house in VVestfield, the Old
Wilcox homestead. The deceased was
attuncle of George H. Wilcox, at pres-
ent president of the Britannia com-
pany. ' '
Mr. Wilcox was a frequent visitor in
Norwalk and a personal friend of the
Editor of the GAZETTE for many years.
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—-With Malaria Cure.
You should always have Riggs’ Ma-
laria Cure at hand. Taken at the first
symptoms the cum is easier. Don’t
bother as to the how. If malaria poison
is in the system, Riggs CuIe will search
it out and kill it out—if you give the
Cure a chance. J. 10 If
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-—A GAZETTE ad. wirlupay you.
New Haven, announcing the
SHE WAlllEllTO DIE.
Mrs. Annie McKeever Attempts
I to Hang Herself
in a Bell.
Uses Her Undergarments for a Noose.
Early yesterday afternoon word was
received by the police that a colored
woman named Annie McKeever was
raisinga rumpus on Wood street, and
Officer Hall was detailed to investigate
the matter.
Annie is married to a white man
named Henry McKeever and has tWO
small children. She is somewhat ad-
dicted to the use Of intoxicants and
w hen under the influence of the same is
as unruly as a young and unbroken colt.
The Officer found her trying to gain
admittance to a house occupied by a
family named Gates, the door to which
she was battering away at with a ven-
geance that boded no good to the occu-
pants.
After considerable trouble and with
some assistance the Officer succeeded in
placing her under arrest, but not until
he had snapped the bracelets on her
wrists,she acting like a perfect maniac.
She was placed in a carriage, and
thevdriver started for the station—house,
and she was finally landed in one of the
cages. On the way she said repeatedly
that she would rather die than appear
in court and that she would take her
life before Monday morning, at which
time the court set.
A watch was on this account kept
over her. During the afternoon she
stripped her underskirts Off and strip-
ping them into shreds made a noose
which she fastened to one Of the rings
in the cell and placing the noose around
her neck, fell with full weight forward,
but the cotton goods broke.
She then made another noose, and a
stronger one, and getting up on to a
convenient stool fastened one end of
the same around a convenient bar, put
the noose over her head and leaped,-
as she thought, into eternity. Again
the “cord” broke and she fell with a
thud headforemost on the hard floor of
the cage, receiving a severe bruise on
the side of her face.
Maddened by the poor success of her
efforts to hang, she then commenced
butting her head against the iron bars
in the cell, but remarkably enough
without sustaining severe injury.
She was then quiet for a time, and
sat down, acting as if in deep thought.
Suddenly she whipped off her flannels,
from which she formed another noose,
and againattempted to hang herself?"
This time she no doubt would have
been successful if it had not have been
that Chief Vollmer was present and
cut the noose, and none too soon as her
tongue ran out Of her mouth as she was
slowly strangling to death.
She made several other efforts to do
away with herself using her clothing
for the purpose until finally she was
clad in nothing but a thin wrapper.
Dr. J. M. Coburn was summoned and
adn'Iinistcred a hyperdermic injection
of morphine, but with no visible effect
until about (3:30 O’clock, when she
went into another cell conveniently
left open for her, where she sank down
and \\ out to sleep.
She awoke awain about 8 O clock and
attempted to cut he1 1h I. eat with a tin
cup which she had managed to find. A
few minutes after, her husband, who
had been advised of her condition, ar-
rived 011 the scene with a change Of gar-
ments which he after some effort pre—
vailed upon her to put on. Every stitch
of her clothing including her stockings,
with the exception of her wrapper had
been destroyed in her vain attempt to
kill herself.
This is by no means the first time
she has been under arrest.
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The Ladies’ Guild of St. Paul’s
Church will hold a festival, Wednesday
evening. ,
The trout law will be on tomorrow.
The Altar society of St. Paul’s church
will meet to-morrow evening.
A new roof is being placed on the
Ambler building occupied by Louis
Potter. The work is under the super-
vision Of Tinner Belden, in the employ
of F. J. Curtis St CO.
An adjourned meeting of the city
‘ I n
‘ counc11w11l be held to-morrow even-
ing.
Fletcher Worden is seriously ill with
pneumonia at his home in Brooklyn.
The remains of the late H. W. Bart-
lett were taken to N ewburyport, Mass,
for interment this morning.
RDAD RAGE ENTRIES
A Complete List of Riders En
tered for the Alpha Ten
Mile Contest.
Seventy-Five Wheelmen Will Start in the
5 Morning Contest.
The following is a complete list Of
entries for the Alpha Wheel club’s
ten-mile handicap road race, which
will be run over the East avenue course
on Thursday morning, June 17th,
starting at 10 o’clock. This is the only
correct list that has been published.
W. S. Persons, South N orwalk
J. Letzelter, Newark
E. L. Burke, Bridgeport
H. H. Leopold, Bridgeport
S. F. Boyd, Bridgeport
F. L. Munson, Bridgeport
J. J. Cavanagh, Bridgeport
H C. Willmore, Bridgeport
J. M. VVeidenhammer, Bridgeport
C. S. Burnham, Yonkers
S. VVarholy, Yonkers
J. H. Butler, Yonkers
C. M. Wing, Yonkers
G. A Finch, Stamford
E. C Finch, Stamford
W C. Price, Stamford
F. A. Temple, Stamford
L. D. Whittemore, Stamford
C. Swenson, I r , Stamford
J. A Bitch, Stamford
M. W. Mix, Stamford
G. H. Keeler, Stamford
C. C. Flagg, Stamford
W. C. Carpenter, Stamford
W. E. Kirk, Stamford
H. N. Smith, Stamford
A. L. Harford, Stamford
Charles Mott, N orwalk
W. Jennings, Norwalk
. East Norwalk
East N orw,alk
East Norwalk
New Canaan
New Canaan
South Norwalk
South Norwalk
South N orwalk
Portchester
Bethel
H. S. Roberts, S
F. F. Bennett,
R. E. Curtis,
C. A. Tuttle,
A. Oifen,
H. F. Sherwood,
F. L. Mills,
A. Ghiotto,
J. C. Neilson,
G. Kimmer, J r.,
F. P. Williams, Bethel
Otto C. Heim, Danbury
C. W. Mead, Danbury
H. C. Roff, Danbury
1V. Towsend, Danbury
R. H. Cooley, Danbury
T. McDonough, Danbury
Geo. W. Quien, Danbury
C. W. Clark, Danbury
'F. H. Beckwith, Shelton
H. R. Murphy, Shelton
\Vaterbury
VFaterbury
C. V. Hurlbutt,
J. J. Fleming,
J. A. Cowan, New Milford
F. J. Galvin, New Milford
Lester Buckley, New Milford
East Haven
South Brooklyn
New Hav en
.2.er Hav en
New York
New York
New York
New York
White Plains
Cranbury
Union Cit y
Union City
Darien
(‘hicopee Mass.
J. N. Dick.
W. H. Hicks, J12.
J. J. Grady.
J. P. Coleman,
0. Hedstrom,
J. Thompson.
:1..111ench,
. S. Henshaw.
D. H. Munson,
A. Knor,
.IT. Sy pandski,
. IA. Cltll k,
R. \Vuerz.
I. (4. Perry.
B. Van Eiickels. Branford
G. VI". Stringham, Brooklyn
C. M. Hendrickson, Brooklyn
R. C. Gardner, Hartford
R. B. Tracey, Harlford
R. M. Alexander, Hartford
C. A. Leavit, Hartford
H. lVay, Hartford
In the one-mile race for the Burritt
championship cup, for Norwalk riders
only, which will take place in connec-
tion with the track events on the Nor-
walk Fair Grounds, beginning at 2
O’clock in the afternoon, the entries
are R. E. Curtis, East N orwalk: R. F.
Cotter, W. W. Shepard and A. Ghiotto
of the Twin City VVheelmen.
Most of the riders are entered in one
or more of the other events, which are:
One mile novice, one mile handicap,
and half-mile Open. The are, in all,
143 entries. ’
DrownTngvllcEidents.
Ethel, the four years old daughter of
James Moore of New Haven was
drowned in Mill river yesterday, The
body was recovered.
James McVey, 16, was seized with
cramps Ivhilel-bathing in Union Mill
pond at Manchester yesterday and was
drowned. His body was not recovered
until about 9 o’clock.
James Tinnien, aged 24 years, of
Brandon, was drowned in Lake Dun-
more, Salisbury, yesterday. His boat
was capsized and before he could reach
the shore he became exhausted and
' wentto the bottom
EAST NORWALK.
The services at the East aVenue M.
E. church yesterday were well attended
both morning and evening. Preach-
ing by the pastor Rev. A. J. Smith in
the morning and by p1 esiding elder
Beach in the evening.
The EpWOI-th League prayer meeting
of the M. E. church will be held this
evening at 7.45 in the church parlor,
, Miss Carrie Carleton Seeley left here
this morning for her home in Walton
N. Y. While here Miss Seeley made
many friends, who all regret her de-
parture.
Arthur Day is over hauling and paint-
ing his sailboat, the Mayflower.
The Prowitt homestead on East ave?
nue is in the hands of the painters. '
The tide overflowed the cellar of C.
Aisthorpe’s house On the south side of
Riverside avenue Saturday, and the
water was 17 inches high on the cellar
side of Riverside avenue Saturday and
the water was 17 inches high on the
cellar bottom.
Lucius Munroe of New Cana.an, was
visiting friends on Henry street yes-
terday.
George Rose J r., of Cottage avenue,
has been suffering from a severe attack
of Neuralgia.
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Has Resigned.
DVV.- L. Bonnell superintendent O
the South Norwalk Electric Light
plant has resigned, and such resigna-
tion being accepted went Into effect to-
day. DFor the present the works are
under the supervision of N. I. Meserve.‘
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—Sideboards, dining chairs and ta-
b1es,1attan fuInituIe, piazza chairs-
etc, lowest prices in town, at Raymond
& Son 5.
——VVhite enamel fuI niture and brass
bedsteads. unequalled as to style and
p1 ice, at Raymond & Son’s.
The hearing in the case of. the State
vs. William Donnelly is called for to-
morrow morning in the Town Court.
Donnelly is charged with having as-
saulted A. Roder a J unkman.
——At Raymond & Son's, on Main St .’
can be found an assortment of baby
carriages that ought to make glad the
heart of any proud papa.
An infant daughter Of P. Keating
was. christened yesterday. A happy
christening party was given the little
girl at home after the formal proceed-
ings at the church.
A new “blow-Off” and “shut-off” 1s
being set in the water main at a point
near the Boston Store.
MIs. Sara h C. Denny of Mattewan,
N. Y. is visiting heI son, M. W. Denny,
at VVinnipauk.
—Do y on w ant a IefIIgerator that .is
all that is claim ed for it? YOII make
no llllSLIIAC in calling at 1Raymond &
Son’s. '
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ELEPHAHTS 0F RENDWN.
Amusing Tricks by Truncal Scholars.
The public \\ ill no longei accept as
liIst- clIss any tented show \\ here the
elI- -phant is not 1111 gely in evidence. and
its estimate of the Great Adam Forc-
paugh and Sells Brothers Consolidated
menagcries, circuses and hippodromes,
which are to exhibit in Stamford to-
morrow will be largely and properly
influenced by the fact that they include
the three ' greatest and best trained
hI Ids of elephants ever introduced in
pa Iade OI aIena. Banging in individ-
ualII Igcs f1 0111 two to IOUVyears, they
represent the best specimens of the
Asiatic, African, Ceylon, Java, and
DO} neo varieties. The one herd is the
splendide and intelligent Adam Fore-
paugh collection. dating half a centuIy
back and which has been in on con-
tinuous xhibition and in training ever
since. The others are the equally
famous Sells Brothers’ performing
d1 OV es. They peI fectly. amazingly and
amusingly 1ep1esent diffeIent schools
of education, which include a gdat
vaIiety of novel and difficult feats and
exceedingly ludiCI ous antics and imita-
tions. As an unequaled double featuI e
they me great thawing and delighting
cards.
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- —Live Merchants keep their names
before the Public. An Advertisement
in THE GAZETTE will be‘read.
DEATHS.
CUNNINGHAM—In Brewster, June 9,
James Cunningham, ‘aged 33 years.
MAHONEY—In Danbury, June 11,
Daniel \‘Iahoney, 7 Durant street, aged
57‘years.
PECK—In Greenwich, June 1?, Ida
DatOn Peck, widow of Professor Wil-
liam Guy Peck, of Columbia College.
RICHTER—In B1 idgéport, June 12,
Maggie L., wife of William Richter,
aged 34 years.
WATERMAN—In Danbury, June 11,
Winnie Waterman, of 16 Center street,
aged 35 years.
Norwalk Chronicler