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WASHINGTON NEWS.

Senate wm Pass Tariff Bill
To-Day and.Congress
Adjourn.

The President wm Leave for His Vacation
Next Wednesday.

12 35 NEW YORK AVENUE,

GAZETTE BUREAU, I
WASHINGTON July 23.

After a number of political speeches
in the Senate to-day, the democrats
and populists finally gave up the strug-
gle and at the suggestion Of Senator
Morgan Of Alabama an agreement was
reached to take the final vote at 3 O’clock
tO-morrow. This insures final adjourn-
ment tO-morrow.

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The Cabinet meeting tO—day was a
short one, and was devoted to making
arrangements for the President’s sum-
mer vacation. A considerable amount
of departmental work was cleared up,
but nothing was done concerning for-
eign relations. '

O o O

The President announced that he is
prepared to leave the city for Lake
Champlain next Wednesday, if Con-
gress adjou1 ns tO-mo1row,and while he
is away he will be represented by POst-
master Gene1al Gary and Attorney
General McKenna.

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The final Cabinet meeting for this
summer will be held Tuesday. While
' the President is at Lake Champlain he
will not entirely abandon business. He
will have a room fitted up for Office
purposes in the hotel, and will transact
important executive. business there.

He will be assisted by Secretary Por-
ter and a couple Of clerks. Nothing
but matters of extreme importance,
however, will receive any considera-
tion.

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Secretary Sherman to-day, at 3:15
O’clock, left this city for Amagansett,
L. I.

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There is a feeling among well-in—
formed persons that the vacation of
Secretary Sher man will lead to his re-
tirement in the fall. He' 15 not anxious
to remain in the Cabinet, and the fact

" that his \health is of such a precarious
character furnishes him with an excel-
lent excuse to resign.

Danbury and the Fly Killer.

A well dressed and smooth-talking
gentleman Visited Danbury a few days
ago and set about supplying the people
with a preparation Of fly killer. He
was cordially received and met with
the most gratifying success. His fly
killer was just what Danbury had been
hankering for. For her citizens had
awakened to a realization of the fact
that they could no longe1 boast that
there were no flies in Danbury, as Of
yore, and they bought generously of
the stranger’s fly killer, which was
warranted to kill flies at forty rods, “on
the wing or on the jump, or on the
journey home.” The beneficent con-
coction was handsomely put up in fancy
tin boxes, and sold at 50 cents a box.

The energetic stranger tarried only
one day, but in that day he supplied
the town. Then he disappeared.
The eager purchasers sprinkled the
“killer” around according to instruc-
tions and awaited results. No‘results re-
sulted. There were still flies on Dan-
bury. Then some of the investors be-
gan to suspect that the Stranger‘had
taken them in. They 1ecalled the fact
that there wereno flies on him, and a
scientific investigatiOn by the principal
of one of the schools revealed the hu-
miliating truth that they had been
swindled. The fly killer was nothing
in the world but sawdust flavored with
a little camphor, and the victims are
now in a twitter of apprehension lest
the next stranger will be the fool killer.

Is it any wonder that Danburians
were so easily made to believe that
President McKinley is making great

~ reckonings on attending their cattle
show this-year.,——'-NewHaven Palladium.

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Tidings of Dr. Hanway.

Dentist J. M. Hanway, who recently
moved from Stamford to South Norwalk
and who has been missing for several
weeks since, has been heard from. The
doctor is at present in Buffalo and evi-
dently intends to remain there.

Rolled Overboard.
Daniel Curtin, a stevedore, fell asleep
on the string piece of the dock at
Bridgeport, yesterday afteinoon, and

' ,rolled overboard and was drowned.
. His body was recovered later.

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THREE MEN KILLED.

Steamer Nutmeg State Blows
Up at Her Pier' m Bridge-
port.

'Naptha Used for Cleaning the Forecastle

Causes the» Explosion.

An explosion, attended with disas-
trous consequences and death, includ-
ing a . large number Of injuries took
place on board the steamer Nutmeg
State, while she was lying at her pier
in Bridgeport yesterday afternoon at
6:20 o’clock.

The boat arrived from New York at
3:15 O’clock, and after being docked be-
gan to discharge her heavy cargo Of
freight.

At 4 p. m. B111 ton M. Reed, who con-
t1 Ols an insect e1adicator, went on
board under contract and began the
work Of exterminating the insects lo-
cated in the forecastle of the vessel.
While this work was going on the
stevedores to the number of about a
dozen partook Of a supper on the main
deck of the boat. A numbe1 of 'mat-
tresses taken from the hold below were
near by.

Afte1 finishing the meal one of the
number went below in the forecastle to
fill his pipe As he came up the gang-
way stairs be lit his pipe and instantly
there was an explosion, the vapor in
the place presumably igniting.

An alarm of fire was sent in, the fire-
men upon their arrival found but little
to do except to quell an incipient flame.
Then they turned their attention to
helping the 1njured.

From amid the crushed and torn
timbers they pulled out the body of
Patrick Moran, dead and terribly
crushed. All about them were a dozen
men burned and bruised, and as fast as.
possible the men injured were removed
in the ambulance, the police patrol
wagon and the hose cart to the emer-
gency hospital.

When the ambulance a1 rived at the
emergency with J eriy Connors he was
laid on the Operating table he gave a
few gasps and died. He -was badly
mangled and burned.

Tim Reardon who was terribly burn-
ed was sent to the general hospital but
he died soon after reaching there. Sev-
eral others were also sent to the gen-
eral hospital for treatment. Reardon’ s
remains were lemoved to Cullinan’ s
mO1gue.

THE KILLED.

Patrick Moran, head shattered and
body crushed; instantly killed.

Jerry O’Connell, died at emergency
hospital.

Timothy Rea1 don,c crushed, mangled
and bruised; died at gene1 a1 hospital.
He had a compound comminuted frac-
ture of the left thigh and his left knee
was dislocated and fractured.

THE INJURED.

Patrick Glennon, deck hand, New
York, aged 33 years, terribly burned
about the face, arms and chest. Injur-
ies serious.

Michael M’Guire, QChatham Square,
New York, burned about the face, arms
and legs. Aged 26.

Edward Lynch, New York, single,
burned about the face and head. Not
fatal. , ,

John Hartwell, New York, deck
hand, single, terribly burned about the
chests and arms. Was pinned in the
debris and his limbs badly burned.

John Connelly,New York, deck hand,
burned about the face and chest.

John Carroll, New. York, badly
burned.

Michael Sullivan, 40 Clinton avenue,
Newport, R. I., burned severely.

In addition to the above, halfa dozen
men were slightly injured, but were
treated on the wharf and sent home or
remained on the boat.

The wreck Of the boat is all forward
of the engine room. The deck under
the table 'was blown open, making a
hole 19 feet wide. The sides Of the
boat at the forward gang ways were
torn into splinters and thrOWn in all
directions. A huge mass of freight.

was scattered among the debris.

‘ As far back as the engine room all
the carpenter work was wrecked and
torn. The inte1ior of the bunk room
or forecastle was completely wrecked.

Examination showed that the hull Of
the vessel had not been injured-

The loss will probably amount to
$1, 000 or more. The height was un-
loaded from the steame1 but she did
not leave for New York last night, the
steamer City of Bridgepmt taking her
place. The steamer will p1 Obably
leave for New York to-day to go into
dry dock for examination of he1 hull
and for repairs.‘

Two deck hands who were blown in-
to the water by the explosiOn had a
narrow escape from drowning. They
were pulled out with the aid of ropes
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DEWARD _u_i___ $1,000.

Offered by GOV. Cooke for the
Trumbull Murderers.

Executive Acts Upon the Recommendation

of State’s Attorney Fessenden.

State’s Attorney Fessenden communi
cate yesterday, to Gov. Lorrin A.
Cooke, a recommendation that a large
reward be offered for information lead-
ing tO the apprehension and conviction
Of the murderers of Farmer Nichols of
Trumbull. 1

At 2 o’clock a‘despatch was received
from the Governor announcing that he
would offer a reward of $1,000.

There is a statute authorizing towns
to offer a reward not exceeding $500 in
the. course of any one year for the de'
tection Of criminals. The State’s At-
torney will doubtless recommend the
town authorities to Offer the reward
stated, in addition to that Of the Gover-
nor.

Detective Wilkes, one of the clever-
est men on the Pinkerton detective
force in New York, and who was en-
gaged by the state in the Fuda murder
case, has been engaged by Mr. Fessen-
den and is now working on the Trum-
bull case.

N O evidence has yet been secured by
the police as to who the murderers are.

 

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CRESCENT TERRACE.

The South Norwalk Council Holds an

Important Special Meeting.

A special meeting of the city council
was held at the council rooms last even-
ing. The most important business be-
fore the meeting was the consideration
Of what must and ought to be done

with what is known as Crescent Ter-
race, which terrace was presented to

the city by the owner of the then un-
improved property fronting on the
same. The terrace was built On what
the contractor then asserted and has
since proved to be true, dangerous
foundation, the wall having collapsed
on more than one occasion. _
A resolution after considerable dis-
cussion was passed,
the street commissionexs to investigate
and report at a meeting of the Council
to be held next Wednesday evening,
as to the advisability of changing the
present street line,’ and put the wall
back to the Old line the sameto be built
in a substantial and safe manner. The
city having accepted the wall and walk
which surmounts it the problem prom-
ises to be knotty and expensive to the
city. Until such time as the committee
reports nothing will be done with the

present break beyond guarding it,‘

which has been dene to the extent of
closing up a sectiOn of the street upon
which the wall fronts. The only other
business done was the confimation of
the library direct01s appointed by the
Mayor. .
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Chased a Load of Brick.

A resident bricklayer who has been
out of work for some time saw a load Of
brick going up North Main street South
Norwalk, yesterday afternoon and
chased it half a mile hoping to “strike
a job.” When the wagon drew up in
front of the home of another bricklayer
who was also out of a job, and were
into the yard, bricklayer
number one mournfully turned on his
heel and walked back to the place
from which he started. There were
exactly 102 bricks in the load and were
to be used in the repair of the chim-
neys on the home of bricklayer number
two.

Music at St. Paul’s.

At St. Paul’s church tO-m01 row
morning and at the Chapel' 1n the even-
ing there will be specially fine music.
A choir Of several voices f1 om Passaic.
N. J. , will join the local choir in the

following music:

MORNING.
Processional Hymn, 491, Wesley
Venite in F, Goss
Te Deum in B flat, Stainer
Benedictus, G1 egO1 ian

Communion Office 1n E flat, C1uikshank
Offt. Anthem, I am Alpha and Omega,

Dykes

Recessional Hymn 396, Dy Res.
EVENING. ,

Processional Hymn 520, Messiter

Festival Ve1 sicles, Tallis
Psalter 20th Selection,
Magnificat in C, Gadsby
Nunc Dimittis in C, Gadsby
Ant. “The Radiant Morn,” Woodward
Offt. Ant. “No Shadows Yonder,” Gaul
Recessional Hymn 311, Jefl’reys.

-—EASTMAN’S POCKET KODAK’ _S re
duced from $5 to $2. 50, at Riggs’ Drug

Store. ' j 15 tf

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A DLDSE BALL.

A Party From the Knob Near.
ly Run Down by a Train.
pat the, Wilson Point.
Crossing.

The Quick Action of Frank Sherman Bare-
ly Averts an Accident.

The Knob Whisticlub met yesterday
morning for their regular game of
whist, and the members spent the day
after the games, strolling about the
grounds and enjoying the bathing.

The severe thunder storm which
came up in the afternoon prevented
liem from returning at the usual time
and they were forced to remain in‘the
club house until 6 o’clock.

Shortly after this hour Mrs. Tallmadge
Baker offered her carriage to four of
the ladies who desired to take the
Tramway cars at the Wilson Point
crossing of the Danbury road. Her

son, Frank Sherman, drove the team'

and the happy party started for the
trolley cars.

As they drove through the Wilson
Point lane nothing was heard but the
swiftly falling rain beating upon the
top and sides of the carriage. Just as
the team emerged from the woods and
the horse’s head was nearly upon the
tracks the shrill whistle of a locomo-
tive drawing a train of cars to the Point
was heard.

It was too iate to attempt to back the
horse, which was now upon the tracks,
and young Sherman did the only thing
he could do. Quickly pulling the whip
from the socket he struck the horse a
hard blow, which caused him to spring
f01wa1d and ca1ry the carriage across
the rails just as the train 1ushed by,
nOEifive feet from the vehicle.
a c‘iOse call, and only the quick action
of young Sherman prevented a most
serious accident.

The crossing is a meet dangerous
one, and the Selectmen should. nOt de-
lay in requesting the railroad authori-
ties to place a, bell or gates at this
point ere a fatal accident occurs, as it
is impossible to see an approaching
train while driving through the shaded
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RUBBER WAS SCARED

Threw Away Mrs. Howe’s
Satchel and Fled to
the Woods.

A Brooklyn Lady and Her Son Have a
Lively Experience In Wilton.

Mrs. James R. Howe and son, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., started on Wednes-
day tO drive from their country home
at North Salem, near the Connecticut
line, to Greenfield to visit some rela-
tives.

On the outskirts of Wilton they
stopped ina little wood to rest and
strolled some way from the carriage.
Mrs. Howe saw a. fairly well dressed
man run out of a thicket and halt in
front of the wagon and at the 'same
time she realized that she had left her
handbag in the carriage containing
valuable papers, worth several hun-
dred dollars, considerable‘jew'elry and
a. large sum of money. The-man seized
the small grip and started for the
woods. Mrs. Howe and her son pur-
sued the man and were within a few
feet of the robber when. he turned
quickly and drawing a revolver, said
he would use it if necessary. Mrs.
Howe suddenly screamed with all he1
might and the robbe1 again thi eatened
to shoot.

Then he again turned and started
for the woods. Young Mr. Howe fol-
lowed the thief and yelled at him.

Therobber got scared and hurled the

grip in the middle of the road and dis-
appeared' in the thicket. \

Mrs. Howe told some farmers of he1
experience and an effort was made to
catch the highwayman but without suc
cess.

Will Be Appreciated.

0n and after July 25 and until Sep-
tember 1, the fare between Norwalk
and Westport will be five cents. Pas-
sengers taking the cars within the
town limits of N orwalk, along the Con-
necticut turnpike, may Obtain a trans-
fer to B1 oad River or. South Norwalk,
with p1 iVilege Of further transfer to
Gregory’s Point.

 

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. -4 GAZETiE ad. will pay m .

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DIED IN A B.ARN

Mrs. John Hyatt Dies After
Drinking Her Husband’s
Health from a Toma-
to Can.

 

A Checkered Life‘Ended in a'Barn During
a Thunder Storm.

known as “Mrs. Danbury Jack” is dead.
Her demise was as sudden as it was un-
expected. Her remains laid' 1,11 a box
at the Raymond Morgue 1n South NOr-
walk this morning, wh ile scarcely a
block away her husband occupied one
of the cages at the station-house. Hers
had been a checkered life, one of out-
door hardShip and jail experience, but
as strange as it may iseem she always
appeared to enjoy it.

A GAZETTE reporter called at the
station house and in a short interview
with the woman’s husband gagned the
following facts as to her death and
p1 evious life. '

Said Hyatt: “ I’ll tell you all I know
about her. She was gmy wife and I
loved her. We had been around all
day, a pretty good kind Of a day for my
business, umbrella mending, and were
on the turnpike when it commenced to
rain. I asked a man named Joseph
Popp who lives near Taylor avenue if
we might go into his barn until after
the storm, and he kindly gave us the
permission.

“On the way I bought ten cents
worth of beer and some craékers and
cheese, and we sat dOWn to have a
lunch, my wife throwing herself as if
tired on a pile Of salt bay.

“I poured out some beer which she
drank and took a drink myself. Soon
after I asked her to have another'drink
but got no answer. I was surprised
and went over and took her by the
shoulder and shook her but as she
failed to say anything I became scared.
* J ust‘ at this time a young girl came up
and I asked her to call her father Mr.
Popp, and she did so.

“He came out tO the barn took hold
of my wife’s hand and said: "Jack”
she’s dead. What happened afterward

. I haven’t much recollection Of, but here

I am locked up and can’t see her. I
hope they’ll let me out to go to the
funeral.

-M r. Popp when he saw that the wo-
man was dead immediately notified
Captain Gladstone, who in turn noti-
fied Coroner Burke and detailed Ofiicer
Pennington to look up the case.

Arriving at the scene the Officer
found Hyatt somewhat intoxicated and
placed him under arrest. Coroner
Burke ordered the corpse taken to
Raymond’s morgue, where it now is
awaiting further investigation.

Hyatt says that his wife’s maiden
name was Ann Smellins, that she ‘Was
born in Brooklyn, that she was about
62 years old, and that she was first
married to an umbrella mender named

son now a resident of Bridgeport and
doing well.

He says that he first met her in
Stamford in 1874 and fell in love with
her, and-a short time after married her
in J ohnstown, N. Y. She had four
children two Of which have died and
two more are now in the Industrial
school at Meriden.

"I shall not go on the road any more
now,” said Hyatt, “I have lost the best
friend I ever had. I won’t be content
to 'do any more tinkering. I hope to
be a better man.”

Both Hyatt and his ._ wife are well
known in Norwalk and both have done
considerable time in jail. Whenever
either one was arrested the other man:
aged to secure a like arrest for him or
herself. Attempts have been made by

their reform but without success.

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Life Insurance Methods.

The ZEtna Life Insurance company of
Hartford continues the comparison of
its methods of insurance 'with those of
othe1: companies as will be seen by the
advertisement on another page to- day
Whatever any other authOI 1tv may
think the man'age1s of the jEtna Life
do no fear the investigation Of their
different risks but make a showing
which. most business men would say
was F‘gOod enough for them.” We ad-
vise our readers to study these tables
and to see how favorable the figures
are to this Old and long-established
campany, whose officers are well known.
for push, enterprise, reliability and
good management. ~

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. The Weather. . 2' .‘
Showers this afternoon. Probably
fair tO-night and Sunday.

 

‘Mrs. John Hyatt, perhaps the betterlf '

John Mackey by whom she had one

kindly disposed peOple to bring about,

EDVEDMDUTN.

After a Lapse of ‘TWe'nty-five‘
Years, Nettie Fancher and
E. C Bliss Are to be
' Married. I

The Ceremony to Take Place in Norwalk
On Tuesday Next.

On Tuesday next, July 27, at the
residence of the bride’s brother, Charles
Fancher, in
Fancher of New Canaan will be united
inimarriage to E. C. Bliss of Brooklyn,
N.-Y., eldest son of Judge F. M. Bliss
of New Canaan.

The celebrating of this ceremony
will be the uniting of two hearts that
in the spring time of life, nearly
twenty-fiVe years ago, went out to each
other in that most tender Of sentiments,
love.

Faithfully, during these long years
that have turned the hair whiter by
the winters of life, have these ‘two
hearts been faithful to each other.
Years have passed, yet neither time
nor shadow has dimmed their affection,
and their union promises to be a most
happy one. ,

After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs.
Bliss will make their home in Brook—
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“GLADS” NARROW ESCAPE

A Lightning Bolt Hurls a Policeman
From 3 Float.

 

afternoon, Officer Gladstone had as he
now believes, the narrowest escape he
ever experienced. He was standing on
a float at Gregory’s Point ready for a
plunge, when -a lightning bolt descend-'
ed and as he avers struck in the water
not fifteen feet from the float, sending
#into the air a volume of water that was
not unlike a small geyser. At almost
the same instant the big captain was
hurled into the water and down he Went
to the bottom of the sea. But he
bobbed up again serenely, and after a
few dives, after the bolt, swam ashore,
' and last night was again patrolling the
streets of South N Orwalk.
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THE GAZETTE WUIILI] LIKE Tll SEE

An electric bell placed at the cross-

dard 011 Works.

A whoevergoesthere look Come over
the face Of merchants when asked to
advertise in an opera house program.

The “ Indians ” at Austin’s restau—
rant dance a skirt dance.

That tired feeling leave the Sons of
Rest.

A quartette composed Of Jake SChaub,
Emmett Austin, John Kirsch and Pete1
Bailey sing at the Butchers’ Barbecue.

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Tried to Hang Herself.

Yesterday afternOonrNellie Sullivan
while confined in the Bridgeport sta-
tion house, tore her apron and made a
rope of it which she fastened to her.
neck and cell door and then fell on the
floor. She was discovered and cut
dOwn in time.

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To Start for Camp.
Commissary Se1 geant Joseph Car rier
and Frank Selleck leave for Niantic on
Monday, to take part in putting Camp
Cooke in order for the reception of the
Connecticut State militia for the week’s
annual encampment. . -

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A Ten Pounder.

Ason was born to Mr. and'Mrs.
George L. Ruby of Cross street, yester-
day. It scaled the regulation weight
Of ten pounds. He came on a stormy

since beamed upon him.
New Restaurant.
Mr. John Hadden, proprietor of the

Preston House, will soon open a res.

Brennan the music dealer. It will be
first class in all of its appointments.

 

 

DEATHS. . ~

LILLIS. ——In Danbury, July 22, Mar—
cella, infant daughter of John PL, and
Marcella Lillis aged 1 month.

MARVIN. —In Stamford, July 23,
Eliza C. Marvin, aged 84 years.

NICHOLS—In Trumbull,

OSTRANDER. —In New Canaan, July
22, Mary E, wife Of the late John
Ostrander aged 89 years. .

 

Norwalk, Miss ' Nettie .

During the electric storm yesterday,

ing Of the Danbury road near the Stan-

day buta rainbow and the sun have_.,

taurant in the! store now occupied.- by; ~

July 22, '
George Marcus Nichols, aged 63 years. _