l_. #3 WHAT THEY SAY EVERY EVENING ‘vVHEN TEE, GAZETTE COMES, THERE IS A _ SCRAMBLE FOR IT. WE DIVIDE . IT INTO FOUR PARTS, AND EACH OF US‘ TAKE ONE. .4 VOLVIT. No.1697. ' -NORWALK, CONN., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBERIE)’. 1897. I'HAT I'I' lllDlCATES.. . THAT THE GAZETTE 1s A PAPER. THAT THE GAZETTri A NEwsY PAPER. THAT.- TEE; - GAZETTE IS A CLEAN PAPE THAT EVERY PAGE- OF THE GAZETTE IS REAR. -.- , ., 1 PRICE ONE CENT. 1 ' 51""; 1‘ Westport’s ~ Friday afternoon at Mrs. dinner. MR8. regal DEAD. . Injured Woman _Suceumbs' to Her Wounds. Coroner Doten Notified and Will Take Charge To-day. _ Mrs. Daniel O’Brien, the woman who was found early Wednesday morning .in an unconscious state, died between 6' O’clock last evening without regaining consciousness, which fact makes the cleariglg of the mystery sur- rounding the circumstance of her in- jury exceedingly improbable. When found Wednesday morning, Mrs. O’Brien was in a semi-cOnscious con- dition. She had a. long cut on the back of her head, and her face was bruised as if the had received several hard blows. .Ata consultation of physicians, held 'O’Brien’s home it was decided that her case was hopeless, and that she would die with- in two days of concussion of the brain. The fatal result of the woman’s in- juries has set the village gossip going and there are many who do not give credence to O’Brien’s ‘statement to the effect that his wife had fallen out of bed. They have not yet made up their and '1'» minds as to the possible guilt of' O’Brien, though they hint that he knows ’more that he has not told. Many persons have recalled the fact that about 12 years ago O’Brien suf- fered from paris green poisoning. He blamed his wife for his illness and called in a physician to treat her for. mental aberration. There was_little doubt in the minds of almost everyone that O’Brien took the poison by mis- take. _Medi3al Examiner Power nOtified Coroner Doten of Bridgeport Of the death‘of the woman, and an inquest will be held tO-day. ‘ v‘ 7‘ ' --'—E"ASTMAN’S POCKET ‘KO'fiAK‘s're- ducedfrbm‘sz’) to $2.50, at Riggs’ Drug Store. j 15 hi BRIDGEPDRT won. Defeated the Naromakes by Only One Pigeon. The fifth of a series Of six shoots be- tween the Naromake Gun club and the Bridgeport Gun club, was shot off on ' the grounds of the NarOmake club at Dorlon Point Saturday afternoon. I. There were but slx men on each team and the Bridgeport team won by one target. Following. are the-individual soores: D N aromake . Bridgeport Ferris, 21 M. Beers, 21 Woodruff, 19 King, .13 Lewis, 18 Tuck, 18 Hendrie, 20 Blakeslee, 20 Capron, 18 Thorpe, 19 Gehrmann, 16 Fruit, 22 112 113 The next shoot will‘take place in Bridgeport Saturday, Sept. 25. Went to Glen Island”; About forty bicycle riders chaper- oned by “Col. Hod” Saunders and wife took a bicycle run to Glen Island and back yesterday. They stopped at the “Island” long enough to enjoy a shore None of the riders were out for speed and the run was a. pleasur- able one to all concerned. A ‘Ay V Will Not Be. There. Secretary to the President, John Ad- dison' Porter, has written the Danbury News that President McKinley will :be..- . unable to attend the Danbury fair this year. This will be'a crushing blow to Representative Wortman of Bethel and Editor Rodemeyer of the Palla- ' dium. ‘ Dr. Hutchinson Dead. News of the death of Dr. Morison ‘ r .' Thomas Hutchinson, at Crawford, N, g H., was received here on Saturday. Dr. Hutchinson is a son of the late Gardiner Spring and Ar‘ianna 'Moris‘on Hutchinson of Englewood, N. J. and also of the firm of Hutchinson Cole & ’Co. of this city. He was in his 33d year. _ At Gibraltar. A cable received from Hon. A. H Byington, this morning, announces his safe arrival at Gibraltar after a pleas- f ' ant voyage. ‘ b: V I ‘ —-_Live Merchants keep their names ' . before the Public. An Advertisement in THE GAZETTE will be read. "visited Roton Point. numbered less than one hundred it is ~ . to be forgotten. 11131111195111 110w. ' Elm City To‘ughs Steal a Kala amazon Machine at Roton Point. 'A Lively Scrimmage Made to Regain the Same. On Sunday a party, to put it mildly composed of “toughs, ” came fr om New Haven on the steamer “Margaret” and While the pa1ty a fair estimate to say that at least two- thirds of them wele either boisterous- ly drunk or under the influence of in- to- icants. This fact was plainly in evidence to the unusually large pa1ty, number- ing nearly 2, 000 who came up on the 11 on steamer Cepheus from New York, as well as a numbe1 of Norwalk people who were present. Their language was in the main of an insulting character, but through fear or something else, they kept them- selves comparatively within the pale of the law. They roamed through the grove and frequently boarded the boat for refresh- ments. ~ While on shore they played the Kalamazoo machines, and as they allege “sunk eight dollars” without getting any return. Michael Drew is in charge of the ma- chines, and as he was adjusting one of them a party who gave their names later as John Sullivan, .James Kiernan, and John Coyle picked up one Of the machines and carting it out of the building took it aboardof their excur- si on steamer. The machine was taken into the cab- in of the boat and .two of the excursion- ists sat upon it and defied any one to take it away. - 1n the meantime Drew started after his property, and as a fight for its pos- session was imminent an officer was called, to which call Constable Good ‘win. responded. He ordered the man' in possession of the machine to give it: up, but he might just as well have ad‘ dressed his orders to the smokestack on the steamer, and the oliicer was quickly hustledashore by the intoxi- cated and angry crowd. Constable Larriga'n in company with Drew then boarded the boat and they too were hustled ashore, Drew on the way receiving two ugly clips from members of the excursion party. Drew again attempted for the third time to go aboard of the bOat aiter his property and was further misused by the party and perhaps might have been killed but for the .appearance on the scene of a New Haven officer who came with the party, and who on tak- ing in the situation whipped out a club and a revolver and held the angry mob of loafers at bay until Drew had made good his escape. The captain of the boat then took Charge of the machine but on the rep- resentations of some of the excursion- ists that they had been swindled by it he refused to deliver it to the nominal owner, but said that he would take it to New Haven with him and hold it subject to further investigation. And shortly after the New Haven contingent sailed for home with the machine. It was altogether one of the'most disgraceful rows ever seen at the Point, which is practically closed for the sea- SOIL AMUSEMENTS. McFadden’s Flow of Flats. Those who~ have tasted of the pleas- ures and seen the sights of the City of New York'may behold one of the most familiar and noted buildings the world over, in the new production. Of the reigning comedy success, “McFadden’s Row of Flats,” where, in the seco‘nd act, the celebrated Tammany Hall Ball Room, with all its glittering lights, will be shown. Dazzling masquerade costumes, blending like the colors of the Great Grophuis, present a scene. which once witnessed, is a sight never This amusing farce comedy will be at Hoyt’ s Theatie Sat— urday night. AAA V ' Overcome by the Heat. Levi Fox, the well known old time ‘ fifer, was ove: come by the heat Satur- day afternoon, and when in front of the George W. Cram place on East avenue, collapsed. Captain Dann was not' fied, and procuring a team had the unfortu- nate old man taken home. A <v' —-All. the successful Merchants or ‘ this CityTAdvertise in THE GAZETTE .LANDING GOODS FROM scows AT SKAGGUAY. WENT ogflwmmw Charles F.'Baldwin of Bridge- port was Instantly Killed Last Night. Fatality occurred While the Nurse Was Away. Charles F. Baldwin, aged 65, a mem- ber of the firm of T. Hawley & 00., Bridgeport, hardware dealers, was al- most instantly killed by walking out of a second story window at his home on West avenue yesterday morning, and f1actured his skull TIe had been con- fined to the house by illness for some time. and the accident. occu1 red during the temporary absence of the nurse. RIPE OLD AGE. Esther Weed Celebrates Her 9411 Birthday. Mrs Mrs. Esther Weed celebrated her 94th birthday anniversary at the resi- dence of her daughter, Mrs. Henry B. Fitch of West avenue, on Saturday af- ternoon. Mrs. Weed is a bright and active Old lady and will very likely reach the century mark. 1 Mrs. Weed was born in Darien, Sept. 11, 1803, and came of a family noted for" longevity, her father reaching the great age of 90 years and her mother at the time of her decease ‘was 97. Mrs. Weed is the widow of the late Ebenezer Weed of Darien, and has re- sided in that place mostly all of her long life. Her only living child his Mrs. Fitch. She has seven grand- children and four great-grand-children. Many friends both ,old. and young called to do honor and ' participate in the pleasures of the afternoon. of the more aged visitors were Mrs. Flora N. Dunning of South Norwalk, and Mrs. Sally Mallory aged 94 and 93' respectively. Our congratulations to the aged lady. We wish her a happy and still longer life. WIIITllll. William Sturges, one of Wilton’s wealthiest farmers, was robbed of over three hundred dollars on Saturday night. Mr. Sturges lives with his sister in a large and handsome house a short distance from the Congregational churchsi ‘R has been his habit to en- tertain "a number of friends nightly, and Sunday morning he found on awak- ing his money and friends both gone. Ate“ Clams and cracked lakes. Twenty or more of the curlers em- ployed at the Crofut & Knapp hat manu- factories visited Gregory’s Point Sat- urday night and enjoyed one of Land- lord O’Sullivan’s delectable shore din- ners, the superior of which is not served on the shOres of Long Island sound at any resort. There was an abundance of everything edible, and a feast of wit, and little or no shop talk. The affair was as genteel as the curl on the latest style of hats: It was the curleTs’ first annual outing and the success of the same will no doubt lead to annual or semi-annual repetitions. A ‘ ‘Vvv 1 n. GAZETTE ad. win my m- Two~ JUDGE FENN DEAD. Expired at His Home in Win. sled Early Yesterday Morning. ’ h Member of Supreme Court Bench and ‘a Veteran of the War. Judge Augustus H. Fenn, of the Su- ipreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, died at his home in Winsted at 6 0 ’clock yesterday morning. Death was due to Bright’s disease, of which he had been a great sufferer for. more than-11a? month. Judge Fenn...ne.ger fullyT rebhirehed from the effecfs‘of’tlie fail he receiv‘Od on an icy sidewalk on 'March 16, 1895, at which time he suf- fered concussion of the brain. He re- covered sufiiciently to .be out and around but never was himself again. He was 53 years of age. . The funeral will be attended from the Second Congregational church, Winsted, to-morrow at 2 p. m., Rev. E- S. Ferry, pastor of the Methodist Epis- copal church and a close friend of the deceased Officiating. Augustus Hall Fenn was born in Ply- mouth, Litchfield county. He received common schools and in Waterbury High school. In March, 1862, he be- gan the study of law, but dropped his studies in the second year of the Civil war and went to. the front in July, 1862, in the Nineteenth regiment of infantry, Connecticut volunteers. ‘ He was at once elected to the lieutenancy of Corr- pany K and was elected captain of Company C when the regiment was changed to the Connecticut Heavy ar- tillery. He served continuously for two years, attaining the rank of brevet colonel, for “gallant and meritorious service.” He lost his right arm at surgeons at Annapolis proposed to muster him out for disability, but he protested to General Mackenzie and was allowed to remain. He» reported for active service seven weeks after he lost his arm. in 1887 he was appointed a judge of the Superior court. In 1893 the late Governor Morris of New Haven ap- pointed him a judge of the Supreme court of Errors. He was a member of the G. A. R. He was also a member of the Knights of Py thias. By reasOn of his death Governor Cooke will be obliged to nominate a successor. If a Republican should be chosen that par- ty will again have a majority in the Supreme court. Judge‘Fenn was one of the most popular and able judges the state ever had. Free Fairy Tales. 1 Send your name and address to the N. K. Fairbank‘company, Chicago, St. Louis, New York,’Boston Philadelphia or Pittsburg, and you will receive by return mail, free of charge, a beautiful booklet, entitled ‘Fairy Tales,’ hand- somely illustrated in colors. _' ’ V 7‘ Memorial Service. A memorial service in memory of the late George Wilmot, who was drowned off Roton‘ Point last June, was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra S. Bostwick, 'on Dean street, near the “l Cove Road, on Sunday at 2 o ’clOck p. 111. Rev. Samuel Scoville conducting the service. . , ~. his early education at the district and— GATHERED .THEM IN. Chief of Police Vollmer Cap- tures Two Self-Confessed Thieves. They Escape With 'a Fine of Five ‘ Dol- lars Each. ‘ . ‘ a Last evening Chief Vollmér- 6f the South N orwalk police force had his at- tention attracted to two sportive young men who were seemingly under the in- fluence Of what is not according to law on sale in Norwalk only under certain restrictiong. Consolidated railroad Station and the big chief who is taking a vacation, dur- ing which time he leaves his brass but- tons at home, followed them to the station. He advised Officer Walter Hall, also in citizens dress, to follow. Arriving at the railroad station Chief Vollmer made himself acquainted with the young men, and they after inquir- open at the depot, cordially invited him to have a drink from a well-filled bottle. The chief declined giving as an excuse that he was expecting a friend, and the friend who was Officer Hall le1su1 e] y stz Oiled up the steps and on to the platform By a preconcerted signal Officer Hall grabbed one of the men but he man- aged to break loose and gave the Offi- er a lively chase, but he was found in his hiding place under a ledge of rocks and placed under arrest. The chief had made more certain of the grip on his man, being in closer reaching distance. Both were eventually landed in the James Cahill and Clarence Sniflin. Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, and the, The chief elicited the story from one of-the party that they had appropriated $25 from the pockets of a guest at the home Of Sniffin at Westport. d Captain Gladstone telephoned to Westport, and Deputy Sheriff Kemper, after making an investigation, came to South Norwalk and took the young men in charge. _In the Town Court this morning, they were each fined 85 on the payment of which they were turned over to the charge of Mr.‘ Kemper. . 111 1111111 11111 1111 ll] 311 George Hummer Allen as a- council- man in' the interest of the wheelmen. The Kilkenny cats taking lessons frOm the Plymouth avenuerDagoes. The yachting season stay open till October. H. Edgar Ferris quit flirting with widows. . Ex-Alderman McMullen President of‘“The Franklin avenue Tax Payers’ United, Protection Association.” The manuscript of Dan. Honnecke‘r’s monograph on “The Blue Laws and What I Know About Them.” The man who wishes the library tax was double. The file that Ed. Sloan uses on his woOd saw. A photograph of the “church in. Bridgeport that John Wade will at- t.end 1111 11131111011? They were Zizzaggmg towards the- ing Of him at what time the doors were‘ station-house and gave their names as. The Committee Undetermined as to the Style. of Building, ' ', ' They Ask the Taxpayers to Invest $9,000 ' ’ More. The Franklin Street school (Somali- tee have not as yet given out fOr publi- cation the figures presented by the.‘dif- ' ferent bidders for the constructiOn of the new school-house. TC 11' GA: ZET'J.E repo1~ter,;-a member of the 6931'- mittee this mornijig said that it had not yet been fully decided as to whether a the school would be'built according to the original or the modified plans, the original appropriation having been inadequate to build the, school as at, st prOposed. I It remains altogether upon what the meeting On Friday evening next de- cides said the committeeman. Accord- ing to the modified plans "the building will look more like a manufactory than a school-house, he added. ‘ The reporter succeeded in getting the following approximate figures of the carpenters interested: J. R. Ray- mond, $8,000; L. W. Doty, $6,500; A. Waldron, $7,300; J. C. CroWe, $7 ,900. -It is understood that the successful 'bidder for the mason work is nearly $3,000 below the bid of his competitor. The committeeman vouchsafed the further information that the lowest- bidders on the modified plans were the same as on the original plans, and whatever the result of the meeting there would be no change in the awards. V‘ vA ‘7 EAST NORWALK. At the Methodist church \estei'day, the pastor conducted both ses‘viCes For the morning sermon he took for his subject, “The pattern for a Man’ s Life.” In the evening, “The Christian ‘ Athlete.” The Boy’s circle of the» Junior Epworth League met in the af— ternoon under the leadership Of Charles Ainsworth and reorganized. .. Miss Kate Reddy of Bayville, L. L,’ has been a guest of her brother, Capt. Richard Reddy, of Van Zandt avenue. . Miss Flossy Gilmore of Osborn ave- nue is visiting Bridgeport friends. Mrs. John Banks who has been'suifer- ing withTyphoid fever for the past eight. weeks is reported better. Miss Hunt' of the.New Haven hospital, has been. in charge two weeks and it is hoped, that with i the efficient care of this trained nuise, that Mrs. Banks, will steadily 1mprove.. . . Rev. Otto Swensen preached in the. Swedish Congregational church yester- ‘ day. _ Robert Silcox, of Van Zandt .avenue‘ is home from Belfast, Ireland. . The Ladies’ Aid society of the Meth- odist church will have a trolley ride Wednesday evening. Mr. and MrsTt. T. Underhill oiEast'. ' Orange, N. J , were the guests over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mar Vin. The Westport Fire police will have a shore dinner at Dcrlonls point tO-mor- " row evening. V r The R. W. 8. Club. The Red, White and Blue club with Captain Charles Le Grasse at the head closely followed by William DeKlynn, , Fred S. Ambler, George H. Allen,,and another young man will set sail on their bicycles for Patchouge, L.I. to-morrow morning. The first port made will be Bridgeport, where the party will board ' a steamer for Long Island and from : thence will wheel to Patchouge where they will be the guests of Mr.LeGrasse and take an occasional spin on the re- nowned bicycle. When theyg O'et weary of being entertained they Will return home. The start will be made at 10 o’clock, or on the pop of a bottle of O. T. R. B. The Weather. Threatening weather with local showers on coast this afternoon; fair Tuesday, cooler in interior Tuesday night. DEATHS; - BRODERICK.—In Stamford, Sept. 11, Jeremiah Broderick, aged 70 years. ‘ BALDWIN. ——In Bridgeport, Sept. 12. Charles Frederick Baldwin, aged 64 years. HUTCHINSON.-—In Crawford, N. H, Sept. 11, Dr. Morison Thomas, son of _ the late Gardiner Spring and Arianna l Morison Hutchinson, aged 33 years.- O’BRIEN. —In Bridgeport, Sept. 11, '. Mrs. Mary O’Brien, daughter of Mrs ' Sa1 ah McDonald. SCHMIDT. —In Danbury, Sept. 11, Ed-_, ward Philip, infant son of Peter and; Leopolda Schmidt, aged 5 months.
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