(s e;- .,|f you want the best I . goods for the least money read the advertisements . in the Gazette. yon. v11. No. 1751. I N ORWALK CONN ., MONDAY EVENING NOVFMBER 29.1897 é“ Recognized as the amily paper the Gazette’s I I advertising columns will prove its value to you. . ‘5 “FREE ONE 911m: ‘ KILL-El] 11E HORSE; A Street'Bailway Car collides With Colby &.Smith’s , Team, . An Exciting Scene on Main Street Early This Morning. A Edward DeFoi‘est, a driver for Colby & Smith, the confectioners and bake'rs, d1 ove up Main street early this morn- ing w ith a load of goods from the firm 5 South Norwalk store. When he reached a point nearly op- posite the DeKlyn store he attempted to cross the tracks of the Winnipauk branch of the Norwalk Street Railway company. At the same instant a trolley car was comlng rapidly down‘ the street with Motorman Lester Adams and Conductor Joseph Bucknam in charge. DeForest evidently failed to observe the approaching car as lthe first intimas tion he received of its close proximity was a sudden crash and the overturn- ing of his wagon. When he emerged from the wreck of bread, pies, cakes and wagon wheels he found himself uninjured excepting a few bruises and bad bump on the side of his head. His bakery wagon with'all of its run-_ ning gear lay directly across the track while the horse was lying dead beside the rails. The car was full and several passen- gers stood on the platforms. Those on the front platform were thoroughly frightened but escaped injury “when the collision occurred. Inside the car were several women who became hys— terical. After a short delay the car with its load of passengers proceeded to South Norwalk. The regular motorman of this car is Joseph Smith, but he being two min- utes late contrary to a rule of the com- pany, the car was run out by extra mo- torman Adams. Adams was laid off pending an inves- tigation of the accident by the superin- tendent. . While Mr. Adams may have been negligent, which is doubted, DeForest was also apparently careless in cross- ing the track at the inopportune time that he. did, if he was aware that the car was approaching. This is the first serious accident that has occurred on the line for some months. It will be thor oughly investigated and the blame for, the same placed where it belongs. It Is claimed by those who profess to ' know that the motorman did not ring the alarm gong until almost a second before the car struck the wagon. Cars as a rule are run down Main. street atapretty high rate of speed, but it can also be said that under ordin- ary conditions the motormen have the cars well under control. The tracks were damp this morning, and .it would _ have been hard to stop the car, even though Mr. Adams had seen the man swing his team on the track before he did. To a reporter Mr. Kyle this morning said, there were about forty passengers on the car and it was running at a} fair rate of speed. The only team, he said, on the street at the time was the one which was struck. He intimated that the direct cause of the death of the horse would be further investigated. He further said that Adams did all in his power to avert the collision, and he failed to find wherein there was any negligence on the part of the motorman, and placed him at work again. , 'As to the failure of Adams to sound the alarm .g6ng, he states that he did not have . time to do so before the accident oc- / curred. lie is Married. The friends of Harvey Hartzel for- ' merly of South Norwalk, have received announcements of his marriage with Miss Mary Radcliffe of Warrington, Pa. Mr. Hartzel at one time conduct- ‘ 3ed the bakery .in'the Scofield block on . North Main street. I CAUGHT AT WORK. Charles Wheeler the First to be Arrested Under the Law, Had no License to Work on Natural oyster Beds.‘ The'first arrest under the new law governing. the natural oyster beds of the state: was made in Stratford Satur- day morning by State Inspector of Nat- -hural Oyster Beds William A. Lewis of Bridgeport. He arrested Charles Wheeler of 'Stratford, formerly of Sau- gatuck, for working on the natural beds without a license, and with num- bers on his sails which did not belong to the boat which he was in. I He is identified as the party who committed the breach of law by State Oyster Po- liceman P. A. Persson. who has charge of the Bridgeport, Stratford and Mil- ford district and by Per’ssson helper Alexander Johnson. They both saw Wheeler when the offense was commit- ted and identify him beyond question as not only on the natural beds at the time and manner alleged, but also dredging on the beds of private owners south of the great natural bed. The writ is made returnable before Justice Peck of Stratford on Wednes- day, and Wheeler has given bonds in $50, John Bond of Stratford being his surety. The law makes the penalty for this offense $10 a day, and the boat or vessel so used is liable to forfeiture. The law requiring a llcense to, work on the natural beds was passed in 1893 at the instance of the Oystermen’s Protective association 'of this state, for the purpose of keeping off of 'the na~ tural ‘ beds parties from I outside the .state,nwho came in, and contrary to the law at that time, worked upon the natural beds which are reserved ex— clusively for the citizens of Connecti- cut. From the license money received a portion is devoted to the buoying of the natural beds by the state, and be- sides this a state inspector of natural oyster beds is appointed to see that no one who is not entitled to do so works on the natural beds, and that all boats -on- the beds are properly licensed. The licenses are issued from the office of the shell fish commission 1 at New Haven, and are graded in price accord- ing to the measurement of the boat or vessel licensed to so work. The law requires that every boat so licensed Shall carry a number on her sail, such number being furnished by the com- mission, and no boat not so numbered shall be allowed to work. The law has been very faithfully complied with, there having been no case of deliberate and intentional vio- lation brought to the attention of the inspector heretofore, and the, old com- plaints of persons outside the state working on the-natural beds have been done away with. In the present case, the offending party, Wheeler, borrow- ed a boat, and in some way getting possession of two old numbers, put both on his sails, and so thought to evade the law. The case against him seems plain and the arrest will demonstrate to those interested that the law is not made for nothing and the state does not spend its money to protect the natural oyster beds, for the fun of the thing. ‘ ‘-> " ——Photogra-phic supplies at Riggs Drug store. 014 tf ._‘.-.>____. New Time Table To-day. The winter :time table of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road’ went into effect at 12:01 a. 111., to day, with several changes. ‘ The Pittsfield express, scheduled to leave New York city at 9 o’clock a. In. via South Norwalk, will be discon- ’tinued. Train 14 fr om New Y01k will leave' at9a. m.,instead of 9:04. This twin is an express. Train 79, leaving New Haven for 1-New York at 7:10 p. m,. daily, will hereafter stop at: South N orwalk at 7:55 p. m. on week days only. : A-= —Advertise 111 THE GAZETTE. \ v— 231’o‘w A SAFE. Burglars Enter and Bansack Higby’s Store in Milford._ " The Thieves Failvto Get Money for Their Hard Labor. Milford was thrown into a state of great excitement yesterday morning when it was ascertained that Burglars had visited the town and operated at Higby’s drug store in the post office building, where they blew open the safe and thoroughly ransacked the place. An investigation showed that the burglars had gained entrance to the place by forcing the door of M11. Higby’s private office, from which place it was easyto gain entrance to the drug store and operate on the safe. The burglars were not long in getting to work and soon had the safe ready for the “blowing.” So great was the force of the explosion that the doors of the safe were forcedotf. Luckily there was no money in the safe—nothing but some books and private papers of no value to any one but the owner. These were overhauled by the burglars who doubtless had hoped to find something negotiable among them, but in this they Were disappointed. The burglars, after finding that their labor on the safe had been in vain, turned their attention to the stock of goods in the store and searched all through them, carryng some away. The amount, however, is not thought to be large. The concussion from the safe blow- ing was severe enough to give a num- ber of buildings a shaking, yet no one A clock in the post office was stopped at 4:20, presum- ably from the force of the explosion. Some of the papers which had been taken from the safe were found blowing about the yard . of the First church which is across the street from the building in which the burglars op- erated. . ‘ EXPLOSION In oANBU‘RV'. seems to have heard it. Prompt Work by the Fire Department Pre- vented the Flames from Spreading. An explosion in thecellar of Philip; Simon ’s‘drug store, in Bundle & White’s block, corner of Whiteand Ives streets shortly before 5 o’clock Saturday after- noon resulted in a fire which caused over $5,000 damages. The loss will be covered by insurance. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. ' The block is a four story frame build- ing and probably the largest single building in the city. The fact that the fire department quarters were almost opposite and that there was no delay in reaching the scene undoubtedly 'p'ré-. vented a heavy loss. The fire was con- fined to the drug store andW. H. Leon- at (1’3 saloon adjacent. G. L. Knox, the well known animal traine1 had his office and apartments on the second .,: floor in which were a few lions, tigers, leopards and other features of his men- agerie and the animals created cOnsid- erable commotion as the smoke penetraté ed the apartments. not reach the second Story the only damage sustained by those abOve was the slight damage by smoke. The fire promised to be a very seri- ous one as almost simultaneous with the explosion the flames burst through the floor and the customers in the stor e at the time and also the clerks were forced to make a hasty exit. The chemicals, acids, drugs, etc. , stored in the cellar made excellent material to feed the flames but the prompt Work of the department prevented the fire spreading. The losses are estimated on drug store, $3, 000; on building $1, 000; W. H.‘ Leonard, $1, 000. '- What the Loser pguld Co. A young lady in Muhlenberg county by the name of Miss Helen Hunt found a purse in church one Sunday morning ‘ recently and reported her find to the pastor, with the request that he report the fifiding of the purse and contents, and that it would be returned to its owner by applying to her. SO the fol- lowing Sunday the pastor made this“ announcement from the pulpit:l “Some- body lost a purse here" last Sunday ' evening, and if the oWner wants the property he can go to Helen Hgnt for ."——Louisville Pest. , . As the [flames did .. A SUBDEN DEATH Dies in a Chair. Had Sulfered from Asthmatic Troubles for a Long Time. ’ Frederick Faber an aged resident of Cranbury died very spddenly at his home in that place Saturday night. The deceased was about 70 years of age, and lived not far ‘ from ‘ what is known as the Smith sanitarium. I He had been suffering from an asth- matic trouble for Some weeks bu was thought by his German housekeeper with whom he lived to be better. Early Saturday evening he arose 011 attempted to arise from a chair in which he was sitting near the kitchen stove, but fell back into the same, dead. 1 The housekeeper became alarmed and ran to the sanitarium and 'called for Dr. Smith, who on his arrival at the house‘ saw that 'the man was dead. Medical Examiner Burk was sum- moned yesterday and rendered a ver- dictof death from natural causes. The remains are in charge of Funeral director J. D. Jennings. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon. '7 AAA ‘ A FIEND’S woBK. Horrible Depravity at the Danbury Town Farm. ‘ Bridget McCann, aged‘ 80 years,» an inmate at the Danbury town farm, is in a critical condition with but, little hopes of recovery as the. result ofa most fiendish assault committed upon her late Saturday night by Edward Burgess, aged 24, another inmate. Be- sides vbeating her into unconsciousness, Burgess is said to be guilty of a more inhuman crime. The groans of the wdifian' first” attracted; attention and When an attendant entered the room Burgess was found trying to conceal himself. He managed to escape, but was captured by the police yesterday morning in a. barn at some distance from the farm. He is said to be slight- ly demented, but has a very bad record. : :-= HOW THEY STAND. Two Changes In the Position of the Ga- zelte Newsboys. At the close. of”business Saturday night there were two changes in the positions of the little newsboys who are contestingfor the GAZETTE prizes. The leading contestants for the are all close .to-gether and but a few .points separate them, but of the Others Charles Mullen has passed Allie Tocci for eighth prize and Mike Gambin passes Thomas Ha‘rrigan for fourteenth position. The standing of the seve1al contest- ants is as follows. ‘Frank Riley, Treat Stanley, LeOnar d Coffin. Lester Comstock. Harry B'Outon, George Berg, . Ernest Gregory, Charles Mullen, .- Allie Tocci, William N Olen, ,“Jo‘seph Cahill, J ohn Siswick, 1 James Haugh, Mike Gambin, Thomas Harrigan, Chester Heath. . Not Guilty. . On Saturday, “Mickey” Murray was found not guilty of the charge preferred by “Dan” Hanlon that he had robbed him of $75. Murray afterwards swore 'out a complaint‘against Hanlon. An Aged Resident of Cranbury _ Eastman Business cOllege scholarships , GONTRAILTAWARDE The Berlin Iron - Bridge. Com- pany. Captures the Prize. The Bridge to: be Finished by January l5th,l898. The . much mooted question as to when the addition to the south side Of the Wall street bridge would be com- pleted has been to all intent and pur-. pose answered by the clOsing of-a con- tract for the construction of the same ‘ by the Selectmen with the Berlin Iroh Bridge company. The plans and specifications for the ‘ construction of the same have been previously published, and weredebated upon at a recent town meeting. The contract calls for the completion of the improvement on January 15th. m O...——— EPWORTH LEAGUE. Semi—Annual Meeting Opens To-night at. the Methodist Church. ‘ The semiannual meeting of the New York District Epworth League opens to-night at‘the Methodist church with a lecture by Hon. Wallace Bruce. To- morrow morning the opening religious servicewill be conducted by Rev. R. W. Raymond. Congressman Hill will deliver the address of welcome, and F. W. Randall will reply. A short busi- ness meeting will follow and at 11 o’clock Hon. Wallace Bruce will de- liver his lecture on Robert Burns. At the close a luncheon will be served. The meeting will reassemble at 2 o’clock and Rev. C. L. Goodell will de~ liver an address on “The Greatest Story in the World.” He will be followed by Rev. J. W. Chadwick on the subject “Aim High.” A short service of song will follow after which Rev. -.A S. Kav - anagh will respond to the ‘Question D1 awer ’ ' At the close of the afternoon session Rev. A. J. Smith will lead a~ prayer and consecration service, and 3.1.5230 o ’clock Supper will be served. In the evening acabinet meeting will be held' 1n the Epworth parlor at 6 .30 o’clock, and at 7 o’clock Rev. A. H. Goodenough will conduct a praise ser- vice. A short business meeting will follow, and at 8 o’clock Rev. J. '1‘. Mc- Farland will deliver an address; on “Brains; Their Use and Abuse.” BISHOP WILLIAMS STRICKEN» A Touch of Apoplexy Saturday—He is Much Better New. Bishop Williams had a bad day on Saturday. The Rev. Robert Cla1 kson Tongue of Rockville was calling on him in his chamber when the bishop was seized with a spasm and had a slight stroke of apoplexy. Dr. Edger- ton was quickly called. The doct01 said last night that the patient was resting as comfortably as at any time for the past six months. ‘ _ V r FRATERNAL NEWS. Butle1 chapter will work the Royal Arch degree tO-morrow night.’ A special meeting of the Twin City Wheelmen will be held in the club rooms to-morrow evening at 8 o ’clock- in order that the time limit of prize offer, voted at the September meeting, be extended to December 8, and also to act on report of club plcture com- mittee. Our Brothers Lodge 1. .O. O F. will hold a regular meeting to-night. Douglas Fowler Post, G. A. R. will meet to-night. Buckingham Post, G. A. R. will meet Wednesday evening. , Remember and order your order. L: . .Two Points... §' , use your lost bill head, note hood or envelope; and 5.2. 'to 12 um flu GAZETTE 103 OFF/CE gets your supplies before you .f/‘ff/‘fv’74‘4‘e‘- ...“..’\. IHE EAZHIHWDULI] LIKE Hi SEE Main st1 eet given a thorough clean- I ing.1 7 The trolley ca1s 1 un moIe frequent. in the evening. , The South NOr walk police furnished with lanterns after}. “‘7 a. m. Liquor dealels stop selling liquors to minors. A red light pl’ac‘ed 1n front of police headquafiers on Water street. Prosecuting Attorney Taylor dust off those druggist warr.ants A blotter kept at police headquarters Mure Wall. street bridge and less schoolboy play. ' A good skating pond for the young folks. The South Norwalk council provide Captain Gladstone with a new- oflicers ’5 cap. ~ Col. ~ Hod. Saunders win Landlord Hamilton’s porker. ' Cold waves stay away from Norwalk.‘ A brisk holiday trade among the GA- " ZETTE advertisers. The Rev. Beard head off Par son Kav - anagh with a se‘r ies of sensational sub jects. DANBURY’S ASSESSMENT. A Big Increase in Value of Property for Taxable Purposes. Danbury"s new assessment, in which the assessors have aimed to rate prop- erties at their actual valuation, shows . an increase of the grand list from $6,- 000,000, to about $13,000,000. Some of the additions to lists are so large, in many cases more than double, that it is likely that there will be frequent pro- tests unless there is a very material 11e- 1 duction in the tax rate. The Danbury News publishes the entire list, and many notable changes are shown. The assessment of Charles S. Andrew is 1aised from $2 9,330 to $52,700; Beltair, Lurch & C‘o. (hatmakers ), from $10, 62' to $35, 600; ex-Railroad Commissionei y Bacon, $48, 675 to $101, 000; Joseph T. Bates. $18,140 tO$78, 450; W. E. Henebl y, $9, 950 to $28, 950; John H. Fem-on, $27 775‘ to 86,046; D. P. Nichols estate, $32,- 220 to $122, 886; and theEdgar S. Tweedy estate, $13,070 to $69,050, with many others in which theadditions have been quite as large proportionately. One of the notable increases is that of the es- tate "of a nonresident, Alexander M. White, from asasoow $314,203. There - may be some special 1eason for this. but it does not appear in the published list. . ———.—<o.o>———'—-— Winners of the Turkeys; Below is list of persons who won tur" keys at the Boston Store, Norw alk, last week: Mrs. Elizabeth Beers,South N orwalk, Mrs. D. H. Bouton, Cranbury, Miss Alice Quien, Branchville, Mrs. Bixbee, Cranbury, Mrs. J. F. Darrow, East N01 walk M15. Thomas, East Norwalk, “ Mis. VVa1m, East Norwalk, A. L. Bene- dict, East Nor. Walk, William Bucking- ham, Saugatuck, Mrs. WilliamBuxton, Norwalk, Mrs. Thomas Barry, Nor- walk, Mrs. Myrtie Shea, East Norwalk, Mrs. M. H. Wilson, East Norwalk, C. H. Olmstead. Westport, Mrs. C. E. Scofield, Darien, Miss Carrie Castle, Norwalk, Mrs. R. H. Heal, Norwalk. < v‘ ‘7 Club Smoker. '_ The Norwalk Club will hold a “smoker” at‘the club rooms to-night. A ‘ V _ A Card. The undersigned desires to extend his sincere thanks to the many friends of his wife, for their kindly acts during her illness, and sympathy expressed after her death. Also to the Kings Daughters of the Congregational church of which the deceased was a member, and to the Uncas tribe of Red Men and the Phoenix Engine Company for the beautiful floral offerings. GEORGE S. GRUMMAN. Norwalk, Conn. ., Nov. 29th,1897. ‘ A-‘ V r ' The Weather. _ Rain or snow to-night, clearing Tues- day; decidedly colder. ‘ ' DEATHS. CASWELL—In Stratford, Comm, Nov. 27, ' Harlow H. Caswell, aged 78 years. DOOLAN. ——In Bridgeport. Nov. 26th, I Marga1et, daughter of Petel and Mary , Doolan, aged 21 years FABER. — In Norwalk, Nov. 27th. Frederick Faber, age‘d'about 70 years. . KELSEY. —In Denver, COL, Nov. let, '1 Mabel Kelsey, daughter of Stuart P. and Annie Kelsey, of Bridgeport, aged 17 years. . REILLY. -—In Brldgeport, Nov. 27th, 1 3 Elizabeth, wife of Patrick Reilly. TRACEY. -—In Stamford, Conn. ., Nov 20, J L. TI acey. .
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