-' The Ional‘ Is the highest grade baking Miler Isnown- Actual tests show it goes one- tbird furtber’tban any other brand. Absolwutely Pure ROVAL BAKING POWDER 60., NEW YORK. LOCAL AND OTHER » NEws, ‘The funeral of the“ late George T. _-- @arr was held“ yesterday afternoon. Messrs. John H. Ferris, R. H. Rowan , A. Solmans and C. S. '9 Trowbridge 'are at Bantam lake in search of fish. ——Get your shoes now. Monday the 10th, we give away the $105 1n gold. 50c sale or on account gets a coupon, A. H. Hoyt & Son 37 Wall street. . J 4 4 Rev. Charles E. Benedict who has been visiting relatives in town is visit- - ing the Drew Theological seminary to- day: D. William Weed who unde1Vvent an opeiation fo1 appendicitis. at the Roosevelt hospital 1s 1eported as get- ting along nicelv. Peter Benson, an employee of J. \Vallace Marvin, died at his home on Third avenue yesterday after a brief illness. The funeral will be held to- ‘ .’1n0rr0w. t. ——Fancy Pei fume Atomizei s, decorat- ed and Cut glass at Riggs D1 LDIg1 stor.e 6.tf Mrs. Daniel O’Neil who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. A. Gilbert of East N orwalk returned home to-day. . The officers of Old Well Lodge, F. d; A. M. were installed last evening by ‘Deputy R. M. Wilcox. After work there came a feastof rest. " s \ Prescription clerk Erasure at the Tomlinson pharmacy has a rat trap F ' that hives the rodent-s. without the use ' of bait. ‘ I Lazell’s, ’Pinaud's, Reck- secke1's,VViight s. Londborg s and Colgate’s pe1fumes at Riggs’ D1ug stme. D. 16. tf’ “ ., County Commissioner Miller has re- LOVSI ed f10m his illness and hasi esum- ed his official duties. M15. Louis Von Gal, of South N01- walk, who has been visiting her mothe1,_ Mrs. George Carley, of Wooster street, ‘ ; Danbury has returned home. I Ee-Deputy Sherifi' Bolster, "of Stam- ' 1 ford is dangerously ill, at his home of pneumonia. About a week ago he was , though he took every p'reca11tionl,, the attack developed into his p1es’ent can. gerous illness” His eldest sonIis slbwly recOvcring‘from the disease. —-F' 1ne Key West and Havanna ci gars, from $1." ..5 to $6 per box, at Riggs’ Drug store. , D. 16. tf Better sure“ than sorry. Guard against the substitution of inferior wares for good ones bv examining your purchases before: you leavethe store. . The promised snow storm has been - side-tracked and the Street Railway’s Snow plow is consequently in the sulks. wFine toilet cases, shaving sets, col- lar and cuff boxes, photo. boxes, neck- tie boxes, glove and handkerchief boxes, Aluminum combs, brushes and trays and manicure sets at Riggs’ Drug store. .16. tf Miss Margaret Tammany, of Monroe street, has been ente1 tammg Miss An- nie Garvey. of Da'nburv. Miss Elizabeth Elliot and Miss Lena Moran, of Danbury, are guests of the Misses Mille1,0f Chapel st1 eet Mrs W. PrVor and daughtex Helen, of Holyoke, Mass, a1e guests of Mrs. J. P. Nickerson, 0f West Main street: «Prof M. S. Ecosen. the VV ell-known oculist Optician, canbe consulted at his office. in the parlors of the Mahackemo Hotel. South N 01 walk Tuesdays from a. In:- to 8 p. m Eyes examined free. . a f5'l1f Mrs. Thomas Benédict J‘..r has re- turned to New York after spending the holidays with relatives in East Norwalk. She was accompanied by Mrs. Howa1d Holmes, who will spend allow days 1n New Y01k as het guest. ‘I bliss Mine1va Kyle of South No1 walk has returned £10m a vis1t in White ; Plains, N. Y. ' Miss Amv Rittci of Philadelphia isa‘ guest of her sister, Mis. Alva Long- str‘éet of EastINorwalk. ' , V - The ladies of the First Congrega- clonal church will give a supper and entertainment in the near future. .Miss Mohel Mather of Newark, N. J. ._,;. has been a nest of Mrs. William Mil-. hr of Havilgnd street, South Norwalk ,t0 Westport soon after 'at Olsen Bros. White Shoe store. Mrs. W. S. Sturtevant, of south N'0r-. I .V‘valk' 1s visiting in Brooklyn. P. Slattery, the barber, has moved‘ into his new store eon Main street. Thomas Daugherty fell yesterday afternoon and dislocated his arm The firm of Gardner & Olmstead has been dissolved by mutual consent. bulsiness on lines established by him- se f . ' The funeral of Samuel B.‘ Tristram of Burritt avenue took place this after- noon from.hi"s late home. Mr. and Mrs. Waldo C. Briggsfwho have been the guests of Mrs. Briggs’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Ferris of Fairfield avenue, South Norwalk, re-I turned yesterday to their home in New London. The Woman’s Missionary association of the South N orwalk Congregational church will hold its regular meeting in the church this afternoon. Dr. Emily Pardee will address the meeting her subject will be, “The personal factor in Missionary Work.” Miss Ella Day will also make an address. _ The-regular monthly meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of Grace church will be held Thursday evening. John Condon has moved from Meri- den to South Norwalk; ‘ <vv AMUSEMENTS. Land-of the Living. An "exceptionally strong dramatic company has been selected by Jess Burns and Lillian Washburn for Frank Harvey’s latest melodrama “The Land of the Living,” which they have pro- duced this season in an elaborate man- ner. While possessing an absorbingly interesting story it abounds also in comedy and sensational incidents. The scenic outfit is especially fine and exhibits picturesque scenes of magnifi- cent splendOr. “The Land of the Liv- ing” will be presented for the first time in this city at Hoyt’s Theatre, Friday and Saturday evenings, J anuary 7 and 8. Mr. Beane From Boston. The Misses Seigel and VVinson, Vi ho l me with The Gor'mans in theii new I home from his practice musical co- nedy ‘ M1. Beane f1 om Bos- ton ’VV hich appears at Hoyt’ 8 Theatre, on Thursday eVening, January 6, will introduce one of the latest up-to-dato singing and dancing specialties—a real novelty. These young ladies have been one of the biggest hits in vaudeville the past two seasons. Besides being very pretty girls, they pay particular attention to the dressing of their act, which demands costumes very elegant and of decidedly original design.- My Friend From India. At Hoyt’s Theatre last evening, the Smyth and ‘Rice comedians present )0. 3' I: ‘ " . ' I: a taken with an attack of grip and, 3.1- i My Friend from him“ From firi’t to last the play was replete with fun provoking situations. Walter E. Per- kins as the "Keene Shaver” was simply irresistbly funny and at all times illicit-I ‘ ed loud applause. Fred MOWer,as Eras- tus Underholt, the retired poik packe1, was especiaily good 1n his part and Miss Kenyon Bishop, as Tilly, a Ge1man maid IS deserving of notice. Miss Bish- op could not have presented that ri ic- ulous character any better had she been in reality that: which she only p01 trayed. All that can be said of it is that the whole cast was excellent and those who spent their money and time were amply repaid. ‘ Vv Westport. ' Mr. James Dotten died Monday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry E. Sherwood, on West avenue, of pneumonia, the fatal feature of which was catarrhal bronchitis. He was born in Falmouth, Nova ScOtia, and had'he survived'until Sunday next would have been 86 years of age. Of a family of nine children, four remain, Mrs. Sherwood, who. is the youngest; .James Dotten of New York, Mrs. - Glover of Brooklyn and the Rev. tbn Dotten‘, , rector of an Episcopal church, in Biversid e, state of California. The latter married a. daughter of the late, W. W. Holcomb of Bridgeport. During the administration of Presi- dent Lincoln, and for many years pre-- vious,‘ Mr. Dotten followed the occu- pation ‘of ship ..c'arpenter in the navy yard at Brooklyn. Relinquishing it on accountof failing health, he removed 1870, which time he had maintained a quiet 'life. _ ' Gets SID. - George Davis, of Wilton avenue, held the ticket which secured the $10,. The other prizes have not as as yet been claimed. _ . 0-—~— .. ‘0..— Sccxetaries of fraternal, 0r seem so- cisti’es are invited to mud to the = J ‘GAZETTE, the elections of officers and other news pertaining to their lodges ;to be printed in this tolumn. - The names of (smears Should be brought In; on the evening of th'eli loctlnll ( all, other new: with mualgorompinas. V ' l ,2 .. 1 The official board of the First M. E. ’ church will meet to-night. Mr.‘ Olmstead will continue his veterinary iteen tons of snuff, or Mil- _ since . 131'): "‘So your little grand— daughter was christened this morning, M13. (Hunks. ” , ' ' ‘1'.st Hunks: “Yes, ma am.’ MASSACHUSETT’S SN UFF-DIPPERS V 2 Not Entirely Confined to Hie Poor “’liiles of the South. Massachusetts every year the ping, scouring, chewing and pinching. The powder cans, which'retail at 10c. Thus we have . 130, 000 pounds, making 2, 080, 000 pack- ages, Which at 10c Cost the operatives $208, 000. While we have always associated the use of snuff in this country with the veryIdregs of humanity in the South, let us'glance atthe City of Lawrencedp Mass, where are located such mills as' the. Pacific, Atlantic, Cotton, Washing- - ton, Everett, Pemberton, etc.; popula- tion about 46,000. The mill girls are French-Canadians - and Armenians, with a. sprinkling of Americans, Irish and English. In summer groups of them, from' 16 to 20 years of age, go across the river and sit for hours along the banks indulging themselves with' the snuff and rag. They consume over twenty tons of snuff annually. Law- 'rence' is only twenty miles from moral, pure, holy Boston. - Regard the “Manchester of America” or the “Spindle City,” as Lowell'is call- ed. She was for many years the chief seat of the 'cotton manufacture in the .United States, and has a. population 'of nearly 80,000. Boston is only twenty- four miles away. The mill girls use in Lowell, sitting afternoons with snuff and rag beside the falls of the Merri- . mac, twenty-five tons of snuff annual- ly, or 800,000 of those wicked little 10c packages. Come nearer, to Fall River, for instance, where are many mills and about 75,000 people. This city is for- ty-five miles from Boston. Its mill girls—the dippers, chewers, scourers and pinchers-consume annually eigh- 544,000 ounce boxes. Sixteen thousand girls are em- ployed in the mills and over 4,000 use snufi. The production of snuff has in- creased 10,000,000 pounds in the last seventeen years—New York Press. “ $2,000 .103 AND NO'TEARS-TO SHED. Found His Lachrymose Accomplishment Rather Wearing. John R. Green, an Ohio politician of some note, not long .ago was appointed to a fairly good place in one of the de- partments at Washington. At home Green is a criminal lawyer, and - is known by his success in influencing the feelings of the jury. He weeps natural tears at the right time, rends his hair and does other things which successful lawyers do. His department position pays $2, 500 a year. Green told his Ohio friends that he can ned as much at They thought he ought to have had something bet- ter. “Of course, I ought,” said Green, “and I hope to get something better, but let me tell you this, the $2,500 I get now comes a good deal easier than the $2,500 I earned at home. I tell you, this thing of shedding tears and tearing your hair before a jury ifs'no‘ easy business. It will wear any 'man out. If I had to keep at it much longer it would surely break down my con- stitution. You dont know what it means to me to get‘ that $2,500 Without tears. Between $2,500 with tears as a. practising member of the bar and $2,500 without tears in the employer the Government, I choose the latter every time.”—Augusta, Ga; Chronicle. A Worthy Inscription. The Monument to Robert Louis Stev- enson is interesting, On the face of ..the shaft is the following inscription in Incised letters: TO REMEMBER ROBERT LOIUIS STEVENSON. “To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, to spend a little less; to. make upon the whole, a family happier for his presence; to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be. embit—’ tered; to keep a. few friends, but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself-hero Is a. task for all that a man has of- fortitude and delic- a’cy I, - Sudden . Shock. “I don’t believe in anything I can’t see,” said the young man who aims to be considered a. skeptic. The middlefaged manwith overalls on looked at him pensively for a mo- ment, and then inquired: . ' ' “Young teller, did youever' ketch hold of a ’lectric wire?—-Washingtoni Star. An Anglomaniachii-d. “Can that parrot talk English " asked the shopper. “He just can ” said the dealer, wIth much enthusiasm. “He won’t talk United States at all. When you ask him if Polly wants a Clacke1 he an- swers, ‘Polly wants a biscuit.’ ”—Cin— sinnati Enquirer. As He. Stopped to Rest Miss Quickstep—How nicely your bi-" cycle suit fits you, Cou°sin Oliver. You ‘ look as if. you had been melted and run into it. Young Pe‘duncle (mopping his heat- ed brow)—You’ re very kind, Cousin Amanda; but I feel as if I were melting and running out of it. ——Chicago '1‘”;- bune. Rector’s wife (to humble parishion- ‘ Rector' Wife. ' “And what have 3011 called it?"_ Mrs ‘ Hunks itself; but I put-1H0 her. that the 0111 '11 would be sure to have to 01' out to oer-e vice when it g'ré'w' 11p..ai1 Jan'é’ would Ionic Inn-handy thenlj :fl‘d-B’ltS‘J-f' “-3 « , It is claimed that in the State of K. mill "—11 hands—mostly. women and young girls- : —use sixty-five tons of snuff for 'dip-j is sold in 1- -ounce tin, “Gladys 'Jané',' inn am." ' My daughter was set on ‘Gla‘dys’ -b I ‘all been removed to their fUlV. 'ther THREE S RVEn TO DEA‘W-b “huffing. Statement n; the (bio. :go ' ingenuity President. . 5.—-At the £115: Como- "l1'taoo ‘Jan cation President, Haxper made filing Statement that of" the. five deaths VVhic-h have occu1red in: fiVe Seals at the university three VV-' ere di- rectlv traceable to stafvation These deaths. the president ,sa1d were due to the Start- insufficient nutrition, that, in turn, be— ing the: 1esult 0f the poor food supplied In the district surrounding the min er- sity. The p1esident argued for an ad- dition to the university, in which the students cenbe supplied with nutri-‘ tious food and lodgings. - . Se'veral important announcements VV ere made by President Harper. One was the gift of $200, 000 by John D. Rockefeller to enable the university to swell its income for the year beginning July 1, 1898, to $729,000, the sum needed to carry out its work as planned An- other important. announcement was that a college of .commerce and poli- tics would be inaugurated under the auspicesrof the university. The affilia- tion of Bush Medical College, the pioneer medical institutions of the West, with the university was also an- nounced. ' DURRANT’S LAST REQUEST. YVnIIts Rope Destroyed After-Exe- cution and No Autopsy Held; San Quentin, 0211., Jan. 5.—Theodore Durranthas rehearsed the scene of his own death. At his own quuest, made absolutely without emotion, he has been told eV erv incident that. will mark his last hours of life. The condemned man has made the following requests concerning his exe- cution: F11 st that the rope used to hang him shall be destroyed immediately after his death, so that no pelson can say that he holds a piece of it as a me- mento Second, that none of the spectators shall be allowed to gaze upon his fea— tures after he is executed' Third, that no autopsy shall be held after death, and that no physician be allowed to examine his body. Fourth, that after he is pronounced dead his remains shall be deliV ered to .his parents as soon as possible. The father of Theodore Durxant has 1eceived from Meridian} Tex” a docu— ment Vthch purports to be the original alleged confession of Joseph E. Blan- ther t0 the murders of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams. - It will be used in the final effort to secure a stay of execution. ' TWENTYLFIVE KILLED. List of Dead in Canadinfi Accident Reaches that Number. London, Ont., Jan. '5.—No new victims of Monday night’s accident have been found in the ,City Hall ruins. Daylight revealed a; scene devoid of the horrors of the night before, the victims raving ' homes, but the Cityz‘I-Iall presented the, appearance of a. wreck, and the street in front of it was crowded with the curious 'sorrowing citizens.“ The list of dead numbers twen ty-five. - bdt it is feared that it is not yet com- 'plete, as many of the injured are not expected to recover. , Looking at the ruins, the VV ondm is that there were so many esmp Vs amongfhe 300 persons who made the fearful drop. A fear pr'évails that‘the gallery of the hall, which is just above that portion of the wall which gaVe 'way, may also fall; but there is no one inthe building and ropes have been stretched along the street to preV cut the passing of pedestrians, and the lion. doors of the arcade, which is a publ1c thoroughfare, have been barred. SECRETARY_ ALGER VERY SICK. His Illness Has Been Protracted and His Condition ls CIitical. W'ashington, Jan; 5.——Secretary of War Alger has’ now been confined to his room for three weeks with a serious attack of the grip, and his friends are alarmed concerning his condition. .I-Ie has grown weaker instead 0f stronger, and is unable to take exercise. Gen. Alger, on Feb. 27 next, will at- tain his sixty—second birthday, and he has always been a. man of physical vigor. LHis physician believes that he _will recover, but admits that great care must be taken in every particular. $87,000,000 Involved 1.: Wire 'I‘rnst. Chicago, Jan. 5,—The American. Steel and Wire Company, one of the most mammoth combinations of capital this country'ha‘s ever produced, has almost decided to be born an“ Illinois corpora— tion. Its capital stockaill be $87,000.- 000, and its headquarters will be in Chicago. It means the combination of all the big steel and wire coinpanies in the United States. It is being financed by a crowd of heavy Eastern chpi-lalists, with J. P. Morgah at their head. ’ I ' 'An application for papers of inCorpo- ration has been made. The fee for incorporation in Illinois will be $87,045. It is said that many of the features of the old steel rail pool agreement are in- corporated in the ’wire and ,nail trust agreement. . Punishment by the- Score. San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 5.—A. P'. Revis. a. member of the Salvation .Army in .Redlauds, 'who. was arrested for wholesale thievery, appeared before the Superior Court'with a Bible In one hand and a tabulated statement of his thefts committed since 1888,1'n the oth- er. He pleaded " guilty to the crime charged in the information, and insist- ed that punishment be administeied for each theft committed as per sched- which appea1ed by the score. In that may only, he said, 'he could atone to a just God. The defendant me- sented so not e1. 21 case. without anv at- mine} to advise him, that, the Comt ref-usedto pass sentence without fur-' and continued the consideration. time for sentence two days. - IquI V} utch Blnnco. _ Washington, Jan. 5.——The Times says (that the President intends to give cate- «vanish scheme of ‘ 'aulonom} that has been inaugurated in Cuba. and VVill send Joseph P. Smith.‘ .Duectm of the Bureau of ' Republics as a personal representative .10 the island t6 watch the reforms that. Blanca has been Instrniued ful attention to the.“ I.‘,:th -Gen 1‘3 “put 111.15 operation .‘ ‘ ~ I . of the Universitv of Chicago one of- :tnd ' American. ..r. *MMMMMMM 0000000009009000000000 woo New Direct Fa'st Line —BETWEEN——' “.. . . I " New lorkfiand the“ Medllerraneall Regular Passenger Service _ .———-BETWEEN——— T ' New York,- Naples and 61111011 During Entire Year, . ' , OUTWARDS _ PKEPAIDS. '12? games 31: . . . . From Naples $17 . enoa I. . . . . 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