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“ Col. Hod ” Saunders is now nicely
domiciled at his new quarters, 32 North
Main street. He proposes openmg a
shooting gallery in connection with
his bicycle business at an early date.
The Van Hoosear residence on West
avenue, is being repainted.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Wilson, of
Chestnut street. Norwalk, Will leave
for Cheyenne, Wyoming, November 1,
where they will reside permanently.
Elliot K. Gregory, and mother, of
Norwalk, have gone to Bingham, Me.,
to attend the wedding of Mr. Gregory’s
brother, Rev. James Gregory.
MissLena Hanna, of New Britain,
spent Sunday the guest of Miss Eliza:
beth I. Tolles, ongairfield avenue.
The Trinity and Lamont clubs will
holdaunion meeting on the 30th of
this month.
Mr. and Mrs.'Farron S. Betts return-
ed home last night from a visit to Old
, Pbint Comfort and other points of
comfort in the South.
‘ Frank D. Layton who has been suffer-
ing from an attack of tonsilitis resum-
ed his duties at the Ltyton Insurance
agency this morning.
Miss Ella Worden led the prayer
meeting at the Norwalk Methodist
church, Sunday evening,
The Girls’ Needlework club of the
First Congregational church, will re-
open its sessions on next Saturday
morning, Oct. 22, at 10 o’clock, in the
chapel.
John Coleman who was recently
knocked down by a Tramway car is
able to be about on crutches.
The Evangelistic services at Knud-
sen hall, South Norwalk, were well at-'
tended, Sunday. Herman Brund age
led the meeting. The male chorus of the
Norwalk Methodist church sang and
an inspiring meeting was the result.
Announcements ofthe marriage of
Wallace McQuhae, of South Norwalk,
and Miss Lillian Robeson, of Chain-
paign, 111., on Wednesday, October 12,
have been received, by friends of the
groom in Norwalk and vicinity. Mr.
and Mrs. McQuhae will be at home
after November 25. '
Rev. T. K. Noble‘preached‘ in the
South N orwalk Congregational church
in exchange with the Pastor Sunday
morning. The subject of his sermon
was “The Reality of Our Religion.”
An offering for the Foreign Mission
was given.
Rev. Gerald E. Beard of the South
N orwalk Congregational church,
preached in the First church Sunday
morning. The subject of the sermon
was “Our Very Best” which proved in-
teresting as well as instructive. ‘ '
At the Norwalk Methodist church.
Rev. Frank A._ Scofield preached in the
morning upon the subject of “Salva-
tion’s Retinue.” Topic of the evening
sermon was, “The Gospel River.” Mr.
William DeKlyn led the 9:30 meeting.
The Forty Hours’ Devotion, con-
menced in St. J ossph’s church, Sunday
morning. It is a special service in
honorEof the blessed sacrament, and
held for the first time in St. Joseph’s
church. The Devotion will close on
Tuesday morning, at the 8 o’clock mass.
A large number. intend observing it as
was evidenced by the large congrega~
tion at the 10:30 service.
Dr. L. M. Allen, chairman of the
committee of the South N orwalk club
is putting the gymnasuim apparatus of
the club in order, and it will 500n be-
ready for use. A committee has also
been appointed to arrange for a smok-
er at an early date. ‘
P. C. Lounsbury Lodge, New Eng-
land Order of Protection. will observe
its ninth anniversary Wednesday, by
having a Clambake and entertainment
at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
William C. Hart. '
At Grace Church on Sunday Rev. J.
McClure Billows officiated. The
services were, Holy Communion 8 a. m.,
morning prayers, Litiny and Sermon.
‘ 10:30. The choir sangBuck’s Te Deum
B. Minor. “0 for a closer walk with
God,” Foster, by Miss Vera. Wood. At
the owning servicrs Mr. Peppsr sang
‘time.
‘
i The East Norwalk Fire dep trtn ant
attended services at the East avenue
; Methodist church last night.
i The Cyrus Waterbury barn recently
burned is to‘be rebuilt.
Lieut. Bloom: started for Camp
Meade, ' Saturday evening. In the.
afternoon he caused the arrest of a
' Secured his release.
A regular meeting of Douglas Fow-p
ler Post, ‘G. A. R, .«ill b: held to-
night. _
The Norwalk Lnk Co. will start up
again on the 24th.
Mrs. William c. Jessup sailed for"
. Europe on Saturday.
I
The Pine Ledge VVhist club will
meet at the J. T. Pro Nitt residence,
this evening.
William T. O’Brien, of New Britain,
and Miss Augusta F. Bracken, of this
City, are soon to be married.
Charles R. Helmer addressed .the
Sunday afternoon meeting at the Y.
M. C. A. rooms, yesterday.
Farmers are harvesting a crop of salt
hay and sedge along the shore acreage.
- The season at the Norwalk Yacht
club closes on the 30th of this month.
The N orwalk Union band will give a
free concert in front of the Mahackemo '
hotel, this evening.
N orwalk brethren conducted the ser-
vices at the Cranbury chape 1,1ast night.
R. A. Waid will start on his bicycle
trip from New York to Boston, to-mor'
row night. He expects to go through
South N orwalk at about 4 o’clock. .
Rev. R. O. Sherwood preached in the
Brookside chapel yesterday afternoon.
The Norwalk Musical Unihn met in
Olive Branch hall, yesterday. '
An adjourned meeting of the city
council will be held, this evening.
Our Brothers’ Lodge, I. O. O.‘ F. will
meet .to-night. -
There will be an entertainment given
in the Sunday school room, of the First
Methodist church Friday evening. Re-
freshments will be served. The pro-
ceeds go to the church funds.
Mrs. William Creigh and family, of
Ely avenue, have been visitig relatives
in Danbury.
Mrs. Frank Craw, of South Main
street, is the guest of relatives in Bos-
ton. __
Wilbur Byington will go to New
York to-morrow, to take an examina-
tion for a position on the Naval school
The Buckingham Post; G. A. R. flag
presentation takes place at the Center
school at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
i
The fair Committee of St. Mary’s
church held a business meeting, yesterq
terday afternoon, and . perfected ar-
rangements, appointing committees,
etc., for the annual fair of the society.
The Official Board of the First Meth— ‘
odist Episcopal church are to have Pro-
fessor Weedon, the well-known evan-
gelist, here this fall, to sing in a ser-
ies of revival services. ’3
Harry Richmond who has been in
the hospital at Camp Meade, is slowly
improving.
Rev. A. S. Kavanagh preached the
first of the series of art sermons Sun-
church. The church was well filled. i
Rev. R. O.‘Sherwood, late , pastor of
the :South Norwalk Baptist church,
will leave for Brattleboro, Vermont, in t
about ten days.
Casey, the bicycle rider whois try— ‘3
ing to break the record between New
York and Boston, passed through
South Vorwalk, this morning, at 3:45,
about one hour ahead of schedule
The annual inspection of Co. D, C.
N. G., takes place, to-morrow evening.
Josef Hart, who claimed the capital
city of Connecticut as his home and
who was under arrest on the charge of
vagrancy was fined in the town court,
this morning, and given an opportun-
ity to go out of town and find the
amount of the fine.
The town assessors are comparitively
busy at their quarters in the Opera
House block, but are willing to be
even yet busier.
The sociable of the Norwalk Musical
Union will take place at Arion hall
sist of eighteen pieces.
E. T. Beliford of the yacht Wanda,
has reconsidered his resignation from
the Norwalk Yacht club and will retain
his membership.
Messrs. J. Irving Dibble, Frank N.
Ferris and George Whelpley paid a
private of Co. L, but lithUi' relented and ‘
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of the Second Brigade,
Gallopers came and went, carrying
the general’s
dangerous occupation, for the Spanish
sharp-shoOters were still at work.’
on a a vault!
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AFTER A DRAWING BY T.
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The Capture of Fort San Antonio Abad.
‘J‘First Company, Colorado,Forward l’ ’
With a cheer the men went over the
trenches, and we after them.
yards from our works the company
halted and lay down in the swamp.
From the water our fleet continued to
pound the Spanish fort and trencheSr
After a time our signal station notified
ship. ' them to stop fire.
Lieutenant-McCoy,
At 100
Colonel Hale and
First Colorado,
oined the one company in the swamp.
“Up and on!” shouted the colonel.
Before the fort could be reached there
was a stream to ford.
up to their chests in water, holding
their rifles well over their heads to
keep them dry. Our illustration, taken
from Harper’s Weekly depicts the vol-
unteers at this critical moment.
The men went
Were
he Spaniards waiting to annihilate this
handful of men? On our right, in the
direction of the First Brigade, there
was heavy firing.
At 100' yards from
he fort the company knelt and fired.
Just then the magizine in the fort blew
up with a flash and a puff of smoke.
Another series of short rushes, and the
company was within twenty-five yards
of the fort. ' ’
At that momen t the flag-ship Olympia
bout three thousand yards from shore,
day morning in the F1115“ Methodist senta single shell from one of her. 8
nch guns. It was a splendid shot; it
out along the back of the Spanish wall
which ran from the sea to the fort, and
drove out any Spaniards that were left
here. Then there was a dash for the
wall and a scramble to get the door of,
he fort. Outside lay a wounded soldier
on a stretcher, abandoned by his com‘
panions in their haste.
no one stopped to notice the few dead
but climbed over the debris to get the
Spanish flag. To Lieutenant-Colonel
McCoy belongs the honor of pulling it
down, and up went the stars and stripes,
Inside the fort
Suddenly,from our left, the Spaniards
opened a brisk fire, and our men took
refuge behind garden w’alls as best they
could.
where
secreted themselves.
kept coming up. Down the long street
leading to the walls of Manila we could
see the Spanish soldier-s retreating.
Stray shots came from houses
Spanish sharp-shooters had
Reinforcements
General Green and staff, at the head
came up.
orders. This was a.
The rumor spread that the white flag
this evening. The orchestra will con- had been raised on the walls of Manila,
and, sure enough,as the advanced regi- '
ments broke into the open befbre the.
city walls, there on one corner a white
flag streamed to the wind. Cheer after
cheer rose from our men.
All honor to our generals! all honor
to our soldiers! all honor to our coun-
try! Such a thing has 'neverbap‘
pened before in the history of wars;
visit to the big schooner Rachel
Women were walking unmolested“ in ~
. . . One hour after the city was taken the
Stevens 111 New. Y0“! yGSt’grda‘yi and ‘ tram-cars were 'driving , about and
' unite in pronouncing her a-fine craft. ' '
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the streets.
tired and hungryelie about the street;
in the rain as a safeguard to the prop-
erty and lives of our conquered enemy.
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THAT JOYFUL FEELING
With the exhilarating sense of renew-
ed health and strength and internal
cleanliness, which follows the use of
Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few
who have not progressed beyond the
old-time medicines and the cheap
substitutes sometimes offered1but never
accepted by the well informed. Buy
the genuine. Manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co.
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TO M RGIIANTS.
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The opening of the fall season is now
at hand. All indications point to good
times. .
Crops are good and there are plenty
of hungry people.
Money that has been tied up will now
be invested.
The opportunity to secure your share
of this money presents itself now.
your opportunity ?
THE GAZETTE is a medium in which
is secured both quality and quantity.
It goes into the homes and is read by
the well-to-do. Hand in your adver
tisements now.
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Is Denied.
ance of the Town Bonds to Earson,
Leach & Co., of New York.is denied by
1 those in a position to know.
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Hospital directors will take place this
evening.
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Are you alive‘to the possibilities of a
A reported injunction as to the issu- ‘
The annual meeting of the Norwalk '
THE FALL OF MANILA—THE ATTACK ON FORT SAN ANTONIO ABAD. FROM HARPER’S WEEKLY.
Reproduced from Homer's Weekly. By Permission.
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KAISER HAD NARROW ESCAPE-
‘Anu‘chists Plotted to Kili King Humbert
,5 of Italy as “Tell.
I London, Oct. 17.—The Alexandria cor-
{respondent of the Daily Mail, telegra-
mhing regarding the Anarchist plot
against Emperor William, which was
discovered on Friday, says‘that the plot
against the kaiser is hourly proven
more important, eacn arrest disclosing
new ramifications. The documents
found disclose a plot to kill King Hum-
bert already well matured.
Fifteen persons, all Italians, have
been" arrested. The original plan was to
throw a bomb of guncotton and ful-
minate of mercury on Emperor Wil-
liam’s carriage in a narrow street of
.Cairo. ‘
When the Egyptian trip was aban-
doned elaborate arrangements were
made by the conspirators to send con-
federates to Jerusalem to carry out the
plot during the dedication of the Ger-
man Church of Our Redeemer.
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Times says that the worn out war
craft, patched up for the occasion, have
proceeded to the Dardanelles to swell
the naval escort of Emperor William,
and twenty-four Turkish officers have
gone there on board of a. yacht.
Emperor William ,~on the Hohenzol-
’1ern, is expected to reach the Dard'a-
nelles this afternoon, and to arrive at
Pera, where the German legation is
situated, on Tuesday morning.
CHINESE ENPEROR ALIVE.
Prince Ching Says So on Behalf‘of the
Tsung Ii Ynlnen. ’
Pekin, Oct. 17.—Prince Ching, on be-
half of the Tsung-li-Yamen, has given
Sir Claude Macdonald, the British min-
ister, satisfactory assurances as to the
health of the emperor.
Prince Ching says that the empress
I dowager is not opposed to genuine re-
form, but only to such violent and
:impracticable reforms as were hastily
decreed. Her majesty will proceed on
lines more adapted to Chinese condi;
tions. ' many“
The Baptist mission at Sing—ngan-fu,
in the province of Shen-Si, has appeal-
ed for protection. .
The Pekin correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says that it is expected that
the emperor will be formally deposed
on Novmber 23, the birthday of the em—
boy of 13, will be nominated as his
successor. . .
The Berlin correspondent of the Stan—
.dard says that the emperor was to
: - have taken refuge at the British em-
bassy in Pekin, whence he would have
I )lssued a proclamation declaring the
“acts of the dowager empress void; but
j the plan was discovered and frustrat-
11 , led.
3 1 London, Oct. 17.—The Vienna corre-
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spondent of the Observer reports that
{anti-Semitic riots. have
.’Kossow, in Austrian Gallcia, on Friday
ilitrlight, when a number. of peasants at-
! ‘tacked and plundered the Jewish quar—
i‘ter, killing ten persons and wounding
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I‘many others. -
|i The'movement is said to be spread—
.- I ing.‘ Troops have been dispatched to
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! Lokoja Comes in Leaking.
l steamer Lokoja, Captain Lander, from
London thirteen days, for Montreal,
.wlth a general cargo,.has arrived here
I leaking badly and with twelve feet of
water in her hold. * _ .
I The leak was disc0vered on Wednes-
fday night last and occasioned consid-
» pliable alarm. ‘
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There are different kinds of
panes, but the panes we mean
are window panes and we have
that kind. Then
putty to hold'them in. Hope
you don’t feel pained after we
have taken the pains to tell you
about our panes.
We have also prepared paints,
lead and oil.
H. H. Mums.
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Elegant assortment of trimmed Hats,
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Rejected pension claims especially
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A fine building lot on Wilton ave
nue. If you intend to build, look
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Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
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