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NORWALK, CONN, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1891.

 

NUMBER 29,.

 

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- one cnrz'r ‘rEE corr.
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This paper has the largest circulation of
any paper in. the State westof Bridgeport. '

 

0 UR J OBBIlV G DELL-1R T31 EXT.

Mn. HARRY M. GARDNER. Jn.. of New York,
has charge of the GAZETTE’s Engraving, Book
and Jobbing Department. He is an expert
and experienced Job Printer, and no work en-
trusted to him will be unsatisfactorilv done.

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THVE LIVE NEWS OF TO-DAY.

Miss Emma Van Tassell has gone to
Montreal to spend the summer.

See adv. Portable House for rent.

 

William E. Dann returned from his
Saratoga trip yesterday.

George A. Smith of Company F re-
ceived his discharge last evening. '

—Sutherland has a good camping
tent to rent by the day, week or month.

Builder. Wilson commences the work
of repairing the George Low barn to-
day.

 

——If you intend camping out this
Summer Sutherland has a fine tent to
rent. ______

The yacht Tidal Wave of New York,
ashore on Pasque Island, has gone to
pieces.

Stamford proposes to celebrate the
250th anniversary of its incorporation,
on October 19th.

W. H. Murray is treating the house
of Mrs. Pomeroy on Academy street to
a fresh coat of paint.

 

A letter for Mrs. Millard is all that
Postmaster Hubbell can do this week
in the way of uncalled-for letters.

Would not that proposed change of
Police headquarters place the members
of the force too near that .poker room?

The Cross street sewer has already
been begun, and several rods of the
trench dug,in readiness to lay the pipe.

John Blakie, familiarly known all
over the country as “Blakie the boat
builder,” died yesterday at Cambridge
Mass.

Mrs. Helm, who has been the guest
of Mrs. D. W. Fitch for some days, re-
turned to her home in Wurtsboro, N-
Y., to-day.

Have you bought your ticket for the
picnic of the Iron Moulders’ Union yet?
If not, you want to do so, as they are
going off like hot cakes.

F. E. Lockwood and a party of eight
leave for Compo Beach to-day to camp
out for two weeks. Fred has secured a
portable house in which the party will
live during their stay.

 

—--R. J. Stephenson. Instructions giv-
en inhorsemanship; good saddlehorses;
best references. Circulars and inform-
ation to be obtained at J. A. Pinneo’s
and of Col. Roberts. 143-1w

 

The choir boys of Grace church and
the N ewsboy’s club, played an inter-
esting (‘2) game of ball in front of Grace
church last evening, the singers win-
ning by the score of 8 to 1.

—Mr. Harry A. Provost, graduate of
the Merrill Business college, Stamford,
has been placed in a position with O.
A. Dorman, Lithographer & Engraver.
New Haven, Conn.

The Telephone Company has had a
gang of smart climbers at work for sev-
eral days past adjusting a nest of wires.
Like their first cousins, the sailors, they
use a good deal of language not fit for
Sunday school books, to the disgust of
decent people.

It seems that the plans for the Nor-
walk Club house that “went west,” are
not the ones that, being missing, have
arrested all further work on the foun-
dations. To-day a special messenger
will be sent to Bridgeport to get the
basement outliu'es so the work may

,proceed. '

—Photograph Gallery Opening.

The Photograph gallery recently vaL
cated by Blackman on Main street,is be-
ing refitted and refurnished for the tak4
ing of first-class pictures by E. Lewis,
of Nyack, N. Y., who will give due no-
tice of the time of opening the same.

 

WHAT MISS SPINSTER SAYS:

That Mr. and Mrs. Baxter and Mrs.
Galway are visiting Dr. and Mrs. Bax.
ter at their beautiful villa on East ave-
nue.

That the bicycle has usually been
monopolized by the sterner sex and
by the young girls in town. But dame
rumor has it that two society women on
West avenue intend to try bicycle rid-
ing for health and diversion.

That General Humidity with all his
famed moist troops seems to have de-
parted, but you will not be cool all the
day long, unless you govern that little
fiend called ill temper. You can make
the thermometer go up to 198 degrees
in the shade if you are fretful and irri-
table. There is no better preventive
against heat than evenness of dlsposi-
tion.

That our rain like our religion is not
the vigorous, good-for-something, or-
thodox, conviction carrying, Old fash-
ioned sort of soaking that we used to
have, but just a mere modern, half-
hearted, skeptical, dilettante kind of
shower.

That the next fad, it is said, will be
furniture painting, which, as we under-
stand it, is to buy your furniture plain
and do the decorating at home.» How
sweet and pleasant it will be when our
houses are turned into paint shops, and
the smell of varnish pervades every
room ! House—cleaning is nothing to
what the future may have in store.

That the news that Lieut. Peary’s
expedition has encountered ice fields,
which impede its progress, is likely to
call out rather more envy than sym-
pathy in this latitude just at this time.

That the fact that Connecticut takes
out more patents than any other state
in the Union in proportion to its popu-
lation seems to show that the old fash-
ioned Yankee still makes his head-
quarters here, and that he isn’t being
crowded out to any great extent as yet.

THE WAY ITWN’OW" STANDS. "

 

BURGESS O’RElLLY.
a-»
Judge Coolidge heard the Slattery
case until noon to-day, and then ad-
journed it over to 9 a. m. Monday.

 

 

Druggist Riggs is confined to the
house witha slight attack of nervous
prostration, caused by overwork—on
his bicycle.

There will be and adjourned meeting
in the interests of the hospital project
at the Congregational parsonage on
Monday at 4 p. m. All interested are
invited to attend.

The “Inasmuch Circle” of King’s
Daughters of the Congregational
church furnish a carriage to take the
aged and feeble members to and from
churchlon Sunday mornings.

“Uncle George” Holmes and Charley
Betts are having their accustomed talk-
over about going to Saratoga and some-
times good Uncle George really thinks
he is going to go.

Mrs. Emma J. Welch. of Springfield,
Mass. , is visiting Mrs. Isaac Bowe. Mrs.

Welchnever having been to New York»

Mrs. Bows, accompanied her to that
city yesterday.

T. W Munson, the engineer of the
locomotive on the Shepaug road by
which Thomas Meehan was killed at
Hawleyville, last week, has been ar-
rested for manslaughter.

Sim Keith and his diamonds have re-
ceived orders to join the postal car
crew between South Norwalk and Dan-
bury. Before leaving this morning
Sim kissed all the boys in Raymond’s
grocery good by.

Every one who knows J eems Mitch-
ell, (is there a mortal man between
here and Texas who does not know
J cams)? will regret to learn that he has
again been made the victim of mis-
placed confidence. He had the grass
on the old John Osborn Farm
in East Norwalk placed
hands to dispose of. Now. J eems
is an awfully busy man, and findings.
thrifty son of the Emerald Isle, who
expressed a wish to sell it for J eems,
he forthwith placed the sacred trust in
his hands, expecting to return a hand-
some sum to the Episcopal fresh air
fund, but 10, Pat proved smarter than
J come and faithless. He sold the grass,
pocketed the cash and fled the town.

 

in his,

A CASE OF “BIG HEAD.”

.___———

BUT’gGSS O’RelllY'S FlaSOO.
is He Warden of the Borough ?
Nothing has occurred about the bor-

ough in recent years that has set the
people in such a roar of derisive laugh-

iter as the abortive effort of our wild

and untamed Celtic member of the
board of our borough burgesses to
clandestinely move the police head
quarters out of the GAZETTE building
and re-lo‘cate them upMainIstreet. With
bull-headed ignorance, he had consult-
ed no one of his fellow members Of the
Court of Burgesses, but plunged into
the folly with the stupidity of ajackass.

The first intimation. that General
Olmstead had of the movement was in
seeing a carman’s truck at the foot Of

the stairs loaded with the police room
belongings.

As the borough was legally holden
for the rent Of the thus to be vacated
premises, until next April, be naturally
was not in any great state of alarm on
the score Of rent for the room, but as
it had been refitted but a few weeks
ago at a considerable cost, to especial-
ly please the taste and fancy of the
members Of the force, Gen. Olmstead
was naturally curious to learn the
cause of the sudden and unexpected
exodus. One and another Of the
Court of Burgesses were met and in-
quired of but all disclaimed any knowl-
edge of or connectiOn with the strange
proceedings. The warden was seen
and he soon aroused himself to the oc-
casion, determined to have it settled
once for all, whether he or Mr. O’Reilly
was really Warden of the borough. As
the borough law places the manage-
ment and control of the police under
‘the Warden’s authority, he at once or-
dered the traps returned to the Old
head-quarters in the GAZETTE building.
Tfiié Order was promptly complied‘with
as to all the smaller effects, but the re-
moval back of the larger locker or
wardrobe in which the force keep their
uniforms, was delayed until the early
evening. This added immensely to
the ridiculous fiasco, for whereas in
the afternoon there may not have been
over a hundred persons standing around
and convulsing themselves with merri-
ment over O’Reilly’s ridiculous predic-
ament, at night the news of the roaring
farce had spread and Main and Wall
streets were crowded with on lookers
taking in the situation and making. the
welkin ring with their derisive laugh-
ter. No one seems to know with any
degree of certainty, what motive ac-
tuated O’Reilly in the foolish escapade.
Were it not that he is such a strict pro-
hibitionist it would be charitable to
suppose he was drunk: Others claim it
was to help out a friend to whom he
was indebted for votes, who found him-
self with a vacant room on his hands
and naturally desired a good tenant.
Other of O’Reilly’s friends claim that
the place had been used as an illegal
gin-mill on the last borough election
day, and that intoxicants were now
known to him to be taken there at late
hours of the night and consumed in
direct violation of law and the propri-
eties of the borough police regulations;
that worse than this, that O’Reilly knew
that gambling on Sundays and at other
times was openly carried on in a room
over the one to which he desired to re-
move the police, and his purpose was to
locate the police at this plague spot, so
that they might “get onto it” as it

were.

But all these views were doubtless
the idle chafl‘ing of the hilarious crowd
which stood about the streets last night
viewing with uproarious merriment the
ridiculous mess O’Reilly had made of
it- The real fact. no doubt, is that it
was Only one more of the absurd exhi-
bitions of the disease that has so sorely
afflicted our otherwise clever and good-
natured friend O’Reilly since his elee.
tion asa member of the Norwalk board
of borough burgesses and known every-
where as “big-head.”

His antics therefore should be viewed
with some degree of charity, if not of
pity, for O’Reilly is the worst case of
“big-head” on recogd.

Ar_
fivr

THE GREEN MOUNTAIN-WINCHELL
CONTROVERSY.

The Farmer’s Claim Upheld.

 

A Grape called Winchell was sent to
us this year with the statement that it
is the same Grape that has been sent
out as “Green Mountain.” We plant-
ed it alongside the Green Mountain re-
ceived last year. So far it diflers wide-
ly in the appearance of its foliage from
the Green MOun_tain.—Experiment
Station, Raleigh, N. C.

 

W. F. Massey.
From the Garden and Forest, June,
3,1891. , .

 

Rector Hyde Forced Out.

The Rev. Thomas A. ’Hyde’s forced
resignation as pastor of Christ Episco-
pal church, Westport, took efl-‘ect yes-
terday..fHe goes to Boston. He was
charged with neglect of duty.

' Board of Engineers.

The Bidird of Engineers will meet
next Wednesday night and go over the
testimony given by the Pioneer boys
relating to the trouble in their com-
pany, after which the board will de-
cide what is best to be done in the mat-
ter.

————~———-——<-o->—————l —--
State Parade K, of C.

The state parade of Knights of Co-
lumbus next year will come off in New
Haven October 14, and every council
in the state will exert its utmost efforts
to make it the most successful gather-
ing of the order ever held in this state.

AA;

Comptroller Staub’s Decision.

Comptroller Staub has decided to
supply funds, in the absence of specific
appropriations, to all branches Of the
state government necessary for the
maintenance of the state. But he won’t
pay for the encampment at Niantic.

Accident on the Air Line.

At Westchester, fourteen miles east
of-Middletown, last evening, the pas-
senger train which left New Haven at
6:04 and a freight train coming south
collided by reason of defective brakes
on the freight train. Both locomotives
were damaged. Fortunately no one
was injured. and only the small wheels
of the freight train engine were thrown
from the rails.

———40

 

 

 

A Correction.

Charles McGraw called at the office
of the DAILY GAZETTE thismorning and
desired us to correct our article of yes-
terday. Mr. McGraw wants it under-
stood that his stomach contained no
sOur Beer, stale whiskey wash, onions,
turnips, cabbage nor opium ; that his
stomach had never been tickled with
the tubes of a stomach pump and that
“larboard” milk was unknown to him.
He says that his illness was simply an
attack of billiousness, something like
Burgess O’Reilly had last evening.

--.OO

 

Her Fourth Birthday.

No happier or more hilarious com-
pany of little tots Were ever assembled
than that which congregated yesterday
afternoon at the Morison mansion on
West avenue, the occasion being the
fourth birthday Of little Miss Florence
Morison. A large company of her lit-
tle friends came laden with delicate and
choice remembrances of the occasion
and went regretfully away at the end
of the party, full of happiness and all
the good things children enjoy and the

,Morison’s well known hospitality and

liberality know so well how to supply.
___..__«.______
iBounced.

A few days ago. Dr. Monson, Super-
intendent of the Soldiers’ Home at
Noroton, sent in his resignation, to take
effect November 1st. In place of an ac-
ceptance, however, he received a per-
emptory notice to vacate within twen-
ty-four hours, which he did without any
back-talk. This summary action on
the part of the officials who recently
investigated Manson’s administration
of the affairs .of the Home, indicates
that his conduct must have been unex-

ceptionally offensive while in charge of -

that institution. We hear it unofficially
stated that Manson's successor will be
an ex-U. S. army officer, and if this is
true it is quite likely that the inmates
of the Home may be subjected to adis-
cipline which will vividly remind them

of the old adage about “ Jumping out .

of the frying-pan into the fire.”
op——————~ -
RiOt Drill.

Eight companiis of the Connecticut
National Guard were given the expectp
ed test by telegraphic orders from the
adjutant general last evening.

Company K, Second regiment (Wal-
lingford), receive the orders at seven
o’clock and in one our and ten min-
utes had forty me ready for duty.

Company E, T ' regiment (Willi-
mantic) had thirty, ve men provided
with ammunitionin, hirty-two minutes.

Company C, Third regiment (Nor-
wich), received theloljders at 6:50 and
reports: 7:30 p. m., tilmen; 7:40 p. m.,
48 men;8p. m., 55 den; 9 p. m., 56
men with eight men hut of town. ,,

The Rockville conlpany of the First
regiment received the orders at 7:18 and
at 7:38 had .fifty-tivo .men in line. The
drum corps and bicycle riders had evi-

 

’ dently been kept in readiness and were

on the streets almost? instantly on re-
ceipt of the telegram. 1

The South Manchester company as-
sembled thirty-eight men in one hour
and six minutes. V, ~
‘ Other companies 0 dered out were in
Pawcatuck, Putnam ind Meriden.

 

Superfine ................ 3.503400 4.0021. 4.10
Extra No.2............. 4003.425 4.253440
Extra No.1..‘.............. 4.253.525 {.508 5.15
Patents .................... 5.003 5 50 5.0012. 5.40
.Clty Mills (patents) ................ 5.405. 5.50

5.008. 5.1.

SEIZED AMERICAN BOATS.

A Down East Harbor Likely to 30 O
Behring Sea. on a. Small Scale.

EAsrronT. Me, July 17.——For the past
month or two there has been excellent
fishing in Passamaq-mddy waters, and
many citizens have availed themselves of
it. It is difficult to tell just where the
boundary line is, and ( ur fishermen have
been chased and nt'nexwi'ise annoyed by
the Dominion cruiser Dream, her officers
claiming that the American boats were
fishing in Canadian waters.

Eastport boats wore fishing yesterday
as usual,when the Dream suddenly ap-
peared, seized seven of the boats, landed
the occupants on Dog Island, and towed
the boats to St. Andrew’s, N. B., where
they will be confiscated.

Considerable excitement prevails over
the affair, and when a resident of the Is-
land of Campobello, who is alleged to
have been acting as informer to the Cana-
dian authorities, appeared in town yester-
day, he was chased by a crowd of indig-
nant citizens and was glad to get away to
his boat without a broken head.

Drowned in the Susquehl‘lnna.

PITTSTON, Pa., July 17.—Two sister!
Kate and Mary McGowan, aged 18 and 20
years respectively, whose home was at
Avoca, were drowned in the Susquehanna
River here about 10 o’clock last night.
They were out boating with James Lane,
aged 17 years. Suddenly the boat began
to fill with water, and before they could
return to the shore it sank. Other pleas-
ure seekeis on the shore at first thought
the cries for l clp were givemin fun, and
when they realized the facts they were
unable to render help. Young Lane man~
aged to save his own life, after a fruitless
effort to rescue one Of the girls.

Boat Builder Blukey Dead.
BOSTON, July 17.——-John Blakey, the vet-
e:an boat-builder, died early this morn-
ing in his Cambridge home‘ after an illness
of less than forty-eight hours. The .dc-
ceased was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne,

England, fifty-six years ago, and came to

America twenty-four years ago. He was
well known to every professional sculler
in the country, and had a large clientage
among amateurs. He built shells for all
the famous champions. He built the
eight-cared shells for the Harvard crew
and for other large “colleges.

 

A lifean air n. flex-onto.

WASHINGTON, July 17,—The Secretary of
the Treasury has awarded a silver life-
saving medal to Mabel Mason, daughter
of the keeper of the Mamajudalighthbuse.
Lake Erie, for heroic conduct in saving
Thomas Jones from drowning in the
Detroit River May 11, 1890.

 

Lyon Has the Printing Contract-
ALBANY, July 17.-—Thc contract for the
State printing for the two years, begin-
ning October next, was awarded today to
James B. Lyon of Albany.

CONDENSED TELEEAMS.

The Hobbs Manufacturing Company
of Hudson, Mass, has made an assign-
ment.

The Chicago Chair Company has made
an assignment. The assets are $20,000; lia-
bilities $80,000. '

Robert Pikey, 70 years of age, was ar-
reted Thursday in San Francisco on the
charge of counterfeiting. A number of
molds and some bad coin were found in his
room.

Secretary Rusk has left Washington for
his home in Wisconsin to be gone four or
five weeks. During hisabsence he will
visit a number of the Grand Army en-
campments and attend some of the State
agricultural fairs in the West.

William Dufi‘y died in the hospital at
Boston Thursday night of paralysis. At
Crescent Beach last Sunday a. companion
got down behind Duffy while another
pushed him over backwards. Duffy struck
on his head \\ ith the above result.

Two Italians named Nicolo Valario and
Donato Connto, working on the Lenape
branch of the Electric Railway. near
Westchester, Pa., last Wednesday were
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
They had taien refuge from 12.16 rain
under a lam-e buttonwood tree when
the bolt strucr if. '

NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YORK. July 17.— Money on call. 1543213!
cent.
GOVERNMENT Boxns
Opening. Closing
4%; 1891. regular .............. 100}; 100);
4}“, 1891. coup ................ 100x 100%
4s. stamped regular ............ 117% 118%
43, 1907, coup 118 118

STOCK MARKETS.

 

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New Jersey Central............ 111% 111%

Ontario a Western...... 15% 15%

New York Central .............. 100}; 100%

ng ........................ 28% 28%

Rock Island .................... 7355 73%
Western Union Telegraph ..... 80‘ 80

July. Aug. Sept.

Wheat............. 94% 9355 93%

Comm........... 68% 64% 61%

On“............ .. 43 343‘ 32%

PRODUCE MARKET.
Burma—Market dull— Creamery, Eastern,

16@18}4c.: Western, 16@18c.; Elgln, 18c.; imi-
tation, 13@14c. Dairy—Eastern half-firkfn tubs
15@18c.; Eastern Welsh tubs. 14@17c. Factory
—Fresh, 11@13c

CHEESE—Market firm.—Factory—New York
cheddar, - $48.83“. Creamery—New York part
sklms. 5@5xc.; full skims' 2@3.

EGGS—Market easy—Frank Eastern, firsts,

A 17Xc.; Western, firsts, 17m; ,

Flinn—Market steady.“ Spring bran, 85c. a.
90c.; winter, 85c.a90c.: 60115 feed, 850.a90c.:
80115, 85c,a90c.: middlings, $1.20a81.25; sharps.
81.309.81.32)“ cracked corn, $1.43; corn meal.
coarse and slfted.$1.40a$1.43; fine. $1.45a51.50;
rye reed. $1.05a81.10.

RAE—Market quiet. Choice timothy, 85¢.a.
900.; No. 1, 80c.a85c.; No. 2, 70c.a75c.; shipping,
gnawed clover mixed, 600.865c.; clover, 60s.:

Mann—Long rye, 60c.a65c.: short rye, 40o.a
50c.; wheat, 35c.a40c.: oat. 35c.a40c.
RYE FLOUE.-—Bteady at 34.6%“.85. Fancy up
to $4. 95. '
' Flour. Spring. .
No grade bbl's. or sacks.. . 52.608.83.00 32.7588300
Fine, bbls. or sacks ....... 3.75

West India (shipping)....

 

JENNIE CRAMER’S FATE.

Her Death Recalled By Her
Aged Mother’s Suicide.

LAST WITNESS IN THE MALLEY CASE

\

I ‘ #5,.»

Mn. Cramer Driven ByMDespondene'y to
Suicide—Follows the Example of Her
Husband—The Savin Rock Tragedy
and the Rich Manley Boys.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 17.——Interest in
the story of beautiful Jennie Cramer,
whose body was foundqdrifting with the
tide at Savin Rock, here ten years ago, is
revived through the suicide of the unfor-
tunate girl’s mother, who was found hang-
ing from a rope over the old Cramer resi~
dence on Grand avenue at 4.30 O’clock yeSs
terday afternoon.

Of late years Mrs. Cramer has laeen liva
ing with her son, the only surviving mem-

 

ber of the ill-fated family; at his home if! .

Brooklyn. A few weeks ago she returned
to New Haven, and since then has been
living alone at the old home. She had
seen or talked with few people since her
return. The neighbors humored her fancy
for solitude, but did not anticipate the
tragic end that it would lead to,

For several days her son has been tele-
graping her from New York to come home,
but received no reply. Mr. Cramer be-

came alarmed for her safety, and yester-

day he came to New Haven and walked
into the fated house just in time to see
the medical examiner out down his
mother’s corpse. It is not known how
long the woman had been dead, but it is
thought that she hanged herself the day
before. .

All the message that she left was this:

“Send for my son, L‘. Cramer, Postal
Telegraph Company, 185 Broadway, New
York.”

This was written on a piece of paper
and tucked under the door of the death
chamber.

Young Cramer said last night that he
came to New Haven on receipt of a dis-
patch from a friend, who said that noth-
ing had been seen of his mother fornearly
two days.

Mrs. Cramer’s premeditation as she set
about the details of her execution all alone
in the house is shown by the fact that she
carefully wrapped a cloth about her neck
so that'the rope would not disfigure the
.flesh. The rope was fastened to the top
of a door screen.

The tragedy of ten years ago is dis-
cussed with almd'st as much interest as it
was at the time, and it is now thought
that Jennie was not murdered, but that
she killed herself. It will be remembered
that Walter and James Malle'y, sons of the
proprietor of the largest dry goods store
in the State, in connection with Blanche
Douglass, a. notorious woman from New
York, whom they had introduced tO' Jen-
nie Cramer as their cousin, were charged
with her murder. After a. most sensa-
tional trial, lasting several months, the
jury disagreed and the Malley boys es-
caped.

The last night that Jennie Cramer was
seen alive she spent at the palace of the
Malleys. Two hours! after, her father,
who had been a prosperous merchant, un-
able to stand his grief, killed himself, and
now Mrs. Cramer’s death at her own
hands gives publicity to a report that has
long been talked of among the most inti-
mate friends of the family, that the Mal-
leys, while responsible for the girl’s
downfall, had nothing to do with her
death.

The body was found at naybreak about
five miles from the Malley house, where
the prosecution claimed that Jennie had
last been seen alive and had went the last
night of her life with the rich young Mal-
loys and Blanche Douglass. In her stom-
ach was found a grain of arsenic and the
State claimed that in attempting to ruin
the local beauty the accused had over-
drugged her. The jury, after months of
trial, failed to agree, and the Malleys
have never since been tried. Blanche
Douglass has recently died, and Mrs.
Cramer’s suicide :egnoves the last impor-
tant witness of the famous case.

Mrs. Cramer has not been quite right in
her mind for years. At the last interview
between mother and daughter, the day
before the lattcrs body was found, she
chided the girl severely for her intimacy
with the Malleys, and there is a. firm
belief among those who knew the family
well that Mrs. Cramer’s reproaches caused
Jenny to take her own lifk.

AN lLL-FATED HOUSE.

Five Residents of 3 House at Rankin
Pm; Killed or Fatally Injured.

Pirrsnnno, Pa.. July 17,—A series of ac-
cidents happened at Rankin Station, near
Braddock, Pa., yesterday and last night.
whereby five persons living in the same
house were either killed or fatallyinjured.

Yesterday morning David Bell, aged 24
years, employed at the Carrie Furnace
and a boarder at the house of Charles MO-
Grattin, left for his work. He did not re
turn for supper, and at 7 o’clock last even-
ing his body was found floating in the
Monongahela River.

 

 

Two hours later a lamp exploded in life--

Grattin’s dwelling. setting it on fire, and
two of his children, Robert and Charles,
aged 7 and 10 years respectively, who
were sleeping at the time, were burned up
with the house.

This morning about daylight Harry
Bows and Peter Knee, who boarded with
McGrattin, went to the ruins to look for
some of their effects. While searching in
the debris a brick chimney fell on them,
almost instantly killing Rowe and fatally
injuring Knee. The men were aboutto
years of age and single.

Starving In I. But Shop.

NEWARK, July 17.—Superintcndent Yat-
manrof the Children’s Aid Society has in
charge little Michael Cove, Jr., aged 12
years. Hols the son of Michael Cove, a
worthless, drunkep blacksmith. On Tues—
day night the boy was found lying asleep
inthe rear of an old hat shop in River
street; He had scarcely enough rags on
to cover him, and when. aroused by the
driver of a passing coal cart was so weak
from hunger and exhaustion that he could
scarcely stand. He is feeling better to-
day, having been well fed and «decently
clothed. . _.

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