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NORWALK, CONN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 189’).

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JOB PRINTING.

ME. HARRY M. GARDNER. Jn.. formerly of
New York City. is the superintendent of our
Printing Departments. He is an experienced
Book, Job and Newspaper Printer, and all
work entrusted to him will be satisfactorily
done. Special care and attention given to

CHURCH AND SOCIETY PRINTING.

 

 

Editorial Letter.
Wasnixcrox, Jan. 7, ’03.
DEAR GAZETTE :

The chief excitement in Congress to-
day was the swearing in of David
Bennett Hill as a Senator from New
York, who is now in possession of a
seat in the extreme rear of the rows of
Democratic Senators.

From the day when Congress con-
vened the one question hasbeen “\Vhen
will Hill arrive ‘3 ” This was asked by
Democrats and Republicans. The
Cleveland Democrats wanted to get
him out of the state, the Hill Demo-
crats were desirous of showing their
candidate to the nation, while the Re-
publicans were anxious to have the ex-
governor where his movements could
be watched by some of their shrewdest
men. Hill arrived in the city yester-
day evening, but was not easily visible
to the naked eye until this morning.
He was at the Capitol in good season,
staying in the Democratic cloak room.
No one paid any particular attention to
the reading of the journal, for just. as
the recital of yesterday’s doings com-
menced the ex-governor came out of
the cloak room and took his seat be-
hind a great combination of verdure
and roses. A few of the waiting Rep-
resentatives started to greet him, but
as they moved Senator Hiscoek walked
about half way down the central aisle
and said : “Mr. President, David B.
Hil1,the Senator-elect from New York,
is now present and will present himself
to take the oath of office.”

To this Vice President Morton bowed
and responded, “Yes, sir.” _

Senator Hiscoek then took his;"col-
league from behind the big bouquet
and escorted him to the presiding ofii-
cer’s desk, even going to the length of
escorting Senator Hill back to his ap-
pointed place.

Then followed a reception such as
has not taken place in the Senate cham-

ber since it was built. Several Senators
and a crowd of Representatives filed
past, shaking the ex-governor’s right
hand with a good deal of vigor.

When the reception ended and the
roses h ad been removed by a page the
Hill family held a reunion, the parties
reunited being David B. and “Ike”——
the latter the well-known assistant ser-
geant-at-arms of the House. They con-
versed for some time and attracted a
good deal of attention. Senator Gor-
mon broke up the conference. He and
Senator Barbour took the new Senator,
but old politician.away to Senator Gor-
man’s room.

Senator Hawl ey to-day introduced a
bill to designate all post chaplains in
the army as chaplains, with their pres-

ent rank and pay, with the proviso that
all chaplains shall be liable to be or-
dered to regiments of colored troops,
and not white regiments only, as is
now the case. The bill proposes to in-
crease the corps by the addition of six-
teen junior chaplains with the rank and
pay of first lieutenants. No person to
be so appointed under the age of forty
years and who has not been regularly
ordained in some religious denomina-
tion. Promotion in the corps is to be
by seniority.

The condition of Speaker Crisp
showed considerable improvement to-
dav.

Secretary Blaine is taking things
easy to-day and running no risks by
venturing out of doors. He has quite
recovered from his attack of indiges-
tion of yesterday. but is somewhat
weak.

Gen. John I. Gregg, U. S. A., re-
tired, died at his residence, 1908 G
street, yesterday morning. He was in
his sixty-sixty year, and has resided in
Washington since he was transferred
to the retired list of the army in 1878.
He was a prominent member of the G.
A. R., of the Union Veterans’ Union
and of the Loyal Legion.

Five thousand dollars in silver coin
of the new design have been forwarded
from the Philadelphia mint to the
treasurer at Washington and to the sub-
treasurcrs at New York and Chicago.

As ever, B.

 

Congress Disgraces the Country.

Although the conservative Senators
of the United States, by an almost
unanimous vote, had passed the resolu-
tion authorizing the Secretary of the
Navy to engage other vessels than those
belonging to this government to send
food to the starving people of Russia,
and although Senator Gorman, the
leader of the Democrats in the Senate.
had inserted $100,000 as the amount
that might be expended, a Democratic
House has disgraced and misrepre-
sented the generous spirit of this coun-
try by adopting a motion. of Mr. Hol—
man to strike out the appropriating
clause, says the New York Press. The
vote was 166 to 70, and’ the further con-
sideration of the resolution was then
postponed indefinitely by a vote of 93
to 87.

Some very strong and able Demo-
crats, notably Mr. Breckinridge of
Kentucky, strenuously objected to this
action of their party. In Mr. Breckin-
ridge’s opinion the Democratic House,
if it refused to adopt the resolution,
would be guilty of drawing a distinc-
tion between using public money for
running a public vessel and using pub-
lic money for the chartering of a pri-
vate vessel, and he declared that the
resolution was constitutional, was hu-
manitarian, was American, and there-
fore was Democratic, and for one he
was willing to take responsibility for it.
Nevertheless the resolution wont to
the wall by the decisive vote of 166 to
70.

There are not wanting in \Vashington
statesmen and politicians who affirm
that the loss of this resolution is due to
the revengeful spirit of the ex-Briga-
diers of the ex-Southern Confederacy,
who remember that Russia stood by
the Union and prevented the interfer—
ence of other European countries on
behalf of the Southern States during
our civil war.

....-....____.-».- -,,.,_ .. ,_
The Legislature.

The Senate met at noon yesterday.
A resolution presented by Mr. Clark,
Republican, directing the acceptance

by the State of the direct tax money re-
funded by the government, called out

.the declaration by the Democratic Sen-

ators that they would do no business
until the House recognized the Demo-
crane candidates for State offices.

Mr. Holden moved to take from the
table Senate joint resolution No. 4,
which declares the election of John J.
Phelan as Secretary of State. This has
been rejected in the House. It was
voted to take it from the table and
transmit it to'the House and ask for a
committee of conference. This vote
was unanimous. _

Mr. Holden was appointed on the
committee of conference. The Senate
then took a recess until 3 p. m. at which
time an adjournment was taken until
Wednesday next.

THE HOUSE.

In the House the bill appropriating
$50,000 for an adequate representation
of the State of Connecticut at the
World’s Fair was read. A motion that
the rules be suspended and the bill be
immediately passed was lost. The ac-
tion of the Senate in appointing a com-
mittee of conference on the resolution
declaring Phelan (Dem.) elected Secre-
tary of State was followed in the House,
Messrs. Green and Judson (Reps. ) be-
ing appointed as the House committee.

The House then adjourned till \Ved-
nesday next at 10.30 a. m.

..._ <‘>—. .. ,

We Agree With You.

The applicants for admission to the
bar in Hartford, a few days ago, were
asked all sorts of questions in Roman
history, one of which was a brief out-
line of the struggle between the Patri-
cians and the Plebeians. At first glance
this seems a queer question for a law-
yer, but when we consider the modern
meaning of the terms it is not so
strange. Yet if our lawyers knew more
law and less Roman history their use-
fulness would be just as great as now.
——Ansonia Sentinel.

A Fake.

Telegraphic reports from Bethe],
were sent over the wire last evening to
all the New York papers of the robbery
and murder of G. W. Smalley, night
operator at the Bethel station, and who
was formerly in charge of the station
at South Wilton. The report illustra-
ted vividly how the murderer had first
robbed Mr. Smalley of $500 in bills and
a gold watch and chain and then mur-
dered him. The report did not appear
in any of the papers this morning prin-
cipally on account of the fact that Mr.
Smalley was not murdered and is on
duty at the station to-day.

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Church Officers.

The annual meeting of the First Con-
gregational society was held last oven—
ing in the chapel. Mr. C. A. Tucker
was elected Deacon to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr. E. C. Bis-
sell, and Mr. Eugene L. Boyer was
elected Church Treasurer, which place
was also held by Mr. Bissell. Messrs.
M. E. Mead and M. W. Starr were also
elected Deacons and the following com-
mittees appointed: Benevolence—E.
L. Boyer, Treas. ; J. W. Wilson, Scc’y. ;
W. A. Curtis, Ira Cole, William Mar-
vin, A. L. Heath, Miss E. C. Raymond,
and Mrs. S. B. S. Bissell. Credentials
—The Pastor and Deacons, Mrs. Thom-
as K. Noble, Mrs. Geo. B. St. John
and Mr. Charles E. Curtis.

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We Give It Up-

“Billy” Stevens wants to know
whether the Justice kissed the bride
after he performed the marriage cere-
mony yesterday. We give it up. Can
any of our readers answer ?

 

TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.

The small-pox epidemic has again
broken out at Newark, N. J.

The election of Yale’s football eleven
captain will be held in a few days.

Ten more deaths from the grip were
reported in New York yesterday.

Everything used in Cleveland’s Bak-
inlg Powder is plainly printed on the
a e .

Leland T. Powers at the Opera House
to-night in the Shaughraun. Go and
see him.

The County Commissioners go to
Danbury tomorrow to try a remon-
strance.

Congressman DeForest has intro-
duced abill making Labor Day a na-
tional holiday.

The Rev. Dr. Talmage, the noted
Brooklyn preacher, celebrated his six-
tieth birthday yesterday.

The revenue returns for 1891 of

'France show a surplus of 100,000,000

francs over the expenditures.

 

—\Vanted, 25 operators on Wilcox &
Gibbs’ straw sewing machines. Apply
13 Butler street immediately. 203 (it

A picture for the God’s—-Reuben and
Latson locked in each others arms
gliding over the floor in the dreamy
waltz.

J. A. Hartwell. P. G., has been elected
captain of the Yale crew to fill the va-
cancy caused by the resignation of J.
A. Gould.

There will be no strike of engineers
and firemen of the Consolidated, as re—
ported, says General Manager Tuttle
at New Haven.

Over fifty grave diggers of Calvery
Cemetery, Blissville, L. 1., are down
with the grip. The grip always did
love grave diggers.

The Khedive of Egypt who has been
suffering from influenza which devel-
oped into congestion of the lungs, died
yesterday afternoon.

We have received from Commission-
er \Villiam O. Seymour a copy of the
39th annual report of the Railroad Com-
missioners of the State.

William J. Scanlan, the comedian,
who has beemsuffering with paresis,
was removed tothe Bloomingdale Asy-
lum for the Insane yesterday.

 

Solomon Baptiste, a French Cana-
dian, 55 years of age, was instantly
killed at Meriden yesterday, while
croslsing the tracks of the Consolidated
roa .

The interest of the late W. B. Hall in
the firm of \V. B. Hall & Co. will re-
main intact, and the business will be
continued under the old name of W. B.

Hall & Co.

Cuba’s paper dollar is worth forty-
eight cents in gold There are still
men in America who would like to in-
flate our currency until it has the same

relative value.

Samuel Calvin DeArmitpf Pittsburg,
Pa., has opened an institution in New
Haven for the treatment by the Keelev
method, of persons addicted to the use
of alcoholic stimulants.

Harry Miller, son of Joaquin Miller,
“poet of the Sierras,” was sentenced to
two rears’ imprisonment yesterday
for he ding up the stage in Mendoncino
county some weeks ago.

The members of St. John’s Episco-
pal Church, Bridgeport. have remem-
bered their rector, Rev. William H.
Lewis, with a handsome New Year’s
gift, in the form of a. purse containing

300.

Secretary of War Elkins and General
0. 0. Howard inspected the New York
Barge Office and adjoining piers yes-
terday, for the purpose of selecting a
landing place for the Governor’s Island

on .

Judge Robinson was to have presided
at the short calendar session of the
Civil Superior Court to-day, but has
notified Clerk Shelton that he will be
unable to be present. Consequently
no session will be. held.

Many of the engineers on the Consoli-
datod railroad have been suffering with
the grip, and the road has been put to
considerable trouble to get men to run
the engines. In many cases firemen
had to take out the trains.

It is believed that the United States
Supreme Court will decide that the
bringing of the Rev. E. Walpole War-
ren from England to be rector of Holy
Trinity Church, New York, was a viola-
tion of the Contract Labor law.

There seems to be absolutely no way
to prevent John Uhinaman from get-
ting the best of this country. The ex-
clusion of the Celestials has made the
wages of Chinese servants so’ high that
California housekeepers are in despair.

News has been received of the death
in San Francisco, Dec. 30, of Burdette
H. Munson,a former resident of Bridge-
port. He was a printer and about 40
years ago published a little paper in
Bridgeport called “The Chronicle.”

 

—The Sons of St. George give 21 So-
ciable and Entertainment at their Hall,
IO‘Water street, next Monday evening
at 8 o’clock. A Ventriloquist is ex-
pected. Tickets can be procured of
members or at Comstock Bros.2sfilz)i§.

 

Senator David B. Hill was sworn
yesterday.

The sleighing is fast disappearing
under the warm rays of the sun.

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Walter M. Briggs, of, St. Louis has
been appointed captain of the Harvard
freshman crew.

The formation of a military base ball

league is talked of among the compa-_

nice of the C. N G

l

The Hartford polo team disbanded
yesterday and the. Bridgeports play
their lasn’game to-night.

The CentralziCircle of «King’s Daugh-
ters will , meet in the Congregrtional
Chapel toimorrow at 4 o’clock.

—Wanted, 25 operators on Wilcox &
Gibbs’ straw sewingmachines. Apply
13 Butler street immediately. 263 (it

Your Unble John Sherman’s longest
pole took‘ the senatorial persimmons
in the Ohio legislative caucus. .

 

Gov. Hill was sworn in the Senate .

yesterday. but has been sworn at all
over New York state for months past.

Joseph Youngs pleaded guilty, to

drunkenness before Justice Coolidge

last evening, and was fined 51 and costs.

The branch office of the 'Wells~Farg_o
Express Company at Houston, Tex-.,
was robbed of $10,000 Wednesdaymght.

—Wanted. 25 operators on ‘Wilcox &
Gibbs’ straw sewing machines. . Apply
13 Butler street immediately. 253 (it

The summary of the \Veekly Record
for the week ‘shows 5 .real estate sales
and no real estate mortgages for Nor-
walk.

The Tennessee Legislature has re-
fused to make an appropriation for the
World’s Fair. So has the Connecticut
Senate. ,

Joseph Tallah, of Norton Heights, _

Conn., died suddenly in his room at
the Putnam House, New York, last
night. ~

A railway train from Hastings for
London anda train from London for

Hastings collided yesterday. Six per- 1»

sons were injured.

 

The Brotherhood ,Of St. Andrew at
their regular menthly meeting last
night elected Gustav Kocour and Stew-
art Hinigzn members; " .7

The 100 workmen who, on Monday
left their places at the Eaton, Cole &
Burnham Factory, Bridgeport, are on
a strike and still remain out.

 

Secretary Blaine has entirely recov-
ered from the attack of indigestion
which he suffered Wednesday, and will
probably be at the State Department

to-day.

 

A large steamship was reported
ashore last night near the \Vachapreage
Life Saving Station, Va. There is no
telegraphic communication with that
station.

C. N. Paul, of Hastings, Neb., Coun-
ty Treasurer, gave up his office yester-
day and a shortage in his accounts of
$22,000 was discovered. His bondsmen
made it good.

Stephen Hawley, aged 74, one of
Bridgeport’s oldest residents, dropped
dead on the sidewalk yesterday while
shoveling snow from the walk in front
of his residence.

The United States revenue cutter
Gallatin is still hanging on Boo-H00,
the sunken ledge off Manchester. The
two masts are showing above the
water. As soon as possible an inspec-
tion will be made to see whether the
boat can be raised to any purpose.

As evidence of the purity of blue
grass politics, Kentuckians are proudly
pointing to the fact that members of
the Legislature are paying for their
own whiskey and cigars. The test is
indeed a practical one, but it may be
that the members are not to be influ-
enced by donations of the mere Ken-
tucky necessities of life.

The town of Buttzville, New Jersey,
is wholly in the grasp of the influenza,
and there is not a well person in the
place. The neighboring towns have to

- be drawn on for help to keep the busi-

ness places open and distribute the
mails. The epidemic all through this
section is increasing and a great num-
ber of deaths have occurre .

Otto Kronmuller, the brewer,has not
dissolved partnership and returned to
New York as stated in yesterday’s Sen-
tinel, but is still at the, Norwalk Bot-
tling Works. John Weyerhauser, for-
merly in Kronmuller’s employ is not
now with him, and a notice to that
effect appears in the advertising col-
umns of the GAZETTE to-day.

 

On Tuesday evening Jan. 19, the
N orwalk Minstrels will appear at the
Opera House under the ausplces of St.
John’s Lodge. Although Alexander
Leslie is now wrestling With the grip
he will be on deck in paint and feathers
to make you laugh. The diagram opens
on the 15th and if you want good seats
go early, as tickets are gomg off like
hot cakes.

Frank Hudson, 9. local hunter of
Haddon, while hunting rabbits on Mon-
day night, captured a large chicken
hawk, which had been attracted by the
light of his lantern, and took it home.
For safe keeping he placed the bird in
a cellar, and in the morning found that
the hawk had captured a half grown
cat, which it had killed and breakfasted
on. It measured forty-three inches

 

» from tip to tip..

The Colonelcv of the Fourth.

Fourth regiment at the Bridgeport
Armory this morning Captain Russell

Frost was elected Colonel to succeed
Col. Skinner, resigned.

———-—___‘§>» _.__......._-...
To Col. Crowe :
. ’Twas ever thus in Childhood's hour .

I’ve seen my f‘ondest hopes decay.
anar MATHEIS.

 

.‘000

There are 2-05 policemen on the sick
list in New York. .

John Stevens of Cornwall, president
of the J. & C. Stevens 00.. of that place,
died this morning, aged 85 years.

Congressman DeForest presented a
'bill in Congress yesterday granting a.
pensxon of $00 a month for deafness.

The annual meeting of the New Eng-
land-Tobacco Growers’Association will
be held at Hartford on Tuesday next.

Daniel Lyons was struck by the (3.08
trainon the Naugat-uck road near the
Ansonia station, this morning, and in-
stantly. killed.

David Gray, a well known resident
of Easton, died of pneumonia, yester-
day. ~He was 31 years of age and had
~ been ill but a short time.

The safe deposit vault which will be
put into the National Bank of Norwalk
will weigh in the neighborhood of 30
tons and be of the finest workmanship.

The family of Homer Demorick, who
was killed on Christmas day while un-
loading, telegraph poles, have been pre-
sented with $325 by the people of Haz-
‘ardville.

Manager Bunnell closed arrange-
~ments yesterday with the Italian Opera
Company to appearat the Hyperion
Theatre, New Haven, next Thursday
evening, Jan. 14. .

Dr. S. \V. Schuppan, formerly assist-
ant to the .late Dr. George Bridges,
has returned to Norwalk and will re—
‘sume'his practice here, Read his ad-
vertisement in another column.

 

 

It is expected that Pope Leo XIII.—
if he be then alive—will in person visit
America and open the great Catholic
World’s Congress, which will be held
in Congress hall,World’s Fair grounds,
in 1893.

The city government of. Boston has
been cited before the Supreme Court to
answer for contempt in not erecting a
bridge over the tracks of the Boston
atnd tAlbany Railroad at Cambridge
3 rec .

Yesterday 1,000 guns were sent to
New York from New Haven, from the
Marlin gun shop, to be shipped to the
Celestial empire, being the first install-
ment of the Marlin guns ordered by
the Chinese government.

Sister Mary Dominic died at the Con-
vent of Mercy in Danbury, Wednesday
of cancer of the stomach. She was 24
years of age, and before entering the
order of the Sisters of Mercy, was Miss
Theresa Guinan, of Hartford.

Frank C. Grogau died last night in
Hartford, Conn., of acute Bright’s dis-
ease. He was thirty-eight years old
and had been connected with the busi-
ness department of the Hartford Tele-
gram from the start of the paper.

Rev. Father Smith of St. Mary’s
Church, Bridgeport, who has been con-
fined at the home of his mother in New
Haven, for the past week with the grip,
is convalescing, and will probably be
able to celebrate mass on Sunday.

Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and F. P. Sar-
gent, Grand Master of the Order of
Locomotive Firemen, held a long con.
sultation with the Consolidated Rail-
road ofl‘icials at New Haven yesterday.

Senator Kyle of South Dakota ex-
pects soon to introduce in the United
States Senate a joint resolution asking
for an amendment to the constitution
of the United States, giving Congress
power to regulate the laws regarding
marriage and divorce.

The Waterbury \Vatch Company
have been notified that the treasury
department has authorized an allow-
ance of drawback on exportation of
Waterbury watches manufactured in
part from imported sheet steel. dials,
crystals, balances and hair spring.

Miss Hattie Williams, of Brookfield,
while temporarily deranged by a severe
attack of the grip, eluded her watchers
on Tuesday afternoon and wandered
off into the woods near her home. It
was snowing very hard at the time, and
all efforts to trace her have been un-
successful.

Rev. Zalmon B. Burr, of Southport,
died yesterday morning of a complica-
tion of diseases. He was 79 years of
age and for 22 years officiated as pas-
tor of the Congregational church at
Weston. He was highly esteemed and
greatly respected by all who knew him.
He leaves a widow to mourn his loss.

Speakers at the Yale dinner in New
York, Delmonico’s, Jan. 15, wfll be:
Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell, of Hartford,
Wayne Machagh, of Philadelphla;
Isaac H. Bromley, class of ’53; the
Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, president
of the University; Dr. Seth Low, pres1-
dent of Columbia College; James W

 

Alexander, represonting Princeton,
anddEdward King, representing Har-
var . .

At the meeting of officers of the

MR. BROWETURNS.

Says He Did Not Run Away, But
Has Been South With a Friend
On a Business Trip.

Expects An Apology From Hodges.

When the 4:20 train from the east ar-
rived at South Norwalk yesterday af- ,
ternoon, the loungers about the depot J
were considerably surprised to see
Robert A. Brown, of the firm of Brown
8; Hodges, who left town Saturday,
Dec. 19th, alight.

Mr. Brown took a horse-car for N or—
walk, where he changed to the Winni-
pauk line and was soon at his residence
on Main street.

The news was quickly spread about
town that he had returned, and during
the evening quite a number called at
his residence and expressed their con-
fidence in him and their disregard of
the stories which have been floating
around town during his absence.

A GAZETTE reporter found Mr. Brown
this morning at his residence on Main
street, with his wife and baby, and from
him learned the following story :

On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 10th, he
went to Bridgeport to take some draw-
ings to a ‘man named Hilson, for whom
he had been doing some work. He had
previously collected $450 from O. E.
‘Vilson with which to pay the workmen
off, and had placed the money in a
drawer at his residence and had only
$5 in his pocket when he took the train
from South Norwalk.

He was sitting in'Mr. Hilson’s oflice
talking, when a gentleman named Hew-
itt, who had just come from Norwalk,
entered and informed him that a re—

port was being circulated in Norwalk

by Mr. Hodges that he had left town
'with over $10,000.

This report Mr. Brown said angered
him, and he determined not to return
to Norwalk untill he got good and
ready.

He remained in Bridgeport from the
19th until the day before Christmas,
and then having sent Mr. Hewitt to
N orwalk for the $450 which he had left
at his home. and one of his friends hav-
ing invited him to go to Ft. Paine, Ala—
bama, where he had mining interests, he
took the steamer Tallahasee, from New
York for Savannah.

From Savannah they went to Atlanta
and then to Chattanooga, and from
there to Ft. Paine. Here they stopped
for some little time and then proceeded
to Tallapoosa from which point he
wrote Mr. Hodges a letter.

They returned to Bridgeport last Sat-
urday evening and Mr. Brown has been
with his friend in that city ever since.

Mr. Brown thinks that his partner
has treated him in a. very shabby man-i
ner in circulating stories that he had
“skipped town” and when they meet,
(which they had not done up to this
morning,) he intends to demand an
apology.

The reporter question Mr. Brewn as
to what the firm was likely to do in the
future, and he replied that if Mr. Hod-
ges would make a public apology, and
a settlement could be effected with the
creditors, the firm would continue in
business.

It is not probable that the firm will
be continued under the circumstances,
however, and without doubt some legal
action will be taken against Brown by
Hodges.

Skipped for Parts Unknown.

Some four weeks ago Edward Ray~
mond, a restaurant keeper on Washing-
ton street, city, engaged the services of
George Starr as waiter. Yesterday Mr.
Raymond went to New York, leaving
Starr in charge of the place. N o sooner
had Raymond cone than Starr sent the
cook, Thomas Hogan, to Wilton on an
errand. He then proceeded to pack a
satchel with the belongings of the place,
and goin to East Norwalk took atrain
for New ’ork. To a GAZETTE reporter -
Mr. Raymond said this morning : " He
took, so far as I have yet discovered,
fishing tackle valued at $10, a shot gun,
some napkins and spoons, a few cigars
and some cash. I had heard that he
was crooked, and kept my eye on him,
and he seemed to be acting squarely
with me. I hired him out of sympathy
and on the recommendation of his
mother. I’ll apprehend him yet.” This
is the same Starr who figured so promi-.
nently in a horse-stealing scrape, but
who escaped by reason of a failure to
secure extradition. He is the same
party who some weeks since ran into a
team on West avenue in which a Mrs.
Barnes was severely injured. His wife
left him about three weeks ago and he
swore that he would shoot her the first
time they met. He is a. scam‘p, and the
chances are that he will land in States
prison.

<o>~ ...

Men’s Mass Meeting.

~ Sunday afternoon, Jan. 10th, in Y.
M. C. A. hall, Mr. Frank A. Keller, of
Yale University, will talk to the men
of Norwalk upon the subject of “Bless-
ino's and Curses.” -

‘here will be special music. Singing
by male quartette. Doors will be open
at 3.30 p. m. Tickets of admission can '

° ' be secured free of charge at the Y. M.

C. A. rooms, or from members of the _,
Assocmtion. '

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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