3 cts. G. A. FRANKIE, ' THE HAIR CUTTER No. 1 Gazette Building, Norwalk. HOT AND COLD BATES. HENRY HUSS. Restaurant, cafe and Smoking Room, GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT, 42d Street and 4th Avenue, New York Entrance from waitin room of New York. New Haven & Hartford ailroad. tf32 Wm. Lockwood, Real Estate, Insurance and Investmen Securities. —-MONEY T0 LOAN. Insurance Placed in First-Class Companies. Office—Corner Main and Wall Sts.. Norwalk J. Belden Hurlbutt, Attorney and Counselor at Law ROOM 4, UP STAIRS, fi Gazette Building, Norwalk, Co Alex. S. Gibson, egationgl Church Organist of the First Con cache: 0 _ Waterbury. and ‘ Pianoforte, Organ and Musical Composition. P. 0. Lock Box. NORWALK. CONN. TN'A INSRUANCE 00., of Hartford. AS Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual. Capital and Assets, $8,902,272.64. lnsures against loss and damage by Finn on teiinns adapted to the hazard and conmstent 'th the laws of com ensation. m COWLES a MERRILL. Sole agents for Norwalk and vicinity. The Nowell Fire Insurance B0. Has now Completed its 26th SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR, And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid ‘ losses or claims for losses. No sound com puny insures for less. W. C. STREET. Pres; G. B. ST. JOHN, Tress..- Gno. R. Cownns. Sec’y. FURNIIURR. Geo. H. Raymond, Furniture Dealer, , Has removed to the new and commodious Store four doors above his old stand and stocked it with NEW GOODS of the LATES STYLE and FINEST FINISH. GEO. H. RAYMOND, Agent. Furnishing Undertaker and Embalmer. I give my personal attention to laying out and furnishing everything necessary for the interment of the dead. Iesidence, No. 3 Berkeley Place, Norwalk. Telephone communication with residence. . . FURNITURE. A Full Stock of Furniture of all kinds. Parlor and Bedroom .Sets, A S ecialty. ' DAVID STOW. Main Sheet, South Norwalk. HENRY TILLY, CARRIAGE MAKER, Opposite Depot. .5 O U ll '11 NOR WALIC, CONN. ——Manufacturer of— Faniin Carriages, Vietnnns, Bunnie ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING. For Sale Cheap. One Peerless. Press, 11x16 inches ; one Prouty Press. 65x10 inches: one Peerless Cutter. 22 ., inches: one hundred fonts of Job Type; one 'large Cherry Cabinet; three Double Stands; one large omposmg Stone. besides Sticks, - Rules. Galleys, Leads and Oflice Furniture. For particulars apply to S. B. VILSON. Builder, 92 Wall Street. To Horse Buyers! Before purchasing a horse call at my stable and look at the horses I have for sale! Horses suitable for all pur- poses, acclimated, and ready for hard work, for sale cheap. Also a lot of , Waeoxs, Cam's. Sunnnrs and SIDE BAD; CABBIAGES. which I will sell at ‘ the lowest CASH PRICE. I H. E. DANN, Livery Stable. Must Be Sold. FARM of 85 Acres. all Meadow 9nd Pasture Land. Dfielling Hausa. 13:23 * raga; . . . ar 6 man . '”"”°’°”’F‘"h“di°d scheme: .. a s an In! - fledl’wo miluubm Nor-walk road to New Canaan. 0n 1 high ronn . Fine view'ofLongIslandsonnd. [Maudie sold to settle chests“. , . [Or-further particular-Mn moo! . , . . , -- 'V N. I if!“ v, . amnwaing.N0"2lkoct’ / WEEKLY: NORWALK rGAZETT’E. Run on a. Bank- Owing to a rumor of the instability of the Rockville savings bank, which was started Tuesday -by an enemy of the bank. the German residents of that place Wednesday started a ' run on that institution, but the bank is meet- ing all demands in full, and has a good . surplus 0n hand to meet any emergency! ———ooo—————- Is your Nerve Steady Or do you tremble and feel that you are breaking: that your nervous system is giving way. If you haveweak nerv- ous system the very best thing you can do is to begin to day using Dr. Hale’s Household Tea. It is the finest Nerve tonic known and will restore you to health and vigor. Don’t delay. Get a- frse Sample at H. R. Hale’s drug store __._____—————.oo——-—-——————— Fast Ones to Trot. The challenge that Mr. C. W. Wil- liams recently sent out to trot Allerton against any stallion in the world a race of mile heats, three in five, in harness. has been accepted by Budd Doble, who names Axtell,provided the entire purse, _ $10,000, goes to the winner. Mr. Wil- liams received the proposition from Doble and agreed to the terms. The match will take place at the August meeting in Independence, Iowa. W .._ <+,W_.W_, Are You In It. If not, why not. Why don’t you always keep on hand a bottle of Dr. Hale’s Household Cough Cure to allay the first irritation caused by a sudden cold. This is the finest remedy in the world for every kind of cough. You feel the good effect of the first dose, and by thorough using your cough is soon cured. 25 and 500. bottles at H. R. Hale’s Drug Store. ——<~o—>—————————— Tried to Kill Himself. Otto Weistermer. who was Saturday bound over to the superior court on a charge of burglarizing the Stratford depot on January 9, tried to commit suicide when the sentence was inposed. He out himself fearfully over the eye with a chisel. Failing in this he threw himself in front of a train at Bridge- port depot, but was pulled out by the offi- cers. George Allen Discharged- As stated in Saturday’s DAILY GA- ZETTE. George H. Allen and James L. Brundage. charged with counterfeiting, were given a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Wright at New Haven. No case was made out against George Allen and he was promptly discharged. In the case of Brundage the detective . gave similar testimony to that given in George Grumman’s case and Brundage was bound over in $1,200 bonds to the U. S. District Court. - + The Chief Was on Hand. Chief DeForest was notified on Sat- urday evening that two sports from Westport were in town. and that a cock fight was liable to occur. In view of this warning the chief was on the alert and at 12 o’clock that night he over- hauled the two strangers each carrying a bag with the game cocks snugly tuckedltherein,while one of the boys car- ried a valise containing the parapher- nalia. On promising that they would leave town and that no fight would oc- cur in this vicinity they were allowed to depart. Now Try This. It will cost you nothing and will sure- lv do you good, if you have a Cough, Cold. or any trouble with Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr. King’s New Dis- covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to give relief, or money will be paid back. Sufi‘erers from La Grippe found it just the thing and under its use had a speedy and per- fect recove‘ry. Try a sample bottle at our expense and learn for yourself just how good a thing it is. Trial bottles free at H. R. Hale’s drug store. Large izes 50c. and$ 1.00. ‘.v Committed to the County Home. Complaint having been made to agent L. N. Middlebrook by Catherine A. Sturgcs of Wilton, that the family of Wakeman Burr, consisting of Burr and five children was destitute and neglect- ed, the agent went to Wilton yesterday with Justice Nobbs of Bridgeport and had the three younger children, May Ethel, aged 8 years; Harvey 11., aged 6 years, and Ernest N., aged 12 years—— committed to the temporary home for neglected children at Stratford. The mother of the children died about two years ago and since then the father has tried hard to provide a com- fortable home for his five children but has failed. ' The children was taken to Strat_ ford Tuesday by Constable John R Comstock of Wilton. - __ .......... 4, ,WW _. W Sudden Death. Sunday morning Martin Morris, the well known tailor, attended the 10 o’clock mass at St. Mary’s Church ap- parently in his usual health. At one o’clock, while athis home on Isaacs street, he was suddenly stricken with heart failure and died at 3 o'clock. not- withstanding the efi'orts of Doctors Tracey and Gregory. Mr. Morris was born in county Kil- kenny, Ireland, 70 years ago, and has been a resident of Norwalk for 41-years. He was well known to many of our older citizens, and being a kind hearted man he made friends with all whom he met. His funeral took place from St. Mary.’s Church Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock. ——-————-—4-o— Horse Notes. The Eastern Connecticut Trotting Circuit representatives have fixed upon the meetings for the coming season as follows: Manchester. Sept. 7 and 8 ;, Rockville, Sept. 13, 14, and 15; Brook- lyn, Sept. 20, 21. and 22. The .same week the State Fair, where trotting is always a special feature, will be held In Meriden from the 20th to the 23d_in— elusive. Other dates are: Norwmh, Sept. 27, 28, and 29; Willimantic, Oct. 4, 5, and 6; Stafford Springs, Oct. 12 and 13. - The Ridgewood stock farm of Bundle Jr. White, Danbury, lose two good ones this-week. Leon Wilkes by Quarter- master, dam Alert by Alcantara, ' sec- ond dam by Star Duroc. 2.25}, third dam by Hambletonian 10. was sold to nil W. E. Weeks of Brookl n, N. Y., for 31,000, D. S. Hammon of the Mur- rayHill Hotel, New York. paid $1.500 for Maud Mass by Quartermaster, dam .- Lady Scofield b Tippo Saib. She Is a full sister to. narterstretch, 2.285. three years old. Just In Time. ’ Wednesday, about 2 o’clock am. Eli Burchard, who’ drives Basset’s milk wagon, rang the door bell of J. E. Wix0u’s residence on West Main street and notified Mr. Wixou that his barn was on fire in the rear, and that he had better get his horses and wagons out. Mr. Wixon hurried out to his barn and found that the early morning up freight train had set fire to the grass at the rear of the barn and the “flames were fast creeping up to that building. A few pails of water put out the fire, which had it not been discovered. would have soon communicated With the barn. Fire In Danbury. At a quarter to two o’clock Tuesday morning Danbury was visited by the most serious conflagration since 1777. The fire started in an unoccupied wood- en tenement on the North side of Still river, in the rear of the Crosby stables, and spread rapidly through the build- ing to two houses adjoining. The wind caught the flames and drove them towards the carpenter shOp on the cor- ner, then leaping across the river they set fire to the rear‘of the buildings facing on White street and before the flames were gotten under control the Hawley block, the Stiles bazaar, the old Nichols & Hine hat factory, the Uowperthwait building were destroyed. and the McPhelemy building badly damaged. The three story frame building next west of the handsome McPhelemy block was gutted. It was owned by Edward McPhelemy and occupied on the ground floor by George Hofi'man, harbor, and Richard & Beers, plumb- ers. The loss of these firms is small. The second and third floors were occu- pied by Miss Mary Doran as a boarding house. Adjoining Edward McPhelemy’s building on the west was a small, two story frame buildin owned, and occu- pied on the groun floor by Thomas Henebry, butcher. The second was occupied as a dwelling and shop by Joseph A. Borst, tailor. The damage to this building is slight.being confined to the roof and rear wall. At 4.30 the fire was under control and the danger over. The total loss is estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000. ' An Ill Wind. It isa strange thing to record, but nevertheless true, that the Church Green produces more ludicrous scenes than any other section of our quiet town. The latest excitement in- that locality occurred the other evening, and the principal actor in this strange affair was our old friend Linus Bene- ict. It seems that Mr. George R. Cowles before going to New York for the win- ter, employed Linus to watch his house, which stands next to the Bap- tist Church. It was while acting in the capacity of watchman and burglar alarm that an event happened that will ever be remembered by Linus as the most stirring and chilling episode that ever marked his earthly career. On the night of the predicted blizzard Linus had disrobed himself, donned his frilled night dress and retired to his couch and was just in the midst of a pleasant dream. when suddenly the rising wind blew a fire alarm and tele- phone wire together causing the deep sonorous tone of the fire bell to re- sound over the town. At the first stroke Linusjumped from his bed and dashed out onto the front porch. to discover the locality of the fire. This action of Linus was a fatal one, for in his eagerness to discover the fire he omitted to drop the spring latch on the door, and while he was craniug his neck towards the Bridge, a gust of wind slammed the door, and notwith- standing Linus made a grab for the knob and ave it a violent turn, the spring-late had'performed its duty to the letter, and the door was locked with Linus on the outside arrayed like Iza in the Clemenceau case. Here was a dilemma that would cause the strong-~ est heart to palpitate like the tick of a Waterbury watch. Linus tried the door again, squinted through the key hole, tried the side door,the back door, then the blinds, but all to no avail. The cold air of the coming blizzard began to get in its work,and to prevent his freezing to death and being found a corpse in the morning, Linus com- menced a Carmencita dance up and down the porch while the nether end of his senatorial toga, assisted by the blizzard, fiapped like the spinnaker on a club racer. At every jump Linus launched forth a yell for help, and at every yell he flung his legs higher un- til Carmencita’s dance paled into in- significance beside the muscular con- tortions of Linus. Fortunately the sexton of the Baptist Church was in the building fixing his fires, and ’midst the bowling wind he heard the cry for help. Quickly coming out into the church yard he heard it again and this time located the direction of the yell, and on going towards the house he spied a white figure waltzing up and down the porch. Linus discovered the sexton at the same time and began to implore for assistance. The sexton was soon made aware of the trouble and telling Linus to keep on dancing he hurried home and soon returned with sufficient clothing to cover . Linus’ anatomy, which was as quickly donned and awe went Linus to the sexton’s house, w ere he spent the night offering up fervent prayers for his deliverance. C. H. Merritt’s factory, in Danbury, took fire at ten p. in. ,Wednesday and was nearly destroyed. Sherman Car- roll. a watchman, was badly burned in trying to operate the extinguishers. Shortly afterward a fire broke out in Fred Hope’s barber shop, in the Opera House block, and the upper part of the building was destroyed. , Ullie Akerstrom was booked to play there last night, but her illness necessn tated a postponement, and doubtless saved a stampede and possibly loss of life . 'Surveyors at Yalesville. The surveyors who are workin on the new parallel road scheme, w ich controls the M. W. and C. R. road, are now in the vicinity of Yalesville, and their presence there has stirred up the villagers considerably. Three of the surveying partfi are en- camped near. the center. Green, chief of the surveyors, was in the village yesterday and ordered a lot of stakes gotten out at the box shop. . To a reporter Mr. Green said yester- day that the road would surely go through. The work will be pushed rap. idly and the survey in this section Will be finished in a short time. The Mei-14 den and Waterbury road will be an im- portant link in the proposed new line from New Yank to Boston. ngin' eer. HORRIBLNCGIDENT. A Woman Thrown from a Dog Cart on Wall street and Killed. Her Skull Crushed. and Death En- sues Almost Instantly. ‘ The third of the series of sudden deaths this week occurred Tuesday afternoon, and coming so soon upon the death of Martin Morris and Rev. J. H. Chapin the community was deeply shocked. The last to “cross the river" was Eliza E: Spillane, daughter of Jere- miah Spillane,of Leonard street, whose terrible and sudden death about five o’clock has no parallel in the history of Norwalk. Miss Spillane started out for a drive early in the afternoon, drivmg. her brother William’s gray horse hitched to a dog cart. When in front of the Methodist Church she was seen to reach forward and take the whip from the whip-socket and strike the . horse. As the animal jumped from the blow, Miss Spillane dropped the left mm, which caused the horse to veer towards the right until the wheels of.the dog_cart struck the curb. In this posuion the now thoroughly frightened horse dashed towards the Bridge. Hitched to the electric light pole in front of Comstock Brothers clothing store stood a horse and car- riage owned by Sylvester Remington, of Rowayton, and against this carriage dashed the cart containing Miss Spil- lane. As the two vehicles came to- gether the carriage of Mr. Remington was upset, and the wheels of the cart sent spinning towards Isaacs~ street, while Miss Spillane, in the cart body, was dashed onto the paving stones of the car track. She struck on the left Slde of her head, just behind the ear, crushing In the skull and producing a fracture across the back of her head nearly to the other car. The collision of the vehicles and throwing of the cart body towards the car tracks changed the horse’s direction and he dashed Into the yard of dentist W. H. Baldwm, where after making a circuit of the garden he came out and ran down Isaac street across to the rear of Mr. Spillane’s house on Leonard street, wnere he was secured. As soon as the spell-bound witnesses to the collision recovered from the shock. they rushed for_the prostrate form of Miss Spillane, which lay motionless upon the track With blood gushing from her nose mouth and ears. Mr. Louis F. Shel- don and G. F. Morrison, of the Elec- tric Light Company, were the first to reach her, and they quickly raised her up and carried her to the sidewalk from where, with the assistance of Will Mc- Pherson and George Brown, she was removed to Dr. A. H. Baldwin’s office on Wall street. When the doctor’s office was reached Miss Spillane was just gasping and after being deposited on a couch expired almost immediately. Her father was at once notified of the accident and he had the body removed to his home on Leonard street by un- dertaker Kavanagh. Medical Exami- ner Burke visited the house later in the afternoon and after making a thorough examination stated that she had died from a fracture of the skull. Miss Spillane, who was well-known as a dressmaker here in Norwalk, had many friends who are deeply shocked at her sudden and horrible death. The funeral was held Thursday morning at nine o’clock from St. Mary’s Church. Mr. Prince on the Purchase. There .seems now to be no doubt that the Meriden, Waterbury & Connecticut River road was bought for the Housa- ton1c,as has been hinted. F. H. Prince, who 15 Vice president of the New Eng- land road and who made the purchase, practically admits this. He also says that the Meriden road in due time would be extended to make connec- tions With the other roads. —Waterbury Democrat. The Chief Makes a Raid. Acting on information. Chief DeFor- est with ofiicers.Martin and ‘Northrop, made a raidyon a disorderly house on Smith street at an early hour \Vednes- day morning and scooped in three dusky damsels and two frequenters got that place. When brought before Judge Coolidge Wednesday they gave their names as Ada Williams, Alice Blade, Charlotte Murray, Thomas Lewis and John Show- ell. After hearing the testimony, the Judge presented Add and Charlotte with a bouquet of $7 and costs, which they were unable to pay, and, escorted by the Chief and Officer Martin, they went to Bridgeport. Alice Blade. who was accompanied by a young baby, was pa- roled in the custody of the Chief and her case continued for a week. Lewis raised the dust, $5 and costs, and was released, while Showell, who also had put in a plea af guilty with Lewis, was unable toiraise his fiver and costs and went to jail with the others. It is said that when the officers raid- ed the house they found Showell fast asleep, With an alarm clock, belonging to the Norwalk Hotel, set for an early hour, so that he could get back to his duties of porter on time,and that Lewis, when discovered, was in the act of bid- ing himself in a small closet, notwith- standing 'his 6 feet 3 inches of height. 0 Off For Russia. The Missouri, with her big loaf of bread for the starving Russians, sailed at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon for Li- bau. A score of men who had done much to collect her cargo of more than 5, 000,000 pounds of flour and corn were on the pier at the foot of West Twenty- seventh street to see her off. The re- lief ship was gayly decked with flags. When the tug-boats Maillard and Luis Pulver pulled her into the stream a big crowd on the bulkhead cheered. The score of men on the pier waved their handkerchiefs and hats, and sturdy Capt. Findley smiled andfl'eturned the greetings. . Three hours before the Missouri sailed a cattle barge came alongside, and 300 head of cattle were driven aboard. They were placed In stalls on the main deck. The cattle are con- signed to a firm in England, and what will be. paid for theig transportation will be given by the Missouri’s owners, the Atlantic Transport line, to defray the expenses of discharging the cargo at Libau. The Missouri will stop at London to discharge the cattle. Capt. Findley expects to make the trip\to Li- bau in eighteen or twenty da 3. The- last of the Missouri’s cargo of our and grain was put into the' hold late Mon- day afternoon. It was a lot of grain that was bought with the donation of 85,01) made by the Chamber of Com- merce. Comstock Bros. You’ll be. Forced to Admit that we will come pretty near.‘ striking your fancy with our Spring Overcoats. It won’t make‘auy difference whether you are hard to please 01' easy to please. It won’t make any difl‘erence whether your pocketbook is fat or thin. It won't make any difl‘erence whether you follow your own notions or prefer to take somebody else’s advice. There can be but one opinion about these Overcoats. and that is, . the sooner you get them. the better you’ll be 011‘. and the sooner you’ll get exactly what will suit you. Our line of Spring Suitings is now open for inspection, and we have no hesi- tation insaying that never before have we shown such an elegant stock of clothing. and at such reasonable prices Comstock: Bros... 14 So. Main Stree t' Masonic Building; 1 so. NORWALK. NORWALK. BARGAINS. NEW : SPRING: coons Just received and at the same Low Prices as my entire stock. Everything in my store at prices that will SELLthem, as I am closing out my entire line of DRY AND FANCY Goons. OIL CLOTHS AND HONORS. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF, J. F- BENNETT, 19 Main Street, N orwalk. 'l‘HE D. M. READ 00. Bridgeport. ANNOUNCE : THE : OPENING : OF. ‘ SPRING DRESS 80008 AND BARPETSI Fabrics of Silk, Wool or Cotton, in all qualities of goods for dresses:wil.l be found in our selections, at very low prices. Our Carpet Department, now on the ground floor, connecting directly with our Dry Goods Department, is filled with bargains of all grades of floor coverings. I - Our Household Department in the basement contains every article used Inothe bed-room, parlor, dining-room or kitchen, that is made of china, glass, silver, wood, tin or iron. PRIBES IN THIS DEPARTMENT ARE UNUSUALLY LUWl Specialties Every Week. THE D. M. READ COMPANY. onnannne Shannen ——-OF— OVERGOATS AND SUIT , r TO MAKE ROOM. FOR SPRING Goons. HENRY BIELEFELD, 12 North Main Street, - '- ’39th Roman. !
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