V Founded in 1800.] VOL. XCV.——No. i0. THE FAVORITE HOME PAPER. _- inueieiaen iii in things : llelmal in illlllilllil. Another Discovery. The embryo reporter of the News, yeste‘iday caught hold of the teat of Selectman Daskam’s Mellins Food bot- tle,seasoned with a dash of Standard Oil Mahackemo bitters, and after taking the second pull discovered that the annualreport of the Board of School Visitors had been placed in the hands of the printer without ,the knowledge or consent of Selectman Daskam, thus making the order for printing illegal, etc. ’ 2 When the aforesaid reporter gets old enough to leave ofi' pinafores, he will learn' that the town meeting orders the School Visitors to have the report printed, after which Selectman Daskam has nothing whatever to say, nor is it any of his business, where, when or how the said school report shall be printed. Next, Samuel! Grade Crossings, It is gratifying to see that the great railroad lines are alive to the advan- tages and necessity of eliminating the perilous grade crossings entirely as quickly as possible. They have been practically abolished in Philadelphia, Elizabeth and Jersey City, and they will be abolished in the near future in all towns unless the au- thorities show an unwarrantable in- difference and refuse and neglect to co- operate in the work. . ‘ , The day has come when all existing ' crossings at grades, whether in city or country, should be abolished as rapidly as possible, and still more imperative is it that new grade crossings shall be absoluteiy prohibited. The cost of carrying railroad tracks over or under the highways, as the topography shall indicate, will not be burdensome when the roads are building, especially in the country. In the cities and towns new grade crossings should be prohibited no matter what the cost. Along tvery railroad in the country. the removal of existing grade crossings and the prohi— bition of new crossings should go hand in hand, and no railroad should be halted in its endeavors to get rid of perilous crossings at grades by the in- difference or opposition of the public authorities. #A wwr Governor Coffin’s Appointments. Labor Commissioner —Samuel B. Horne, of Winchester, for four years, salary $3,000. Railroad Commissioner—William O. Seymour, ofRidgefield, for four years, salary, $3,000. Inspector of Factories—George L. McLean, of Ellington, for two years, salary $1,500. Bank Commissioner—~Sidney W. Cro- fut of Killingly, for four years, salary $3,000. All to date from July 1, "1895. The re-appointment ;,of Mr. Seymour is well merited. Woman’s Relief Corps. ' The Woman’s Relief corps in session at Mystic, yesterday, elected the fol- lowing officers: Past president, Mrs. Charlotte E. Wright, New Haven; president, Mrs. Florence Hayden, Meriden; senior vice-president, Mrs. Louise H. Arnold, New Haven; junior vice-president, Mrs. Addie Grayberg. . Danbury; treasurer, Mrs. J. Boltz, Plantsville; executive board, Mrs. A. B. Hammond, Rockville; Mrs. Sarah Spaulding, Norwich. tDangerous Sport. Some Stamford boys “played ghost” the other night, and frightened a twelve year old. girl named Ida Smith, into in- sensibility. She fell on .a sidewalk where she was found by a neighbor and taken home. After recovering con- sciousness she became hysterical and remained in that condition several hours. ’ Eclipse of the Moon. There will be a'complete lunar eclipse on Sunday night. It will begin at 8:54 o’clock in' the evening, and the moon will be completely covered in the shad— ow at 9.51. The totality of the eclipse will leave the shadow at 12:25 o’clock. .472, Entertaining and I nstraciivc Home Journal, Especially Devoted to Local News and Interests. NORWALK, CONN.,.FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 1895. ‘ REQQLLEQTIONS WAR WGURRESPUNDENT. BY; THE Editor of the Gazette. Copyrighted 1894. CHAPTER XLVI. It was considerably after midnight when I again reached Littlestown from Hanover and retired for a. few hours rest. At the first stre..k of dawn, on the 2d of July, I was up to have my» horse well groomed and fed, and taking an extra early. and hurried breakfast myself, was skimming the crest of Cemetery Ridge, just as the full orbed morning sun was gilding its wild sur- faces, so soon, alas, to be drenched and crimsoned with human gore. But what a marvelous change had been wrought all about, Since the previous night! Lee had dispatched couriers to his scattered army corps ordering them to hurry with all possible speed to Gettys- burg and at midnight, had established his own headquarters on Seminary Ridge. At one o’clock a. 111., General Mead and Pleasanton of his staff, had arrived and the corps of Sedgwick and Sykes were rapidly coming up, and before seven o’clock these last were on hand and in position. Soon after my arrival at Cemetery Hill that Thursday morning, both arm- ies in force were facing each other and each awaiting the other’s action. Our army was apparently as reluctant as the other, to be the firstto inaugurate what all knew was to be a fierce and desper- ate battle, whenever the assault should come, and so the day were away until near four o’clock in the afternoon, when Sickles, whose Third Corps was far down on our extreme left flank between Round Top and Cemetery Hill, and ex- tending to the Peach Orchard, discov- ered McLaw’s, Hood’s and a portion of Hill’s corps, marching down on the left of his line near the Devil’s Den. Sick- les immediately formed his command in line of battle and dispatched order- lies for reinforcements. .He at once discernedjthe’enemy’s purpose to be to gain one‘of the Round Tops, or other rocky eminences constituting the key to our position. A desperate fight here ensued and reinforcements not arriving in time, Sickles was forced from his position, but Birney, who held the Heights and was strongly entrenched and supported by effective artillery, saved this stronghold from capture and repulsed the enemy with great slaughter. In this struggle the daring and im- petuous Sickles, lost his leg by a shell from the enemy’s cannon, and Birney assumed the command of his corps. Next, a contest was opened and waged by the enemy between Little Round Top and Cemetery Hill; but Gen. Crawford swept down upon the rebels and drove them across the field and into the woods, near the Emmitsburg road and captured three hundred prisoners. Then Hill advanced his corps from Seminary Ridge and fell upon Humphrey’s and Graham’s lines, and pushed them back, with a loss of half their men and three cannon. Eiated by this success, the enemy then arranged a desperate charge in force, up from the base of Cemetery Hill and in the face of our intrenched batteries fronting the Cemetery Gate house and wall, supposing that we had left this point weak and uncovered, indispatch‘ ing reinforcements down to Sickles, on our extreme left. The fight withSick- les’ forces on our left flank, had ended at early twilight but several battles were renewed at different pomts along our lines and fighting was kept up, with varying fortune and fierceness, until ten o’clock. At sunset,lHancock ordered a general charge, which re- sulted in driving the enemy back and capturing many of his men and four heavy guns. At no time during the war, however, did the rebels fight with such desperate savagery and utter disregard of life, as in the terrific after dark charge of Early’s men _up the base of Cemetery Hill. In their wild onrush, they swept our Infantry lines as the cyclone sweeps away stubble. _On and on they rushed upward, stabbing with bayonets and braining our poor boys with clubbed muskets, when ammunition was ex- hausted or when too closely throttled in death strug ice, to reload their guns. Up they dashe to the very muzzles of our cannon. As soon as one line was blown into eternity, by the grape and shrapnel fired from our guns, its ranks were-filled by another and another, pressmg up and on from behind, large numbers rushing in beside our gun- ners, who could only defend themselves With their swabs and rammers. The enemy was finally repulsed and driven down to the plain a ain, leaving scat- tered all over the fie d, great heaps of their dead, dying and horribly maimed and covering all the ground over which they had so recklessly and mercilessly fought. A similar, but less ferocious attempt was made to capture Culp’s Hill, but a hailstorm of musketry from our double- shotted guns, rained such deadly fire upon the rebels; that they_.,were only too glad to escape annihilation andwith- drew. So ended the second da ’s fight at Gettysburg, with forty t ousand killed and wounded of both armies—a draw! . . . At this paint, sundry incidents of the first two days fights maybe referred to properly and With interest, as history has not very fully recorded them. For instance, on.the firstday’s battle,-Gen. Barlow, while rallying his men, Was seriously wounded, and his command turned over to gallant General Ames, until then commander of a brigade in Barlow’s Division. Barlow was cap- tured, but parolled by the enemy, and left in a little wayside cottage. Some-- how, his noble wife, who was an expert horse—woman, and had insisted on accompanying him on the march to Gettysburg, ascertained the place to which he had been borne, and finding that she could not reach it without riding diagonally between the fire of both our own and the rebel lines, she galloped her horse across and through the wizzing torrent of bullets, and gained‘her desperately wounded hus— band’s side Without a scratch. Several shots had wounded her poor steed and rent her dress in half a dozen places, while three musket balls I counted flat- tened into the pummel of her side— saddle. The courageous woman re- mained with her wounded husband as his only nurse ”during several months with true wifely devotion when her fidelity was rewarded by his recovery and return to the service. General Adelbert Ames, General Barlow’s suc- cessor in command at Gettyburg, sub- sequently became a United States Sen- ator from Mississippi, and married the beautiful and accomplished eldest daughter of Gen. Benj. F. Butler. The second day’s fight and assault upon our lines on the high grounds of Culp’s Hill, Cemetery Ridge, Devil’s Don, and the Round Tops, proved the wise foresight and high military " saga- city' of General Howard in utilizing these elevations for our defenswe lines. Had these positions been held by the enemy, and their lines occupied by us, the Union army would have been most disastrouslv routed ifnot annihilated by the desperate and determined assault of the rebels. General Sickles has been severely criticised by military authori- ties, for pushing his troops so far out' in the face of the enemy, and thus menacing him, if not provoking his assault, and if Gettysburg had been a Union reverse, he would have been made to bear the odium of the defeat, but as defeat came not, the fortunate circumstances of his having opened the engagement is to be placed to his credit for all time, while his patriotism and daring came near resulting in the loss of his life as well as of his limb. Another most important incident, of which Potomac Army historians have made far too light reference, was the sagacious discovery made by General Gilbert K. Warren, (who at the moment was on Little Round Top) that the flank of the Third corps was in danger of being turned by the enemy, in his desperate determination to get posses- sion of these heights. Sickles had, through General Mead, called on Sykes for reinforcements from his Fifth corps, and. Barnes, Ayres and Crawford’s divisions hadbeen hurried forward;~ Barnes’ troops being the first to come into _view;..as soon as these were seenpby Warren’s eagle. eyes, he hurried to General Barnes and secured Vincent’s brigade, which he double-quicked up the rear slope of Little Round Top and got them at the brow of the spur of rock just at the moment that the rebel lines came rushing up through the val- ley on the left flank of Birney’s division. The 140th New York, of Weed’s bri- gade, was seized upon by Warren at almost the same moment and put in position on Vincent’s right. In an in- stant these troops were engaged in a desperate fight which only ended with the darkness of night. A portion of the same line engaged the left of the Third corps, at the Devil’s Den, and as Longstreet’s success1ve brigades press— ed up, the battle extended to the Wheat- field and Peach Orchard. Our General look and Colonel Cross were killed, and the rebel General Semmes was killed and General Anderson badly wounded, The rebel guns on Seminary Ridge and ours at the Peach Orchard, kept up all the timea most terrifying and destructive duel. Then General Barks- dale’s brigade rushed to the assault and broke through General Graham’s line, Barksdale receiving a» severe wound and Graham was wounded and captured. General Sickles’ wound followed im- mediately after. General Weed was mortilly wounded by a rebel sharp- shooter, aud Lieutenant Haslett, who was bending over him to receive his dying message, was fatally shot and his body fell across that of his dying Genera . In the thick of the fight General Humphreys noticed Captain Chester of his staff, spring up in his saddle with a convulsive start, when turning to his commander he said, “General, I am shot!” Humphrey! rushed to his aid and clasping him in his arm held him in his saddle till Cap- tain Humphreys, his son, took him in charge. An orderly attempted to lead the riderless horse from the field, when a rebel solid shot killed both the order- ly and the horse. At this moment, eneral Humphreys’ horse, which had been hit seven times with bullets, was struck by a shell, reared and ,fell upon his rider, though not seriously injuring the General. Next his 3011, Captain Humphreys, was shot in the arm, and General Carr. and Captains McClellan and Cavoda, all had their horses shot from under them. But by almost superhuman resistance our troops held the rebels in check, and Little Round Top and _the adjacent heights, thanks to the intrepidity of Warren, were saved,_and so was won the day for Liberty and Humanity. Warren has long since filled a patri- ot’s grave, but I who was near and knew of his brilliant exploit, feel it a priwlege even at this late day, to lay this brief chaplet of recollection upon his honoaed tomb. His grateful coun- trymen have caused to be erected on the brink of the rocky crag, from which his alert eyes saw our peril, a ._iife size effigy of the General, who snatched viciory from the jaws of inevitable de- feat and thus saved the Union cause at Gettysburg. Ghastly1Find. Edward Ryan, an eleven-year—old boy found a sealed jar on the Mill Rive: flats at New Haven, Thursday. He broke the jar and was horrified to find in it the bodies of two boy infants. Good smart newsbIOys wanted to sell thejGaznr'rn. ’ ll (tenuous nit. Conductor Doyle Killed at Noroton Whlle in the Discharge of His Duties. His Body Cut in Twain. A horrible accident occurred at No- roton, this morning, by which Con- ductor Peter Doyle met his death. The unfortunate man was‘conductor of what is known as the west bound local freight. Doyle attempted to board the forward platform of the ca- boose, 'missed his footing and fell un- der th I wheels. Thelind wheels of the car passed over 5 body, literally cutting him in two. A portion of the rest of his body was horribly mangled. ' The remains were picked up and transferred to a freight car and Deputy Coroner French summoned. ' Conduclor Doyle is said to be the last of five brothers who have met death on the rail. He- was popular and well- known along the entire New York divis- ion of the Consolidated railroad. Electric Road Hearing. The fight between the five electric companies for the privilege to construct and operate a line of road between Westport and Seuthport went merrily on before the Committee on Railroads at Hartford yesterday. The residents of Westport and Greens Farms were represented by a substantial looking gathering of men who protested against the use of their highways for railway purposes. There are three direct lines Of communication between the two points mentioned and on two of the three the sentiment of the owners of property is unanimously against the electric companies. The committee will hear the claims of the Tramway and the Norwalk Street Railway iii-day. Am ;"Sadie Boice Found. John Culleton, aged 21, of No. 215 East 41st street, was held in $1,500 bail in theYorkville police court New York on Thursday, to answer a charge of abducting Sadie, the 15 year old daughter of Harvey Boice of Stamford. Mr. Boice,who caused Culleton’s arrest, said that Culleton entered his employ as a groom in October 1894. Culleton was discharged on Tuesday and on the afternOOn of that day Mr. Boice said he induced Sadie to leave home for New York. Mr. Boice received a friendly letter Wednesday from Culleton giving his address, but making no reference to Sadie. Mr. Boice went to New York and accompanied by two policemen went to Culleton’s lodgings where Cul- leton and the missing girl were found. The couple begged permission to marry, but Mr. Boice would not give his consent. Sadie was committed to the custody of the Gerry society, pend- ing the trial of Culleton. AA; fivt Claims of Letter Carriers- Harry L. Lorenz, a commissioner of the United States Court of Claims, was in this city, to-day, to give a hearing to claimants against the government, or rather on the matter of adjustments of overtime claims of the Norwalk let. fer-carriers. A representative from the law firm of King Bros. of Washington, was present, representing the carriers. These claims began to accumulate after the enactment of the eight hour law on May 4, 1888, by which letter carriers are prohibited from working over eight hours a day unless they charged overtime for the ,work they were required .to do. The claims so far in this city, range from $20 to $100, and will aggregate perhaps $400. Among the ex-carriers having claims are Henry Matheis and Nicholas Mar- tin. It is estimated that the total claims of letter carriers all over the country against the government will be considerably over $1,000,000, and this accounts for the reason why the government is so anxious to prevent carriers from Working over eight hours a day in the future. A Body Mutilated by Cats. STANDISH, Me., March 8,—Mrs. Pease, an old lady, was found dead in her bed to— day with her nose and ears eaten off. The mutilation is thought to be the work of cats, several of which she kept as house- hold pets. . Denth 0f a Norwegian Novelist. CHRIST 1A,.March 8. —Mme. Collett, the Norweg n novelist and leader of the Norwegian Waman's Rights party, is dead. She was 82 years old. The Dover‘Deadlock. DOVER. Del. March ~8.-'—-Oiie ballot was taken for a United States senator. It re- _ salted as follows: Higgins, Rep., 9; Ad dicks. Rep. 6; Massey, Rep.,\4,' Welcott, Dem., 7; Tunnel], Dem, 4., P \ ._..._~_~_. ._ ~-.-.-» —.—.__.~_..._.-—.-—~u PRICE TWO CENTS. Supreme Court Decisions. Chief Justice Andrews of the Su- preme Court handed down three decis- ions of that tribunal Thursday. No error was found in the case of Susan Anderson against the town ~of New Canaan. The plaintiff wanted the town to open up a certain lane asa highway, but the town 'selecimen did not think it important and refused. The court decided in favor of the town.- In the case of Jansen Bauesh of Bos-_ ton against Mrs. Louise Fawcett of Norwalk no error was reported. Bauesh was a creditor of Mrs. Fawcett’s and signed a compromise paper. He afterwards brought suit to recover his claim and the court found for the de— fendant The decision prevailed in the higher-courts. Mrs. Fawcett was awarded costs in the suits, and it is understood will bring suit against the plaintiff for damages. 4‘ V'v Amusements. . Hox'r’s OPERA HOUSE. The great success remarked last sea- son in the comical barn-yard scene of “In Old Kentucky” has naturally given birth to a horde of imitators and no doubt there will be other Pickaninny bands and ‘_‘buck” dancers submitted for public approval during the present theatrical campaign. The public, how- ever, is not slow to distinguish the spurious from the genuine, and it is likely that “In Old Kentucky” with its clever little darkies will occupy first place for many seasons to come. Hor'r’s OPERA HOUSE. The parade of Thatcher and J ohn- son’s Minstrels which come to Hoyt’s Opera House next Wednesday evening, March 13, is said to be the neatest, showiest and altogether most elegant street demonstration ever given by a minstrel company. It will occur at the noon hour on the day of the perform- ance and will no doubt attract an un- usual amount of attention. The parade is but a forerunner of the elegant and highly satisfying performance that these two clever comedians have arranged for the amusement and entertainment of the theatre-goers throughout the coun- try, judging from the splendid reports which precede them. Flremen' Injured by’an Explosion. KANSAS CITY, March 8.—An explosion of gas, said to be deliberately planned by an incendiary, wrecked the two story brick building of Lewis H. Day, in Lydia ave- nue, and caused the injury of three fire- men. The explosion was caused by a'gas pipe leading from the basement being cut and letting the gas flow through the lfliguse, which had apparently been set on e. Will Break Up the Old Stamboul. SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.-—The old whaling bark Stamboul will go to the arc- tic no more. Her owners have decided to break her up for junk. The Stamboul was built in 1843 at Medford, Mass, and was one of the pioneers of the California whal- ing fleet. She is one of the old style square sterned and blunt bowed vessels and was a. great hunter in her day. The Last of the Moliican. SOUTHWICK, England, March 8.—The American schooner yacht Mohican, belong- ing to Dr. Conyers Honing, :which left New York in November last with Dr. Herring. his bride and Miss Letitia Thomp— son on board, and which arrived at this place from Plymouth last week, was de- stroyed by fire today. Dir. Elklns In Mexico. CITY‘OF MEXICO, March 8.-—Hon. Ste- phen B. Elkins, senator elect from West Virginia, arrived here by s ecial car. He is accompanied by his farm 1 , and his trip has a commercial and perhaps political sig. nificanoe. President Diaz and cabinet will pay the party special attention during its stay‘in Mexico. ~ . ,_ ’ Thejgnke of Noaillés Dead. PARIS, March 8.—The Duc de Noailles is dead. Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles was born in Paris in 1826. Throughout his life he kept himself out of politics, although 9 was particularly in- terested in politi 1 economy, being the author of a. number of works on this sub- jest. _ Fears For a'Bar-k’s Safety. San FRANCISCO. March 8.—The Ameri- can bark Colusa, bound from Tacoma r Shanghai, is 93 days Out, and gravef' s are entertained for her safety. An. Average time to Shanghai for such a vessel is 50 days. She was laden with lgmberand has not been spokm since she sailed On Dec. 3. Western Brewers In Session. CHICAGO, March 8.—A secret meeting of western brewers is in session in Chicago today, Busch of St. Louis, Morlein and J ung of Cincinnati and other prominent men being present. The object of the meeting is cfizfully suppressed. Consider- able mystery attached to the chair. A Boy’s Fatal Jump From a Train. LAKEPORT, N. H.. March 8.—“Shel_don Lougee, 17 years of, age; was instantly killed today while ji'i‘m’plng from the “ Shoo ' Fly” railway train here. In his pocket was found an envelope containing money and ' a ticket from Aslhland to Plymouth. His home is in Ashland. . , The Friesland Floater]. PORT SAID. March 8. —The Red Star line steamer Friesland. which grounded yesterday, has been floated. Such of her cargo as was taken out to lighten her has beenreshipped, and she will soon proceed to Jafi'a to take the American excursion- fsts on board. An Aluminium Bronze float. ' EAST Gnunxwr‘cn, R. 1., march 8.—-The .question of plates for the new yacht was. settled by the arrival of aluminium bronze from the Pittsburg Reduction company. TWO Italian Children Wounded by the Careléss Handling of a Revolver. in One Caselthe Wound Will Prob a biy Prove-Fatal. There was considerable excitement in and around the entrance to Police Headquarters, this morning, the crowd being in the main composed of Italians and was drawn together by the fact that lastfinight Officers Morehouse and Bartram had arrested two Arabs and an Italian, and placed them in the station house. Sensational stories of the killing of a child, and the fatal wounding of an- other, were rife, and became the more startling as they were repeated. The facts in the ease are, that shortly after 8 o’clock last night, an Italian child approached Captain Dann and in- formed him that a child had been killed in a tenement house near Peter Guigue’s nursery and known as Violet hill. ' Captain Dann immedi itely dispatched Oflicer Bartram to the home of Ofiicer Morehouse who lives 0 not far from where the tenement referred to is locat- ed. In company with Officer Bartram Officer Morehouse visited the scene: and after an investigation a bootblack known as “Felix,” and the two Arabs were placed under arrest. The house is owned by Frank Kelly, (or Racanelli) an Italian, who rents the lower part of the house to another Italian family named Pambury. It seems that two Arabs who have been in town selling jewelry for a day or two visited the Pambury family and asked for lodging and for a stipulated sum the accommodation was granted. In the evening, one of them offered to sell “Felix” a revolver. the latter took the revolver in his hand to examine it, and somehow in handing it back to the Arab the weapon was discharged. The bullet struck an eight year old girl named- Rescabeca Pambury, in the right temple. It was a glancing shot, and speeding on struck “Tony” Pam- bury, a brother of the girl, in the head near his left temple and ploughed its way into the. unfortunate boy’s brain, but did not prove'immediately fatal. Before the arrival of the police Dr, S. H. Huntington had been summoned and he did all in his power for the wounded children. He is of the opin- ion that the boy cannot live. The girl’s wound is not of a serious nature. There is a diversity of testimony as to who placed the cartridge in the revolver, the Arabs claiming that “Felix” did it. and he as stoutly de- nying the charge. This morning, a young child of Pasquelle Pambury, the owner of the house, it is alleged, found five cartridges very near the house, of the same calibre as that of the revol- ver, a 4-arm Wadsworth 38 calibre. The cartridges and revolver are in the possession of the police. The evidence thus far adduced, points to “criminal carelessness” on the part of at least two of the accused. [$1.00 aYear. l 1.- ' ACCIDENllli' SHOOllllll ~4‘ It is learned that, I. A hearing will not be had other than « to place the prisoners under bonds, until such time as the nature of_ the boy’s injury prove fatal or can-be fully determined. The mother of the wounded children was crazed with grief and it was hard work on the part of her friends to pre— vent her doing herself bodily injury, She appeared at police headquarters, but only for a short time, when she was taken home. The charges against the accused are “assault with intent to kill.” The par- ties under arrest were brought before Justice Rose, this noon. As there was no evidence against one of the Arabs as being other than a witness of the ac- cident he was discharged. Felix was placed under $1,000 bonds for a further hearing next Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, as was the Arab, whose name appears on the writ as Nicel Felyes. Where to Buy. W. A. Benedict & Co. announce that they will continue selling fine clothes at half their former price, for one’ Week longer. The Boston Store announce that in order to :introduce their new spring stock they will to-morrow offer in all ‘ departments certain lines of new and staple goods at half price. D. M. Bead & Co., of Bridgeport also have an interesting advertisement for their Norwalk customers in to-day’s issue. ' - ' Percy E. Ferris has a personal in :which he solicits orders for all kinds of electrical work.
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