Norwalk weekly gazette, Friday, October 11, 1895 · page 5

 

 

 

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BRIDGEPORT;

THE '-
D. M. Read

COMPANY.

 

BRIDES
AND THEIR
ATTENDANTS

Should know this store—
should know that Cupid has
appended the seal of approval
to our offerings in goods
peculiar to the successful
results Of his work.

Magnificent and striking
gowns and costumes that are
the outcome Of ' suitable
selections when the skillful
designer has given range to
her fancy.

From hosier , underwear,
muslin underwear, gloves,
and almost a hundred other
necessary details for an occa-
sion of this character up to
the all-important Furs, for
comfort and looks; without
digging too deep into the
recess of one’s pocket.

And for the HOME, which
is to contain and make happy
it’s fortunate possessors—car—
pets, rugs,‘ upholstery, cur-
tains—crockery, silverware,
glassware, kitchenware—
sheets, pillow cases, blankets,
quilts, comiortables. As
though we had given thought
to nothing else but your needs
and convenience; to make it
not only handy but economi-
cal.

Men like to be stylish as
well as the Opposite sex; like
to be manly looking, gentle-
manly looking. But they’re
apt to be a bit careless; don’t
keep posted—think they
haven’t the time.

It takes the same amount
Of attention to fasten an un—
becoming tie, or scarf, that it
does a becoming one; just as
much time to put on ill-fit-

ting gloves as good ones——

more, if anything.

Our counters are conspicu-
ous thisseason for the excel-
lent and tasteful selections in
neckwear and gloves—unusu-
ally so. And modest prices.
Men are appreciating their
release from hum-d rum shapes
and shades to the more becom-
ing and decidedly improving
patterns and colors of modern
taste—keeping step as ’twere
with their sisters in» the art
of good dressing.

 
 

 

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‘” ' ONCE AND Team.

A wreath of lilies and of passion flowecs
For golden days slow strung,
A chain of memories to link the hours
Whose knell so soon was rung;
A gift of pride and love must henceforth crave
To hear what death sealed lips no more may
say,
Sad, widowed eyes that toward my. silence
stray. .

Ah, fading wreath, too quickly cast away,
That may not mingle ‘with my lonely dust.
Ah, warm young life, that cannot near me

stay, ‘
By poverty led forth to strangers trustl
Sweet, miscr soul, that in life nothing gave,
Yet now bequeaths great‘ tears in generous
showers,
You starved my love while wealth, youth,
life were ours!-

Oh. fairest face was seen since Eden’s bowers.
0h, ripe, red lip by too great accruing stung,
Short, willful chin, cold, bright eyes-dearest
dowers
Of woman’s beauty ever lover sung!
0h, heartless, trustless soul could ever brave
The chance to grieve when rosy youth grows

 

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You would not hear me once—you love today.
- ——New Budget.
WHY IS IT? ‘

Some find work where some find rest.
And so the weary world goes on.

I sometimes wonder which is best.
The answer comes when life is gone.

Some eyes sleep when some eyes wake:
And so the dreary night hours go.

Some hearts beat where some hearts break.
I often wonder why ’tis so.

Some will faint where some will fight;
Some love the tent and some the field.
I often wonder who are right—
The ones who strive or those who yield.

Some hands fold where other hands
Are lifted bravely in the strife,

And so through ages and through lands
Move on the two extremes of life.

Some feet halt where some feet tread
In tireless march 11 thorny way;

Some struggle on where some have fled;
Some seek when others shun the fray.

Some swords rust where others clash;
Some 'fall back where some move on;

Some flags furl where others flash
Until the battle has been won.

Some sleep on while others keep
The vigils of the true and brave.
They will not rest till roses creep
Around their names above a grave.
—Father Ryan.

 

CRADLE SONG. ‘
The crickets in the corner sing.
O’er farm and field the shadows creep.
Their homeward way the swallows Wing,
The sun is setting in the deep,
The squirrels seek their leafy hold,
The fox is in his hollow tree,
And, huddled in their silent fold,
The downy lambkins sleeping be,
The little bird within his nest
Hath hid his little head in rest,
And soon, oh, soon
The dreamy moon
Will sail along the fleccy west.
The day is done,
The night begun;
To sleep, my drowsy little one.

But when at break of day we see
The spider weaving at his loom, .
The soaring lark'above the lea,
The bee amid the clover bloom,
When frisking baby squirrels wake
And sip the leaves of morning dew,
When baby foxes from the brake
Do prowl the thorny hedges through,
When on the meadow sweet with hay
The white and curly lambkins play,
And, sweet and cool, ‘
O’er plain and pool, 3
Bloweth the breeze of coming dizzy, ‘
Thou, too, shalt rise
To sunny skies,
And open wide thy baby eyes. -
—-Rowan Stevens in Youth’s Companion.

 

A Eamous Dog.

Railway Bob is the name of a fa-
mous dog in Australia. He passes his
whole existence on the train, his favor-
ite seat being on top of the coalbox. In
this way he has traveled many thou-
sands of miles, going over all the lines
in South Australia. He is well known
in Victoria, frequently seen in Sydney,
and has been up as far as Brisbane. The
most curious part of his conduct is that
he has no master, but every engine
driver is his friend. At night he fol-
lows home the engine driver of the day,
never leaving him or letting him out of
his sight until they are back in the rail-
way station in the morning, when he
starts Off on another of his ceaseless
journeyings.—New York Tribune.

 

There is in Norway a wooden church
of unknown age, but undoubtedly sev-
eral hundred years old, which is held
to illustrate old methods of building ad-

.mirably. The queer, peaked, many an-

gled roof has almost an oriental appear-
ance. -

It is asserted that “the only wealthy
people in China are Officials and ex-Ofli-
cials, and not n single person can be
found who has grown rich from honest
industry. ”

NOREST.Nll£LEEI3.

Vitality and Health Des-
troyed by Wakef'nlN ights.

Strong and Steady Nerves a

Necessity.

To Neglect Them Means

Certain Ruin.

 

.EDr. Green’s Nervura Gives

Strength and Vigor.

How many thousands to-day suffer
from sleeplessness caused by nervOus
weakness. It is one of the incidents of
American life, and you who read these
lines are no doubt one of the great
throng. After the day is done and
when its cares ought to cease, you wish
they might fold their tents like the
Arabs and as silently steal away. When
night has drawn her sable curtains and
‘ all nature seems in repose, your weary
eyelids long for that tired nature’s
sweet restorer, balmy sleep. What
would you not gave for the rest you
had in the olden times. But it is denied
you. The long hours are full of weak-
ness ands weariness, and the coming

ache, impaired strength and exhausted

nerves as you drag through its duties.

There is no burden so painful, and
no less so wasting. It wrecks the body
and impairs the mind. It is the fearful
harbinger of insanity. It has filled out
asylums with its victims. You know
this and gloomlly dread the future,
weak, nervous and discouraged, _the
least lxcitementprostrates you and you
are always worrying over anticipated
trouble. Nothing goes right and you
Often feel like desparing. You do not
feel equal to the burden you once bore
so easily.

Take heed while it is time. You are
in u whirlwind of destruction. You are
in the very Niagara of our nervous
modern life. Do not dely. Safety is
right at hand if you will but accept it.
That less of appetite, gas in the
stomach,torpld liver, constipation, nerv-
oneness, headache, etc.. are but the
first symptoms of the danger to come.
It can be avoided, but only by acting
at once.

Thousands have stood where you

frightful consequences "an'cl.-have been

sleep. that marvelous restore: of nerve
energy and physical
Green’s Nervnra blood and nerve rem-
idy. It is purely Vegetable and en-
tirely harmless.

Mrs. L. L. Gumpricht. who resides
8.12198 Blue Hill avenue, Boston, Mass ,
says: *

“After having had an attack of the
grippe I was feeling very weak and com-
pletely run down. I could not eat,
sleep or work. I was so weak in the
limbs I could not walk or work. I Was
very miserable, and I thought I should
die. I lost all interest in everylhlng.
I had great distress in the little food I
could cut. ‘

“After taking three bottles of Dr.

1 Greene’s Nervnm blood and nerve rem.-

edwaas entirely cured of all three
complaints. Ifeel likes different we-
man."

This grand restorative for the nerves,
Dr. Greene’s Nervurn, does not con-
taina particle of anything injurious,
and can be given to restless and sleep-
less infants, nervous children or the
most delicate invalid with absolute as-
surance of beneficial results. Dr.
Greene, of 35 West 14th St., York New

discovered it, and be can be consulted
free of charge, personally or by letter.

Andrew Van Slyke Smith died at the
Soldlers’ Home in Newton on Tuesday.
His remains were taken to Bridgeport.
tnd interred in Mountain OrOVe ceme-

 

 

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MRS. EWEB. DEAD.

She W32: the Mother. of Three cum! niac-
' cu Who Are Penulless.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-—News has been
received here from Brazil of the death of
,Mrs. Mildred Ewer, the mother of La
Begaloncita, La Gloriosa and La Pre«
‘closa, the three child dancers.

Mrs. Ewer’s death was sudden, and the
three little dancers, with“ their small
brother, a child of 4. are stranded in Bra-
zil, unprotected and almost starving.

Mrs. Ewer was the daughter of the Rev.
Dr. Ewer, an Episcopal clergyman of this
city; At the time that Le. Regaloncita,
then a child of 5, made her debut on the

 

LA REGALONCITA AND SISTERS.

stagest a Sunday night concert at the
Standard Mrs. Ewer, her grandmother,
madeadetermined effort to prevent the
child’s appearing. She went to Mr. Gerry
of the Society For the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, and he forbade the

child appearing in public again. The re-
‘markable ability which this child had
shown at this concert was soon the talk of
the Rialto, and the younger Mrs. Ewer
had many ofiers for the child to appear at
private houses. Mr. Gerry’s action in this
matter had the general support of the
public, for there was no real necessity for
the child to appear, as her grandmother
had offered to educate her and support
the other three children if her daughter
, would only relinquish the idea of sending
the child upon the stage.

BIG BLAZE IN PORTSMOUTE

A Large Railroad Warehouse Burned—One
Life Lost.

NORFOLK, Oct. 11.—-A fire caused by
a broken electric wire was disoovered
in warehouse D of the Seaboard Air line
in Portsmouth. The entire structure was
destroyed, together with thousands of dol-
lars’ worth of freight stored there, includ-
ing 700 bales of cotton, nine loaded freight
cars and the warehouse and staveyard of
Reed Bros. & CO.. adjoining. Two men
who‘wore unable to get out of the build-
ing by the nsual'means jumped into the
water, one of them, W. H. Hall, white,
being drowned. The Old Dominion steam-
er Yorktown, which was in the slip along-
side the burned property, backed out bare-
ly in time to escape the flames. Dozens-of
harbor tugs poured water upon the fire,
but with no perceptible effect.

The ferry wharf ‘ and a lumber yard in-
tervening repeatedly took fire, but the
flames were promptly extinguished by
streams from the ferryboats. Aid was sent
by the Norfolk and Berkley fire depart-
ments and from the United, States navy
yard, and these engines, with the Ports-
mouth flrcmen, succeeded in confining the
flames to the territory mentioned. A
quantity of nitrate of soda, the property
of W. R. Grace of New York, stored in the
Reed warehouse, exploded with a deafen-
ing report, the concussion shaking the
roofs in that vicinity. The loss is esti-
mated at $300,000.

No Badges For Those Aldermen.

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Oct. 11.—Mayor
Edson Lewis has vetoed the resolution
passed by the board of aldermen provid-
ing that the city should pay for a. badge
for each alderman. The badges were to
cost $15 each. It is said that the veto will
be overridden at the next meeting of the
common council. .

 

Alleged Forger Lewis Seen.
COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 11.—There is the
highest authority for saying that Z. T.
Lewis, the alleged bend forget, has been
seen and talked to in Adams county, 0.,
within five days.

The “feather.
Fair; warmer; southwesterly winds.

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.

lNEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Money on call nominal-

ly 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 4%@6

 

business in bankers’ bills at $l.87%@4.87lv§ for
demand and 34.86%@4.86y§ for 60 days. Posted
rates. [email protected]é and [email protected]%. Commercial
hills, 84.86. Silver certificates, 68%@69; sales,
$60,000 at 69 apd 69%. Bar silver, 68. Mexican
bonds inactive. Railroad bonds strong.

Closing prices:

Atchison .......... 21 . New England..... 56
Bur.& Quincy.... 8% N.J.Central......112

North American“ 5%

0., 0., C. & St. L.. 45%;
Northern Pacific.. 5

Chesapeake &. 0.. 19%

Chicago Gas ...... 87% Do. pref........‘... 18%
Cordage ........... 15% N...Y. Central ..... 102$
Cotton.0il ....... .. 22.54; Omaha ......... 485.4
Del. &'Hudson.. . 3132 Ontario & West. . 18 4
Distillers’ Trust” 23% Pacific Mail ...... . 30%
Erie.... ............ lllé Reading ..... 20%

Rock Island.. . . . . . 76%

General Electric. '375é _
ver Bullion..... 68%

Hocking Valley... 24%

Lackawanna. ..... 170% St. Paul........... 75%
Lake Shore ........ 150% Sugar Refining...109}€
Lead - Texas Pacific...... 11%

Union Pacific..... 14%
Wabash pref...... B
Western Union... 92-4

.............. 34
Louisville & Nash 61
Missouri Pacific.. 36%
Northwestern . . . .104%

General Markets.

NEW Yonk. Oct. lO.—-FLOUR-State and
western steady; city mills patents. [email protected]:

@4.10: winter straights, [email protected].

WHEAT—No. 2 red opened steady on cables.
sold off sharply under offerings for short ac-
count, but rallied at noon on big local wheat
cleazr ces: May, 70@70 0-l6c.; December, 60%;
@66 .

CORN—No. 2 quiet and weaker owing to fa—
vorable weather for maturing the crop and free
local Offerings; May. smear l5-16c.: October,
E6@36%c. ,

OATS—No. 2 dull: track. white state, 24@29e.;
track, white western, 24@290.

PORK—Quiet: new mess. 310331035: family,
[email protected].

LARD—Dull; prime western steam, $6.15,
nominal.

BUTTER—Firm: state dairy, l2@21c.: state
creamery. 22%. b-

CHEESE —Steady: state. large. “@891C4
small. 6%@9%c.

EGGS—Firm; state and Pennsylvania, 1921‘.
2014c; western. lfléfilfilc.

SUGAR—Raw firm; fair refining. 3%; c.:
centrifugal. 96 test. 3%c.: refined firm: is-
sion of §-16e. allowed hereafter instead of for-
mer rebate; crushed, 5 7-1lic.: powdered, 5 Lite.

TURPENTINE—Steady: 28546138940. ,

MOLASSES—Steady: New Orleans, 29®320.

RICE—~Quiet: domestic, 3%@6}fic.; Japan,

 

MOW/fie.
. TALLOW—Steady: city, 4%c: country, 96c.

l Advmtise in the Guerra

per cent. Sterling exchange firm. with actual-

dollars. 51. Government bonds steady. State'

winter patents. sarcoma: city mills clears, $4 _

 

 

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PEACE IN MADAGASCAR.

L Treaty Concluded Soon After-Mic Occu-
pation of Antananarivo.

PARIS, Oct. 11.—The minister of war,
General Zurlinden, received a ‘ dispatch
from Mojanga. Madagascar, today, con-
firming the news received by Way of Port
Louis, Mauritius, on Tuesday, of the cap-
ture of Antananarivo, the Hova capital of
Madagascar, by the French expedition
under General Duchesne. The official dis-
patch says that Antananarivo was occu-
pied on Sept. 30, after a brilliant action.
Peace negotiations with the Hovas were
tpened the next day and were successfully

 

GENERAL DUCHESNE.

concluded the same evening, terms being
agreed upon subject to the ratification of
the French government. General Metz-
inger, the second in command of the
French forces, was appointed governor of
Antananarivo.

The dispatch was immediately commu-
nicated to President Faure, who after-
ward sent the following cable message
to General Duchesue: “In the name of all
France, the government congratulates
you, your officers, and men. Your ad-

mirable troops have all deserved well of.

the country. France thanks you for the
services you have rendered her and for the
great example you have given. You have
proved that there are no perils or obstacles
which cannot be removed by method,
courage and coolness. You are appointed
a grand Officer of the Legion of Honor.
Forward the names without‘delay of those
you recommend for rewards and the gov-
ernment will propose to parliament that a
medal be struck for distrib tion to your
trOOps. "

THE BUMPUS - IN CUBA.

Surrender of Macao’s Adjutant—Insurgents
Dominated by Negroes.

HAVANA, Oct. 11.—After the battle

fought betWeen General Echague, in com-

mand of the Spanish troops, and General _

AntoniowMaceo, in command of the insur-
gents, reoently, between San Arriba and
San Fernando, in the Holguin district of
Santiago de Cuba, in which the insur-
gents'were defeated and General Maceo

wounded, two insurgents surrendered,

with their arms, and subsequently five
others gave themselves up. The latter in-
cluded Eduardo Alvarez, Maceo’s adju-
tant. He confirmed the report that Maceo
was wounded and says that he had at
Santa Rita from 6, 000 to 7,000 men. Al-
varez says also that the negroes’ domina-
tion over the whites is intolerable, and
that they ill treat the latter, who are in
the minority, numbering only one-third
of the forces referred to. '

The insurgents have fired upon the
Spanish {5 arrison at Port Cristo, Santiago
de Cuba, killing one-soldier.

PRAISE I‘OR N. G. S. N. Y.

Colonel Henry’s Report Particularly Com-
mands the Seventh and Twenty-Second.
ALBANY, Oct. 11.——Colonel Guy V.
Henry of the United States army, detailed
at the state camp this summer to report
on the condition of New York’s militia,
has sent his report to the war depart-

ment, which has forwarded it back to Ad-'

jutant General McAlpin.

The report has not been given out in
detail, but in it .Coloncl Henry makes a
special report on each command at camp
with regard to the comparative alacrity
displayed in the performance of evolu-
tions. He expresses the opinion that in
actual service the New York state na
tional guard would fall but very little be-
low the standard at the United States
regular troops.

Colonel Henry. lves particular com-
mendationto the eventh and Twenty-
second regiments of New York city.

 

Fourteen Sailors Drowned.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 11.-—-The British
steamer Nntlcr, belonging to North
Shields, bound from Cronstadt to Better-
dam, has been in collision with the Brit-
ish steamer Livonia. The latter vessel

,sank and 14 of her crew were drowned in:

spite of the efi'orts of the Natier’s crew,
who, however, succeeded in rescuing ten
men.

 

0n the Lookout For Flllbusters. ‘

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-—The attorn.
general has received advices from souther
Florida and the off shore keys, showin
that the government ofiicials are alert 1
prevent any fili bustering expeditions leav
ing that section to assist the Cuban insu
gents. So far as known, however, no
overt acts have been committed recently.

 

19 Louise Michel Coming?

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Louise Michel,
the famous woman anarchist of Paris, is
said to have engaged passage to this coun-
try. She is said to have made an agree-
ment to lecture in the United States for
$20 a lecture and the payment of all travel
ing and hotel expenses for herself and her
aged mother, Carlotta Michel. ~

om M. A. _c. Sold For $10.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—-A job lot of judg-
ments and claims held by Receiver Freed-
man of the Manhattan Athletic club was
sold at auction at noon today. There was
no demand forvthe particular items enu-
merated, andthe entire lot was knocked
down to W. P. Carr for the princely sum
of $10.

lax-Alderman 'TiltOnINb-t‘ Found.

HA'vnnuILL. Mass, Oct. 11.—Owing to

a. rumor that ex-Alderman G. O. Tilton,
who is a fugitive from justice, had re-
turned to his home, D. F. Dearborn, a
detective, searched the house without re-
sults. Six local police officers surrOunded
the house while the search was being
made to guard against all possible chance

of escape“. , -.

 

 

THE EVAS_ll_ll_SULTAN.

A Reply Designed to Gain Time Made
to the Great Powers. '

THE “INOITENSIVE” TURKS.

They Figure For the First TlmeJn the
Pond: Note—The Envoy: Arc Dis-
satisfied cnd England Will Cou-
tlnuc Her Show of Fen-cc.

 

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 11.-—It has be-
come known that the Turkish govern-
ment has finally presented to the envoys
of the six powers a reply to their collect-
lve note on the subject of the recent dis‘
turbancesjhere. This reply, however, is
not satisfactory to the six ambassadors.
The porte, in its answer, enumerated the
measures taken to preserve order and de-
clared that the Mohammedans were not
the aggressors in the recent rioting; but
that the Armenians killed inoffensive
Mohammedans. The government added
that as soon as the Armenian refugees
leave the churches in which they have
sought refuge the normal aspect of the
city will be restored. It denies ordering
that no food be supplied to the refugees
in the churches and urges the ambassadors
to assist in the work of restoring order,
claiming that the Armenian agitators are
intriguing to cause fresh disturbances.

The Turkish note concludes with the
assertion that the government is about to
open an inquiry into the recent rioting,
with the view of discovering the guilty
parties.

In view of the unsatisfactory nature of
the porte’s reply the six cmbassadors met
today in order to consider the matter. It
is expected, however, that the dragomans
of the different embassies will assist the
Turkish Officials in clearing the Armenian
churches and in installing the refugees in
their homes.

Why the Sultan Is Disturbed.

The sultan continues to be greatly dis-
turbed by the presence of the British fleet
off the island of Lemnos and has sent‘
again to the ambassador of Great Britain,
Sir Philip Currie, to ask for the with-
drawal of the British warships from the
vicinity of the entrance of the Dar-da-
nelles. Sir Philip Currie, it is under-
stood, perelsts in refusing to recommend
his government to withdraw the British
squadron.

Advices received here from Treblzond,
Armenia, confirm the report that a massa-
cre of Armenians has occurred there. It
is added that a general panic prevails in
that city. The number of killed is not
known.

Nothing definite has yet been heard
from Sivas, You or Bltlis, where further
disturbances between the Turks and Ar-
menians are reported to have taken place.

A consignment of 5,000 mauser rifles,
ordered by the Turkish government, ar-
rived here several days ago, but they still
remain on the lighters to which they
were transferred, as the bill of the manu-
facturers has not been paid, and the
agents of the latter decline to give up the
rifles until the money is forthcoming.

Izzet Effendi, a. celebrated Turkish
lawyer, has been arrested on the charge
of being the author of the placards which
were posted in the public thoroughfares of
Stamboul, espousing the Armenian cause.

A. rsfirsAcrrn‘“ DROUGHT.

Low Water In Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Ohio.

PITTSBURG, Oct. 11.-—For two months
there has been a severe drought west of
the Alleghany mountains. The drought
extends over Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, almost the entire state of Ohio,
and in parts of Indiana. In all except the
last named states there has been a great
deficiency in rainfall, according to the fig-
ures of Pittsburg weather station. Local
Forecaster C. D. Stewart says that the to-
tal deficiency in rainfall since the. begin-
ning of the year has been 9.08 inches.

Since April 20 there has been no coal
stage in the Monongahela river. Not a
bushel of coal has passed south since that
month, and 8,000 miners in the river pits
have been idle almost the entire period.
All the boats and barges are loaded and
20,000,000 bushels of coal have been wait-
ing three months for higher water on
which to go south.

At many points railroads are being
forced to haul water for their engines.
The Ohio river is so low at liest Liverpool
that the influent pipes are l are and the
supply is scarcely sufficient to supply do.
mastic requirements in the town, some of
whose manufacturing establishments are
idle this Week.

Nine tenths of the small towns have
strictly limited the cons_ ‘ptidh of water
by police regulations. flue number of
towns have cut off shops and mills, forc-
ing them to resort to artesian wells. In
Lawrence, Mercer and adjoining counties
farmers are selling their stock because of
the difficulty in keeping cattle watered.

In all of the oilfields surrounding
Pittsburg the work of drilling new wells
has been greatly interfered with for a
month past an account of the scarcity of
water. So great has this become in some
sections as to cause a practical suspension
of operations.

That La Paz Tidal Wave.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11.—Careful in-
quiry among shipping firms iwerested' in
the lower California trade sho e no addi-
tional information has been received in
regard to the reported destruction of the
city of La Paz by a tidal wave. Twp steam-
ers, Mazatlan and Diego, are due in Guay:
mas from the south and it is probable.
they will bring some information about
the matter. ,

Congregationallsts In Session.

» SYRACUSE, Oct. 11.—-The second day’s
session of the national council of the Con-
gregational churches of the United Stat-es
took on an international aspect today,
when delegates were welcomed from the
unions of England, Wales and Canada. .

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Reading ,Reorganization.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—A meeting of the
reorganization committee of the Reading
railroad took place in the office of a
prominent banking house in this city. No
details of the action taken are obtainable .
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