Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • 1

VOL. LY. NO, 178. IIAUTFOllD, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JULY -7, 1S01. PRICJ2 TIIItEE CENTS.

BASE-BALL SATURDAY. National l.ciiituo. At Hwiton Now York. Ikjst.m, 3. At Itr.K.klvn.

Hroi.klyii, Philadelphia, 2, At Clnvetand --t'hii'Htfo, H. At 1'ittHlmrKU" Cincinnati, Amorlcmi Aasoclal Ion. At llalttmuro (II lunliirc) llultiiiinrit. 3: Hi. ton, At I'lilladtdphU- Athletic.

9: Philadelphia, 1. At CnlumhiiH V'himlm, 4: 8t. Iiouia, I. AUInctmint I -Cincinnati. 13; LouiHvillo, 3.

Nat tonal IjCiikuo Stiitidlitir. ACCIDENT TO MR. STANLEY. Geneva, July iV Mr. Henry M.

Stanley, the explorer, 'bail mot with a serious accident. Aecordinij to information received here from Muerren, whoro Mr. Stanley is staying with his wife, the explorer has frnetnml his left lower thigh bona by accidentally slipping while mountain rlimbiug. Mr. Stanley had startd to walk from Muerren toward Scliill Valley.

liile passing through a wood he slipped ou some rockv ground and fell heavily on tho earth, fracturing his left thigh bone. Two English doctors, who happened to lie stopping at Muerren, were summoned to tho siot where the accident occurred. They lmu-daged Mr. Stanley's iujurtd leg and then had tho explorer conveyed to Muerren, where Dr. Piayfair of Kui liuus is attending him.

The doctors think that tho fracture will heal easily, aud no complications art feared. Mr. Stanley's Injuries flight. Gknbva, July Later information t'liiba. Wen.

Lost. as New Vork ia :) Itiwtim Cleveland II Philadelphia 37 III Hruoklyu ilV 41 Cincinnati 4i I'lltalnirir (Ill 4ii American AskocIiiIIoii Sli Cliilw. Won. lwt. itintiMl Ml S' HI.

Ml H.tltimora, 4(1 Athletic 41 40 Columtmn 43 Cincinnati 3n 4S liouinville a tm Wanhintfton i'ft THE WEATHER. Fair, no Change In Temperature. Wahi.nuton, July 20. Forecast until 8 p. m.

Monday: For New England, generally fair, stationary temperature, except slightly warmer at Boston, southwest winds. HUGH DAILEY AND OTHERS Thought to Have Ilcpii Drowned In the Sound. New Haven, July 27. On Sunday Hugh Dailey, city attorney of this city, Itufus Shepard, a bank clerk, and Clarence Beebe. employed by the Sargent Company, went sailing in the Sound in a catamaran.

Late last evening a disabled catamaran, supposed to be that upon which the men went out, was sighted drifting about in the Sound. The excursion steamer Margaret spent from 8 to 11 o'clock searching the Sound, using her electric search light, for some trace of the boat or men, but without success. It is thought that there may have been two men in addition to those named aboard the catamaran. A searching party left the city immediately on the arrival of the steamer Margaret. THE WHITE SQUADRON.

Tunslod Chains Delay Two of the Vessels. The white squadron all but the Newark left its anchorage at New York Saturday forenoon on its way to the Fisher's Island rendezvous. The Patrol, Chicago, Atlanta, Yorktown, Cashing and Vesuvius had no trouble in getting under headway. Tbe Bos ton soon followed the first detachment and after an hour or two the Concord managed to clear herself and followed the Boston. The cables of the Newark were so tangled that a large force of men were put to work straightening them out, and as a result the Newark was able to sail about noon yester INFERNAL MACHINES BecelTcd by 31.

Constans and Other French Oflieials. FOBTTTNATE DISCOVERY 1ST EACH CASE- Retired Naval Surgeon, with a Grlev- unco Suspected of Bo ins the Guilty Party. Pabis, July 26. It has come to light that an infernal machine was received by lime. Constans, the Wife of M.

Constans, minister of the interior, Saturday. Mme. Constans received a package addressed to her from Toulan, it being apparently a Catholic prayer-book. On being opened the book was found hollowed out, the inside being filled with fulminate of mercury, a highly explosive substance. The police are said to be on the track of the perpetrator of the outrage.

Later The a letter, was found by Minister Constans on Saturday morning on his desk. The handwriting on the envelope was so much like the writing of one of his nieces that he concluded that the letter was intended for Madame Constans and he therefore sent both the book and the letter to his wife. Madame Constans, on receiving the book, found the leaves stuck fast together and handed it to the butler to open. The butler was about to use a chisel on jt when he noticed a fuse affixed to the leaves. The book was then turned over to the police, by whom it was cautiously opened, when a cavity was disclosed in which was concealed 200 grammes of nlminate.

A few grains of the fulminate, when tested in a laboratory, exploded with a report like that of a cannon. A book similarly prepared reached M. Etienne, uuder-secretary of the coloninl office, and another was received by M. Tri-elle, director of the colonial health department. M.

Trielle was put ou his guard by a few grains of the fulminate dropping out of the book. There is a vague suspicion that the missives were sent by a retired naval surgeon that had a grievance. stmleyadhiswTfe. Both Deny the Story of a Disagreement. The World story about a separation of Henry ll.

Stanley and his wife is promptly denied by both. Tbe New York Sunday Herald contains a card from each as printed is the European edition of that paper on the same day. The statements are as follows: MRS. STANLEY'S STATEMENT. I am very much astonished and disgusted with the report in the New York World that my married life is unhappy and that I am separated from my dear husband.

It is. indeed, hijrh time a stop" was put to such a shameful fabrication. Is there no protection from these newspaper insults? Dokoth Stanley. Mil. STANLEY'S STATEMENT.

The statement reported to have been published in the New York World about a separation and domestic infelicity in my married lite is absolutely false and without any foundation whatsoever. have no hesitation in saying that each day of our married life has been one of pure content and uualloved happiness. Henky m. Stanley. Muerren, Switzerland.

July 21, 1891. The correspondent adds: "Mr. Stanley studiously refused to assist his wife in any way to construct her statement and had not even read it over before it was given to me. This was done in order that it could not be said that he had in any way biased her and that what she wrote expressed nothing but her own feelings." VIOLINIST The Lost Traveler's AVateh. Found In the Mountains.

Glen House, N. July 'St. The watch belonging to Ewald Weiss, the violinist who was lost last summer while walking from the Glen House over the range to Mount Washington, has been found by two young men in a crevice on the southeast slope of Mount John Quincy Adams. The young men had no time for further search, but others have already started from the Glen House in the hope of finding the long lost remains of the unfortunate man. FOREIGN NOTES.

The education bill passed the third reading: in the House of Lords on Friday. The floods in Moravia and Silesia are increasing. The official census of France shows a population of M.O'Al.VJ. This is an (urban) increase of The naval estimates committee of the Chamber of Deputies has approved, by a vote of 9 to a scheme for placing torpedoes in all theprincipai ports of France. Koch nns a ev OHlcc.

Berlin, July 25. The statement is authorized that Professor Koch has not resigned his official positions on account of the failure of tuberculin or Kochism, but lieoause he is upon the point of accepting a new office, that of director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases, which has been organized by the German government. It is also stated that the Academic Senate will bestow an honorary ofiice upon Professor Koch, and that this will permit him to lecture whenever and wherever he pleases. Suleido of Levi I Brigham. The body of Levi L.

Brigham, a member of the Union League Club of New York for over twenty years, was found in the water at Gravese'nd Beach, Saturday. There is but little doubt that Mr. Brigham committed suicide, as he had been in financial trouble for some time. He had been discharged from his position as paymaster's clerk on the United States steamship Richmond and had since been iifwant of money. He was well connected in Boston.

Death of a Veteran JonrunllxU Curtis B. Wells of Springfield, a veteran printer and journalist, died at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. E. H. Wells, in Deer-tieia, Saturday morning at the age of 5.

Mr. Wells was at one time employed in the same printing office, in Greenfield, with the late Stenhen A. of The Hartford Cocrant. Death of Sir Charles Forster. London-, July 20.

Sir Charles Forster, bart, member of Parliament Walsall, died to-day. He was born in 1S15, and had sat for Walsall since 1S52. In polities he was a liberal in favor of home rule. Senator Quay Not to Resign. Beaver, July 20.

Senator Quay told an interviewer last night that there was not the slightest foundation for the published statement that he intended to resign his seat in the United States Senate. Girt to Northwestern University. Chicago, July 20. Orrington Lunt of this city has presented the Northwestern University with $50,000. The gift is to provide a new librarv building for the university.

SEIZED BY THE Kl-SH. Sealing Schooner That Did Not 1'eed Hie Warning. REGULATIONS BEING RIGIDLY ENFORCED. Many Schooners Warned -Some Per-slst Iu Their 1'oiichlnit Operations Fishing on Kussluii Territory. Victoria, B.

July 20. The sealing schooner E. B. Marvin returned to port last night, having been seized by the American cutter Rush in attempting to enter Bering Sea after having been warned by the Rush at Sand Poiut not to do bo. The Rush chased her into Outuahtska, seized her, aud handed her over to the British warship Nymphe, by whom she was ordered home.

Tho Marvin brought, news thnf. July 7 tlm senior La Nymphe of San Francisco was fired on by the Thetis between St. George and St. Paul Islands. She tried to escape from the Thetis, but was brought up by a shot.

Another schooner, name unknown, was also fired on, but succeeded in escaping. A few hours after the Marvin arrived the schooner Walter L. Rich entered the harbor. The captain of the Rich says he was about to enter Bering Sea on July 23 at Unimak, when he was met by the United States gunboat Thetis and handed a copy of the proclamation. The captain was then warned of the consequences should he ignore the warning.

The Rich cruised off and started for Victoria. She got twenty-one skins after being notified by the Thetis. The American schooner Albert Walker, whose owner is at Kodiak, was also warned at the same time as the Rich. Several schooners are said to be already in tho sea. A number of thein are intending to go in and hunt seals on tho Russian shore and defy both the United States and British men of war.

At 1 o'clock this morning the sehoouer Amoka entered the harbor here. The captain reports that seventeen British aud American sealing vessels were caught Juno 2otb off Alitak Bay by the United States steamer Thetis and warned not to enter Bering Sea on pain of instant seizure. The captain of the Ainoka decided to abide by the order and returned to Victoria, but some of tho schooners intended to try and enter Boring Sea to hunt seals on the Russian side. The Ainoka left Alitak Bay June 23. RAILROAD DISASTERS.

Two In Ohio Sunday School F.xcur- slonlsts Killed. Dayton, July 20. A rearend collision of "Big Four" freight trains occurred near Callion, this morning, wrecking several cars and scattering tho goods. The first section of the train was pulling out of the side track when the second section came rolling along at full sliced and crashed into the rear end. The engineer and fireman jumped but it is not known whether thev were hurt nor how great the damage is.

The road is blockaded. A head end collision occurred in the Erie railway near Red Key, N. last night, but the extent of the damage is not known. but it was a frightful wreck and all grain were delayed several hours. Kxcurslon Train Wrecked.

The worst accident that ever occurred in southern Ohio happened at Middletown Saturday night on the Cincinnati. Hamilton Dayton road. Several Sunday-schools from Davton picnicked at Woodsdnle Island Park during the day and started for Home BtMi clock. hen the excursion train reached Middletown it was to be side tracked to allow nn express to pass. While standing on the track the excursion train was struck by a freight train following close behind it.

Three persons were killed outright William Matthews, oged 13; Miss Lidin Freyer, aged 22; Frank Simoner, ngod 17. Four are iu a critical condition nt St. Elizabeth Hospital Joseph B. Cloval, mechanical draughtsman, left arm crushed off at shoulder: Frank Patterson, aged 21, left arm amputated above elbow; Joseph E. Sweeverly, aged 2.r,of Pottsville, spinal and James Murphy aged fit), terribly" injured in the small of the back.

Miss Mary Reese, of Osborne, (., was badly injured, and also the following people from Davton: Warren Thompson, Fred Weidner, Marks Merick, R. S. Rutle, Kate Schlein, Elden M. Beason aud wife; Frank Reiger, William O'Man, Mary Gram, Annie Veuard, Samuel Lohr, Charles Myers, Maggie Frest, Annie Brennan, Pearl Short-hill, V. O.

Thompson. There are as many more with bruises and other slight injuries. One iu Tennessee. Ch att a noog a July 2i. The suburban train ou the Chattanooga, Rome Columbus Railroad, which left here last evening, met with a terrible accident be-vond Mission bridge.

The fireman, Lewis Potts, was killed, and the eugineer, Thomas injured: Tile extent of the damage will not be known till tomorrow, A Horror in France. Paris, July 21. A collision bttweon excursion trains occurred at St. Maude today, in which fifteen persons were killed and fifty injured. Both trains were returning from a musical festival at Fonteroy.

The second train crashed into the preceding train before the latter had loft the St. Maude station. The guards' van and the three rear carriages of tbe train wore wrecked and caught fire from the gas. The injured occupants were shrieking in despair and the other passengers hnrriedly left the train and assisted in extricating the victims. Soldier also aided the tire brigade to quench tho flames and rescue the sufferers.

The work of helping the injured was carried on by torchlight. EARTHQu7kEIN INDIANA. Evaxsviixe, July SC. At 8:29 p. m.

a considerable shock of earthquake was felt in this city. There wax some alarm, but so far no one is reported hurt. No damage reported. steamshipTrrTvals. Saturday, July 25.

At New York City of Chicago from Liverpool; Normannia from Southampton. Sunday, July 20. At New York La Normandie from Hamburg; Gellert from Hamburg. At Queenstown Aurama from New York. At Havre La Champagne from New York.

Weil-Known Telegrapher. Providence, R. July 28. John T. Stevens, aged H2, one of the best -known telegraphers in the country and Associated Pre oTw-rator in thp office, Woonsocket, died suddenly at -his 1, 1, .1 i uvruiir ila L'j-iiiv ui iitrtti laiiure.

Open-Air Servlew. At theT-pen-air service on Windsor street yesterday afternoon Dr. Taylor and George T. Utley addressed the largest crowd that had gathered there this season. The Rev.

I Vtralin Art'i'ir 5 .1 1. Chapman spoke at the south side meeting. THEY SEE mill CHANCE. "CON8CIENTIOU8" BELIEF OF CERTAIN EBCH ANT3 Ilurtrord'H Sundny Willi tho l.nw illP. I tally Knl'iireed -What Ono lirnittFixt May Aliotit tho lruK liunliiiW on Sunday.

At 7 o'doek last night hundreds of cigar cases in Hartford were unlocked and the doors swung open on a score or more of to bacco stores. That wan accepted aa the hour of "sunset," designated in tho Connecticut statute 011 tha observance of the Sabbath, of which all drug and cigar stores had been recently reminded by tho chief of police. As a matter of fact, the sun was not behind the western hills until twenty-two minutes later, but by that time tho dimes nnd quartern had begun to jingle in the tills of tho cigar dealers! In very lively fashion, and the nlr of their stores was well filled with the incoiiKo of Sunday tobacco. Chief Packard's latest orders for tho more strict observant of the Sunday law aeem to have lxen generally olisorved. Druggists lia-ked their cigar and confectionery cases, tobacco atone were closed and hotel and restaurant were careful about dispensing the fragrant weed.

It would hiirdly iw fair to say that it impossible to got a cigar in Ilivnlci'd lieforo sundown vesterduv. thin evasive restaurant keeper nilvertiwsl a good dinner, with which would bo "irivou" a good cigar. It Is possible that nt some soda waUr touutaiim drinks were more exnenxivo and cigara were free gifts. But am a general thing the Sunday law, an far as Chief I'ackanl liini said it must lu observed was observed. No croat (IlsMatifiu'tiiiii was exinvsruid with the state ot thimts by the drnrirista.

They agreed in wiying that the position they now wore in is neither one thing nor another. They have lioen allowed to sell soda water, on tho ground, as stated by Chief Packard, that sodn water ts a This keeps them very busy most of the day, ami generally necessitate the hlrimr of xtrn help, for the ruiiiiini? of a soda foun tain is a rat her laborious piece of work. The inability to sell soda water would make a very considerable lessoning in the amount of Inlxir necessary to carry ou a drug store. Tho looking of the cignrs case miiki'S comparatively little difference. The sale of a drug store's confectionery counter is also a comparatively small piece of work.

As matters stand now dnnrirista can also cont inue to sell any of the hundred mis cellaneous article that a large drug store now carries. "If they are going to enforce tho Sunday law, which absolutely forbids the carrying on of any secular business," said ono druggist, "I wwli tboy would enforce il iiiorongiuy. eopie sny mat tne open-llllf of drugstores on Hiindav is ft neciuutit.v. There is very much less to that than is generally supposed. Nearly all physicians nowadays carry a ftuftleiont stock of drugs and medicine to meet the demands of emergency eases.

As a matter of fact, the doctors havo cut into the druggists' business very much of late. The great bulk of the trade in drugs and medicines just as in food Hiipplien, is carried on perfectly easily 011 Butiii'day, wlthoutjiiiconvenioiice to any one, I wish tho drug dorks," concluded the speaker, "would join the Clerks' Protective Association and tlemand better-hours." One intenwting nwnlt of the rwent agitation has boon the sudden appcarauco of Hebrew merchants whose "'conscientious" belief about the oliservanco of Saturday has suddenly become very strong. It may not be unkind to suggest that tho fact that the Sunday market hoa recently been left almost ent irely unoccupied by the closing of tho Italian fruit hi ore, may account for thooiH'iiing of a dozen or fifteen fruit stores in "the ward" yesterday, whose owners claimed to be acting tinder Section 1,571 of the revised statutes, which reads as follows: No person, who eonwinntlouxlv believes that, the seventh day of the week ought tube ibKiu ved as the Hnlibat and actually refrain friiin Hecnliir busineHH anil lalxir on that (lav. Hliall Ih? liable to priwocutloii for performing uvular biiHlnesH aud laltor ua the H'lbhath, pru- vlded hn dlHturlii'fl no other ixirmm while at tending public worfhtp. DEATH OF E.

J. BASSETT. liitorcHlliitf l'oi'tn In 11 Look Insurance 1 11 roe r. ErastuH J. Bassott died at his home on Charter Oak Place at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, at the ago of 71 years aud 4 months, after an illness of aliout four weeks' duration.

Tho immediate cause of death was an affection of the heart, aggravated by other Kerious complications, some of which ho always thought were contracted ut the great Chicago fire. JUr. iMsactt was best known to the com munity and to tho insurance world as the general agent ami adjuster of the ICtua Insurance Company. In this capacity he was known bv insurance men all over the country, and had probably taken part in the adjustment and HottUunont of morn lire in.iir- ance losses than any man now living. In connection wan J.

C. Hilliard of lios- ton, ho had the adjustment of losses aggregating between three and four million dollars at the great Chicago fire. In the Boston fire of isrj he adjusted losses aggregating Mr. Bassott hud lived in Hartford for for-tv yearn. His first insurance business was with the old North American Fire.

He became conniK ted with the about twenty-eight years 11 go, and succeeded the late A. A. Williams as general agent three years later. During all ttiis time ho has been an active, energetic worker for the company, continually making long journeys at short notice, and has once or twice narrowly escaped serious injury or death. Many years ago at Burlington, at the time of the Fenian excitement there, he fell and broke his leg and narrowly escaped being mistaken for a drunken stranger, until recognized as a Free Mason and cared for by a brother of that craft.

At Buffalo, N. about two vears airo. he escaned from a burning hotel. in which aevtjiui mm i ic 11.1,. Air co was made at creat iersonal risk by climbing down the conductor and he received some slight injuries.

Mr. liassett was ixirn oiocsonusie, in William T. Bassett or the Allyn House barber shop is a brother. Edwin C. Bassett died last May.

He also leaves a widow who was a Miss Mary Garheld of Chicago, a distant relative of the late President Garfield, and three sons by a former wife. Thev are Ernest C. a clerk in the post ofiice, Eldorus employed at Cok Hancood's and who is toremau or tngine Company No. 4 on Ann street, and timer who is in the rubber business ia Chicago, Mr. Basett was a very qniet, gentlemanly man, honest and true to his convictions.

He was thoroughly loval to the insurance compan Which he has represented so faithfully tor over a quarter of a century, ilia judgment was alwaysconsidered remarkably good among his brother insurance adjusters, and his opinion ia regard to the settlement of au insurance loss always earned grea. weight with them. MjLHassetl wasametuber ofjhe Sorun Church. In politics he was an earnest republican. HeVlon-red to the onpnaT A ide Awakes of ISM, and has frequently turned out with them on their ex.cur?iens and pa-rsu'eT He was with them on their trip to Roekville last fall.

He was also aa active member of the Historical society. ThTfuneralwnll I from ha rao" Xo. 1 Charter Oak Place to-moirow afternoon at o'clock. The interment will be in Spring Grove Cemetery. NEWSPAPER MKNIIANQUKT Connecticut Press Association at Hotel Hlnthrop.

THERE WA8 A LA ROB GATHERING OF THE WORKERS. drnornl llawloy and (ouutovhiiiuii iiiiitiiliiurx rrcm 'ct'les Alter tlio Dinner, To the untiring energy of the secretary of tho association is duo the fact that the banquet at Meridcn Saturday night of the Connecticut Press Association was the largest gathertug of newspaper meu ever seen iu Counevticut. They came from all parts of the state, and every daily newspaper in Connecticut and many of tho woeklie worn represented. Tweuty-iiine Ttrw members were admitted to the associa-tiou. All were enthusiastic, ami there is no doubt that the Connecticut Press Association has bad an imjiotiis that will carry it to better things than it has ever seen bo-fore.

At o'clock the business meeting was called to order in one of the parlors of the hotel, with the president, A. N. Hall of the Merideu Jimritii', in the chair. The only business transacted was tho election to membership of twenty-nine applicant, Dinner was announced at The time before the meeting and ufterthe intM-ting until dinner was passed as the men saw (it. The dinner was well prepared and well served.

When the coffee aud cigars came on President Hall arose and introduced Mayor Charles H. Baldwin of Waterbnry as muster of ceromonioH. The first s)xaker was General Hawley, whose long connection with Tmk Coi'Rant aud his public career, made him the most conspicuous man present. Geuerul Hawley thanked tho association for recognising him as a newspaper man and inviting him to oe present. He was in the habit, he said, sometimes of looking backward.

He thought of the time when he opened a law office and wrote tor a weekly paper. Then he knew about every editor the state. Tbe number of puHrM was much Iohs than it is now. He was surprised to find so many men p-escnt und so few whom he knew. "You know," he said, "more than I can tell you of the press and its quality as a public instructor.

It is not always an intentional instructor, but it is in fact a very great teacher. What the paper you habitually read says is unconsciously ubsorbod and taken into your blood.1 Gout inning General Hawley said that the material world hail greatly changed since his youth, but not 'more anywhere than in the art of printing. Tlio changes during the next forty years will probably be as grout as during the last forty. The whole imiustiial world may bo changed iu that time. Tho newspaper is now iu a tentative period.

The New York Herald and Trilimit and may sometime bo tho United States Herald and 7Vifitin and iS'tin, with (Mlitions in Chicago, Sau Francisco and the other cities, all with tho same materials except that tho editorials will be colored according to local thought and conditions. Perhaps the papers will ull be the samo so far as news Is concerned. Wo have had intent insiilos, plate matter and syndicate matter, iu iew i org much of the local news is furnished alike to all the tinklers by a newn gathering agency. We shall have to look on tho editorial page for individuality in the newspapers of the future. The tendency everywhere is to save men from thinking anil working.

Whore will it all end; Ultimately It must return to the recognition of individual worth." After General Hawley's remarks camo a practical und helpful speech by ex-Congres-man li. J. Vance of the New Britain llertthl. His theme was the newspiier man and tho and he knocked out the latter in the first round John MoGin-ley of the New Loudon hmj talked about the white squadron and urged the importance to Connecticut of a comprehensive system of coast defenses. Congressman Amos J.

Cummings entertained the association wit Home choice and admirably told anecdotes of Dana and Greeley. "All I know about newspapers," he said, "I have gathered from reading newspapors. Tho secret of the success of newspapers is that newspaper men are themselves the most inveterate readers of newspiqiors. In estimating what the public like to read, a good rule to remember is that other people like to read what you like to read. General Hawley, who is the Nestor or nest egg of newspapers iu Connecticut, said he would be retrospective.

The greatest proof that he is a newspaper uiau is that he was not retrospective. How many times was he downed and how many times did he come tip smiling, until be was elected United States senator. Since Edmunds left it there is no republican in the United States Senate more influential with his party than Joseph R. Hawley. "Tho way to nmke a paper is to print the news.

Whnt the news? All do not ngreo on this point. Even great men differ." To illustrate the ideas of Mr. Groelcv and Mr. Dana on news, Mr. Ctmimiugs told several amusing anecdotes.

He spoke further of the usef ulness and the resiHiiiKibilitkn of the press, and gave much good advice. Other speakers were Willliam C. Bryant of the Brooklyn Charles A. Burpee of the Bridgeport Simulant and T. S.

Weaver of the Willimuntic The members of the association bade one another good night, with the promise to meet again at the next annual onnquet. G. H. CHAFFEE OF WETIIERSFIELD. His Body ltrninrht Homo From Colorado -springs.

Mrs. G. II. Chaffee arrived in tho city Saturday night with tho body of her husband, G. H.

Chaffee of Wethersfield, who went to Colorado last spring on the advice of his physicians, in the hope of streugtheniug his lungs. He died at Dr. Bjace's Sanitarium on Wednesday hist. Mr. Chi.ff'ee was the only son of Daniel Chaffee of Springfield.

Mass. He was 40 years of age. and a graduate of Amherst College in the class of 17ii. He had faithfully rilled the office of clerk and hospital steward iii the state orison nt Wetherstield for several years, which office he was compelled to resign hist March on account of failing health. Mr.

Chaffee hail won bv his manlv integrity the respect of all his fellow-townsnieu, who had learned to trustfully his sjKiken word. He leaves a widow, dunghter of the late Ebenezer WeMon, and three voung boys. Stocks on Saturday. Final sales Saturday "com pared with those of Friday as follows; Jur5J, July 2.v July T. S.

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Misnri I'ae. aVj Nat.l'oru'iieo us! C. Mason Mood v. the Franklin county (Mass.) defaulting treasurer, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment at hard Jabor. Amer l.n4 ln4 Can.mth'tk Kor.

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Ve-t 1 Vti lertVnt. 0 fi it M.1 fl il 4S 1 4tt I 4O0 Per Cent. nil tivt Mill It 4U4 II if tl HllMO-lllllI Not I'M. Tho Jeffernoi! Base Bull Clnh of t.hia citv defeated the Bristols at Bristol Saturday UJf A UIT" 01 I 10 -l. A tucked team from the Insurant! fjeairun was defeated Saturday afternoon on Mm Trinity grounds by the M.

C. A. nine by a score of If to 13, THE! DRIVING CLUB ItACES. r.ntrlc I I oho Till Kvoiilnu -Oilier Mm torn nl Intoi'KMi. Entries to the various classen of the (lent lemon Driving Club ohu meetiiig close this evening not Tuesday as printed in Saturday notes.

The mooting occurs next week Tuesday and WidnoHdny, and the present outlook is that only pleasant weather will lie needed to make tho meeting a success. Ab Is well-known, the meeting is given in part to help the club along In Its iinnrovemeiita at the track, and every one will hope it will be noouninrtlv hucci'hs- ful. It will 1m pleasure to those who occupy the grand stand hereafter on matinee days to have it to romeinlicr that they contributed towardr it, by attending the open meeting themselves una getting some one else to go, too. Tho club has afforded a great denl of free entertainment in the paid, throe venrs, anil oxxct to "do so some mom" in the future, mid it will boa very neat thing to help thorn along In this venture. As has already boon slated, therj will bo two trotting eventB each day and two bicy cle races.

The trotting is under National Ansociiition rules anil the bicycle races will be under A. V. rules. Each day will be interesting. Kemomlier that the tiottlnir entries chine to-night with Secretary Otis.

At Charter Oak Saturday. fl.KNTY OK VINITOHH AND HOMB (Mil lt Mll.KK MAI1K. More thau the usual number wont out to Charter Oak Saturday to enjoy the ('harm ing morning aud watch the horses at their work. Th track was a lit tle heavy in the early part of tho day, but tt yielded readily to the warm sun and Superintendent courti'ou lulHii's, no ellort at esueclallv fast time was made, but most of he horses wore worked, and now mid then a spirited brush occurred. Tom Martin of the Hither stable and Tom Carpenter of Shllliulaiv'i stable made a pretty exhibition tiulo in about matt iJiinov sent 1'Vstus a couple of eav miles, the fastest in Uiok Ulument liul drove Homer VV, a mile and repent, and later gave Fred.

Dow's Sam a mile in Dnrcey drove Prince (better known as the Keuey horse) a good mile; later seiiding.Mr. Strong's Loyola an easy mile; Mr. Strong's Vindicator uIho did a mile In 'ii4 mid traction handily. This follow has improved greatly Milne last season. Buck man of Sliillinlaw's stable wiih worked, as was the Wilcox contingent.

They had another candidate from Mr. Wil-cox'k farm in the shape of a lny, stridy pacer, out of the sumo dam as Fanny und Lizzieinout, and he acts as tlioituli ho miuht some day go up to their clip, Mr. J. 11. Otis gave Sir.

lleiiumont'B new 0110 a couple of trips, just show the new comer what a fine track Charter Oak is. Tho now coiner is a mighty slick article a dark sorrel, high-heiuled, clean from ear-tip to fetlock, and as good a looker gonenulv as one could wish to see, and he dixw bra work admirably. He went within a st'ond of his mark with tho utmost ease. Ho is said to havecoHt Mr. Bc'iuiuoiit II, NK) and he is hh cheap as broilers at a quarter a pair ut that money.

One of the attractions of the morning was a trotting-bred (illy from Sliillinlaw's stable by General Turner. She mocks a trotter right handily even thus early iu her education It would be out of the question to note all the events of the busy morning, but it is safe to shv that those who stood it through were well paid for the tune sjiont. Among the IookerN-on that were noted at ono tune or another of tho morning were the Hon. F. II.

Cooley, Air. Henry honey, Mr. W. W. HolitrtH.

Father Broderick of St. Peter's, Messrs. Strong, Hyde, Oilman, Fitzgerald, Wilcox of Southingtoii, Haskell, J. 11, Parker, Bingham and many others. Make a note of it that Mr.

Hyde of the Brewer is a most judicious manager of trotters, and he goes at it as if he liked it, looking after every little detail with scrupulous care. If tbe "horses under his immediate snjierviHion fail in their efforts it certainly won't be his or Shilliulaw fault. "How fast shall I send him!" queried John as he got up to give Carpenter his second mile. "Thirty will do," replied Mr. Hyde.

Tho general rated the gelding well, passing tho wire iu'Lll1. Tom has improved in looks, anil is stouter thau bust Men were busy alxmt the park, touching up here and there with brush and hammer, getting things in trim for tho coming meeting. Secretary King was alxmt, having an eve to the details. IjiMt Iuy ut IK-trolt. Saturday was the last day of the Detroit Driving Club's meeting, which has been a most successful one.

In the 2:10 class, trotting, St. Elmo was a hot favorite, but in the first heat Hensi hel, his driver, drove too near the rail, broke the sulky wheel and sprained his own ankle. After this mishap St. tlmo coum uo no oeiuer uiiiu umu, Allene getting first and Diamond second. Best time, 'i.

Alter two heats in the 'J l'J pace, Mascot went in and took three straight, Scioto Girl, who took the first wo, being second, Nellie B. third. Best time (by Mascot), Street Parade anil Ilenltf Tho Cigarmakers' Union wilt make a street parade Ih'n afternoon headed by Pope's Band. They will leave Central Lab, Union Hall at 1 o'clock and march up Pearl street, to Ford, to Asylum, to Trumbull, to Main, around the city hall and down Main to the South Green. From the South Green the of the Union will take cars and 'busses to Union Grove, where they and their friends will hold a picniG during the afternoon and evening.

Funeral of Mrs. Fowler. The funeral services of the late Mrs. N. A.

Fowler were held at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at her former home on Townley street. The Kev. Joseph Twichell nffii-iatHiL insisted bv the Rev. Dr. Stone.

The body was taken to Auburn. X. on the tram last evening tor interment. from Muerren indicate thai the accident which befell Mr. Henry M.

Stanley was not as serious as first reported. His left ankle joint was fractured while mountain climbing. A bulletin issued to-day states that the pain has ceased and that tho patient is progressing favorably. EAST HARTFORD. Barrett Brothers of Hartford began on the new printing office near the depot Sat urday morning.

It will lie up aud covered this week. Tho two Hayden avenue residents who were fighting ou the street Friday evening last have concluded to settle between themselves and not apiea! to the law. The horse-cars were crowded all dav yesterday up to o'clock in the evening. Many city people went for a ride in the country. The closing of the Farmers' Hotel has not stopped Sunday drunkenness.

Several farmers were making hay yesterday in the South Meadows. There is a chance for the druggists to "even up" if they feel inclined. If fruit stands und druggists are compelled by the authorities to close on Sundays La this town, certaiu parties are making threats that no borne-cars will be allowed to run here on Sundays or liverymen be allowed to let their teams. Springs are very low for so early in the season. Many wells have neatly failed ami are being made deeiier.

Owners of meadow land on the big river, half a mile north of tho railroad bridge, an great losers every year. Where there were two and three acres or more twenty years ago there is none now. Tho spring floods wash it off on the east side and mako it in the same proportion on the west side. Some prophesy that in loss than thirty years tho main river will run iu what they claim is its natural course, down hyt the gulf, so-called, under the the first dry bridge near East Hartford meadow lands. Parker L.

Darlin of East Hartford, while wrestling yesterday afternoon, was thrown and sustained a fracture of the right leg. He was brought to the hospital iu Hartford, where the fracture was found to lie a simple one, from which ho ought soon to recover. Hartford In tho White Moutalus. Among tho Hartford people reported iu the White Mountain Keho of July 25 are: C. P.

Cooley at The Ridge, Kearsarge Vil lage Mrs. M. Storrs and L. A. Btorrs at the Crawford nouse; Miss I.

V. Hammond and Miss A. Bunco at the Jefferson Hill House; Mrs. O. Wright, Mr.

and Mrs. J. O. Hart, Miss H. Hart, Mrs.

B. Hart, Mrs. E. C. Hills and the Misses Hills, Mrs.

T. T. Fisher, Miss C. A. Fisher, and Mrs.

S. V. legato, at the Mountain View House, Whitefield Mr. and Mrs. T.

B. Merrill at the Hillside House, Bethlehem, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

Brewster, Mm. E. C. Hilliard, Miss Cordelia Hilliard and E. E.

Hilliard at the Sinclair House, Bethlehem; Miss O. O. Sweet and Miss J. B. Kollogg at the Hawthorne, Frnueonia: Mrs.

Lorenz and Miss Lorenz at the Sunset Hill House, Sugar Hill; Miss L. S. Bunce, Professor O. F. Johnson and family, Mr.

and Mrs. J. A. Smith, Miss B. H.

Smith, Miss A. A. Smith und Miss F. M. Collins at the Asquam House, HolderuoRs.

THE SOLDIERS' HOME. Mr. Kylneton Asked to Kxanilno for UlniNc-lf The Sitiporln tendency. Charges having appeared in the Norwalk Gazette, signed by tho editor of the paper, concerning tho conduct of the Soldiers' Home at Noroton by Dr. Munson, it was voted at a meeting of the board of managers held Saturday that th Hon.

A. H. By-ington, proprietor of the Cazrtte, be requested to make an examination of the home with reference to the improper disposal of property, pictures, and to make the result of his examination an public as he has his charges. It was also voted that General Averill, the inspector of national and state soldiers' homes, be requested to investigate the management of the home during his visit to Connecticut, when making his annual tour of inspection, and to report to the board any abuses of theinmatesjirjiny mis-lnniiiigement 01 the home or hospital. The board elected Captain James N.

Coe of New Haven sniicrmtendent of the Home. Captain Coe is at present in the freight office of the road. Hs enlisted in the army ou April as a sergeant in Company Second Regiment Connecticut Infantry, under Colonel Alfred H. Terry. On July being mustered out, he enlisted witfe the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company K.

He was made fir-t lieutenant of Company I ou February 2i, 1SC4, aud captain of Company on February 19, toil. He was mustered out on August IS, thus serving through the war. He has been commander of Admiral Fooie Post, G. A. of New Haven, the largest post in the state.

Hie resignation of Dr. Muuson as super-tendent was the result of the determination of tho board of managers to separate the general management of the Home from the hospital service, for some time contem- Elated. A medical superintende.t of the Ofipital will soon lie selected. In the meantime Dr. Anderson will remain in charge, assisted daily by Dr.

Gregory of Norwalk anil Drs. Hu'rlbnt. Gieb and Hun- gerford of Stamford, members of the con- suraiig ooarti. Lewis G. Logan was elected aa-iistant superintendent." He has been connected with the Home for some time.

He enlisted in Company First Heavy Artillerv, on May 'St, 101, and was made sergeant. He was appointed first lieutenant of Company Bon March 4, 1n, and first lieutenant of Company on February 27, Imsj. He was musiereo out fin octotier '1, lb'U. Mrs. Walter W.

Smith lKal. Mrs. Rosa Smith, wife of Walter W. Smith of the police force, died at o'clock Saturday night after a long and painful sickness, at her home, No. :Y.i Talcott street.

ure was o.espairea of some mourns ago, and for the last three days was uonrly expected. She was alont 4 vears of age. She leaves two daughters uu laree sons. The funeral will, be at 4 clock this alternoon. The Colt Club Mioot.

At the medal shoot of the Colt Club at twenty-fire Keystone tanrets KatnnW Mr. Sterry of Toiland won the medal. Tt scores were as fol'ows: Sterry, 2:1: Root. o-. "Ford." Decker.

22: "Wood," Tt' 19: Alger, Douglass. "Whit," monr, McMnllen, 17: Rislev. 15: 14; Collins, 13: Wiliw-, Colt," s. day (Sunday.) MRS. H0PK1NS-SEARLES.

Death of tlio Richest Woman In America. Mrs. MarkHopkins-Searles died after along and painful illness at the residence of her husband, Edward F. Searles, in Methuen, Sunday morning. Mrs.

Searles was the widow of Mark Hopkins, who was in earlier days deeply interested in the Union Pacific and died some years ago, leaving his widow sole heir to over forty millions of dollars. The New York Herald yesterday said: There is no story of an American fortune quite so strange and so improbable as the story of Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Kearles and her enormous wealth. Mrs. Hopkins was born in New York City about seventy years ago.

Her fat hor was a poor struggling teacher named William Sherwood. There was a big family of the SherwoodH, mostly girls. When they were still young they moved to Great Harrington, where Mr. Sherwood taught until he left this shifting scene and then three of his girls, including the one afterward so wealthy, opened a little select school. Then lank, thoughtful, penurious young Now Eng-lnndor named Mark Hopkins came along and married one of the girls without much of anything to keep bouse on, and started with her for California in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn.

This was in 1SW, when the great rush to Cal-fornia was setting in. Young Hopkins looked around and finally settled in Sacramento.where he formed a partnership with a man named CollisP. Huntington, and with him opened a little shop, where they sold hammers aud nails to the miners. Huntington Hopkins was the name of the firm. In a few years Huntington Hopkius began to get ahead and enlarge their business.

Before tho war broke out they were a well known firm and were doing well, for both partners had the money -getting habit inherited it, likely. With the easing of their financial situation the Hopkinses did not change their manner of life. They still saved and saved, and avoided unnecessary expenses like death until they began to amass a little fortune. The war had alled public attention to the necessity of a railroad across the continent that would bind the states together and enable troops to be moved from one end of the country to the other. Huntington.

Hopkins, Stamford and Crocker caught this idea. They worked their Shingle Springs line into the project and got after years of effort aud laboring, the support of the government for the building of the Central Pacific Railroad, support lieiug in this instance a gift of lMHi for every mile tney built in mountainous country and for every mile they built on the level. There was a great deal of mountainous country on the line that they built. It became evident after awhile that Hopkins, Stanford and Crocker had a fairly prolitable enterprise on hand. The result of all which was that the combination known thereafter as the Big Four" made in the neighborhood of JiOu.UKVOij in about five years.

Mr. Hopkins took his share, about ftn.OuiUXK! or so, and retired. He went to San Francisco with his careful, frugal wife, who, as her fortunes grew, made no muredisplay and indulged in no more extravagance than when she was penniless, and they made there the first ontlav of their wealth. It was a house on Nob Hill that cost the costliest and one of the least attractive residences on the Pacific coast. Then Mr.

Hopkins died aud his widow inherited and managed all his wealth. Sometime after his death ft New York firm sent out a young art decorator to anorn the Hopkins residence on Nob Hill, Francisco. His name was Edgar F. Searles. and he so well succeeded in his work that the rich widow felt that he was indispensable to her, and they were married November 10, 1SS7, in Trinity chapel, New York.

Mr. and Mrs. Searles have since their wed-dinjif resided, when not abroad, lately in Methuen. in a magnificent residence built upon tho site of Mr. Searles'a birthplace.

The New York Times said: Mrs. magnificent houses ara famous wherever they exist, and, like the good woman's charitable bequests, they are her enduring memorials. Of all the stately homes which her great wealth permitted her to build, none is so magnificent as that at Kellogff Terrace, Great Harrington. A towered and tur-retted wall surrounds it, wide sweeps of marble steps, with marble sphinxes on guard on either side, lead to it. delicate carvings, with massive towers and chimnevs.

adorn it. Within, there is a great main hall, two stories high and thirtv feet wide, made of marble throuch-out. In the atrium tbe wainscotine is of Mexican onvx. behind which soft electric light dispense the loveliest, of hues. The rear of the atrium opens upon a loggia, which commands a view of miles upon miles of woodland, hills and mountains, and a great lawn acres wide, with a gigantic fountain in its center.

The music ruom is feet long and 42 feet wide, with its ceiling paneled in stucco of ivory tint, adorned with oil paintings. The room contains a great organ, which cost and which is said to be the finest organ in any private house in this country. There are forty other rooms in this splendid home. One of the most beautiful of these is the dining room: another is called the Windsor room because its dtxr said to have once adorned a room of Windsor Castle: another is a library, finished in black walnut: another, a billiard room in butternut, and another a smoking room iu quartered oak. The sleeping rooms are furnished in gorgeous style.

Silks, satins, and tapestries adorn the walls and furniture, and lace of inca'culaWe value covers the leds. The whole bouse and the grounds are lighted with more than electric lights furnished by a private plant on the premiers. Governor mttlson Will Appear. Harkisbvkg, July 2C. -Governor Pattison has written the Bardsley investigating committee that he will appear before them at any time when it is mutually convenient.

Richard S. Newcombc Dead. New York, July -S. Richard S. New-combe, the eminent lawyer, died at his residence this evening.

He had been ill for a long time and bis death was not.