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The Hartford Courant. 178. HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1891. Fair, no Change in Temperature. WAHINGTON, July until p.

m. Monday: For New England, generally fair, stationary temperature, except slightly warmer at Boston. southwest winds. HUGH DAILEY AND OTHERS Thought to Have Been Drowned in the Sound. THE WEATHER.

NEW HAVEN, July 27. -On Sunday Hugh Dailey, city attorney of this city, Rufus Shepard, a bank clerk, and Clarence Beebe, employed by the Sargent Company, went sailing in the Sound in a catamaran. Late last evening disabled catamaran, supposed to be that upon which men went out, piras sighted drifting about in the Sound. 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 catamasearching party left the city immediately 01 the arrival of the steamer Margaret.

THE WHITE SQUADRON. Tangled 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, Cushing and Vesuvius had no trouble in getting under headway. The Bo3 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- Mrs. Mark Hopkins died after along and painful illness at the residence of her husband, Edward F. Searles, in Methuen, early 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 is no story of an American fortune quite so strange and so improbable as the story of Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Searles and her enormous wealth. Mrs. Hopkins was born in New York City about seventy years ago. Her father was a poor struggling teacher named William Sherwood.

There was a big family of the Sherwoods, mostly girls. When they were still young they moved to Great Barrington, 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 a lank, thoughtful, penurious young New Englander named Mark Hopkins came along and married one of the girls without much of anything to keep house on, and started with her for California in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn. This was in 1849, when the great rush to Calfornia was setting in.

Young Hopkins looked around and finally settled in Sacramento, where he formed a partnership with a man named Collis P. Huntington, and with him opened a little shop, miners. where they Huntington sold hammers and nails the Hopkins was the name of the firm. In a few years Huntington Hopkins began to get ahead and enlarge their business. Before the 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 called 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 and their Shingle after years Springs of effort line and into the laboring, project support of the government for the building got the the Central Pacific Railroad, support being in this instance a gift of $18,000 for every mile they built in mountainous country and $30,000 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 Huntington, Hopkins, Stanford and Crocker had a fairly profitable enterprise on hand. The result of all which was that the combination known thereafter as the Four" made in the neighborhood of $200,000,000 in about five years. Mr. Hopkins took his share, about $40.000,000 or so, and retired.

He went to San Francisco with his careful, frugal wife, who, as her fortunes grew, made no more display and indulged in no more extravagance than when she was penniless, and they made there the first outlay of their wealth. It was a house on Nob Hill that cost $1,250,000, the costliest and one of the least attractive residences on the Pacific coast. Then Mr. Hopkins died and his widow inherited and managed all his wealth. Some time after his death a New York firm sent out a young art decorator to adorn the Hopkins residence on Nob Hill, San 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, 1887, in Trinity chapel, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Searles have since their wedding resided, when not abroad, lately in Methuen, in a magnificent residence built upon the site of Mr.

Searles's birthplace. The New York Times Searles's magnificent houses are 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 Kellogg race, Great Barrington. A towered and turretted 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 chimneys, adorn it.

Within, there is a great main hall, two stories high and thirty feet wide, made of marble throughout. In the atrium the wainscoting is of Mexican onyx. behind which soft electric lights 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 100 acres wide, with a gigantic fountain in its center. The music room is 50 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 $75,000 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 door is 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 in quartered oak. The sleeping rooms are furnished in gorgeous style.

Silks, satins, and tapestries adorn the walls and furniture, and lace of incalculable value covers the beds. The whole house and the grounds are lighted with more than 500 electric lights furnished by a day (Sunday.) MRS. HOPKINS-SEARLES. Death of the Richest. Woman in Amer- private plant on the premises.

Governor Pattison Will Appear. HARRISBURG, July -Governor Pattison has written the Bardsley investigating committee that he will appear before them at any time when it is mutually convenient. Richard S. Newcombe Dead. New YORK, July S.

combe, the eminent lawyer, died at his residence this evening. He had been ill for a long time and his death was not unexpected. PRICE THREE CENTS. INFERNAL MACHINES Received by M. Constans and Other French Officials.

FORTUNATE DISCOVERY IN EACH CASE. A Retired Naval Surgeon with a Grievance Suspected of Being the Guilty Party. PARIS, July has come to light that an infernal machine was received by Mme. Constans, the wife of M. Constans, minister of the interior, Saturday.

Mme. Constans received a package addressed to her from Toulan, i 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 by a letter, was found by Minister Constans on Saturday morning on his desk.

The hand writing 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 it when 1 he noticed a fuse affixed to the leaves. The book was then turned over to the police, by whom it was cautiously opened, when 2 cavity was disclosed in which was concealed 200 grammes of fulminate. 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, under-secretary of the colonial office, and another was received by M. Trielle, director of the colonial health department. M. Trielle was put on 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. STANLEY AND HIS WIFE. Both Deny the Story of a Disagreement. The World story about a separation of Henry M. Stanley and his wife is promptly denied by both.

The New York Sunday Herald contains a card from each as printed in the European edition of that paper on the same day. The statements are as MRS. STANLEY'S STATEMENT. 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, high time a stop was put to such a shameful fabrication.

Is there no protection from these newspaper insults? DOROTHY STANLEY. MR. STANLEY'S STATEMENT. The statement reported to have been published in the New York World about a separation and domestic infelicity in my married life is absolutely false and without any foundation whatsoever. I have no hesitation in saying that each day of our married life has been one of pure content and unalloyed happiness.

HENRY 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 EWALD WEISS. The Lost Traveler's Watch Found in the Mountains. GLEN HOUSE, N. July 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. official census of France shows a population of 38,095,150.

This is an (urban) increase of 208,584. The naval estimates committee, of the Chamber of Deputies has by a vote of 9 to 8, a scheme for placing torpedoes in all the principal ports of France. Koch Has a New Office, BERLIN, July statement is authorized that Professor Koch has not resigned his official positions on account of the failure of tuberculin or Kochism, but because 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 Academic Senate will bestow an honorary office upon Professor Koch, and that this will permit him to lecture whenever and wherever he pleases. Suicide of Levi L.

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 at Gravesend Beach, Saturday. crater but little doubt that Mr. Brigham committed suicide, as he had been in financial trouble some time.

He had discharged from his position as paymaster's clerk on the United States steamship Richmond and had since been in want of money. He was well connected in Boston. Death of a Veteran Journalist. Curtis B. Wells of Springfield, a veteran printer and journalist, died at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs.

E. H. Wells, in Deerfield, Saturday morning at the age of 58. Mr. Wells was at one time employed in the same printing office, in Greenfield, with the late Stephen A.

Hubbard of THE HARTFORD COURANT. Death of Sir Charles Forster. LONDON, July Charles Forster, bart, member of Parliament for Walsall, died to-day. He was born in 1815, and had sat for Walsall since 1852. In politics he was a liberal in favor of home rule.

Senator Quay Not to Resign. BEAVER, July 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. Gift to Northwestern University. CHICAGO, July Lunt of this city has presented the Northwestern University with $50,000. The gift is to provide a new library building for the university.

SEIZED BY THE RUSH. Sealing Schooner That Did Not Heed the Warning. REGULATIONS BEING RIGIDLY ENFORCED. Many Schooners Warned- Persist in Their Poaching OperationsFishing on Russian Territory. VICTORIA, B.

July -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 Point not to do so. The Rush chased her into Outnalaska, seized her, and handed her over to the British warship Nymphe, by whom she was ordered home. The Marvin brought news that July 7 the sealer 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 twentyone 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 the sea. A number of them are intending to go in and hunt seals on the Russian shore and defy both the United States and British men of war. At 1 o'clock this morning the schooner Ainoka entered the harbor here. The captain reports that seventeen British and American sealing vessels were caught June 20th 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 the schooners intended to try and enter Bering Sea to hunt seals on the Russian side. The Ainoka left Alitak Bay June 28. RAILROAD DISASTERS. Two in Ohio School Excursionists Killed. DAYTON, July rear end collision of "Big Four" freight trains occurred near Callion, this morning, wrecking several cars and scattering the goods.

The first section of the train was pulling out of the side track when the second section came rolling along at full speed and crashed into the rear end. The engineer and fireman jumped, but it is not known whether they were hurt 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 trains were delayed several hours.

Excursion Train Wrecked. The worst accident that ever occurred in southern Ohio happened at Middletown Saturday night on the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton road. Several from Dayton picnicked Sunday Woodsdale Island Park during the and started for home at 8 o'clock. When the excursion train reached Middletown it was to be sidetracked to allow an 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, aged 13; Miss Lidia Freyer, aged 22; Frank Simoner, aged 17. Four are 11 a critical condition at St. Elizabeth Hos-Joseph B. Cloval, mechanical draughtsman, left arm crushed off at shoulder; Frank Patterson, aged 21, left arm amputated above elbow; Joseph E. Sweeverly, aged 25, of Pottsville, spinal injury," and James Murphy, aged 50, ribly injured the small of back.

Miss Reese, of Osborne, 0., was badly injured, and also the following people from Dayton: Warren Thompson, Fred Weidner, Marks Merick, R. S. Rutle, Kate Schlein, Elden M. Beason and wife: Frank Reiger, William O'Man, Mary Gram, Annie Venard, Samuel Lohr, Charles Myers, Maggie Frest, Annie Brennan, Pearl Shorthill, W. C.

Thompson. There are more with bruises and other slight injuries. One in Tennessee. CHATTANOOGA, July The suburban train on the Chattanooga, Rome Columbus Railroad, which left here last evening, met with a terrible accident bevond Mission bridge. The fireman, Lewis Potts, was killed, and the engineer, Thomas Burchall, severely injured.

The extent of the damage will not be known till tomorrow. A Horror in France. PARIS, July collision betweon excursion trains occurred at St. Maude today, in which fifteen persous 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 left the St. Maude station. The guards' van and the three rear carriages of the fast train were wrecked and caught fire from the gas. The injured occupants were shrieking in despair and the other passengers hurriedly left the train and assisted in extricating the vietims. Soldiers also aided the fire brigade to quench the flames and rescue, the sufferers.

The work of helping the injured was carried on by torchlight." EARTHQUAKE IN INDIANA. EVANSVILLE, July 8:29 p. m. a considerable shock of earthquake was felt in this city. There was some alarm, but SO far no one is reported hurt.

No damage reported. STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS. York. Well-Known Telegrapher. Saturday, July 25.

At New York- City of Chicago from Liverpool; Normannia from Southampton. Sunday, July 26. At New York -La Normandie from Hamburg: Gellert from Hamburg. At Queenstown-Aurania from New York. At Havre--La Champagne from New PROVIDENCE, R.

July T. Stevens, aged 32, one of the best -known telegraphers in the country and Associated Press in the Erening Reporter office, Woonsocket, died suddenly at his home in that city to-day of heart failure. Open-Air Services. At the open-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. J. W. Bradin, Arthur Shipman and Joseph Chapman spoke at the south side meeting.

ACCIDENT TO MR. STANLEY. progressing favorably. EAST HARTFORD. GENEVA, July Henry M.

Stanley, the explorer, has met with a serious accident. According to information received here from Muerren, where Mr. Stanley is staying with his wife, the explorer has fractured his left lower thigh bone by accidentally slipping while mountain climbing. Mr. Stanley had started to walk from Muerren toward Schill Valley.

While passing through a wood he slipped 011 some rocky ground and fell heavily on the earth, fracturing his left thigh bone. Two English doctors, who happened to be stopping at Muerren, were summoned to the spot where the accident occurred. They bandaged Mr. Stanley's injured leg and then had the explorer, conveyed to Muerren, where Dr. Playfair of Kurhaus is attending him.

The doctors think that the fracture will heal easily, and no complications are feared. Mr. Stanley's Injuries Slight. GENEVA, July information from indicates that the necident which befell Mr. Henry M.

Stanley was not a8 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 the patient is Barrett Brothers of Hartford began 011 the new printing office near the depot Saturday morning. It will be up and covered this week. The two Hayden avenue residents who were fighting on the street Friday evening last have concluded to settle between themselves not appeal to the law.

The horse were crowded all day yesterday up to 9 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 uD" if they feel inclined.

It fruit stands and druggists are compelled by the authorities to close on Sundays in this town, certain parties are making threats that no horse-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 nearly failed and are being made deeper. Owners of meadow land on the big river, half a mile north of the railroad bridge, are great losers every year. Where there Were two and three acres or more twenty years ago there is none now.

The spring floods wash it off on the east side and make it in the same proportion on the west side. Some prophesy that in less than thirty years the main river will run in what they claim is its natural course, down by the gulf, socalled, 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 in Hartford, where the fracture was found to be a simple one, from which he ought soon to recover.

Hartford in the White Montains. Among the Hartford people reported in the White Mountain Echo of July 25 are: C. P. Cooley at The Ridge, Kearsarge Village; Mrs. M.

C. Storrs and L. A. Storrs at the Crawford House: Miss I. V.

Hammond and Miss A. Bunce at the Jefferson Hill House; Mrs. G. Wright, Mr. and Mrs.

J. C. Hart, Miss H. Hart, Mrs. B.

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

Fisher, Miss C. A. Fisher, and Mrs. S. V.

Legate, at the Mountain View House, Whitefield; Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Merrill at the Hillside House, Bethlehem, Mr.

and Mrs. J. H. Brewster, Mrs. E.

C. Hilliard, Miss Cordelia Hilliard and E. E. Hilliard at the Sinclair House, Bethlehem: Miss C. C.

Sweet and Miss' J. B. Kellogg at the Hawthorne, Franconia: Mrs. C. Lorenz and Miss Lorenz at the Sunset Hill House, Sugar Hill: Miss L.

S. Bunce, Professor C. F. Johnson and family, Mr. and Mrs.

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

A. Smith and Miss F. M. Collins at the Asquam THE SOLDIERS' HOME. Mr.

Byington Asked to Examine for Himself- The Charges having appeared in the Norwalk Gazette, signed by the editor of the paper, concerning the conduct of the Soldiers' Home at Noroton by Dr. Munson, it was voted at a meeting of the of managers held Saturday that the Hon. A. H. Byington, proprietor of the Gazette, be requested make an examination of the home with reference to the improper disposal of property, pictures, and to make the result of his examination as 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 the inmates or any mismanagement of the home or hospital. The board elected Captain James N. Coe of New Haven superintendent of the Home. Captain Coe is at present in the freight office of the Consolidated road. He enlisted in the army on April 20, 1861, as a sergeant in Company Second Regiment Connecticut Infantry, under Colonel Alfred H.

Terry. On July 19, 1862, being mustered out, he enlisted with the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery, and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company K. He was made first lieutenant of Company I 011 February 29, 1864, and captain of Company on February 19, 1865. He was mustered out 011 August 18, 1865, thus serving through the war. He has been commander of Admiral Foote Post, G.

A. of New Haven, the largest post in the state. The resignation of Dr. Munson as tendent was the result of the determination of the board of managers to separate the general management of the Home from the hospital service, for some time contemplated. A medical superintendeut of hospital will soon be selected.

In the meantime Dr. Anderson will remain in charge, assisted daily by Dr. Gregory of Norwalk and Drs. Hurlbut, Gieb and Hungerford of Stamford, members of the consulting board. Lewis G.

Logan was elected assistant superintendent. He has been connected with the Home for some time. He enlisted in Company First Heavy Artillery, on May 23, 1861, and was made sergeant. He was appointed first lieutenant of Company on March 4, 1862, and first lieutenant of Company on February 27, 1863. He was mustered out on October 22, 1861.

Mrs. Walter W. Smith Dead. Mrs. Rosa Smith, wife of Walter W.

Smith of the police force, died at 8 o'clock Saturday night after a long and painful sickness, at her home, No. 39 Talcott street. Mrs. Smith's life was of despaired some months ago, and for the last three davs death was hourly expected. She was about 45 years of age.

She leaves two and three sons. The funeral will daughters at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The Colt Club Shoot. At the medal shoot of the Colt Club at twenty-five Keystone targets Saturday Mr. Sterry of Tolland won the medal.

scores were as follows: Sterry, 23: "Ford." 22; Decker, 22: Wood." 19; Root, T.reat, 22; 19; Alger, Douglass, 19: "Whit," 14; mour, 18; McMullen. 17: Risley, 15: White, SeyCollins, 13; Willey, 13; Colt, S. NEWSPAPER MEN BANQUET Connectient Press Association at Hotel Winthrop. THERE WAS A LARGE GATHERING OF THE WORKERS. General Hawley and Congressman Cummings Present After the Dinner.

To the untiring energy of the secretary of the association is due the fact that the banquet at Meriden Saturday night of Connecticut Press Association was the largest gathering of newspaper men ever seen in Connecticut. They came from all parts of the state, and every daily newspaper in Connecticut and many of the weeklies were represented. Twenty-nine new members were admitted to the association. All were enthusiastic, and there is no doubt that the Connecticut Press Association has had an impetus that will carry it to better things than it has ever seen before. At 8:80 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 Meriden Journal, in the chair. The only business transacted was the election to membership of twenty-nine applicants. Dinner was announced at 9:30. The time before the meeting and after the meeting until dinner was passed as the men saw fit.

The dinner was well prepared and well served. When the coffee and 1 cigars came President Hall arose and introduced Mayor Charles R. Baldwin of Waterbury as master of ceremonies. The first speaker was General Hawley, whose long connection with THE COURANT and his public career, made him the most conspicuous man present. General Hawley thanked the association for recognizing him as a newspaper man and inviting him to De 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 for a weekly paper, Then he knew nbout every editor in the state. The number of papers was much less than it is now. He was surprised to find so many men present and 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 1 it is in fact a very great teacher. What the paper you habitually read says is unconsciously absorbed and taken into your blood." Continuing General Hawley said that the material world had greatly changed since his youth, but not more anywhere than in the art of printing. The changes during the next forty years will probably be as great as during the last forty. The whole industrial world may be changed in that time. The newspaper 18 now in a tentative period.

The New York Herald and Tribune and Sun may sometime be the United States Herald and Tribune and Sun, with editions in Chicago, San Francisco and the other cities, all with the same materials that the editorials will be colored according to local thought and conditions. Perhaps the papers will all be the same 80 far as news is concerned. We have had I patent insides, plate matter and syndicate matter. In New York much of the local news is furnished alike to all the papers by a news gathering agency. We shall have to look on the editorial page for individuality in the newspapers of the future.

The tendency everywhere is to save men from thinking and working. Where will it all end! Ultimately it must return to the recognition of individual After General Hawley's remarks came a practical and helpful speech by ex-Congressman R. J. Vance of the New Britain Herald. His theme was the newspaper man and the journalist, and he knocked out the latter in the first round.

John McGinley of the New London Day 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 with some choice admirably told anecdotes of Dana and Greeley. "All I know about newspapers," he said, "I have gathered from reading newspapers. The secret of the success of newspapers is that newspaper men are themselves the most inveterate readers of newspapers.

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 in Connecticut, said he would be retrospective. The greatest proof that he is a newspaper inau is that he was not retrospective. How many times was he downed and how many times did he come up smiling, until he was elected United States senator. Since Edmunds left it there is no republican in the United States Sennte more influential with his party than Joseph R.

Hawley. "The way to make a paper is to print the news. What is the news? All do not agree on this point. Even great men differ." To illustrate the ideas of Mr. Greeley and Mr.

Dana on news, Mr. Cummings told several amusing anecdotes. He spoke further of the usefulness and the responsibilities of the press, and gave much good advice. Other speakers were William C. Bryant of the Brooklyn Times, Charles A.

Burpee of the Bridgeport Standard and T. S. Weavthe Willimantic Journal. The members of the association bade one another good night, with the promise to meet again at the next annual banquet. G.

H. CHAFFEE OF WETHERSFIELD. His Body Brought Home From Colorado Springs. Mrs. G.

H. Chaffee arrived in the city Saturday night with the body of her husband, G. H. Chaffee of Wethersfield, who went to Colorado last spring on the physicians, in the hope of strengthening, his lungs. Wednesday He died last.

at Dr. Mr. Chaffee 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 1876.

He had faithfully filled office of clerk and hospital steward in the state prison at Wethersfield for several years, which office he was compelled to resign last March on account of failing health. Mr. Chaffee had won by his manly integrity the respect of all his fellowtownsmen, who had learned to trust fully his spoken word. He leaves a widow, daughter of the late Ebenezer Weldon, and three young boys. Stocks on Saturday, Final sales Saturday compared with those of Friday as Jury 24.

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98 961 Wheel L.E. Missouri Par. 651 pf 74 Nat. Cordage 88 C. Mason Moody, the Franklin county (Mass.) defaulting treasurer, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment at hard labor.

BASE-BALL SATURDAY. National League. Boston -New York. 13. Boston, 3, At Brooklyn- -Brooklyn, 15; Philadelphia, 2.

At Cleveland -Chicago, Cleveland. 14. At Pittsburgh- Cincianati, 1: Pittsburgh, 0 American Association. At Baltimore (14 innings) Baltimore, BoRton. 3.

At Philadelphia- Athletics, Philadelphia, 1. Columbus Columbus, 4: St. Louis, 1. At Cincinnati -Cincinnati, 19; Louisville, 3. National League Standing.

Clubs. Won. Lost. Per Cent. Chicago 46 300 50.0 New York.

422 30 08.3 34 55.3 Cleveland. 51.3 Philadelphia. 40 48.1 Brooklyn. 41 46.1 Cincinnati 45 49,3 Pittaburg. 30 45 40.0 American Association Standing.

Clubs. Won. Lost. Per Cent. Boston.

06 60.1 St. Louis. 65.1 Baltimore. 59.0 Athletic. 40 50.6 Columbus.

49.4 Cincinnati 48 42.0 Louisville. 39.6 Washington. 53 Base-Ball Notes. The Jefferson Base Ball Club of this city defeated the Bristols at Bristol Saturday by a score of 7 to 4. A picked team from the Insurance League was defeated Saturday afternoon on the Trinity grounds by the M.

C. A. nine by a score of 15 to 13. THE DRIVING CLUB RACES. Entries Close This Evening- -Other Matters of Interest.

eye to the details. Last Day at Detroit. Saturday was the last day of the Detroit Entries to the various classes of the Gentlemen's Driving Club open meeting close this evening--not Tuesday as printed in Saturday's notes. The meeting occurs next week Tuesday and Wednesday, and the present outlook is that only pleasant weather will be needed to make the meeting a As is well-known, the meeting is given in part to help the club along in its improvements at the track, and every one will hope it will be pecuniarily successful. It will be a pleasure to those who occupy the grand stand hereafter on matinee days to have it to remember that the they contributed towards it by, attending open meeting themselves and getting some one else to go, too.

The club has afforded a great deal of free entertainment in the past three years, and expect to so some more" in the future, and it will be a very neat thing to help them along in this venture. As has already been stated, thera will be two trotting events each day and two bicycle races. The trotting is under National Association rules and the bicycle races will be under L. A. W.

rules. Each day will be interesting. Remember that the trotting entries close to-night with Secretary Otis. At Charter Oak Saturday. PLENTY OF VISITORS AND SOME GOOD MILES MADE.

More than the usual number went out to Charter Oak Saturday to enjoy the charming morning and watch the horses at their work. The track a little heavy in the early part of the day, but it yielded readily to the warm sun and Superintendent Condron's labors. No effort at especially fast time was made, but most of the horses were worked, and now and then a spirited brush occurred. Tom Martin of the Bither stable and Tom Carpenter of Shillinlaw's stable made a pretty exhibition mile in about 2:85: Matt Darcey sent Festus a couple of miles, the fastest in 1844 Dick Blumenthal drove Homer W. 0 mile and repeat, and later gave Fred.

Dow's Sam a mile in Darcey drove Prince (better known as the Keney horse) a good mile; later sending. Mr. Strong's Loyola an easy mile: Mr. Strong's Vindicator also did a mile in 134 and a fraction handily. This fellow has improved greatly since last season.

Backman of Shillinlaw's stable was worked, 19 was the Wilcox contingent. They had another candidate from Mr. Wilcox's farm in the shape of a bony, stridy pacer, out of the same dam as Fanny and Lizziemont, and he acts as though he might some day go up to their clip. Mr. J.

H. Otis gave Mr. Beaumont's new one a couple of trips, just to show the new comer what 8 fine track Charter Oak The new comer is a mighty slick article- a dark sorrel, high-headed, clean ear-tip to fetlock, and as good a looker generally 88 one could wish to see, and he does his work admirably. He went within a second of his mark with the utmost ease. He is said to have cost Mr.

Beaumont $1,100 and he is as cheap as broilers at a quarter a pair at that money. One of the attractions of the morning was a trotting-bred filly from Shillinlaw's stable by General Turner. She mocks a trotter right handily even thus early in her education It would be out of the question to note all the events of the busy morning, but it is safe to say that those who stood it through were well paid for the time spent. Among the lookers-on that were noted at one time or another of the morning were the Hon. F.

B. Cooley, Mr. Henry Keney, Mr. W. W.

Roberts, Father Broderick of St. Peter's, Messra. Strong, Hyde, Gilman, Fitzgerald, Wilcox of Southington, Haskell, J. H. Parker, Bingham and many others.

Make a note of it that Mr. Hyde of the Brower 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 the horses under his immediate supervision fail in their efforts it certainly won't be his or Shillinlaw's 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. The general rated the gelding well, passing the wire in Tom has improved in looks, and 1s stouter than last season. Men were busy about the park, touching up here and there with brush and hammer, getting things in trim for the coming meeting. Secretary King was about, having an Driving Club's meeting, which has been a most successful one. In the 2:19 class, trotting, St.

Elmo was a hot favorite, but in the first heat Henschel, his driver, drove too near the rail, broke the sulky wheel and sprained his own a ankle. After this mishap St. Elmo could do better than third, Allene getting first and Diamond second. Best time, After two heats in the 9:19 pace, Mascot went in and took three straight, Scioto Girl, who took the Best first two, being second, Nellie B. third.

time (by Mascot), Street Parade and Plenie, The Cigarmakers' Union will make a street parade this afternoon, headed by Pope's Band. They will leave Central Labor Union Hall at 1:30 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 members of the Union will take cars and 'busses to Union Grove, where they and their friends will hold a picnie 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 Rev.

Joseph H. Twichell officiated, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Stone. The body was taken to Auburn, N.

on the 6:50 train last evening for interment. THEY SEE THEIR CHANCE. "CONSCIENTIOUS" BELIEF OF CERTAIN MERCHANTS. tending public worship. DEATH OF E.

J. BASSETT. Interesting Facts In a Long Insurance Career. Hartford's Sunday With the Law ParSays tially About Enforced What Drug One Druggist the Business on Sunday. At 7 o'clock last night hundreds of cigar cases in Hartford were unlocked and the doors swung open on a score or more of tobacco stores.

That was accepted as the hour of "sunset," designated in the Connecticut statutes on the observance of the Sabbath, of which all drug and cigar stores had been recently reminded by the 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 the dimes and quarters had begun to jingle in the tills of cigar denters in very lively fashion, and the air of their stores was well filled with the incense of Sunday-bought tobacco. Chief Packard's latest orders for the 1 more strict observance of the Sunday law seem to have been generally observed. Druggists locked their cigar and confectionery cases, tobacco stores were closed and hotels and restaurants were careful about dispensing the fragrant weed. would hardly be fair to say that it Was impossible to get cigar in Hartford before sundown yesterday.

One evasive restaurant keeper advertised a good dinner, with which would be "given" 2 good cigar. It is possible that at some soda water tountains drinks were more expensive and cigars were free gifts, But as a general thing the Sunday law, as far as Chief Packard had said it must be observed Was observed. No great dissatisfaction was expressed with the state of things by the driggists. They agreed in saying that the position they now were in in is neither one thing nor another. They have been allowed to sell soda water, on the ground, as stated by Chief Packard, that soda water is a necessity.

This keeps them very busy most of the day, and generally necessitates the hiring of extra help, for the running of a soda fountain is a rather laborious piece of work. The to considerable sell soda water would make a inability very lessening in the amount of labor necessary to carry on a drug store. The locking of the cigars case makes comparatively little difference. The sale of a drug store's confectionery counter is also a comparatively small piece of work. As matters stand now druggists can also continue to sell any of the hundred miscellaneous articles that a large drug store now carries.

"If they are going to enforce the Sunday law, which absolutely forbids the carrying on of any secular said one druggrist, wish they would enforce it thoroughly. People say that the opening of drug stores ou Sunday is a necessity. There is very much less to that than is generally supposed. Nearly all physicians nowadays carry a suflicient stock of drugs and medicine to meet the demands of emergency cases. As a matter of fact, the doctors have cut into the druggists' business very much of late.

The great bulk of the trade in drugs and medicines just as in food supplies, is carried on perfectly easily on Saturday, without inconvenience to any one. I wish the drug clerks," concluded the speaker, "would join the Clerks' Protective Association and demand better hours." One interesting result of the recent agitation has been the sudden appearance of Hebrew merchants whose "conscientious" belief about the observance of Saturday has suddenly become very strong. It may not be unkind to suggest that the fact that the Sunday market has recently been left almost entirely unoccupied by the closing of the Italian fruit stores, may account for the opening of a dozen or fifteen fruit stores in "the ward" yesterday, whose owners claimed to be acting under Section 1,573 of "ac the revised statutes, which reads as No person, who conscientiously believes that the seventh day of the week ought to be observed an the Sabbath and actually refrains from secular business and labor on that day, shall be liable to prosecution for performing secular business and labor on the Sabbath, provided he disturbes no other person while at- Erastus J. Bassett died at his home on Charter Oak Place at 2 o'clock yesterday morning, at the age of 71. years and months, after an illness of about four weeks' duration.

The immediate cause of death was an nffection of the heart, aggravated by other serious complications, some of which he always thought were contracted at the great Chicago fire. Mr. Bassett was best known to the community and to the insurance world as the general agent and adjuster of the tna Insurance Company. In this capacity he was known by insurance men all over the country, and had probably taken part in the adjustment and settlement of more fire instrance losses than any man now living. In connection with J.

C. Hilliard of Boston, he had the three adjustment of losses aggregating between and four million dollars at the great Chicago fire. In the Boston fire of 1872 he adjusted losses aggregating $1,600,000. Mr. Bassett had lived in Hartford for forty years.

His first insurance business was with the old North American Fire. He became connected with the Etna about twenty-eight years ago, and succeeded the late A. A. Williams as general agent three years later. During all this time he 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 years ago, he escaped from a burning hotel, in which several lives were lost. His escape was made at great personal risk by climbing down the conductor and he received some slight injuries. Mr.

Bassett was born in Stockbridge, in 1819. William T. Bassett of the Allyn House barber shop is a brother. Edwin C. Bassett died last May.

He also leaves A widow who was A Miss Mary Garfield of Chicago, 3 distant relative of the late President Garfield, and three sons by a former wife. They are Ernest C. a clerk in the Cook post office, Eldorus employed at Hapgood's and who is foreman of and Engine Elmer who is in the rubber business in Company No. 4 ou Ann street, Chicago. Mr.

Bassett was a very quiet, gentlemanly man, honest and true to his convictions. He was theroughly loyal to the insurance fully company for over a quarter of a century. His which he has represented so good judgment among was his brother insurance adjusters, always considered remarkably and his opinion in regard to the carried settlement great of an insurance loss always weight Bassett member of the South with them. was he was an earnest reMr. a Church.

publican. In He politics belonged to the original Wide Awakes of 1860, and has frequently turned out with them on their their trip to excursions and rades. Rockville He last was fall. He was also an active with them en member of the Historical Society. No.

The 1 Charter funeral Oak Place, to-morrow afterwill be from his residence, noon 3 o'clock. The interment will be in Spring Grove Cemetery..