The Journal from Meriden, Connecticut • 1

MERIDEN CONN TUESDAY JULY 16 1889 PRICE 3 CENTS Vol Ko 89 HE DANBURY FIRE BUG MR PARNELLWITHDRAWB IUS SUIT AOA1NST TT1K LONDON TIMES DROPPED lie Does Not Believe That He Wonld Have Justice 'Done Him King Charles of Wurtembiurg Is Prostrated By a Sharp Thnnder Bolt' London July 16 When the commission assembled this morning Mr Parnell's counsel announced that they bad received orders from their client to withdraw the case against the Times and then left the room Justice Hannon expressed his regret at their action bnt the court continued afterward as If nothing had happened action Is based npon the belief he and his counsel have that they wonld not be fairly dealt with In view of the recent action of tbe commission COLONEL ADDRESS IB TALKS ON TUB PBOUIBITION AMENDMENT At Trinity tlinrdi to a Uood Sized Ciirlatlon Mints ten Arraigns tor Being Backward la 'the Temperance Campaign A goodly number heard Colonel 8 Chores of Kentucky speak last evening at the Trinity church on the pro posed constitutional amendment Rev Mr Griffin the pastor made a few In troductory remarks taking Isaiah 5 11 for bis text lie thought the prophet Inspired to write these words for onr times and considered "Woe unto them that call evil good and good as applicable to the licensing of the ram traffic After prayer by Mr Griffin and singing by those present Colonel Cheres began his lecture by saying that there are a number of temperance men who bell ere that the only method of dealing with the rum question Is through party a large number believe In a non-partisan settlement outside of party lines by means of intendment to the state our proposed BAD TERRTYILLE MEN Two of Them liar Skipped and No One Is Kong rineelal to Tax Journal Terrtville Conn July Adelard RIendesu a French Canadian employed in the meat market of John Gierdlng became -Indignant over family affairs several days ago and disappeared leaving his wife and child here He did not wait to receive his salary for the week bnt took as compensation for bis labor the proceeds of the money- drawer in the market Blendeanon a previous occasion left his wife under similar circumstances and was absent three years Another Terry vllle man who has disappeared Is Laca a French barber who sold the honse his family lives In before hli departure When last heard from he was about to sail for France Laca Is man of Intemperate habits and dangerous character While he lived with his wife she was compelled to support herself by doing washing and she was In constant dread that he would carry out threats of shooting her The village Is jubilant over his departure 1 i The Famous Yacht Phantom Special to Thb Journal New Haven Conn July 8 Farmeleeof the Mathnsek Plano company of this city and a well-known member of the New Haven Yacht club has just purchased the famous schooner yacht Phantom which was considered flyer a few years ago The Phantom la 125 feet long Is fitted np like a palace and carries a crew of about ten men The yacht Is now on the dry dock In New York and will be brought np here In a few days A WORK Landlord Ilowe tbs Victim at Law mum Mass Lawrence Mass July The 11th day of Jane a gentlemanly appearing man abont forty years of age five feet eight Inches In height of straight build with black hair mixed with gray came to the Essex house He registered as 5 Ransom and represented himself as an agent for the American Steam Boiler Insurance company doing business at 120 Broadway He had circulars with him purporting to be Issued by that company and works concerning tbe use of steam boilers and he represented to Mr Howe the proprietor of the Essex house that he was imaging to procure Insurance on boilers several of the larger mills He remained there' several days and In the meantime Induced the landlord to cash a check on the Knickerbocker Trust company purporting to be signed by 3h eldon treasurer of the American Steam Boiler company When the check reached the company's office In New York was pronounced a forged one and before It was returned here Ransom had disappeared He left behind him a small leather grip sack This was turned over to the police who found Inside a lot of slack checks similar to the one given to Mr Howa Landlord Howe Is abont $40 poorer than when Ransom came there The police have not found the sharper yet Two Men Family Hurt Pittsburgh JUlv Samnel Logan and Gabriel Daley fell from the roof of a five story house on Webster avenue this morning both receiving fatal injuries An American Marksman 111 London July 16 Huddleston the fine marksman of the Massachusetts team has been taken suddenly 111 There Is some alarm felt for the result cisms heaped upon them He asked where Is a saloon not on Llnaley avenue where he lives not on Main street no nor on any street The 200 feet law amounts to nothing practically All it really aays Is that if a loon la within 200 feet of a chnrch or schoolhonse it shall be so stated In the petition He hoped It wonld soon be so that there will not be a saloon within 200 feet of the earth He made reference to certain places which he said were spedd eye-sores to him and Uvea In hopes to see them wiped out At the close of his remarks prohibition papers were distributed about and the meeting dosed HBCOMNO VEKT COM PI 1C AT AD Another Injunction Concerning That Electric Car The litigation over the title to the electric car which Is at present stored in the car house of the Fair Ilaven and Wegt-vllle road at New Haven grows more complicated An additional twist was given it yesterday when Deputy Sheriff William Catlln served an Injunction npon A A Ingraham who Is there as the representative of the United States machine company of New Jersey The Injunction is the outcome of previous litigation over the possession of the car between the Machine company and the Hartford Dynamic company It was Issued to the latter company by Judge IMckett of the City Court and restrains the United States Machine company from trying to replevin or in any way take possession of the car which Is now In the keeping of IL Munson representing Deputy Sheriff Catlln The latter assumed charge of the ear In the replevin snlt brought by the Hartford concern Subsequently the New Jersey company which brought the car there had an Injunction served on the Dynamic company forbidding It from al tcring experimenting or In fact doing anything whatsoever with the car It also threatens to bring a replevin snlt In turn in order to gain possession of the property This threat led Slnell the representative of the Hartford Dynamic company to apply for the injunction which was served yesterday Mr Slnell said yesterday that his counsel Messrs Ailing and Wagner wonld to-day apply for a dissolution of the first Injunction which keeps his concern from using the car HR WAI AT WORK AflAH NIBUT LAST Flames Discovered Burly In tbe Evening la Tws Both Started Wltlt Waste Soaked In Oil Arrested and Discharged 8pecUl to The Journal Danbut Conn July fire bug rubbed Its wings together again ast night and two fires resulted Short-after 7 a fire In the Honsatonlc repair shops was started by placing a lot of waste soaked In oil In a rat hole The flames ran up the partition and were put out just before they reached five barrels of kerosene olL Fred Zeigler Joseph Baugh and Charles Moore three young men and William Slltcroft who has something of a reputation as a pedestrian were arrested on suspicion by order of the fire marshal bnt were afterward discharged At 8 a man' walking np the track! discovered a fire under the freight house of the New York and New England rosd Another oil-soaked bnnch of waste had len placed on a beam jnst under two larrels of kerosene It had only jnst een started and was pat out without much difficulty If either fire had got under way a conflagration of no small size wonld have resulted The authorities are completely puzzled by these frequent fires and have no cine to the guilty man ormen DUTTON FACTORY BURNED A Destructive Five nt New A Brave Engineer the The Journal New Milford Conn July The large factory of the New Milford Button company was destroyed by fire last evening The loss is between 30000 and $40000 mostly covered by Insurance Several hundred people are thrown oat of work The building was of wood and burned rapidly It stood just outside the fire limit and the firemen were greatly hampered by tbe Insufficient supply of water The fire started in the store room and must have been burning an hour before it was discovered The fire burned so fiercely- that surrounding buildings were in much danger They were badly scorched bnt the firemen kept the flames from spreading Several thousand people watched the fire and a panic came near occurring when an explosion within the burning building frightened tbe crowd It was feared that the boiler wonld explode but the engineer bravely prevented this by rushing Into the burning building filling the boiler with water and opening the safety valve Tbe factory was built In 1884 soon after the Bostwlck button factory was burned Its destruction will be a heavy loss to New Milford as It Is thought that the present proprietors Messrs Anthony and William Schoverllng will not rebuild or re-establish the business Sued by a Yale Graduate Special to The Journal New York Jnly 16 Clarence Smith a graduate of Yale college has sued the Railroad company for heavy damages While returning from commencement at Yale In Jane he tried to board an train bnt the brakeman prevented him Mr Smith Is an athlete and throwing hla valise onto the plat-' form of the car he made a running jump and followed it The brakeman was angry and after getting down town he called several fellow brakemen to his aid and made an assault upon Mr Smith Mr Smith la a boxer and his skill enabled him to knock ont hla opponents He was hart in the straggle and proposes to hold the company responsible Ex-Senator Paine Dead Special to Tax Journal East Woodstock Conn July John Paine aged fifty years and one of the most prominent men of the town died Sunday He bad held many important town offices and served as senator from the Fourteenth district for one or two terms He was a brother of the late George Paine state school fond commissioner He leaves a widow and five children also a sister and one brother residing in Boston Charged IVItb Insubordination Special to Tbe Journal Hartford Conn Jnly The nine men who refused to answer to their names when the roll call was read in Company have received notification to appear before the court-martial on Thursday evening The court-martial will be held ening Major Smith They will be dlshonora- b7: bfy dlscbarged for Insubordination Tor on Fire Causes Kxelten Special to The Journal Hartford Conn This morning about 10 a barrel of tar on the Sigourney street bridge caught fire It Created much excitement as the smoke was so dense that the people In that vicinity became alarmed and sounded two fire alarms greatly confusing the fire department No damage done A Building Collapses PrrrsrisLD Mass Jnly The new summer residence In coarse of construction for Mrs Ogden a wealthy New York woman collapsed this morning carrying down In the wreck several workmen au of whom were severely injured two probably fatally Ball For fTkito Special to Thn Journal Waterbubt Conn Jnly 8 Plume of the Plume ft Atwood Co has famished ball In $2500 for the release of Benjamin White charged with the killing of Lltttehale at Litchfield THE BOOULEHIj McQuades Trial Still In Progress at Balleton BallstonK July 16 At the opening of the McQnade trial to-day the reading of the proceedings of the aider-men in 1884 was continued with Mayor veto of the Broadway railroad MIL Further' extracts from that former boodle trial were read together with newspaper extracts and various communications showing that a million dollars had been offered for the Broadway franchise On the objection being made that papers sent to the aldermen by the mayor had not been read the Court said that the fact that the aldermen shut their ears to them should not forbid them from being read here It was sufficient that the papers were before them The counsel kept up a constant fire of objections with a demand for exceptions TUB SLUBBERS 8ulllvaas Wbereabsats Kilmln to In New Fork New Yokk July The whereabouts of Sullivan are Indefinite this morning A report from Duluth which reached here this morning says he has been seen in West Superior and wonld attempt to et Into Canada by the next steamer rom Duluth Some evening papers still assert he Is In this vicinity bnt It is hardly possible The Evening Sun says Kll-rain Is In this city having arrival tills moralng and he and his wife are resting quietly at the home of a friend In Harlem waiting for steamer when they will sail for England with Mitchell and Pony Moore A KINB PROSTRATED C'b ar lea et Wurtembnrg Nearly Killed by Lightning Berlin July 16 On Sunday afternoon as King Charles of Wurtember was watching the thnnder storm from the verandah of the capital at Frledrlck-shafen a lightning bolt descended am burled Itself In the ground a short distance from the king The violence of the shock prostrated the king who lay unconscious for a while bnt gradually regained his powers and his physicians now announce he sustained no permanent Injury Hotel Men in Session Bumtalo July 16 Tbe third annual convention ofthe New York state Hotel association opened here this morning The programme of entertain-talnment of delegates Includes an excursion down the river this afternoon and a summer concert on their return At the close of the session an additions association will be organized delegates from twenty states being already hero Attempted Suicide New York July Jnst after midnight the police arrested a man In Tompkins square with a bloody towel aronnd his throat and bloodstains on his clothes It was found that the man had tried suicide at his honse cuttihg a terrible wound in his neck with a table knife and subsequently walked abont In that condition Hla name Is George 8hllbert he will probably recover Boulanger May Return London July General Boulanger has sent orders to Paris to hare the 1 signs removed from hla honse and this haa started a rumor that he Is to return It Is said that several government employes who are among those who have sent congratulations to the general since his arrival in London have been discharged Steeplochuoo nt Newport Newport July An Important meeting was held this morning at the villa of Governor Wotmore A dozen wealthy cottagers were present and formed the Newport Steeplechase association It Is Intended to bay land for the nse of the association The first meeting will take place September 21 and 23 President Harrison Candidate Washington July In an Interview published to-day Secretary Rusk declared that President Harrison will be a candidate for President In 1892 and will be elected He has no donbt of either of the propositions Blks Bennion Pittsburg July The annual reunion of the Elks opened here this morning and will continue till Thursday It la expected there will be nearly a thousand delegates In attendance Bolak Hanged Relvidxrs NJ July Michael Bolak was hanged at the the county jail here to-day for the murder of a fellow workman Michael Bolllngshlre November 26 1888 constitution The question now Is "Shall we 'legalize or destroy the ram traffic This Issue mnst be squarely met and It will make every man stand upon his own platform and It will put every man on record as for or against the saloon There can be no dodging In the matter the man who stays away from the polls on October 7 counts for the ram Interest This Is a fight for morality against the grog shop This Is a question for every conscience The hypocrites and the cowards mnst come forward and declare In the broad light of day their Intentions with regard to the saloon they can no longer shirk the responsibility of a square stand In the matter Politicians and liquor men wish to compromise The true temperance man Inscribes "Ko on his banner and goes steadily on to sure victory Our civilization calls for a settlement of this ram question We can no longer afford to allow it to continue In justice to ourselves we mnst have protection against the lawlessness engendered by it The liquor traffic Is on trial Society deals with a man who transgresses the laws according to his deserts and judges him by his acts not by his profession so must men deal with this aboml nablc traffic Is the drink Institution a good or a bad one? Docs It bring peace happiness and content to the cornmunUyf lias Its history been pure or vile? It Is never npward God-llke toward heaven but ever downward devil-llke toward bell The saloon Is a school of perjury and a birthplace of crime It Is through the saloon that the jails are filled to-nlgbt Ninety-five per cent of the paupers Is the result of the grog shop Sixty percent of the Idiocy Is directly traceable to that an Instltu tlon which Is legalized by the votes of professed Christians The saloon Increases taxation corrupts the ballot box destroys the body and damns the soul This Institution Is a criminal brought before the people for judgment and men In their sober senses will say It the way to deal with this criminal la to license "Justify the wicked for Colonel Cheres severely arraigned those Christians ministers and preachers who talk and vote for licensing crime those professed Christians who pray for the abolition of the ram erll and plead that temptation to keep away from their boys and then go to the ballot box and vote to continue the rum traffic and help place the temptation before their own and their boys lie considered this general inconsistency of ministers and professed Christians as the real cause of much of the Infidelity which Is so common and ha stated that one hypocrite In the church accomplished more toward keeping people away than a dozen Bob Ingersolli could da The speaker referred Ironically to the good Christian who would not listen to amendment speeches or contribute to the amendment cause but who would privately state that his heart was with the work and he would pray for Its success would vote the other way every time If by any possible chance we fall to carry the amendment the responsibility for the failure will rest upon the Christian votes of Connecticut The speaker has mighty little respect foifthe Christian who votes for the saloon power Recently a liquor-dealer boasted to the lecturer that the clergymen of one state were divided on the question of the amend-roen and that this very fact would give the victory to the rum dement Men will pray "Oh Lord Thy will be done and then vote for the will of the devil to be done Colonel Cheves eulogized the Methodist churches of the state and nation for being foremost In the temperance work Our nation Is now straggling with Its third great epoch The revolution of 1776 was the first the rebellion of 1861 the second and the overthrow of this most damnable evil the rum traffic Is the third and by far the worst The church the home the school are on onr side The saloon the brewery and the distillery on the other For which side will yon be counted? EBK Rev Griffin said a few words at the dose of Colond Cheves remarks in which he clearly showed that the sa-' loon budneas has no mort bitter opponent in town than be Is Qn the part of the clergy he took to hlmsdf he thundering whacks the colond ted given the doth and hoped the chnrch members would bdp themselves out ofthe criti II Bowen Recovering Special to Tux Joubxal1 Woodstock Conn July 16 Henry Bowen Is recovering from his Injuries received in the runaway accident on Friday bnt Is still confined to his honsa II HART TO GO He Will Take the Brand Central Depot Position Louis Hart who for the past nine yean has been a resident of' Meriden Is soon to leave It and live In New York city having accepted a position in the ticket office at the Grand Central depot there This makes the second time it has been offered to him daring his stay here and after dne consideration he has decided to go Meriden people are sorry to lose him as daring the years he hois been here be has formed hundreds of acquaintances who will miss him greatly Mr Hart came here from New Haven In 1880 and took charge of the Western Union telegraph office In the old depot While holding that position he married a niece of the late ex-Fresident Wat-rons of the Consolidated road In the summer of 1883 be was offered the position of ticket agent in the new depot to succeed Waldo Warner who subsequently went west He accepted and has ever since been faithful to the road and has made himself solid with the traveling public He was elected a representative from this town In 1886 and declined a kk nomination At the New York office Ms time will be afternoon and evening and' the position Is an enviable one and one -which many New Yorkers wonld glrv a bonus to The bonds are $7301? which Is no small amount for a to secure He is now awaiting orders and may leave home at any hour His successor haa not yet been appointed There are many who wonld like to see Will Hassell Mr assistant In the place as he has done his work daring the psst fonr years In a most faithful manner 4 Mr Hart expresses regret at leaving Meriden bnt as it Is a case of bettering himself he could not do other than accept He will take the best wishes of all hla friends with him THE GREAT FOOT BAIL CAME Final Paper Signed for tbs Lease of IlampdealPark The final papers have been signed by Ethan Robinson and A Low ell manager of the Hartford university foot ball association leasing Hampden park for the annual Harvard-Tale foot ball game some day In November the date to be decided some time In October This action makes it certain that the great game will be played In Springfield A contract with Sackett ft Reynolds was signed by Mr Lowell Wednesday providing for the care and grading of the grounds The ground chosen Is tbe base ball Add and this will be kept carefully mowed during the summer The goal-posts will be situated In a line with the base ball grand stand the home plate of the diamond being In one corner of the foot ball rectangle The elevation near the half-mile track which la behind the goal farther from the stand Is to be graded to a level at once by Sackett ft Reynolds The rest of the work will not be done until Octo-be 1 Trouble la tbs dab One of the numerous dubs that hare gone from this city to the shore this season came home in a revolutionary stale of mind on account of alleged misconduct of Its treasurer In financial tffhlrs Tbs Salt ea Trial The Lapldus-Fsnnon case has occupied the attention of the civil side of tbe City Court all day to-day Sweet pure and cleaa Is Brussels soap Soda water at Mosher'S all the latest syraps and flavors A Blaze at Chicago Chicago July 16 During a alight fire this morning next door to the Chicago Coffin company damage by fire was done to the amount of 820000 MATRIMONIAL MATTERS Tke Nnptiais of A Bnrgdorf and JUii Albertina Hints A Bnrgdorf principal of St German-Luthenn school and Miss Albertina Hints for many years a popular clerk at millinery establishment were married at St German-Luthenn chnrch this noon by the pastor Rev-rAdelbert Kraflt Mr and Mrs Bnrgdorf left this afternoon for Washington and from there they will go to the home of Mr Bnigdorfs parents at Rod Bud III for a short visit John Stevens whose marriage to Mrs Mabel I Ackerman was announced last Saturday returned with his bride last evening from Stony Creek where the conple spent their honeymoon Insane Lydia Rralnard Mrs Lydia Bralnard who has been Insane for a long time escaped soon after midnight last night from her home on Cook avenue after creating great disturbance In her household She threatened to kill every one and all attempts to quiet her were unavailing She finally escaped and early this moralng the police and town officers were notified and began a search for her She was to have been sent to the Insane asylum some time ago bnt grew better and It Was decided to leave her In the care of relatives Later in the day Mrs Bralnard was found wandering abont on the upper end of Pratt street and was handed over to the police The Best Way to Cook Peas A lady In West Ansonia a few days since desired to cook green pets for dinner bnt her kettle was too foil to cook them in the usual way and the oil stove was not large enough to pat another kettle on As her vegetables were In a steamer she made a bag out of cheesecloth placing the peas In It The pens cooked as soon as did the other vegetables and were placed in a dish with a little milk batter and seasoning added the whole allowed to come to a boll and then served hot All who partook of them del are that in flavor they were far In advance of the nsnal way of cooking them A toning ton Steamer's Catch The fishing steamer Annie Wilcox of Stonlngton has caught 4500000 menhaden this year which amount Is far above the average catch In previous yean Abont six gallons of oil are obtained from 1 000 fish and the oil commands a price of about twenty-four cents per gidlon The scrap after the oil Is all abstracted also brings price and In ready demand ers for fertilizing Pay YonY Taxes Tax Collector Moeller np to last night had collected bnt $20710 of the city tax list The money Is being paid very slowly and it behooves those who have taxes to pay to get abont it at once as Collector Moeller will be at tbe Town hall only this week and after that nine percept will be added to all unpaid bills Cradle Cemment A daughter was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs George A Smith of Franklin street Call at for everything in the drag line Onr prices are correct Pamphlet binding a specialty at Journal office bindery THE HONS OP VETERANS I Upbaui Camp Celebrate Their Mfth Anniversary Upturns camp Sons of Veterans celebrated their fifth anniversary last evening About fifteen members of the Aid society of New Haven accented the invitation extended to them by tbe camp and came up to help celebrate the event Addresses were made by Misses Beecher and Peck on the part of the visitors and Charles Ostrander and George Reynolds of the camp There was In addition vocal and Instrumental music and dancing and- refreshments were served The visitors were obliged to lesve on the 10 :10 train A feature of tbe evening was the presentation to the camp of an elegant gavel the handle of which Is of rosewood and the head of hickory TO DODflK THE dll A BETTE LAW ThratMl Drep-n-Penny-ln-Ute Mot Machines Being Made The latest scheme for yonths to obtain cigarettes when they are under sixteen years of age has jnst beeen completed It Is a drop-a-nickel-ln-the-fllot schema When the person who wishes a cigarette drops a penny In the slot the cigarette drops down Into a small box from which the buyer can take It out These machines are now being turned out at the Waterbary Clock shop to the number of 1 000 It Is said the machines are to be placed outside of cigar stores and of coarse the dealer watch every person that drops in a penny and Inquire Into his or her age Flefcber Family Kean Ion The next meeting of the Fletcher family nnlon will be held in Tremont Temple Boston Mass Wednesday August 28 It Is believed that this meeting will be more memorable than any yet held by the family and every descendant of Robert Fletcher whether bearing the family name or not Is Invited to be present and It should be understood that every member of the family haa a previous engagement to meet with their kin on this occasion Bridges In a Shaky Condition Some of the East Side residents are a little nervous over the condition of the bridges In that section which are a' little shaky One In particular on what la known as the new road Is especially so and another farther over Is mlnns a railing on one aide so that the least shying by a horse Is liable to throw a carriage over the side St Andrew! Church to be Repaired The nave and chancel of St chnrch will undergo thorough repairing beginning Monday July 22 All those people of the parish who have books or other articles In the pews are requested to remove them before Si next so that they may not be or lost Turnip seeds In balk camphor gam Paris green white hellebore Insect powder etcH Wilcox 11 Colony street TV U4V Jre Sunday misplaced I.