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VOL XXI, NO. 208
WATEHHUltV.- CONN.. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1908.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
FATAL JOY RIDE
RECOUNT DEMANDED
RAISING TUE DEAD
HOLY PONTIFF ILL
WAS NOT KILLED
MORE THEATERS
t .
Array Captain and Allrgrd Wile
Adlal E. SleveosoD Claims Be
One Hundred and Ten Bodies
Have Now Been Taken From
Ifariaonla Mine.
He Has Suffered a Relapse and
Two Physicians Are lo
Attendance. '
Two llore Are Now In tit
Works For Waierburj'f
Amusement.
All Nlfibt Automobile Parly
Comes to Grief In a Rail
road Col '
Woman Confessed lo Ibe linr
der of a Uan Bnl II Proved
lo Be Bis Brother
ArcMlxcdlploaShooliog
Scrape. .
Has Been Cheated of Ibe
Goveriorsblp.
Washington, Nov 30. The police
of this city have a shooting mystery
on their hands, Involving a negro
, man, a supposed diplomat and the al
' l'ged wife of an army captain. At
the Emergency hospital William
Bykcs, the negro and the tnan who
was shot lies In a critical condition
hlle the other parties to the affair
lor the present at least have been
able to conceal their Identity. The
shooting occurred Saturday evening
In a fashionable section of the city
after the negro had approached the
couple and as he says, asked to be
directed to a certain address. A
short time afterward according to the
story of a clerk in the Portland
house overlooking Thomas circle
near where the shooting took place a
man and woman apparently greatly
excited, passed quickly through the
lobby and left by another door. The
man's nose was bleeding and : the
woman was heard to advise him to
have it attended to whereupon they
started for a drug store on the cor
ner, but-changed their minds and
disappeared. The negro adheres to
his first story that he simply asked to
be directed to an address he gave. It
is stated that should the negro die
the police would be compelled to
make a canvass of all the legations,
unless in the meantime the identity
of the man becomes established.
LOST IN THE WOODS
rs,ni,.MU on.l 1'ttf-fiit Rrniarks bv an
Expert.
Let the man who is lost In ' the
woods be careful not to overexert
himself. His chief dangers lie in
panic and overexertion, and though
he may be In a great hurry to find
shelter, I must warn him to go slow
ly. Two miles an hour, on an aver
nge. through the snow in the woods
is all that a man in his condition
will -bo able to stand without over
fatlcno and Its attendant dangers,
overheatine and perspiration. By
exercising caution, a man may live
through a week of what he la under
going. To make this article brief,
however, we shall suppose that he
regains the road by the afternoon of
III8L UHV 1 itj uuuou v jvv
of course, Just where he Is. He
should examine the bracks-ofw th.
person who last passed that way. It
bein afternoon, he must follow m
the direction taken by the last pas
sing vehicle or team, as shelter will
be nearest in that direction. Had
it been morning be would have taken
the opposite direction,- as whoever
made the tracks must have come
from the place where he obtained
shelter the previous night.
W e must make our traveler who Is
lost In the woods as comfortable as
possible while waiting for the sky to
clear. Let him first find a place as
well sheltered as possible. A fallen
tree will serve him. But before
deciding on his camping Place he
should look about to see that there
is plenty of de,ad wood. Then.- fro
an urea of six feet square beside the
fallen tree, he muBt clear away the
snow using his feet If nothing else
Is available, and in the space thus
cleared ltlndle a fire of birch bark
and dry wood, piling on the wood
until the Are entirely covers the
cleared ground. While there is a
good fire burning, he may gather a
large number of boughs of spruce,
balsam or . cedar.- It these are not
to be had, the best substitutes for
bed-making is brush. - When several
armfuls have been gathered and
placed near the Are to extract the
frost, let him begin gathering dry
and dead wood, and not until he
thinks he has enough for two nights
can he be reasonably sure of hav
ing a sufficient quantity for one
night. After the fire has been burn
ing about an hour all may be cleared
awav. The ground will be found dry
and quite warm. Then this space
Is to be covered with the gathered
boughs and on the leeward side xf
tho bed thus prepared a fire should
be built. This fire ought not to b
large, as a draught would be created
and moreover, the smoke would be
atinoving to the Bleeper. He Is now
assured of warmth sufficient to pre
vent him from freezing.
Let us now take the case of a man
lost In the woods in a winter storm,
twenty-five miles from the nearest
railroad or, traveled road of any kind
In the first place how does he know
that he Is lost? Because, as soon as
, 1. ! Y. 1 n v , tia will InVfl.
iki heirln tmvellne in a circle and
ntually recross his tracks. All
pet-Ple naturally step further with
one foot than with the other. Some
circle to the right, others to the left,
or without direction all describe a
circle. ,
It Is Btormlng, so that the lost
man cannot find his direction by the
sun. Theoretically, there are a great
many ways of finding direction in the
woods moss grows thickest on the
nlrth side of a tree, branches are
heaviest on the south side, Norway
pines lean toward the east, etc, but
these things depend so much upon
surrounding conditions such as light
and shade, moisture and dryness or
the- slope of the ground, that, unless
one Is versed In woodcrafU they will
only serve to confuse him. So let
him stop right where be is and wait
for the sun or the stars, the only
positive means of determining di
rection without a compass. Outing.
Ex-Mayor Is Dyiny. .
New Britain. Nov. 30 No change
Is reported this mornlhg la the con
dition of ex-mayor George W. Corbln.
He ia considered to be dying
CHAUFFEUR ARRESTED
. New York, Nov. 30 An all-night
"Joy ride" In a borrowed automobile
came to a disastrous end early, to
day, when ' the big touring car
swerved from a road in Brooklyn
tore through an iron fence and
plunged into a deep cut where the
long' Island railroad enters the tun
nel at1 Atlantic avenue. One of the
four passengers Was probably fatally
hurt, .two others' were badly injured
and . the - machine was smashed - to
flinders.
The chauffeur" escaped without a
scratch and fled but he was quickly
captured by the police. The men
most: seriously hurt is Bertran Sen
wick, a clerk, aged 20 years of Glen
dale, L. I. His skull was fractured
and he was Internally, injured. There
Is practically no chance for his recovery-
'
Frederick Blaekenborn,' a .butcher
of Glendale suffered a concussion of
the brain and Louis Thiesen, a Glen
dale silk weaver , sustained a rib
fracture. .'Charles Hohman, the
chauffeur who is under arrest. Is a
nephew of Mrs'j. Gascome, the own
er of the automobile. The party
had spent the night at Coney Island
and were returning home when the
accident occurred. ;
SHIRTWAIST MILLIONAIRE.
The story of Samuel M. Foster and
the incident which led to his success
In business is also the history of that
boon of comfort known to the modern
woman as the shirt waist. The evolu
tion of this.domestlc blessing Is thus
set down by a writer in Human Life:
In 1884 a small merchant in Fort
Wayne was struggling to keep alive
a losing dry goods business. In si lte
of strenuous efforts hla books showed
a loss, and he about despaired of con
ducting the business to a successful
Issue. "I was on the ragged edge and
I couldn't see anything in the future
but failure and the humiliation of
not being able to pay my debts,"
said the original shirt waist man, S.
M. Foster of Fort Wayne. "Clerks
stood around and waited for custom
ers that wouldn't come. One day In
the winter of-1884-85, when the
thermometer was too low to be read
and a customer was as scarce ; as
natural' gas lias "been on" similar-occasions
in recent years, I Just hap
pened to recall that during the pre
ceding summer I. had-bought some
boys unlaundered " shirt waists that
were good sellers' and hard, to get.
There wasn't one left in 'stock, but
inquiry revealed the fact that one of
my clerks had one at home In the
wardrobe of his little boy. When he
brought it to the store it was a sorry
looking object, worn out and faded
by many washings, but I wish. I had
It to-day. I would be tempted to have
It handsomely framed and Installed
among those that have been my bust
friends. How small a thing will turn
failure aside and bring success in lis
stead, and vice versa. It fairly makes
one shudder to think how much often
depends upon the way we decide tho
merest trifle. Be that as it may,
that little rag was the start of the
material success I have met with."
Mr Foster ripped the waist apart
with his own fingers, and his clerks
cut out similar ones and he .began
the manufacturing In the back pf the
store the waist that was designed to
eventually attract the attention' of
women and bring him a fortune. "We
used pocket-knives and scissors, and
cut about three thicknesses of cloth,"
continues Mr Foster. "Now we often
cut 6 j at a time."
Mr Foster perservered for :he
orders began to come in. The shirt
waist, so crudely made, was seized
upon by the women, and the popular
ity, of the new garment grew. - "I do
not claim that we made the first shirt
waist, but we were the first parties
rout west to take up the garment.
Something like six successful factor
ies have , been started directly or in.-directly-
as the result of ours. . No
body 'inven'ted' the shirt waist," con
tinued Mr Foster, "It just grew, like
Topsy, and, so the little idea, born of
necessity, has made a millionaire out
of an almost bankrupt merchant.
To-day he is one of the leading bus
iness men of his city and is prominent
in many enterprises'. Literary Digest'
"Charles, M. Jacobs, tbe master civil
engineer, and builder of the Penn
sylvania tunnel -
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Chicago, Nov 80. Adlal B. Ste
venson, following an announcement
ofcontest directly after the election
of November 3, Is preparing to seuk
a legislative recount of the votes cast
for himself and Charles S. Denon
for the governorship of Illiuols. The
democratic candidate says that he re
ceived a plurality of the votes cast at
the recent election. Chairman
Boeschenstein of the state commit
tee last night said: "We should not
be performing our duty were we not
to make public testimony wMcb. has
come to us since election d'ty. It Is
testimony which will convince the
legislature that ' thousands of votes
were wrongfully counted for Deneen
which should have been counted fo&
Stevenson."
The official canvass gavt: Deneen
23,104 plurality.
AT THE OLD TRICK.
Prisoners Who v Escaped From Sing
Slug Caught Robbing a Store.
Albany, N. Y. Nov. 30 Abel Ful
lers and George Rogers, two of a
trio arrested last night in the act
of robbing the clothing store of
William H. Butler on Broadway were
Identified to-day as convicts from
Sing Sing - prison who escaped last
Tuesday night during the heavy fog.
When arrested last night the men
gave their names as John Stewart of
Buffalo, George Murphy of Boston
and James Mahar, also of Boston.
In examining their discarded cloth
ing the police found numbers similar
to those by which state prisoners
we designated. The state prison
authorities were notified to-day and
Chief clerk Charles K. Baker went to
police headquarters . with photo
graphs of the escaped convicts and
Identified Mahar as Rogers and Mur
phy as Fuller. .
Stewart's Identity Is not known,
Police say that Rogers' correct name
is George Germalne and that he is
a former Albanian.
The three men were arraigned to
day charged with burglary and grand
larceny.
CRASH IN THE TUBE.
Trains Come Together Under the
Hudson River.
New York, Nov 30. Two trains
smashed.,Into each, otber in-the tube
under the Hudson river to-day but
fortunately no one was injured.
There were passengers in one train
but the other was a string of twenty
cars on the way over from New York
to Hoboken for the early rush of New
Jersey commuters to business in this
city. "While no one sujered serious
injury every one on board received
a severe shaking up. The steel cars
composing trains stood the test of a
collision perfectly. The train had
started up an incline when a danger
signal was displayed. The air
brakes failed to hold the train dn the
heavy grade and it slid back about
600 feet and crashed into the train
which was following. Traffic under
the river was delayed about half an
hour by the accident.
The Americans Defeated.
Melbourne, Nov 30. The Aus
tralian players to-day won the Davis
cup, finally defeating Messrs Wright
and Alexander, the Araerlr-in con
testants. When the contest was re
sumed to-day there were two singles
to be played and it was necessary be
cause of previous defeats of the
Americans to win both in Older to
bring the cup to this country. This
they failed to do. The flrsc hictch
was won by. Wright, the American,
who defeated Brooks, thro out of
five games. The second match was
won by Wilding of Australia, who
defeated Alexander. As It was neces
sary fo rthe Americans to win both
games the Davis cup "s lost to
them.
The Order Is Vphetd.
Washington, Nov 30. The su
preme court of the United States to
United States circuit court for 4- the
eastern disarict of Virginia, holding
to be unconstitutional the order of
the state railroad commission, fixing
a two cent passenger rate on state
business, the effect being to uphold
the order.
Jananese Steamer Sunk.
Chefoo, China, Nov 30 Two Jap
anese steamships collided off this
port to-day. Details of the accident
are lacking but It is reported that a
total of seven hundred persons have
been drowned.
Tokio. Nov. 30 The report that
two Japanese steamships had been
sunk and seven hundred lives lost
has also been received here. There
are no particulars as yet.
WEATHER F0IECAST.
Forecast for Connecticut: Rain
late to-night and warmer; Tuesday
rain; light southerly to westerly
winds. Increasing.
A storm of considerable energy Is
central this morning over" Lake Su
perior. It is produrlng cloudy weath
er with rain or snow In the upper
Mississippi valley and the lake re
gion. This storm will 'move eastward
and probably reach this vicinity this
afternoon or to-night. ' It "la follow
ed by aa area of high pressure aid
freeiing temperatures. t
Pittsburg, Pa, Nov 30. One hun
dred and ten bodies had been recov
ered from the Marlanna mine of the
Pittsburg-Buffalo ' Coal Co early to
day and these bpdlos are now at rest
In the Improvised morgue. Many
more bodies have been located in the
wrecked mine and these will be
brought to the' surface at once.
Just one living man . . has been
brought from the uwful pit alive. He
Is Henry Arnold, a truck layer, but so
dnzed and helpless Is he that he can
not yet tell the awful tale of his es
cape from the explosion and the suf
focating fumes that followed.
The last ray of hope for the rescue
of many' of the miners was dispelled
when the first rescuing party reached
the main entry and found ten dead
bodies scattered about the floor. The
other men were In the twenty-nine
rooms, or workings, of the mine.
There Is no doubt that the death list
will reach 165 men. Officials of the
company, Who stated thut not over 125
had been killed, now admit that 100
men went down the shaft to work.
According to . miners and others fa
miliar with the number of men gener
ally employed' in the mine, the death
list will exceed - the company's esti
mate by at least fifty.
Two of the men taken from the mine
had been suffocated, and tbeir bodies
were not even scratched. One of these
was John Ivlli, a cousin of John H.
Jones, president of the Pittsburg-Buffalo
Coal company, owners of the
mine, who was employed as head time
keeper. . .; -
Ivlll's body was found beneath a
coal digging machine, afad it was ap
parent that the young man had crawl
ed there In a vain effort to escape the
deadly fumes.
The body of the other1 man was
fouud near Ivlll. He had placed -his
face in a pool of water, which all min
ers are advised to do when an explo
sion occurs, in a desperate attempt to
fight off suffocation until rescued.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined. - Two theories are en
tertained. One is that a pocket of gas
was struck by one of the miners,
quickly filling the workings and then
Igniting from a lamp.
The other theory is that gas from a
well on the Fulton farm, under which
the mine is situated, penetrated the
workings. .
-3,000 HOMELESS IN FLOOD.
River In Oklahoma Overflows; and
Housis Are Afloat.
Guthrie, Okla.. Nov.' 30.-As the re
sult of a forty -eight hour downpour of
rain the Cottonwood river and Its
tributaries have overflowed. '
Several hundred homes are afloat,
aud 3.000 persons are homeless.
Hundreds of boats, with volunteer
rescuers," brought the tardy ones to
places of safety.
Twenty head of cattle were drowned
before they could be driven out of the
waters. Street "car service is at a
standstill. Five " thousand dollars'
worth of cotton was washed down
stream, and 2.000 bales are still In the
water. The Atchison, Topeka and
Sfinta Fe roundhouse and shops are
inundated.
ox to'thfcapital.
Victorious Rebels Almost at the Gates
of Port au Prince.
Port au Prince, Haytl, Nov 30.
The victorious rebels under General
Simon are advancing rap.'d'y upon
the capital. The fear that tney will
enter the city has thrown the people
Into a i panic. All business houses
are closing, the markets are desert
ed, houses are being barricaded aud
all foreigners are hoisting the flag
of their nation over their homes.
President Alexis persists i'.i hid de
termination to continue the strug-
One Man Was Killed.
Pittsburg. Pa, Nov. 30 One man
was killed, five others seriously and
many passengers badly shaken up
when train No 5 known as the
Chicago limited on the Pittsburg and
western branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad crashed , Into a
"tmckled' freight train near Valen
cia Pa. about 20 miles north of here
eany to-day. .
Emperor of Corea, who again com
plains to the powers of the treatment
the Cores na are receiving from
Japan. . '
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Rome, Nov 30. Because of a
severe cold the pope has suffered a
relapse which is causing some aaxl
ety. Owing to a slight fever he in
obliged to remain in bed. Drs Pe
tacci and Marchiafava visited the
holy father and after a caref al exam
ination announced that if proper care
were taken, with thorough rest, tnal
they felt sure that no complications
would arise.
All audiences have been suspend
ed, including those of Archblsnop
Glennon and Bishop Allen ot Mobile.
This morning a special representa
tive from Portugal expected to pre
sent the pope with gifts from King
Manuel in honor of the recent priest
hood jubilee, but because of the holy
father's Indisposition these ' plans
were countermanded.
CATHOLIC COLLKGK HURXfcD.
Students Had to Fly for Their Lives
in Xiglit Clothes.
Berlin, Ont, Nov 30. Fire last
night destroyed two wings of Sc Je
rome's Catholic college, entailing a
loss of $40,000. Several of the stu
dents had narrow escapes and all rot
out In their night clothes. Geovge
Reese, a third year student from
Mount Carmel, Pa, was bad'y buraoG
while fighting fire.
CITY NEWS.
Two hundred and five water bill
remain unpaid and the parties will
now have to come down with the
face of the bills and the percentages.
More than half of them are cases
where the parties forgot all about
them.
The board of public works will
meet to-morrow night when it is ex
pected action will be taken regard
ing the cleaning , of the Prospect
reservoir and raising money to com
mence operations on the proposed
new dam at the branch
About 4 o'clock yesterday Chemi
cal company Nq 2 was called to a
block owned by James Herebry a'
459 West Main street. A chlmnej
fire was beaming to get to the roof
when the firemen arrived. The dam
age was slight.
Mrs W. D. Dlllsworth and Mrs
Charles R. Hankinson of New York
city and Charles G. Stead, Jr, of
Columbia university, law school, were
the- guests dnritrg the Thanksgiving
holiday with Mr and Mrs Charles G.
Snead of 28 Bronson street.
The lease conveying the property
of the Connecticut Railway & Light
ing Co to the Consolidated Railway
Co has been filed at the town clerk's
office. It was signed December 19,
1906, aud is good for 999 years. The
lease is made up of 31 pages and con
tains about 37 lines to a page.
A case of considerable importance
to all benevolent associations and
societies was begun before Judge
Burpee in the city court this after
noon. It was the case of Anthon
Kimohen against the St Casslmlt
Lithuanian society to recover $35.
The plaintiff claimed this amount is
due him as sick benefits from the
society, while the defendant con
tends the plaintiff violated the rules
of the society by engaging in a game
of cards in receipt of benefits. He
received $16.40.
The police here were notified to
day of an assault committed Satur
day on an old lady at Berlin nauW
Ahrenberg by three young men be
tween the ages of 19 and 25 years.
They made off with $10 in cash, two
watches and three rings. Th?y wore
caps and did the work up so cleverly
that the authorities are puzzled to
know which way to turn to locate
them. The authorities here ar3 on
the lookout for them an'd are alto
nosing around after the three ruf
fians who assaulted Miss SVele in
Naugatnck.
The funeral of Mrs Matilda Antil
Dixon was held yesterday afternoon
with services by the Rev Mr Lewis
and Rev Mr Dallas. The bearers, all
nephews, were A. B. Dixon, Freder
ick James Dixon, Robert Dixon and
John S. Dixon. The floral offerings
included a pillow lettered "Mamma,"
from the sons; wreath from the
daughter; chrysanthemums, -A. B.
Dixon and family; roses, Mr and Mrs
William Dixon; roses and chrysan
themums, Mrs J. W. Whiting; chrys
anthemums, from Joe and Mac;
chrysanthemums, Mrs Frederick Fir
kins; roses and carnations. St John's
Young Men s club; wreath, Saxe &
Floto. Interment was in Riverside
cemetery. .
The board of education will hold
a meeting this evening at the usual
time and place, and the committee
appointed at the last meeting to
draft legislation for the next legis
lature by which the suburban schools
may be entirely controlled by the
hoard - may make a report. It Is
hinted that the committee. Com
missioners Monagan and Reiley, on
looking over the city charter and
the rules of the schools find many
obstacles and some of them may be
Insurmountable. For Instance, the
board proposes to engage hereafter
only graduates of the state normal
schools for teachers whereas the
statutes provide that a certificate to
teach from the state boardof edu
cation shall be consider!?';1 ' '"'ynt
guarantee of the holder I' com
petency as a feacher.
Von hare something to sell. If
yoa want a purchaser the people
must kaow whre to find yon. Let
them know by placing m want adv in
the Democrat: 25 word S dart for
25 ccnta, : - - - -
SHE IS IN CUSTODY
New Bedford, Mass, Nov 30. A
strange case of confused identity has
Juat come to light in the discovery
that William P. Simmons, colored,
whom Hattie Douglass, colored, has
admitted having shot, is now living
in New York, and that his brother,
Harry P. Simmons, was the man
killed. Although William P. Sim
mons came to New Bedford shortly
after the shooting of bis brother by
the Douglass woman on August 22,
the mistake was not noticed until
now. Throughout the several steges
of prosecution the woman has al
ways admitted having shot William
P. Simmons, although saying that
she did so without Intent to commit
murder. The brother heard the case
recited to him,' with his own name
used instead of that of H:irry P.
Simmons.
It is expected that the mistake in
names will not have any bearing upon
the woman's trial, other than to de
lay it somewhat until the necessary
corrections are made in tho indict
ments. The next grand jury sits
here in February, and a proper in
dictment will probably be drawn
against her at that time.
OPENING OF ELKS ROOMS.
New Quarters Will Be the Scene of a
Merry Party This Evening.
The Elks new and palatial home
will be thrown open this evening for
the inspection by the Elks and their
lady friends. It will be a port of In
formal affair as all the work has not
yet been completed on the building.
All the rooms have been beautifully
decorated and furnished and the
committee will extend a warm wel
come to all the visitors tn-night.
There will be an orchestra in attend
ance to furnish music during the two
hours which the reception will last,
from 8 to 10 o'clock.
FAST DISTANCE RUNNING.
"Slightly Less Than 21 Miles" Done
in 1:51:25 by au Irishman.
San Francisco, Nov 30. In a so
called" Marathon race held ..yesterday
under the auspices of the Century
Athletic club of Oakland, Cornelius
Connolly, an Irishman, 33 years old,
covered the distance of slightly loss
than twenty-one miles in 1 hour 51
minutes 25 seconds. The course was
marked out along country roads and
most of the distance was run on the
road., although at times the men
would take to the sidewalk.
There were twenty-five entries and
all but two finished, although the sec
ond man. Soldier King, was ten min
utes behind the wonderful time made
by the winner. Connolly started out
at a fast clip, running the first mile
under five minutes, and before he
had gone three miles he had dis
tanced all competitors but King, who
stayed well up until the last five
miles.
One More Death.
Boston, . Nov. 30 George W.
Schools, the conductor Injured in
the collision on the New Haven road,
Saturday night, died to-day. This
makes the second death caused by
the accidewt..
Lumber Yards Destroyed.
Philadelphia, Pa, Nov 30. Fire of
incendiary origin destroyed the lum
ber yard of J. C. Brill & Co In West
Philadelphia early this morning, and
two other buildings. The loss will
reach more than $100,000.
IF YOU ONLY
KNEW
how satisfactory it is in every way to
have a Glenwood in the kitchen you
would make it your immediate busi
ness to have one put in without any
delay.
A Local Manufacturer Said:
"My wife goes in raptures about that Glenwood every time
she goes in the kitchen nd the cook is simply delighted."
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A Prominent Foundryman Said:
"The Glenwood has the most beautiful castings I ever saw. It
is marvelous how they can turn out such nice work."
Glenwood ranges sel from $25.00 to $125.00. Can deliver
any one of them inside of a few hours.
We're always glad to extend time payments to responsible par
ties desiring to purchase a Glen wood range.
The Hampson-Sellew Furniture Corrtpany,
GLENWOOD RANGE AGENCY. - 116-120 SANE STREET.
Waterbury has long borne ' the
name of the Brass city, and unlets
all signs of the times fail it will soon
have another title, tho theater town,
or something of that sort. S. Z. Poll,
accompanied by Engineer Westover
of Philadelphia, was here yesterday
and made some Investigation in the
Morlarty property on East Main
street, at the west side of Poll's the
ater, with a view, it Is surmised, of
building another opera house in that
neighborhood. Then, of course, ev
erybody has heard of the new Umpire
theater In the Auditorium on Kmirh
Main street, and to make things nil
the better the Chotziauoffs, who first
planned for movlne Dlctures in thoir
proposed block at the corner of
School and East Main streets, are
now considering a proposition to
form a Joint stock company and
build a first-class oner a hnunn nn thu
site. In order to put himself in a
position to have the opera house It
he thinks well of It, Mr Chotzianoff
has bought a strip of land twentv-flv
deep and running the full width of
nis tot irom Mr Goodwin, the car
riage maker, which will come in inut
right for a stage in case it should be
ueeaea. xne price paid for the addi
tional land is said to have been Jinn
a foot. At the nresent Hmo ft ent
ered by an old frame building which
wnen removed and replaced by some
thing more modern will add mnciH.
erably to the looks of things in that
locality
Anyway thincs are boomi nr nn
East Main street and for all one can
tell the public will soon want tn full
in with John Moriarty's suggestion,
and call that thoroughfare Broadway.
AGENT PUNCHED HER.
New Haven Salesman Arrested on
Woman's Complaint.
W. G. Barr, a . salesman for the
Adams Co of New Haven, was arrt-
ed to-day on a warrant charging him
with assault on a Mrs Dunlap of
Ridgewood street. Barr sold some
silverware at the Dunlap home but
the goods did not come un tn tho
expectations of the buyer. The sales.
man later wisned to take them back
but Mrs Dunlan refused to nart with
them until they were replaced with
new ones. She says that Barr punch
ed her when she refused to elve up
the goods. - The ease will be heard in
the city court to-morrow riornfng.
Mr Palmer Buys.
A controlling interest, sixty-four
of the 100 shares of the New London
Mornintr Telecranh has been nn Id tn
George S. Palmer, of Palmer Bros,
wno led .tne antt-uiley fight in the
late election. The intm-put wh that
of Mayor B. L. Armstrong. The New
L,onaon Day sold the Telegraph to
Frank Brunner over a year ago and
since that time Lucius E. Whiten and
Mayor Armstrong have furnished the
capital for the life of the publication.
Mr Whiton's aid is purely personal,
and he still retains it. .
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