The Newtown bee., 1888-06-08

Rev Mir Moore of the Disciples church has been confined with rheuma- tism, which is unusally prevalent.
 Whit street is now in the hands of the payers. a M
 The News says that the street railwa y carried over 5000 passengers, Saturday 1.
 Thomas Sheehan, an employe on the pa wing job, attempted to commit an as sault on young girl about IA, Sunday afternoon. She was the daughter of the man he boarded with and the crime was attempted during the tenip0rary absence of the girls parents. A private hearing was had before the police court, Monday morning. The villain was given four months free board in Danbury jail. If this yinainy cannot receive greater pun Iishment, parents and husbands will feel lcompeIled to take the law in their own hands and mete out summary punish ment. s.,.#....5
 1 Last week was an exciting one for | IDanburians. It began with two de- structive fires, Monday night and Tues l day morning, an account of which was given in the last BEE. Memorial Day IDDStEpduCCS WEIC CACCpbiUuddy IubCICSb- l ing The graves of the patriots were quietly visited and strewn with flowers l in the morning. In the afternoon, the
 military and fire companies paraded, ac- companied by two bands of music and
 dram corps and made q very fine ap- pearance. Their marching and generally 1 fine appearance was the subject of
 general comment. It is remarked that
 the street display was the finest and
 neatest of the kind ever held here. The weather was fine. Business was general ly suspended. An address at the City
 Hall in the evening by Rev J. W. Foot I finished up the observances. The next excitement was the opening of the
 Hawley- -Barnum tragedy in the Borough
 court, Thursday morning. After the
 doctors and policemen testified, Barnum was put on the stand and told the story
 of the shooting. After him Mrs Hawley
 and her daughter Eva Adams (by l husband No. p told Gheir story. The three agreed in their statement. Nothing
 new was elicited. They told the story
 substantially as the public have under stood it. The case is yet on. MT | Hawley has not yet, at this writing, given his version of the affair and there seems doubt whether he will before this
 court. He will undoubtedly be bound | bably reserve his story until then.
 Barnum seems to be getting well. He is
 walking around on the street receiving the greetings and congratulations of friends, repeating the story, describing the wounds and giving the supposed location of the ball which he carries and which may yet cause his death. In his
 testimony he admits kicking his assailant after he had been disarmed and was on
 the floor, in the side and head and said
 he meant to kill him, thinking that he was fatally wounded himself.
 On Thursday night, Edward Hickok,
 colored, in Crosby's Land, again brutally assaulted his wife, threatening to kill
 her. The tenement in which they live is on the bank of Still river and the back l stoop or platform projects over the river. ] When she got clear of his clutches, she
 ran out on the projecting roof and jumped into the river, remarking that she had
 rather end her life that way than to suf-
 fer his brutality any longer. A colored friend sprang into the water and rescued
 her from drowning. sHicock ran to escape,
 but was soon arrested and brought before
 the Borough court, Friday morning. He was given four months comfortable
 board and lodgings in jail as a reward
 for his brutality.
 Finally, Saturday, Forepaugh's show put in an appearance. The factories | generally suspended work and the day to fill up with people in the morning
 and, by the time the grand street parade started, thousands lined the sidewalks. The street display was q good one, as circus parades go. The show seemed to
 be liberally patronized. Thousands of dollars were carried mp to the tents and exchanged for what seemed to be a satis- factory equivalent. The people from surrounding towns were here in large ! numbers. It was regular circus day, differing but little from all circus days,
 except that the weather was unusually pleasant. Latterly either FOrepaugh or
 Barnum gives Danbury an extra holiday yearly; all work stops. Just after the close of the show, two carriages collided on Main street, opposite Baldwin's block, | the horses got excited and one ran fur iously on to the sidewalk apparently aiming directly for the show windows, throwing out the ,lady occupants and, lstriking a large frame of pictures at the entrance to Couch's gallery, dashed it all into pieces, just missing the large plate
 glass in Baldwin's drug store and, rush. ing down the sidewalk, dashed into ! 1duts SldSS SHOW case iOI lIllIIIIcFy |, I scattering the fragments of broken glass
 all over the walk, frightening another
 horse standing near it, that, turning
 around in a circle, rushed across the
 street on the opposite side and on to the
 sidewalk, where the carriage capsized
 in front of Taylor's block. Here it clear
 ed itself from the carriage and sped away
 with locomotive speed. Other horses got excited, in all four were finally involved