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The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
HULLS FARMs-CROss HIGHWAY

Levi Chapman has bought q horse to work on the railroad.
 Sherwood Wakeman has lost valuable COW; choked while eating onions.
 Charles Guyer has contracted to now Harry Hulfs salt grass.
 Master Harold Ogden of Westport vis- it's his grandfather, J. Hyde Ogden.
 Lewis Meeker has sold fat COW to H. Pillow of Cranberry Plains.
 Sadie, youngest child of James Sher- wood, while playing in the door yard, broke the socket of her shoulder.
 William Sturges, an old bachelor who resided alone on the Cross Highway road near the Ketchum mansion, was taken very sick and was obliged to send for a physician. MT Sturges was found in such pitiful condition that the board of health removed him to the Bridgeport hospital, last week Monday, where he died, Wednesday afternoon. He was buried on Saturday afternoon from the Congregational church at Greens Farms, Rev Mir Davies officiating.
The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
SOUTHPORT.

The Consolidated track between the freight house and Eiwood's crossing has been raised four feet. The contractors are excavating for the undergrade cross ing. Twenty teams are at work and it will be pushed rapidly to completion.
The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
FAIRFIELD WOODS.

Mir and Mrs Frederick Downs have re- turned from their wedding tour, which was extended as far as Syracuse, where Mir and Mrs Downs visited an uncle of Mrs Downs.
The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24

|
 It is probable that an amicable settle ment will soon be made by the Spring field emery wheel company and probably the business will be resumed in short time.
 Miss Janet Eleanor Sterling, eldest
 daughter of the late Thomas Sterling, is
 soon to wed George G. Prentice. Hon D. N. Morgan has been elected vice president and director of the Consol- dated rolling stock company, of which James Staples is president. John Birge has lately bought a tract of 30 acres of woodland at Gaylord's mills and intends to cut off the timber at once,
 marketing it in Bridgeport and New York, besides selling to the railroad. Mir Birge has also bought 20-acre tract of
 Lorenzo Hall, lying between Park and Madison avenues and about five acres in Fairfield of Ormel Hall of Trumbull. Men and teams are at work at both tracts.
 Mir Birge has likewise bought number
 of trees, next north of the Mallett tract,
 Easton, of Fred K. Beach and will at
 once haul them to this city.
 MT Catill of North avenue, gentle
 man 70 years of age, has for some time suHereu With cataract on one or ms eyes. It increased until it became pain ful and q serious menace to his sight ]; then, though in advanced years, he decid- ed to submit to an operation and was talk
 en to the hospital, last week, where the l foreign growth was removed. He ap- 1 pears to be doing we'll and expects to be
 out soon.
 l Miss Ada J. Todd, one of the teachers l in the nigh school, has written an enter
 taining and instructive article on the use
 of newspapers in schools.
 { All city schools were closed, Friday, i that teachers might attend the 44th am
 nual convention of the State teachers as-
 sociation at New Haven. There was an
 attendance of 2200, of which Bridgeport
The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
WEsTPoRT.

MT and Mrs c. II. Taylor are in the South.
 The selectmen and town clerk, who met at the town house, Wednesday, to make new voters. will meet again, next Monday.
The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
CHESTNUT HILL.

Mrs John Treadwen has been home.
 Ernest Jennings of Deep River has been with Samuel and Agur s. Beach.
The Newtown bee., 1890-10-24
TRUMBULI..

Mr and Mrs Lewis Brinsmade have vis- tied in Erie, Penn,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
BAYNE TO QUIT CONGRESS.
He Declines q denomination In His
District Convention.

He Declines q denomination In His
District Convention.
PITTsBURG, PA, June 3.-Hon. Thomas
nj. Bayne, congressman from the Twenty
third district. refused denomination to-day.
and Col. William A. Stone, ex-United
States district attorney, was nominated.
Col. Bayne had two-thirds of the
delegates to the convention In his
favor, and being assured of O nomination,
made an address to the delegates withdraw
ing In favor of Col Stone.
In the Twenty-second district Hon. John
Dalzell was renominated.
Mr.. Bayne's excuse for refusing the
nomination was that he was worn out and
unable to work. He had worked for the
honor of the nomination as vindication,
had succeeded and was satisfied.
CAUSE OF THE DEcLINATIoN.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The retirement
of Tom Bayne, a friend of Tom Reed, and
Pennsylvania member of the ways and
means committee. was the great congress
sional topic this evening. The report was
not believed when it first arrived in the
afternoon, because Mr.. Bayne had told
everybody when he left last week that he
was going to fight for denomination and
expected to get it, and also to be re-
elected. When the report was con-
firmed by dispatches In the evening
papers the opinion expressed by
the other members of the Pennsylvania
delegation was that Mr.. Bayne must have
come to the conclusion that his fidelity to
Quay would prevent his reelection, mas
much as he is right in the thick of the anti
Quay sentiment Of Western Pennsylvania.
Evidently, Mr.. Bayne thinks Delamater is
to be nominated by Quay and beaten by
the democrats, and does notDropose to be
beaten with him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
LovELANp,s cLouDBURsT.
Mrs. Sales Drowned Before the Eyes
of Her Husband aud Son.

MISSION VALLEY, la, June 3.-Another
account of the cloudburst at Loveland
says: ''The village of Loveland, eight miles
from here, was almost totally destroyed
Saturday night by cloudburst. The town
is located on Boyer river, and to the east is
a gully which gradually increases in width
as it continues westward. The cloudburst
occurred mile or two up this gully, and
its force was terrific. As it made its way
toward the village it swept everything be-
fore it, leaving hardly home in the town.
The amount of water which suddenly
poured out upon the unfortunate village
was any where from three to ten feet in
depth, according to the locality.
WOMAN DROWNED.
"The house of Luke SALES, short dis
tance from the river, was the scene of the
greatest mishaps of all The family con-
sisted Of Sailes, his wife and son, the latter
young man 20 years old. They were
driven out of the house by the incoming
flood. Finding escape cut of in front, they
left the house hand in hand by the back
door. In the back yard there Is quite a
downward slope from front to back, and
the current was so swift that all three were
swept away from their feet and lost their
hold upon one another. The old man
and his son caught hold of
clump of bushes, past which they were
swept by the torrent, and managed to save
themselves. Mrs. Sailes, however. was car
ried past this slender refuge, and all her
husband and son could do was to watch the
mad waves sweep her down into the Boyer
to her death. So far no other lives are re-
ported lostn
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
SENATORS AND THE TARIFF.
The Subcommittee Hears the Plea OF
the Fur Men.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-Senators Allison,
Aldrich. Hiscock and Jones of the subcom-
mittee OF the republicans of the Senate
finance committee to-day continued con-
sideration of the tariff bill. The items in
the wood schedule were examined and
passed, and then the sugar schedule was
laid over for the present, it being deemed
best to await the return of Senators Morrill,
and Sherman before taking up a subject of
such Importance.
Two New York fur dealers, representing,
they said, 100 houses engaged in the prepar-
alton or furs and the manufacture of fur
goods were given hearing of few min
utes. They asked an increase of the duty
on dressed fur and manufactured articles
over that provided in the House bill. The
fur-makers said that until recently the
home market has not been invaded
by foreign manufacturers and that the
old rate of duty was sufficient,
although the resident manufacturers paid
their workmen 800 TO S25 a week, while
foreign manufacturers paid but IS and SO
for the same class of labor. Now the
cheaper foreign product is finding its way
to us, and the manufacturers have pleaded
for higher rate Of duty to protect them
selves and their employees. The members of
the finance committee who heard the plea
"a y AANhhCA w pOAiOfCy ~ ID pdlOs budb buc
rates proposed In tbs House bill-20 per cent.
ad valorem on dressed furs and 80 per cent.
on manufactured articles-are sufficiently
high.
OTHER SCHEDULES PASSED OVER.
The subcommittee also passed over with
out action the tobacco, wines and agricult-
ural products schedules, which, with sugar,
occupy twenty pages Of the printed bill. A
start was made upon the sugar schedule, but
it was late before that was taken up and not
much was done with it.
During the afternoon several gentlemen in
terested in various products affected by the
bill, and introduced by their senator or repre-
sentative. explained their views to the sub
committee and preferred their requests
with regard to the rates of duty that should
be imposed.
Tomorrow morning the New York i'm
porters will be heard by the committee.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
B'NAI BIRTH.
Endowments, Consolidation and the
Ritual Discussed.

Endowments, Consolidation and the
Ritual Discussed.
RICHMOND, VA, May 3.-Routine work
occupied the attention of the grand lodge
Of the Independent Order of B'Nai Birth at
the morning session. A recess was taken in
order to allow some fifty members TO accept
an invitation to dine with Mayor Ellyson.
When the convention reassembled the COM
mittee on endowment made a report recom-
mending that the entire subject Of endow-
ments be relegated to the unrestricted con-
troll Of the various district grand lodges.
The report was adopted.
CONSOLIDATION DISCUSSED.
The special committee appointed to con-
slider the subject OF consolidation with
other Jewish societies presented their re-
port. They recommended that seven men,
bers of the grand lodge from each district
be appointed; that this commission be
authorized to formulate plan Of cousolida-
tion, and that IL a consolidation be effected,
the commission shall promulgate the same
to the district lodges, any expense incurred
20 be paid by the executive committed
The report was adopted by vote of 50 ayes
60 10 nays.
THE RITUAL.
The committee on ritual made report ia
coming into disuse; that lengthy rituals or
paraphernalia are In contradistinction to
the spirit Of Judaism and to the demands Of
the order. They presented the following
resolution: THAT a special committee Of
five be appointed to draft a new ritual in
conformity with the views expressed In the
report; that such ritual, however, shall pro-
vide but for single rite of initiation; that
In such ritual the special features shall be-
such as shall awaken interest in its use.
not alone as men, but as Jews"
1t was further resolved that tha
report of the special committee be promul-
gated within twelve months after the adj
journment Of this convention. The report
was adopted amid great applause.
David Kline. chairman Of the committee,
was heartily congratulated by the presidents
and members OF the convention.
Tonight the members were entertained
at banquet at the Exchange hotel.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
FUNDS FOR FoRTIFIoArIoNs.
The Senate Discusses Amendments tc
the Bill.

The Senate Discusses Amendments to
the Bill.
WASHINGTON, June SIN the Senate
to-day the fortifcation bill was taken up
An amendment to increase the appropria-
tion for rifled seacoast mortars from $780,
600 to 100000 gave rise to a discussion in
which the condition of American seaports
was described by Messrs. Dawes and Hale,
and their apprehensons were ridiculed by
Mr.. Cockrel. The discussion was partici-
pated in by Messrs. McPherson, German,
Plumb, Dolph, Reagan and Platt. Finally
vote was taken and the amendment was
agreed to by a vote Of "a to 90.
wATERvLIET ARSENAL
The next amendment that attracted at
tention was proposition to strike out two
items for the Watervliet arsenal at New
York-one appropriating s24s,743 for the
erection Of a south wing, and the other ap-
propriating $780.000 for machinery. In
lieu Of the items proposed to be stricken
out Mr.. Dawes moved to insert the follow
ing: For boring and turning lathes, rifiing
machinery, and an 50 ton travelling crane,
fully equipped for the manufacture of
twelve-inch guns at Watervliet arsenal,
New York, $2S5, ZOO. With this amend
ment pending the Senate adjourned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
A SERVICE PENSION SPLIT.
The Conferees of Congress Unable
to Agree.

The Conferees of Congress Unable
to Agree.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-After talk yes
terday between Senator Davis and Repre-
sentative Morrill,. chairmen of the two
committees on pensions, it was believed that
an agreement would be finally and formally
reached to-day by the conferees on the
general pension bill. But when the House
conferees came up this morning
with the instructions Of the republican
caucus of last night to maintain the princi-
pie Of service pensions, it was manifest that
an agreement could not be secured under
those conditions, and vote to report dis
agreement to the respective houses was
adopted. The service pension feature was
the only one of any importance upon which
the conferees could not agree.
ACTION OF THE SENATE.
In the Senate this morning Mr.. Davis,
from the conference committee on the de-
pendent pension bill, reported that the ON
mittee had been unable to agree.
Mr.. Edmunds inquired lin order to under
stand the form of doing business between
the two houses) which house had asked for
q conference.
The Presiding Officer (Mr. Ingalls)-The
conference was asked by the Senate.
Mr.. Edmunds-Then | submit that this
report should be made first to the House of
Representatives.
The Presiding Officer-The senator from
Vermont Is correct. That is the parlia-
mentary proceeding. The report will be
withdrawn until action Is taken elsewhere.
The report was withdrawn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
POWDER SPREADS DEATH
A MOTHER AND HER TWO CHIL-
DREN FATALLY INJURED.

The Horror the Result OF the Contact
of Flash of Lightning With 5000
Pounds of the Explosive-A Neigh
boring House Leveled to Its Founda-
ton.
CLEVELAND, o., May 3.-At o'clock
this afternoon during a thunder storm,
lightning struck powder house one mile
east Of Mansfield, o., owned by Tracy g.
Avery, which contained over 5000 pounds
OF powder. A terrific explosion followed
that was felt distinctly in all parts Of the
city. Not q vestige Of the little building
was left, but a swath OF destruction
and desolation had been swept in every di-
rection.
FATAL INJURIES.
just across the road was the dwelling Of
Henry Roost, in which at the time were
his wife and three children. The house was
shivered to atoms. One of the children. Is
months old. was crushed and hurled $50 feet
away lifeless; another, years old, vas so
badly injured that she will die, and the
mother is yet unconscious from injuries that
will likely prove fatal
A new unoccupied dwelling adjacent to
the Roost house was leveled TO its founda-
tion.
BRICKS FLYING IN THE AIR
The force of the explosion was so terrific
that the bricks Of the powder house were
hurled fully quarter OF mile away. the
debris sweeping over the fields and through
the adjacent woods, leaving path like that
of a shell-swept battlefield.
All the windows of houses within radius
of half a mile were shattered, and plate
glass window in the postoffice, about a mile
and half away, was broken.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
PANAMA CANAL EARNINGS.
The Commission Prepares Fresh Re-
port OF Estimates.


PARIS, June 3. The special Panama
canal commission has prepared a fresh re-
port ON the prospective earnings of the
canal In case ii is completed. In this the
annual cost Of maintenance is placed at
$500, 900 francs, the expenses of the admin
istration are placed at l 10000 francs an
nually, and the cost of transit is estimated
at II, 900 900 francs annually The income
for the first four years is estimated at
81, 900 francs. This is calculated on an
average annual tonnage for that period Of
4, 100000 tons, and the proposed rate of
charge per ton is 1915 francs.
THE INCREASE IN TONNAGE.
The commission estimates that after the
first four years there will be an annual in
crease in tonnage of $4,000 tons, until the
maximum tonnage Of 5000 900 should be
reached. After the canal has been in opera
ton twelve years the annual net receipts.
all expenses being deducted, are estimated
at 81 ,0O0, 900 francs. This amount would
be distributed between tho present and
future shareholders in accordance with the
terms of the contract to be concluded be-
tween the old company and the new.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
CoLp-RLoopEp MURDER.
'FRIsOO's BRIDGE HORROR.
The Jury Censures the Engineer and
the Railroad Company.

the Jury Censures the Engineer and
the Railroad Company.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.-Several other
witnesses were examined at the railroad
disaster inquest late last night. but their
testimony contained few facts not already
known. An effort was made to have
Engineer Dunn present to relate the circum-
stances of the accident, but he could not be
found.
Conductor T. A. Davis testified that be
knew nothing about the draw being open
until the engine and car went into the
water. He did not think the train was run
ming more than two miles an hour at the
time.
VERDICT OF THE JURY.
The jury rendered verdict finding that
the victims Of the accident came to their
deaths by drowning, caused by criminal
negligence on the part of Engineer Dunn.
The verdict further relates: I'VE find En-
gineer Dunn guilty of manslaughter. We
also find that the railway company does not
take sufficient caution to signal trains when
approaching the drawbridge."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
OREGON'S ELECTION.

The Democrats Put in Their Governor
But That Is all.
PORTLAND, ORE, June 8. - Herriman's
republican, majority for congress is esti-
mated from 5000 to 5000.
The republican state central committee
concede the reelection of Pennoyer demo
craft for governor by 500 to 1000 majority.
The democrats claim 1,500 to 1900.
Both branches of the legislature are
republican by large majorities.
The republicans elect all their state ticket,
except the governor, by majorities ranging
from 1900 to 5000 The legislature will
stand: Senate-Republicans, %; democrats,
z. House-Republicans %; democrats, 22.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
KILLING OF CLAYTON.
The House Committee Agrees to Hear
More Testimony.

The House Committee Agrees to Hear
More Testimony.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The subcommit-
which has had under consideration the
question Of taking further testimony in the
Clayton-B Breckenridge Arkansas contested
election case, has decided the question,
practically, in the negative. In its decision
the committee says: 1.-THE application of
the contestee to take further testimony in
Arkansas is denied. Full opportunity was
given to take such testimony at Little Rock,
and the case was there closed as to such tes-
timony with the consent of the contestee.
NOT CLOSED AT WASHINGTON.
1.-THE closing of the case, however, at
testimony in Little Rock, leaving the sub
ject of further testimony at Washington to
be considered on the arrival of the COM
mittee here. As to the three witnesses
asked for--Dr. @. nj. TAYLOR, G. r. Breck-
inridge and Powell Clayton-while the
committee knows of no reason why their
testimony was not sufficiently taken at
Little Rock, yet, as all three Of said wit
nesses are in Washington today, the COM
mittee will hear their further testimony
if the contestee desires to have it taken. AS
to all the documentary evidence called for
the committee will receive it and place it on
the record subject to all proper objections as
to relevancy, materiality and competency,
provided it is furnished before the record is
fully printed. In the absence of any show
ing whatever that the proposed testimony
will throw any further light on the Hooper
theory of the case the committee does not
deem it proper to delay the case in order to
take the proposed testimony of California
witnesses"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
DOES BLAINE WANT WARP

a London Editor Don't Like His
Behring Sea Policy.
LONDON, June 4. 3A. M-The Times de-
clares that the order to dispatch American
cruisers to Behring sea smacks too much of
the methods of the first Napoleon in dealing
with weak statesmen, and that il the order
is executed British men-of-war must
follow. "We can only imagine the
Times continues, shat pressure from
Irish-Americans has induced Secretary
Blaine to withdraw from his apparent desire
for diplomatic settlement. We believe
that England will agree to close the time
for taking seals. but such an arrangement
must be international, and can't be imposed
upon the world by American gunboats at
the bidding of Mr.. Blaine.n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
Gotham's Broken Brokers.

NEW YoRY, June 3.-The assignment Of
Bondei & Jenkins, stock brokers of Wall
street, who suspended yesterday, was filed
in court to-day. The members OF the firm
are Thomas H. Bonden of Mont Clair, N.
j., and Frank jenkins of Boontown, N. j.
The assignee is R. Floyd Clarke. The
firm succeeded Collins, Bonden & jenkins.
and its assignment includes the property
Of that firm. Preferences to the amount Of
SAL 900 are given.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
LODGES MEDAL BILL.

Gen. Felix Agnus Before the House
Military Committee.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-Gen. Felix Ag-
nus, proprietor of the Baltimore american,
appeared before the House committee on
military affairs this morning to argue In
favor Of Lodges bill giving medals to the
survivors Of the forlorn hope at Port Hud-
ton, Of whom Agnus was one. He had to
wait an hour for the committee to assemble.
and then Acting Chairman Rockwell of
Massachusetts, limited him to five minutes,
there being others to speak. Agnus de-
clared that this was insulting, and left the
committee room, although the other men,
bers Of the committee begged him to go on.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
Frances Duty ON Maize.

PARIS, June 3.--In the Chamber of Dep
uties to-day M. Develle, minister of agri-
culture, announced that the government
accepted the proposal to impose duty of
8 francs ON maize.
M. Viette, free trader, demanded an ad-
journment, but his demand was rejected.
The discussion will be resumed Thursday.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
A Confederate Flag Incident.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-Chairman Cooley
of the interstate commerce commission
noticed this afternoon that one of the
clerks of the commission was wearing a
confederate flag In his button hole and
directed Secretary Mosely to remove the
flag or the clerk. Secretary Mosely re-.
moved the flag.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
Louisiana,s Thenks.

WASHINGTON, June 3-Among the me-
MORALS and other papers presented and re-
ierred in the Senate this morning were reso-
.uuons from the Louisiana legislature ex-
.endlng thanks to congress and the Presi-
Gent for the relief afforded the sufferers
from the recent Mississippi floods.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
A Parnellite Nhip.

LONDON, June 3.-An urgent Parnellite
"whipn has been issued, calling upon the
nationalist members of the House Of Com
mons to be in their seats Thursday. It is
reported that motion will be made to
adjourn the House in order to censure the
government for proclaiming recent meet
ings at Tlpperary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-04
John 8. Bell Dismissed.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-John 8. Bell,
chief of the secret service of the treasury.
having failed to comply with request for
his resignation, has been dismissed, to take
effect from yesterday. Mr.. Bell was ap-
pointed during the last administration. His
successor has not. yet been selected but will
be in a few days.