The Press., 1891-12-10

Miss Hoisington was bright girl, 8 stu dent at the Hartford high school and popular among her girl friends. Her brother, Frederick R. Hoisington, grad uated from Trinity college in the class of s9f.
 MANSFIELD.
 The election of officers of Urial F. & A. M, lodge, at Merrow Station, result ed as follows: w. H. Bracket, W. M. i; J. c. Jennings, s. w.; Homer N. Neil, J. w.; A. Kerper, treasurer; O.. H.: Nichols, secretary; Frank Backus, SD. i; Herbert Curnan, J. D.; John Brownlee, s. S.; John Moriarty, J. S.. James Hay, chaplain; William F. Carroll, marshal; :; A. Deveraux, tyler. Stated communica- tions the first Saturday of each month. Mrs Milo Pember, the mother of ex- residence of her son-in-law, Reuben Clark , at Mansfield, Monday. She was 94 years old. The burial took place at Ellington, | her native home.
 | (COrreSpOnQenCe.)
 At meeting of the Hillside Club, Dec. 3d, at Mansfield Depot, the mem- bers joined heartily in vote of thanks to MT. Edwin Reynolds for the substantial aid he has rendered the club in various ways, and to Mr. George H. Reynolds for check in fulfillment of his promise to add one dollar to every ten received by the treasurer. The ladies also appreciate the cooperation of the public in rendering their recent fair success, and will hold special meetings for work, to enable them to fill the orders received more promptly.
 l -Willimantic Cor. Hartford Post |: l While I. D. Phelps was returning from a visit to E. Stevens house in Mansfield I Sunday night between and 10 o'clock he was met by three fellows, one of whom struck at him with knife, cutting a hole In his overcoat six inches long on the left side. Evidently it was aimed at Phelps heart, but he dodged and saved his life, and quickly as possible pulled l out his pistol and fired at his assailant twice but without effect. The night being ! very dark and consequently he could not see the fellows, but he heard them scram- ble over wall and disappear. The af- fair happened only a quarter of mile from the house where Phelps had spent the evening and the party evidently lay in wait for him. People of that section are thrown into excitement over the affair. The assaulted man was one of the suffer
 CTS by the late incendiary fires, and the
 suspicion is natural that the attempt was
 under the auspices of the same gang.
 The Hartford Courant's Willimantic
 correspondent adds the following facts
 A circumstance occurred on Friday, Nov 27, which is thought by many to have
 been a prelude to the attack of Sunday
 night. On that day, as young Phelps
 was going on foot from Storrs to Eagle
 vile to take the cars, when near the now notorious Costello house, he was accosteG by two of the Costello boys, John anG
 Timothy, who charged him with having made the statement that their brother James set fire to his (Phelp's) fathers
 barn. Phelps replied: "I did say so, ane l say so now," whereupon the Costello boys began to swear at him and threate1 to pound him, and finally told him to tur1
 about and go home and never show him 2 self about their place again. At thii , point in the conversation Phelps drew hi' , pistoTand notified them that he had starte, to go to Eagleville and that he intended t,
 go there if he had to kill few Costello
 to get there. The Costello brothers thel got into their team and started down tn
 road, young Phelps following on foot witt
 his revolver in his hand. Young Phelp
 is young man of good character an, l highly esteemed by all who know him and no possible reason, can be assigne, for the attempt upon his life Sunda, night, unless it be that the Costello broth CTS had become maddened by the repor : that he had circulated the story that the, were guilty of the incendiarism. Tn
 darkness of Sunday night rendered it i'm possible for the would-be assassins to 5 seen plain enough to identify them, ye
 the minds of many of the people of tn neighborhood involuntarily turn to tn Costellos as being the guilty parties, an the circumstances attending their meetin
 with young Phelps on the 26th of Nov ], and the attack upon him Sunday nigh a would seem to give color to such con
 clusions, but whoever or whatever ma !, have been the cause of the attack on g thing is certain, the people of Mansfiel
 are fast coming to feel that not only
 their property in danger of destrution bu T their lives as well. The event of Sunda l. night resulted in a nervous shock froI h which the young man did not recover s f as to enable him to resume his usual dl
 ties until this morning. It will be remen bered that on the night which MT. Phelp
 barn was burned the little church WE for the third time daubed over with ol
 scene characters and words, green co ored paint being used. A few days aftt
 the brush and paint pot were found nes
 the house of Asa Farwell, who lives 0 a cross road about one mile east frOl
 Storrs. Upon examination of the brue P it was discovered that it had been used $ blue paint and without cleaning had bet U put into the green paint, which was use . on the church. This called to mind u
 fact that the Costello boys had recent # been painting their carts with paint n the same color, which also showed
 some extent in the marks on the churc