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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-10
VEST HATEN.

The James Graham Hook and Ladder company of West Haven has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Captain, A. B. Wilkenson; first lieutenant, A. H. Lamson; second lieu tenant, A, H. French; secretary, A. F. Save; treasurer. IL Fl. Warner.
 Annawon lodge, r. and A. M, of West Haven, will attend the funeral of Ste phen L. Visher this morning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-10
Gaming Piano Recital.
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A piano recital will be given by MT. F. H. Cheeswright, the accomplished young organist of Trinity church, at Steinerts hall next Monday afternoon at 930 o'clock The tickets of admis- sion are for sale at the Steinert music store. A delightful recital is assured.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-10
District of New Haven, $. Probate court,

District of New Haven ss. Probate Court, !
 New Haven. January 7th, 1895. THSTATEof EMILY LOUISA GERRY, late I1 of New Haven, in said district, deceased. Upon application of Amory Austin, praying that an instrument in writing pur- porting to be the last will and testamentof said deceased may be proved, approved, ll- lowed and admitted to probate, and that let. tors testame ntary may Dc granted upon the estate of said deceased, as per application on file more fully appears, it is
 \ ORDERED-Inat said application be heard and determined at Probate Court to be held at New Haven, in said district, on the l4th day of January, A. D. 1895, at 10 o'clock in the fore noon, and that notice be given of the pend- ency of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon, by publishing the same three times in some newspaper having circulation in said district.
 A. HEATON ROBERTSON,
 ia8 St Judge of said Court.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-10
JAS WELL OFF AS THE RICHEST"

v Charles w., Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria, Goethe, Bee thoven, Bismarck, the Princess Louise of England, Count Won Caprivi, and host of other eel ebrities have visited the famous Sprudel Spring of Carlsbad, and we are not all Goethes and Bis marcks, but we may enjoy the greater advantage of having the Spring with all it's benefits brought directly home tous, The more rapid means of transit and the march of invention is bring ing everyone within easy reach of every creative blessing.S The Carlsbad Water bottled at the Spring, or the Carlsbad Sprudel Salt, the solid corporations of the water, may be had of any drug gist, and are without an equal in all disorders of the stomach, in testines, spleen, liver, prostrate,
 kidneys and bladder, and in gout and diabetes. Beware of imita- tions. E1sNER & MENDELsoN Co.,,
 Sole Agents, New York. !
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-10
THE NEW HAVEN SAVINGS BANK.

THE NEW HAVEN SAVINGS BANK. INTEREST at tho rate of four per cent. per \ annum will bo credited depositors for the six months ending December 31st, 1891, on all sums entitled tlieretp not exceeding two thousand dollars, and aS, tho rate of three per cent per annum on the excess of two thou sand dollars, payable on and after January 2d, 1895. The bank will pc open for business as usual Wednesday, January Ed, 1885 and deposits made on or before January 10th will draw interest from January lsI
 ROBERT A. BROWN, Treasurer.
 New Haven January 2d, 1895. ja5 Ct
The record-union., 1895-07-12
is CHARLES BROCKWAY DROWNED ?
He Sent His Mo'har a Note to That
Effect.
Some Believe, However, That He Left
the City on Train-His
Clutches Found.

Yesterday evening it was stated that the
mother of Charles Brockway, who lives
a short distance south of the city. received
a note from him stating that he WAS going
to drown himself
Inquiry developed the fact that he had
called one of Katzenstein's messengers to
q room on the corner of Second and }
streets and sent him with note to his
mother, in which he said that if he did
not leave word in certain drug store by
9 p. NJ. she would know that be was
drowned. He also sent a bunch OF keys
to Campbelrs stable, on l. street. between
Sixth and Seventh, with request that
they be sent to his mother.
During the morning he had received
some money from Theodore Blauth, and
told Blauth that he would come around
and see him in the morning.
Search was immediately commenced
along the river front for young Brock
way and his crutches. which he used on
account Of his knee having been injured
some months ago, were found little
south of the east end OF the bridge. His
horse and buggy were found in front OF
Weinstock, Lubin IL Co.'s store.
A man came to the depot while the
search was going on and said that Brock
way had jumped off the bridge. On the
other hand, it is stated that he was seen,
without his crutches, leaning against 8
sleeping-car on the train that left this
city at 7:1O p. NJ, and that he was seen to
board the train. Up to time OF going to
press no further tidings in relation to the
affair had been obtained,
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SOCIAL AND Personal,

A. j. Rhoads is home again from his
visit to Harbin Springs.
Mrs. l. E. Avery has gone on three
weeks visit to Pacific Grove.
Mrs: Retta A. McHale is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Il. II. McGowan of San Fran
cisco.
Howard Kimbrough left last evening
for two weeks sojourn at Summit Soda
Springs.
Mrs. Z. II. Krebs and family have gone
10 Paclhc Grove, and will remain at that
resort two months.
On Wednesday evening Earl Penning-
ton was the recipient of a surprise party
at his home in Oak Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan Dennis of Iowa
City, Ia, who had been visiting J. r.
Mcconnell and family, left yesterday for
Pasadena.
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TIE Big GENERATOR At FOLSOM.
The Machinery Was Started and Ran
Satisfactorily.
Crossed Wires Near Brighton Pre-
vented the Electrical Current
From Reaching This City.

A busy crowd Of workmen were en-
gagged at the power-house of the Sacra-
mento Electric Power and Light Com
pany at Sixth and Ii streets yesterday.
The hammer and saw were hard at work
and the electricians were on putting the
finishing touches in setting the huge
motors and engines for the reception OF
the transmitted power.
Three transferring machines are In
place, as we'll as two of the big motors
and the three machines for running the
cars. The motors are set upon BED OF
sulphur-which is a non-cOnductor-ln
order that no power may be lost by being
conducted to the ground through lack OF
thorough insulation. The switch boards.
which are complicated and expensive af-
fairs, costing several thousand dollars,
are also in place. The three motors alone
will operate the seven machines, when In
place, furnishing LOCO horsepower, and
running all the cars and lights necessary
for the company.
On Wednesday, at l P. NJ, the l.2OO-
horsepower turbine wheels at the
power house were started, and the great
generator ran SO noiselessly and steadily
that it almost seemed as II 1t were stand
ing still. 1t ran steadily until midnight
In most satisfactory manner. and was
started again yesterday. doing excellent
work.
At P. NJ. yesterday, the motors and
machinery of the power-house here being
in order, the Folsom people were notlhed
to turn on the current. 1t was done. but
no indication Of it was felt here.
Men were sent out along the line from
both ends OF it to find where the trouble
was. Those sent from here found that
the wires were crossed this side of Brigh-
ton, stopping the transmission Of the
current. A gang of men were also sent
out from Folsom to make an inspection,
but instead of reporting back to the Fol-
som power-house they went 10 bed.
Meanwhile those here were anXiously
waiting TO hear that they had returned,
so that the current could be turned on
without endangering their lives. They
were finally routed out of bed at 1910
A. NJ. TO state W hat trouble there was on
the line.
1t was ascertained that the water had
been let out of the canal and it had to
be refilled, so that the current could be
generated, and that the electrical current
would probably reach here between 3
A. NJ. and A. NJ.
detachment of Battery B spent the
night at Suffers Fort, in order to fire the
salute of 100 guns the moment tidings
was conveyed to them that the current
had been transmitted.
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Their Deadly Encounter on Cal
averaS Road.
ANOTHER DAY WITH THE BOYS
BRIGADE BY THE SEA.
Rtcvclist Edwards Breaks the Coast
Half-Mfle Record at Petaluma In
1:O9 3-5-Body of Napa sulcloe
Recovered-Fresno Citizen Charged
With Burglary.

ANGELS CAMP, July ia double ira
gedy occurred to-day three miles this
side of San Andreas Peter Moro OF that
place. a young man, and Chris. Held OF
Stockton, 30 years of age, met on the ROAD
and began to quarrel about the prices ior
which they were selling fish, OF which
both are peddlers.
But lew words had passed between
them when both drew their pistols and
began firing. Four bullets took effect In
Heid's body, while Moro was shot three
times.
The latter was taken to his home at San
Andreas, and Held was taken into
saloon near where the shooting occurred.
Both men are probably fatally wound
ed, although Moro has the best chance OF
recovery. Each is well known IN Stock
ton and along the route between here and
there. Lively competition had engen-
dered ill-feeling between them for some
time.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER.
Highest Of all in Leavenng Power-Latest US Govt Report
R>!a!l! q, RSkdssi! kRskiI2s
ABSOLUTELY PURE
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Alf Greenfield, the heavyweight pugi-
list of London, is dead.
Ex-President Luis Bogran of Honduras
has just died Of Bright's disease.
AT La Crosse. Wis. Robert j. paced a
mile on Wednesday in 2:04 His record
is 2:Ol4.
Cnlcago veterinary surgeons. after
feastlng on horse outlets, declare the flesh
to be excellent food
only one OF the persons injured by the
collapse OF stand at Atlantic City. n. j.,
on Wednesday night has died.
"A miner known as "Irish Joe" was
drowned in the river at Redding, Shasta
county. He was intoxicated.
a bloody riot among Cinnamon oc-
Cured in Denver yesterday, and several
were cut and hacked with axes.
Near Oposura, Sonora, six men were
recently executed by the Mexican au
thorltles Tor completely in series of rob-
berries which had been uneArthed there.
The Musicians Union of San Francisco
mas decided that no member of the Union
shall JOIN the National Guard as bands
man, and all members of the Union now
In the National Guard will hand in their
designations.
a foxterrier belonging to Mrs. Sadie
Stone OF San Francisco swallowed $40
piece she LAID on her table, That night
one of her boarders. Warren Hunter.
stole the dog. Now Mrs. Stone is look
ing tor them both.
The Oakland Postoffice Department has
instructed its mail collectors to purchase
bicycles for the gathering of letters
throughout tho city. BY this innovation
the mail can be taken up from the boxes
at much later hour.
esterday the steamer Kite sailed from
Philadelphia with the Greenland s;cien-
tlflc Expedition to relieve Lieutenant
teary. The vessel is provisioned for
eighteen months tor the crew, the pres
ent expedition and Peary's party.
Through hole in the wall of Alder
man tInkler's office, in Chicago, into An
adjoining room came story of boodling
INTO a monograph and a stenographer's
ears, which was submitted to special
Grand Jury summoned yesterday.
AT Watertown, n. Y, yesterday John
Hoch, an ex-convict, shot and killed
Minnie Ingersoll, aged 16, and fatally
wounded Nicholas Strife, an aged farm
hand, who was with her. Hoch then shot
himself III the head. He may recover.
While playing a kissing game at an
Oakland party on Wednesday Miss May
Gibson cut her hand badly by thrusting
1t through window She had dropped
the handkerchief" before young man
and then tried to avoid being kissed-or
pretended to. In running away she col
lided with the window.
Rev. David Utter, prominent Unita-
rian minister Of Salt Lake City, and his
hfteen-year-old son, Richard, have just
completed the descent of the Colorado
River from point above the canyons
ana rapids down the stream. shooting the
rapids and finally arriving at the Needles.
The trip is remarkable one. They are
doubtful If it has ever been made before
Oh raft by white men.
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ON THE BEACH.
How the Boys Brigade Are Getting
Along at santa Cruz.

How the Boys Brigade Are Getting
Along at santa Cruz.
SANTA CRUZ, July IL. - The Boys
Brigade encampment is a grand success,
and the boys have got down to business
and hard work. They have commenced
to decorate their tents with evergreens
and tiags, some of them being done in an
artistic manner. The headquarters tent
is draped with beautiful red dwood boughs.
All visitors to headquarters are royalty
welcomed and treated to lemonade and
fruit OF various kinds.
When the taps were sounded last even
ing the young soldiers were ali ready for
q good nights rest. Guards were on duty
and had no trouble, as all were In camp
on time.
The programme for the day was carried
out, and this mornings religious services
were conducted by President w. 5.
Bogard. from 10 10 the boys were off
duty, and the beach was lined with blue
coats gathering moss and bathing in the
surf. Many took TO the river and spent
the time In swimming or boat-riding.
The wharf was lined with those who
were trying their luck at fishing.
At guard-mount i'll the evening large
number were attracted. The boys DO
=,
belong. The dress parade was q very
pretty sight.
This evening reception was held at
headquarters, and veryitne programme
was given under the auspices OF the
Santa Cruz company. The band, under
the leadership OF Major Cleaves, furnished
the music for an. entertainment at the
plunge baths this evening. The inspec-
ton of the mess quarters is under the
supervision OF Major Murray of the COM
mlssary department, while the walters,
boys from the brigade, are under the
direct supervision OF Captain Kingsbury.
Before eating, grace is always offered by
a clergyman, and then everything goes i'll
short order. Six hundred pounds OF beef
was consumed by the boys in twenty
meals.
rhe very best military discipline has
been observed, and only three boys have
been put in the guardhouse, and they are
there for minor offenses. The Officer of
the Day is Captain B. l.. Weymouth OF
the Second Regiment, and the Officer of
the Guard is Lieutenant Lloyd of Com
pany A, Fifth Regiment. The guards are
on duty two hours on and four hours Off,
The hospital corps is in command Of
ment, University of California. He only
has one patient under his care to-day.
One lad was brought to the depot on a
stretcher this morning by the hospital
corps, and sent by train to his home in
San Jose. He was sick before he started
from home.
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PETALUMA BICYCLE RACES.
j. L. Edwards of san Francisco Lowers
Coast Record.

Coast Record.
PETALUMA, July 1.-THE bicycle races
were run this afternoon. The half mile
open, class A, three heats, was won by c.
d. Bates, Jr., X. A. c., c. n. Ackerman
of Petaluma second, d. f. Whitman,
Olympic, third. Best time, Ill 1-5.
One mile open, class A, d. E. Whitman
first, c. d. Bates, Jr., second, and J. G..
Dickman third. Time, 2:3l.
w. A. Burke of the Acme Wheelmen of
Oakland went against the coast record OF
0:29 2-5 for a quarter-mile in an exhibi-
ton. Time, OBS 2-5
j. E. Edwards of the Olympics of San
Francisco, gave an exhibition half-mile,
paced, and broke the coast record in class
A. Time. log So.
The one mile. county handicap-Charles
Stewart (unatiached) first George Felix
(unattached) second. q. n. Ackerman of
Petaluma third. Time, 2:29 80.
Half-mile-C. f. Ackerman of Peta-
luna first, w. T. Pettis of Santa Rosa
second. Mark Simmons third. Time, 1:233
Quarter mile, three heats-C. n. Acker-
man won the final in 80 seconds.
Half-mile. for boys under 10 years-H.
M. Groshong of Santa Rosa first, CARAT
NJ. Kidd OF Santa Rosa second, ID. L..
Robinson of Petaluma third. Time, l:2l.
Two miles-D. u. Hayne first, Mark
Simmons second, c. y. Ackerman third.
Time 3:5l1
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UNRAyELING A MYSTERY.

Two Men Arrested for a Murder Com
mltted Near Seattle.
SEATTLE, July u.-Ransom Stokes, q
well-to-do rancher, who lived on fine
ranch at Sunnydale, this county. was shot
about two weeks ago. His body was
dragged to a secluded spot short dis
tance from his home and covered with
brush and logs. The fire died out, how
ever. and left the body half charred. The
remains were discovered late yesterday.
To-day two men, known as the kinlin
brothers, were arrested at Sunnydale and
charged with the murder. One is aged 20
and the other y years old. They are
known 10 have had trouble with the
murdered man, because he had driven
them irom his ranch. In their cabin two
shotguns were found, and the barrel OF
one SHOW ed recent use, but the prisoners
insisted that neither had been used for
months. a quantity of buckshot similar
to that found III Stokes' body was also
found i'll their cabin.
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THE OLD MINSTREL'S LAST SONG.

II was minstrel old and gray, who many
The songs that everybody knew-they were
on every tongue
For he began to sing and win mems praises
long ago
When Daddy Rice turned round and round
and jumped and danced Jim Crow
He'd warbled when Dan Emmett sang the
songs that used TO take
AT Charley Whites Melodeon, and a town
sensation MAKE;
And in the good old Bowery he had often
made hit,
And set the boys a-rOaring from the gallery
to the pit.
He'd sGng In strange lands. too and where
soever he chanced to roam
He told the touching story OF the good "Old
Folks at Home
He sang of ''Old Virgnny's Floatin' Scow,n
of "Nelly Gray"
OF "Ole Black Joe'' and dearest May. as
Lovely as the Day,
OF "Gentle ANNIE" Lily Dale,n of "The Old
Water MILL
Ofwitching. sweet Susanna who was "comin'
down the hill.r
He sang about that happy night when in the
coudless dome
1.-THE bright stars glittered," and he went
"a-see'n' Nellie home';
He told the story DER and DER of how when
Massa found
His rest in death they laid his form "all in the
cold, cold ground
Aud many time he won applause. 10 him as
rich as gold,
When, with Che sweetest melody, he raptur-
ously told
About MY Old Kentucky Home," so near yet
far away,
Where corn tops ripened, meadows bIoomed,
and birds sang all the day.
All joys, all sorrows were the themes of which
his lips had sung,
And made his name a household Word-the
praise OF every tongue.
One evening at the banquet hoard he rose
the honored guest
With grateful prlue's emotion swelling warm
ly in his breast.
And many an old-time comrade proudly cast
his gaze on him,
And many a heart was deeply touched and
many an eye grew dim,
AS he began TO sweetly sing, in low and trem.
bling tone,
Of 1.-THE Last Rose of Summer, that was
''blooming all alone"
And then, responsive to warm and love
inspired encore.
He sang the song of "Auld Lang Syne.u in
which all joined once more.
But over all their voices, as they sang that
song of cheer,
His voice was heard distinctly, strong. and
beautiful and clear.
Again the plaudits through the hall like
waves of thunder rang
For ir his life OF three score years he naar
more sweetly sang.
Hethanked them for the honor with his
hand laid on his heart,
And when the comrades rose again-the time
had come to part.
He rose not up to say good-by for there with
low-bowed head,
sweet smile resting on his face sat he old
minstrel-dead.
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STILL OUT OF LUCK.

The HeIiograph Again Useless to the
Mountain Climbers.
SEATTLE July lit is supposed to-
day that the mountain climbers are on
the summit of Mounts Rainier, Baker, ST.
Heleus, Hood, Jefferson, Shasta and
Whitney, if there was no hitch in the
prearranged plans. 1t was the intention
of all the climbers TO reach the SUBMITS
on July 10th and remain in the craters
all night, making the descent in the
afternoon. 1t was arranged that they
should communicate with each other by
means OF the heliograph, flashing the
name Of Baker along the chain until the
Baker party received tie name, thus
completing the circuit from the British
boundary to the Sierra Nevadas.
Smoke yesterday had completely hid
all the peaks, and the photographic flash
to-day, so far as Seattle is concerned, is a
failure. The smoke from forest fires is
SO intense that the foothills are hardly
dlStlngulShaDle.
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A Case of Nothing In if.

j. X. Foster procured writ Of citation
to compel Judson c. Bruse and the Cali
fornla State Bank to allow him to get al a
box in the safe deposit vault of the bank
in order to reimb burse him for note on
which Brusle states that he was an in
dorser. When the matter came up in
court yesterday w. E. Gerber stated that
the bank had no control over the safe de-
post boxes, and Brusie testified that
there was no money in the box that be-
longed to him.
Judge Catlin said he could see no use
Tor proceedings under the writ and dis
missed the case.
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Claims He Mas Robbed.

A man named George Williams re-
ported to the police last night that he had
been robbed Of $50 and then thrown into
China Clough. He had nothing on ex-
cept his coat.
The police do not believe Williams
story They say he is genuine hobo.
Three young men were arrested on
suspicion OF having robbed Williams,
but they were shortly afterward released.
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TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

The Body of w. A. Frost of Napa
Found In the Fields.
NAPA, July 1.-THE body of w. A.
Frost was found to-day about two miles
from Larkmead Station, in this county,
by Leonard Sproston while hunting.
Frost left the farm of c. j. Rattleigh on
March 9TH. leaving letter in which he
intimated that he intended to kill himself
on account of an lncurable disease with
which he thought himself to be afflicted.
Search was made at that time for the
body, but without success. Frost carried
rifle with him, which was found beside
the body. The body was dried up, but
not disnem bered. Coroner Kyser went
to Larkmead tonight TO hold an inquest.
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Died In Lila RIuDDy-

VIsALIA, July Thames l.. Parks of
Goshen died to-day in Visalia while sit
ting in his buggy in front of the resi-
dence OF Max Fleming. The deceased
knew that death was near, and he had
come in to Visalia to have some pictures
taken. He leaves Il wife and two children,
He was native of this county and was
born in 1868,
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Arizona on Il cash Basis.

PHGNIX (AriZ.), July ll.-Tenders are
about 10 be sought by the Territorial
Auditing Commission for the purchase OF
$500, 900 worth of Territorial bonds, which
amount is to place the Territory on q
cash footing. By late Act of the Legis-
lature, all running expenses of the Ter
ritory must be paid in cash.
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Auction Sale.

r. E. Greer & Co. will sell on the prem
ises, at 3l9 n street. on Saturday. the
furniture of ten rooms, consisting of two
elegant oak bedrooms suites, two black
walnut bedroom suites, with other bed
room and kitchen furniture, stoves,
tables, chairs, carpets, glassware, etc. A
tine opportunity Tor buyers.
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Owes Fourteen Thousand.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 1.-THE creditors
OF George Houston would like some in
formation concerning his whereabouts
or. better still, the whereabouts OF any
property belonging to him. He was a
contractor and builder, who incurred
liabilities to The amount of Sl4, $50 and
then made an assignment to the Golden
Gale Lumber Company. which the cred
itors think was fraudulent
The record-union., 1895-07-12
Wedding Boom In Petaluma.

PETALUMA, July 1.-Two n nota BILE we'd
dings were solemnized here to-day. At
noon Miss Mary Branan, school teacher
and society leader. was married to Henry
Benson, prominent Marin County in
structOr.
In the evening, at the Methodist Epis-
copalChurch. kev. w. A. Johns married
Edna Wilcox and Charles Bond, both
popular young folks Of this city.