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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-30
BosT0N,s NEW UNION STATION.
President Clark of the Consolidated Befor
the Railroad Commissioners.

President Clark of the Consolidated Before
the railroad Commissioners.
Boston, Dec. 29.-For three hours to-
day the plans for the new South station
were considered before the railroad
commissioners. There We're several
directors to the plans but no arguments
We're made, the session to-day being
devoted to bringing out facts which
may be made use of by objectors and
others in their arguments to be made
later Most of the time was occupied
by Engineer George w. Merriman, who
drew plans for the station for Hon.
Tilly Haynes, who occupied part of the
time in putting his question in the
form of arguments, for which he was
corrected by the commission. The
hearing was postponed until to-mor-
row, when the question of the powers
of the commission to Cfder changes in
the plans which will affect the street
lines and grades will be argued by
counsel. The arguments Of objectors
may also be heard
In the course of the hearing Fl. J.
Boardman stated that the station as
proposed would be an injury to about
$100, 100000 worth Of property.
President Charles P. Clark of the
New York.. New Haven and Hartford
road said that all of the property ac-
quired by the terminal company was
to be used with the exception of a
small corner to be sacrificed for archi-
tectural effects. The matter Of tracks
was also thoroughly discussed.
Chairman Sanford asked if the ques-
ton of crossing the tracks or going
under them with street had been con-
sidered. Mr.. Clark replied that it had
been the subject of conferences. The
legislature had provided that Federal
street should be abandoned and a new
street laid out to take it's place. Even
then the company had sought for a
plan which made a subway or an ele-
waited street possible, but after strik-
ing the plan of a two story station this
was deemed impossible, if the capacity
of the station was to be doubled and
the idea was given up, allowance being
made only for foot way.
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ERNE AFTER DIXON.
The Former Anxious to Meet the Coiored
. Champion Once More.


Buffalo, N. Y, Dec, 29.-Frank Erne,
the featherweight champion of the
orld, left here tonight to fulfil a
theatrical engagement at Wilmington,
Del. He Will stop off at New York
and will try to arrange another match
with George Dixon, whom he defeated
at the Broadway Athletic club last
month.
Dixon doesn't appear to be satisfied
with the whipping l gave him." said
Erne, so to set all doubts at rest my
manager has decided that the proper
course to pursue is to give him a
chance to retrieve his lost laurels, and
at the same time enable me to prove
conclusively that / am the feather
weight champion. If Dixon is my su-
perior, here is a chance to prove it be-
fore the club offering the best induce
ments"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-30
Defies the Quebec Hierarchy.

Montreal, Dec 29.--Mayor H. Beau
over his signature to-day that he h
taken UP the challenge thrown dow
by the hieriarchy of Quebec and than
he will run FOR the st. Louis divisionN
Of Montreal for the legislature, as an
anti-clerical candidate. Mr.. Beau
grand ran for this seat in 1890 and was
defeated by only a few votes. In his
letter Mr. Beaugrand calls upon all the
liberal Catholics to revolt against the
nomination of bishops. He describes
the accommodation Of the Quebec
l. Electeur as the beginning of a war to
the death, and he offers his paper and
all its financial and intellectual re-
sources to aid in the war
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MUNTCfPAL PRfN1ING PLANT.
Boston to Establish One-Contract With n
Private CONCERN Abrogated.

Boston, Dec. 29.-The city printing
contract with Rockwell & Churchill, who
have done the city work for twenty
years, was this afternoon abrogated by
the committee on printing by vote
of to /, and the firm will receive no.
tice to this effect in due course of
time. But the contract will not expire
until thirty days, according to the eS-
listing agreement.
Mayor Quincy concurred with the
committee, it is said, and advised this
course in order that the city may es-
tablish its own municipal printing
plant and do its own printing. An
appropriation will probably be made by
next years city government for this
purpose Meanwhile Rockwell &
Churchill will do the city printing until
the city is ready. to undertake its own
work.
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The Manhattan Must Show Cause.

New York, Dec. 29.-Judge Pryor to-
day granted an order requiring the d.
rectors of the Manhattan Elevated road
to show cause why they should not be
restrained from paying out the annual
dividends on the stock due January /.
The plaintiff in the case is Mortimer
Hendricks, a bondholder of the compa-
ny. He alleges that the company is not
earning sufficient to pay the dividends
and the payment of them is detrimental
to his interests as a bondholder. He
asks that the company be compelled to
account for dividends paid heretofore,
which payments, he claims, were made
Illegally.
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WEALTHY CENTENARIAN DEAD.
Arthur Lingard, Farmer and Recluse,
Leaves S2,OOO,OOO to His Friends.


Lancaster, O., Dec. 29.-Arthur Lin
gard, died here yesterday at the age
of 1O7, leaving a fortune of $2,000,O 900
and no kin. He had lived the life of
a recluse for years, but was deeply
interested in scientific subjects, phil
osophy and theology.
Although a farmer he had made
many investments in securities, and
owned these bonds and stocks: United
States bonds, 100000; Rome, Water
town and Ogdensburg railroad stock,
$500, 900; New York, New Haven and
Hartford, $4,000; Baltimore Belgian
Pavement, $4,000; Manchester (Ohio)
Lumber company, $300,000 Athens
(Ohio) Paper company. s150,000 and the
Waterman Building and Loan associa-
ton of Lancaster, $4,000.
OF this amount he left $1,200,000 to
Joachim Loomhaven, who had been his
companion and associate in enterprises
for many years. The residue is left
to friends in various parts of the coun-
try.
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He MS YtRED or LIFE.
G. Hubbard Trayers of Middletown At
tempts Suicide.

Waterbury, Dec. &c. Hubbard
Travers, a telegraph operator, who be-
longs in Middletown, attempted suicide
to-day by taking chloroform. He has
been staying at the Cooley house in
this city for a few days. This morn
ing he was found unconscious in his
room. Several letters had been written
by Travers, who evidently thought
that he would make a. sure job of it.
In one of the letters addressed to Law
yer Russell of this city Travers be-
queathed all his personal effects to
Miss Annabelle Bradley, his fiancee,
and who lives in Derby. Travers will
recover The reason he wanted to kill
himself, he says was because he had
been out of employment for a long
time. Travers' relatives reside in Mid
dletown, his sister being the manager
of the Western Union Telegraph office
there. He is twenty years of age.
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Spain's Promised Reforms in Cuba.

Washington, Dec. 29.-While 1t is not
true that the Spanish government will
accept the mediation of the United
States in giving autonomy to Cuba, it
has been known for some weeks that
the Spanish ministry purpose giving
the Cubans a. larger measure of home
rule than they have heretofore enjoyed
President Cleveland has been repeated
ly assured that these reforms will be
inaugurated when the province Of
Pinar Del Rio has been pacified.
1t was in this province that General
Maceo and his followers have been To-
Gated for the past year and since Ma
ceo's death the work of pacification has
been considerably expedited. The time
is now believed to be ripe when the
home rule reforms will be instituted
Matanzas and Havana, where the in
surgents have never secured a foot
hold.
1t has been frequently asserted u
Spain that the intended reforms would
have been put in operation long ago
but for the insurrection, and that some
of the leaders among the tnsurgent is
started the rebellion in order to pre-
vent the reforms. These reforms en-
brace the election of the entire Cuban
congress, instead of a mixed congress
Of fifteen elected members and fifteen
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A College Student Charged With Serious
Off@nca

Montpelier, VT, Dec. 29.-The case OF
the state VS.. Charles T. Wales came
up in the Washington county court
here this morning. The day was nlain-
ly consumed in empanelling a jury.
Respondent is charged with arson in
attempting to burn Goddard seminary
at Barre, where he was a student, on
March 20 last.
Wales is the son of we'll to do and
highly respected parents, who reside in
South Barre. The preliminary hearing
brought out the fact that a fire was
started in the building, but was
shortly gotten under control.
In the store room in the upper story
of the building was found six half
pound sticks of dynamite wrapped up
in a lot of old clothing, the whole sat
urated with kerosene and covered by
several boxes. Had the dynamite ex-
ploded the building would have been
demolished and hundreds Of persons
probably been killed.
Respondent was said to have been
seen near the building shortly before
the fire, and was identified as the man
who purchased the dynamite from a
hardware dealer mere.
AS result of the hearing Wales was
bound over to await trial in the sum Of
$4,000. The case will probably be long
one, as over seventy witnesses have
been summoned.
About a dozen witnesses were exam.
ined to-day, the principal one being
Principal A. w. Pierce Of the seminary.
His testimony related to the discovery
of the fire, the actions Of Wales when
arrested, with his standing in school,
which he stated was not good, and the
general disposition of the youth. His
testimony was corroborated by another
Goddard professor, DR.. Braley. A
trustee of the institution also corrob-
GRATED portions Of the testimony and
described the finding of dynamite.
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a DnubTe Murder,

Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. pa double
murder occurred at a point two miles
from Seviervi1le Sewer county, last
night at II o'clock William Whaley
aged thirty-five. and his wife, aged
thirty. were shot down in cold blood by
two unknown persons. They came to
the house and without speaking word
broke down the door and walked in and
shot the couple. It is thought by many
that two men whom Whaley had pros
ecuted before the grand jury committed
the murder.
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Another Denial from Madrid.

Madrid, Dec 29.-An emphatic semi
official denial is given to the statements
cabled here, as coming from the Wash
ington Post, to the effect that Secre-
tary of State Olney and Senior Dupuy
De LONE, the Spanish minister to the
United States, had practically termin-
ated their negotiations on the Cuban
question, and detailing the extent of
the reforms that Spain would grant to
Cuba under the guarantee of the Unit
ed States
1t is also semi-officially denied that
the government has questioned Great
Britain, France and Italy regarding
their attitude in the event of a war
with the United States.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-30
Anew Counterfeit S1n Bill.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The secret ser
vice division of the treasury depart
ments reports the discovery of a new
counterfeit ten-dollar national bank
note 1t is a Photographic reproduction
of a note issued by the Union Ma
tional bank of Detroit, Mich, check
letter B, series of 1882, signed by W.
S. Rosecrans, register, and c. n. Jor-
dan, treasurer. Chief Hazen of the
secret service says it is the product Of
the same hand as counterfeit note
recently discovered, of the National
Bank Of Commerce, New York
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-30
TWO CONNECTICUT MEN
REV. DIR. STORRS SPEAKS OF THEM
rs AMONG HENArroN,s BUILDERS.

One Was EIeazer Wheeler, a Yale Gradu-
ate, Who Founded the Indian School
From Which Came Dartmouth College
The other Was Manessah Cutler, Law
yer, Clergyman and Physician.
New York, Dec. 29.-At the evening
session of the American Historical So
ciety, Rev. Mr.. Storrs delivered his in
augural address. Dr. Storrs said he
desired to call more close attention to
the work of men who had laid this ma
tion under vast obligations to them by
their works. 1t was a habit to honor
the names of illustrious men, but the
quiet unadorned work of men in less
distinguished positions for the nation
in it's young days was of prodigious ex-
tent and should also be mentioned.
The men of whom he would speak
were of the inconspicuous class. Two
of them had been Congregational min
listers and the third a missionary to the
Northwest wilderness. Eleazer Wheel
thropy, was the subject of the first
sketch, He was born In Meriden,
Conn, in I'LL, graduated from Yale and
was ordained in 1885. From the In
dian school which he founded came
Dartmouth college, and Dr. Storrs
spoke of Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate,
Salmon P. Chase and the many great
educators and men OF affairs who were
among the alumni of the great seat of
learning.
'Eleazer Wheeler" said Mr. Storrs,
laid the nation under vast obliga-
ton. Verify, he 'builded better than he
knew ;"
Manessah Cutler also a. Connecticut
man, was the subject of the second
sketch. He was DR.. Storrs said, "at
once a lawyer, clergyman and physi-
sian. He took great interest in the
Philphenomena eclipses and the tram
sits, and first arranged the fora of
New England. Many prominent men
had been his pupils, whom he fitted for
college or commercial life. DR.. Cutler
was born in 1742 and ordained in It'll
at Ipswich, where he afterward re-
sided"
DR.. Storrs gave a detailed history of
the famous ordinance of 1887 which DR..
Cutler obtained from the continental
congress, and which gave five million
acres of land northwest of the Ohio
river to the Ohio society and 100000
acres to the Scioto society. On this
site to-day stood. said DR.. Storrs, the
states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wis
consin and Michigan.
DIR. Storrs said that DR. Marcus
Whitman, the dauntless missionary
pioneer, formed the subject of his other
sketch, but time would not permit him
now to more than mention his name.
In conclusion, declared DR.. Storrs, it
would be an honorable office for the
Historical society to bring the names
OF men like these to a like light; names
that should be written in purple or
gold. ''It was by plain men,, he said,
that this country was coloniZed. Plain
men carried us through the trying
times of the French and Indian wars.
1t was through plain men that the
revolution itself was achieved, and the
nation has since been largely guided
by plain men,
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appointed by the queen regent, and
also a complete control by Cuba of her
tariff.
The Spanish ministry are now un-
derstood to be engaged in drafting the
proposed reforms, but thus far the
only knowledge respecting them is of a
general nature. 1t is believed that they
will be completed within the next fort
night and it is not unlikely that q copy
will be cabled to Secretary Olney, by
the permission of the Spanish govern
ment, before public announcement.
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DROWNED in the Cnnnerficnt.

Hartford, Dec. 29.-The first drown-
ing accident of the skating season oc-
CURED on the Connecticut river at $50
this evening. The victim was Miss
Nellie Durrie, the fifteen-year-old
daughter of Alexander Durrie, a car
penter. The girl was skating on the
ice in company with a youth named
Reynolds, and both were skating over
a place where the ice was thin. near
the shipyard at Dutch Point, on the
east side of the river Reynolds was
rescued. but the girl sank The body
has not yet been recovered.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-30
DEFRAUDED 1000 PEOPLE.
Two American Crooks "Work" Mexico In
the Most Approved Fashion.

City of Mexico, Dec. pa sensation
has been caused here through reports
in the newspapers that two Americans
named Hurley and Kastle, who have
established hundreds of watch clubs
throughout the republic, have defraud-
ed seven thousand subscribers to the
extent of 100000, and that application
for the extradition of both men, who
are now believed to be in the United
States, will be made. Hurley once
lived In Austin, Tex, but it is be-
lieved that he traded in his wife's
name. She, while there, held a high
social position. Kastle lived in va
rious places in the United States and
was once ticket agent in this city for
the Mexican Central Railway.
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An Actress Suicides.

New York, Dec. 29-Myra Corrigan.
an actress, and the wife of Emmett
Corrigan. an actor, committed suicide
this evening by drinking carbolic acid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corrigan recently took a
theatrical company south, which prov
ed failure. Mrs. Corrigan grew de-
spondent.
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s1No AND MosTuTo RELEASED.
sno's Friends Not to Sc

%S&aseanO's Friends Not NN to See
Coroner Mix said last evening that
there was nothing to give to the public
concerning the investigation he was
conducting in order to fathom the
mystery surrounding the death of
Thomas Fitzgerald Saturday evening.
The coroner was quite sure that the
chain of circumstantial evidence which
seems to be woven around Antonio
Sparano, who is awaiting the result of
the investigation, will be corroborated
to-day by witnesses
Yesterday afternoon Coroner Mix re-
teased James Marano and Guiseppi
3 tlto, there being no evidence that
sad been concerned in the affair
was allowed to see Sparano,
xMy h his friends called last even
dae negative answer was given
Equirers who wished to see the
H. The investigation will be
ied to-day.
keralds funeral was held at 10
* yesterday morning from the
!! of John Rohan, father of Mrs.
serald, 81 Putnam street. A high
IS Of requiem was celebrated at the
gred Heart church by the Rev. Faith
Mccarthy, who spoke feelingly of
e deceased and the manner in which
j met his death.
4The funeral was largely attended and
ne floral emblems were elaborate One,
At Rest" was from the wife and son
she deceased, who came on from
h home in Brooklyn, N. Y, to at
I'D the funeral.
The pal1bearers were Daniel Kearnes,
John H. Ailard, Thomas Shea, Thomas
callahan, John Landrigan and William
Reynolds. Interment took place in st.
Bernard's cemetery.
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Spain HumbIing Her Pride.

London, Dec. 30,-The Daily News
it is quite clear that Spain is carrying
on negotiations with the United States
although he pride compels her to do so
in an underhanded manner.
The dispatch adds that the proceeds
of the popular loan recently issued by
the Spanish government are virtually
exhausted that the buoyancy that fol-
lowed the death of Maceo is evaporat-
ing and that the government is unable
to avoid seeking an agreement with
the United States.
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PORE LEo,s H"PH FOE PAPACY.
His Speech to the Old Pontificia1 Arm.
Produces Deep Impression.

Produces a Deep Impression.
Rome, Dec. 29-The pope to-day gave
audience to body representing the old
pontifical army He made an address
to the representatives, in which after
speaking of the services rendered by
the army, he declared that the papacy
would finally triumph.
He added that he had received Of
fers from Canada, Ireland and else
where from people who were ready to
hasten to the defence of the papacy.
He hoped the moment would soon come
when he would see himself surrounded
anew by sons as faithful and as we'll
beloved as those which had comprised
the pontifiical army
The speech has produced a deep i'm
preston in all circles here.
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The Mayorss Reception.

Mayor-elect Farnsworth will be in
Quoted into office in the city hall on
Friday (New Years day.. At the close
of the ceremonies a reception will be
held. The affair will be an informal
one. No set speeches will be made, the
event being intended as an informal
one. There will be nc refreshments.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-30
viii Mortgage the Club House.

AT a meeting of the Young Mems Re
ttublican Club company last evening it
was decided to mortgage the property
at $4,000. and to issue bonds for $4,000.
1t was also voted to lease the whole
building to the Young Mems RepubIi-
can club at $3.50 per month.
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Mrs. Fitch's Condition.

At a late hour this morning Mrs.
a John B. Fitch, who has been seriously
AL for several days at her residence, 160
u Church was still in precarious con-
dition. There is very little hope of her
recovery,
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Town of Killarney Threatened.

London, Dec. pa dispatch to the
Daily Graphic from Dublin says that
the bog slip near Baltimore threatens
the town of Killarney. Another report
says that the slide has ceased.
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Hartford Yale Atnlnni.

Hartford, Dec. 29.-The Hartford
! Yale Alumni association this evening
.cted Charles E. Gross '69, president;
pHarrison B. Freeman '62 vice presi-
dent; Charles P. Cooley 81. secretary
/ and treasurer. The executive commit
/ tee was authorized to arrange for the
isannual dinner.
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Rev. DIR. Harwood.

The condition of Rev DR.. Harwood,
VINO was reported to be dying early
~1ast evening, did not change during the
& night The reverend gentleman is rep
idly sinking, and his death is a question
tof few hours.
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100 Deaths in 4s Hours.

Bombay. Dec. 29.-The health author
tiles report that during the past forty
eight hours there have been TT new
cases of Bubonic plague and 130 deaths
from that disease.