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their contract, but when that expires the United States will have to spend vast amount of money; and the only perma- nent relief, in Msjor Quinu's judgement, would be by cutting a canal, with lock- from Algers, opposite New Orleans, to Barataria Bay.
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BLOOMFIELD.
A LIVELY FIGHT WITH A COON.

James Sparks, wood chopper for Greene, the charcoal man, upon return ing to his hut in the woods from chop ping, found large coon in possession. Closing the door he seized a club to de. mOlish Mir Coon. A severe tusSle follow ed, showing what brute force when at bay can do. Before the econ was dis abled he had bitten Sparks severely in five places. He proved to be a large specimen. weighing Is pounds.
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ried and has been his mothers constant companion and assistant in the care of the invalid father. Besides these she had two grandchildren and two great grand children. MT and Mrs Warne' had lived in Racine about 40 years Racine (Wis. Times.
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The folly of prejudice is frequently shown by people who prefer to suffer for years rather than tIy an advertised remedy. Tine millions who have DO such notions, take Ayers sarsaparilla for blood diseases, ard are cured. & much for common sense.
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PLATTSVILLE.
PERSONAL BRIEFS.

Miss Annie Staples has returned from a weeks visit with friends in New York Mrs Sylvester Wheeler is visiting her niece in Springfield, Mass.
 Mrs L. A. Beach is the guest of her sister, Mrs J. E. Taylcr.
 E. F. Wheeler is cartirg Z ice for E. Gillette
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The people believe what they read about Hoods sarsapnrilla. They know that it is an honest medicine, and that it cures disease, That is why you should get only Hoods.
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In footwear Warner, Taylor & Curtis are offering the following bargains at their Sandy Hook store. Ladies felt flannel lined shoes at $l 50; mems rub Der boots at $2,50; gents buckle arctics at $1 25.
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"Our Homes and Their Enemies.'' A chance to hear the really great men that our country produces comes but seldom to any one wherever he may live. Here seems glorious chance.
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LONG HILL.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.

Misses Fannie and Jennie Disbrow, who have recently returned to Long Hill, are very acceptable members of the Metho- dist church choir. David Hickey also now assists with the church music by playing on the flute.
 Rev MT Gurney is in Patterson, N. J , this week, assisting in special religious services there.
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REMNANT SALE.

All through the store yesterdIy and to- day we have had lively selling of the
 Remnants. In the Basement Sslesroom among the Draperies we shall continue it through tEis week. Lots of Lengths here, desirable for curtains and tonirg up the room; some Chair Covering here and there, or the sofa perhaps-pick among them as you like, on tables by them with the price marked low.
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Wife-Here's an account of man who shot himself rather than suffer the pang of indigestion. Hu band-The fool! Why didn't he take Dewitt Little Ear'y Risers? 1 used to suffer as bad as he did before I commenced taking these lit e pills. Edgar F, Hawley, Newtown s, c. Bull, Sandy Hook; A. B Blake man, Botsford.
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The sugar coating, which makes Ayers pills so easy to take, dissolvea 1 immediately on reaching the stomach, and so permits the full strength and ben eft of the medicine to be promptly con- municated. Ask your druggist for Ayers almanac, just out.
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Hall's hair renewer renders the hair Iustrous and silken, gives it an even color, and enables women to put it up in a great variety of styles.
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Three cheers for Neighbor Andrews ! His enterprise in securing the snow Plow and clearing the walks the entire length of the Street is appreciated.
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Hoods pills cure all liver ills, relieve constipation and assist digestion. 25c.
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In New Haven County.
SOUTH BRITAIN.
AT THE PURCHASE.

Fred Wentsch, Jr., is laid up agair with his old enemy, the infiammatory rheumatism.
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the Congregational church, Tuesday January 2l. The program will be as fol- low4:
 1030 q. m. Devotional, MT Hatch.
 II % a. m. Topic The Development of Spir- itual life. q. What Spiritual Life Is; b. Its Deepening, MT Slack; c. Its Power With 9th CTS, MT Barker; general discussion.
 l230 p. m. Intermission.
 l.30 p. m. Devotional.
 l.45 a. m. Missionary topic: Missionary Zeal as & Factor in Church Lie 8. Historically, Nil Pierce; b. Practically, MT Ba'lantine.
 245 D. m. sermon, MT Francis.
 315. D. m, Dismission.
 w. W. Banks, who received the ter rible gun shot wound in hIs leg, Christ. mas day, died on Friday night. Lock jaw set in, from which he suffered in. tensely. The doctor finally brought him out of it but it left him so weak he finally sunk away. He leaves a widow and four small children in destitute circumstan ees.
 K, s. Rowland and family have moved in with his father-in-law, Patrick Collins
 The meetings of the Epworth League at the Methodist church are growing in interest. On Sunday night three young men arose for prayers.
 Mrs T. Ryan is visiting her daughter Mrs A. Grove, in Bethel. The road between Bedding and New town has on many occasions not seemed a long one, when at either end there was some thoroughly enjoyable entertain ment in view. It would seem as if there was never stronger magnet of attrac tion to pull the Bedding people across tht hills than the lecture of Rev Lyman 40 bolt in the Town hall of Newtown, nex Thursday evening, January 23. A p0p ular subject, "Our homes and their enc mies," a popular lecturer, and brigh moonlight night, eff Old Probabilities does his duty) ought to make it mem orable occasion in Newtown's history.
 The snow which fell last week brought out few sleighs but they looked lonely and finally gave way to wagons. The snow has made it lively for our black smith and he realizes the truth of the ole saying, "It is an ill wind that blows no body any good"
 The board of relief are busy with their duties. They meet on Monday to close up.
 The ladies of St Patrick's church will hold fair at Whitehead's hall on Satur. day, the 25th and 27Gh.
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REMNANTS AT DRAPERY DEBT. Remnants of Curtain Muslin. Remnants of Fish Net Lace. Remnants of Irish Point Lace. Remnants of Nottingham Lace. Remnants of Silkaline.
 Remnants of Cretopnes.
 Remnants of Furniture Covering. R mrarts of Silk Tapestry.
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DRESS GOODS.

Silk and Wool Plaids. from Germany but Scottish Piaids, handsome effects just the style everybody wanted, but could not get; here to day, 10 styles, 75cents a yard. Would be good value at dollar a yard.
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HOODS rs9.s45 enre s4vsr i BiiiouBness, Indigestion, Heas.sasssls. i. X pleasant laxative. All Druggists
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E. $. Hawley lost a valuable driving horse, last week Friday. The cause of it's death was pronounced collie with in- tlamation of the bowels. A veterinary from Shelton was in attendance.
 Harry Brownson is getting timber and material ready to build quite an addition on to his hot house.
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LONG HILL AND VICINITY.

Miss CarrIe Bennett, who has been very sick, is little ulore comfortable.
 Mir Keines mother is on the sick list.
 Miss Gordon spent Sunday with Miss Ruth Sturges.
 Mir ard Mrs o. G. Beard, Jr., spent Sunday at Century Farm. Mrs Beard is the guest of her aunt, Mrs James Web. ster, this week.
 Miss Ruth Platt is out again after being shut in for a few weeks.
 The attention of those of your readers that nave the Chicago Advance is called to an article headed "A ab at the Devil in the issue of January ,.
 In Foochou, China, Rev Dwight God dard formerly of Holyoke, Mass, wa. married to Dr Frances E. Nieberg by Rev 1 Willard l.. Beard.
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"The use of 'Castoria' is so universal and it's merits so well known that it seems work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach.''
 CARLOS MARTIN, D. D.,
 New York City.
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THE MID-WINTER SALE!

We're Constantly Bringing New Values Keep the Excite ment. No letting up. We want to make big reduc ton of stock previous to inventory must do it. New importation of HAMBURG EMBROIDERIFS Newest pat
 terps. The best selections
 have
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Castoria.

'tCastoria isso well adapted to children that Irecomrhend it as superior to any prescription known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
 Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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A FELLOWSHIP MEETING.

A fellowship meeting will be held at the Congregational church, Tuesday, January 2l. The program will be as fol-
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Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January l9: At S.30 a. m., Holy Con- munion; at 2.30 p. m., Evening Prayer and sermon. No Sunday school.
The herald., 1896-03-02
A MIXED ALE PARTY
A Double: Murder or Case OF nurder and
Suicide

a u
Suicide
LONG ISLAND CITY. l.. l.. March 1.-The
outcome of one of the Sunday mixed ale
parties in the oil works district of this city
was the death of Mrs. Mary Kraemer and
her son Michael. They both died from
bullets in the head. and although there is
some mystery as yet as to who did the
shooting, it is believed young kraemer
killed his mother and then committed SUI
icide.
Toward the end of the afternoon the son
Michael was debarred from enjoying any
further festivities. The door was locked
against him and ne adjourned to his own
apartments. Shortly afterward his moth
moment later when two shots were
heard. The door was broken in and Henry
Boehler, one of those who had been present
at the party, was found in the room. He
had q revolver in his hand and it was with
difficulty that it could be taken from him.
The police took him in charge. He claimed
that he had heard the shots and had run
down stairs to find out what the trouble
was. His companions, including the other
two sons of the murdered woman. bore him
out in this assertion, but he is held by the
police.
The revolver with which the shooting was
done was the property of Michael Kraemer
and it was this that Boehler had in his
hand. One of the theories entertained by
the police in connection with the crime,
however, is that Michael Kraemer, furious
with anger at having been kept out of the
apartments where the festivities were going
on, had fired the shot at the first person
who went into his room and on finding he
had killed his mother, committed suicide.
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to the occasion, taking as his text Matthew
xviii, 1920, "And Jesus came to them
and spake to them, saying all authority
hath been given unto Me in heaven and on
earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples
of all the nations, baptizing them into the
name of the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost; teach them to observe all
things whatsoever I command you; and 10,
] am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world
The speaker said it was exceedingly ap-
propriate at this time, when in a sense
practically entering on q new life, to ask
the meaning and the purpose of the
Christianity we profess, and If in the past
We can do no better today. said the
speaker, than TO ponder for a few moments
on the commission Jesus gave to those who
were to follow him. .'Go ye therefore, and
make disciples of all the nations" In their
anxiety to prove the universal obligation of
Christians and to make men believe that
the church was to 60 to all the nations,
Christians have overlooked what was to be
done to these peoples. The speaker then
went into an analysis of the early church,
if church it might be called, which he said
was literally a social settlement, religious
commune, in which they aimed to pervade,
Ilrst of all, their own common life with the
love and purity OF Jesus. They we're be-
levers literally. Jesus stood to them for
something real and practical. The speak
er then contrasted the early with the mod
ern church. and pointed out wherein it had
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section and in il and above the main vestl-
bu'e is the pastors study. Above 1t the
belfry loft. where either tuihliar chilnes or
bells may be placed. The construction OF
the main structure is such that all apart
ments below may be thrown together by
the opening of suspend ed partitions
Throughout. the building lea ks emphat'-
cally of the dignity and sacred purpose OF
reilly ion. 1t bears the aspe ct OF soiluliy
and endurance in its every ne. IL speaks
of strength and beauty, INTEL ectuali'y ana
purity. The architects have succeeded in
an unusual degree in harInonizing the
material utilities with a message OF the
ethical. In ali respects the building comes
fully up TO the requirements OF strength
and endurance without encrc aching upon
the gross and cumbersome.
The architects of the building are Mr..
Seymour Locke and Mr.. Thornton Fitz-
hugh, both of whom rank hsgh i'll their
profession. The building was erected by
Mr.. Robert Jordan, who took the general
contract for the work.
Altogether the lot and building repre-
sents an outlay approximatilig 100000,
and the completed structure is a credit to
Presbyterianism throughout the state.
The pastor of the church, Rev. Burt
Estes Howard, is one of the most liberal
and progressive ministers in the city. and
under his guidance the First Presbyterian
congregation is rapidly increasing. Al
though a young man. Mr.. Howard has
made an enviable reputation for himself
as an honest, conscientious, Christian
worker. He is greatly beloved by his con-
gregaton, and is proving power Tor gooi
in this city.
The herald., 1896-03-02
A MERCIFUL WORK
Was That Accomplished by the Boy
Wizard at Los Angeles Thea.
tire Last Night
Another Very Enthusiastic Audience
Greeted the Twelfth Demon
strat;On of his Phenom-
enai Power

Ihe lame were made to walk, the deaf to
hear, cripples discarded their canes anil
cruiches, the para.ytic and rheumatic
danced for JOY at their sudden recovery
and various other afflicted persons gave
expression TO their happy restoration to-
health and activity upon the stage of Los
Angeles theater last night.
While ii was the twelfth public demon.
stTalion given by the Boy Wizard in Los
Angeles, the past six weeks there seemed
no lack OF interest in his wonderful work.
AZ on the occasion of his previous de.
monstrations. the ''Boy Wizard" treated a
great number of sufferers upon the stage.
and by his wonderful life-giving mapne-
tsm restored paralyzed and rheumatic
limbs to usefulness, and made the deaf
hear and the blind see. Fully twenty cases
were treated in all, and III every instance
the patients demonstrated by their actions
and testified ny words the immediate and
great benefit they derived from the simple
touch of the wonderful Wizards magnetic
hands. Among the most serious of those
who submitted to treatment may be men.
toned Edward O'Hara, the ranch man,
deaf for nine years. who stated he was able
TO hear a whisper after treatment.
}. M. Hallett of 1889 Cain street, on
cru,ches two years, had not taken step
in that time without his crutches, suffering
other disorders, was abe to descend the
steps unaided after five minutes treat
ment.
c. Livingstone of 1921 HaWthorn street,
suffering with intiammatory rheumatism,
had not taken a step in lonr time with
out pain. After three minutes treatment
he descended the steps unaided and walked
to his seat in the audience, amid great
applause. Thus it continued for nearly
two hours. when one of the most remark
able demonstrations ever witnessed in this
city came to close.
The excitement created by this wonder-
full healer has never been paralleled by any
parsonage who has visited Los Angeles,
and the marvellous cures wrought by him
during the past two months have been
everywhere discussed and commented
upon as belonging to the times when Christ
dispensed his divine power to heal the sick
and crippled by the ''layinR on of hands"
So it is with this boy who is now in o ur
midst carrying on the divine, Christ-like
work of curing afflicted humanity.
The great interest taken in the Boy Wiz.
ard and his works is evidenced by the con-
tinuous throng of patients who are daily
crowding the parors of the Magnetic in
stitute, corner Third and Broadway,
among whom the reporter has noticed
many of our most prominent and influen-
tal citizens.
The herald., 1896-03-02
TRACK AND TRAFFIC NOTES
Suits Growing Out of the Burlington
Land Grants
Schemes Afoot for b. 6 o. Reorganization-A
Serious Wrecx on the Rock Island
Road in Missouri

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, March IAN east
bound Rock Island passenger train ran
into the rear of freight train west of Troy.
Kan, last night and fatally injured three
persons. The freight train stopped at a
water tank and the conductor neglected to
send back fiagman.
The injured are: NJ. A. Alexander of
Troy, skull fractured; w. w. O'Brien,
travelling man, injured in the spine; A.
Weston, St. Joseph. fireman on passenger
train, both legs broken in four places and
internal injuries, will die; Mrs. j. ID. Will
Jams, Troy, Kan.. limbs crushed.
Six freight cars and two passenger
coaches were derailed. 1t took twelve
hours to clear the track.
LAND GRANT SUITS.
OMAHA, Neb., March 1.-Arrangements
have been completed by attaches of the
feueral court in this district to fight the
suits against the Burlington on the un-
earned land grant law. The grant to the
Burlington road embraced certain lands on
either side of its right of way, as with the
Union Pacific, but on the south side of the
Burlington right OF way the land had near
ly all been previously taken by settlers. To
make up for this deficiency in the grant
the road went to other sections OF the state.
generally on the north side OF the right of
way, and took enough other lands to make
up for those taken by the settlers III the
original grant. The courts decided that
the road had no right to take those lands,
but as they had already been sold to set
tiers before action could be brought, a
judgment against the road was the only
recourse left to the government.
Il. & o. REORGANIZATION.
BALTIMORE. March 1--John X. Cowen
and Oscar &. Murray. the newly appointed
receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road. were in consultation today upon a
plan of action for reorganizing the affairs
OF the company. Their plans are not suf-
ficiently we'll formed yet to justify full
statement. but they say that the first effect
of the receivership will be to enable the
company to withhold payment of its press
ing obligations now due or soon to become
Cue. 1t is believed the receivershlp will
cover {. period of about five years and that
j. Pierpont Morgan will be asked to under
take it.
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HE FELL TO HIS DEATH
Thomas McCIury Crushed on the Rocks
Under Arroyo Seco Bridge
He Had Been Drinking on Saturday Evening
and Evidently Wandered to His Fatal
Fall in the Darkness

Shortly before o'clock yesterday morn.
ing George Hill, an oiler in the employ Of
the electric railroad, whose duty it is
to look after and oil the switches, discov-
cred the dead body of a man lying under
the electric railroad bridge which crosses
the Arroyo Seco just this side of Garvanza.
He had but started on his daily rounds, and
was crossing the Terminal bridge which
spans the arroyo only a few yards from the
trestle of the electric railroad company,
when, on looking down his attention was
attracted by what seemed the prostrats
form of man lying far down on the rocks
below. He hastily descended and made an
investigation. Lying prone upon his face
and tightly wedged between two large
rocks was found the crushed and mutilated
body of man who had evidently fallen
from the bridge above.
An electric car was passing the spot
shortly after he had made his discovery,
and the passengers alighted. The body
was recognized as that of Thomas Nc
Clury, a resident of Pasadena, some 35
years of age, and a hod-carrier by occupa-
ton. Upon the body was found the neck
Of broken flask. which had evidently
contained liquor. 1t required some exer-
ton to turn and lift the body from its posi-
ton between the rocks. The entire back
portion of the skull was crushed in, which
had supposedly occurred while falling, as
a huge beam which projected from the tres
tie had evidently first intercepted the
body, which, striking it. had rebounded
and continued its fall to the ground. The
frontal portion of the skull was crushed to
a Jelly, where he hit the earth, but the
skin was not broken. McClury was clean
shaven except his moustache, ana was
neatly dressed in black cutaway coat
and vest and striped trousers. He carried
a nickel open-faced watch, which had
stopped at 7:10, and gold chain. In his
pockets was some small change.
Coroner Campbell was notified and the
wagon was sent for the remains. which
were removed to the undertaking rooms OF
Kregelo & Bresee. 1t was ascertained
that McClury came to this section from
Portland, Ore, where, it is understood, he
has relati yes living. 1t also developed
that he had been drinking the evening pre-
vious and the smell of liquor was still per
spot where he fell is from 75 to 100 feet
above the bed of the arroyo and number
of large rocks lie thickly scattered around,
upon or between TWO of which the de-
ceased struck. The item of the watch
stopping at 7:1O would seem to indicate
that McClury fell to his death at that
hour Saturday night, as he was found dead
nrevious to that time Sunday morning.
There seems little doubt that he wandered
upon the trestle after dark. stumbled over
the ties and fell, striking on the project
ing beam in his descent and crushing the
base of the skull, thus killing him even be-
fore he hit the ground, He evidently, died
instantly, as the body lay just as it had
touched the earth. showing no traces of
even convulsive movements of the limbs.
An inquest will be held this morning at 10
OpIOpk.