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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-15

county he had made his home at Cot
tage Grove, in the town of Bloomfield
He was eighty three years old. Inc
Hartford Courant says of him:
1t is doubtful if any professional man
in this city could die with as little
known about him as is known about
Mr. Brooks and his ancestry. He was
a man of considerable ability and was
possessed of wealth in his younger life,
but people who knew him here believe
that some mystery surrounded him, put
what the mystery was he never made
known to any of his acquaintance.
In his early years as lawyer he was
located in Worcester, Boston and New
York. In Worcester he was chairman
of the board Of education and occupied
a prominent position at the Massachu-
setts bar. During his active life at the
Massachusetts bar he had the acquaint-
ance of many prominent men OF that
time, and to those who were Intimate
ly acquainted with him he occasionally
spoke of Senator George f. Hoar, Ru-
fus Choate and other well known men.
While in New York he was attorney to
the Russian legation, and a lawyer said
d claim for about $4,000 against the
Russian government, which he neglect
ed to prosecute.
1t was the belief in this city that Mr..
Brooks had never married, but lawyer
who knew him well said yesterday that
MI Brooks once told him that he had
been married and had experienced
some domestic trouble which caused
him to separate from his wife. He was
said to be the son of congregational
minister, but nothing Is known of his
ancestry by lawyers here. He first To-
Gated In this state at Eastford, where
he conducted hotel in addition to
practicing law. He came to Hartford
county about fifteen years ago.
That he was possessed of considerable
wealth at one time there can be no
doubt One day some time ago he was
in lawyers office where the subject of
mining investments came up He told
story of how he had invested In
mine in New Brunswick and had lost
100000 by the venture. For many
years he had been mentally and phys1-
cally weak and lawyers in the city who
were intimate with him said yesterday
that they believed he did not possess a
dollar. Some Of the lawyers who knew
him visited him at the hospital and gave
him the money which paid for his care
there, and lawyer said yesterday that
If he did not have estate enough to pay
the funeral expenses the lawyers would
make it up to save him from pauper's
grave.
A lawyer who knew him well, in
speaking Of his death, said that Mr..
Brooks was an old school gentleman.
He evidently had the benefit of refin-
ed training in his younger years. He
said that Mr.. Brooks had traits that
were worthy of remembering. He was
courteous in his manner but his life
had evidently been a disappointment.
The body had not been claimed at the
Hartford hospital last night
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WILL SPEAK IN VERMONT.

Hon. N. d. Sperry Invited to Make an
Address in Castleton-New Haveners
There.
A very lively interest is being taken
by the representative political element
of Castleton, VT, and rousing time is
expected there on August rs, when it 10
expected Congressman Sperry will de-
liver an address to the citizens of the
town. An urgent invitation has been
extended to him and it is believed that
he will accept.
Professor Philip r. Leavenworth
Yale 80, the republican nominee for
senator of that district. will also
speak.
The New Haven guests registered at
the Hotel Castleton are: Charles p.
futile, Lucius Tuttle, Edward L.
Camp, DR.. E. S. Bronson, Mrs l.. w.
Hall and daughter, Miss E. c. Hall,
Mrs. Fred Hotchkiss and family John
M Champion and family, Mrs N. G..
Osborne, Miss Dorothy Osborne, Minott
Osborne, D. d. Lambert and family,
Miss A. S. Austin. Miss H. A. Austin,
Mrs. A. E. Lockwood and Edwin H.
futile
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In 1874 Mr.. Huntington married Miss
Elizabeth T. Stoddard of Litchfield
Conn. She accompanied him to Cali
fornia and returned with him to this
city in 1864. They occupied then a
! house at IS Park avenue and there in
| 1869 he adopted as his daughter Clara
Huntington, who in 1883 married Prince
Hatzfeldt.
Mrs. Huntington died in 1883 and on
July IL OF the following year Mr..
Huntington married Mrs. A. D. Wor
sham a wealthy widow, whose home
was at West Fifty-fourth street. The
ceremony was performed at her home
by Henry Ward Beecher. They occu-
pied the Park avenue house until 1892,
when Mr.. Huntingtons magnificent
home in Fifth avenue was completed.
This is one Of the most interesting
mansions in New York. 1t represents
an outlay of $25OOo00. The statuary
marble and white onyx. An idea of it's
interior magnificepce may be gained
from the grand stairway, which was
built by contract for 100000. 1t Is of
selected white statuary marble and
white onyx. An interior court sur
mounted by large dome lights the in
side of the dwelling. Along the sides
Of the court are balconies divided by
marble pillars from which one may
look down into the court as in the pit
of a theater.
The main hall extends up two stories
and is partly finished in marble, 1t
contains the dead milionaires famous
picture gallery and many art treas
ures,
At the street corner IS stately Louis
XIV. salon, and then comes the library,
the favorite room of Mr.. Huntington.
This library derives part Of it's light
from the famous bay windows, which
curving into the avenue was the source
of long contention between the million
aire and the building department. The
officials maintained that the head of
the window encroached too far out in
the avenue and insisted that it be re-
moved and remodelled Their objec-
ton was disputed and an extended con-
troversy was the result,
The driveway from the street passes
under galleries connecting the great
ballroom with the East room, the larg-
est apartment in the house. The
NEOuSHl-lIOH SdleS " lIie pOEl CoCIlcIe
are works of art.
Mr.. Huntington had besides a 100000
home in San Francisco, a country
place at Throgg's Neck Westminster
county, and in Woodlawn cemetery he
had erected a $250,000 mausoleum.
The gates are of bronze and the in
terror of Italian marble. 1t contains
sixteen catacombs Not a stone of the
structure weighs less than eighteen
tons.
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YALE-MADISON GAME.

Arrangements for the fourth of the
series of baseball games played between
the Yale Eclectics and Madison teams
have been completed. 1t will take place
next Saturday afternoon on the Madi-
son green and the Nadisons are being
strengthened for the event. The Yale
nine will play practically the same as
in the last game Jack Armstrong, the
Yale freshman player, will pitch, and
Benham the Hillhouse high school
player who enters Yale this fall, is like
ly to catch.
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CALVIN M. BROOKS.
Once a Prominent and Wealthy Law
yer, But Thought to Have Died Pen.

Once a Prominent and Wealthy Law
yer, But Thought to Have Died Pen
niless.
Calvin Mason Brooks died at the
Hartford hospital on Monday morning
from disability attending old age. He
had been at the hospital about ten days.
He was born in Massachusetts and
graduated from Yale college in the
class uf 1917 with 1X-Julse Edward T.
Sanford of New Haven, formerly of the
superior court bench of this state, now
deceased. Others of his classmates were
b. Gratz Brown, governor of Missouri,
who ran for vice president on the ticket
with Horace Greeley; Benjamin w. Ba-
con and Roger Sherman Baldwin of
New Haven, both deceased; John D.
Candee lawyer, of this city, afterward
editor and proprietor of the Bridgeport
Standard deceased; Charles F. SAN
ford judge of the superior court, New
York, and many others of note Mr..
Brooks studied law after his graduation
from college and was member of the
Hartford county bar When he died
Since he took up his residence in this
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FUNERAL OF A CHILD.

The funeral of Bernard f. Reilly, the
eleven-months-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Reilly, was held on Sunday from
the child's late home on Main street,
Bradford The circumstances attend
ing the death of the bright little boy
We're particularly sad. He was just
beginning to learn TO walk. and his
mother having left the room for a mo-
ment on Saturday he reached the table
and pulled a teapot of hot tea all over
him. The little fellow was so badly
scalded that he died from the effects
the same night
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Washington, D. c.
Genesee Pure Food Co., lie Roy, N. Y:
Gentlemen Our family realize so much
from the use of GRAINO that | feel
must say a word to induce others to use it:
the welfare of their children they will use
no other beverage. | have used them all,
but GRAIN-O have found superior TO any,
for the reason that 1t Is solid grain.
Yours for health, G. F. MYERS.
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OBITUARY NOTES.
Buried in One Grave The Two Drowned
Boys.

A double funeral was held yesterday
morning for the two boys, Andrew Jen-
sen and Peter Peterson, who were
drowned in the Quinnipiac river at
The body of the Peterson boy was TAX
en- from the home Of his parents to the
Jensen home, where services We're held
A Hartford clergyman, who is taking
the place of Rev. Mr.. Johnson of the
Danish church in this city officiated.
The bodies were taken to the North
Haven cemetery and both collins We're
placed in one grave.
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DEATH FROM CHOLERA INFAN-
tim

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward T. Mullen of 1874 Pine street died
on Monday of cholera infantum after a
few days illness, 1t was eight months
old and its loss is a severe blow to it's
parents, whose friends extend their
sympathy.
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GOOD APPOINTMENT
And Engineers Being Engaged for New
Trolley Line.

Trolley Line.
r. S. Gray of Beaumont street, East
Hartford, an engineer on the Highland
division of the New Haven road, has
been appointed by the managers of
that road to responsible position in
connection with the new trolley system
soon to be opened at Providence. The
old Providence and Warren steam roads
from Providence to Bristol, r. l., is be-
ing changed to trolley system, and it
is with this system that Mr.. Gray will
be connected. 1t is understood that he
is engaging a number of engineers for
merly employed on the old New Eng
land road as motormen for the new line.
The road is thirty-seven miles long,
with branches to Fall River and New
port.
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DIED IN FOREsTvILLE.

Mrs. Andrew Corey of SOuthington
received word Monday afternoon of the
death of a nephew, Gabriel Hyland, in
Forestville. Hyand was fourteen years
old.
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LEAVES TODAY.

DR.. Gilbert to Spend His Vacation at
Gloucester, Mass
DR.. Samuel D. Gilbert of No. q Wall
street leaves to-day for his summer va
cation. Dr.. Gilbert will stop at the Ho-
tel Thorwald, Bass Rock, Gloucester,
Mass,
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GEORGE TREAT OF MIDDLEBuRY.

GEORGE TREAT OF MIDDLEBURY.
George Treat, a well known citizen of
Middlebury, passed away at his home
there Monday, aged seventy-seven years
three months and ten days. The flu
neral services will be held at his late
residence this afternoon at / o'clock.
Mr. Treat was born in Middlebury and
had lived there all through mis- life. For
most of his life he was farmer, but a
few years ago he sold his farm land
and occupied himself with the care of
his place. He drove the stage between
Middlebury and Waterbury for some
time, and in this way made many &C
quaintances. He leaves a son and a
daughter.
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DEATH OLE VIII

DEATH OF WILBUR H. TALCOTT.
Hartford, Aug, 14.-Wilbur L. Talcott,
at one time well known and prosper
Gus man of affairs and who was also
proprietor of the City hotel, died at the
hospital this morning Of consumption.
He was forty-three years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-30
GERMANS MADE ANXIOUS.
Their Markets Mennced by the Super.
fOrity of Our Textiles.

Vice Consul General Hanauer, at Frank
fort, has sent to the State Department an
extract from German publication, which.
under the caption 'How the Americans
cause US competition with our own work
men," gives some interesting facts con-
corning the undeniable and acknowledged
superiority of American textiles and fab-
RIGS over those of Germany.
Year by year." the article states, 1.-The
American textile industry grows and makes
our manufacturers look with dire anxiety
to the future. for the United States not only
completes with us in its own market, but
will at no distant date be a powerful COM
petitor in other markets.
Many Of the largest manufacturing firms
in the United States. the article continues,
have acquired vast number of skilled tex
tile workers, and thus the industry in Ger
many has been deeply hurt. The conse-
quences of this wholesale emigration OF
skilled operatives are evidenced in the lack
of requisite working force in Germany. it
states. and the steadily rising capacity Of
the American industries to gain control Of
the foreign markets.
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PORTO RICAN FUNDS.
Views of the Controller on Auditing
Disbursements.

A question has arisen in the office of the
auditor for the War Department whether
the auditor had authority to audit the
accounts of the disbursements under the
act of March "a. 1890 appropriating s2.Na5.-
455 for the government and people of Porto
Rico, or whether these accounts should be
passed upon by the auditor for the State
Department on the theory that they re-
late to territorial governments. The ques-
ton arose requiStion of the Secretary Of
War for s1uOo0O out of this appropriation to-
go to the credit of Governor Allen at Porto
Rico. The auditor for the War Depart
ment held that the jurisdiction of the audi
tor for the State Department attached to
these accounts, and that the moneys APP
propriated by the act of March "A are
necessarily public funds of Porto Rico, 10
treasurer of the island to be charged with
their disbursement.
Controller Tracewel takes a contrary
view, and says that 1t depends entirely
upon the action of the President, who might
the War Department and a portion to some
other department, In which case the ac-
counts should be passed upon by the audi-
tors for the respective departments, or the
President might place a portion of the
money in the hands of the treasurer of the
island, in which case the accounts should
be examined by the auditor for Porto Rico.
IF the President" he says, intended the
100000 to be allotted to the War Depart
ment it is a serious question whether 1t
was properly advanced to Governor Allen,
there being no evidence that he mad been
designated as special disburslng agent,
and had furnished bond as required by
section 1914 of the Revised Statutes. II
this advance was intended as an allotment
to Porto Rico it would then become Porto
Rican funds, and as such should have been
turned over to the treasurer of the Island
to be disbursed by him under section - OF
the act of April II, 1900"
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Walters, Illinois; Albert Coulter Wells
Pennsylvania: Charles Drake Westcott,
Pennsylvania: Levi Woodbury. Wheeler,
District of Columbia, and Bayard Wyman,
Michigan.
Diplomacy and Civil Law.
Master of diplomacy-Dixson H. Bynum
Indiana; Willoughby S. Chesley, Maryland
Charles Ray Dean Illinois; Thomas Fletcher
Dennis. Illinois: John T. Doyle. New York
A. ]. Halford. Indiana; John W. Holcombe
Indiana: Frank NJ. Higgins. Tennessee
Claude E. Miller. Pennsylvania and Joseph
Weare, Maine.
Doctor of civil law-R. Fielder Able. South
Carolina: Charles Nissan Allen, North Da-
kota: Thaddeus Cahill. New York: Lewis
w. Call. Kansas: Charlton NJ. Clark Mis-
sissippi; Tatsugoro Fukuda, Japan: John
Pinkham Gray. Idaho: G. w. Hammer. Ala
bama: Peter ]. Healy. Minnesota: Frederick
Leith Hemmings: Illinois: E. Hilton Jack
son. District of Columbia: Charles Jirah
Kellogg. Louisiana: Cecil KilIam, Nova
Scotia; Charles Eugene Matthews. Okla
homa: J. William Mckinley. Ohio: William
H. Nelms Illinois: Solomon c. Pool. North
Carolina: Thomas Ruffin. North Carolina
Walter Scott Smith. Alabama: Milton 2.
Strasburger. District of Columbia: Galen L.
TAFT Nebraska; Philip Tindall, District of
Columbia; Lemuel r. Via. Virginia: Reuben
B. Watts. Alabama, and Harry o. Weaver,
Ohio.
Honors and Prizes.
The awards of holors and prizes were an
nounced follows:
Bachelor of laws-Albert Rhett Stuart re-
ceived the NJ. NJ. Parker prize of 500 for
the highest standing in the class, and also
the first prize for the best essay on the sub
ject. THE legal status of the inhabitants of
our newly acquired possessions. Porto Rico
and the Philippines, under the Constitution. -
Second honors went to Thomas w. Alexan-
der. and the third to Dwight p. Dilworth.
Master of laws-First honors. George War
rem Barrus: second. John Cecil Spaulding
third. Joseph Waddell Butts: fourth, Chas.
c. Clark.
Master Of diplomacy-First honors, Chas.
Ray Dean; second, Joseph Weare; third,
Dixson H. Bynum.
Doctor of civil law-Ffrst honors. Galen L.
TAFT: second. Lewis w. Call: third. Freder-
lex l. Hemmings: fourth, Thaddeus Cahill.
Dean Receives Loving CUP.
An interesting feature of the occasion
was the presentation on behalf of the
classes in comparative Jurisprudence and
diplomacy of a silver loving cup to Mr.
Charles w. Needham. the dean of the
faculty. The presentation speech was made
by Mr.. John p Gray to which Mr. Need
ham made an appropriate response. The
exercises of the evening were then con-
cluded.
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TWELVE MEN POISONED.
They Stole Flour and Bacon From
Railroad Contractors.


A special dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press from Montgomery, w. Va, yester-
day. says: A negro cook. exasperated be-
yond endurance by the repeated robbery of
storehouse of which he was in charge.
placed rat poison on a lot of bacon ard
mixed it into flour and meal, causing the
death of twelve men who robbed the store
house the next day
Hamburger and Matson have the grading
and filling contracts on seven miles of the
Paint Creek railroad. building from the
Chesapeake and Ohio down through the
Paint creek coal fields through Kanawha and
Raleigh counties. Their stretch of grading
lies fifty miles from any sort of transporta-
ton, and is only accessible by wagons
through the forest and over nearly i'm
passable roads. 1t lies away beyond any
base of supplies, so when they took $50
Italians and thirty teams with their tools
to the scene. they carried along provisions
for several months. A big storehOuse vas
built as base of supplies. and the laborers
camped along as the work progressed.
Several times the stOrehouse was robbed,
and suspicion pointed to family of noun
taineers who bore bad name. The negro
cook. becoming anxious at frequent losses,
mixed up lot Of rat poison and put it into
flour and meal near the door. This was
stolen few days later.
Last week Frank Adhesion, hunter,
led by a flock of buZzards, came upon the
corpses of four men lying on the ground in
the wood, five miles from the railroad
camp. Nearby Adhesion found a cave all
fitted up as a dwelling, and inside of it
were eight more dead men and lot Of
meat and -four. which 1t was found later
had been stolen from the railroad camp
Adhesion went for assistance and had the
corpses buried.
The news was brought here today by
Frank r. Gibson, who left the railroad
camp few days ago. Gibson did not know
the names of the twelve men, but said they
were all brothers and cousins, and had been
classed as outlaws for years.
They had terrorized the few peaceable
people for miles around. and there was no
disposition to make trouble over their TAX
ing Off
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ALLOWANCES FOR ARMY OFFICERS.
Communication ReEardin
Cuba Sent to Congress.

SuDu sent 10 SouSFesS
The War Department submitted to Con-
gress another mass of information in an
swer to inquiries to the amount and
character of allowances for salaries and
expenses of army officers In Cuba. The de-
partment has already supplied this Informal
ton relative to the officers in Porto Rico.
With the exception of the four allowances
made to the military governor. the collector
Of customs, the treasurer and the auditor,
stated in detail in the answer previously re-
turned by the department. these allowances
exhibited in the statement transmitted yes
terday are for small amounts. the largest
being an allowance of S130 to Major Rus
sell Harrison for travelling expenses There
were altogether seventy items OF allowance
treated in this last statement. which covers
the first six months of last year. Leaving
the allowances of the four superior officers
already mentioned, the total of the re-
mainder is slightly over $1,000 The figures
for the last half of the year 1890 have al
ready been supplied to Congress. and adding
the totals for the two halves 1t appears
that the allowances paid for out OF Cuban
funds were $37.7JO.8O: made up Of salaries.
SIS, 2ls: quarters. $19.949: transportation
and subsistence, $1.S82 and miscellaneous.
S66a
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Senator Depew to Lecture.

The attraction for the charitable and So
cial world Friday evening the LIST day of
June. will be the lecture OF Senator Chaun-
cey Depew at the National Theater, for the
benefit OF the Eye. Ear and Throat Hos
pitaL The opportunity Is afforded of hear
ing the distinguished and popular senator
who has offered this service, and at the
same time to help one Of our newest and
most useful charities.
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FRENCH LINE.

Compagnie Generate Transatlantique
DIRECT LINE TO HAvRE-PARIs France,.
Sailing every Thursday at 10 am.
From Pier No. AZ. North River foot Morton St.
La Tonraine. May 81 La Champagne. June q
La Gascogne. June IA La Tourane. July 8
First Sailing IF New Twin-screw Express Steamer.
LA LORRAI E."
From New York, July IL. 1900.
General Agency. 50 Broadway, New York.
G. W. MOSS. 1927 ST. NV. f.1 8n.17
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ATTORNEYS.

FRENCH, GERMAN. AUSTRIAN. RUSSIAN, TTAL-
ian and other foreign legal papers given special
attention before the departments, pEepa ratory to
use In foreign countries LEON 4. CLARK with
WELLS 4 WELLS, Fendall bldg, myl0-23t
CAMPBELL CARRINGTON, ATTORNEY- AT-LAW,
Webster Law building. sos D st. NV. Washing
ton. D. C. Residence. No. Mount Vernon Flats
New York ave. and 9th ct. NV. oa11
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LADIES' GOODS.

Plating.
KNIFE AND ACCORDION PLATING DONE
without delay. Pinking 1c. yard At OPEN
HEIMER'S. 5l4 9th st. NV. ap3o-5.u
FUR GARMENTS MADE TO ORDER: REMODEL
Ing Of old fur wraps 10 the latest styles q spe-
cirlty: ladies' tailor-made suits made to order,
At guaranteed. E. MORGAN. 800 st. NV.
mkl5-tf
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ACCOUNTANTS.

J.. E BATES
Public Accountant and Auditor,
1oo0 ITO, Washington Loan and Trust buildlnR
fs3-tf Tslaphons No. o73
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Troubles In Spain.

We have by no means seen the last of
the troubles in Spain over the taxation.
The genesis Of the agitation must be
sought In the desire of Barcelona for sepa-
ration from Spain, or at least in autonomy
In masters Of taxation. paying only Q fixed