New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-18
CONNECTICUT INTERESTS.
SECOND REGIMENT CASE TO BE RE
,rNED-PRoMINENT CITIZENS DEAD.

-,-.s,ev case in the I'd Regiment has been
Co. go through the intervention OF Governor
,,,r,- and the Captain viii have to go be-
court martial Colonel Callahan. it is said,
- willing under the circumstances, to re-
"e4"' - cbarpes against him for misconduct.
az 90 has done more 10 give black eye to
o,a+ionai Guard than anything else in its
- .-,,.,s for some years and the attempts Of
-. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 70 settle it have brought
=, --on7irence the utter lack Of harmony
80 the higher officers OF the brigade and the
..,,,,arstv OF Acknowledgement Van heurens
q - discipline. No military scandal since
- ..nolo war in this city ten years ago has
.-,,o,,-ed the Governor Of the state.
TIN OLDEST OF THE BEEcHERs DEAD
-,s death OF Mrs. Mary Beecher Perkins In
- .,.,- On Wednesday. the same day that her
10 .,a Roy. Tllornas X Beecher, died in
T-,-r;-a removed the Oldest Of the famous 1afh-
Ms Perkins was ninety-four years and
~. months old. and made her home IN this
t. 7rt.h her son. Charles z Perkins. the &C
--,o,i,e5 leader Of the Hartford County bar
= =. 90 domestic tastes and aside from her
-. sr,erience as assistant in her sisters
- IN Hartford IN 1922 was not IN any
- a r,,,rlic character. She had warm synpa-
rs sDlendiG conversational powers ana WIS
=, 4,,n 7ossession of her faculties until the last
.,.bough she was extremely feeble her oloeS'
= Frederick Beeeher Perkins. well known
-,.oo--, man and one of her daughters IS
=, ,-,4A ~ the Rev. DT. Edward Everett faie'
= 77,s-on The three Beecher sisters, VINO nave
-o5e their home in this city for many years
s,--7,ed & centre for a group OF literary anu
&C. neonle Of the city and State. and
-oanv men and women prominent IN puo'Ic ne
-. ,e.er At their homes. OF them Mrs Stowe
- -,oszad now Mrs Perkins. leaving Mrs lisa
-. Baacber Hooker the only surviving daugh-
T1r LYMAN Beecher. The only son living
=, -. Rev. Charles Beecher, OF Georgetown
80 --bo fs in feeble health and not expected
10 i've many days
-rzzz CATORIAfETER GOING TO PARIS.
oo4 -ba interesting exhibits that will be
=. % pa-ta bv the Government this year IS
-, ,o=al NJ the calorimeter which has been
go a. WESLEYAN University, in Middletown' by
-,..gro- A-yvater in his experiments relating
- ne 1a1ue ~ nutrition Of various sorts, ana
--h,.b has attracted more universal attention.
,.-bans. because of its registration OF the rooo
--slue ~ alcohol. The apparatus contains
-.s,4-a+ion chamber, furnished with foidlng
h.5 fable and chair n which man IS Isolated
+o- a number Of days and nights. Arrange
wants for ventilation and for temperature are
carefully made and by ingenious and delicate
measurements chemical, physical and pm 80
logical the effects Of different foods 49,
varvtng conditions Of rest and work are de-
.e-,,,,ed both the income and outgo Of the body
Of the subject OF the experiment being accu-
re-eIv measured Beside the calortmeter. there
Til also be exhibited a bomb calorimeter an
.,ve1rion OF Professor AtwaJer for registering
he heat Of combustion OF chemical compounds
Including those OF food materials The model
while reduced in size from the actual apparatus,
gives a clear idea Of its workings.
DOCTORS N DISAGREEMENT.
disagreement between the regular and
homeopathic schools OF physicians has brought
about an unfortunate state OF affairs in the
NeV--Br,tatn Hospital The directors admitted
q phvsictan OF the new school to practise in IT,
and the old school threatened withdrawal If the
new school man was not removed. This the d.
-ectors refused TO do and the old school meu
II attendance withdrew. Some OF the regular
school physicians in the city are not in sym
Dathy with the withdrawal, and it is expected
that the directors may secure one or more OF
these attending physicians II not, the nos
ptal viii be given over entirely TO the homCo-
paths. Meanwhile patient who was admitted
day this week was absolutely without any
attendance except that Of the nurses while
waiting hours for the proper physician TO return
from his own practice
DR.. WALKER FREED FROM SUFFERING.
Absolute imprisonment OF all the faculties of
mind was the condition which the Rev. DR..
George Leon Walker, Of this city, endured for
the last FIVE years OF his life. He unable
because Of paralysis TO speak. 10 write or TO
communicate with his friends except by express
sion OF his countenance. HIS death this week.
while il removed the most distinguished divine
II Hartford since the days OF Horace Bushnell,
ana the ablest pastor Of Centre Church since
Thomas Hooker. the founder Of he colony,
brought great relief to the sufferer HIS place
In the historical study Of Connecticut cannot DC
overest-mated. Although native or vermont
he made this State his centre Of study and con-
r-tbuted largely TO the knowledge Of its early
career and Of the career Of the remarkable BODY
Of men who came across from Cambridge
through the wilderness TO settle its first colony
CHURCH FEDERATION MOVEMENT
The Rev. Walter Laidlaw. of New-York. has
presented the claims Of church federation to
the Connecticut Congregational Club, in view OF
the movement in this city 70 establish such an
organization. The effort has been successful IN
its beginnings. the entire Protestant clergy and
representative laymen rom al the PFotcsti--IN
churches having entered into the preliminary
work
HIGH MORTALITY FROM MEASLES.
The State Board Of Health in its latest bull
letin calls attention 70 the fact that, while
measles and scarlet fever have been prevalent
n the State for the last four years, the rate
mortality from measles has been, greater than
that from the much more dreaded diseases.
During the last four years there We're 2,9 deaf hs
from scarlet fever and 81 from measles. From
this fact the Board argues that measles is not
q trivial maiadv. bUt that IT'S Importance As a
factor II public health ranks well up among
The most dangerous diseases. i is q highly
contagious disease IN every stage Of its prog
teas- Hence its seed - often sOwn in corn
munity before it's presence is even suspected.
The control Of the disease IS largely dependent
upon the prudent care OF suspected case. The