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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
0AKVILLE HAPPENINGS.

Mrs Frank Douglas and her mother in-law. Mrs Lizzie Douglas, have gone
 MT and Mrs Jacob Yale have gone to Walnut Beach to spend the season.
 Miss Nellie Shannahan has gone to New York for visit with friends.
 Mir Clark of Bunker hill will run q butcher wagon through this village three days q week, starting to-day. MT Clark is very popular at Bunker hill.
 Mrs Lewis Lafage has just returned from Walnut Beach, where she has been spending few days with her mother, Mrs Jacob Yale.
 William Babin was in this place yes terday looking at property on Newton Heights with view to buying.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS.
The Voters Out in Large Numbers
 To-Day.


 To-day is election day and the party candidates are out in force getting persons to the polling places. The biggest fight for the office of warden will take place to-day that has ever occurred in years. The candidates are F. E.. Freeman, democratic, and F. H. Shaffer, the present incumbent, republican. Both are very popular, Mir Shaffer being warden for the past three years and is also a prominent rubber man. while MT Freeman has served as a burgess for three or four years and is one of the foremost dem ocrats of the town. The contest for the office of treasurer will most like ly be a spirited one. the candidates be- ing George H. Wigmore, the present holder of the office, on the republican ticket, and George D. Bissel1 on the democratic ticket. J. B. Martin is on both tickets for the office of tax collector and that popular young gen. tleman will grace that office for an other term. The excitement is quite intense owing to the contest for war den and the closing of the polls and the counting of the votes will be awaited with much impatfence.
 The Young Mems Catholic Institute are now firmly settled in their hand some rooms in the new Lilley block and it is not going too far when it is said that they have the finest society rooms in town The rooms comprise pool room, reading room and parlor. The members feel very proud of their new quarters and contemplate holding a reception in the near future
 6nfa fa6 I,o Hammer club baseball team in a hot ly contested game at the Miser's lot yesterday by a score of 12 to G.
 The baseball game scheduled to be played last Saturday afternoon be tween the local High school team and the Shelton High team was postponed on account of the threatening weath- CT.
 An alarm of fire was rung in from box % last evening at 10 o'clock and called the fire department to a two story dwelling house on Cherry street owned by Matthew Boylan and occu- pied by a family named Jones and g family named Campbell. The fire was in the upper floor in the 2art ot the house occupied by the Jones fam fly and was in a peculiar place, i. e. O@InCCA lAC Pd1 sdMdy lGOu al heat or anything that could cause fire How the fire started is not known ant owing to the peculiar place it started in it would be difficult to find ou just what caused the blaze At las nights fire the need of the fire de pertinent for horses for horses for tn, hook and ladder truck was once nor, made plain to everybody who wa. present. The hook and ladder truci was nearly half an hour late in get ting to the fire True. the ladder were not needed. but some time the. will be needed and then at that tim the fremen will have to wait an hou for horses to be ready. Then the fir has a chance to make great headway The fire department needs horses ant needs them badly and ii behooves tn proper officails to see that they ar purchased and then these official will not come in for the very shar criticisms that would surely be nj tered if in the hour of need the hoo and ladder truck was late and the fir gained headway. entailing much nor Joss than the price of horses.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
WATERTOWN JOTTINGS
Authorities Have Decided to Allow
 Public Gatherings.


 The authorities have decided that the Quarantine laid on public gatherings has served it's purpose and may be re. moved. Tomorrow the library will be open as usual, and on Wednesday eyen- ing the Ladies' Aid society will give the entertainment as advertised. Now that the scare is practically over there are nearly as many opinions regarding the good accomplished by shutting down on public gatherings as there are people. Some say it was foolish pro ceeding on the part of the selectmen. Others claim that it was a wise pre- caution. In any case the time $ past when it is deemed necessary and we hope that the future holds no occasion for putting it back. Everything is at present favorable towards confinjng the smallpox in the building where it first broke out The two cases which are at present quarantined are not consid- cred serious and unless complications set in both will be out of danger ill . few days.
 The selectmen are in Hartford to-day attending a meeting of se1ectmen Of the various towns throughout the state and superintendents of charities from the cities. The object of the organiza- ton is to get together and find out the best methods of caring for the pauper element in the different communities.
 Clarence and Fred Hannon went to Romford Saturday on a fishing trip and brought home a nice string of trout
 Joseph Smith and family of Cheshire spent yesterday at N. W. Barnes's. Firemen's meeting tomorrow even ing.
 Library open tomorrow.
 Ladies' Aid society's dance Wednes day evening.
 Beginning tonight Federal lodge, NJ IT, F. and A. M., will meet the frs and third Mondays of each month.
 A number of people from here art planning to take i'll the show at Polf: tomorrow evening.
 Thomas Parker of Naugatuck ha' been in town for the past few days.
 John L. Scott conducted the service. at Christ church last evening.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
WATERVILLE DAILY TALK

The Brooklyn A. c. reversed the ta- bles on the sWaterville base ball team yesterday. A seven inning game was played at the local grounds, the B. A. c. team winning by the score of 9 to 3.
 There was a large congregation present at St Pauls church last night and they heard an admirable sermon by AIr Stansfield.
 Mir and Mrs R. G. Cleveland left for Bristol today where they will reside in the future. Their many friends re- gret their departure from this place
 The Waterville base ball club will play the strong Woodbury team at the local grounds next Sunday.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
Successful Afrship Trial.

PARIS, May 5.-In spite of the threatening weather Senor Augusta Severo, the Brazilian aeronaut, made q successful first trial with his airship at the Vaugirard Aerostatic park. Senor Severo's airship is called La Paix. The balloon, held by a rope, ascended forty meters. The motors were then started. The balloon obeyed the impulse of it's propellers, steering easily and main taining perfect equilibrium. After maneuvering for a short time Senor Severe safely returned the airship to its she'd
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
Minister conger Protests.

PEKING, May 5.-E. H. Conger, the American minister to China, has pro- tested to Prince Ching, the president of the foreign office, with regard to the expulsion of Chinese Christians from the new European school established by Yuan Shi kai. the governor of Chili province. for refusing to worship ac- cording to the Confucian tablets. MT. Conger calls the attention of Prince Ching to the fact that the treaty prom ises that no discrimination shall be made against Christians.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
Reign of Terror In Russia.

VIENNA, May 5.-In-a dispatch from Warsaw the correspondent of Die In formation gives gloomy picture of the conditions of terror in Russia. He says there is scarcely a single Russian town where sentences of punishment being imposed. There has been great demonstration, says the correspondent, at Ekaterinoslav. in southern Russia, where the Cossac1s killed twenty per- sons, wounded forty more and arrested 15o. TT
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
Brick workers on a Strike.

ST. LOUIS, May 5. A thousand molders, pressers, bolsters and laborers employed at the fire brick and terra cotta works at Cheltenham, in the out skirts of this city, are on strike. The skilled men struck from sympathy for the laborers, who demand an increase of 15 cents a day.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
Three Fishermen Drowned.

GREAT HARRINGTON, Mass, May 5.-By the capsizing of their boat on the Housatonic river while on fishing trip Alfonso Nordin, aged twenty-six; Emil Bredin, forty -four, and Charles Plancon. thirty-three, were drowned and William Poderantz, their compan- ion, escaped, being able to swim.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-05
Haitian Rebels Defeated.

PORT At PRINCE, Haiti, May 5.- General Celtic, commanding the rebel forces at Santiago, was defeated May 2 by government troops. The position U the president appears to be gainsrg in strength. --s.>Es s%i '''s''-- ---s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03
IN LINCOLN'S MEMORY
GERMAN-AEIERICAN VETERANS AR
RANGE FOR CELEBRATION.

The German-American Veterans as
ISOLATION held it's regular monthly meet
ing at Garfield hail. in the old Grand
block, yesterday afternoon, and com
pleted arrangements for it's third annual
celebration to be held at the state capt.
toll at o'clock in the evening on Lin
coins birthday. The meeting was well
attended, and all present manifested
spirit to make this anniversary one that
will long be remembered by the German
American veterans of Minnesota and
their friends.
Capt. Joseph Burger was appointed
chairman of the committees on arrange
ments and decorations, and A. Bohland,
secretary Of the association, was made
chairman of the committee on invitations
All those present also volunteered to act
as a committee of one to receive the
guests. An excellent programme will be
given, and will include speeches by Judge
Grier M. Orr, Gov. Van SAINT, A. r..
Kiefer and J. N. Rogers. The Concordia
Singing society will render several num-
bers, and the Schaettgen family will con-
tribute musical numbers. Rev. Mr.. LEM,
an old soldier, delivered an address yes
terday on the military organizations of
the United States, and Capt. Burger also
spoke briefly. The association passed a
resolution moved by Capt. Burger, in
dorsing Col A. r. Kiefers candidacy for
mayor. A resolution, approving of the
recent order of President Roosevelt to
retain all honorably discharged soldiers
in the employ of the government in their
present positions, was also passed and a
copy of the resolution will be mailed to
the president
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03

the new tax law despite the war made ON
it. He says:
One of the arguments against the pro-
posed new tax code is the statement that
Under the bill there are citizens Of this
state who, if they disclosed all their hold
ing OF shares in corporations, mortgages,
etc, for the taxation imposed by this
ELL would have to pay form 100000 to
$500, coo taxes
Well, if any citizen has property which
assessed as other property is assessed at
its actual selling value, would at the
rate paid by other property, require him
to pay 100000 or 100000 taxes, why
shouldn't he pay that amount? Is it
harder for the man who has $1,000 in
the man who has $4,000 to pay 5000? This
declaration will serve to convince a good
many people that the new tax code hews
pretty close to the line of justice.
The opposition has overlooked the pat
ent and important fact that the rate of
taxation is determined by the assessed
Valuation. Ir all it's Illustrations de-
Signed to show results under the new
code it has applied to full valuations of
all the property the rate of taxation at
present required on from one-fourth to
Cne-tllird walt 2tiCnS Of a comparatively
small part of the property that should
be taxed. If the rate of taxation is 80
mills on valuation of S1O0,000 the rate
would be 10 mills on valuation Of $509,-
600.
What becomes then Of the claim that
if the valuation of farm property is In
creased thf0G1OlG, farmers Will De re-
quired to pay mere taxes? Would the tax
on farm valued at $1,000 be more at
per cent than it VIC uld be on valuation
of $4,000 a l per cent?
The fact is that if all property is listed
at it's full value, tine farmer will pay
much less than ore-third of the present
rate. If the rate of taxation is decreased
one-third by a tv O. thirds increase of the
valuation Of property heretofore assessed,
it would probably be decreased one-half
more by the listing for taxation of prop
erty which has heretofore escaped taxa
ton.
The honest taxpayer, ard particularly
the man Of small means, has everything
to gain by full assessment and CORE
spCnding reduction of tax rate. Having
paid on all he has, he loses nothing by
the increased valuation, and gains by the
valuation of property which has escaped
assessment. To the man of moderate
means whose property is all In sight and
always assessed, the low rate resulting
from full valuation will always be an
important advantage.
In other words, an honest assessment
is always best for all who are willing
to bear their Just share of the public bur
dens. If all property were listed at It's
full value, taxation would cease to be a
burden. The rate would be so low that
the man of small means would not feel
it, and it would not be a burden to the
man Of wealth because he is able to bear
it, Moreover, there would then be no
cause for the present objection to the en-
forcement of the provisions in relation to
the listing of bank deposits, because the
tax would be so light that people who
have money could afford to pay it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03

heard, few and far between. Capt
Charles c, Whitney. state printer. is ore
Of those who believe in the new measure
He thinks the opposition is not so formid-
able as it appears to be, and he vigorous
~ declares that it is a case of yelling
When hit" Says Capt. Whitney:
Inc new tax code was presented by
Ine tax commission after nearly a year
u TABOR involving a study Of the most
approved tax systems of the most pro-
greSS1ve states in the union Added to
these advantages are the experience and
ability of the three gentlemen composing
the commission, two of whom have serv-
ed the state as attorneys general, and
one as president Of the senate and Iieuten-
ant governor, all having had much Of
nc1dlly to do with state taxation. When
these gentlemen were appointed by Gov
Van SAINT 1T was admitted by the entire
metropolitan and country press and bar
throughout the state, that no better Sc
lecuons could have been made. With the
unbOunded confidence of all parties and
factions, of all taxable interests, the
commission began and continued it's la
bors until completed within the time
specified by law; and as solemnly bound
en- to do by an expressed and implied
agreement with the legislature that short
ened its regular session for such purpose
the governor duly called the special SEES
sion that is to convene next Tuesday.
Since the publication of the tax com
mission report, it has been persistently
and vehemently attacked through a lib
eral portion of the metropolitan press
in the interest of the large jobbing houses
of the cities, of the large grain dealers.
of the iron ore dealers, of the bankers
and of so many other interests that one
is bound to believe that the opposition
to the proposed tax code is concerted
action by the great taxable properties
that unite in seeking to avoid just what
the tax commission was formed for, and
instructed and empowered to do VIZ,
0IrO md 1p6o Of
taxation for all classes and for all in
tereStS."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03
FOUND DEAD ON FLOOR
Mrs. w. HOLZEIMER VICTIM OF
ATTACK oF APQPLExY.

Mrs. Wilhelmira Holzeimer, widow,
siAty-two years of age, occupying rooms
upstairs at 365 Hope street, died suddenly
Saturday night of apoplexy. Coroner A.
w. Miller was called and issued the
death certificate. Mrs. Holzeimer rented
rooms from a family living downstairs
al the above number and the landlady
says that she last saw her alive on Sat
urday night Mrs. Holzeimer came down
stairs about o'clock in the afternoon
and got a can of preserves and an apple
She appeared to be in the best of health
and was quite jolly. She talked and
laughed for while and went up stairs
This was the last seen of her alive.
Yesterday morning when the woman
living downstairs went up to sweep
Mrs Holzeimer's rooms, she was horri-
fed to see her lying on the floor dead
She had evidently fallen shortly after
going up stairs the evening beftre She
was born in Germany and came to st.
Paul twenty-five years ago. She for
merly lived on the property now occu-
pied by the Van Buren, school. Mrs.
Holzeimer leaves three sons living out
side of st. Paul and one daughter, Mrs
Christian Gensch, living at Third and
Arcade streets, in the city The funeral
arrangements will be announced later
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03
- IT 7
n T w S

The Second ward Improvement associa-
ton will hold it's regular monthly meet
irg at Bates and East Seventh streets,
at 8 o'clock this evening.
J. f. Mcclure addressed the Total Alb
stinenee Society yesterday afternoon at
1880 o'clock lat Crusaders hall. There
was a literary and musical programme.
meeting of the new Eighth ward
Bantz club was held last night and. M.
Hafner was elected president, Frank
Klein secretary and Joe Zettle treasurer.
Charles Edward, the four-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Mann 19 Gilman
terrace, died last night of spinal menin-
gifts, brought on by scarlet fever. The
funeral will be private.
The funeral of the late Edward Rich
ards will take place this afternoon from
the family residence, 719 Selby avenue
at 2:30 o'clock. Members of Acker Post
G. A. R. will attend in a body
Fire in the one-story frame dwelling
occupied by Edw. FIaherty and family
at Burton place gave the occupants a
scare at 2:15 o'clock yesterday morning
and they were forced to make a hasty
exit in their night clothes. Tie blaze
did $3.50 damage to the house and con-
tents.
The funeral of Lars Larson, $50 Sims
street, took place yesterday afternoon
az 23O O'Clock from the Swedish Bap-
Ilst church, Case street and Payne ave-
nue.. The inrerment was at Union Gem
etery. and nearly 1900 people attended
the funeral at the Baptist church. He
was 1orty-seven years old and leaves a
widow and five children.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03
SERMON IN THEATER
CONGREGATION OF THE PEOPLES
CHURCH LISTENS TO ENCOURAGE
ING WORDS FROM PASTOR
MUST NOT GO INTO DEBT
DIR. Smith Insists That the Building
Must Be Paid for as 1t Goes
Up - PentecOst of
Power.

Services of the Peoples church, whose
building was burned last Wednesday aft
ernoOn, were held yesterday morning at
the Metropolitan opera house, and the
attendance was sufficient to fill almost
the entire lower floor of the theater 1T
was announced by the pastor, Rev. S.
G. Smith, that services would be held
regularly at the Metropolitan theater at
IL clock Sunday mornings. Dr. Smith
further stated that he would be at home
TO the members of the congregation next
Thursday evening at his residence, 1926
college avenue; and that the ladies' So
ciety Of the church would meet next
Tuesday at the residence of DR.. A. f.
Goodrich, 256 Nelson avenue. lie said
that suggestions from members of the
congregation as to the new building
would be gladly received at the office of
Oscar Hallam in the Manhattan build
ing. While on the subject of the new
church DR.. Smith said thai one thing
he would insist upon was that it should
be built without debt, and that the con-
struction should proceed No faster than
the work could be paid for. lie had been
engaged for the past twenty-five wears
in paying church debts Of some sort. and
did not wish to resume that kind OF
work.
The text was read by DR.. Smith from
a new testament which was found by
two little girls in the ruins of the Peo-
pies church building last Thursday and
returned by them to the pastor. This
testament. DR.. Smith said was the only
book saved from the building, hut it was
sufficient foundation upon which to start
a church. The text was from Corin-
thians, H., AT, For our light affection,
which is but for a moment, worketh for
us far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory
DR.. Smith spoke Of the splendid rally
ing power of the church as evidenced
by the prompt determine ton of the ad-
visory board to rebuild at once, althoUs; I
he had been inclined to advise greater
elaboration He expressed the thanks of
the church for the expressions of SYM
pathy and the offers of assistance from
the sister churches, stating that every
church of the neighborhood, regardless
of denomination, had offered it's build
ing for services at some time on Sun
days
The Peoples church, he said, was not
burned-it was only a building which ha d
been destroyed by fire. The PEOPLES
church, he said, was an idea, an attitude.
an Interpretation, a fellowship, an in
spiration, and those things could not
be burned.
The sermon was on the spiritual per-
spective Of life, and the fundamental idea
advanced by the preacher was that the
real wealth of a church is in it's spiritual
forces. The apostles, he said, had neither
a new testament or a church building
but they had Pentecost; and if the
Peoples church could secure a new
pentecost of power even at the expense
of its building it would be very chean in
deed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-03
ALL ALIKE.
Doctors Agree on Food.

All physicians agree that good food
properly selected, is of the utmost inn,
portance, not only for the cure of dis
ease but to maintain health even when
one is we'll
DR.. VIM. Hale, of IA Pleasant g.
Gloucester, Mass. says, st count if a
pleasure to say a good word for Postum
Food Coffee with which l have been en-
abled to relieve 50 many sufferers, and
which 1 count with its valued compan
ion, Grape-Nuts,} ore of the daily bless
ings
Coffee was banished from my own table
some time ago and Postum used regular
ly in its place.
1 frequently find it necessary to IN
stTuct patients when they take Postum
Coffee for the first time to be quite sure
that it has been boiled long enough 10
bring out the clear, black color and the
ricn taste, as well as the health giving
qualities
The Doctor enclosed the names of six
patients who were formerly nervous dys-
peptics but have been cured by his pro-
fessional care and the discontinuance Of
coffee and the using of Postum Food
Coffee in it's place.