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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
CONCURRENT ACTION NOW
BY ALDERMEN AND COUNCILMEN ON WATER CONTRA CT MATTER.

A Public Hearing on the Contract to be 1 Given by tho Special Committee To-
 morrow Night-Mectings of Both Boards Of the Common Council Last
 Night-A Resolution Of sympathy for
 Waterbury.
 Meeting of the aldermen and council 1 men were held in city hall last night, l the meeting of the aldermen being @ regular session, while that of the coun- cilmen was special session called to l take action on the water contract mat l ter on which there was non-concurrent action by the two boards in relation to | the composition of the special commit tee to which both boards had voted to refer the whole water contract matter.
 In brief session the councilmen concurred with the aldermen in order ing the special committee to be com posed of Alderman William A. Wright w, F. Walsh and Councilmen Mason, Frederick and Elliott. After the ad- journment of the session this commit tee held an executive meeting and de- cided to hold public hearing on the contract matter tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the councimanic chamber in city hall.
 Both boards held brief meetings last night, the aldermanic meeting being called to order immediately after the adjournment of the councilmen.
 As soon as the councilmanic meeting had convened Councilman Logan nov ed that the board recede from it's for mer action in naming the mayor, and the corporation counsel members of the special water committee and con- cur with the aldermen. This motion was passed unanimously and then the board concurred in referring to the committee all the papers relating to the contract in authorizing the committee to investigate and determine if possi- ble whether any members of the com mon council are stockholders in the New Haven Water company, and on reference to the committee on railroads and bridges of the petition of the Win chester Repeating Arms company for pei mission to erect footbridge across Winchester avenue to connect two sec- tions of the company's plant.
 The following vote and order intro- duced by Councilman Elliott was unan- imously adopted:
 The people of the city of New Haven learn with extreme regret of the disas- trous confagration which has in few brief hours swept out of existence the heart of the city of Waterbury and laid in ashes and ruins the magnificent edi- fees, which were the pride of the citi- zens and the product of so much ener- getic labor, and they hereby express to the people of our sister city their sin cere sympathy for their distressful loss of property and their confidence that | the courageous spirit of enterprise and progress for which the people of Wa terbury are noted will prevail as soon | as the first stunning effects of the ca- tastrophe are over and that the city | will be rebuilt more beautifully than | eyer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
ALLEGED BURGLARS CAUGHT.
Two Men Thought to Have Robbed tn,
 Branfurd Store

James F. White, of this oity, was ar rested yesterday afternoon by Detec- tives McGrath and Daly as he is thought to be one of the men that burglarzed the store of Hoadley & Hotchkiss in Branford Sa .urday night. He is held at the central lookup. The job of robbing the Branford general store was too much for one of the men and he was so tired that he entered a barn near the center of the town and slept there for some time. He was dis covered in the barn and under the hay was stored any quantity of the stuff that had been taken from the Hoadley x Hutchinson store. The man and the goods were gathered in and he with the man arrested in New Haven will probably have chance to explain themselves to-day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
SCHOONER L1w 1T PORTLAND.
Her Disappearance from Wood End
 Caused Fears for Her Safety.

Portland, Me, Feb. S.-Schooner Ly- man L. Law of New Haven, which was off Provincetown this morning, made this harbor tonight She is from Phil adelphia.
 Highland Light, Mass, Feb. 3.--High northwest gale continues tonight. The life saving men report that the four masted schooner which was anchored off Wood End and supposed to be the Lyman M. Law is not in sight tonight. As it seemed improbable that she could have worked out of the bay in the teeth of the gale her disappearance is surprising.
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STATEMENT BY MRS. S0fFEL
HER STORY OF THE ESCAPE AND
 FLIGHT.
Did Not Wish to Go With tho Riddle Boys but They Persuaded Hor to-Her Terrible Suffering from the Cold Says Detective McGovern Was Going to shoot Her Her Future.

Pittsburg, Pa.. Feb. 3-The only mat ter now of anything like absorbing in terest in connection with the Riddles is the fate of Mrs Soffel and anything she may say concerning the escape and subsequent capture of the trio. Mrs Soffel is lying in the Butler hospital and though still a sick woman, her case is not considered really serious. She made statement to- night to some newspaper men in the presence of pr. Bricker, in which she said:
 q had not intended going over with Riddle boys on the night of their escape but Ed s entreaties won me over. She told of how she remained in the library on Thursday morning awaiting the signal for the out break. It was her intention to let the boys go and she would meet them later While sitting in the library she was almost paralyzed when the two brot hers came crashing through the door. In thier excitement they had lost the key to this door and and to break it down.
 Ed. asked me to come with them Come with us' he said to me. I re- sisted and told them to go They told me they had not an instant to lose and if the officers were to get away I would be discovered
 q tried to persuade them to go Then felt myself giving way to Eds per suasions and yielded. We all dashed out on Ross street. We then passed along the court house to the alley. Ed. and Jack went out Grant street and, crossing the river we met in Allegheny at their friends house. Well, we could not remain there and we were soon out on the road again
 "The night in the schoolhouse was perishing cold. The exposure affected me greatly. Now I want to say the statements that I was intoxicated are untrue. Ed. and Jack bought half pint of whiskey and l drank some if it. It seemed to stimulate me Now, that was the only time I drank anything on the trip.
 Ed and Jack took several drinks and I told them to go sparingly on it, as they would not be able to get any more without enhancing detection. We se- cured sleigh and drove through the country all night. The night was bitter
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
DERBY EXTENSION GRADING
BLAKESLEE .G SONS AWARDED
 CONTRACT LAST NIGHT.

This Work Alone to Cost Nearly S6O, ,O0G
 Large Force of Men win Do Elm.
 pIoyed Within N Few Days-Tho Big Rock Cuts to be Blasted Out Ftrst-
 Present Work to be Confined to Pri-
 vate Wny-How Public Highway | win be Improved.
 President Henry S. Parmelee of the | Fair Haven and Westville Railroad
 company early last evening signed the papers awarding the contract for the
 grading for the Derby extension to C. W. Blakeslee & Sons, the local contractors. It Is the intention of the
 contractors to begin the work at once,
 which alone will cost nearly s60,0o0.
 The railroad company will probably to-
 day close negotia tions for two pieces of property upon which it holds op- tions and where large cuts through
 rock will have to be made. It is upon
 these cuts that the first work will be
 done, and the contractors will probably
 be able to set up the steel drills and fire the first blast announcing that op- erations have commenced in the next few days. The very first work will be done near the top of Long Hill, just beyond Maltby lake, where cut twen- ty-four feet deep has got to be blasted out
 The Blakeslees last night stated that they would start at once to put up the necessary shanties for housing the men, and also to haul the boilers steel drills and the other necessary tools for the work, They intend to push operations forward in all the large and deep cuts so as to escape the frost which would be met in purely surface work. The contractors expect to complete all the sub-grading by July 1, when the work will be taken up by the company and the laying of tracks begun. All the grading for the present will be on the company's own private way and the public highway will not be touched until all the frost Is out of the ground when the streets can be replaced quick ly and with the least inconvenience to the travelling public. The highway at several points will be much improved by the work. One of the greatest of the improvements will be from the Yale field westerly to Forest street, where crushed stone pavement twenty feet in width will be laid. Wherever the tracks are laid in the highway the grade of the same will be made better, as the will cut some of the hills full ly five feet across the full width.
 Specifications are now out for the steel work for the necessary bridges, and contracts for the structures will soon be closed. The rails, which the has already ordered, are ex- pected to arrive by the time the sub grading is completed. These will be pound standard steam road rails in sixty-feet lengths, insuring a good | riding roadbed with minimum num- Der of joints. These rails are unusually ! heavy for use by street railways, being | much heavier than those used by some 1 steam roads, which until of late years 1 run upon sixty-pound ones.
 As is readily seen, the company pro- | poses to build this line in strictly first | class manner in every detail with no l short curves and the safest construc- | ion obtanable. It is figured that 1t | will make one of the best trolley rides n this section of the country.
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COLLEGE GROWTH AND ATHLETICS
Dean Of Brown Differs from Presidsnt
 Eliot of Harvard.

Providence, R. l., Feb. 3.-Dean Mei- klejohn of Brown university, in his an- nual report dealing with college regis tration, differs with President Eliot of Harvard, by attributing the increased registration of Browns students, in a measure, to athletic prominence, espe- cially when that prominence comes through victories. President Eliot, in his recent report, said that success or failure in sports has had no influence on registration at Harvard or Yale
 Dean Meiklejohn says: "The experi- ence of Brown does not agree with that of Harvard, for marked gain has fol- lowed athletic victory. In 1889 Brown s registration included about 2S0 stu dents From this time the number in- creased rapidly until it reached close to 900 in 1896 and has remained near that figure since that time. In 1896 and 1S9S,' he continues, Brown won the college championship at baseball and in 1900 was second only to Princeton"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
4No1HEA DrN4MirH A44AosioN
Two Men Severely Injured by Hoavy
 Blast in New York

New York, Feb 1.-Two men were se- verely wounded this afternoon by a heavy blast of dynamite on the site of the old A, T. Stewart mansion, Thirty fourth street and Fifth avenue The injured are Morris Harnett, watch man employed by a firm of builders, whose skull was fractured, and Ferdi- nand Holly, furniture designer. who was painfully cut in the thigh by a piece of flying rock A building fore man who had charge of the blast was arrested.
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STRUCK BY 4 TROLLEY CAR.
Walter K. Davis Narrow Escape fro nj
 Fatal Injury.

Walter E. Davis man about forty- five years of age, who resides at 16J Chatham street, was painfully but not fatally injured about 10 o'clork last evening by being struck by a trolley car at the corner of Ferry and Lombard streets. MT. Davis had just alighted from one car and stepped directly in front of car on another track moving in the opposite direction from the one from which he had just alighted. He was knocked down and the car passed partly over him. It was thought that he was certainly killed, but when he was finally extricated he was found to be alive and semi-conscious and was sent to the New Haven hospital in tho police ambulance. At the hospital it was said late last night that he had re- ceived severe bruises and that his left ear and left leg were badly lacerated. It was thought, though, that he had sustained no internal injuries and no serious consequences were expected.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
Miss Senne's Case

London, Feb. 4.--Although the agree ment with the brigands has been com pleted, wires the Constantinople corre- srondent of the Daily Chronicle, they declare it is impossible to take the ran- som money safely away at the present moment. The American delegates are, therefore, returning here to make new arrangement"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
Earl of Munster Killed.

London, Feb. 3.--A South African casualty list published this evening in- Cludes the name of the Earl of Munster (Geoffrey George Gordon Fitz-Cl ence), who was accidentally killed at the Lapo mines February ?. The earl was a major of the Third battalion of the Royal Scots Lothian regimenD. He was born ill 1859.
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Offered to Professor Rybb,

Hartford, Feb. 3-William l.. Robb, Ph. D., professor of physics in Trinity college. and one of the foremost eIectri- cal experts of the country. has been of fered the new professorship of electri- cal engineering at the Rensselaer, Poly technic, Troy, N. Y, and it is probable that he will accept.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
GEN. MILES' NARROW ESCAPE.
His Sleigh Overturned and He ts
 Dragged Fifty Yards.

Dragged Fifty Yards.
 Washington, Feb. 3.-While driving his fast trotter Gold Pebble on the White lot to-day General Nelson A. Miles met with an accident, his sleigh coliding with the rear of one driven by William R. Ackey and being overturn- ed. General Miles was thrown to the ground, but clung to the reins and managed to control the frightened anil nal, although he was dragged about fifty yards over the icy ground. The cutter was then tighten and the gen. eral drove away. Tonight he was sui fering no i'll effects from the accident.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
SIon. 900 Fire in Ne,y MiIford

New Milford. Feb, 3.-Fire of an un- known origin. which started about o'clock tonight, completely destroyed the main building of the Bridgeport Wood Finishing companys plant. The loss will reach $100000. The directorate of the Bridgeport Wood Finishing com pany is made up of we'll known men of the state.
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THE PATRICK TRIAL.
Exact Cause of Rics's Death Now Before
 the Court.


 New York. Feb 3.-The trial of Al bert T. Patrick, for the murder of Will liam M. Rice, the millionaire, to-day reached the stage where the exact cause of his death was called in ques- ton before the court.
 The testimony to-day opened up the inquiry: Was Mr. Rice chloroformed to death, as the prosecution claims, or did he die of heart disease, as the defense maintains. These two questions were what the opposing counsel contended over before Recorded Golf and the jury.
 The state places on the stand Ru- dolph Witthaus, Professor Henry P Witthause, chemical and pathological experts and E, F. Donlin, a former coroner's physician, to prove the chlo- roform theory. MT ponlin testified that when he performed the autopsy on MT. Rice's body he found all of his or gans normal, except that there was congestion of the lung co-extensive with these organs. Professor Witthaus tes- tified similarly and further said that upon making a chemical analysis of MT. Rice's organs he found more than 3-4 of grain of mercury in them and that undoubtedly there had been a much larger quantity in the body be- fore death. Professor Loomis gave similar testimony.
 The efforts Of the defense were cen tered on an effort to show that this congestion might result from heart or kidney disease, and that the presence of mercury might have resulted from embalmlng fluid
 To-day's proceedings closed while w. F Harmon, bookkeeper in the bank where Mir Rice did business, was tes- tifying as to the signatures of the mil ionaire as they appeared on the vari- ous documents before the court
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Hartford Ftre,nen Dlsrniased.

Hartford, Feb. 3,--The fire commits sioners at meeting this evening dis charged three men attached to engine company No. 3 on charges of violation of rules. They were Engineer John R. Davis, president of the State Bremen S association, Tillerman James Magonigal and Hoseman H. T Cook
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
NEW HAVENERS AT THE FIRE
HUNDR EDS BLOCKED TO SCENE OF
 DEVASTATION YESTERDAY,
Trains to Waterbury Were damned With the CuriOus-Speclal Train of Students the First to Leave New Haven for the Scens-New Haven Property Owners There-FIne Work of New Haven Firemen One of the Features of the NtSnt-special Trains May Rum There.
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 The account of the terrible fire in Waterbury was read with the greatest interest by the people of this city yes | terday morning and owing to the vast amount of territory burned and Of the ] furious nature of the fire, hundreds of New Haveners boarded trains yester- day morning for the ruined city. Extra cars had to be added to the regular trains to accommodate the crowds that assembled at the depot and some of the trains were necessarily late in starting for the brass city. There were cam eras galore in the crowds and as the day was such a good one, doubtless hundreds of pictures were taken and they will be lasting reminders of the greatest con1agration that ever took place in the Nutmeg state.
 The first special train leaving this city for the scene of the fire drew out of the depot at 2;15 yesterday morning and it was made up of two cars. The train was chartered by a number of Yale students, many of whom reside in the brass city. They received word of the fire Sunday night through the newspaper offices and as the fire con- tinued to burn and destroy property three of them George Sykes, Alfred Hart and Samuel Roads, opened com munications with the railroad men. The price was stated, and 1t was big one, and the Yale men planked down their money. This was about 1 o'clock.
 Tearing up to the campus. the Yale men darted in and out of the dormi- tory entries and pounding on the col lege room doors yelled that 'all Wa terbury was burning up and special was going to leave at o'clock This brought out the college men in large numbers and when the train started thirty-seven students, few newspaper men and others were aboard
 The train was in charge of Conductor Phillips and Engineer Hoyt, one of the best on the road, drove the special through the Naugatuck Valley to Wa terbury in an hour
 The Yale men who went up on the train were Alfred Hart 1903, of Water bury. George Sykes. Samuel Roads, Curtis '03 Nichols 09, Donahue '09, Barker '03, WaIdron '03. Chamberlain 'O4 S., Williams 'O4 S., Ellsworth '03, Goss '03, Wardell '03 and his brother Conant '03, Mcknight '05 Sanford '02 Packer ~'02. Arnold 'O4, Brady. Bloomer '05, Bucklin '04 S., Moorehead '03 S., '04 Kibourn '03, Ewell '03, Hurst 'O3, Woodruff 'O4, 3 son of Lieu tenant Governor Woodruff of New York. Richards 'o3, Lane '03, Hazard 'O3, Brogaw '0S, Callman '04, Baldwin '04 &, and Smith '03 s.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
Another Denth from SmalipOx

New Britain, Feb. 3.-The third death from smallpox occurred in this city this afternoon. The infant child of Mrs. Roberts, who lives in the quarantined Downham house. was the victim,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
20OO Yards 75C Silks At 29C Yard.

.Snmmey Sazks, all light eff fects, neat, dainty patterns, newest coll
 brings; come in, handle them, ask ques- ions if you want to buy or not. Actual value 75c yard Going at 30c the yard.
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Vote Against Salary Increase

Washington, Feb. 3.-The senate this afternoon, by vote of 15 to A, rejected the bill to increase the salaries of sena- tors and representatives.
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AT1ORNEY DISBARRE ED.
Worcester Man Sentenced for Stealing g
 $1,O00 From an Estate.

Worcester, Mass, Feb. 3.--William H Kelley, an attorney of Warren, was disbarred from practice in the superior criminal court by Judge E. P Pierce this afternoon. He was also sentenced to eighteen months in the house of cor rection on conviction of larceny of $1,- 900 from the estate of John w. Downey, of Warren. Kelley was taken to Fitch burg jail.
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THE HOWE & STETSON STORES
 New Haven- Tuesday, Fed. 4th.
Opening of 1902 Wash Fabrics.

New spring novelties, that make won1an's dress bright and cheery from sun to sun. Designs that represent nature as well as artists finest thought reaching wonan's ideal. The threads in the background, as well as the surface pattern threads, fairly speak Newest, Richest, Best. Truly fine art in wash fabrics HOW on exhibition---on sale; costs nothing but your time to examine them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-04
Special for This Showir1
White Fabrics

Mercerized cheviots, 33c Mercerized Barege, white and linen effects, 60d Silk Grenadines, 42c and 0bc Swiss muslins
 Dimities
 Persian lawns
 Lorraine white silk ginghams, 3I inches wide 70c Wash chiffons 50 inches wide,
 56c and 76c French Lawns Soc to 100 Large variety of lace aud open work effects, 123xc to 37,<c Organdie flusIins-All the new m2f4 cerized effects as cheviots, madras Foulards etc.
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In CoIored Fabrics

g inch Anderson Madras ging- hams, 2BO 3r inch Lorraine Mills silk ginghams,
 e csc Scotch Zephyr ginghams, 26c Grenadines, 35c to 0Bd Linen ginghams, plain and fancy,
 29c Anderson Madras and Cheviots,
 377sc, soc Swiss Plumets, geo Fantasie silk tissue, 5Oc. Marlborough Zephyrs, 12Kc Mercerized Cheviots
 Swiss muslin novelties Special for This Showing. a5c Seoteh GiMghans at z5e He ya,d-. A fine and extensive line of handsome Scotch Ginghans aS inches wide, that usually sell for a5c.
 On ceuter ta h1e for t11ie co1a 1Kr--
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Blaze Originated in the Billiard Room Where No Fire Was Kept-ROOm Was Ht-Ruined District to be Rebuilt at Once-Merchants Getting Into Tempo frary Quarters-MiIitta Give Valuable Known to be Lost.