The Press., 1906-09-26
HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

| mr. ana MrS. O1ar00C0 OrOWu W0E'
at North Brookfield over Sunday.
Thomas Haigh has purchased thu
Main street property of q. W. Ray.
II A notice to delinquent payers o.
their water rent will be found in an
, other column.
Aronson Bros. store will close Fri
day noon and will not reopen unit
Saturday evening.
Mrs. John J. Bennett of New Lon.
don has been visiting her husband al
the Stafford House.
Il Edward E. banners, the opticiaI
from Providence, will be at the
) Springs House tomorrow from 8 q.
m. to 4 p. m.
Benjamin P. Cooley, Anders Jacob
sen and Lewis Mclaughlin attended
the congressional convention at Hart.
ford Saturday.
Mrs. Henry Lanigan and two chill
dren, Della and Walter, visited at
Springfield. Chicopee Falls and Hol-
yoke few days last week.
Miss Jennie M. Goodell of Dorches-
ter, Mass has been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Holtham on the Street. Mrs.
J. S. Lovejoy of Hyde Park is also a
guest.
The auction sale of the Nicholas
Nedaeu place and household furniture
on Furnace avenue was postponed on
account of the rain until next Satur-
day at l p. m.
Amos Gagnon is temporarily on the
retired list owing to an accident
which occurred at the lower mill of
the Fabyan company. A ladder
slipped and he jumped off, striking
on a press. His leg was injured.
E. J. Sweet will start tomorrow
morning for Chicago, where he will
join his nephew, who is one of the
officials of the Chicago, r. l. and
Pac. railway company, who will, with
his private car, take party on tour
to include st. Paul, Minneapolis.
Denver, Colorado Springs, Topeka and
Kansas City.
A determined effort is to be made
to carry the town for o-license at the
coming election, and the temperance
people are making an active cam.
paign. Advertising space is being
used in The Press, there will be
series of rallies and no individual
effort will be neglected. The first
rally will be held at the Congregations
al church at 7.45 Friday evening, and
the speaker will be Rev. J. I. Bar
tholomew. Saturday evening at 8
O'Clock Rev. W. s. McIntire of Rock
Vile will speak on Haymarket Square,
His subject will be "Will it pay to
license our town next year?" If
stormy, the meeting will be held in
the Temple of Honor hall. Sunday
afternoon at there will be an open
air meeting on the lawn of the Metho-
dist church, when Rev. J. E. Fisher
will speak on "What does it cost to
run saloon?"
Walter Remmert, formerly landlord
of the Stafford House and we'll known
locally, shot and Killed himself at
Norwich last week Saturday after
noon. Previous to turning the weapon
on himself he shot and badly wound
ed his housekeeper, Rose Andre. The
tragedy is said to be the result of
jealousy, owing to attentions received
by the housekeeper from other men
and her refusal to unite with Rem
inert in marriage. Remmert left
here several years ago and went to
Yantic, where he had hotel. Later
he went to Norwich and took the
international hotel, and it was there
that the tragedy occurred. A sensa-
tional paper published in Waterbury
printed story q few weeks ago, in
which Remmert and his personal
affairs were handled in a manner
to the publication. Miss
Andres name was brought into the
write-up. Remmert was extremely |
angry, and vowed he would shoot the |
man who wrote the story. Remmert
began to act strangely and his friends
feared that he would do bodily harm |
to some one. Although infatuated
with the girl for a long time, it was
not until the fact became generally |
known that he showed his hatred |
toward more favored acquaintances of
the girl. Saturday Remmert walked
into the room in which the girl was
sitting, and without warning shot
her in the head, and then, placing the
pistol behind his left ear, fred two
shots. The doctors ordered his re-
moval to the Backus hospital, where
he died at 4. 80. The girl at first
was thought to have escaped with a
wound that almost encircled the head,
cutting the scalp as if a knife had
been drawn around it. Later the girl
lapsed into unconsciousness, and the
surgeons found that bullet had gone
into the head, fractured the skull
and lacerated the brain so that the
chance for recovery appeared to be
small. The bullet which had made
the flesh wound it was decided was
one of the two which had gone
through Remmert's brain, for the
second bullet was found in the ceiling
Of the room. The third bullet was in
the girls head. The body was
brought here Monday and the funeral
was held from the home of his sister
at Stafford Tuesday afternoon at 1
o'clock, Rev. Mr.. Hersey of the Uni
church officiating. The
burial was at Stafford Street. Later
state that Miss Andre is i'm
proving, and the indications are that Z