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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
I'M MENSE LAND DEAL
Pennsylvania Road Pays $25,- 000,000 for New Chicago
 Station Site.

Chicago, Nov 1S.-The Journal says to-day that the largest realty deal in the history of Chicago is revealed by the statement of real estate agents that the Pennsylvania railroad is about to construct a large passenger depot on the west side of the river on prop erty which it has been purchasing qui- etly. The value of the property pur- chased is said to amount to about $25,O00 900 and to extend from Van Buren street to Thirty first street, one and a half miles south.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
ENDOWMENT FUND
Board of Trustees of the First M. F. Church to Estab-
 fish One.

In view of the fact that several parties have expressed desire to ben eft the church in some substantial manner by contributing to the same while living or by bequest at death, the board of trustees of the First Methodist church held meeting at the close of last Sundays morning service and voted to establish a per- manent endowment fund, the income of which only can be used for church expenses. Any person desirous of con- tributing to this fund may communi- cate with the treasurer, Frank J. Rice, P College street.
 E. N. BoTSFoRD,
 Clerk of Board.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
DISSOLVE THEIR UNION
Insurance Agents Disband After Three
 Months Trial

All organizations among the indus trial insurance agents of New Haven and Connecticut has ceased. Insurance Agents union No. ?, of New Haven, has given up the ghost after an exist ence of three months.
 The object of the organization was to devise ways and means to compel big industrial insurance concerns which transact @ weekly payment business to restore the cuts in the commissions of the agents and to also prevent then from enforcing a rule whereby laps2d business had to be replaced by new business. an agent being held respon- sible for failure of any insurance hold CT on his route to continue his insur- ance. The fact that the predecessor Of an agent had written the business did not alter the situation of the agent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
FOUND DEADIN ROOM
Dr. Bartlett Believes Death Natural, But Inves-
 tigates.

Jasper II, Copley, aged about sixty five years, residing at 175 Liberty street, where he had a room, was found dead there at 2:3o o'clock yes- terday afternoon. Dr. c, J. Bartlett, the medical examiner, who was called into the case, is still conducting an in vestigation to ascertain the exact cause of the death He assumes, however that death was due to natural causes
 Mr. Copley was a civil war veteran and upon his person was found let ter from the Soldiers home at Noro- ton stating under what conditions he could secure admittance there He leaves a daughter, Edith, married, in Los Angeles, Cal.
 The body is at the morgue of Lewis 6 Maycock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
PER CAPITA TAX
Fight of Federation of Labor Against
 Merchants Association.

Norfolk Va, Nov 1s.--The Ameri- can Federation of Labor to-day adopt ed the report of its special commit tee on the antl-boycott Van Cleave- Buck Stove and Range company in- junction suit now pending in Wash ington, the report making provision for the immediate assessment of a one cent per capital tax on all afIilat- ed organizations, international and !c- cal, to be used in defending this suit and as a general fund for defense against any other attacks by the Man ufacturers' association.
 The details were left to President Gompers and the executive council.
 The Federation to-day placed it's self on record as favoring the absolute exclusion of all immigration from Asia and the islands of the Pacific ocean to the United States or It's pes sessions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
DECLARED SANE
Liberated After Nineteen Years in an
 Asylum.

Poughkeepsie, Nov 1s.-Henry D. shipman of New York city was to-day declared sane after being an inmate of inasne asylums for the past nineteen years. After being declared sane by Judge Samuel K. Phillips to-day, Ship man was taken to New York. where there hangs over him an indictment for murder, he having killed woman in that city nearly twenty years ago. His case will be taken up by Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, without expense to the defendant. Shipman is now forty-seven years old. For many years he has been seeking his liberty, claiming that he was sane. It is thought that his case will never reach trial, and that he will soon en- joy hts freedom.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
NO BLAME LAID
 FOR GARDE FIRE Coroner Mix's Statement Finds No Negligence on Part of Management
 for Death.
REPORT SUGGESTS
 WIRE ENDS TO ROPES
Full Text of Document Deal ing With the Death of Lavigne, the
 Porter.

Coroner Mix last evening made pub- lie his finding on the Garde hotel fire. having completed his investigation in- to the disaster He finds the manl agement of the hotel entirely without nlame Tn the matter. He says that in his opinion the fire was caused bv fhe dropping of lighted matech, cigar or cigarette into some combustible ma terial In a hallway of the hotel The finding in full follows:
 Board of Inquest Held on the Body os
 Isaac Lavigne, Who Died Novem-
 Der 12, 1907.
 Having been notified on the 12th day of November, 1907, that Isaac La vigne, white male, about tifty-five years old, late of the town and county of New Haven, state of Connecticut. had come to a violent death at the said town of New Haven, in the said county took charge of said dead body and made all proper inquiries re- spectfng the manner and cause of said death
 After said inquiry, and having req son to suspect that said death was caused by the criminal act, omission. or carelessless of another, or others, I on the 18th day of November, 1907, held an inquest regarding the man. her and cause of said death.
 Said inquest was held in the town of New Haven. Having considered all of the testimony taken and said in quest, I, on the 18th day of Novem- Der, 1907, made the following find- ing concerning said death:
 Deceased was a porter in the Garde hotel, located in Meadow street, New Haven, Conn, and slept with other employees in the top floor of the hotel building.
 On the night of November 11-12, 1907, a fire occurred on said floor, and deceased, attempting to descend on the side of the building by means, S a rope secured to one of the inside window castings, in said room, which rope was designed to be used in case of fire, fell, the falling being due either to the bFning of the rope or his loosing his hold upon the same, and. striking on the ground below, he fractured his left femur his right wrist and received several injuries 1 about the neck.
 He died very few minutes after the fall, death being due apparently to the injuries received
 'The face of deceased was some what blackened and it, as well as the hands, was somewhat burned.
 The fire occurred at about o'clock a. m., Nov. 12, 1907, in the upper hallway outside of the door of the room occu- pied by deceased and others and was 'oceasioned in my opinion by the drop l ping of a lighted match, cigar or cig- arette in said hallway upon some com bustible material
 'The hotel was equipped with fire extinguishers located in various parts of the hotel and als5 with fire escapes and with ropes located in the different rooms to be used in case of fire.
 Upon an examination of the ropes used am of the opinion that the ropes were in good order and of sufficient
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
BALTIMORE LEADS PrTTsBURG.

Baltimore, Nov 1S,-The claim of Pittsburg that the decision of the su- preme court of the United States up- holding tho legality of the annexation by that city of Allegheny, Penn, rele- gates Baltimore to the seventh place among the cities in point of population, giving Pittsburg her honor of sixth place, is not sustained by the facts as shown by the Baltimore city directory. Against Pittburgs 55o,oOO inhabitants, Baltimore's directory shows 6S9.1s7.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
MRS. sTEcKLER DEAD
Second Victim of Collision Between
 Train and Auto.

New York, Nov. 1S.-Mrs. Alfred steckler, wife of former Supreme Court Justice steckler died tonight at the hospital at Englewood, N. J., where she had been confined since Saturday by injuries received that night in an automobile accident While Justice and Mrs. Steckler and Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Eckstein were re- turning to New York from a trip in New Jersey, their automobile was struck by an engine at a Wes; Shore railroad crossing. MT. Eckstsln was killed and the other occupants of the car were seriously injured.
 It is said at the hospital that Jus tice Steclxler is on the road to recov- cry. and 1t is believed that Mrs. Eek stein's injuries will not prove fatal
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
CHADWICK INDICTMENT NoLLHD.

Cleveland, O., Nov, 1S.-The indict- ment returned in the criminal court here against Dr. Leroy Chadwick sev- eral years ago, in which he was charg- ed with aiding and abettlhg his wife, name of Andrew Carnegie to a note for $5,oo0,OO0, was nolled to-day by Judge Estep upon the request of the county prosecutor, Mrs. Chadwick, shortly before her death, employed a Cleveland attorney to have the indict- ment nolled.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
KNIGHTS OF MAcCABEEs
Annual Convention of State Tent in
 Bridgeport.

Bridgeport Nov, 1S.--About thirty five delegates attended the first annual convention here to-day of the state tent of the Knights of the Maocabees, formed this morning by Deputy su- preme Commander c. H. Terpany of Providence, R. l. Heretofore the or der has held general meeting every three years to select a delegate to the national body, the numerical strength not having been sufficient to warrant the formation of a state tent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
c. E. PERKINS WILL
Owner of Garden of the Gods" Left
 $2,SOo,0oo.

Burlington, Ia., Nov, 1s.LThe will of C. E. Perkins, who died in Bos- ton November g, was filed for probate to-day. The testament disposes of property worth $2,50O,000.
 Among the property in the estate is the Garden of the Gods, in Cobra do, which MT. Perkins kept free to the public for many years This property is not mentioned specifically in the will be administered with the other real estate. It is probable that the natural gardens will remain open to the public.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
FINED AND REARREsTED
Employment Agency Man Taken Again
 After Court Sentence.

Michael J. Coleman, who has been conducting an employment agency in Chapel street for several years, and who was fined $2O in the City court Saturday for violating the law apper- taining to the conduct of the same, was again arrested yesterday afternoon by Police Sergeant Dennehy
 This time he Is accused of having accepted $3 from Mark Kazsouski, promising to find him situation with in the time fixed by law, 30 days. This the applicant swears he did not do, and furthermore that he refused to refund the money. He was liberated on bail.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
E. F. THOMPSON ILL
County Commissioner Confined to His
 Home in East Haven.

County Commissioner B, Foote Thompson has been quite ill for the past week at his home in East E1a- ven. He was taken sick one day in the office in the court building and car ried to his home where he has been slowly recovering.
 Mir. Thompson was said yesterday to be considerably improved. He will be back at work in the office in few days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
srEKING CHmD's PARENTS.

The Grand avenue police are making an investigation to ascertain the iden- tity of the individual xho left ten months old baby on tho steps of John Mignone;s residence. 1HS Chestnut street, Sunday night but So far have been unsuccessful. The bAey bs stlll at Grace hospital
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
PRIESTS POORLY PAID
Spanish Government Thinks Twelve
 Gents a Day Enough.

Madrid, Nov. 1S.--There was live ly debate in the chamber of deputies to-day on the motion of Deputy Sala- vary to increase the salaries of the priests resident in the country, which now average only twelve cents a day. The government declared the proposal to be impossible as the matter would have to be first taken up with Rome and furthermore the present financial situation in Spain precluded any in- creased expenditures. The motion was then defeated by 116 votes to IA.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
ARM FRACTURED IN FALL.

While playing late yesterday after noon in Ashmun street, Roland Hill, thirteen years of age slipped on the slippery pavement of the street and In his fall he fractured b s ief' forea~m He was taken to the New Haven ros- pltal early isst eveAlng where ne Is being erred for.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
vAwoNAh PARMERs, UNIor

Atlanta, Ga, NoN 1S-Pfegldent C. s. Barrett of the National Farmers' unr ion has issued A gall for a meeting of presidents at New Orleans November 9S to consider business of importance to the union.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19

Washington, Nov. 1s.-Forecast for Tuesday and Wednesdays-
 For New England: Rain in south, rain or show in north portion Tuesday; "wednesday fair, light to fresh variable winds, becoming north to northwest,
 For Eastern New York: Cloudy Tuesday, rain in east and south por-. tion; Wednesday fair, light tp fresh variable winds, becoming northwest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19

FRANCIS THOMPSON, POET, DEAD.
 London, Nov. 1S.-The death Ia aIl- nounoed of Francis Thompson, the poet and author. He was a brother of Lady "Elizabeth" Butler, the artist.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-19
I.OCAL wEATHER RBPoRT.
nTTNTATUnp ALMANAC.

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WEATHER RECORD.

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The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
LYONS PLAINS.
A SOCIAL EVENT.

MT and Mrs J. Smith entertained the .Evening Whist club at their home, Saturday evening. MT Smith won first prize; MT Wakeman, second; Mrs Nichols, first; Mrs w. Sherwood, sec ond. A very enjoyable time to all present.
 MT and Mrs Frank Lyon of Bridge port spent Sunday with Mrs l. ThOrp. Mrs Lyon returned home on Monday.
 Messrs Smith, Wakeman and Tread we'll harvested their ice on Saturday.
 MT Lobdell was brought here for burial on Wednesday,. He was resi- dent of Greenfield and warden of Emmanuel church, wherelhe has been an earnest worker for a good many years. He leaves several children to mourn his loss.
 The social dance at D. Browns, last Friday a. all report a good time Frank Ferris with shei1 ana mother krs % Sicho3s resurnins to Bridgepo5t sn5day Jun ayI night lEa ,os,+,o, tn Ms Charles Hall is spending a few days "iS MT and Mrs + Mcoonkey were the guests o1 friends in Bethel. sunday won the first prize; Mrs c; Sherwood the sec Mrs T. Tread has visited her sister, Mrs EteR if Wton sgent Sunday with father. returning ro his school on Monday. tbs nna wsek fer o sr cold for several days.
 Whist club on Wednesday.
 Wallace Brown was home. Sunday. Miss Goodsell spent Sunday with her aunt South No-walk on Mrnday Several of the young people from this plac, enjoyed the party at D. Browns. Friday
The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
ROXBUKT.
HAPPY SCHOOL CHILDREN.

HAPPY SCdOOL Cd1LDREN.
 Such tootin' and a hootin' and a yellin' I never heard in my life. That Weller School went,b by our house on Tuesday afternoon on a sleigh ride. There were two loads of them and they whizzed by with flags flying, horns footing, and singing Yankee Doodle lustily. Two very kind, dis interested people, Walter Morris and Albert Dickinson, offered their teams for the occasion, and our popular teachers, Miss Mo Kay and Miss Good sell, accepted for their charges. Al though the thermometer registered zero, the kids managed to keep warm by the aid Of hot soap-stones By a previous arrangement with MT Hipp. the sixty, more or less. youngsters were regaled with hot cocoa and other good les when they reached New Milford. Going home they took their lollypops out of their mouths long enough to give the school yell, which goes as fol- lows:
 ''Roxbury! Roxbury! Rah! Rah! Rah!
 Are we in it?
 Well I guess,
 We are the boys of the w. D. SD
 On the whole the Weller School paid just homage to Lincoln by their cele- bratiOn of bis birthday. And if this little disto' ;iOu Of Lincoln's famous epigram may be pardOne6: "YOu can amuSe some of the children all of the time, and you can amuSe all of the children some of the time, but you can't amuse all the kids all the time, J though they seemed to be fully enter tained February 12.
The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
HOME NEWS.

Twelve tables were filled at the Li- brary whist, Tuesday night, which was very pleasant social affair. At the conclusion of the playing, the honors were awarded as follows: La- dies first prize, a fruit dish, Mrs Fl. G. Curtis, 3S points; the second was a tie between Mrs W. J. Beecher and Miss Alice Scudamore, 37 points, Mrs Beecher winning the cut and table mat; third, glass candlestick, Mrs w. A. Cantield, 36 points; fourth, a pic ture, Mrs O. F. Beardsley, 35 points; fifth, a. cup and saucer, Miss Hattie Camp, 34 points; sixth, 8 handkerchief, was cut for by Miss George and Miss Blackman, Miss George winning. Gentleman's first prize, a box of cut sugar, E. B. Camp, 46 points; second, a tie between Fl. G. Curtis and Mrs F. O. Morris, who played as a gentleman, the latter winning the cut and photo graph frame; third, a tie between w. w. Finch and E. W. Fairchild, 37 points, the latter of whom won on cut ting and chose a bottle of perfumery; fourth, work box, John Beers, 35 points; fifth, vase, l.. C.. Morris, B points. The consolation prizes fell to Mrs w. R. Gurus with IT points, and Stanley Blackman with II points, the former receiving an egg beater and the latter broom.
The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
EASTON.
BAPTIST CHURCH NEW

BAPTIST CHURCH NEWS.
 No services were held at the Baptist church, Sunday.
 The gold crescent offered by the Sunday school for regular attendance will be presented to Minnie Sherwood, Achsah Candee, Bessie Peterson and Clara Sanford.
 Miss Lora Clark is recovering from her severe sickness.
 The stork recently visited the home of MT and Mrs Elmer A ndrews and left fine baby boy.
 MT and Mrs John Candee enter tain ed the whist club, Monday night.
 J. c. Fields entertained jolly Sleighing party from Newtown to the number of 65, Friday night, February 8. Bliss band furnished music and all tripped the light fantastic toe until the small hours in the morning. A fine time is reported.
 Miss Hull of Wakeley's district gave her school straw ride, Monday.
 The many friends of Mrs M. B. Will Hams will be sorry to hear of the crit ical condition she is in, not being able to leave her bed since the death of her son. Much sympathy is felt for the family in their hour of trouble.
The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
SOUTH BRITAIN.
HOT CHICKEN PIE SUPPER.

HOT CHICKEN PIE SUPPER. The Ladies' Missionary society will give hot chicken supper at the par ish house, Thursday evening, Febru- ary 21. Come and get good supper for 25c and help along good cause. Three sled-loads of young people att tended the dance in Quaker's Farms, last Friday evening. Mrs Frank Bradley, Miss Susie
 Bradley and Elliot Bradley are confin- ed to the house with measles. Mrs David Condlon is seriously ill at her home in the Center. MT and Mrs Arthur Mitchell enter tained about 20 of their friends with a whist, last Thursday evening. The prizes were won by MT and Mrs Sco- vile.
 Several young men went to Bridge port on the excursion from Newtown to the theater. Mrs Arthur Abbott and daughter are visiting at William Mitchell's. Mrs Hawkins and Mrs Class were in Waterbury, Thursday. Peddler's Parade tonight, (Friday) in MunsOn's $ hall. Charles Williams has taken the agency for the Edison pbonograph and has fine machine on exhibition at his store. Miss Bessie Mitchell was home from Smiths college, last Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
Congregational church.
ALFRED PEABODY WILLIAMS.

Alfred Peabody Williams died very suddenly at the homo of his daughter. Mrs Louis Couch, February 6 She found him when she called him for breakfast. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some time. He was buried in Mountain Grove ceme- tery on Friday. Rev B. c. Miller at tended the funeral.
 Mrs l.. E. Williams lost valuable horse on Saturday. MT Read was driving for milk when the horse gave a whinney and dropped dead in front Of H. B. Curtis place. :.
 The Nichols Whist club met with MT and Mrs Charles B.. Curtiss or Wednesday evening.
 H. B. Curtiss is filling his ice house. MT Udall is helping him. A party of Sisters of Mercy enjoyed sleigh ride from Bridge port to Nich- ols and back again on Tuesday after noon.
 Several lads took their lasses for 8 ride through Nichols on Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1907-02-15
BEDDING.
WILLIAM EDGAR DUNooMB.

WILLIAM EDGAR DUNCOMB. . William B. Duncomb passed away, Wednesday morning, after an illness with pneumonia. In his death the town loses useful and we'll loved citi- zen and the Methodist church a faith E. Duncomb was born February IT, 1850. He was twice married, (first) on November "A, 1852, to Sarah Fairchild, daughter of Joseph B. and Phebe (Shepard) Fairchild, born April 4, 1928, in Bedding; and lsecondD on November 1883, in Bedding, second daughter of James and Eliza (French) Sanford. The children of the first marriage were: David S., born December Is, 1854; and former Postmaster George F. Duncombe of Newtown, born April l, 1857. The mother of these children died May ', 1857. One child was born to the second marriage-Emm E born June l, 1864, who was married, November Il, 1896, to George B. Beers, son of Benjamin and Eliza Wheeler Beers. He is survived by his second wife and two children, George F, Duncombe of Newtown and Mrs G. B. Beers of Plattsville. David s. Dun. comb died some years ago in the South. MT Duncombe was a man O1 sterling character, honest and upright type of men who have given Connec ticut towns their high character. The funeral will take place on Friday at p. m., from his late home in Bedding LADIES' BLACK PETTICoATs
 Best quality, 9sc to S2. 49, at French's FRENCH'S, BETHEL,
 Is the place to buy your heavy Arctics prices.
 Mrs Winnie Bradley of Tashua is spending few days at Ridge Lawn with Mrs Randolph Bradley. Alex H. Watt of New York passed Saturday and Sunday with his aunt, Mrs Henry Sanford.
 The entertainment given in the Ridge hall, on Friday evening was very successful and netted the treas, ury of Christ church about $50.
 Miss Emma s. Reid is the latest victim of the humps.
 MT and Mrs Daniel s. Sanford enter tained large number of their friends at whist on Monday evening.
 Ernest Sanford of Newtown passed Sunday with his parents, MT and Mrs Stephen Sanford.
 Mrs J. HI. Duncan is quite sick from the effect of grip cold.
 Judge J. N. Nickerson, who has been quite sick with prevailing grip cold, is improving.
 tion. The road from SanfOrdtown to the Cen ter is almost impossible.
 Daniel O'Keefe made trip to New York, last week.
 THE VIEWPOINT BEE man was in town, Monday.
 Sheriff George s. Banks does not re cover very fast from severe attack of the grip. He is just able to be about
 Zalmon Pillow is somewhat better after an attack of pneumonia.
 J. B. Cornwall writes from Rome Italy, that both he and Mrs Cornwall are much improved in health. They will spend Easter in Paris and will re turn the last of May.