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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
BEFORE JUNE'S END
 MANY WILL WED
Town Clerk, As Assistant to Cupid, Issues Many Lii censes to Marry.

The following marriage licenses have been issued from the office of the town clerk: William A. Driver, to Miss Charlotte A. Reilly, daughter of John Reilly; George s. Benham, clerk, to Miss Helen P. Brown, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles E. Brown; George w. Brown, engineer, to Miss Ellen M Madison, daughter of MT. and Mrs. James G. Madison; William H. Coles bookkeeper, to Florence Temporal, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Israel Tenn poral, Thomas Wilkes, Jr., corset cut ter, Etratford to Miss Elizabeth Horschler. daughter of MT. and Mrs Martin Horschler; Louis Pollard, suit preSSer, New Haven, Miss Bertha Thorn; Lorenzo Ciamcetta, Philadel- phia, to Miss Maud DiFonce.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
SIX MEN BIND
 GIANT MANIAC
TIED TO RUNNING GEAR OF BUG-
 GY BUTTERY IS BROUGHT TO BRIDGEPORT
Morrissey Almost Bitten
Unfortunate Man Leads Model Life and Does Not Drink, But Has Now Been Twice Attacked With Sudden Fits of Violent Insanity.

oI NIOtSnE
 William H. Buttery, aged 50, for many years a blacksmith in East Main street, was stricken with mania yes- terday morning at his home in John son avenue, Stratford, and developed the worst case of violent insanity that has ever come to the attention of Charities Investigator Alexander Nor rissey. who went to Stratford today and removed Buttery to Lakeview Home. single handed. in a buggy.
 Buttery weighs 275 pounds and is a giant in stature. It took Sheriff Stagg and six assistants to land him in the Stratford lookup last night Then his maniacal yelling kept the villagers awake for hours Buttery is a charge to Bridgeport. The Stratford authori- Morrissey showed up single handed to remove him.
 Buttery had torn off all of his cloth- ing and was picking up diamonds on his cell floor when the door was open ed for Morrissey who, with the assist ance of six Stratford men, got straps onto the manfac's arms and then they drew on a pair of trousers for him. With his hands tied, the maniac, bit ing and kicking, was carried to the buggy and lashed into the seat with ropes run through to the running gear.
 Several hundred people Hooked to the town hall. Crowds were attract ed by the screams of the crazy man as he was driven through the streets of the city. Morrissey drove with one hand and used the other to hold the crazy mans head away to- prevent himself being bitten.
 At Lakeview Home, Buttery was placed in a straight jacket Buttery, it is said, has led a model life and never has used liquors. A year ago he was attacked with similar fit and after being held down by seven men all one night he apparently recovered until yesterday morning when the heat brought on the second attack. An application for his commital to Mid dletoMu will be made at once.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
FOX APPROVES
 HUDSON DRAFT
Eramer of Original Corrupt Practices Act Finds Greatest Improvement in Limitation of Expenditure-Regr that State Officers Cannot Be Sub fece tn FIection Court


 George L. Fox of New Haven, who fwas Instrumental in securing the pass age of the Corrupt Practices Act. and who afterward endeavored to apply ii to an investigation Of the late Cover nor Lilley, has made a. statement in which he comments in the highest terrns the amendments to the law pro- posed by Stiles Judson- MT. Fox says:
 T agree most heartily with Senator Judson's draft for new corrupt prac- tices law, which is a very creditable piece of work on his part. He was especially fitted to do it, for he was a member of the Judiciary committee that framed the law of 1905, and he was one of the counsel for the defense whose contentious for the ru1constitu- tionality- of the law were ratified by the judges of the election court.
 <. "The most important improvement is the limitation set upon possible expen- rdftures of candidates, the omission of which was one of the principal defects limitation proposed by him seems sound, practical and just.
 No candidate, who wishes to be fair and honest, in my opinion, has any right to complain of the restrictions placed, and If they are enacted into daw will do a. great deal to purify our elections, and protect the honest can didate and the candidate of moderate means.
 The most serious defect in the law as proposed is that for which MT Jud- son is not responsible, because he ac- cepts as final the dictum of the cleo ton court held last winter, that the machinery of the election court can not under the Connecticut constitution be used against these officers, whose right to their office is finally deter mined by the State Legislature. The election court can be used against all other officers even to declare the cleo kion null and void. but the chief elect ed State officers it is impossible to reach in this way.
 This certainly is a most dep1orable state of affairs that the most import ant officers in .the State are exempt from the operation of an election court, which really constitutes Nthe teeth of an effective corrupt practices law.
 (Continued on Second Page.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
SKILLED WORKMAN
 MAY BE BURGLAR

State Decect1Ve Srehn ArreStS herOert
 Poole for Second Time Within Two
 Years.
 For the second time State Detective Frank virelli arrested Herbert Poole. last night. The former occasion was in 1907, when the detective served a warrant on Poole in Eastford, Conn.,, upon a charge of stealing two cows from his father-in-law.~ This charge was afterwards nolled upon the deter imitation of the father-in-law not to prosecute. The present arrest is for an alleged burglary in the day season, it being claimed that Poole on the after noon of June 8, entered the rooms of Lizzie Altiera, Hollister Heights, Strat- ford, and took $20 out of $45. Poole is a plasterer by trade. He has a wife and one small child. He is 30 years old He will have hearing in Strat- fordtonight before Justice Charles HI. Peck. Poole is a skilled workman and earns good wages, but drinks heavily at times. it is said.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
.SIGEL SUSPECTS DETAINED AT
 BINGHAMTON
SAYS HE IS NOT MAN WANTED, BUT REFUSES TO TELL WHERE
 HE BELONGS
New Clue at Schenectady
Story Told by Accomplice of Slayer " Admitted to Be Not Wholly Truth
 full Today-Additional Facts Glean- ed from Him.

ed from Him. Cleveland, June 24.-Following in- formation from Schenectady, N. r., Chief of Police Kohler has assigned Detectives BatcheIler and Weeden to watch two articles of baggage at the Union station The Schenectady dis patch said that a Chinaman answer ing the description who left a suit case a trunk with the New York Gen. traI baggage agent there. subsequently, wired from Cleveland to forward them to this city. The baggage was sent and fhe detectives are waiting for the arrival of the owner. The dispatch says that after leaving the trunk and suit case in the care Of the baggage agent the Chinaman returned to the depot disguised as a woman
 UH1NAMAlN ADMITS LINING.
 New York June A.-Once more Chung Sin has admitted he is liar The stolid yellow man. after fifty hours today that his story of seeing Elsie Sigel strangled to death by Leon Ling in his Eighth Avenue apartment, was not true. This story, which he told yesterday, he branded as raise aiter detectives had told him that it is inn possible to see the bed in Leon's room through the keyhole in the door be- tween the two rooms where the China men were
 His story today is that he did not see Elsie killed. but saw her body af- ter the killing. He says Leon Ling came to his room about noon on June and told him Elsie wac dead or dy- ing, asking Chung to help him dispose of the body. Chung says he was scared out of his Mongolian stolidfty. He went. to Leon's room and saw the girls body lying on the beds The face was discolored and the mouth was covered with a bloody Handkerchief. Chung still denies that he saw a rope about the girls neck then. He saw Leon prepare the trunk for the body but left the room before the body was placed in the receptacle. When he re- turned Leon was gone
 His story followed a dramatic inter- view between Chung Sin and Old Quan fWick Nam, the wizened Chinese inter preter who is respected by all good Chinamen and feared by all bad ones- fPeering through his gold-rimmed glasses the old man told Chung that the Gee Kiong Tong, the revolutionary society to which both he and Leon belong, had sworn mighty oath to punish the girls murderer -sYou have lied" he chattered in Chinese. ."The Gee Klong Tong has sent me here to Hell you that if you don't tell the truth the Gee Klong Tong will see to your Punishment itself, even if the white men let you go-" i Clung promised to tell the truth, but when the detectives came at him with the important question, Where is Heon," they met the same old answer: ~.Me no know. No undlestand.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
GUESTS CLOSE CALL IN LAKE GEORGE
 HOTEL FIRE TO-DAY

PTeSS.D
 GIens Falls, June 24-The Fort Will liam Henry Hotel, largest resort on Lake George, and the Adirondack re- zion, was destroyed by fire early to- day with a loss of half million dol lars. Manager Wilson, with 15O ser wants who were getting the house ready for tomorrow's opening, escaped in their night clothing. Many had a close. call and no one saved any pri- vate effects. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
Driver Travers Hurt

Leonard. Travers one of the crack drivers of the Locomobile Co.,. of A.
 who was mechanfcian for Jimmy Florf- da in the Vanderbilt cup race met a painful accident last Wednesday while crankipg a car The handle slipped and flew back and struck Travers in the right arm breakinE the bonsss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
NO LICENSE FOR
 SANDOW BROTHERS

The County Commissioners have re- feused to grant the application of San dow Brothers to conduct a saloon at 2SO Greenwich street, Stamford IA hearing was held on this application last week when several witnesses tes- tified the place was unsuitable. The principal objectors were the Stamford Ministers association.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
POLICY CASES GO OVER

The cases of John D. Carpenter and Andrew Farrell charged with policy selling were continued until next Sat- urday when they were called in the city court this morning E. O. Hull counsel for the accused was unable to be present in court this morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
BIG LINER AGROUND
Especial to Farmer.)

Especial from United Press.) Havana. June 24.-The Hamburg American liner Calabria is aground Nto- day on .Canusie Reef between Havana and MataNzaS. She sailed from Ha- vana yesterday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
FAMILY TROUBLES CAUSE
 NEW LONDONER'S SUICIDE

Especial from United Press.)
 New London, June 2.-DeSpondent over family troubles. Lawrence Mo Farland, aged 70. committed suicide last evening at the home of his son, William Mcfarland, by taking dAM of Paris Green. He is survived by fl1ree sons and three daughters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

To the regret of her many friends. Ivy May Jones, of the Commercial di- vision, was unfortunately deterreds by illness from being present at the grad uating exercises of her class, B. H. S., which took place in Smiths theatre, Tuesday evening.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
PERSONAL MENTION.

Joseph L. Wilson, who has developed into aHnSt,.class caterer leaves /inere
  Mondl Rwnee, Penn, where he has b nto- take charge of the comm nt of East Side Hous ng a group of wealtl ho summer at ShawI
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

The Wheeler and Wilson band will repeat tonight at Washington park fhs name excellent program given last ITFe1k a& 6easide park MT. Redmond |W1n GnG M --A- V
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
PRICE ONE CENT
Monster BlackfiSh
 Weighing 1000 Pounds
 Caught at Stonington
Especial from United Press.o

Especial from United Press.) ss-
 Stonington,s June M.-To Captain. Elisha Clark belongs the honor oE capturing the largest fish ever broughtk to this port. The monster belongs tos the whale family, weighs 1000 poundsss and measures 10 feet in length Thek5 fish is a blackfish. It was captured last Wednesday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

WHIST tonight at Royal AroanuunI Hall, 1106 Main street, by Stratdelds Circle, C. O. B. of A. Tickets l6
 cents. a D n
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
(UNCLASSIFIEDA

TRY A CASE of Pabst Milwaukee Famous Steam Beer, $1.O0 per case of two dozen Jack Mason. s55 Can- non Street. Phone 1852
 D M
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
NEW RAVENS FIRST

NEW RAVENS FIRST
 FATAL HEAT vICTIM.: Special from United Press, New Haven, June N.-The heat wave5 in this city claimed it's first yfctinI7 today when Thomas Glynn, aged 30, sl coachman, died at the New Haven5 hospital as the result of heat prostra- SIon which he suffered last evening.z He has relatives in this city 2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

HELP WANNTEDe25 laborers. expesri-s enced in concrete work. Snare G. 3 Triest Co., Congress Street bridge.
 DMss DO
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

TO RENT-Six rooms. all improye-I
 ments. 84 West avenue. D 23 s*po3
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

WANTED--A waiter for Saturdays.
 Apply, at Adams House, Fsairfelds Ave. a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

HAND KRONER with experience, also bright girl to learn collar shapinS
 Model Laundry, l09 Middle St
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

BRADSHAw CLOTHING co. 12e<
 Main St, are selling a big lot of those wonderful $1 working pants. Better
 get a pair yourself. a*p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

SOME PLEASURE LIVING since Dr.
 Mansfield cured my corns 206 .Meigs Bldg. Afternoons and Sun
 days.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

WAlNTED-A woman who has had ex- perience in handling bakery goods to take charge of a bakery department Answer Bakery, this office, statiner experience. D 21 if O
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

FOR SALEEParty leaving town must57 sell almost new mahogany uprdght piano before Saturday. Any reason-s able cash offer be accepted. Call af- ter 6 p. m., -660 Noble avenue
 D A b @po
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

WANTED-Person holding lucky mum Der 196 winning diamond ring at Schwaehischer Maennerchor to call 1O45 Barnum Avenue D 1aesd
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

TO RENT- and room flata wffh
 improvements. Reasonable rent. East End. Apply at M. Wit4stein' $ jewelry store. 1160 Main St. M D 2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

FOR sA1E+saloon, ss5o. 5s. Golden
 Hill St. D93 bapo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

ATTENTION! ATTENTION.
 Machinists ant. .toolma kers stay awavI from Wilmington, Del; trouble aff Standard Arms Go. (Signad9 p 24 D. COMMITTEES 3
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

FOR SALE.-A few front lots at Dodge Park, prices very low and Realty Co.,, ,z@416 Warner Building, Bridgeport. D 19
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

FOR SALE CHEAP Electric car- rfage, nice for a lady. The Rantz Motor O., 625 State St.
 D 9 ss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

WANTED.-Young man stenographer. with some knowledge of office work Address Box 569 D2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

FOR SAIlE+Furnished room house. 5s
 Golden Hill St. D 23.ha. [. sfs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

TO RENT-7 rooms, all Improvements. steam heat furnished, 59O Park ave
 nue. Tel.2801-4, U 2S tfc
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24

CASCA-LAxINE TABLETS cure b;l-
 iousness and constipation. Follow the
 direction. U 12
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-25

was uppermost on hers, and her voice
rippled with happiness.
IF you had only said lark instead
OF a hen, Rufus," she laughed.
I'VE could get along lot better
without larks than without hens an
swered her friend philosophically.
But I'll make it a nightingale next
time, If l can remember, or bald
eagle, or any bird that strikes you as
cheerful"
The terrible mouth had relaxed al
most to gentleness, and the fierce blue
eyes were suddenly kind as they looked
into the woman's face She led him
to an old-fashioned sofa. their hands
parted. and they sat down side by
side.
Cheerful" he said, in a tone of re-
fection. Yes. I'm feeling pretty
cheerful and it's all over and set
tied"
DO you mean the trouble you were
n last spring."
"N-nO-not that, though it wasn't
funny as a Sunday school treat
pile it lasted, and I was thankful
zen it was through It's another
ter altogether that I'm cheerful
lt-besides seeing you, my dear.
done it, Maud. I've done it at
pt2"
sold my interest in the Trust.
be made known for some
don't talk about it, please.
ettled and done. and I've got
="
We sold the Nickel Trust?"
ud's lips remained parted
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,etKe one Of you"
shes going to be. It's the same
Besides, I said If Won't you answer
me?"
She's in love with Mons. Logo
theti," said Lady Maud, rather desper-
ately.
rs she, now? I wonder. 1 don't
much think so myself. He's clever
and he's obstinate, and he's just made
her think she's in love, that's all Any
how, that's not an answer to my ques-
ton. Other things being alike. if she
had to choose, which OF US would be
the best husband for her?-the better,
mean. You taught me to say bet
ter didn't your"
Lady Maud tried to smile.
"Of two, yes" she answered. You
are forcing my hand, my dear friend"
she went on very gravely. You know
very well that trust you with all my
heart. If it were possible to imagine
case in which the safety of the
world could depend on my choosing
one OF you for my husband, you know
very well that should take you,
though never was the least little bit
in love with you, any more than you
ever were with me-"
Well, but if you would, she ought. "
argued Mr. Van Torp. It's Tor her
own good, and as you're a friend Of
hers, you ought to help her to do
what's good for her. That's only fair.
If she doesn't marry me. she's GER
tain to marry that Greek, so it's a
forced choice. it appears to me-
But I can't"
shes a nice girl, isn't she?"
Yes, very" 10
And you like her, don't your
Very much. Her father was my IA
TIERS best friend"
81 don't believe in atavism," OBJ
served the American, but that's Meth
es here nor there. You know what
you wrote me Do you believe she'll
be miserable with Logotheti or not?"
q think she Will" Lady Maud an
swered truthfully But I may be
wrong"
NO; you're right. l know it. But
marriage is a gamble anyway, as you
know better than any one. are you
equally sure that she would be mis-
cradle with me? Dead sure, I mean"
NO, I'm not sure. But that's not q
reason"
It's a frst-rate reason. I care for
that lady. and 7 want her to be happy,
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CONTINUED from yesterday

CONTINUED from yesterday
rive hours a1Uer ne landed van
Torp entered Lady Maud's drawing
room in the little house in Charles
street, Berkeley Square, where she
had lived with the departed LeTen
from the time when he had been at
tached to the Russian embassy till he
had last gone away. She was giving
it up low, and it was already half dis
mantled. It was to see Van Torp that
she was in town in the middle of
August, instead Of with her father at
Craythew or with friends in Scotland
London was as hot as it could be,
which means that a New Yorker would
have found it chilly and an Italian de-
lightfully cool; but the Londoners
were sweltering when Van Torp ar
rived, and were talking of the oppres-
sive atmosphere and the smell of the
pavement, not at all realizing how
blessed they were.
The American entered and stood
still moment TO have a good look at
Lady Maud He was a middle-sized,
rather thick-set man, with rude hands,
sandy hair, an over-developed jaw,
and sharp blue eyes that sometimes
fixed themselves in a disagreeable
way when he was speaking-eyes that
had looked into the barrel Of another
mans revolver once or twice without
wavering, hands that had caughs and
saddled and b-idled many an unridden
colt in the plains, a mouth like car
pet-bag when it opened, like a closed
vice when it was shut. He was not a
handsome man, Mr. Rufus Van Torp,
nor one with whom any one short of a
prize-fghter would NEEDLE, nor one
to haunt the dreams Of sweet 16. It
was not for his face that Lady Maud.
good and beautiful, liked him better
than any one in the world. except her
own father, and believed in him and
trusted him, and it was assuredly not
for his money. The beggar did not
i've who would dare to ask him for a
penny after one look at his face, and
there were not many men on either
side of the Atlantic who would have
hooked forward 10 any sort Of contest
with him without grave misgivings.
Well" he said, advancing the last
step after that momentary pause. and
taking the white hand in both his
own, how have you been? Fair to
middling? About that? Well-Tm
glad to see you, gladder than a sitting
hen at sunrise!"
Lady Maud laid her left hand affec-
donateIy on the mans right which
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and as you admit that she will have a
better chance Of happiness with me
than with Logotheti, I'm going to
marry her myself, not only because l
want to, but because it viii be a long
sight better for her. See? No fault
in that line of reasoning, is there?'
so far as reasoning goes Lady
Maud's tone was half an admission.
That's all I wanted you to say"
interrupted the American. so that's
settled, and you're going to help me"
NO" answered Lady Maud quietly;
q won't help you to break off that en-
gagement- But if it should come to
nothing, without your interfering
that is, by the girls own free will
and choice and change of mind I'd
help you to marry her if could"
But you admit that she's going to
be miserable" said Van Torp stub
bOrnly
I'm sorry for her, but it's none Of
my business It's not honorable to
try and make trouble between en-
gagged people, no matter how i'll
matched they may be"
Funny idea of honor" observed
the American, that you're bound to
let a friend of yours break her neck
at the very gravel pit where you were
nearly smashed yourself, In the hunt
ing field you'd grab her bride if she
wouldn't listen to you, but in a mat
ter of marriage-oh, no, It's dishon-
orable to interfere She's made her
choice and she must abide by it. and
all that kind of stuff"
Lady Mauds clear eyes met his
angry blue ones calmly.
Il don't like you when you say such
things" she said, lowering her voice
a little,
I didn't mean to be rude" an
swered the millionaire, almost hum
bly,. you see I don't always know.
learnt things differently from what
you did. I suppose you'd think it an
insult if I said I'd give a large sum Of
money to your charity the day I mar
ried Nine Cordova, if you'd help me
through"
Please stop. Lady Maud's face
darkened visibly. That's not like
you"
I'll give a million pounds sterling, 3"
said Mr. Van Torp slowly.
Lady Maud leaned back in her cor
ner of the sofa, clasping her hands
rather tightly together in her lap. Her
white throat flushed as when the light
of dawn kisses Parian marble. and the
fresh tint in her cheeks deepened soft
ly; her lips we're tightly shut, her
ovo1iHs nuivAred a little and she
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-25

The Coliseum at Rome seated 81
GOO people. 1t was 6f2x515 feet in
dimension. 1t was finished by Titus
ten years after the destruction OF
Jerusalem and in 80 A. d.
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For Sale or Trade.

FOR SALE-40 acres of the fin
est land in the valley, "a Of mile
from the depot Land all cleared,
broken and ditched Suitable for
truck. forage or sugar cane LOca-
ton and soil must be seen TO be
appreciated have more than /
can handle Dr. Mount c. Wild,
Harlingen, Texas. 9-2Otfdw