Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25
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 Colonel Robert A. Ammon, whose trial in New York city resulted in sen SatiOnal developments, has been found guilty of receiving stolen goods, part of the plunder of Syndicate Miller 52O per cent get rich quick concern. The jury was out only fifty minutes and agreed on the verdict of guilty on the first vote.
 The grand jury at Washington has found indictments against A. w. Ma chen, the two Groff brothers and George r. Lorenz and Martha J. Lo- renz, his wife, for conspiracy to de fraud the government in the matter of the sale of the mail box fasteners to the post office department.
 The jury in the case of Jett and White at Jackson, Ky, charged with the murder of Lawyer James B. Mar cum, has been discharged, having been unable to agree. But for one juror Jett would have been convicted. A new trial was ordered in neighboring county.
 Three outlaws, led by Ben Cravens, for whom $700 in rewards is offered, stationed themselves in a lonely wood in the country near Guthrie, Okla, re- gently and held up 100 men and wo- men. Every man passing was stopped, searched and his valuables taken.
 The University of Virginia had Pres ident Roosevelt as guest at the seven ty-ninth commencement axarciSaS MT Roosevelt was the third president to visit the university of which Thomas Jefferson, whose remains lie near the college he loved, was the founder.
 court martial has been ordered at Manila for the trial of First Lieutenant Hamilton Foley of the Fifth cavalry on the charge of embedding soldiers pay, irregularities in the pay accounts, improperly contracting debts and de ceiving his superiors.
 An attachment for $5O. 900 was filed in the United States circuit court in Boston Friday against the General Electric company by counsel for S. F. Van Choate of that city, who alleges infringement of a number of inven- tions.
 Joseph Moffatt, a wealthy Los An geles Cab man. has made a gift ot twenty tons of honey to the fifty five Florence Crittenden homes scattered through the United States. and each home's share will be shipped at once.
 E. T. Fetch of Jefferson, O.. and NJ. c. Krarup of New York left San Fran cisco Friday in a twelve horse power single cylinder gasoline motor car of American make with the intention ot travelling through to New York.
 The counsel for Colonel Robert A. Ammon, convicted in New York of re- ceiving stolen property in accepting S30,5O0 from 520 per cent Miller, has moved before Judge Newburger for a new trial. "
 Seven-tenths of one Poland China hog sold at swine sale in Macy, Ind. for $12,500. The owners of the other three-tenths retained their interest, SC that, the sale value of the animal was $17,957.
 Mrs. Russell Sage has arranged fol mausoleum of Westerly granite in Oakwood cemetery, Troy, N Y, In the form of a Greek temple, the cost of which will approximate $30.O0O.
 The Rev. John Chidwick, who waA on the battle ship Maine when blown up in Havana harbor. has forwarded to Washington his resignation as chap lain in the United States navy.
 The Adams & Barber Oil company ho loJ val lr1Y,f ho, ceedings in the insolvency court at Cleveland, o. The assets are placed at $171,0O0, liabilities $331. .0O0.
 The announcement of gift of $l5O, GOO from J. Ogden Armour was made at the convocation exercises of the AT. mour Institute of Technology in Chi, cago Saturday night
 Indictments have already been brought against twenty men who are charged with complicity in the peonagt cases in Alabama.
 ACCIDENTS Lightning struck hut Ann stored with 5000 CASUALTIES pounds of dynamite at the new mine now be ing opened near Senecaville, O., Sat. urday, killing six men and injuring a score of others, besides running the mine shaft and breaking nearly all the windows in the town, half a mile from the mine.
 At Indianapolis, Ind, Will Zimmer- man, aged twenty years, tried to loop the loop on a bicycle in place of Ray Stevens, who is again laid up with broken ribs from the feat. Zimmerman | fell from the top and fractured his | stop the trials.
 As a result of two disasters whicl | followed close upon one another in tht | No. and No. collieries of the Lehigl | Coal and Navigation company in the Panther creek valley, Pennsylvania four men are dead and five others seri | ously injured.
 | James Mckinney, one of the foul | prisoners who participated in a genera | break from the Glasgow (Mont) jail or | June 6, is the third one to meet a vio | lent death, having been shot on Friday l The escape of the men has cost five | lives.
 Twenty persons were injured, sever of them severely and the front of ; building destroyed by the explosion O | bomb in sport in front of a Chicag gt | saloon Friday night.
 By head on collision of light en l zine and freight train on the Della | ware and TIudson r"i1~oqd near White l