Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-11-02
MONT FREDERICK NOVEMBER 2, 1905.
new YORK As seen DAY BY DAY.
NEW York CRY, N. Y.

NEW York CRY, N. Y.
The oldest of odd causes for divorce
has crept out in the case of Genus l..
Finncgan before Frederick w. Ghichtel,
master in chancery, at Trenton. Finne-
gan and his wife lived together for seven-
teen years before she discovered that she
did not like the name and asked him to
change it.
What" said Finncgan-in spirit, it
not i'll words-"me change the name OF
Finnegan! G'wan wild ye, woman! lis
me own name, is Finnegan, and l
wouldn't change one letter in it for the
best woman on earth"
So she brought suit for divorce, and
the Court freed her from Finnegan.
For the relief of destitute artists in
New York the Artists Aid Society and
the Artists Fund Society are trying to
raise $I5o,ooo from which amount nee
cssary aid will be given large number
who require temporary assistance. while
there are about dozen, we'll known in
their profession, who are permanently
dependent. Among other art lovers,
William F. Havemeyer is interested in
the cause and has contributed $1,000.
Lodged fast against the stump of a
tree in the Bronx River, near Yotlkers
Station, the headless body Of woman
has been found, and the police are in
vestigating. The woman in life was
about S feet inches in height and
weighed between I3o and I4o pounds.
A wedding ring, with the initials &c.
l.. inside the band, was on her finger.
A search of the banks is being made for
the head.
Nincenzo Abadessa, an Italian ped
dlcr, of I Hancock street, tho" 1t he
would get little easy money by writing
blackmailing letters, and he sent one to
Joseph Trano, laborer, of 327 West
Broadway. He told Trano that unless
he gave him $50 at the corner of Spring
and Macdougal streets Traino would be
killed Detective Petrosini gave the
laborer two marked $40 bills to hand
over to the blackmailer. AS the marked
bills were handed over Petrosini and a
couple of other slcuths pounced on Aba.
deSSa.
For the hundred and twenty-frst time
the police OF the Mercer-Street Station
have made a raid on an alleged pool
room said to be conducted by The" Al
len in lower Sixth avenue. Two hun
ircd men wore found in the dark room
on the second floor OF the place, but only
.wo were arrested. Axes and sledge
banners were used freely in breaking
nto the place.
John NJ. MacRae, 20 years old,
:lerk in the employ of the brokerage
irm OF c. |. Hudson & Co., has been
arrested on a charge OF taking $4,000
from his employers. The alleged theft,
t is asserted, was concealed successful
for a time by the Juggling of accounts,
out when arrested MacRac is said to
1avc admitted that he took the money
md lost it on the races.
EI-IIagg- Abudullah Ally Sadik Pasha,
Prince OF the Mohammedan Church,
general of the Abyssinian Army, Minis
er oi Commerce and Envoy of Emperor
Mcncik to President Roosevelt. has ar
ivcd on the steamer Cedric He comes
os,ensibly in regard to the new treaty OF
commerce between this country and
AbySsinia, but actually his mission is TO
study the possibilities of closer relations
With Africa and America.
Set on fire, it is believed, by robbers,
who had first looted the famous man.
sion, the country residence of Captain
Frederick H. Bugher, u S. A., adj
ng w. X. Vanderbilt's Idle Hour and
Commodore Bourne's house in what Is
tnown as the .,..lonaire Colony of Oak
iale, L. l., was totally destroyed yester-
lay. Captain Bugher's house was the
ancestral Ludlow home, where Admiral
,corge Dewey and Mrs. Dewey were en-
crtained shortly after their marriage.
Bv Director Smiths orders two little
black geese have been taken from the
zig Central Park Lake and put in the
Zoos flying cage They are Arctic geese
and worth $500 the pair. The Arctic
geese appeared mysteriously in the lake
lbout month ago Director Smith was
puzzled as to how they got there till w.
+. D. Stokes, of the Ansonia, wrote that
ne had liberated pair of Arctic geese
II the lake, saying that he hoped they
would thrive, as they are very rare.