Connecticut western news., 1906-11-01
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Alfred Barlow, chief of the Christian Science propaganda. issued in Boston a sweeping denial of the charges publish ed in New York that Mrs. Eddy is dy- ing from cancer; is being 'doped and galvanized to make up for exhibition purposes;" that Mrs. Parmelia Leonard of Brooklyn impersonateS her. Mrs. Eddy went driving. acc& ding to her usual custom, In the suburbs of Con cord, N. H., her home. Mayor Charles R. Corning of Concord. who is not con nected with the Christian Scientist church, was taken to call on Mrs. Ed dy by General Frank s. Streeter, her personal counsel. Mayor Corning de- clared Mrs. Eddy was In good health despite her advanced years. Mrs. Ed dy was born in 1891. She granted q brief interview to newspaper inter- viewers and declared that she was in perfect physical health.
 Two plans for opposing the packing trust were considered by the farmers national cooperative congress, in ses- sion at Topeka, Kan. One is that the members of the farmers congress will try to cure the majority of the meat which they use themselves and will also cure meats for the markets. The other plan will be to have an agent in each county to handle all the stock of the members and ship to another agent at the market who will sell direct to butchers.
 The Transalaska Siberian Railway company, with an authorized capital of S6,000,000, was incorporated. The company is to construct q railroad from Kansk Station, on the Transsiberian railway, to Boring strait, which is to be tunneled to Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. The road is then to run to the Alaska Canada boundary. Among the incorporators is Lolcq de Lobel of Paris, the prime mover in the project.
 It was learned that new company, with an authorized capital of S25,000,- GOO, has been formed in New York to fight the milk trust. The new company will aim, it says, to give the farmer better milk at the present or if possi- ble lower prices. An advance of 1 cent a quart for milk delivered in Chi cago after Nov. was decided on by the Retail Milk Dealers association.
 It was announced that hereafter the delivery of mail by rural carriers will be permitted to persons residing not less than one-quarter of a mile from postoffices at unincorporated towns O. ,al0 rr-fII erect boxes conforming to the require ments of the department. A substan- tial increase in the maximum salary allowed carriers in the rural service is to be recommended.
 Henry Sanford of Bridgeport Conn, the millionaire son of Samuel Sanford, has been ordered to pay $S0,000 out right to the beautiful wife who Is suing him for divorce. This is the largest sum In nlimony ever awarded by an American court. Besides. the young husband will be compelled to contrib ute $4,20O q year to the support of his wife and child.
 By the acquisition of the Mallory Steamship line, including a fleet of 
 900, Charles W. Morse becomes vir- tually master of the coastwise steam ship business on the Atlantic seaboard, With his holdings ranging from termi- nals in St. John, N. B., to Galveston, Tex.
 It was announced at the headquar- ters of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Cleveland, O., that re- quests had been made not only to the lines of Chicago, but also to a number of the big eastern systems, for higher wages and better working conditions for all classes of trainmen.
 The biggest verdict ever awarded against the Consolidated Railway con- 1 pany, the street railroad department of the New Haven railroad, was found in Northampton, Mass. A jury grant ed Dr. William H. Conklin of Ansonia $15.0OO damages because a trolley crew beat him into insensibility.
 At the Woman's Christian Temper ance union convention in Hartford, Conn.,, a resolution denouncing King Leopold for conditions in the Kongo Free State was adopted. Opposition to the army canteen was reaffirmed. Most of the old officers of the union were reelected.
 In Omaha, Neb., a grand jury found 1 indictments against thirty coal deal CTS on charges of violating the anti trust laws. In PheniX, Ariz.. the fed eral grand jury returned indictments l against several ice, coal, lumber and meat companies on similar charges. | The biggest shakeup that the police | department of New York city has ever known was ordered by Commissioner i Bingham. Eighty-four captains. every | one in the greater city with the ex- ception of Captain Schlottman of the l Tenderloin. were transferred.
 i The controversy as to who was the l youngest soldier of the civil war prob ably has been settled fin favor of Per l " Byan of Seattle, WasL. He enlist i ed as a drummer boy in an Iowa reGi- ment on Aug. 22. 1862. at the age of i piOa vaorc and ton months