Connecticut western news., 1906-02-01
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The case of Justice Joseph NJ. Deuel,
 interested ill Town Topics, and Colonel William d'Alton Mann, editor of the paper, against Norman Hapgood, editor | of Golfers Weekly, who was charged with criminal libel, was ended by the acquittal of Mir. Hapgood. Mir. Hap good in an editorial declared that Town l Topics was engaged in blackmailing persons prominent in finance and in New York society. At the trial it was brought out that Colonel Mann borrow ed money from J. r. Morgan, T. F. Ryan and others on his personal note or on slight security. The trial was remarkable in that Colonel Mann and Justice Deuel, nominally plaintiffs, were virtually made defendants. After the close of the trial Colonel Mann was arrested on a charge of perjury. "Fads and Fancies," book sold for S1, 500 a volume, is another publication of the Town Topics office, in connection with which charges of blackmail are made. President Roosevelts return of Pads and Fancies," in which he is portrayed, is made the subject of aa attack by COI0nel Mann.
 A contest is to be waged in New York over the proposed merger of the Inter borough and Metropolitan traction sys- tens. The fight will be bitter and pro- tracted, with a chance that the plans of Belmont and Ryan to unite the Inter- borough and Metropolitan interests may be shattered. That Paul Morton, nf ftah II fn would resign to take charge of all the transportation lines embraced by the merger was report which gained cur rency in Wall street. It was denied by Mir. Morton and also by men close to Belmont It also was said that Grover Cleveland had decided that it would be we'll for him to relinquish the office of judge of the rebate court for the three big insurance companies. for which he is receiving salary of $12,000 year.
 The trial of the meat packers indicted for alleged conspiracy in restraint of trade was commenced In Chicago. Lou is c. Krauthof. formerly general coun- sel for Armour x Co, described his in- terview with Commissioner of Corpora tions Garfield, which prepared the way for the commissioners investigation of the packing industry. The packers al- lege that Mir. Garfield promised immu- nity to them provided they would al- low him to have access to their books. Charles G. Dawes, former comptroller of the currency and president of the Central Trust company of Chicago, cor '5S 5S5fate1 f..tt MI. H{ authors testimony
 According to rAport, the rough riders. will present to Miss Alice Roosevelt a silver service aad the army officers gift will be a gold {nodel full size of a Krag -Jorgenson- The Cuban sen ate has unanimously passed an appro- priation of $25.nOu @re the purchase of wedding gift for Miss Roosevelt as a mark of appreciation of President Roosevelt's friendship for Cuba. The Chinese dowager empress has sent to the Washington legation a number of wedding presents for Miss Alice Roose- welt. The presents consist of costly jewels, silks and ermine robes.
 An American driver, Fred Marriott, in an American steam automobile at Ormond, Fla, covered mile in 2S 1-5 seconds, breaking the worlds record for speed in any sort of conveyance. Machines and drlverN from France, Italy and Great Britain were outdis- tanced. Two mile minute speed was attained by two cars. the POO horse power Darracq. driven by Victor Demo geot. and by Marriott. The Frenchman covered the distance in 5S 4-5 seconds. Marriott's time was 59 3-5 seconds.
 Dr. Walter Kempter of Milwaukee, Wis, told q representative of the New York American that he had taken a human life by means of an anaesthetic to end suffering and that he believed his act was justified. He made the statement in discussing the bill be- fore the Ohio legislature to legalize the taking of life by a physician to end suffering in cases where there is no hope of recovery. Dr. Kempter says hopeless sufferers, maniacs and idiots should be put to death.
 On the charge of violating an in- junction restraining union printers from interfering with the operation of shops of members of the Chicago Ty- pothetae, President Edwin k. Wright of the Chicago Typographical union was fined S100 and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Judge Holdom of the supreme court. Edward Bessette a member of the union, was fined $50 and sentenced to thirty days in jail.
 By proving that F. A. Turrell, who organized the Republic Oil company. and Louis II. Turrell, an official of the Standard Oil company, is the same man we shall prove there is con- spiracy in restraint of competition be- tween those two companies and the Wuters-Pierce company" said Attor- ney General II. S. Hadley of Missouri. Mir Hadley accuses Mir. Turrell of for gerry. The hearings in Cleveland have been adjourned until Feb. 20.
 Andrew Carnegie has written letter to the board of trustees of the Carnegie School of Technology thanking them for having named the women's depart ment of the school in honor of his mother Mrs. Margaret Carnegie. In his letter Mir. Carnegie says. "I am deeply touched by this remembrance of one to whom l owe everything that d wise mother ever gave to son who adored her."
 The closing of all approaches to the assembly staircase in the New York state capitol, including the entrance to the assembly chamber and the eleva- tors leading thereto, which are believed years q cadet aU west ruint uIeu Ul tuberculosis. and his friends believe his health was ruined by the hazing to which he was subjected at the acad- emy.
 In the New Jersey senate bill has been introduced limiting the speed of automobiles to twenty miles and giving municipalities power to make addi- tional regulations.
 Charges of neglect of duty against