Connecticut western news., 1907-03-07
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DSNidihib thil utIy bdktI dy, head of the Christian Science church, has for n long time been ''in- competent to do business" and also that certain persons 'have possessed themselves of her person and proper ty,' George w. Glover of Deadwood, s. D., son Of Mrs. Eddy; his daughter, Miss Mary Baker Glover, and George w Baker of Bangor. Me. nephew of Mrs. Eddy, filed in the superior court in Concord, N. H., a bill in equity for an accounting of the old woman's financial affairs. It has been made clear in an extended statement to the public that the action is in no way di- rected at the Christian Science church. General Frank s. Streeter, counsel for Mrs Eddy, declared that the reports that she is very wealthy are unfounded.
 The denatured alcohol bill was pass ed by the senate. This action was taken after the committee amendment requiring the presence of government storekeeper wherever alcohol is being manufactured had been defeated. The bill as passed contains one amendment placed in 1t by the senate that per
 
 sequently the measure must be return cd to the house for action. The bill is intended to make it possible for farmers to establish stills of limited ca pacty for the manufacture of alcohol to be denatured. The measure was one of the last passed by the Fifty. ninth congress, which has adjourned The session appropriated $919,94S, 6Toc3.
 The senate passed the Aldrich cur rency bill. which authorizes the issu- ance of ten dollar gold certificates. to the end that the ten dollar greenbaclls may be broken up into one, two ana five dollar bills. for which there Is a great demand. 1t also authorizes the deposit of customs receipts in nation- al banks as internal revenue receipts are now deposited and raises from So 000.0O0 to S9,000,000 the amount of national bank circulation that may be retired in any one month. The house also passed the bill.
 According to Judge Harrison. pre- siding at Culpeper Va. over the trial of the Strother brothers on a charge of murdering William F. Bywaters. their brother-in-law of m hour. the ''unwritten law Is not known to the courts of Virginia. The defense there upon decided to plead that the young men were temporarily insane at the time of shooting Bywaters. who had betrayed their sister and attempted to desert her immediately after her broth CTS had forced him to wed her.
 John c. Spooner of Wisconsin. one of the leaders of the United States sen ate, has sent his resignation to tho governor of Wisconsin, to take effect May 1, 1907. He resigns to resume the practice of law. Mir. Spooner Is sixty four years old. He made large sums of money in his former practice, but z spent a large portion of this money during his residence here.
 After having voted down the ship subsidy bill the house of representa- tives reconsldered its vote and passed the measure. Only four steamship lines were to be subsidized under the measure in the form finally agreed upon. All of these were to sail for South American ports. The bill was "fillbustered" to death by the Demo- crats in the senate.
 En route to Japan to be received by the mikado and with the avowed in- tention of converting the latter, Gen. eral William Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, arrived in New York. The general, who is sev enty-eight years old, expects to return to London in July. He declares he will never again leave England.
 The state of Pennsylvania is en. deavoring to seize the property of the Harmony society at Economy, Pa. John S. Duss, the bandmaster, and his wife are the surviving members of the society. Mrs. Duss Is the sole trustee. The state asserts that there are no heirs. The value of the prop erty is $6.000,0o0.