Connecticut western news., 1907-08-22
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Six structures were destroyed with a total loss of about S60,0o0 and about 10000 persons were thrown into q panic at Steeplechase island, near Bridgeport, Conn, when fire ragged through part of George c. Tilyou's amusement resort. The fire was caused by the dropping of lighted match in dry grass under the west end of the baseball bleachers. George C. Tilyou is the owner of Steeplechase park, Coney Island. N. r., where fire recently did $S0o,000 damage.
 The three masters appointed in the matter of the mental competency of Mrs. Mary Baker c. Eddy visited her at her home, Pleasantview, at Concord, N. H., on Thursday and examined her at length. Mrs Eddy's replies to the masters questions were clear and ra- tional. She stated that she could read large type, but was slightly deaf. She told how she instituted Christian Sc- ence and stated that the trusteeship of her property created last March was her own idea.
 A daughter was born to Governor and Mrs. Hughes at Albany on Sun day. Mother and child are doing well. It is said to be the first to be born In the executive mansion. There are three other children in the Hughes family. The eldest, Charles E.. IT,, is now in his eighteenth year and will begin his third year as n student in Brown uni- yersity in the fall. The other two are girls-Helea, now fourteen, and Cath erine. eight.
 Assemblyman Edward H. Wright, IT., of Essex county. N. l., has brought suit for S100,000 damages against former United States Senator James Smith. Jr.. for slanderous statement alleged to have been made recently by Smith at the governors cottage at Sea Girt. The alleged slnnderous utteranee was thls. Ut kept Charles Bell, a wine agent, busy all last winter supplying Wright with wine"
 An immense meteor, apparently about seventy-fve feet in circumfer- ence, fell into the sea about mile off the Amagansctt, N. Y., life saving station on Sunday, causing great wave which wrecked several bathing houses. After the disturbance had subsided hundreds of dead fish were found upon the shore. These were gathered up by the boys and peddled to the hotels.
 | President Roosevelt appointed Ed ward M Morgan postmaster of New York to succeed William k. Wilcox. who resigned to become n member of l ,I4 mission. MT. Morgan has been in the postal service in New York for thirty four years. He was born in Marshall. Mich. Nov. 16 1855, and became let ter carrier before he was sixteen years old.
 ! A significant legal action was begun In the supreme court of the District of Columbia by James w. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. to enjoin Samuel l Gompers, John Mitchell and other oifi- cers of the American Federation of Labor and several of its subsidiary organizations from using the boycott and so called unfair list"
 At Fairfield, Conn, on Saturday con- servators were appointed to look after Mrs. Julia Watt Curtiss, an heir to the S10O0O0,000 Watt estate in New York city It was decided that Mrs. Curtiss was mentally incompetent after hear ing in which 1t was testified that she wore one black shoe and one tan shoe. paid S450 for parasol and committed other curious acts.
 Judge Page Morris, in the United ! States distsict court, at Minneapolis, | Minn.. fined the Wisconsin Central Railway company S17000 for relating, of which it was convicted last April. Burton Johnson and c. A. Huey, l freight officials of the road, were fined 1 S20O0 and $1,0o0 respectively for pay | ing rebates to shippers.
 1 Temporary receivers were named for | Curtiss. Leggett X Co, of Troy, N. Y., manufacturers of shirts, collars and 1 cuffs. by Judge Day of the United l States district court at Syracuse. The liabilities are placed at $I,100,000 and the nominal assets at $2,000,000.
 The Pope Manufacturing company, one of the biggest concerns engaged in l the manufacture of automobiles and bicycles in the country, with head quarters at Hartford, Conn, was plac. ed in the hands of receiver.