Connecticut western news., 1907-04-18
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The war department following 0ut recommendation of General r. D. Grant, commanding the division of the Atlantic. has authorized Colonel c. F.. | F. Harrison of the artillery corps, the commanding officer of Fort Monroe, | Virginia, to employ during the exist ence of the Jamestown exposition ten | private detectives, whose duty it shall be to see that no unauthorized persons get within the new Notifications guard | ing the entrance to Hampton Roads. Fort Monroe is not far from James, town and the site of the exposition. | These detectives, who will be SUD- | piled by an agency whose name is withheld, will be put on guard because of the great number of foreigners who will visit Norfolk and vicinity in the six months the exposition will be open. AS perhaps a large number of these | visitors will be military and naval men, who would naturally have some curiosity to know the strength of the Notifications guarding Hampton Roads, which is one of the four most impor- tant coast artillery posts in this coun- | try, General Grant regarded 1t as a wise precaution to guard against any of our military secrets becoming known | to any of the visitors. His recom- mendation that the detectives be em- | ployed was at once acted on favorably by the war department.
 Surrounded by brilliant assemhlage of world famous personages, Andrew Carnegie formally turned over to Pitts | h,,r tla iah bears his name and for which he has given S23.000,000 in round figures, the largest sum ever given by any man to any one institution. Aside from the fact that a crank made an attempt to get into the presence of Mir Carnegie with a dagger in his pocket not thing | happened to mar the occasion. The man seems to be more than half crazy, but his mania may be homicidal. He paced his cell for a time, making an- archistic speeches, vowing Andrew Carnegie and all other rich men should be killed for the good of the masses. After his arrest and that of a more harmless man the number of detec- tives guarding the distinguished for eigners and Americans here was dou- bled.
 Within less than twenty-four hours after his exit from the ministry the Rev. E. Lawrence Hunt took as his bride Mrs. Fanny Rice Bassett. the handsome blond. who was divorced by Charles Chester Bassett in Wash ington recently because of her alleged misconduct with Pastor Hunt. The | hx~4 4Ia Henry NJ. Warren of New York. At the time of the trial Hunt announced his resignation as pastor of the Noble Street Presbyterian church, in Brook. lyn, but not before the congregation voted him out.
 Bitter attacks on the policies of President Roosevelt constituted the burden of the outcries delivered at the Jefferson dinner of the National Dem ocratic club held in the Waldorf-As- toria in New York, at which Isidor Rayner, United States senator from Maryland; Colonel George Harvey and Martin w. Littleton were the speakers. Rayner charged the president with be. ing the sponsor for the suppression of state rights, and Harvey denounced him as the one man responsible for unsettled industrial conditions in the land.
 Hypnotism is to be used as a cure for drunkenness at the Bowery mis- sion 55 Bowery, New York, by Dr. $. A. Gayer, with the consent and ap. proval of pr. Louis Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald and financial packer of the mission, and of l. $. Hal. limond, the mission superintendent Superintendent Hallimond said: "l have for years been in favor of this movement, and I am glad that the eX' periments are to be begun. I have ev' cry confidence in pr. Gayer's ability to work wonders with our men,"
 After a brief courtship Miss Iona Meyer of Whitehall N. Y., heiress tc an estate of several hundred thousand dollars, has announced her marriage tc Count Ferouli, a former wine check clerk at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel ir New York. but more recently teacher of Italian and French. The wedding was such a quiet one that none of the brides friends knew of her intention until she. announced the fact to the manager of the Marie Antoinette ho tel, where for several years she has lived.
 After three hours deliberation the jury in United States District Judge , Landis' court in Chicago found the Standard Oil Company of Indiana guilty on 1.463 counts in accepting re bates from the Chicago and Alton rail way. The penalty under the Elkins law is a minimum fine of S1,00o and 2 maximum fine of S20,0o0 on eacf count. A motion is before the cour' to reduce all the counts to one genera count, but Judge Landis has indicated that he will overrule the motion. Q Professor Leduc of the Medical col lege of Nantes has perfected q method , of anaesthetization by electricity. H. sends a mild electric current through
 the body, which so perfectly lulls thu sensory nerves that any surgical oper
 ation can be performed without the pa
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