Connecticut western news., 1908-07-23
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eott case Justice Anderson of the Dis trict of Columbia supreme court sum- moned Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor; Secretary Frank Morrison of that or ganization and John Mitchell of the executive council and former president of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica to appear on Sept. s to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of the courts injunctive or der
 A motor party of eleven society men and women working like long shoremen, under the direction of Cap tain Hodges of the Montauk life saving station, helped to save twenty lives. Drenched to the skin, women who never had done any harder work than holding a pair of lines over a spirited horse or playing tennis hauled at the cable of a brooches buoy until twenty men of the crew of the steamship Chip pewa had been hauled ashore.
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company has an nounced that it will expend $1,O00,000 on the construction of three new trol- ley lines in Connecticut. The contracts are to be let at once, and work will be, begun on all three lines in the fall. One of these lines is to be run from Hartford to Middletown, another from Hartford to Bloomfield and the third from Willimantic to South Coventry
 Frank Jay Gould, who is being sued for divorce by his wife, Mrs. Helen Kelly Gould. caused the arrest in New York of Mrs. Ben Teal, wife of well known theatrical man; Julia Fleming and Harry s. Mousley, a private de- tective, on q charge of inducing Ma bel B. MacCauslan, seamstress, to give false evidence in behalf of Mrs. Gould and against an actress. The crime charged is a felony.
 James J. Hill. chairman of the Great Northern railroad. is of the opinion that the only solution of the financial problem that confronts the railroads is an increase in freight rates. MT. Hill said, There is no alternative but to cut wages" A conference of railroad presidents on the question was held in New York. Employees of all the trolley lines controlled by the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Railroad company voted to support by all means in their power the fifty-four employees of the Providence company who have been discharged by that system on the ground, it is alleged, that they had joined the union.
 The Tammany delegation which at tended the Democratic national con- vention at Denver and then went to Yellowstone park returned to the Colo radO capital with good story of their experience with Alice Roosevelt Long worth in the national park. They de clare she led them in singing Tam many"
 A party of Catholic clergymen, led by Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and Archbishop John NJ. Farley of New York, sailed for the Mediterranean on the North German Lloyd liner Konig Albert. After Cardinal Gibbons visit to Rome he will attend the convention of the Eucharistic league in London.
 Tt was reported that Commissioner Hand of Elizabethtown, N. Y, who was appointed by Governor Hughes to hear the charges preferred against Dis trict Attorney Jerome, would not rec ommend the district attorneys re- moval, but proba bly, would censure him for some of his acts.
 Mrs. Susan Turner, wife of Louis c. Turner of Argentine, Kan, gave birth to quadruplets, three boys and girl. The girl died a short time after birth, but the boys are alive and apparently healthy. Besides the quadruplets seven
 Governor Hughes will run for of flee again if he thinks, that the people wish him to do so." This was the opinion offered by the Rev. pr. Wal ter Laidlaw, prominent in the anti race track gambling campaign, after a talk with the governor.
 William F. Walker, accused of wreck ing a bank in New Britain, Conn.,, was surrendered by the Mexican officials at Ensenada to State Superintendent of Police Egan of Connecticut and H. J. Hoffman, detective.
 Of importance. it is believed, will be the first international congress for the repression of the adulteration of food and drugs which will meet at Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. s next for q weeks session.
 The Pennsylvania has begun the plan of giving publicity to cases of discipline by posting on employees bulletin boards statements of the of lenses and the punishment admins tered.
 Known throughout New Jersey as the oldest woman in the state. Mrs. Sarah Hall Doremus, who would have been 105 years old if she had lived un- til Aug. 13, died of old age in Newark, N. J.
 H. R., Campbell of the United States geological survey figures that at the rate of production reached in 1907 the available eoa supply in Pennsylvania will last about 490 years.
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