Connecticut western news., 1908-11-05
News of A Week
Paragaphic Photographs Of the
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Dalkeu at paying as much as SS0,OO0 mile for railroad construction in Chi huahua and Sonora, Mexico. Colonel Greene himself sunk $1 100000 In the project Other losers were Borough President Bird Coler of Brooklyn, George J. Kobusch of the St. Louis Car company and Henry Ollesheimer and Philip Berolzheimer of the Eagle Pencil company.
 Thomas Nolan testified for a New York taxicab company in a suit for damages brought by the father of a boy killed by one of the vehicles, de- claring the lad had darted under the wheels. Sing Sing records proved that Nolan was in prison at the time of the accident. Detectives with a warrant charging perjury are after Nolan.
 In Washington Jay NJ. BalIou has complained specifically of the Lacka- wanna road to the interstate commerce commission. He charges that the lines bringing anthracite coal into New York from Pennsylvania stife competition and maintain high prices by refusing to deliver the fuel to limited num- Der of wholesalers.
 The schooner Lulie l.. Pollard, loaded with lumber. was burned at sea. The steamer Admiral Schley came along just in time to rescue Captain J. C. Powell and his men, who were prepar- ing to risk their lives in small boats. An explosion of gasoline used to SUD- ply the vessels hoisting engine started the blaze.
 pr. Herbert l.. Northrop of Philadel- phia reports an operation to remove pressure on the brain that turned the patient from thief and drunkard into an upright citizen. The subject had been struck on the head hnd after the accident had stolen his employers money and become an inebriate.
 Eight loaded revolvers were taken from their owners and twenty-four pistols gathered from benches and window sills after the coroner of Hol- land, Va, ordered all spectators in the inquest room searched for arms. An inquiry into the killing of a witness in a will contest was being held.
 Charles B. Mann walked into a New York police station, stated his cont science had made a coward of him and declared he had escaped from Mobile (Ala.) prison seven years ago. He said he was the murderer of his brother-in- law and had been given a sentence of fifteen years.
 Mrs. Henrietta Heine charges that while August Lieberknecht was Ameri- can consul at Zurich, Switzerland, he appropriated 2,643 of an estate left to her. A warrant for his arrest was is- sued In New York city, and search is being made for the man.
 Owing to frequent arguments con- cerning change between patron and employee, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company has ordered its conductors to announce loudly the denomination of the coin or bill produced by the pas seDger.
 Hamilton Fish having resigned as assistant treasurer in charge of the New York subtreasury, the counting of the cash on hand became necessary, Sixty expert tellers expect to put fin five weeks at the task.
 A burglar attacked Clyde Younger Of Centralia, Mo-, with a knife. The blade was kept from penetrating Younger's chest by a package of ciga- rette papers in the young mans vest pocket.
 "I'll show you how close can stand to this train without being hit," said John Schlegal to a friend in Newark N. J. An express on the Pennsylvania road whirled along and crushed him to death.
 Before March 1 the Western Mary land railroad will have spent $1,250,- 900 for new equipment. The an- nouncement comes from headquarters in Baltimore.
 For the first time the high water pressure system in New York was put to practical test at fire in factory building. The blaze was quenched in five minutes.
 Six Los Angeles (Cal) students were suspended for branding with nitrate of silver the foreheads of two of their fellow students during an initiation ceremony.
 Melanctnon NoolSey Stryker, ID. D. IL. D., president of Hamilton college while driving ill Clinton, N. T., was hurt severely by the overturning of hi' carriage.
 Northern New York experienced its first snowstorm of the year last Fri day. The temperature at several points dropped to the zero mark.
 Leaving note saying his mother-in- law had made him unhappy, Mike Ice, Sioux Indian, committed suicide ip Standing Rock, N. D.
 Richard Webber, who died after making $7O00,O0O by retailing meat fin New York city, bequeathed his entire estate to his widow.
 Six liners docked on the same day and landed 2,623 immigrants in New York, the record of one day for the year.
 In an Atlanta (Ga.) police court 2,500 pounds was fixed as the limit of weight a mule should be forced to haul.
 Hugh Kelly, banker, sugar manufac.