Connecticut western news., 1909-07-15
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1 dllt, dIlOuuCeu lHe enSdSeUltul bl her daughter. Miss Anita Stewart, to Prince Miguel of Braganza, eldest son of Duke Miguel pretender to the 1 throne of Portugal. Miss Stewart is worth $3,000.000 in her own right and will be the first American woman to break into the exclusive circle of Flu ropean royalty.
 A suit for absolute divorce from Frank Brown, Jr., son of the former governor of Maryland, was started hl Mrs. Brown in Baltimore, Md, on tie grounds of cruelty. Suit w@ also started by Mrs. Brown against the i former governor for $100,000 on 1 charges of alienation of her husbands s affections
 George Dimmock. once a tenor il Jennie Lind's support and later fla nous as an evangelistic singS~, was i given sufficient money by the super visors of Oakland, Cal, to take him l to Salt Lake City. where he has rela- i lives who will provide for him there Dimmock is eighty-seven years old.
 The suit of the state of West Vir- 1 ginia against the estate of former United States Senator Johnson N. i Camden, which seeks to forfeit $1,- ] 100000 of the estate for failure to re- 1 port true property values to the as sessor, was submitted to the circuit | court at Parkersburg, w. Va.
 All the timber holdings of the Men asha Woodenware company on the St. 1 AiaryS and St. Joe rivers in northern l Idaho, amounting to 30,O00 acres, were purchased by the Blackwell Lumber company of Spokane, Wash, for $2,- 1 250,000. The. deal is the largest one ever made in inland lumber.
 Albert J. King of New York was ar rested at Atlantic City charged with ] a violation of his marriage vows. King and Miss Pearl Frances Indig gained some notoriety when they were mar ried in 1907. They met on rollers, elopcd in an auto and were married by bicycling parson.
 i X suit to recover $10.OOO from Dr. r. F. Francke and Dr. Thomas G. De La ! Heyde, surgeons of Far Rockaway, ! N. T., was started by the heirs of Mrs. ' Jane Allen Boyd, who allege the physi- ! clans performed an autopsy on Mrs. Boyd without receiving permission l from her children.
 A new westbound record was estab- lished by the Cunard liner Mauretania which clipped seventeen minutes from her best previous time, making the trip from Queenstown to New York in 4 days 16 hours 36 minutes at an av- craze hourly speed of 25.70 knots.
 MES. Maty Larned Dorrance Aldrich, wife of Edward Burgess Aldrich, eldest son of United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, was granted a divorce at Providence, R. l., on the charge of nonsupport and was awarded the cus- tody of their ten-year-old child.
 Kress Koyama, Japanese, and Miss Mary Louise Dollback were mar ried in the mortuary chapel of an un- dertaking company in New York be- cause they could not find any other place in New York where an oriental might marry a Caucasian.
 With appropriate ceremonies the re- plica of Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, was launched at Mar
 
 1 will play a prominent part in the ter centenary celebration of the discovery of the Hudson river.
 A suit to recover S10000 damages for the loss of his little finger while working for Edward H. Hartman at Woodbury, Orange county, N. T.. was started in a New York court by Willis Gillow, a carpenter, against the rail. road magnate.
 Colonel Tom l.. Johnson, former naval officer was appointed chief in spector of all hotel bed sheets and fire escapes in Missouri under a law passed by the last legislature requir- ing all hotel bed sheets to be nine feet long.
 Forestalling the establishment of the new child study bureau at Clark uni versity, conference was opened at Worcester, Mass, which has for its object the welfare of the child.
 w. N. Lynch of Fruitvale. Cal, and Miss Violet Peert of Colorado Springs were married while standing neck deep in the icy waters of the Sacra mento river at San Francisco.
 Convicts from the Missouri state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. were employed to help the farmers save their wheat from the advancing waters of the Missouri river
 An crder was issued at West Poin forbiG6ing any resident of the pos using ice unless it was from a loca pond. The action was taken to pre- vent the spread of typhoid.
 The New England balloon record was broken by William Van Sleet, whC travelled from North Adams, Mass. tC Topsham Me, distance of 1T6 miles in less than seven hours.
 The anticigarette law of the state o Washington was declared uncOnStku tional on the ground that it conflicteC with the provisions of the interstate commerce law.
 The Rev. Joseph Snodgrass was jilt ed at the altar in Mattoon, H.. by f Miss Fannie DOty, who preferred !