Connecticut western news., 1909-09-09
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Carrying out his determination to be- come a common laborer, Judge Jo- seph k. Clarksou, whose strange ac- tiOns in leaving his home and friends to work i'll button factory at Sabuia, ] Ia., caused a sensation a few weeks ago, went to work at the plant of kenosha (Wis) company.
 All Sunday baseball was declared of for this season at Atlantic City, N. J., following the issuance of injunctionS forbidding the games by Acting Chan cellOr Walker, which were served on Commodore Louis Kuehnie, president of the baseball syndicate, and Manager Edward Bader.
 Three extraordinary terms of the supreme court were convened by Gov ernOr Hughes to pass upon the fran chise tax appeals, of which there are more than ;,UUO pending and which in- volve the final valuation of more than $4O,O0O,UO0 of corporation property.
 Frederick pliny Lilley, son of the late Governor Lilley of Connecticut, and Miss Perle A. Anderson, daughter of Thomas H. Anderson, associate jus tice of the district supreme court, were married at the home of Justice and Mrs. Anderson in Washington.
 Contracts with the San Francisco Bridge company for the construction of the Pearl harbOr dry dock. Hawaii at $1,700,0OO and with the Maryland 1 Steel company for the construction of a fleet collier at $SS9 1000 were awarded by the secretary of the navy.
 Members of PItts6urg society were surprised when they found that Louise Woods, who plays the role of Alice Rand ill "Is MatrimOny a Failure?" at the Belasco theater in New York, is Mrs. Louise Speigel Woods, formerly a leader in Pittsburg society.
 Another victory was recorded by the | Schoenville strikers when members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen employed on the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad refused to carry ! any more strike breakers to the Press ed Steel Car company's plant. l Fifty thousand full meals, including 22,000 pounds of barbecued meat and i 45O0 gallons of Kentucky "burgoo," were consumed by the people who took advantage of the first day of the lief ferson barbecue held at the state fair ! grounds in Louisville, Ky.
 The Rev. Dr. J. Whitcomb BrOugher of White temple, Portland, Ore, was chosen as pastor of Temple Baptist church at Los Angeles, Cal, to succeed Rev. Dr. R. J. Burdette, the noted preacher and humorist, whose illness l forced his resignation.
 Wells, Fargo & Co. completed ar engagements which give that company a monopoly of the express business in | Mexico, together with a practical con- cession of the parcels post privilege OH d partnership basis with the Mexican government.
 A record three knots faster than that of any ship in the United States navy was scored by the Bath built torpedo boat destroyer Flusser in a standard ization trial, the first of her official ac- ceptance trials on the Rockland NIe) mile course.
 Adelaide Trapp, an eighteen-year-old Brooklyn schoolteacher, accomplished the feat of swimming through He'll Gate, New York. No woman has ever before succeeded in completing the task, although many have made the at tempt.
 A land sale which will terminate q dispute over the location of a $5O,O00 bridge was concluded when the west ern part of Bar island, Maine. was pur- chased for $150,0OO by Edward T. Stokesbury, Philadelphia banker.
 Every beer sign in the state of Mich | igan was torn from its place and every free lunch closed up. The new law calls for Q o'clock closing, though com mon councils have the privilege to ex- tend the hours to midnight
 The Cuban legation, which was housed at the Hotel MasconOmO. Man chester. Mass. the past summer, was summarily thrown out of it's quarters by the sudden closing of the hotel un- der unusual circumstances.
 William T. Foley, twenty-one and until recently employed as a messen- ger boy, and Mrs. Louise V. Rcitz, | ' men socially in Evansville. were wed ded at Mount Carmel. III.
 Four of the five indictments found against Raymond Hitchcock, the CO median, on Oct. 30, 1907, the fifth hay ing resulted in. his acquittal on June 20, 1908, were dismissed by Judge Mul- queen at New York.
 An agreement was reached in Wash ington by American and Cuban postal officials by which the sending of lot tery tickets from Cuba to the United States through the mails will be pre- vented absolutely.
 Great South beach from Fire island and ten miles eastward was strewn with boxes of lemons in good condi- tion. They were thrown from a pass ing fruit steamer which sought to tighten its load.
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