Connecticut western news., 1909-10-14
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 controlling interest for S15,0000O0 in the Guayule rubber producing plant in Mexico, he and his associates in the. rubber trust having leased the prod uct of 3,600,0O0 acres of the best Qua yule lands. The owners of the fields had agreed 10 combat the rubber trust, but by paying high prices Rockefeller gained control.
 Former Governor Frank S. Black of New York appeared before the court of appeals at Albany for Harry K. Thaw and attacked the constitutionali- ty of the act under which Stanford Whites slayer was committed to the MGtteawan State Hospital For The Criminal Insane and the law under which Thaw Is being detained in that institution.
 Miss Clara l.. Clemens. daughter of Samuel L. Clemens (Marli Twain) was married at Redding, Conn.,. 10 OssIp Gahrilowitsch. the Russian pianist. The wedding took place in the draw ing room of Mir. Clemens country home, wi;h the Rev. Dr. Joseph II. Twitchcll of Hartford. n close friend of Mir Clemens. as officiating clergy. man.
 A fresh chapter in Governor Hughes anti-race track gambling crusade. which resulted recently in indictments against the Brooklyn Jockey club and the Coney Island Jockey club. was written wh'n ,hc New York police made a spcc tacular raid on the betting ring nt the rack track at Jamaica, N. r., and arrested twelve boolmak- CTS.
 Ruth Bryan Leayitt, daughter of Will. liam J. 3I% m, announced her candl' Gacy for the nomination for congress from the First district of Colorado. Senator Patterson's influence will bc. used for her if the Democratic party of the state shall nominate Il woman for congress. Mrs. Leavitt is president Of the Jane Jefferson club.
 The French battleships that came to- New York for the Hudson-Fulton cele- bration left without firing n salute. The reason alleged was that Admiral Le pord felt hurt by lack of official courtesy on the part of the Hudson Fulton commission although the Amer ican army and naval officers observed. every tenet of etiquette.
 Bob Taft, a Yale senior and son of the president was nominated as one of the nine men to run for senior coun- cil at Yale. from whom four were to- be chosen. Hc was tied In the prima. ries by Fred Murphy. the baseball captain, for last place. Murphy ran. ahead of everybody else.
 X recount of the ballots which de clared Francis ]. Heney, Democratic nominee for district attorney of San, Francisco, was ordered by Judge Nu- TaSky on the plea of Charles NJ. Rick ert, Republican candidate, who declar- cd the nomination was not properly awarded to Heney.
 Samuel Gompers of the Americans Federation of Labor, who went to Eu- rope to study continental labor condi. tions and problems, returned to the United States on the French liner La. Savoie. Labor men met him in New York bay and gave him n rousing wei. come home.
 Mayor O. l.. Ingledue of Marshall town, la; his chief of police and the entire police force, as we'll ms Deputy Sheriff C. F. Nelson. were all indicted for imprisoning for more than twenty four hours government agents who, were seeking evidence against saloons
 The Rhode Island Democratic state convention, held at Providence, made the following nominations: Governor. Olney Arold; lieutenant governor, Thomas A. Carroll; secretary of state, Frank T.. Fitzsimmons; attorney gen craI. James A. Williams.
 Chandler Hale of Maine, son of Sen ator Hale, was appointed third assist. ant secretary of state at Washington to succeed William Phillips of Boston, who will become secretary of the American embassy at London, succeed ing John +. Carter.
 Imagining that he owned pair Of ponies. William x. Pitcher of Winstcd. Conn, wandered away from his homo. In search of them. Some hunters pass ing through the woods found his dead body. Death was caused by starvation.
 With his two wrists handcuffed tc- gether, Edward King. alins Davis, ne- gro convict, on route from Danncmora to the North Carolina state prison. leaped from the St. Louis express and escaped i'm the fog.
 Mary Keegan, the trusted servant of Thomas Barber Kerr of New York. was left St0,00O by him at his death. Other servants who had been with hint over ten years received St,0o0 each.
 The torpedo boat destroyer Reid broke all speed records of American naval craft in her trial trips off Rock. land, Me, making 34.5S2 knots tn hour
 
 ropEtoN The Countess Augusta
 ,,o-ro von Strachwitz, noted
 ~ in Berlin for her ad- VT TN ventures was shot and stabbed to death by Alfred Friedan-