Connecticut western news., 1909-08-19
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American Sheet and Tin Plate com panys plants in Newcastle, Pa, were served with summonses to apHear be- fore the United States circuit court at Pittsburg to answer suit for $200,0O0 damages entered by, that company, a subsidiary of the U1lited States Steel corporation.
 Alleging illegal practices by the to- ] bacco trust, designed, it is charged, to destroy the plaintiffs independent 1 business, suit was started by the Ware-Gramer Tobacco company in the United States circuit court at Ra- leigh, N. C., against the American Tobacco company. The plaintiff all leges $1,OOO,O0O damages.
 State Comptroller Joshua Herring was unanimously renOminated by the Maryland Democratic state cOnven- tion at Baltimore The platform, which was devoted entirely to state issues, among other things favored the suffrage amendment to the state con- stitution which in effect disfranchises the illiterate negro.
 Llewellyn Williams, janitor of a school i'll Massillon, O., and veteran of the civil war. was notified by his brother, J. w Williams of Los An geles, Cal, that they are heirs to an estate in Wales valued at $50,00O,0 GOO. It consists of three farms, all of which are underlaid with coal and limestone.
 Contracts were awarded by the war department at Washington for khaki with which an army of 100000 men could be clothed. The order, which went to the Massachusetts Cotton mills of Lowell, is for S25, ,OOO yards of the cloth, with the privilege of increas- ing the amount by 30 per cent.
 Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York ascended the famous Sulphur mountain, in Alberta, Canada, in 1 hour 53 minutes, beating the record, made by previous climbers. He did not make any stop after starting un- til he reached the summit, which is 4,OOO feet high.
 An elephant shark, said to be the first ever caught along the Jersey coast, was captured at sea by Cook & Smiths crew and landed on the beach at Galilee, N. l., after a sharp fight. The shark weighed fully thousand pounds and was about twelve feet long.
 In a new district in Colorado and southern Wyoming a marvelously rich strike of gold was made, and there is every indication of camp greater than Cripple Creek and possi- bly greater than Leadville. The. ore assays from $21 to $46 pound.
 Benjamin Levinson, police judge of the city of Nyack, N. Y, and justice of the peace of the township of Clarkstown. was made defendant in a breach of promise suit brought by Miss Rosa Levy of Spring Valley, who sues for $25,0OO.
 More than 751 acres in Forestburg, Sullivan county, N. Y, were sold to Dr. Thomas Darlington, health com missioner of New York, by the estate of Alfred Gilman. The tract will be used as private fish and game pre- serve.
 Peter Leibauch, supposed to be de mented and destitute, was found by the Pittsburg authorities to be the pOssessor of a fortune estimated at $10O,000, most of which was hidden about his house.
 Charles F. Patterson of New York city was sued for divorce filed in Chi. cago by Martha Patterson, who alleg, ed that her husband married another woman recently without obtaining a divorce.
 Orders were issued by Secretary Ma gle that no vacations be given the en- ployees of the department of commerce and labor at Washington until their work caused by the new tariff is fin. ished.
 Hundreds of persons in Winsted COlebrook and TOrringtOn, Conn, were awakened by a great noise, like that accompanying an explosion. It was caused by the fall of large meteor.
 Five hundred children under the chaperonage of thirty members of the Salvation Army were entertained al Lyndhurst, the country home of Miss Helen Gould, near Tarrytown. N. Y.
 Mary Mannering the actress, with drew her suit for divorce from James K. Hackett, but the actor issued s statement denying that he and his wife had become reconciled.
 A marriage license was issued al Pittsburg to Mrs Evallna Hall, wid dow of eighty-ore years, and Robert B. Wright, aged tifty-one years, botf of Turtle Creek, Pa.
 A $1O,00o suit for alleged assault anG battery was filed at NOrristown, Pa. by Miss Blanche Estelle Babcock o1 Philadelphia against Aaron $. Belbel - of ElIins Park, Pa.
 Invitations to accompany President Taft in his October trip down the Mis- sissippi river were accepted by the governors of sixteen states.
 The resignation of William Winter who for forty-fOur years was dramatic critic on the New York Tribune, was received by that paper.
 Rev. Dr. Robert J. Burdette, lecturer and humOrist, was made pastor emer AlD IL.