Connecticut western news., 1909-10-07
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The fight for the office of district at
 torney of New York county became | triangular one when the Democratic
 county convention nominated George | Gordon Battle. an organization Tam
 many man and former assistant dis
 trict attorney, for the place. The Re publican county convention nominated
 Charles s. Whitman for district attor-
 ney. William Travers Jerome, the
 present incumbent. was nominated in
 dependently for reelection.
 Mrs. Marshall Clark of Chicago
 brought suit for S150.000 damages
 against Miss Antoinette Elizabeth Gag
 gam, possessor of a fortunerof $3,500,-
 900 and a palatial home at Cornwall
 on-the Hudson,t N. Y., charging the
 young woman with alienating the af-
 fections of her husband, an astrologer
 known as Professor Niblo."
 At the New York city Democratic
 convention, held in Tammany hall,
 Justice William ]. Gaynor of the su
 preme court was nominated for mayor on platform which advocated munic- , ipal ownership of traffic lines. Justice Gaynor accepted the nomination and said he would resign from the supreme court bench.
 , Sentenced to dismissal from the United States army on the charge of having 'in his clothes bag in his tent bottle of intoxicating liquor," Cadet } Joseph F. Carberry of the United States Military academy at West Point } was permitted to remain in the serv- ice through the leniency of President } Taft.
 } After an eight years fight Mayor Tom L. Johnson yielded to the Cleve- } land Railway company in the final dis pute on terms of new traction fran ] chise when his council voted to abide by Judge k. w. Taylor's decision as to } the rate of fare and valuation of the traction system in new grants. Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, widow of the Chicago traction magnate. won her foNr years legal fighting for her dow " rights and forced her opponents in the fight for her husbands millions to capitulate. Under the settlement Mrs. Yerkes will get third interest of the estate, or about $4,000,000.
  perial Order of the Dragon was con ferred upon Admiral Seymour aboard the British warship Inflexible at New York as a recognition of the esteem of the Americans who served under him duIing the expedition for the relief of Pekin in 1900.
 The state court of claims awarded 10 fohf company of Fulton, N. r., S299,000 damages for property and water rights in the Oswego river appropriated by New York for the barge canal. The company asked for S3, ,42S02S. Frank Trimble, one of the leading members of the Indiana university football squad, died at Bloomington, Ind, of blood poisoning, caused by wearing a tight shoe Trimble played guard on the varsity team in 1908. The library of Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, who died in Washington last summer, was presented to the Col lege of the City of New York by John Claflin. It consists of 6,000 volumes and about 5000 rare pamphlets. MT. and Mrs. William J. Bryan ob- z served their twenty-fifth wedding an , niversary at Lincoln, Neb., the house ' being decorated with flags and flowers ; and filled with messages and presents from all parts of the world. The squadron of six submarine boats ! constructed by the Electric Boat com \ pany of Quincy, Mass, for the gov ernment completed all tests and were turned over to the naval officials at the e Charlestown navy yard.
 ! An order was issued by Chief of Po- lice Steward of Chicago that hence ! forth ambulances and patrol wagons shall carry spirits of ammonia for re ! viving victims of accidents instead of brandy.
 ' Richard Updike Sherman, second son of Vice President James s. Sherman ! and former secretary to the collector of the port of New York, was married , at Utica. N. Y, to Miss Eleanor Millar of Utica.
 An ordinance providing that all steam railroads entering Chicago shall be electrified after Jan. l, 1912, within eight miles of the city hall was intro duced in the Chicago city council. Eighteen physicians, the entire staff of the Elliott hospital, at Manchester N. H., resigned owing to a disagree ment over the retention of Miss Au. . gusta c. Robertson as matron. Charles NJ. Pratt. general secretary of the Standard Oil company and pres. ident of the Pratt institute of Brook. lyn, gave the school an endowment fund of S1,T00,000.
 . The will of Anthony Whaley was . filed at Mineola, N. Y, and left S5O0O to his niece, Floretta Whaley, who : eloped with the Rev. ]. K. Cooke three years ago.
 ' Mrs. Thomas B. Wanamaker, widow of the late Thomas B. Wanamaker ' son of John Wanamaker, was married in Philadelphia to pr. Archibald c [ Thomson.
 z Charles w. Morse was elected presi