Connecticut western news., 1909-08-05
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miners involving at least 10000 men was ayerted. An amicable agreement was reached at Pittsburg between President Lewis and the officials of the Pittsburg Coal company which means peace in the coal regions for months, possibly years to come.
 William English Walling of Chicago, Socialist, husband of Anna Strunsky, the noted Russian authoress, and grandson of a candidate for vice presi- dent, was made the defendant in an action for breach of promise, brought in a New York court by Anna Berthe Grunspan, a young F'renchwoman, who sues for $1OO0OO.
 Following complaints from citizens, who said the game was insulting to loyal Americans, a booth in the Jap anese village at the Alaska-YukonPa Pa cific exposition at Seattle, Wash, which contained an attraction known as ''Assaulting Uncle Sam's Whiskers," was closed by the director of conces- SionS
 In a realistic war test carried out in the upper part of Portsmouth harbor the inefficiency of a massive boom with wire entanglements to prevent the entrance of hostile torpedo craft was fully demonstrated, the torpedo boat destroyer Ferret cutting through the Instructions with the greatest ease { Joseph Cohen, rated as millionaire manufacturer of corsets, was placed in the Ludlow street jail, New York. for failure to pay an installment on a Judgment which Hyman Rappaport ob- tained against him some time ago in suit for the alienation of Mrs. Rap paport's affections.
 Manning c. Palmer, former presi- dent of the American Exchange Ma tional bank of Syracuse, N. Y., who was convicted of misapplication of the banks funds and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Auburn state prison, was pardoned by Presi- dent Taft
 Another chapter in the Sullivan-C Craig slot machine mixup was written when an order was issued directing that a judgment in favor of Ralph J. Craig for SS34.77 be filed against Timothy F, Sullivan, otherwise Little Tim," for work in installing the machines i'll New York
 Harry S. Rightmire, well known and we'll connected resident of Cam den, N J., was summarily arrested on suspicion as burglar at Ocean City and was detained ten hours in the stuffy little box of a lookup. His innocence was then established
 Miss, Helen Skipworth Wilmer, a Baltimore woman of wealth and so- cial position, settlement worker and charity nurse of the Johns Hopkins dispensary, was married at Baltimore to Dr. Caleb N. Athey, health ward en of Baltimore county.
 Formal application was made in Al bany by the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance company for permission to buy 250 acres Of land in New York state, on which to build a sanitarium for the treatment of employees suffering from tuberculosis.
 An order was issued by Supreme Court Justice Bischoff in New York re. ducing the bail of Charles w. Morse the convicted banker, to 5000 on an indictment returned against him in the court of general sessions alleging per- jury. .- l Without dissenting vote and car rfed forward upon a wave of enthu- siasm, the bill to ratify the income tax amendment to the constitution of the United States was adopted by the l lower branch of the Alabama leglisla- ture.
 Frank Cozonova Jones, Jr., son of a wealthy New York manufacturer, and Miss Gladys Kemp, daughter of Mrs l George Kemp, were married at Provi dence, R. l., under circumstances that point to an elopement.
 Three swimmers, attacked with cramps while they were bathing il Wickham lake, at Warwick, N. Y. were rescued by Miss Grace Kane l who swan out to them with life pre- servers.
 Mrs. Virginia Prickett Burrows daughter of Banker w. R. Prickett o1 Edwardsville, H., was married tC Henry Clay Pierce, the multimillion aire refiner of Texas, in London.
 Robert Taylor was held a prisoner for several hours in coal mine a 1 Plainsvilie Pa, while the water slow ly crept up to his throat. He wa' rescued just In time.
 Mrs. Isabelle Belmont. formerly al actress, and Sfdmond Nellie, wealth! broker, with business interests in Chi cago and other cities, were secretl! married in New York.
 A powerful new automatic pocke gun, whose projectiless will pierce hal inch Bessemer steel at 1000 yards was invented by Alexander E. McKeel of ROxbury, Mass.
 Twenty-seveh persons were rescued by the crew of the presidents yach
 Sylph off Biddeford Pool, Me. The.
 were in a power boat when it cap sized.
 After a courtship of fifty year
 Brum Barnes and Miss Brach Croucl