Connecticut western news., 1909-12-02
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Lyman ]. Gage, former secretary of
 the treasury. was married at San
 Diego, Cal, to Mrs. Ada Ballou, daugh-
 ter of George M. Ballou. Mir. Gage is
 Seyc3ty-threc years old, and the bride
 is widow of thirty-five. Mir Gage
 for two years has made his home in
 the Theosophical community at Point
 Lnma. Cal. presided over by Kuth-
 crime Timgley, and he has been closely
 associated with Mime. Tingley, the purple mother"
 Control of virtually all the independ
 ent telephone lines in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Allegheny counties passed into the hands of the } Continental Telephone ard Telegraph company of New York with the pur- chase of the American Union Tele- phone company, which was formed two years ago for the purpose of con- tinuing the independent lines in Penn Iylvania.
 Common Pleas Court Judges Robert H. Campbell and Henry C. McCray of Ashland, O., were disbarred from the practice of law in Ohio by Il special tribunal composed of the common pleas judges of five neighboring counties. The action was based upon the part the two jurists took in the disposing of an estate.
 Chief Justice William J. Mills of the New Mexico supreme court was ap } pointed governor of New Mexico by President Taft. He was appointed } chief justice in 1898 by President Me } Kinley. He is Il Yale graduate and was d citizen of Connecticut before } he went to New Mexico
 The Newport Yacht club of Newport IL. l., elected Ida Lewis, keeper of Lime Rock lighthouse in Newport har- Dor, well known as life saver, an honorary member of the club, and she thus has the distinction of being the first woman member of this yachting organization.
 Bessie De Voc of New York, who is suing Frank l. Gould for $200,0O0 } heart balm," also began an action for $100,000 damages against William \. } Slayback, wealthy broker and per sonal friend of AIr. Gould, who, shc alleges, influenced Mir. Gould not to marry her.
 Miss Mary Custis Lee of Richmond, ' Va, only daughter of General Robert } l.. Lee, the Confederate leader, sold 2 the George Washington tent, in which , the father of his country lived during 2 the Revolutionary war, to the Valley } Forge Museum of Pennsylvania for ' 5000.
 Miss Georgian Young, daughter of d | Pittsburg business man, brought suit in the United States district court al pittsburg asking $50,OO0 damages p from James w. Corrigan, millionaire \ ore shipper, alleging breach of prom ise.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in his annual report to the president said that the value of the farm products of the country for this year is $s,760,- \ 100000. The gain of this year over S the preceding year is $S69,O00y000. William Indicher of Beverly, N. l., \ formerly of Vienna, received dispatch. es saying that the emperor of Austria \ had reinstated him as a lieutenant of } the imperial guards, from which he \ was dismissed several years ago.  \ to Marcus M Marks, president of the Tuberculosis Preventorium For Chil- \ dren New York society, protesting against the invasion of that state by ' tuberculosis patients.
 ' After being reported missing for s eighteen days John Jacob Astor's ' yacht Nourmahal was located at San \ Juan, Porto Rico, having come through \ hurricane weather without sustaining b injury.
 Governor Hughes of New York ap- ' pointed Orion Howard Cheney to be \ superintendent of banks to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation of | Clark Williams. The salary is $7,000 ' Mrs. Humphry Ward, the British S authoress, accepted the vice presidcn- ' cy of the National League For the > Civic Education of Women, an Amer 2 ican organization of antisuffragists. s Arthur A. Zimmerman, at one time \ champion bicyclist, began suit for di- vorce ill chancery at Newark, N. J. \ His wife Mrs. Grace Zimmerman, was ' said to be of unsound mind. ' Governor Hughes of New York call ' ed n special election in the Seventh ! senatorial district of Kings county for Dec. 21 to elect successor to Sena- ! tor Patrick H. McCarren. Bituninous coal operators at Pitts burg combined ill request to Presi- \ dent Taft that railroads be permitted to pool freights under the supervision ' of the government.
 ? na,-o Because she would not leave her mother and ? NND live in another house CASOAL 'Eo' with him, Patrick H. ? Raffertv. a contractor of Brooklyn