Connecticut western news., 1909-04-01
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MISS Helen Emery daughter of ArchdeacOn Emery of the Episcopal diocese of California. was married to GunJiro A0ki a Japanese, at Seattle Wash, after having travelled Ovel I.OOO miles to become legally united the laws of California fOrbidding tA2 marriage of white person with q Japanese. Miss Emery on leaving her nome at COrte Madeira, Cal, had DpCI hooted and pelted by the angry citi- Zens.
 In an attempt to see his mother be- fore she died Frank A. Vanderli. president 0f the National City bank oS New York, chartered d special trai over the New York Central and was vhirlCd to Chicago in fifteen hours ""d forty-three minutes. exclusive cf stops to change engines. Although NJ Nanderlip's train eclipsed all previous records, death beat him by about hnli an hour, and he found his mother dead.
 With 1000 passengers aboard the sound steamship Providence was lowed into Newport, k. l., from a point near Point Judith. where in the night the steamer was disabled by floating log, which broke her port pad dle wheel. The passengers. unaware of the accident, were greatly aston ished when they awoke to find them selves 9t Newport instead of New York.
 The United Mine Workers conTen. tiOn at Scranton, Pa, passed a res olu- tion authorizing the executive board to appeal to President Taft to appoint commission to arbitrate the differences with the anthracite operators. The convention also decided to direct the miners to remain at work after April 1 pending further negotiations.
 A fire on the liner Cretic, which ar rived at New York from Mediterra- mean ports caused a panic among the 1900 steerage passengers, and a hun dred of them endeavOred to secure all the lifebOats. They were overcome after severe methods had been adopt ed. The blaze amounted to nothing and was quickly eXtinguished.
 Dean George D. Frankferter of tho college of chemistry of the University of Minnesota discovered a method whereby the United States will pro duce a hundred times as much wood pulp paper as was believed possible. The new discovery will utilize most of the 60 per cent of tree that i5 now wasted
 After travelling for four months through the body of Mrs. Okla Jen- nings of Cincinnati, piercing the walls of her stomach, a glass headed steel pin accidentally swallowed by her ap- peared in her mouth and was extract ed from the plate. The pin had made complete circuit of the woman's body.
 Mrs. Julia Kuttner Earle, the "affini- ty' wife of Artist Ferdinand P. Earle. at Monroe, Orange county, N. Y., brought suit to have the marriage an nulled on the ground that Earle was never divorced from his first wife. She alleges that Earle was a lunatic and asked the custody of their child.
 Police Commissioner Bingham of New York announced that he had been approached by a man high in municipal affairs who offered him a bribe of $50,OO0 a month for a whole year if he would protect certain gambling inter ests He said he ordered the man out of his office.
 In accordance with a decision an nounced at Detroit, Mich, by the Unit ed-StateS court of appeals Mrs. Caro- line Eddy, aged eighty-siX, will receive S1O0O00 from the estate of her late husband instead of an annuity of $500, on which she has been living for eight years.
 The Maine senate refused to repeal the Sturgis law, passed in 1905, for the enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law. The question of repeating the law and of resubmitting prohibit tion to the voters was a prominent po- liticaI issue in recent state campaigns.
 The national government began mak- ing tests of the coals of the Rocky mountain region at the geological sur , vey plant i'll Denver to determine whether coke can be secured for the use of the great metallurgic interests of the west.
 , Postmaster General Hitchcock con- cluded an agreement with Great Brit ain whereby the reduced rate of 2 cents an ounce on letters exchanged , between Great Britain and Ireland and the United States will be extended to Hawaii
 President Taft ordered that the spelling of the Lasalle national forest in southeastern Utah be changed to La Sal to conform with the local ap- pelation of the name of Salt moun- ] tains called by the Spanish La Sal.
 Companies operating iron furnaces in the Lehigh valley region of Penn sylvania reduced the pay of furnace men 10 per cent, putting wages back to the level of 1905. About 1000 work CTS are affected.
 The Rev. Charles w. Dane, pastor of the Methodist church at Woodbury, Conn, disappeared simultaneously with the wife of George Proctor, a grocery man. Dane's wife sued for divorce