Connecticut western news., 1909-09-16
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railroads succeeding EdWard Il. liar
 riman Sacob H. Schiff and William
 Rockefeller were elected directors of | both roads to fill vacancies caused by
 the death of MT. Hartman and H. H. l Rogers. J. r. Morgan, Jr., was elected
 director of the National City bank of New York, succeeding to the position formerly held by MT. Hartman.
 The dismasted schooner Henry Cros-
 by was lowed into Mobile, Ala, hay
 ing been picked up twenty-five miles
 off Mobile bay without provisions and
 water by the Florida liner ManteO
 The schooner. a three maSted vessel
 was brought TOO miles under a jury
 mast by Captain C. NJ. Crooks and a | crew of seven men.
 A suit which may create new line
 of litigation was filed in Bridgeport l Conn, by Charles B. Mack, business
 man, asking that an injunction be is
 sued preventing FlOrine F. Camtagh
 from living with his wife, who was di-
 vorced from MT. Mack.
 Helen Kelly Gould, who procured
 final decree of divorce from Frank J. | Gould, signed an agreement i'll New
 York relinquishing her dover right in
 his real estate holdings. The docu
 ment shows that Mrs. Gould received
 $1OS0O0 for so doing.
 One hundred students of Denver
 high schools, including members of some of the wealthiest families of the
 city, were suspended because they re-
 fused to sign pledges renouncing fra
 ternities, societies and other high
 school organizations.
 Colonel C. r. Williams of Albany, N. Y, who served for many years as
 assistant adjutant general, was sworn
 in as adjutant general of the division
 of the national guard to fill the vacan
 cy caused by the death of General
 Frederick Phisterer.
 To William Cramps Sons & Go. and
 the New York Shipbuilding company
 were awarded the contracts for con-
 structing one each of the new Ameri-
 can Dreadnoughts of 26,000 tons to be
 officially known as the Wyoming and
 the Arkansas.
 The civil action brought by the gov
 ernment against the Barber Lumber
 company to cancel entry to 10000
 acres of timber land in Boise basin,
 Idaho, valued at $1,0O0,00O was dis
 missed by United States District Judge
 Bean. J"
 While fishing off San Clements is
 land, California, L. G. Murphy of Con-
 verse, Ind, caught a swOrdfish nine
 feet seven inches long that weighed
 163 pounds and was armed with a two
 and a half foot sword.
 At the business session of the Amer
 ican Press Humorists' association in Buffalo John D. Wells was elected . president, Newton Newkirk vice presi- dent and Cy Warman, Montreal, sec
 retary and treasurer.
 Mrs. Mary c. Kendregen, aged , eighty, week ago an object of charity in San Francisco, will receive property
 worth $1,OOO,OOO left by her husband in New York, whom she had not seen for , half century.
 . Professor Henry c. Emery of Yale, James B. Reynolds of Massachusetts
 and Alvin H. Sanders of Chicago were appointed by President Taft as a con- . mission to assist him in executing the new tariff law.
 s The entire plant of the Fall River Cotton mills at Fall River, Mass, own ed by NJ. c. D. Borden of New York was closed following a strike of the weavers, and 5000 operatives are in idleness.
 Miss Pauline Frederick, the actress formerly leading woman for William Gillette, was married in Jersey City, N. J., to Frank NJ. Andrews, a New York architect, by Judge Robert Mil Ter.
 Former President Roosevelt request ed that the United States government [ send supply of black bass to British 2 East Africa to be deposited in Lake :. Naivasha. It will be complied with. Homer Davenport, cartoonist, was ordered by the New York supreme | court to allow his wife, Daisy B. Dav- } enport, $400 q month alimony pending the trial of her suit for separation. The cranberry crop in Wisconsin was rWned by frost and fire On l. many Of the larger marshes no at tempt will be made at picking. 9th CTS suffered losses of 50 per cent An order was granted at Trenton. k N. J., requiring the International Tele- 2 graph Construction company, New York corporation, to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed. The Cunard line steamer Maurerania ! broke all transatlantic records by mak-
 ing the crossing between Queenstown ;. and New York in days Il hours 30 : minutes.
 : Tom L. Johnson, three times mayor F of Cleveland, was renominated for that E. position on the Democratic ticket at the primary election held in that city Harry BOnk was sued in Brooklyn [ by Elka Bonk, his second wife, to re- B. cover $20,OOO damages for false repre- sentations and deception of her Quo warranto proceedings were !: started in Columbus, O., against the + National Cash Register company of $, Dayton O.