Connecticut western news., 1909-07-22
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 William Knight in the United States district court, Brooklyn, although he has been in the United States navy since 1882 and wears a congressional medal of honor for bravery at the bat tie of Manila, because his mother was a Chinese, the judge ruling that Mon gOlian blood barred any one from be- coming naturalized.
 The will of Mrs. Florence Belle Quincy, daughter of the late A. j.. Ford, was probated at Richmond. The Rev Parker Morgan of New York was named as trustee for Charles E. Quincy, Jr., a nineteen-year-old son, who is to get $25,OOO a year until he is thirty-five, when he will receive the whole property, valued at S1.000,000.
 The Rev Walter D. Buchanan of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian church. who Is one of the benefciaries under the will of the late R. G. Dun, was charged in the Kings county (N. YD supreme court with seriously interfer- ing with the trustees because his all lowance from the estate was not in creased.
 Papers contesting the will of Count ess LOrena de la Montanya, who com mitted suicide. were filed in San Fran cisco by her brother. Howard Ba"bicr who alleges that she was of unsound mind and was unduly influenced by i Dora A. Heath and Anna Keane. The estate was valued at $20,0O0.
 Plans were filed for twelve story apartment house to be erected for the Riviera Realty company on the easter ! ly side of Riverside drive. New York, | from designs by William L. Rouse and ] L. A. GOldstone. It wal contain 150 suits of apartments and will cost l $1,7OO.OOO.
 Ledyard Cogswell. president of the l New York State National bank of AL 1 bany, was elected president of the l New York State Bankers association at the convention at Saratoga Springs, ! N. Y, receiving eighty-nine votes to l thirty-eight cast for F. F. Lyford of i WaverIy.
 i It was announced at Atlantic City, i N. J., that the supposed Miss Eliza 1 beth Ostrander, daughter of MT. and Mrs Charles w. Ostrander and a re- i sort belle. was secretly married to Howard Westley French, a prominent young Baltimorean, on Washington's i birthday.
 i The Metropolitan Securities compa- ny, New York $3O,OOO,OOO holding 1 corporation. was ordered by the Unit 1 ed States circuit court of appeals at New York to pay the New York City Railroad cOmpany $5,271,5S2, balance l due on the purchase price of $S,000,- 900.
 i Representative Frank Clark of Flori- 1 da, who voted with the Republicans on items in the pending tariff bill af- l fecting his own state, was depOsed as secretary of the Democratic congress sional committee at a caucus of house Democrats in Washington.
 Mrs. Marion Hill Dodge, divorced wife of Don A. Dodge of New York, was married to Alexander r. Leon- hardt president of the New Orleans board of trade, at Baltimore as the continuation of a romance beginning d score of years ago.
 ! estate amounting to $225,0O0 were transferred to Yale university by the Title Guarantee and Trust company. This represents another investment of Yale funds in real estate in New York
 A new motor the invention of Charles Godlove, a St. Louis boy which combines the best features of | the standard motors in a simpler way. was entered at the United States pat ent office for the American rights.
 Mrs. Mary Blair Brokaw was grant ed $1,000 a month alimOny and $5,000 1 counsel fees in the supreme court at Patchogue, N. Y, pending the decision in her divorce suit against her hus- band, w Gould Brokaw.
 Ella Gingles was cleared of the charge of stealing lace from Miss Az nes Barretta, her former employer. but her story of an attmept to force her into white slavery was denounced as untrue by the jury.
 After many years of delay actual construction work was started on the $21 100000 six track electric line of the New York and Port Chester rail road, running from Harlem to Port Chester.
 Chin Que Shue, alias Charles k. Shue, the Chinese justice of the peace. was charged in Boston with aiding and abetting the smuggling of thirty-thrce Chinamen into the United States.
 Rev. Albert Bruchles was deposed from the pastOrate of Hope Presby- terian chapel, New York, because he persisted in preaching sermons against the rich after being cautioned.
 Charles Edward Curtis, president of the City bank of New Haven, Conn.,, was secretly married to Miss Elizabeth Lee Sherwood, his second cousin, in New York.
 Mrs. Lucie Blakely of Long Branch N. J., was granted a Nebraska divorce from Charles Blakely on a charge of cruelty. Her alimony was fixed at $25, 5,OOO.