Connecticut western news., 1909-07-29
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MrS. Mary Copley InaW called 1ue Secret Unveiled" It is an attack on District Attorney Jerome, a criticism of insanity experts, review of the Thaw trials and plea for the wlease of Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stan ford White, who, she says, is ''an aver age young man with a chivalrous na- ture, as shown by his attempt to break up disreputable places"
 Trenton (N. J.) society was stirred by the elopement of Frederick Jeffer- son Sharp, originator and builder of the Sharp Arrow" automobile, and Miss Bessie May Worth a prominent girl of Trenton. To escape the pur- suing parents of the girl, MT. and Mrs. Collin M.r Worth, the couple were forced to leap into one of MT. Sharp's swiftest cars.
 About 5000 motormen and conduc- tors employed by the Interstate Rail- ways company on traction lines in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware were surprised when the controlling company announced re- sumption of the 1872 cents an hour "dSG 41dLC HUH l" d AONhNlIOA OA IF cents was made year ago.
 An opinion of interest to automobile owners was given at Albany, N. Y., by Attorney General O'Malley to s. S. Koenig, secretary of state, in which he holds that there is no provision of law requiring the owner of a motor car or any member of his family to
 
 operating his machine. . 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 New York court by Anna Berthe GrunSpan, a young Frenchwoman, who sues for $100,00O.
 The Ethiopian Life Insurance com pany was incorporated at Albany. N. Y, with capital of $100,O00 It is the first negro stock corporation of its kind in the history of the state and the first negro corporation with a cap ital of its size in the history of the United States.
 The Hartford Life Insurance com pany was ordered by Judge Shumway of the Connecticut superior court to distribute among the policy holders of the Hartford Life and Annuity com- pany a million dollar fund claimed by both the company and the policy hold CTS. Charles R. Crane of Chicago, newly appointed minister to China, was en- tertained at luncheon in New York by representatives of the American bank ing syndicate organized to demand participation in the Chinese Hankow railroad loan.
 ~The engagement of Miss Dorothy Lawson, third daughter of Thomas W. Lawson, to Henry Mccall, second son of Congressman Mccall of Winchester, was announced at Boston. Miss Law son will be married in January at Dreamwold.
 The North Jersey Street Railway company was ordered to pay Jersey City an immense amount of money on street car licenses which the city had failed to collect since 1867 by Judge Swayze in the supreme court at Tren- ton.
 The engagement of Edward I. Cuda. hy, who was kidnapped by Pat Grove to Miss Lenore Brewer, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Brewer of San Fran. cisco, with a country home at San Mateo, was announced in Omaha.
 Several remarkable cures, set down as miracles and credited to the inter vention of St. Anne, were reported at the closing of the novena to the moth CT of the virgin in the Church of St Jean Baptiste, New York.
 A suit for divorce was started at Trenton, N. J., by Mrs. Frank J Beekman against her husband because he has refused to speak to her since 1905, answering questions by a nod or shake of the head.
 Colonel Alexander H. Holt, aged sev- enty years, of Washington and Miss Helen MacGriswoId, sixty years old, also of Washington, were married in New York.
 Frank Gilmore of Watertown, Conn. was sued by Charles Fields, who sought to recover damages for injuries received thr2lga the stinging of hon. ey bees.
 Suit was started in New York by Mrs. Eliza c. Dunlop to compel the executors of her husbands estate tC pay her the income from a bequest o1 $150,0O0.
 William Franklin Willoughby ot Alexandria, Va, at present secretary of state of Porto Rico, was appointed assistant director of the census.
 Miss Mabel Dixey was married tC Robinson Locke, owner of the Toledo Blade of Toledo, O., at the DixeS homestead in Yonkers, N. I.
 The E. R. Thomas company of Buff falo was absorbed by the Chalmers Detroit Automobile company of De troit.
 A whale measuring eighteen feet was captured by William Van Ness o1 Long Beach, N. T., off a sandbar there