Connecticut western news., 1909-11-25
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Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, leader of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of New York, who was eXcommuni- cated by the mother church in Boston on charges Of teaching heresy and practicing malicious animal magnet ism reSignpI her membership in the church and gave uo her $5,0OO a year salary in letter ill which she eXhOrt- cd her followers to remain loyal to their "belOvcd leader, Mary Baker Eddy"
 Following a threat by Governor rtubbS of Kansas to institute receiver lhip proceedings against the Central i:iyiilh Il railroad, a subsidiary road of the Missouri Pacific system, unless the line be improved speedily George ]. Gould, president of the Missouri Pa Citic company, assured the governor that the road was to be improved i'm mediately.
 For the purpose of controlling absO- Iutely ill this country and Canada all aviation by means of heavier than air machines the Wright company, backed by financiers controlling hundreds of millions of dollars, was formed at New York. Among those in the trust are August BelmOnt,r Cornelius Van derbilt. Howard Gould and Theodore r. ShOnts.
 Suit for an absolute divorce and the custody of her two children was in- Stituted at Washington by Mrs. Mary Sherman McCallum, the adopted daughter and heireSs of the late John Sherman of Ohio. secretary of state, secretary of the treasury and senator She charged her husband with inf delity
 The annual report of the isthmian canal commission estimated the cost of the Panama canal at $375, POI ,OOO The first estimate, under the act of June, 1902, provided for the eXpendi- ture of $144, ,233,350. A modification adopted ill 1906 fixed the cost, exclu- sive of the purchase price, at $139, T05,- POO.
 Dr. Louise G. Rabinovitch, the young Russian woman who recently annOunc- ed that she could restore to life those
 
 by electricity, gave q remarkable dem- onstratiOn before the officers of the New York Edison company, New York by reviving an apparently dead rabbit. The new Pennsylvania railroad tun- nels connecting New Jersey and Long Island and extending under the island of Manhattan were formally opened. President McCrea of the Pennsylvania system and party of friends and off cfals made the trip in the first car to pass through tn big tubes.
 Mrs. William Hayes Chapman of New York, who recently inherited $1O,- OO0,OO0 upon her aged husband's s death and who was reported to be en- gagged to General Count Spiridovitch | of Russia, was secretly married to Philip von Volkenburgh in a country town ill Connecticut.
 Lucius Futile was reelected presi- dent of the Boston and Maine railroad l by the directors at Boston. Charles s. Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; J. r. Morgan of New York and William i Skinner of HolyOke, Mass, were elect ed directors.
 A general strike of 10000 women shirt waist makers voted by the Wo- mems Waist Makers union began ir all the shops in New York. The wo men demand an increase of wages from 9 to 30 per cent and fifty-twC hours to be full weeks work.
 Because the American Trust con- pany of Philadelphia accepted as col, lateral security for a loan bonds of a coal company the value of which was uncertain the bank was closed by or. der of State Commissioner of Banking William H. Smith.
 Governor Deneen of Illinois removed Sheriff Frank E. Davis of Alexander county because Davis allowed William James, negro mur@c CT, and Henry Sal@ner, white uXOricide, to be taken from the jail at Cairo and lynched.
 To the surprise of the faculty and students, Professor Harry Alonzc Cushing, dean of Columbia university Law school at New York, suddenly re. signed and left the city.
 Christie MacDCnaldy the comic opera singer, began suit at Buffalo for d divorce from William Winter Jeffcr. son, son of the late Joe Jefferson, the famous comedian.
 The Standard Steel Car coHp&Ay gave the 5000 workmen employed i" it's plant al Butler, Pa. 10 per cent increase ill wages.
 Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who recently obtained divorce, sailed from New York on the Lustania to pass the win ter il Europe.
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