Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
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land in North and South Dakota in October under the homestead laws. The tracts are in the Cheyenne river and Standing Rock allOtments and will sell at prices ranging from 50 cents to $6 an acre.
 Remarkably high speed was made by the torpedo boat destroyer F'lusser in her preliminary trial off the ROckland (MeD course. The fessel scored 31.03 knots per hour, her contract require ments contemplating but 28 knots. Of ficials say this is the fastest speed ever made by an American torpedo boat de- strOyer.
 Charges of cruelty in the discipline )f inmates of the house of refuge on RandalPs island, New York city made to Governor Hughes by "An Inmate of the House of Refuge" and referred to the state board of charities for inves- tigation were sustained in report to the board by it's committee on reform atories.
 Donald Mackay and his partners in the stock brokerage firm of Mackay & Go. of New York were sued for $100,- 900 by Ivan Chaskin, q banker of Par is, in the New York supreme court for an alleged fraudulent deal in stocks by which three clients of the French banker are said to be the losers.
 Miss Sarah Perrin of St. Paul, daughter by a former marriage of Mrs. Charles H. Grady, wife of western newspaper publisher, and Captain Dec. Catlin of the Twenty eighth United States infantry, sta toned at Fort Smelling, Minn., were married at Lake Placid, N. Y.
 The Massachusetts troops were bad ly beaten in the $5O0,OOO war game un, der the direct eye of the federal gov ernment, according to the decision of the umpires, who declared the fnvad- ing army of reds were victorious at every stage of the mimic war in south ern Massachusetts.
 Charging her husband, Major J. Fletcher Hanson, president of the Central of Georgia railroad, with cruelty and with being infatuated with a Mrs. Horner, a suit was start ed in Atlanta, Ga, by Mrs. Cora L. Hanson of Macon, Ga, for divorce.
 William Cramp &S Sons of Philadel- phia were the lowest bidders to build the battleships wycaHtag and Arkan- sas, bids for which were opened at Washington. They submitted two bids, one at $4,450,OO0 and another at $4,475,OOO.
 Wilbur and Orville Wright, the aero plane inventors, began suit in the Unit ed States circuit court at New York against the Aeronautic society. The society is charged with infringements on their patent rights.
 Stephen Calabro of Quincy was dis charged from the Massachusetts Gen eral hospital literally with a new face and scalp following a series of opera tions among the most remarkable in surgical history.
 | Suit against siXty-five insurance com panies doing business in Arkansas, asking penalties of $1,OOO,000 from I each for alleged violations of the Ar kansas antitrust laws, was started in Newport, Ark.
 Two New York schoolboys, Walter Brown and John Munich, who were sent around the world for a record by New York newspaper, completed the circuit of the globe in Al days hours, new record.
 Elmer Burritt Bryan, president of Franklin college, Indiana, was elected ilton, N. Y, to fdl the vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. pr. George Merrill.
 The distance between Pittsburg and Buffalo over the Pennsylvania system will be reduced forty miles by the l building of new railroad fifty-seven miles ldhg to cost Rore than $4,OOOQOO.
 James D.. stoddard, attendant in the Y. M. c. A. gymnasium at St. Louis, who saved three men fBom drowrHng in the Mississippi river on a Sunday, was discharged for his heroic action.
 Throagh the death of Oliver New hOsse of Indianapolis, Albert New house, an inmate sf the poor farm at Bloomington, H., becomes heir to the formers entire fortune of $2OO,0OO.
 By direction of President Taft seven cadets were dismissed from the Unit ed States Military academy at West Point, N. Y, for being involved in the hazing of Cadet Rolando Sutton.
 Helen Kelly Gould was granted by the New York supreme court final decree of absolute divorce from her husband, Frank J. Gould, on the ground of the .latter's infidelity.
 Papers were filed in the Brooklyn supreme court by Mrs. Fannie %Star- field of Newburg, N. Y, for alimony and counsel fee in her fifth action for divorce against Alfred Starfi6ld.
 Watertown was unanimously select. ed by the delegates to the New York State Volunteer Firemen's association in session at POughkeepsie, for the place of convention next year.
 John Franklin Fort, governor of New Jersey, was asked by a body ot reformers to send state troops to At lantic City to enforce the observance | Of thn exciSo law