Connecticut western news., 1910-03-10

cENEpn, John W. Hunt the
 nr,.o 'turpentine king" and
 multimilIiOnaire, has rENlN4S' brought suit in the supreme court, Brooklyn, for divorce. He charged his wife with intimacy with Prince Alexander Tcherdiadieff, a cousin of Czar Nicholas of Russia. The trial of suit of Mrs. Emma D. Andrews, a social leader of Philadel- phia, against Alfred w. Chandler, stockbroker. who, she charges, induc- ed her to invest $8O,0OO in bankrupt transit companies, in the United States circuit court in New York ended in verdict of $17,515 for the plaintiff.
 Theodore A. Ryerson, scion of the well known and wealthy family and a prominent broker and member of the New York Stock Exchange, was defendant in a suit for breach of prom ise brought by Helen M. Walters of Chicago in the supreme court in New York for $5O,OOO damages
 President Taft gave Senator Depew his consent that the $5,OOO cup to be offered by the Atlantic Yacht club of New York for an international yacht race between some European port and Sandy Hook shall be named the pres idents cup"
 Robert D. Peary declined to submit his proofs that he discovered the north pole to the subcommittee of the house naval committee at Washington, de- claring that his contracts with his publishers made it impossible for him to do so.
 F. Augustus Heinze was reindicted by the federal grand jury in New York on fourteen counts charging him with misrepresentation of funds of the Mer- cantile National bank while he was president of that institution
 The Western Union Telegraph com pany took over the American District Telegraph company of New Jersey, $1O,OOO,O0O concern which operates the blue uniform messenger boy service in the United States.
 The Oklahoma house of representa- tives at Guthrie passed the Taylor election bill, which disqualifies from voting on amendments to the constitu-
  ther was a slave.
 Miss Estelle Stout, twenty years old was acquitted of the murder of Henry Hornberger whom she shot and killed in Chicago In defending herself and her sister from the attacks of the man. The president commuted to five years the sentence of seven years i'm
  in 1907. He was charged with photo graphing two dollar silver certificates. General Wood, who was in a hospi- tai in Baltimore for several weeks after two operations, left the hospital entirely cured and resumed command of the department of the east.
 Tufts college, Dedham, Mass, was made the residuary legatee to an es- tate valued at $5OO,OOO under the will of the late John Everett Smith, a wealthy Norwood printer.
 Because of a quarrel with the man. ager of "The Prima Donna" company Miss Fritzi Scheff abruptly quit the company at Detroit, Mich., and went to New York.
 The board of pardons at Trenton N. J commuted to life Imprisonment the death sentence of Giovani Maioni who was to die for the murder of Marie Lupo.
 Rector Heffron of the Seminary of St. Paul, Minn., was appointed bishop of WinOna.
 cp,MEc Two Italians with po-
 .z lice records were ar
 rested in New York CASOA-ilGo' as the ones who sent Black Hand letters to EnricO CarusO the Metropolitan Opera House tenor, demanding $15,0OO on pain of death If it had not been for strong police guard which was kept about Caruso the Black Flanders would have suc- ceeded.
 Henry J. Furlong, city magistrate of Brooklyn since 1901, was found guilty by d jury in the supreme court of that city of accepting bribes from prisoners for whom he took straw bail. The jury recommended him to mercy, but he was sentenced to one year or more at hard labor in Sing Sing prison.
 After being arrested for shoplifting in Yonkers, N. r., George Schwartz confessed to the police that he was the burglar who broke into the home of Moses Goodman, a shirt waist man, ufacturer, in New York on the night of Jan. 30 and shot Goodman dead.
 George B. Remsen, school tax col lector of Floral Park, N. T., and fO1