Connecticut western news., 1910-04-28
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| NASoA- 'iGo' J. Nelson, politician, of Riverhead, N Y, was dismissed of the charge by Judge Putnam after months of confinement and strong eff forts on the part of the district attor- ney to connect him with Nelson's death.
 The slayer of Mrs. Frederick Covely. known as "John Grant of Plainfeld. N. J., was captured at the home of William Mernugh at Stirling, about six miles from the scene of the crime. MT. Mernugh teRphoned to police headquarters, al@1 Chief Marshal Weiss with County Detective Totten, arrested the man without any trouble.
 Six train robbers. serving life sen tences, escaped from the federal pris- on at Leavenworth, Kan. by forcing, with wooden pistols, the engineer of a switch engine which had backed into the prison yard, to run his engine out of the prison. Four were recaptured in the woods.
 A fishing boat containing seven men. who were returning from repairing pound nets staked off the coast, cap- sized off Hereford Inlet. N. J.. and three of the fishermen were drowned, while the remaining four were rescued by life savers.
 Eighteen of a night force of twenty seven machine men employed in the mine of the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal company, near Amsterdam, Jef- ferson county, O., were killed as re- suit of a gas explosion which set fire to the mine. '
 A desperate effort at wholesale de- livery from the penitentiary was made in Canon City, Colo, but after two con- victs had been killed, one mortally and one seriously wounded, the outbreak was controlled. ..4 Thomas Barnes, alias Bangor Billy, notorious yeggman, who shot and Killed John Leonard, also yeggman, was sentenced by Judge Dike in the county court at Brooklyn to die in the electric chair.
 Two buildings in Lynn, Mass, one occupied by Shea & Donnelly, con- tractors, and the other occupied by the Gem Leather company, were destroyed by fire, with a total loss of $200,O00.
 A fire originating in a lumber mill in Ridgeway, Pa., completely destroyed seven business blocks and caused a loss amounting to $200,O00.
 Twenty-Five men were killed by an explosion in the mines owned by the Birmingham Coal and Iron company. at Mulga, Ala. Three lives were sacrificed in Paw tucket R. l., as the result of the ac- tion of child who accidentally opened a gas cock.
 Three persons were killed and eight injured in a wreck on the Big Four railroad near Sanford, Ind.
 A mother and five children were burned to death when their cottage, near Ponca, Neb., caught fire.
 ropr,en Graham White, the
 .,S-sa English aviator, who
 started on biplane r lNlEHESl' flight from Worm wood Scrubs, London, for Manchester in an attempt to win the prize of $50,- 900 offered by a morning newspaper,
 
 l journey when compelled to descend on account of the intense cold.
 King Victor Emmanuel of Italy re- ceived General Stewart l.. Woodford, who, on behalf of the Fulton celebration commission of the state of New York, presented to the govern ment of Italy an official gold medal in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the exploration of the Hudson river.
 The Cunard Steamship company an- nounced that it would build another great steamship to take it's place beside the Mauretania and Lusitania in the Liverpool-New York service and that tenders have been invited for the con- struction of another vessel of the Fran conia type.
 Pope Plus conferred upon Thomas Hughes Kelly, who is papal chamber lain and prince of the Holy Roman em- pire, the Great Cross of the Holy Sep ulchre, and on his wife the gold deco ration of Rene Merite, for their many benefactions to the church in America.
 The Zeppelin IT., one of three dirigi- ble balloons of the German govern ! ment's aerial fleet, ran away and was destroyed when it dropped at We'll burg Prussia, and was smashed to pieces.
 In q duel between Captain Tsukalas and Commander Ghiotopulos, two na- val officers in the Greek navy, Tsuka- las shot and killed his adversary. The cause of the quarrel which led to the fatal combat was not known. Ornaments valued at $500,00O were stolen from the famous ikon of the Virgin in the Uspenski cathedral, one of the three famous cathedrals in the square of the Kremlin at Moscow. Three nuns of the convent of San Pablo were killed when a portion of a