Connecticut western news., 1910-04-21

seventy y-fourth year. ......
 cENEpA, Mysterious "John Car
 Mr>ue ter" aSyoung man of ,,.,a-.' aristocratic English by Governor Eberhart and released from the Minnesota penitentiary after serving six years of a ten year term for burglary. While in prison he wrote verses, which were published in lead ing magazines, and literary men, hail. ing him as a poet of genius, induced the governor to pardon him. Edward Jordan, the ten-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. B. P. Jordan of Stam- ford, Conn.,, died of scarlet fever under treatment by Christian Science "heal- ers,' the parents refusing to call in a regular physician. The coroner stop ped the funeral and asked the district attorney to prosecute. .&9. l. Judge Lawton in the Middlesex county probate court at Boston decid- ed against the claim of North Da- kota han who for seven months had 
 as Daniel Blake Russell, an heir to the $500000 estate of the late Daniel Rus sell of Melrose.
 Colonel Duncan B. Cooper of Nash vile, Tenn, who was found guilty of murdering former United States Sena- tor Carmack, was pardoned by Gov ernor Malcolm R. Patterson of Ten nessee just as he was about to be taken to jail to serve twenty years sentence.
 Magistrate Henry J. Furlong of Brooklyn arrived at Sing Sing prison, Ossining, N. Y, accompanied by a deputy sheriff, to serve his term of one to two years imprisonment for con spiracy and bribery in accepting straw bail for prisoners.
 Three hundred delegates to the wo- man suffrage convention in Washing ton went to the capitol in forty five automobiles and presented to the Unit ed States senate petition signed by 50O,0OO persons asking for votes for women.
 Lieutenant General s. B. M. Young, U. S. A., retired, was appointed gov ernor of the Soldiers home in Wash ington by President Taft to succeed Brigadier General Hamilton s. Hawk ins, U. S. A., retired, who died re- gently. . h ..
 Samuel l.. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was seized with severe illness on the voyage from Bermuda e,fo nd tIo arrival of the vessel in New York he was taken to his home in Bedding Conn.
 New Britain, the second largest city in Hartford county, Conn.,, and nor mally a Republican stronghold, elect ed a Democrat, J. M. Halloran, for mayor by plurality of 622. Henry c. Prick, the Pittsburg steel magnate, bought Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman" in the Yerkes collection for $145,0O0.
 cp,mEe Albert W. Volt CT
 ..a eighteen years old, was
 placed on trial in New SNoOA- ''E0' York on an indictment charging him with having murdered Ruth Wheeler, fifteen-year-old girl who was lured to his home to seek g position as stenographer. She was strangled to death, and her body was cut up and partially burned in the stove.
 Frank Haarinan, a miner, at Negau nee, Mich, placed stick of dynamite under the bed in which his wife anC three-year-old daughter were sleeping and another under the one where ht and his five-year-old boy slept, and al were blown to atoms except the little girl, who was unhurt.
 J. W. Tormey, a wealthy merchant of Macon, Ga, was murdered in his home by shots from a rifle fired iron the street through the window. J. G Garrison, a nineteen-yearOld telegraph . operator, charged with the crime, sur rendered to the police, but denied hi: guilt.
 Dr. L. W. Hart, a prominent physi clan and mayor of Warehouse, Mo. was shot and killed by c. B. Hay, ed / itor of the Morehouse Hustler, as { result of a quarrel started three year; ago, when Editor Hay printed some thing offensive about Dr. Hart.
 Five men were killed outright ant four were fatally injured when ; workman employed on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad near Dover, N. J., dropped woodel box containing thirty-fve pounds O dynamite.
 Earl B. Hill, a nineteen-year-o youth, who, with another boy, Davit