Connecticut western news., 1910-03-24
GENERAL
 NEWS HARP ENINGS


 l.. Johnson of Cleve- ~ land, O., sailed from r'HRr GNlNoo' New York for Flu rope to begin the greatest battle of his career-a fight with death. He is suffering from diabetes and has been advised that he must cease all work. He will consult specialists and take the baths at Carlsbad.
 Mrs. Katherine B. Thoma of Long Branch, N. J., who said she was given $4O,OOO by "Old Rogers, the miser," for befriehding him just before he | died, was defeated in the supreme court in New York in her effort to have the Irving Savings institution l turn the money over to her.
 i Mrs. Beulah Stubbs Sunderland, daughter of Traffic Manager J. C.. | Stubbs of the Hartman lines, was | granted a divorce at Reno. New, from John Sunderland. chairman of the board of regents of the University of Nevada. Mrs Sunderland named a correspondent
 ,Dr. B. J. Cigrand, member of the | board of education of Chicago and an expert on heraldry. pronounced Presi- dent Taft an Irishman. In his re- searches he found that the Taft family was connected with all the wars of Ireland. England and America.
 Lemuel B.. Patterson, vice president of the National Packing company. who was indicted for conspiracy by the Hudson county grand jury. went to Jersey City from Chicago and pleaded not guilty in the court of common pleas. He gave bail in $7,500
 Twenty actors and actresses who i were thrown out of work by the sud den departure of Eleanor Robson from '"The Dawn of a Tomorrow" to be- come the wife of August Belmont were each the recipient of a check from MT. Belmont.
 The house committee on naval af- fairs in Washington reported unani- mously the bill introduced by Repre- sentative Hobson of Alabama making it a crime to exclude United States soldiers or sailors from public places.
 William T. Evans, art collector, brought suit against William CIausen in New York to recover $5,380 for two alleged bogus paintings sold to him by Clausen as the work of Homer D, Martin, dead artist.
 Edgar S. Wakeman, the novelist, who was in the Central Islip asylum, New York, for six months on the ap- plication of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Miller, was declared sane by Queens county jury.
 Richard Carle, comedian, and Joe Trohey, tragedian, were indefinitely suspended from the Lambs club in New York for breaking $3,OOO worth of cut glass belonging to the club.
 In the federal court at Louisville. Ky, the Louisville and Nashville rail- road pleaded guilty to eight indict- ments charging relating, and Judge Evans imposed a fine of $10,OO0.
 The general strike in Philadelphia was broken on Tuesday when the dele. gates from all the unions of textile and hosiery workers voted unanimous. ly to return ito work.
 The Chicago Federation of Labor placed a boycott on the Cleveland American baseball team because the ball park at Cleveland was built bv nonunion labor.
 cpIMES Arthur F. Zimmer-
 .1 man, known also as o.,T.'-re Baron von Lichten- CASUALTIES. stein, who married deserted and robbed twenty-four wo- men, was sentenced to five years in Sing Sing prison by Judge Dike in New York. Nineteen children were born to him by the women whom he victimiZed.
 Bessie Roberts and May Williams, the women who were charged by War ner NJ. Van Norden. former president of the Van Norden Trust company. of robbing him of $2S,OOO outside the WaIdorf-Astoria in New York, were discharged because MT. Van Norden } was absent and was said to be in Carlsbad for his health.
 Simon J. Mescall, the assistant gov ernment weigher, convicted of con- spiracy to defraud the government by underweighing, was sentenced to ten months in the penitentiary by Judge Colt in the United States circuit court in New York.
 Edward A. Mason, a wealthy auto mobile merchant of New York, was instantly killed when his sixty horse power car, driven at terrific speed struck a subway pillar. Three men vrho were with him were badly hurt.
 Mrs. Blanche Davidson, newspaper sud magazine writer, died in New