The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-22
GENERAL Judge Hand in the
nr,uo United States circuit
HAPPENINGS. eouAt ~ Asew ~

granted temporary
injunction to Orville and Wilbur
Wright restraining Louis Paulhan, the
French aviator, from using the flying
machine with which he has been Civ
ing exhibitions in this country.
The inquiry on behalf of minority
stockholders of the United States Tel
| ephone Company of Ohio and other in
| dependent lines in the middle west
into the sales of the lines to j. p.
| Morgan & Co., which sale, it is claim
| ed by the minority is in restraint of
trade, came togan abrupt end at New
York when two important witnesses
failed to appear.
During his visit to New York Presi-
dent Taft spent two hours posing for
| his portrait in the studio of Miss Lois
Swan. He was accompanied to the
studio by Mrs, Taft, her friend Mrs.
| McCagg and Captain Archibald Butt.
The party. including Mrs Anderson,
Mrs. Taft's sister, who joined them at
the studio, stayed out the whole sit
| ting.
The Society of Medical JurispM-
dence in New York rejected the find
ings of it's special committee, appoint
ed to consider the case of John r.
Early, former soldier, who had been
pronounced leper, thereby giving him
a clean bill of health.
The Rev. Actius A. Crooke of Brook
lyn was granted a divorce from his
wife, Blanche N. B. Crooke, by Judge
George I. Brown in the superior court
at Providence, R. l. He charged her
with intimacy with the church stew
ard.
The South Carolina supreme court
at Columbia, s. c., handed down de-
cision in the Tillman habeas corpus
case, taking Senator Tillman's grand
children from him and awarding them
to their mother, Mrs. B. r. Tillman,
Jr
The supreme court in Brooklyn
awarded to Agnes Mary Hendrick, for
mer wife of DR.. Charles G. Hendrick,
verdict Of $4,000 damages against
Laura Biggar, the actress, for alienat-
ing the affections of her husband.
The jury in the case of Binger Her
mann, former congressman and com
missioner of the general land office,
charged with land frauds, announced
a disagreement at Portland, Ore, and
was discharged.
A new canal on Mars 1000 miles
long was discovered by Professor Per
cival Lowell of the Flagstaff universi-
ty, in Arizona.
Paul Morton was reelected presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society in New York.
DR.. W. r. Burke, head of we'll
known sanitarium near Santa Rosa,
Cal.,. was arrested for an alleged at
tempt to blow up with powder Luella
Smith and her infant who occupied
tent on the sanitarium grounds.
James Rooney, eleven years old, who
was struck by an automobile owned
by James B. Duke, head of the Ameri-
can Tobacco company, in New York,
died from his injuries in a hospital
Shocked because of his wife's arrest
on a charge of obtaining $4,000 worth
Of diamonds on false pretenses. Isaac
Eriedburg, a prominent business man
Of Pittsburg, shot himself dead
Louis P. Mccarthy, superintendent
Of the Third Avenue Elevated road. in
New York, was found dead in his
loom with the gas turned on 1t is
thought that he was suicide.
Becoming insane from seasickness,
Alexander Semzenko, Hungarian
Immigrant aboard the liner Martha
Washington, jumped overheard and
was killed by propeller.
Twenty employees Of the Trojan
Powder works at San Lorenzo, Cal,
were either killed or seriously injured
In an explosion which wrecked the
plant