Connecticut western news., 1910-03-17
DAILY, "SQUAREST OF
 GAMBLERS" " IS DEAD
Keeper Of Long Branch Sporting Club SuCCumbs to Illness.

Phil Daly. known as the "squarest' or gamblers, for twenty-six years man. ager of the famous Pennsylvania club of Long Branch, N. J., died at his home there on Monday after an illness lasting for several days. Mr. Daily was born in 1885. In 1870 he took charge of the Pennsylvania club, the most famous of the five Long Branch clubs which Governor Fort closed when he was Jersey supreme court justice. He never allowed cheating or even sharp practice and would not per init minors to play at his tables. Rich players trusted him implicitly, leaving $50,000 and $10O,0OO with him at time. He never broke his word.
 GENERAL Augustus Hartje and
 nr,uo his wife reached , settlement of their
 IN'Nao' troubles at Pittsburg. He paid $25,0OO in cash and will set aside $150,00O from which she will derive the income for life. Hartje is to have the custody of his sixteen year-old son. while the daughter is to chose between her father and mother.
 Hastily deciding to get married while at supper at a. m., James H. Brookfield, son of the late William Brookfield, a wealthy glass manufac- turer of New York, summoned an au- tomobile and, with his bride, Miss Elizabeth McGuire, and two friends hurried to Hoboken, N J., where they were united by justice of the peace.
 The senate committee on foreign re- lations at Washington adopted the re- port of subcommittee, headed by Senator Root, declaring it to be the policy of this government that none of its servants, diplomatic, military or naval, may accept a decoration from foreign power.
 Mutiny broke out on the Brazilian Dreadnought Minas Geraes at Nor folk, Va, and fifty English firemen walked ashore, declaring that they had been denied liberty, that their food was bad and their clothes unfit to wear. 4.
 After trip of 1000 miles, many stages of which were fraught with ad- venture and peril, an automobile par ty from Saratoga, N. Y., arrived at San Francisco. In'the party were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hanson and their son.
 Arthur F. Zimmerman, who married seven women for the purpose of get ting their money while posing under the self conferred title of Baron Lich- tenstein, was found guilty of bigamy by jury in the county court of Brook lyn.
 Mrs. !. R. Wells, formerly Irene Bishop, chorus girl, filed papers in the supreme court in suit for $5OO,- 900 against her parents-in-law, MT. and Mrs. William Storrs Wells, for alleged alienation of her husbands affections.
 Following a confession that he had ruined one young woman in his con- gregation, the Rev. s. D, Robinson, pastor of the First Methodist church in Herkimer, N. r., was suspended by the church board and left town.
 A jury in the, supreme court in New York awarded $3,0O0 to Helen M. Wal ters, the Chicago widow who brought suit against Theodore A. Ryerson, prominent broker, for $50,O0O damages for breach of promise.
 Charles Winslow, a sophomore of Bethany college, Bethany, W. Va, was given ducking after being strip ped and lashed by his classmates be- cause Winslow refused to take part in cane rush.
 Rear Admiral A. F. Nazro of the United States navy was retired on failing to walk fifty miles in three days, test which all naval officers must pass in order to remain in the service.
 Zia Pasha, the eminent Turkish off, cial who visited the United States last fall as special commissioner from the sultan to President Taft, was ap- pointed Turkish ambassador to Wash ington.
 John Clark and Alexander Devoe, convicts from New York, escaped from Sing Sing prison, Within two hours Clark was captured, but Devoe, a murderer doing life sentence, got away.
 Tn a deal concluded in New York whereby J. P. Morgan & Go. purchas- ed a controlling interest in the EMF company the great financier broke into the automobile industry.
 Mgr. Thomas F. Lillis, bishop of Leavenworth, Kan, was appointed by the pope coadjutor bishop of Kansas City.
 r1,mre The body of Miss
 .nn Helen A. Bloodgood,
 ~ daughter of William SNoo4- Bloodgood, secretary of the American Felt company of New York, who escaped from her fathers cottage at Lakewood, N. J., by Telling a nurse and jumping from the win dow, was found at the bottom of Cara coIio Iake New Jersey three days