Connecticut western news., 1910-03-03
GEN ERAL N EWS

cENEpAI The United States ap-
 -,o pealed from the deci- ,a. sion of Judge Hough
 of the United States circuit court quashing the indictment against the New York World for the alleged ibeling of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Douglas Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell in con- nection with the purchase of the Pan anna canal zone.
 Miss Eleanor Elise Robson, the ac- tress, was married at her home in New York to August Belmont, the multimillionaire financier and traction magnate. Mgr. Lavelle, assisted by the Rev. Father Byrne of the cathe- dral, officiated. There were no bridesmaids or ushers. Arthur Lith- gov Devens of Boston, Mr. Belmont's classmate at Harvard and his most intimate friend, served as his best man. Charles Robinson Smith, cousin of the bride, gave her in mar riage.
 A joint indictment against eight of the seventeen directors of the Consoli- dated Milk Exchange was found by the grand jury in the criminal branch of the supreme court in New York The directors are charged with com bining to create a monopoly in re- straint of trade
 The Rev. William S. Morgan, Ph. D., pastor of the First Unitarian church in Albany, N. Y, obtained judgment of divorce from Justice Howard at Troy. The wife, Agnes Parsons Mor- gan, is said to be living with Dr. Ar thur c. Leslie at Delavan, Wis.
 After serving fifteen years in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga, for the murder of his wife, Thomas Taylor of Washington, once a star in the Ma tional Baseball league, was granted his freedom on the receipt of a par don signed by President Taft.
 Judge Hand of the United States cir cult court in New York signed an or der restraining Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, from exhibiting Far man and Bleriot machines in this cOun- try because of alleged infringements on the Wrights' patent.
 New Orleans commercial organiza- tions sent a cablegram to Africa in- yiting Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to become the director general of the Crescent City's $35,0O0,OOO Panama exposition, which is to mark the open ing of the canal.
 Under the will of Samuel Jennings, the Texas cattle king who died re gently, Francis R. StrOme, machin. ist who saved the life of Jennings lit. tie daughter on railroad some years ago, received a 10000 acre ranch worth $7OO,OOO.
 A. NJ. MOreland and Walter B. TrOw- bridge were appointed receivers of the Delaware and Eastern Railroad com pany upon the application of Joseph Fl. Holmes, a judgment creditor, in the United States circuit court in New York.
 While performing in the last scene of "Otello" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mime. Frances Aida was seized with appendicitis and was car ried to her hotel and operated on. She will probably not sing again this sea- son.
 Mrs. Nettie E. Shaw, wife of State Senator James +. Shaw of Boston, one of the wealthiest street railway men of the country, filed suit in New York for absolute divorce, naming woman prominent socially in Boston.
 The governing committee of the New York Stock Exchange expelled Clifford M. Washburn, floor member of J. NJ. Fiske & Co.,, one of the three firms that failed as a result of the col lapse of the Hooking pool.
 The official valuation of the estate left by Henry O. Havemeyer, the late head of the sugar trust, made by or der of the surrOgate's court in New York showed it is worth $14,5OO,O00.
 Roswell D. Williams, Tammany lead CT in the Seventeenth assembly dis trict, New York, was jointly indicted with five alleged confederates for frauds ill the primary election. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., resigned from the board of directors of the United States Steel corporation in New York, and his place was filled by Hen ry Walters.
 The Third Avenue Elevated road in New York was sold at auction to John NJ. Bowers, representing the boudhulG. CTS, for $2G,O0O,OOO.