Connecticut western news., 1910-01-20

years old, and because of his feeble ness the physicians say he cannot re- cover. He has lost all power of speech, and his entire right side is paralyzed. His son, Cyrus D. Floss, Jr., former civil service commissioner, and Dr. Woods of the University of Pennsyl- vania, a son-in-law of the bishop, went to his bedside.
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 ,,-,.,o that he had received ~ and distributed a fund SN''SNo' of $15O,00O to obtain control of the Peoples Mutual Life Insurance association and league the resignation of Lieutenant Governor Horace White as director of the First National bank of Syracuse, N. Y., was accepted by the directors.
 As the result of 'skyrocketing" of Rock Island railroad stock on the Stock Exchange in New York the gov ernors of the exchange suspended $. B. Chapin, head of the firm of $. B. Chapin & Co.,, for sixty days and Frederic b. Countiss, the other board member of the firm, for thirty days.
 Commissioner John L. Hamery of Des Moines, Ia.. introduced an ordi- nance prohibiting the playing of Shakespearean tragedies and all other plays portraying the killing of human beings or the commission of crime of any form behind the footlights of any Des Moines theater.
 Following his censure by Bishop Leonard for admitting the Rev. Albert Ehrgott, a Baptist minister, to the pull pit of St. Marks Episcopal church at Cleveland, o. the Rev. Dr. c. $. Da- vidson resigned his charge.
 Otto T. Barnard, former Republican nominee for mayor of New York, was elected the head of a new $5,0OO,O00 corporation to perpetuate the name of Robert Hoe in the business of manu- Tacturing printing presses.
 Fifteen hundred mine workers of the South Wilkesbarre colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal cOmpa- ny in Wilkesbarre, Pa, went on strike because the company refused to ap- point check weighman.
 The will of Darius Ogden Mills, which disposed of an estate of $5O,- 100000, left $400,000 to public institu- tions and gave the rest of the estate to the two children, Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
 Faith D. Moore, daughter of the for mer superintendent of buildings at New York, brought a $200OOO breach of promise suit against Ralph J. Voor hies, son of Henry V. D. Voorhies, Brooklyn politician.
 The American Red Cross formed a New York state board, with Governor Hughes as president, to serve as a standing finance committee for the American Red Cross in the state of New York.
 William Watson, the English poet whose attack on the wife and daugh- ter of the British premier caused much discussion regarding "women with serpents tongues" sailed for England.
 Three West Point cadets were found guilty of hazing. and their dismissal will follow the approval of the sen tence by the secretary of war, who is allowed no discretion in the matter.
 The Pilgrim society gave a dinner in New York to Henry White, recent ambassador to France, to welcome his return after thirty-tive years of diplo- matic life abroad.
 Representative Gerrit j. Diekema of Michigan announced his candidacy for speaker of the Sixty-second congress against Speaker Joseph Cannon at Washington.
 The Shoshone dam, ill northern Wy oming, the highest in the world, was completed. It's total height from base to parapet is 328,4 feet.
 Jacob -Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,, New York, retired from the board of directors of all of tEc Hartman Pa citic railroad llneS
 Separate statehood for the territories of Arizona and New Mexico was pro- vided ill bill passed by the house of representatives.
 Lieutenant Louis NJ. .Josephthal, the banker, was appointed pa! master of the New York naval militia.
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