Connecticut western news., 1910-12-22

in Delaware the alleged object of which was to guarantee the stock and bond issues of corporations.
 An Italian laborer suddenly went mad in his home in New York and at tempted to devour the members of his family. He bit his little baby in the check, bit his daughter twice and be- fore he was overpowered bit his wife's nose. He was taken to Bellevue hos pital The man was reading paper in his apartment when he suddenly jumped to his feet, fnging the paper aside and yelling that he would eat everybody in sight. .....
 Freddie Lauren, eight years old, is in a serious condition as the result of remaining in a dog house in the rear of his home in Trenton, N. J., for three days and three nights. When removed from the tiny structure he was so badly frozen that he had to be removed to a local hospital. 'I want ed to see Santa" is the explanation the youngster gave his parents for his presence in the dog house.
 Marie Kappa has been found guilty in the county court in New York of complicity in the Kidnapping of Michael Rizzo and Giuseppi Longo and will be sentenced Dec 27. The maximum pen alty. is fifty years, and the minimum is five. Judge Fawcett said the verdict would be farreaching in It's effects and that it was the severest blow dealt the Black Hand since he had been on the bench.
 Two men were drowned and three others were saved, all five members of the volunteer life saving corps, when a new lifeboat which they were trying out capsized POO feet from shore at Rockaway Beach, N. Y. The boat cap sized near Rockaway point swift current runs around the point, and when the seas are high, as they were then, few boats venture near the land. Howard Newcomb, thirty years old, of Baltimore and Mrs. Morris Hall of Camden, N. J., committed suicide by inhaling gas in an apartment house Mrs. Hall went to the house week ago and engaged the room. The even- ing before the suicide she and New comb retired at an early hour, and nothing more was seen of them until they were found dead.
 Dan McGann, one of the best known baseball players in America, was found dead, shot through the heart, at hotel in Louisville, Ky. McGann had opened the bosom of his under shirt and, placing the muzzle of his pistol against his flesh over the heart, pulled the trigger.
 John F. Hines, sixty-one years old, shot and killed his wife, Josephine, fifty-eight years old, at their home in New York and afterward committed suicide by shooting himself and cut ting his throat with razor.
 Five men were killed in three acci- dents in Gary, Ind. Three met death under the wheels of Lake Shore train, one was struck by a timber, and the fifth was frozen to death.
 "One Round' Jack Ho-
 gan, the terror of west fighters, graduated from that class when he gained twenty round deci- sion over Johnny Frayne, a light weight of prestige, in San Francisco. The gong alone saved Frayne on at least half a dozen occasions. Hogan is barely twenty years old.
 Control of the Boston National Base ball league club was formally pur chased at meeting in Boston from ID oA Ixv liam Hepburn Russell of New York and L. c. Page of Boston. MT. Harris received $10O,OOO for his stock Mir Russell becomes president of the club and George A. Page of Boston secre- tary.
 Arrangements have been practically l completed for a ten round bout be- tween Tommy Murphy of Flatbush, re cent conqueror. of Pal Moore, and Knockout Brown, who outfought Tom my Murphy when they met at the l Olympic A. C.. a few weeks ago. The battle will be held at the Empire A. c. in New York on Jan. 5.
 Fred Welsh and Jim Driscoll met in Cardiff, England, in la twenty round
 
 l SIP, 800. Driscoll was disqualified in the tenth round for putting. When he heard the decision he burst into tears.
 Thomas J. Lynch was reelected president of the National league for q period of one year by the owners of the eight clubs of the organization at tle annual meeting in New York. The | vote was unanimous
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 s,o-reoE full scenes have occur l ..,--.-e- red between the ex-
 "' Crown Prince George of Servia and his father, King Peter They arose out of the king insisting upon Prince George leaving Belgrade because he had been stirring up trou- ble. When Prince George refused to give his promise to leave the capital King Peter gave him a resounding slap on the ear. George retaliated in