Connecticut western news., 1910-04-07

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 NEWS S' ne"u oA '.0 ..aar.,,, detective bureau in |N'Neo' New York, was the first to lose his position in the first big police shakeup of the Gaynor ad- ministration. McCafferty was sent to Flatbush, and Captain John H. Rus sell, who was borough inspector in Brooklyn at the time of the "mugging'' of Duffy and was deprived of his in- spectorship and put in command of precinct as a result of that case, sue ceeded him.
 Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general di- rector of the Metropolitan Opera house, and his prima donna, Frances Aida, were married at Mime. Alda's apartments at the Ansonia hotel, New York. Justice Charles w. Dayton of the supreme court performed the cere- mony. There were no flower girls or bridesmaids. Rawlins Cottonet, di- rector of the Metropolitan Opera House, was the best man.
 Mrs. Edna Valentine Hein, whose husband, Ira Willard Hein, is the vice consul and consular secretary for the Honduran government in New York, brought suit for abst lute divorce in the supreme court, New York, naming seven correspondents. Her husband filed a counter suit, naming Kid Me Coy, pugilist.
 A suit for $2OO,OOO was brought against Mrs. Joseph Jefferson, widow of the famous actor, in the supreme court, New York, by James W. Mor- rissey, formerly a theatrical manager, who charged Mrs. Jefferson with hay ing slandered him, causing his false Imprisonment.
 Miss Alice F. King, daughter of a wealthy merchant of Ithaca, N. Y, was married to Count Giorgio di Gras- si, son of Count Ferdinando di Grassi of Tartanto, Italy, after a courtship of a romantic character. The bride groom is fifteen years younger than the bride.
 The jury in the case of William T. Evans, art collector, against William Clausen, dealer in paintings, whom Evans charged with selling him paint ings 'by old masters which were bogus, disagreed in the supreme court. New York, and was discharged.
 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and twenty-five other labor leaders called on Governor Marshall at Indianapolis, Ind, in an effort to have the United States Steel corporation at Gary pros ecuted under state laws.
 Consul General Altschul, represent ing the Madriz government in Nicara- qua at New Orleans, took action in the federal court in that city to restrain a large shipment of arms from leav- ing that port for Bluefields for the in- surgents.
 Professor William R. Shepherd of Columbia university, New York, was appointed by Secretary Knox as prin- cipal secretary of the American dele gation to the pan-American congress, which is to meet in Buenos Aires in July.
 The bill to prevent the establish
 
 In Lakewood and other places, where they are not wanted, was signed by Governor Fort of New Jersey five min utes after the legislature had passed 1t.
 Protests by forty G. A. R. posts against the acceptance by congress of the statue of Robert B. Lee for a place in Statuary hall were present ed to the senate at Washington by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts.
 Policemen Charles S. Cunningham and Thomas Keenan of New York were dismissed from the force by Commits sioner Baker for violating police rules by making excise arrests out of their own districts.
 The Church federation of Oakland, Cal, began a fight against the staging of the Johnson-J effries bout at Emery vile on July by instructing counsel to take legal steps to prevent the con- test.
 The Union bank of Brooklyn, with deposits of $4,OO0,OO0; was forced to close its doors because of inactive as- sets bequeathed it from a former ad- ministratiOn.
 The American Sugar Refining con- pany, New York, increased wages in all of it's plants from to 10 per cent. About 5000 men were affected by the change.
 The Pennsylvania and Reading rail- roads increased the wages of all en- ployees receiving less than $500 a