Connecticut western news., 1911-11-23
GEN E RAJ N EWS


 in time to prevent It. A chiseI, long pieces Of wire and legs of cots were used in removing mortar from between the bricks, and all that was needed was to push the bricks out
 Mrs. Elizabeth Atchison of Sydney. N. s. w, in letter received by May or Walker of Atchison. Kan, lays claim to the land upon which Atchi- son, city of nearly 10000, Is built. The land. she says, was owned be- fore the Louisiana purchase by David T. Atchison, of whom she says she Is a descendant The Atchison heirs. the Australian woman declares, have per fected their plans to carry the case into the courts of this country and England. ." @r.A
 I William Willett, Jr., defeated candi- date for the supreme court, second ju- dicial district; Joe Cassidy, former borough president and Democratic boss of Queens. and Louis T. Walter, Jr., lieutenant of Cassidy and friend of willett, were placed under arrest in the Queens county courthouse on the charge of "corruptly conspiring' to bring about the nomination of Willett for the supreme court bench. Ball was fixed at $50 each. #.a..
 Three men convicted of murder were put to death. in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison, New York. Those who died were Bert l.. Brown, negro, who killed his half brother in a saloon in D,,o N ". Eo4otro IraloA%o ~rho Iy1Iod Louis Levine, a nonagenarian, and Frank Schermerhorn, who killed Miss Sarah Breymer, a governeSe, employed in the home of Barnes Compton. at MilIbrook. 70
 Burglars will have little chance of escaping If. they ply their trade in Greenwich, Conn, CT vicinity, for Per civaI Rockefeller will lend two i'm ported English bioodhounds to the Greenwich police department. The dogs are the only imported specimens in this country. The value Of the hounds is said to be $500 each, and they have records in Scotland Yard.
 Rough plans for two huge battleships will be laid before congress when it COnNGACS- 4hC LO be of 30,0o0 tons displacement, armed with ten fourteen-inch rifles. each twenty feet long, with broad belts of the highest type of hardened armor and with steaming capacity enough to carry them back and forth across the Atlantic. @.
 Commodore Perry's flagship in the battle of Lake Erie, in Put-in-Bay, the Niagara, that has lain at the bottom of the lake in the Erie Pa.) harbor for twenty-five years. will be raised. made seaworthy and taken on a tour of the grea' lakes in 1913 as a feature of the Perry centennial celebration
 To make the citizens of Indianapolis truly grateful Mayor Shanks. who has sent the price of provisions whirIing downward. promises seventeen cent turkey for Thanksgiving day. and in order to make good. his word he has visited many farms and contracted for the supply.
 Miss Tillie Williams of Goshen, N. T.. who went to sleep after attending a dance at Music hall three weeks ago
  lapse while attending a moving pic ture show in the same hall. She went to sleep while watching the pictures
 Augustus Seaver, labor candidate for governor of Massachusetts at the last state election, was arrested for alleg- ed viola ton of the election laws.
 The body of Gustave Frey, the sea man drowned from the battleship New Jersey in the big review at New York. has been found.
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 berg says that Henry
 Sienkiewicz, author of CHSOAE i'6S' Quo Vadis." wGs shot by another of the party while Shpotllg pheasants. Some of the shot To, atI in the novelist's forehead nenr ''s lsf' ova apd biS lyOeo GlcO vusS ] r,.l..t