Connecticut western news., 1911-09-21
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HAPPENINGS. of Alpheus Smith of 135 Second street, Albany, N. r., and graduate of high school there, is held in Indianapolis, Ind, charged with burglary. She was wearing male at tire when caught.
 An indictment was returned at Bos- ton against the officers of the United Shoe Machinery company and a sec ond indictment was found against the company itself by the United States grand jury. Both indictments charge the defendants with working through the instrumentality of the United States Machinery company in a way to make them as individuals criminally liable under the Sherman act.
 Dead shrimp by the million and thousands of fishes are floating on the surface of Lake Pontchartrain. near New Orleans, La, as a result of their feeding on molasses. The sweet diet found its way into the lake from the city sewers when 100000 gallons were recently let loose In the streets by the bursting of n storage tank.
 The trial of what is called the "pois- oned pen" case, growing out of the mailing of letters attacking the char. acter of number of clergymen of Easton, Pa, has begun in the federal l court at Philadelphia. Miss Harriet De Witt is charged with circulating these letters and Is on trial for misus- ing the mails.
 Fire endangered the life of Mrs Belva A. Lockwood, of Washington. D. C.. suffragist leader and the first woman lawyer admitted to practice before the United States supreme court Mrs. Lockwood, who Is almost eighty-one years old, was assisted to the street.
 Nearly 2,000 jconvicts at San Quentin prison in San Francisco walked out side the walls on admission day and spent more than three hours out of doors while they rooted for rival ball teams. There were no guards. The men were orderly and there was no trouble.
 Because a Harvard professor wants to know the relative values of a meat diet and a vegetable diet for physical | endurance Jesse Buffum, twenty-five years old. and his brother, Warren, who is twenty-three, are in Chicago on a walk from Boston to California. All records for torpedo target prac- tice were broken by the torpedo boat destroyer Reid during the annual au. tumn practice at Gardiner's bay. New York. The Reid attained the percent age of 96 despite a loss of speed by one of the eigh- torpedoes Tony Scala, the elcven-year-old son of New York merchant, has con | fessed to kindliug number of fires 1 in the houses throughout his neighbor hood It iS believed the boy is insane as he did not commit his crimes with the intention of stealing.
 Under the will of Ernest Finis, fled | for probate at New Haven, Coun.. Henry George Ftnis, young son, must wait until he is fifty years of | age before receiving any portion of the $14,OO0 left him by his father.
 The three miners, Fred Cacki, Deal Perle and Nat Jacobson, imprisoned | in the Morning Star mine on Carbon ate hill near Leadville, Col, for sixty 1 hours by a cave-in, have been brough; 1 to the surface.
 l A girl who married two men in one i day is alleged by Joseph Rolfes of 1 Memphis, Tenn, the second husband. to have deserted him, and Rolfes has sued for divorce from Elizabeth Shipp Rolfes.
 Miss Mathilda Moisant and Miss Harriet Quimby will compete against ! Mile. Helen Dutrieu at the interna- tional aviation meet, Sept. 23 to Oct. 1. inclusive, at Nassau boulevard. New 1 York.
 After serving Connecticut forty years as supervisor of hangings. War l den George Baisden of the state prison at Wethersfield will retire Nov. l ou a pension.
 i While 5000 persons looked on James ] Pollock, a riverman of lower Michi gan, shot the St. Mary's river rapids on log. For this feat he received $31 ] Former Congressman R. M. Nevin of Ohio, who has been in failing heal2.