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Connecticut western news., 1912-09-05
nIsTRIoT OF CANAAN. ss., Pro

A~ pate COurLy SepIemDer 4s IslS.
 Estate of Caroline E. King. late of North Canaan, in said District, deceased.
 Upon the application of the administra- tor for an order of sale of real estate, be- longing to said estate and situated in said North Canaan, as per application on file more fully appears, 1t Is
 ORDERED-That said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office, in North Canaan, on the 10th day of September A D. 1919, at 9 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Court directs said administrator to give public notice to all persons interested in said estate to appear, if they see cause, and be heard thereon, by publishing copy of this order once in some newspaper having circula- tion in said Probate District and by post. ing copy of this order on the public sign post in said North Canaan five days before the said day of hearing and return make to this Court.
 Attesti DAVID c. WHITTLEsEY, Judge.
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DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPLE.

Men and Women Who Have Died In
 the Last Week.
 Colonel Edwin S. Pierce, for fifteen years assistant sergeant at arms of the house of representatives, died sudden ly in Washington. He was born !n New York eighty years ago and was ap- pointed from Michigan.
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A historic old cottonwood tree that had adorned the north lawn of the White house since 1t was plant61 in 1882 by President Andrew Jackson and several of his cabinet officers was removed, having succumbed from un- known causes. It was presented to President Jackson by the Creek Indi- an Chief Alpataca just before the sign ing of the treaty by which the Creek nation was removed to Florida
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A feud between two boys in Chicago for the love of girl companion fur nishes the motive for the murder of Solomon Golep, fourteen years old, by Tony Guino, fifteen years old. The tragedy centsrs about little Rose Marka, west side girl, who was low ed by both Italian youngsters.
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For = ale Second hand. Bargains
 worth looking after.

50 h. p. New York Safety En- zine; 60 h. D. Return Tubular Boiler; 20 inch Unique Nutrition Mill, very little used; Munson Burr Mill, Steel Pulleys, Wood Pulleys and Shafting; No. 1 Lane Saw Mill.
 Also new Shafting, Hangers, Pulleys and Gears of all descrip- tions, Unique Nutrition Mills, Steam Engines and Boilers, Gas and Gasoline Engines, Turbine Water Wheels, Circular Saw Mills, Saws and Betting, Wood Saving Machines. If you don't see what you want ask for it.
 20 New Gasolene Engines at a low price for cash.
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The train on which Prence Henry of Prussia Is proceeding to Tokyo for the funeral of the mikado was derailed near Irkutsk. Russia. No one was hurt
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von Eckhardstein. was the victim in a Wild boar hunt near Berlin when she was accidentally shot by her kinsmun. Count Finck von Finckehstein.
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GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings of Interest In Various 7 Parts of Our Country.

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 Alleging violations of state laws governing monopolies and restraint In trade, suit against the Standard Oil company of Kentucky, involving $1, 1,650,000, was filed at Meriden, Miss, by Ross A. Collins, attorney general, in behalf of the state of Mississippi It Is charged that an attempt has been made to restrain trade in the sale and distribution of crude and refined pro- ducts of petroleum, and that prices have been quoted on a sliding scale in various localities.
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Martial law was declared by Gov ernor Glasscock of West Virginia in the Paint creek mining section.
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It is rumored at Panama that fifty American marines have been killed In Nicaragua. It is understood that a battalion of infantry stationed on the canal zone will sail at once for Mica ragua on the steamship Para.
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Eugene Flavin of Chicago amused his nine-months-old baby by snapping an "unloaded" revolver in front of the little ones face. The gun went off and shot the baby throuah the cheek.
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FROM THE. SPORTING WORLD.
This and That In Amateur and Profss-
 sional Athletics.

HIS dno ! nat m Amateur anu FF0T@B~ sional Athletics.
 America will not send a tennis team to challenge for the Davis cup this year. This is only the second time in the history of the cup matches that the United States has failed to fight for the trophy. In 1900 the first matches for the famous trophy were played. Tn 1904 there was no Ameri- can entry. That year Belgium defeat ed France in the preliminary round, and England defeated Belgium in the final round. In 1901 and in 1910 no matches were played.
 Johnny .Kilbane, the featherweight champion, will be a busy fighter next month, his manager, Jimmy Dunn, hay ing arranged three fights for him. He will first meet Johnny Dundee for ten rounds on Sept 4. Then he will jour ney to Tiff1n, O., where he will box Jack Moore of Pittsburgh Sept. 10, and then hike back to New York, where he will take on Eddie O'Keefe of Phila- delphia for ten rounds Sept. 10.
 L. B. Goodwin of the New York Athletic club established a new United States record of 25:25 flat in the Ma donal Amateur Athletic union one mile outdoor swim held in the Lincoln park lagoon in Chicago under the auspices of the Illinois Athletic club. He finish ed nearly u minute ahead of A. O. Raithel of the Illinois Athletic club. who was second in 26:20.
 Hans Kohlemainen, the acknowl- edged greatest long distance runner In the world, who won the 10000 meter race at Stockholm during the recent Olympic games, arrived in New York unexpectedly. With him Is his brother William, who Is professional runner,
 Frank L. Kramer, the American bicycle rider, won the worlds profes- sional sprint championship at the New ark velodrome, in New Jersey, defeat ing Alfred Brenda - Australia and Andre Perchicot of France.
 Dave Smith, champion of Australia. lasted one minute and eighteen sec onds against Eddie McGrooty, the Oshkosh whale" in a scheduled ten round bout at Madison Square Garden, in New York.
 Harry Davis, manager of the Cleve- HnGn1aan x.acfrrr,nI Tan Birmingham. outfielder. has been ap- pointed temporary manager.
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An automobile turned turtle near Rye park on Long Island sound and killed Miss Lillie Lette of Cape City, Va, who has been visiting Miss Dolling of New York. Miss Dolling was severely cut and bruised. Ralph McAuley, a clerk, and the chauffeur, William Mei- gan, were injured.
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Trooper Saddler of the Fourth United States cavalry was struck by light ming and killed while riding near Fort Huachua, Ariz. Eight cartridges in his belt were exploded. His horse also was killed.
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Napoleon's villa on the island Of Elba was sold at auction to Marquis Camille Ruspoh for S60,OO0 on the condition. that the original furniture and the artistic and scientific collec- tions of relics remain and that Ma poleon's apartment remain unaltered.
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NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.

Some Things That Are Happening in
 Other American Countries
 Candidates for first, second and third vice president of the republic of Pana- ma were chosen by the committee of the various parties assembled in joint meeting. The designates are RodoIfo Chiari, Ramon Valdes and Arlstides Arjona.
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Harry Davis, manager of the Cleve- land baseball team, has resigned. Joe Birmingham. outfelder, has been ap- pointed temporary manager.
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A woman was killed and four other passengers were badly injured when a spreading rail caused a coach on a Missouri and a north Arkansas train to roll down an embankmept east of Shirley.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The Record of the Week on Accidents
 and Traaic Events.

ana FFa9IC EVsHLS'
 George Thompson of Denver, an avi- ator, was killed when. his aeroplane turner turtle at the race track at La mar, Cal. and plunged POO feet to the ground. The aeroplane was tipped over by a light breeze just as it had gone over the crowded grand stand Thompson jumped, but the machine fell on him.
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NOTES FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
What Folks Are Doing on the Other
 Side of the Globe.

A frenzied Swiss soldier ran amuck and transformed the little town of Romanshorn, on Lake Constance, into a miniature battlefield strewn with dead and wounded. In a fit of mad ness he seized his rife and shot every one within range of the windows of his house, killing four and wounding six men In few moments. He then barrfcaded himself
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Three persons were reported killed and many injured near Hustler, Wis, when an Omaha train went through a bridge on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne- sota and Omaha railroad. The train plunged into a small creek. f@
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Officers were called to a barn in Ro- chester, N. T., and found there Thomas Burke of Haverhill, Mass, who said he had been run down by an automo- bile and carried into the barn by the occupants of the car, who then drove swiftly away. The man is said to be fatally injured
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Governor Cole L. Blease of South Carolina has been renominated by the Democrats on the face of the returns received from Tuesdays primary. His lead is 2,296 votes over former Judge Ira B. Jones, his principal opponent. Supporters of Jones say they will ask a recount.
Connecticut western news., 1912-09-05

William Rutherford Mead, the noted architect of New York, has put in the hands of the police a post card pur- porting to come from the Black Hand and threatening death unless he pays S20,0O0. The communication was scrawled on an ordinary postal card and was folded.
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Breaking out of the bull pen, where they were confined because of riots, fifty convicts at Jackson prison, in Michigan, destroyed hundreds of dol lars worth of property in the prison factory and kitchen. The disturbance was finally quelled after Warden Simpson had enlisted the state militia.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Traube, a widow, six ty-nine years old, of New York, is dead at Amityville, N. Y, and her maid, Eliza Nackner, twenty-four years old, is so badly burned that it is feared she cannot live as the result of the explo- sion of an alcohol stove in Mrs. Traube's room.
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Playing in their grandmother's yard. Donald Moore, aged six years, of Dresbach, Minn., was shot by Rupert Baker, aged twelve. a cousin, and died two hours later. The boys had been playing for hours with a shot gun without realizing that it was loaded, t.1.
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Dave Smith, champion of Australia, lasted one minute and eighteen sec onds against Eddie McGrooty, the Oshkosh whale" in a scheduled ten round bout at Madison Square Garden, in New York.
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Two lives were lost and forty per- sons were badly hurt in a collision be- tween a crowded business mems train and a light passenger train at Vaux- hall station, in London. on the South western railway.
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Senator George c. Perkins announces in San Francisco his intention to retire from political life because of failing
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Charged with unlawful rehypo+he- cation of warehouse receipts, George T. Gambrill, seventy eight years old, former president of a distilling com- pany in Baltimore, was sentenced in the criminal court to four years in jail. He was released on bail pending an appeal
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health. His term will expire March i

More than 1000 fish were electrocnt ed when lightning struck d tree that stood in pond near Mayfeld, Ky.
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A Prussian noblewoman, Baroness
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That Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, rec tor of the American college in Rome, is to be elevated shortly to the cardinal ate and delegated to live in Rome as the representative of the church in America was gathered from messages received by those high in the Catholic church in this country.
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Two thousand dock laborers have been ordered to strike at Galveston, Tex, because of failure to arrange wage scales and a dispute over the employment of white and negro labor CTS.
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The collier Neptune, one of the larg- est vessels of her kind in the world, was put out of commission at Norfolk, Va. The new vessel has never been accepted officially by the government and it is said she will be turned back to her builders.
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Walter F. Brown of Toledo, O., who resigned week ago as chairman of the Republican state central commit tee, was elected chairman of the pro- visional Progressive committee at meeting in Columbus.
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A profound sensation was caused by the arrest of two prominent leaders of Roman society with five accomplices on a charge of alleged traff1cking in counterfeit banknotes and government stock certificates
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Frank L. Kramer, the American bicycle rider, won the worlds profes, sional sprint championship at the New. ark velodrome, in New Jersey, defeat ing Alfred Brenda - Australia and Andre iPerchicot of France.
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Lieutenant Louis F. Chandenier Of the French army aviation corps was burned to death at Crecy -Serre while flying from Doual to Chalons. Flames leaped from his petrol tank and enveloped the machine and the aviator, and they fell blazing to the earth.
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A massacre of Jews took place at Petrikan, Russia. It was caused by a servant girl spreading a rumor that her mistress, the wife of Jewish merchant named Gerber, had attempt ed to murder her for ritualistic pur- poses.
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 ground. The aeroplane was tipped over by a light breeze just as it had gone over the crowded grand stand Thompson jumped. but the machine fell on him.
 A feud between two boys in Chicago for the love of a girl companion fur nishes the motive for the murder of Solomon Golep, fourteen years old, by Tony Guino, fifteen years old. The tragedy centers about little Rose Marka, a west side girl, who was low ed by both Italian youngsters. An automobile turned turtle near Rye park on Long Island sound and killed Miss Lillie Lette of Cape City, Va. who has been visiting Miss Dolling of New York. Miss Dolling was severely cut and bruised. Ralph McAuley, a clerk, and the chauffeur, William Mel gan, were injured Officers were called to a barn in Ro- chester, N. r., and found there Thomas Burke of Haverhill, Mass, who said he had been run down by an automo- bile and carried into the barn by the occupants of the car, who then drove swiftly away. The man is said to be fatally injured
 Playing in their grandmother's yard. Donald Moore, aged six years, Of Dresbach, Minn., was shot by Rupert Baker, aged twelve. a cousin, and | died two hours later. The boys had been playing for hours with a shot | gun without realizing that 1t was loaded. ta.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Traube, a widow, six ty-nine years old, of New York, is dead at Amityville, N. Y, and her maid, Eliza Nackner, twenty-four years old, 1 is so badly burned that it Is feared she cannot live as the result of the explo- sion of an alcohol stove in Mrs. Traube's room.
 Three persons were reported killed and many injured near Hustler, Wis, when an Omaha train went through a bridge on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne- sota and Omaha railroad. The train plunged into small creek.
 A woman was killed and four other passengers were badly injured when a spreading rail caused a coach on ] a Missouri and a north Arkansas train to roll down an embankmept east of Shirley. Trooper Saddler of the Fourth United States cavalry was struck by light ming and killed while riding near Fort Huachua, Ariz. Eight cartridges in ! his belt were exploded. His horse also was killed.
 Eugene Flavin of Chicago amused his nine-months-old baby by snapping an *'unloaded" revolver in front of the little ones face. The gun went off and shot the baby through the cheek. | NOTES FROM FOREIGN LANDS. What Folks Are Doing on the Other Side of the Globe.
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HOPE FOR MISS VAN TASSEL.
Young Woman Injured in Auto Ac
cident Likely to Recover

With broken spine. yet with good
chance to recover, Miss Margaret Van
Tassel. the twenty-year-old victim of an
automobile accident Christmas night in
Virginia, near the south end of the
Highway bridge, is still in Emergency
Hospital. Her condition gives encourage
ment to surgeons and physicians. She
occupies a private room and has
special nurse.
By X-ray the fractured vertebra was
located at point about the small of
the back, and an operation followed
Miss Van TaSsel, with her mother
brother and several friends, was riding
Christmas night in an automobile owned
by Alexander Graham Bell and operated
by Chauffeur David G. Jackson. who is
engaged to marry Miss Van Tassel. In
crossing the railroad tracks, near jack
son City, over dark road. in a fog,
the wheels of the car skidded and the
car turned over. throwing out all the
occupants. Miss Van Tassel was dashed
through the wind shield, and fell under
| the machine
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BOTH MAY RECOVER
Man and Woman Run Down
by Senator divers Auto.
CHAUFFEUR UNDER ARREST
Claims Snow Prevented Him From
Seeing Aquilla Smith and
Sarah Fitzgerald.

Aauilla Smith of 1743 Rhode Island ave-
nue. and Miss Sarah Fitzgerald, Soo 10Th
street northwest. who were run down last
night at 18th and I'll streets northwest by
an automobile owned by Senator George
T. Oliver and operated by Alexander
Ewing. are reported at Emergency Hos
pital. where they were taken, to be in no
immediate danger. Their injuries. while
serious it was stated today, are not
necessarily fatal. though both are suffer
ing from broken bones, cuts. bruises and
Commissions. and there is a possibility that
| Miss Fitzgerald's skull was fractured in
| the accident.
According to Ewing. the chauffeur. who
was arrested Immediately following the
accident. he was running the machine at
| a reasonable rate. proceeding west on II
street The snow, which was falling
heavily at the time. coated the glass OF
the wind shield with thick layer. pre-
venting view of the street ahead Ewing
| says as he turned south at 18th street
| he felt a bump. He stopped the car at
once. The screams Of the injured woman,
| he said, were the first intimation he had
that he had run over some one.
Police of the third precinct were mott
| fled. as well as the Emergency Hospital,
and the injured persons were removed to
| the hospital. where it was found that
Miss Fitzgerald's left leg was broken, her
head, arms and body cut and bruised,
and that she had sustained internal in
juries and possibly fracture Of the skull.
Smith Has Both Legs Broken.
Smith. it was found. had both legs
broken. numerous bruises and cuts and
also internal hurts. The hospital au
thorities stated today that the condition
of the woman is the more serious. though
it was not thought that either was in a
really critical condition.
Smith today stated that he and his COM
panion We're walking down town and that
with heads bowed. He said they did
not see the machine until it was upon
| them and there was no time for them to
| get out of its path. He was knocked
| unconscious and remained in that condi-
| ton for several minutes. Miss Fitzgerald
did not lose consciousness and her
| screams of pain attracted aslarge crowd
| Smiths fortitude was commented upon,
| as he insisted on the surgeons attending
| to Miss FitZgerald's hurts before at
| tempting to care for his own shattered
| legs.
Alexander Ewing. the chauffeur, fur
| nished bond in the sum of 81 800 at the
| Police Court this morning pending action
| by the UnitedStates attorney.
| From what can learn now, the snow
| and the slippery condition of the streets
| had more to do with the accident than
| anything else. ] cannot tell what will
be done with Ewing, however, until a
further investigation" said Assistant
| United States Attorney Ralph Given.
immediately after the accident Ewing
was arrested and held at the third pre-
| cinct station house until he secured his
liberty on bond. Senator Oliver is out of
the city for few days.
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FORMER SOLDIER CAUSES
PANIC ON SUBURBAN CAR
Leo Ashby, Colored, Jailed for Car
rying Revolver and Shooting
at Policeman.

Leo Ashby. colored. recently soldier
in the 2ith United States Infantry. and
in the employ ow Capt. w. B. Cochran
L. 8. A.. his former company commander.
was sent to jail for eighteen months by
Judge P,,gh in the Police Court today for
carrying concealed weapons and shooting
at a conductor of a Chevy Chase car
Monday night. A sentence OF year YVES
imposed in the concealed weapon case and
six months In the assault charge.
Il threw him of the car at Cathedral
avenue and Connecticut avenue because
Of his drunken condition, testified
Charles Davis. conductor of the car.
lie cursed me. and followed him
acsoss IT, street. As turned to go
hack to TIE eay he aEeX EsYQlYsz from