Connecticut western news., 1912-02-29
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HAPPENINGS. elect tba civ Arizono delegates to Baltimore at direct primary May 29. dividing the .state into six districts.
 Former State Senator Frank J. Gard ner of New York, who Is involved ill charges growing out of the alleged cou. spiracy to fraudulently dispose by will of the property of Samuel E. Has lett, the Brooklyn recluse, faces more trouble. His former wife, Mrs. Eliza beth H. Gardner, who obtained a al. yorce from him in 1910, has obtained an order for his arrest for failure ru pay her alimony of $10O month.
 The right of the Southern Pacific Railroad company to selections of land under the so called main line grant" by congress within the grant to the old Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company was upheld by the supreme court of the United States. The decision. d test case, involved the claim to more than $1,0OO,O0O worth of California land.
 Airships and aviators in New York state are not to escape contributing to. ward the support of the state govern. ment if a bill introduced by Senator McManus becomes a law: It requires the registration of all airships by the secretary of state and the payment of a fee of 50 for each. Aviators are to be licensed at $2 each. ....
 Under urgent orders from President Taft, the war department is rushing additional troops to the Mexican bor- der, and a situation is rapidly develop. ing which may result in physical in- tervention if the Mexican combatants fire across the Rio Grande, as they did last year. -~' --"
 Forty girls employed by the P. V. 1 Collins Publishing company of Minne- apolis went on a strike rather than submit to a dress edict" issued by the proprietor, which requires them to have the heels of their boots or pumps reduced to a uniform height of one inch.
 Judge Burlington of Philadelphia re- versed the decision of Judge Cross of the district court of New Jersey, and ordered destroyed as unfit for food ! purposes 443 cans of frozen egg prod ucts seized by government officials in Jersey City in July, 1910.
 Senator Reed of Missouri introduced a resolution directing the committee on privileges and elections to institute an inquiry into the alleged corrupt methods and practices with which Senator Henry A. Du Pont Is said tC have secured his election.
 Governor Dix has declined to com mute the sentence of Edward Burnett convicted of shooting and killing John Dougherty at Dunkirk in May, 1910 The condemned mans will be electro cuted at Auburn prison during the week of March 1.
 Matthias Shaek and his wife cele brated the seventy-uinth anniversary of their wedding i'll New Yo.k. This ,-lso is MT. Shalek's ninety-ninth birth. day. His wife is ninetysiX years old and both are enjoying good health.
 Miss Eleanor Wilson. daughter OI Woodrow Wilson, governor of NeN, Jersey, reached El Paso after being marooned for many days in northerp Chihuahua by the cutting of the Mex leo Northwestern railroad tracks.
 The bowling of a pet cat saved tn, lives of A. NJ. HiXonson of Oskaloosu Ia., and his family of five, who came near. death by suffocation while asleep from gas. which entered thelr home l through a broken gus main.
 To prove his theory, preached from the pulpit, that success depends upon mans efforts. the Rev. A. T. OsborN of Kansas City has developed u mush room bed, from which he derives an income of $35 a day.
 Senator Richard FltZherbert of Mur- ris county. N. l., will be tried on the uuestion of his expulsion from ihc