Connecticut western news., 1912-03-07
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 NEWS HAPPE ENINGS

1OI y6dES lue IIuSIGu uAppEM,Moe treasurer Of the Van THAT GNiNSS. Keuren & Thornton company of New York and who con- fessed to footing the concern to the ex- tent of $143,000. was sentenced by Judge Rosalsky in the court of general sessions to states prison for a period of not more than nine years and six months nor less than four years and one month.
 Unless present plans of President Taft's campaign managers go awry Vice President Sherman will also go on the Republican ticket for vice pres ident, according to a report in Wash ington. A member of the cabinet who is the most active among the presi. dents official family is quoted as say ing, "We had not intended to consider MT. Sherman for vice president in this campaign, but the emergency confront. ing us compelled us to do so."
 Former State Senator Frank J. Gard her of New York, who is involved in charges growing out of the alleged con spiracy to fraudulently dispose by a 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 di- vorce from him in 1910. has obtained an order for his arrest for failure to pay her alimony of $1OO a month. Ruby Kutz, a butcher, of Redwood Falls, Minn., who has been suffering with lung hemorrhages for years which baft1ed all physicians who attempted a diagnosis of the case, finally under went the X-ray. A shingle nail was seen in the lower lobe of his left lung and removed. Kutz says that he had no knowledge as to how the nail had lodged in that part of his respiratory organ.
 L. B. Ktdwell, who went to the Phil ippines in 1898 as a volunteer and Is now known as the Humber king'' of the islands, arrived in San Francisco from the orient. With him is a young titled Moro named Azduia Piang, the son of a powerful datto of Mindanao and who has forty-nine stepmothers and thirty-three brothers and sisters.
 A joint resolution demanding the res ignation of United States Senator Le- roy Percy was adopted by both houses of the Mississippi legislature. Senator Percy was advised of the action of the Mississippi state senate in demanding his resignation, but declined to discuss the matter until after he had read the full resolution.
 With one chance in a thousand Adam Patten of Pittsburgh has won and re- covered entirely from a broken neck. Patten's neck was broken three months ago when the axle of his wagon wheel snapped, the wagon jolted and he was thrown head first against the paving stones.
 A government detective arrested Fred Harvey of La Porte, Ind, charg- ing him with dissertation of property in having broken the seal of a gun in Yellowstone park, using the weapon to kill deer belonging to the government. Harvey Is a full blooded Indian.
 For her clever work in connection with the arrest of the robbers in the $25,OOO taxi hOldup case in New York
 
 from matron to first grade detective and her salary was increased from 1 $1,OOO a year to $2,25O.
 There will be no peaches this year and maybe none for two or three years or long enough for new trees to be grown to the fruiting age. Growers 1 all through Newton, N. J., declare that the extreme cold weather has been fa. tai to trees.
 Bv a vote of to 1 the three cabinet officials with final authority in pure food cases held that foods containing saccharin are aduterated with delete rious ingredients and placed the pro duce on the forbidden list.
 Vincent AstOr, son of Colonel John Jacob Astor and a freshman at liar yard. emphatically denies the publish ed reports that he s to marry a popu , lar Broadway musical comedy star, Miss Ina Claire.
 At the age of eighty-eight Captain E