Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1914-03-13
Editorial 8 craps

Lu1tOIiaA - II aus
An earthquake vas reported at Fair.
tanks, Alaska.
The Giants and White sox, baseball
tourists, arrived ia New York.
special election for a United
States Senator from Alabama viii be
held May II.
1ring blindness, August p. Heyne.
81 years old. an architect. of Newark,
committed suicide.
According to police figures there
are 1851 unemployed men in Chi
cago.
Reports from south Florida indicate
that the vegetable crops were injured
from SO to rs per cent. by the recent
frost.
William s. West. a wealthy lumber
man OF Georgia. was sworn In as sen
ator TO serve until the election Ia
October.
Claude Anderson, cashier of the
Mercantile Bank of Memphis. Tenn.
which recently closed its doors, was
iadieted on I'VE counts.
William d. Kelly president Of the
Rational Letter Carriers Association
will be the new postmaster at Brook
Ign.
c. l.. Brown. agent for the Adams
Express Co. at Pennington, Ill, was
arrested charged with the embezzle.
ment of Sc 400.
Assemblyman Law of New York in
trodueed a bill appropriating s350000
TO pay for the States share OF elm
mating grade crossings
The Merchants Association of New
York will guarantee $4,000 in receipts
If the next Army Navy football game
Is played in the metropolis.
An anti-tpping bill was introduced
IN the New York Legislature. 1t
makes It a misdemeanor for anyone
20 accept, promise. offer or receive
a tip.
Chas. Black, II years old of Jersey
City. WAS awarded $4,000 for injuries
received when a wagon ON which he
was sitting was struck by New Jer-
sey Central train.
= p. NJ. Daniels, New York real
estate dealer, was sentenced to five
months In the penitentiary and fined
$500 on a charge of selling lots under
false pretenses.
William Ferris hookkeeper OF the
Greenwich Savings Bank, of Green
wich, Conn, which suspended last De-
eember, was arrested on a charge OF
embezzlement and held in $1,000
bail.
Schools. churches and moving pie
sure shows at Florence. N. j.. where
~ persons are dead from an epidemic
OF scarlet fever. were ordered closed.
Cornelius Greenleaf, an undertaken
OF Englewood. N. j., teephoned to
New York for coffin for an infant.
It arrived by parcel post, costing Is
cents
The steamer Cameronia OF the An
Choir line arrived IN New York with
e honeymoon couples from Scotland
The unemployed IN Milwaukee mum
Der 2. eco, according to census taken
by the police.
Inc VIII bi JANNH iiuaff AlVutA
dealer, of Pittsburgh hequeathing an
estate of 100000, stipulates that any
beneficiary engaging in liquor trade
shall forfeit all claim
Sentence was suspended In the
case of Samuel IL. London and Henry
G. Bohn. of New York, convicted of
producing "The Inside of the White
Slave Traffic"
Immediately following the recovery
OF the body of the American ranch
man, Clemente Nergara, the first
straightout declaration in favor Of
armed Intervention IN Mexico, was
heard in the Senate from Senator Al
bert b, Fan. Republican. OF New Next
co.
Champ Clark celebrated his cath
birthday
Representative Kinkead Of New Jer-
sey was named by President Wilson
for postmaster at Jersey city.
The House passed the Rocher bill.
prohibiting the shipping OF convict.
made goods in interstate commerce.
Norman Gaynor, youngest son OF the
late mayor of New York, Is to be
married April 16 10 Miss Elizabeth b.
Page. of Fairfax, Va
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has emphat-
seally denied the reported engagement
OF Miss Eleanor Wilson to Secretary
OF the Treasury MeAdoo.
Dudley Field Malone. collector OF
the por, OF New York, and his wife
will spend two weeks in the West
Indies.
Mrs. Ann Bowe is dead al Moharn
Mass, at the age OF loS.
Lieut.. Col. Chebaie1. chief OF the 81
Petersburg police. vas shot aud kile'
In his office by Lieut. lvano1, Wit
then tried TO commit suicide.
Frederick Townsend Martin, socla
leader, brother OF Bradley Martin an,
uncle OF the Countess OF Craven, wei
known to the society OF all capital:
author of THE Passing of the Id