The Washington times., 1914-07-28
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NEW YORK.-The Americas Cup
trial races will be resumed this week.
Since the .ast race at Newport, on
July Is, the Resolute and Vanitie have
been thoroughly overhauled, the rating
| OF the Resolute has been slightly IN
| creased. and that of the Fanitie some
what reduced, so that when they meet
again next Friday the time allowance
which the Resolute will receive will not
be over a minute in a thirty-nlile con-
test.
NEW YORK.-In a remarkable will,
Edward Wheeler Sparrow. president OF
the Lansing Lumber Company, left the
greater part Of his s2.J00.oo0 estate to
his son, Edward Grant Sparrow, with
the admonition to practice economy,
study business, and refrain from oster1-
tation.
NEW YoRK-Dead sea robins are
floating about the surface OF the Great
South Bay. particularly near Sayville,
in dense masses. By their conpactness
and the oil from their bodies they calm
wide expanses of the bay. The fish
have stopped the bathers. These dead
sea robins are the rejected stock, caught
by the ton. among blue and weakfish In
the bay traps.
NEW YORK.-It has Just been learned
that Edward Royton, who escaped from
the Tombs. Saturday, was literally
showed out by the gaterlan. Royton
was sent to the Tombs to await trial
for snatching a pocketbook. He said he
wanted to see friend in a cell. Asked
for his pass. he said he didn't have any.
He was then lectured upon working his
way In and literally thrown out.
NEW YORK.-There were 1881 deaths
last week in New York an increase Of
eighty-two over the corresponding week
In 1918. The increase is due to n larger
number of deaths from measles, diph-
iberia. and typhoid. Deaths from tuber-
culosis decreased. There were eight
deaths from sunstroke. '.
NEW YORK.-The first local contri-
button to the suffrage melting pot re-
ceived at the national headquarters is
Miss Lavinia Docks gold thim5Ie. which
she says is the only bit OF precious
metal she has had for twenty years.
She added that she couldn't give lin a
new hat, as she wasn't planning to
have one.
m.
retired merchant, gave his wife but
penny in the last year, and thar was
for church. according to Mrs. McKeown.
in desertion court.
NEW YORK.-Gift of $4,000 to permit
poor cancer patients to receive the
radium treatment, has been made by
Frank A. Vanderlip. a New York
banker.
BOSTON.-Chartered for a special
trip through Cape Cod canal, the Rose
Standish. Boston's larges. excursion
steamer. will be withdrawn from the
Nantasket service. and will sail for the
cape. August Belmont has chartered
the craft for a large party of guests
who will inspect the canal from Bug
yards Bay and return.
NEW YoRK.-William Sulzer expects
to be called as "an expert witness" in
the Barnes s-Roosevelt libel suit. He
told reporter so just before leaving on
a speechmaking trip in behalf of his in
dependent campaign for ''vindication"
by election as governor.
NEW YORK.-Eleven thousand volts
of electricity passed through the bodies
OF William Mccullough. of Boston. and
Robert Bridges. OF New York. Saturday.
when they struck their heads against
the trolley power wire in stealing a ride
on top Of a New Haven freight car.
Both may recover.
NEW YORK.-Mrs. Grace Fitch Con-
ger. niece of the late Clyde Fitch, the
playwright, has obtained an order from
Supreme Court Justice Donnelly re-
quirirg her husband, Roy U. Conger.
son of the late Edward II. Conger,
former United States minister to China,
tc pay her SO week pending di-
vorce suit.
NEWARK. y. J.-Sister Anna was
attacked by a vicious dog in the con-
vent of St Joseph's Roman Catholic
Church. at Warren and Hudson streets.
The animal had almost reached her be-
fore she realized her danger. She
grabbed a club from a table and met
the rushes of the dog. landing three
blows on its head. This caused the
dog to become more aggressive. so she
ran upstairs, sending the dog down the
stairs with a blow.
BRIDGEPORT. Conn.-With twenty
acres of land on Sasco Hill, Fairfield,
the new Fairfield Country Club has
been organized by residents of the
summer colony of Greens Farms. West
port and Fairfield. Membership has
been restricted and admission to the
club is set at $1,000. not including an
nual dues.
CONCORD. y. H.-Whcn fire ragged
in the storehouse Of the State prison
here the prisoners We're hurried into
the yard, where the guards started
game of baseball The excitement of
the game prevented a panic.
HACkENSACK, y. Ut has just be-
come known here that Elsie Lathrop. au-
thoress and press agent. whose mother
is Mrs. Helen Lathrop. a wealthy wild
ow. Of Hillsdale Manor, was married in
Chicago two years ago and now is sep
arated from her husband. When in Chi
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