Connecticut western news., 1914-01-01
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings of Interest ln Various
 Parts ef Our Country. .. .

Happenings of interest In Various
 Parts sf Our Country. .... .. For interfering with a woman in front of the Pennsylvania railroad sta ton three men were fined $10 each by Judge Hahn in the Third precinct court in Newark, N. J. The prisoners gave their names as Tony Gratch and Fred and James Long, all of New York. .z
 John Bostick, the confessed train bandit, was sentenced to be hanged at San Quentin, Cal, for the murder of Horace E. Montague, the passenger agent who was slain by Bostick when the latter held up a Southern Pacific express train at Ell Monte, Dec. 1.
 The estate of Albert b. Smith of Or ange, N. J., a son of former presi- dent of Dartmouth college. was S1,- 634,173, according to documents filed in the surrogate's office in Newark. Most of the estate is in bonds. The pa pers show $16O.OOO in cash. "..+ . +NTNImLtu6 dAl LuG way IcA6S tO be present at the hearing in the New Haven tConn) city court, where he was accused of recklessly driving an : automobile, Theodore P. Davis was { fined $1OO and costs after trial last ing three minutes. M. .. '..-, :. Joseph Kelter, twenty-five years old an ex-convict, who had spent two years in prison, leaped to death from the eighteenth floor of the Masonic temple In Chicago. He left letter saying the criminal instinct had at last triumphed over his will. . . At the Christmas exercises of the First Presbyterian church at Gran bury, near New Brunswick, N. J., a bushel basket of dollar bills was given to the Rev. J. E. Curry, the pastor. When he counted them he found $20O. q A window in memory of Colonel John Jacob Astor, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, was dedicated in the Church of the Messiah, at Rhine beck, N. Y. 1t was placed by his wid- ow. Mrs Madeleine Force Astor.
 The department of agriculture an neunced nation wide investigation into the present high cost of beef and the generally unsatisfactory condition with respect to the production of meat of all kinds.
 Six hangars and two aeroplanes at the Hampstead N. YD aviation field, where some of America's foremost Rviators learned to fly, were destroyed by fire. The loss was 5000.
 Four hundred shares of Norfolk and Western and $1S,7OO in dividends have been awarded to the government in Gaynor and Greene harbor frauds by the court at Lynchburg. Va.
 Mrs. Thomas Bennett of Brooklyn, N. Y., celebrated her one hundred and second birthday. Her children, grand children and great-grandchildren gath cred for the celebration.
 William w. Sleator, auditor of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad committed suicide by asphyxiation at St Louis. He was fifty years old and II.
 Edward G. Griffin, former law clerk 70 Attorney General Carmody of New York, was sworn in as his deputy at 5000 year.
 The captain and crew of the British bark Sirdar landed at Pensacola, Fla. after burning their sinking vessel in the gulf.
 The revenue cutter Onondaga res cued the distressed schooner Nellie W. Craig of New York and crew of six near Norfolk.
 Mrs. Stella M Hodge, who sent a Black Hand letter to Hampton G. Sil- COX of Philadelphia, was sentenced to two months.
 Rev. M. J. Twomey of Portland Me. resigned to accept call to the First Baptist church of Newark. N. J.
 Herbert Whitaker, nineteen, of Quincy. Mass. confessed he set fire to seven buildings in two days.