The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-24

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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
Relief expeditions are being sent
from Anchorage, Alaska to rescue
men marooned on an ice held on F1re
Island.
Foreign built vessels admitted to.
American registry since June 30 last
number "A, with a gross tonnage OF
64.s43.
Gen. Louis H. Carpenter, U. s. A,
retired, died at Philadelphia He was
veteran of the civil and the Indian
wars
A contract for the construction of
two ore ships for the Spanish Arneri-
can Iron Co. was received by the
Maryland steel Co.
stockholders of the Pennsylvania
railroad numbered SO, 76s on Dee. 81.
1915; an increase of 1877 compared
with Dec. 81. 1914.
Between 10000 and $4,000 cotton
workers in the mills about. Danielson,
Conn. will receive a wage increase of
five per cent.
George ". Mullan, former law part
ner Of Mayor Mitchell, was appointed
Supreme Court Justice, succeeding the
late John j. Brady.
It was announced at Oyster Bay.
that Col. Roosevelt is not planning to
visit Cuba when he makes hisNtrip to
tho West TrdiaS NEXT month.
More than s4.ooo,ooo has been
raised by the Presbyterian Church at
Philadelphia for the maintenance of
aged preachers and missionaries.
Theodore Roosevelt in letter re-
ceived by A. A. RAIN, of Minneapolis,
asked that his name be not used in
the Minnesota primaries.
Michael j. Drummond of New York.
Commissioner of Charities under May
or Gaynor, died at his home of heart
trouble following pneumonia.
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James H. Murphy, porter in a saloon
at Rockford, III, received word that
his aunt, Mary eastman, died in Bos-
ton, leaving him her $4,000 estate.
Howard Powell and Ernest Street,
of Mount Holly, N. J., were killed
when a clay band on which they were
playing caved in and buried them
s Commander f. r. G. r. Evans, sec
ond in command of the Scott Antarctic
| expedition, was married in London to
Miss Elsa Andvord of Christiania.
Joshua Jewett, Jr., of Jewett & Co.,
Iof Buffalo, stove manufacturers, was
killed when struck by a New York
Central train while riding in an auto
mobile.
The New York Board of Health IS
report for the week ending Saturday
/ gives the number of deaths as 1,760,
a decrease from the preceding week
! of 1o3.
DR.. George n. COBB, of South
Irange, N. J., will succeed DR.. James
Miner Maghee, of West Orange, as
president of the Orange Mountain
Medical Society.
Three men were killed and three
others seriously injured in an acct
dent on the tank steamer John D.
Rockefeller while the vessel was load
ing oil at Tampico.
| The stock department of the Hud-
son Motor Car Company at Detroit
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through to the first floor. No one was
seriously hurt.
LIE Roi de Corsa Young, who had
been in the employ of the New York
World for Is years, died in the Brook
Ign Hospital following an operation
for appendicitis
Frank P. Martin of Brooklyn, con-
victed last April of swindling woman
out Of 500 in real estate deal, has
entered Blackwelrs Island to begin his
sentence Of year.
Seven hundred and fifty employees OF
the Serong-Hewat, Blackington and
North Adams worsted mills at North
| Adams, Mass, were granted an in
crease in wages OF 5 per cent
| Charles OrviI Pitcher of Milwaukee
was sentenced to four years in the
state prison after he admitted he had
| married eight women.