The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-27


Waterbury, Ansonia, Derby, sey-
mour and Naugatuck yesterday re-
turned to normal standard time.
Bridgeport Jews yesterday started |
the Observance of the Feast of the |
Tabernacles. The festa1 season will
continue for eight days.
Three Boston policemen have been
arrested on charges of larceny All
of the accused men were recruited
after the police strike.
The Barber Asphalt Paving COM
panys plant, in Perth Amboy, N. J.,
was destroyed by fire yesterday.
Damage is estimated at S1,OOO,OOO.
Fire destroyed the Barber Asphalt
plant at Maurer, N. J., yesterday. The
plant covred six acres and the loss is
put at 100000.
japanese statesmen see serious
stage" being brought about through
California's attitude over the race
question.
Edward Bailey, of Danbury was
nominated Saturday at the conven- |
ton of the gath Senatorial district. |
He defeated Representative Samuel
C. Shaw, of Redding.
Bridgeport Lodge No. 473, Indepen-
dent Order Birth Abraham, yeSter-
day passed resolutions mourning the |
death Of Jacob schiff, New York fl
nancier.
Elihu Root, who has been abroad |
in the interests of a permanent court /
of Justice at The Hague, returned yes |
terday,- but declined to comment on |
his work.
William J. McCune of ST. Broad |
street reported to the police last
night that he had been robbed of a
1T III I0I
purchasing a ticket in Main street
theatre. |
Owing to the destruction of their
reservoir by a flood, citizens of Mar
tigny, Switzerland, are now drinking
wines and beers only. 1t is expected
that it will take many weeks to re-
pair the damage.
The death list resulting from the
recent Wall Street bomb explosion
has now reached Sc. A young woman
who was injurd by the blast, died yes
terday in st. Vincents hospital, New
Yorb.
Fifteen passengers who were riding
on the wrong side of an open street car
in Brooklyn yesterday were seriously
injured when the car was side
swiped' by a car going in the oppo-
site direction. Three may die.
Sophie Kritchman. formerly of
Naugatuck, who on May completed
a 10-year sentence for manslaughter,
is to marry a Naugatuck Lithuanian
The woman was convicted on a charge
of killing her lover.
Two young men entered the store
of George KarakaS at sos 1raniStan
avenue on Saturday night armed with
revolvers and held up the proprietor
and robbed the cash register of $50
= in bills and small change They
l.4sr- .oNo in n
O. F. DAWSON, Jr., of Dayton, O.,
and Alexander Van Santvoord, of
Bennington, VT, are two Yale men
who have been awarded Rhodes
scholarships at Oxford University
sixtpfour American students have
been awarded scholarships
william L. Dobson of Hartford,
who disappeared about two months
ago. and who was believed to be dead.
retUred to his home yesterday. The
man wandered away during a ft of
mental depression. and has been living
on the western wheat fields.
grief at the death of Jacob H. Schiff,
New York financier and philanthropist,
were witnessed yesterday when nun
dreds of East Side Jews wept in the
streets His funeral will be held topor-
row and East Side Jewish business
houses will close for one hour during
the services
Herman Weber. a Hartford real
estate dealer, is in serious condition
as the result of a mysterious attack
said to have been made upon him in
Windsor, last Saturday. Weber Is
unconscious, and evidently suffering
from a severe blow on the head. The
police are investigating.
DR.. James B. Hubbell, 80 years sec
rotary to Clara Barton, founder of the
American Red Cross. seeks to recover
$4,000 which he declares was taken
from him through his believing thai
he was holding spiritual converse
tions with Miss Barton. Mrs. Maybelle
Rawson Hirons posed as the medium
which brought the message and go'
the physicians money.
Mary Reese Mitchell of New DondoT
has been named a member of the board
of presidential electors from Connect
cut by the Democratic party. Former
National Chairman Homer S. Cum
mings, State Chairman David E. F'itz
gerald of New Haven and Convention
Chairman Thomas J. Spellacy were
the committee who made the appoint
ment.
A special Prison Survey committe
appointed by Governor Smith, of New
York, has recommended that inmate
of New York prisons be paid stan
dard wages while working in jail
Prisoners are now, paid at the rate o
cent and half a day. The com
nittee also suggests that the Com
pensation Act be extended to includ
prisoners Machinery in New Y or
State prisons is said to be in a de