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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
7
The Hartford Courant reports a split in the Legislature's judiciary committee over the hoggish electrical law. The piece accuses monopolies of pressuring for penalties and injunctions to bypass courts, notes the twelve town limit on sharing electricity, and urges either repeal or a total monopoly with no generation by individuals.
The court sentenced chauffeur Darragh to more than seven and less than one year in prison for driving with a thirteen year old boy. The judge warned that future offenses could bring the death penalty and stressed automobile responsibility to public safety. The opinion cites the automobile as a persistent, dangerous presence needing careful state regulation and driver conduct.
The piece argues governments must raise revenue via direct taxes or tariff duties indirect tax. It critiques protectionist policy under parties and favors city power to condemn for municipal use. It condemns limits on the Colt property taking and urges fair valuation for needed urban land. It notes Hartford and Bridgeport dock plans and local corporate resistance.
Two distinguished Trappists, Abbot Edmund M. Obrecht from Kentucky and Bishop D Augustine Marre from Germany, visit Mer. Lavelle’s Archdiocesan residence. The abbey, lacking carpets and most furniture, sleeps in gowns and chants at 2 in the morning. The 1,700 acre monastery raises vegetables and poultry, with strict rules forbidding meat fish and eggs at meals.
Aaron Cohn of Buffalo rushed after his wife who leapt into the Niagara River between Second and Third Sisters Islands. He followed, grasped her hand, and fought the current for an hour. With a tree stump as aid, he held on as rescue efforts arrived too late. Mrs. Cohn presumably died in his arms. Police and rescuers finally reached the scene with ropes and help.
In Tallahassee Florida the body of Mark Morris hangs from a tree limb in the county jail yard with the Florida State Capitol in view. Morris is a Negro condemned to death for the murder of William Langston, former sheriff, and faces execution within weeks under the lawful penalty.
Philadelphia obit notes Col Alexander Kelley McClure a famed early National politician and newspaper man died yesterday after illness since March at his Wallingford home. Born Jan 9 1828 in Perry County he edited The Sentinel at Mifflin learned printing and publishing solo. His early politics included a 1853 Whig auditor general run and he influenced 1860 GOP support for Lincoln.
Middletown New York June 7 likely the oldest U S pensioner is Micajahise of Beaver Brook Sullivan County who has applied for a pension increase A government examiner found him listed as 168 despite family saying he is four years older He served in Sheridan's cavalry and fought in the Shenandoah Valley later the examiner visited him due to travel limits
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