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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1926
Page
4
New York reports Italian lire rising nearly 7 points to 41 8 4 cents as Italy seeks to raise its currency to 4 80 cents under a stabilization plan. Norwegian kroner also gains over 50 points to 24 41 cents amid government efforts to restore gold standard. Japanese yen nears 49 cents, bolstered by Asian selling of silver and demand from China.
Joseph Burt Ofiak of 141 Asylum Street Middletown had compensation denied by the state compensation commissioner Noonan in Hartford on October 18. The denial rests on failure to prove the eye trouble was caused by an on the job injury at the Connecticut Foundry Company of Rocky Hill.
Queen Marie of Roumania narrowly escaped injury when a roll of tape thrown from a high office window near Dey Street splashed toward her car as the royal party moved up Broadway to City Hall. The device narrowly missed the vehicle, shocking onlookers.
Norwich October 18 AP A Superior Court order by Judge Newell Jennings grants foreclosure on the Groton and Stonington Street Railway mortgage. Auction set for November 22 at New London courthouse. committee Deputy Judge Lewis Grandall to conduct sale of rails rolling stock buildings lands bridges rights of way and franchises. Mortgage totals run about 445 312 60 with the second mortgage known as Mystic extension bonds. Appraisers Palmer Anderson and Peck to report by November 15. Cash or certified check required with bids. bonds may be deposited in lieu. Line runs from Groton through Mystic Noank to Pawcatuck on the Rhode Island line.
Three times Miss Ethel Short of this town leaped into the Connecticut River in suicide attempts. Two nearby workmen pulled her from the water and saved her after each plunge. She was revived and again attempted to drown herself, but was prevented a second and third time and finally subdued. She is being detained by the police.
Federal agents took complete charge of the old Waterbury brewery today, ousting the Waterbury Cereal Beverage company which had operated the plant for months. Four arrests were made in a raid on the Borchardt Botting plant adjoining the brewery last Saturday.
The trial of Robert W. Bridgeman, Hartford private detective, and his assistants was postponed from today to tomorrow at 10 oclock due to the absence of state treasurer witness Ernest E Rogers. The defendants face charges of breaking and entering and breach of the peace related to the Marion Hemming case at The Cabin on Highland Lake last summer, employed by Louis S Guffing of Hartford.
New Haven Oct 18 AP Coroner EN Mix rules no person bears criminal liability for the deaths of Barney Hawce of Philadelphia and Mrs Mildred Ferrell and Minerva Orr Pitey of New Haven after a drinking party aboard the yacht Capsicum tied in harbor. The finding attributes the deaths to the group’s intoxication and the overturned small boat.
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