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...Lordship, a town near Bridgeport, Conn., a fat, succulent spider straddled, with his eight legs, two live wires; was electrocuted. Foraging ants who found the corpse haled their mates to the winter's store of meat. So many ants piled on to the spider, to be electrocuted in turn, that their massed bodies short-circuited the wires of 20 interconnected houses...
...Berlenbach's crushed nose, now to his gloomy mouth, now to his heaving midriff. None of Berlenbach's long, stiff blows were steered anywhere near dancing Delaney. At the end, the referee's course was plain before him and he took it. The ladies of Bridgeport, Conn., where amiable young Delaney trains and where he is often called "Gentleman Jack," can now enlist, for their teas and charity sociables, not merely an obliging and handsome young exhibition boxer but the world's champion lightheavyweight...
Married. Emmeline Grace, daughter of the president of the Bethlehem Steel Co. (Eugene G. Grace); to Alton Parker Hall, son of a Bridgeport clergyman, grandson of the late Alton Brooks Parker; in the chapel of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. Six hundred guests were feted...
When the curate of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Bridgeport, had administered the sacrament of extreme unction, John T. King, 51, formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator...
Died. John T. King, at Bridgeport, Conn...