The Press., 1895-01-31


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 The terrible story comes this morning of the loss of the New York Bremen steamship Elbe, by collision with small steamer of Lowestaft. The Elbe was bound for New York, and was sunk so quickly that but 2l of the crew and pas sengers were saved, $50 being lost.
 THERE is much disappointment among merchants over the decision of the su- preme court, reversing the decision of the superior court, and making unconstitu- tional the law under which Conlon, the transient shoe merchant of Rockville, was fined for refusing to take out license. It would seem that the law was just one, and the absence of the restriction it im- posed an injustice to every regular tax and rent paying merchant,
 THE Brooklyn railroad strike is practi- cally over. When it's failure became manifest to the strikers they made a prop osition to return to work at the rates against which they had struck. The company replied that they would take back the old men as needed, but not in 8 body, as they proposed to retain men who had been given employment during the strike. Several persons have been killed during the disturbance, including rioters, officers and employees. The troops were withdrawn on Tuesday and the hoodlums, bummers and strikers signalized the de- parture of the troops by stoning the cars all day, wounding women who were pas sengers in the beleaguered cars. One woman was 50 badly hurt that her life was considered uncertain.
 THE president has issued a message urging action by congress to give re- lief to the depleted treasury. He would arm the treasury with authority to sell 3. per cent. 5O-year bonds, specifically paya- ble in gold, to any amount. He would permit these bonds to be used to get gold for the reserve or to retire and cancel the greenbaok and Sherman coin notes, or for both purposes. To supply any deficiency in the circulating medium he would have the banks issue their own notes on the new bonds to replace the United States and treasury notes retired. He would re- tire all bank notes below the denomina- rion of $10 and leave the field of small bills free for silver and silver certificates. And finally he would require the payment of customs duties in gold. He exhorts congressman to sink partisanship and work together for the :public interest. The plan is one that has been advocated by the press, but it is doubtful if the pres ent senate would pass bill embodying the features recommended, the populists and silver men having too much strength. The silver men will be satisfied with noth- ing short of the actual experiment. of a debasiue currency.
 In the contest now pending between II ale uniyerstty and fhe sforrs agricnlta-. sa7 001l leoe Tor the possession Of the Mor- I'll fund. which vas established by not of congress in 1e6e, and the annual appro-5 priations from the national government by congressional act of 1890, the authori- ties at Yale have decided to accept the state's provision made in the act of 1893, diverting the funds from Yale to Storrs College, to arbitrate the questions at is- sue. The university has appointed Henry c. Robinson of Hartford as arbiter, rep resenting Yale. The arbiter appointed by the general assembly two years ago is Dwight Loomis of Hartford, ex-associate justice of the supreme court. Messrs. LoOmis and Robinson have selected Jere- miah Halsey of Norwich as the third ar bitter
 Thompson is excited over probable murder case. The wife and child of Zezi Starskewjei are missing, and the house in which they live was found bespattered with blood. The child was an illegiti- mate one, born before his marriage. Two little children of the missing woman were carried to relatives by the husband, who said that his wife had run away and left them. This is unlikely as the mother was fond of her children, and of kindly domestic nature, though known to have been brutally treated by him, her illigiti- mate son being even more an object of his abuse. The suspected man is in jail, and search is being made for the bodies of his victims.
 Norwich Bulletin: It is good move to make the law with reference to the qualification of applicants to become elect ors so plain that the use of an interpreter by examining boards can not be defended anywhere in Connecticut. Thousands of voters have been made who could not read line of English, and the proposal of Judge Cowell to make ''the reading of English the qualification ought to go through the legislature with unanimity equal to that which marked the passage of the grade crossing bill.
 The memorial to the late Prof. D. T. Mclaughlin of Yale has been decided up- on. It will be a scholarship which will be open to competition to members of the freshmen class of the academic depart ment. The present freshmen will be the first to write for 1t. They will in April submit their essaVs on a subject from a