The Press., 1896-06-18

most prosperous cities of it's size in the state.
 The Connecticut state commissioners port that they find opposition to the use of tubel culin as test for tuberculosis Is decreasing, and they now have on hand applications from owners for the testing of 1 ,50O head of cattle. One of the com missiOners said recently that every herd in the state belonging to a dairyman should be tested. He did not believe that there was one herd of COWS in the state supplying milk in town or city which did not have diseased cattle in it.
 Hunter was sentenced to nine years last Saturday. Judge Wheeler charged the jury at o'clock. The jury returned at 1245 with a verdict of manslaughter, the maximum penalty for which is fine of $1,OOO and ten years. At o'clock Judge Wheeler sentenced him to nine years in prison. Six of the jury opposed verdict for first degree murder on the first ballot. Ten ballots were taken before the con- promise was reached. Attorney Bar bOur, at the close of court, gave notice of a motion for a new trial on exceptions taken to Judge Wheeler's ruling in regard to the admission of evidence showing that threats were made by Aborn to Hunter. Hunter will probably be allow ed to remain in Holland jail until the matter of new trial is decided. The general opinion seems to be that the sentence was just.
 The republican convention in session at ic Fo T on the platform to be adopted to-day. The subcommittee on platform resolved to recommend to the committee on resolu- tions the following financial plank:
 "The republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enact ment of the law for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold.
 "We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our cur rency or impair the credit of our country We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until agreement can be obtained, the existing gold stand ard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolable the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.''
 Senator Teller, of Colorado, and most of the other silver delegates, say that they will secede from the republican party to-day. Mckinley will receive over 600 votes on the first ballot. The Connecti- cut delegation stands seven for Mckinley and five for Reed. It looks as if Hobart, of New Jersey, would receive the nomi- nation for vice-president, as Morton re- fuses to have his name used. It is ex- pected that the nominations will be made to-day.
 Hartford Courant: The law passed by the legislature in the session of 1895, reg ulating the width of tires of vehicles for the transportation of merchandise, will go into effect on the first day of July. The law provides that all vehicles used for such transportation, "except such as were already in use'' prior to July 1, 1896, shall be equipped as follows as to tires:
 "All vehicles having an iron axle two inches square, or an axle of equivalent capacity, shall be equipped with tires not less than four inches in width.
 "All vehicles having an iron axle one inch and three-quarters square, or an axle of equivalent capacity, shall be equipped with tires not less than three inches in width.
 "All vehicles having an iron axle one inch and half, or an axle of equivalent capacity, shall be equipped with tires not less than two and one-half inches in width"
 The penalty for violation of this act is fine of not more than $1OO. The law is in line with the work on good roads, and is intended particularly for the pre- vention of the destruction of roads by cutting them up into ruts by heavy loads on narrow tires. The law was objected to by local expressmen at the time of it's passage, the claim being made that with such tires it would be impossible to turn with heavy loads in narrow streets with out taking up much more room than wag- ons with the present style of tires. It is well known that the wide tire makes the draft of the vehicles lighter.
 WALES.