The Press., 1896-03-19

in faVOr or the aunlSSIOu OA "OA0H 0"0 lay delegates to the general conference. The vote was 68 to 59, four persons not voting.
 Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York is about to lead another crusade and this time he is going into state mat ters. He will not yet make public the lines on which he will conduct the attack. He simply allows it to be known that he will make his assault on the present leg islative methods and ideas and the ''boss" system.
 Quite a number of the delegates to the republican national convention at St. Louis have been chosen, and Mckinley is ahead of all the other candidates at pres ent. He is receiving a strong support in the west and south, and has secured some of the delegates already elected In New York and Pennsylvania. It is not thought that he has very strong support in New England, but if he keeps on gaining, as he has the past week, Reed will have to hustle.
 The name TX ray" still puzzles a good many people who are, nevertheless, well informed regarding the wonderful proper ties of the invisible agent thus designated. The expression originated with Professor Rontgen himself, and in adopting it per haps he had in mind the use of the twen- ty-fourth letter of the alphabet, in alge- bra, to represent an "unknown quantity" At any rate, there is so much in the na- ture of the newly discovered ray which the scientists do not yet understand that such supposition is natural one.
 Another will has been broken. The relatives of the late Chas. M. Pond of Hartford have succeeded in having his will declared invalid. The city of Hart ford loses the Pond tract for park pur poses and $2OO,OOO for it's development. It is a great misfortune to have wills at tackled and broken, thus interfering with the right of a man to dispose of the prop erty that he controlled while living. It seems as if the only sure way to be able to distribute one's property according to desire is to attend to it before death.
 The people of Connecticut are well sat- isfied with Governor Cofin's decision that he cannot find any legal justification for the proposition to expend $25, ,OOO in trans porting the Second regimentto to Cleveland, O., on the occasion of the centennial eel ebration there few months hence. Con- necticut should be well represented at Cleveland, because of it's close historical connection with the northern part of Ohio, but there would seem to be no necessity for expending so large an amount of pub lie money on the affair. If the regiment is anxious to make holiday excursion it might contribute largely or wholly toward the expenses of the occasion, rather than put so heavy burden upon the tax-pay- CTS. The 'junket'' business has been sadly overdone in this country.
 N. Y. Tribune: There are indications that satisfactory settlement of the Ven ezuelan controversy is in a fair way of being arrived at. A question in the house of commons Monday brought out the information that the United States has made formal proposals to Great Brit ain, and in Washington it was learned that Great Britain's reply was on it's way to the state department. The nature of the proposals has not been disclosed, but it is intimated that plan of adjusting the boundary dispute satisfactory to all the interested parties will result from the negotiations now under way. If England is willing to submit the whole subject to arbitration, the point for which the United States has been contending will have been gained. Arbitration once agreed on, the settlement of all the points in dispute will speedily follow. The pub licatiOn of the character and scope of the pending proposals will be awaited with impatience on both sides of the ocean. -
 Ballington Booth announced at New York Saturday that the name of the new religious organization would be Gods American Volunteers" The christening was attended by the enthusiastic cheering of a large number of the commanders supporters who happend to be at the