Connecticut western news., 1904-10-20
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IFeSluenL ana A1Ts. ttOOSeNeil dtCchu ed the wedding of Miss Rebekah Page Knox, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Philander c. Knox, who was married to MT. Edward R. Tindle of Pittsburg on Saturday. The ceremony took place at the country home of Senator and Mrs. Knox, Valley Forge farm, near Valley Forge, Pa.
 The triennial national council of the Congregational church was opened in Des Moines, Ia., Friday. Nearly 600 delegates were in attendance. Rev. Washington Gladden. D. D., was elect ed moderator. The annual report showed $500 churches, with 660,400 members.
 The census bureau has issued a re- port on the executive civil service of the United States showing total of 271, ,169 employees, embracing all per sons employed in the executive branch es of the federal government except enlisted men in military and naval branches.
 After being absent year, travelling $500 miles in a canvas covered wagon of their own design and earning their expenses by the sale,of potato peeler, MT. and Mrs. John W. Harrison, an aged couple, have returned to Newark. N. J. The trip was made for health's sake.
 The house of bishops on Monday in Boston reversed the action of the house of deputies of the Protestant Episcopal church, which by narrow margin refused to abrogate the canon permitting the remarriage of the inno- cent party in an action for divorce.
 Public bequests in the will of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Potter, widow of War. ren B. Potter of Boston, will aggregate about $3,OO0,0OO Under the terms of the will the city of New Bedford re- ceives $250,0O0 and the Massachusetts Medical library $150,000.
 A report just issued by the inter state commerce commission shows that tEe total number of casualties to per sons on railroads in the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, was 55,130, comprising 3,T87 kill ed and 51,343 injured.
 The house of deputies of the Episco- pal general convention in Boston at the close of four days debate reject ed an amendment to the divorce canon
 which sought to prevent the remar- riage of divorced persons by clergymen of the denomination.
 Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the gov ernment bureau of chemistry, express
 es the opinion that fully S5 per cent of all the whisky sold in this country in hctcl restaurants, clnbs and bars is nothing less than cheap imitation. The government postal deficiency for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, was $S,779, ,492. The total postal ex- penditure during the year was $152,-
 362, ,116; total postal revenue, $143,- | 5S2, ,624.
 The New York rapid transit commits | sion has formally authorized August | Belmont and John B. Mcdonald to | open the main line of the subway to
 the general public on Thursday, Oct. | 27.
 An earthquake shock was felt at
 Honolulu on Friday afternoon. The shock was of general extent. It was | felt by vessels fifteen miles at sea. | No damage to property.
 The annual report of Brigadier Gen
 eral J. F. Weston, commissary general | of the army, says the total cost of feed ing the army during the past fiscal | year was $S,281, ,750.
 The Lewis and Clark exposition has
 voted $40,000 for premiums for a big
 live stock display from all trans Rocky mountain states during next summer.
 Chicago is to have the largest hotel | in the world. It will cost $10000, 900
 and be twenty-two stories high.