Connecticut western news., 1904-04-07
News of
 A Week. Paragrapkic Photographs of the
 Worlds Doings

Hon. Andrew S. Draper, the newly elected commissioner of education Of New York state, on April 1 assumed the duties of his new office under the educational unification law, which abol- ishes the state departments of public instruction and the regents as such, both being hereafter under the juris- diction of the state commissioner of education.
 Eight specific charges. each one pointed out as a violation of the Sher- man antitrust law, are brought against the twenty-siX leading railroads run ming into Chicago. The action is an at tempt by the coal men to put the Chi cago Car Service association out of business on the ground that it is an illegal combination of railroads. The case of the interstate commerce commission versus Baird, commonly known as the anthracite coal case has been decided by the supreme court of the United States in favor of the con- tentions of the commission, the deci- sion of the United States circuit court for the Southern district of New York being reversed.
 The first civil tribunal of the Seine on Thursday decided the case of the republic of Colombia against the Pana. ma Canal company in favor of the de- fendants. This action has the effect of removing the legal obstacles in the way of the transfer of the canal con cession from the company to the Unit ed States.
 The United States transport Logan sailed on Saturday from San Francisco for Manila via Honolulu and Guam. She carried 2T5 recruits under com mand of Major Henry Benham of the Twenty third infantry. Among the other passengers was Mrs. Wood, wife of Major General Wood, with her three children.
 The United States mint at San Fran cisco has undoubtedly broken all rec ords for gold coinage since the use of money began in civilization. The amount coined during March reached the enormous sum of $33,113, 300, an average of more than $1.000,000 a day.
 Charles Cackley, murderer of Con- stable Reuben Fenstenmaker in 1866 at Pennington, Ia., who was not arrested until thirty-six years after the murder, has entered plea of guilty. He was sentenced to ten years in prison at Fort Madison.
 A decision rejecting as evidence the "sealed letter. by which William J. Bryan was to be given SJ0,000 from the estate of the late Philo S. Bennett was given by Judge Gager in the su- perior court in New Haven, Conn.,, Thursday.
 Preparations have been completed for national convention for the nOmi- nation of a negro candidate for presi- dent The convention will be held in St. Louis July 6. The name of the new party is "the National Civil Liberty party"
 At Newport News, Va, Tuesday, the new battleship Virginia was success fully launched in the presence of a large assembly of distinguished per sons. Governor Montagues daughter was sponsor for the new vessel.
 Commander George l.. Dyer of the cruiser Albany of the Asiatic fleet has been assigned to duty as naval gov ernor of the island of Guam to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Com mander William E. Sewell
 According to the latest estimates, the cost of repairing the damage to the Erie canal caused by the floods and the breaking of the ice gorges in the Mohawk valley will considerably ex- ceed $10O,000.
 The story of a guide, confirmed by a party of woodsmen is that Bald noun tain, in the Tobique valley, Maine, dis appeared on the night of March 21, the date of the New England earthquake.
 Governor Murphy has issued proc lamation converting the New Jersey legislature in special session on April 12