Connecticut western news., 1905-11-16
News Of
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Paragraphic Photographs of the . Worlds Doings

Chicago" says Lester BOdine, superin- tendent of compulsory education of that city. Large families and small salaries are responsible in a large measure for this wife abandonment. The real history of the average wife abandonment case when sifted to its component parts reveals large families, long hours, small salaries and earnest but futile efforts on the part of the husband to sustain the family in moderate condition of comfort. I am | not an advocate of race suicide, but in the poor quarters there are too many births. We are now suffering from toe much prosperity for the rich and too much posterity for the poor"
 Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, O., alarmed at the official report that there have been eighty-six suicides in Cleveland in the last nine months, has appointed a commission whose duty it will be to attempt to dissuade would be suicides from taking their own lives. Every man or woman in Cleveland who is contemplating suicide is invited to write a letter to the antisuicide con- mission and tell his or her troubles. The members of the commission will then make an effort to remove the trou- ble.
 In St. Louis United States Circuit Judge Adams granted a restraining or der preventing Superintendent of In- .surance w. D. Vandiver from enforc- ing his order revoking the license of the New York Life Insurance company in Missouri. Under the decision the insurance company can continue busi- ness in Missouri until Nov. 20, at which time the. question of making the in- junction permanent will be argued in the federal court at Jefferson City. James l.. Ord, assistant superintend
 ent of construction for the Western Union Telegraph company. is, it is as- serted, the greatgrandson of King George " of England and Mrs. Maria Snlythe Fitzherbert. His lineage is indubitably proved by the records and documents opened a few days ago in Coutts' bank in London, which incl dentally prove him heir to an estate of $25,000,000. MT. Ord lives in Chi cago.
 Christian Hauge, the charge d'af- faires of Norway ill Washington has been appointed minister to this coun- try from the new Norwegian nation. Semioficial confirmation was given at the state department of the report that H. ID. Peirce, third assistant secretary of state, would be made minister to Norway. Fridtjof Nansen, the arctic explorer, has been appointed Norwe- gan minister to Great Britain.
 The New Jersey state board of as- sessors has filed with State Comptrol- Ter Morgan a schedule of the annual taxation of railroad property. The to- tai assessed valuation is $237, ,026, ,414 | and the total amount of tax to be paid $2,O92, All Of the taxes $951 ,634 goes to | the state and $1, ,140,30 is to be divided among those localities in which there is second class railroad property. Announcement has been made thai James Speyer of New York has given | to the trustees of Columbia university New York, the sum of $50, 900 to endow the Theodore Roosevelt profeSsorship  the University of Berlin. The German government in return will establish at Columbia university professorship of | German history and institutions. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte | states that the recent occurrence at the Annapolis Naval academy result | ing in the death of Midshipman Branch I, hn death of the young man is said to have | resulted after participation ill a prize | fight. The court martial of Midship- man Meriwether, who fought with ] Branch, has been ordered.
 According to a report issued from the | geological survey, the total output of | crude petroleum in the United States
 in 1904 was 117,O63, ,421 barrels. The | total value of all the petroleum mar keted in the United States ill 1904 was $1O1, ITO, ,466. The gain over the produc- tion of 1903 was 16,6O2,0S4 barrels in quantity and $6.476,416 in value.
 Returns on the proposed amendments to the New York state constitution show that each of the amendments has received a substantial majority. The only amendments which received much
 attention were those providing funds
 for good roads and giving the legisla-
 ture the authority to fix the hours of labor of municipal employees.
 After bequeathing $100,000 to his
 widow, $60O,000 to other relatives and
 $90,000 to eight Chicago charitable in-
 stitutions and hospital in Pasadena,
 the late James c. King of Chicago set
 aside the residue of his $3,500OO0 es-
 tate to build and endow a home for old
 men who have been unable to provide
 for themselves.
 Secretary of Agriculture James Will
 son was bitterly denounced by Richard
 Cheatham of Atlanta, Ga, secretary of
 the Southern Cotton Growers associa-
 ton, when the agricultural depart
 ment's cotton crop report was issued.
 Mir. Cheatham says the secretary is
 actuated by hatred toward the cotton
 producers"
 The annual distribution of vegetable
 and flower seeds by the department of
 agriculture will begin on Dec. 1, and
 before planting time, it is expected, the
 entire amount aggregating 3S,0O0,000
 packages, will be in the hands of the
 people in all sections of the country.
 At Riverhead, N. r., Mir. and Mrs.
 Jeremiah r. Conklin have celebrated
 t;le siXty-fourth anniversary of theiI
 welding. The couple were married in
 Culverton, near Riverhead, Nov. 13
 1S41. Mir. Conklin is eightyfour years
 old and still works as a carpenter. His
 wife is eighty-six. Both are hale and
 hearty.
 To insure united action in giving
 financial aid made necessary by the
 massncres of Jews in Russia call tc
 the Jewish people of America has been ! Inv A5oIIh I[ rn11c urpSi1qut Oi