Connecticut western news., 1905-12-28
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article says that President Roosevelt 'fs not only making plans to establish himself as the Republican boss of New York, but he has we'll under way plans that will make him the political boss of the United States. What 1t amounts to is that the president Is organizing a Roosevelt party regardless of present party leaders. It is the ambition of the president to be a political dictator when he finishes his present term. He thinks to spend the remainder of his life In the United States senate after he has left the White House unless in- deed he can so bring 1t about that after he has served four or eight years as senator there shall come demand for his nomination for president again."
 Assemhlyman James W. Wadsworth of Livingston county Is Governor Hig- gins candidate for speaker of the New York assembly. Former Governor Odell favors Edwin A. Merritt, Jr., of St. Lawrence county and has issued statement charging President Roose- welt and Governor Higgins with "a deliberate attempt to wreck the Re
 
 for their own personal ambitions" The president is said to favor Wadsworth. who is one of the youngest members of the assembly.
 No feature of the export trade of the United States in 1905 has shown lar ger growth than the trade with China and Japan. In the ten months ended ruith f< gated more than $500O0,000 against $2O,OOoOO0 in the same months of 1904 and $13.00O,OO0 in 1908. Exports to Ja- pan were SAG. .5O0,o0o against a little less than $22,00O,OO0 for the same pc riod in 1904 and $16,OO0.0O0 In 1903.
 By the purchase of the Thomas F. Ryan interests in the New York City Railway company, controlling the sur face roads in Manhattan and Bronx boroughs, August Belmont, who al- ready controlled the elevated and sub- way lines, becomes the owner of all lines of transportation In those parts of Greater New York. Brooklyn lines may soon come under the same man. agement.
 reb. IT IdS Dcch ucNlucu upOu us wedding day of Miss Alice Roosevelt and Congressman Nicholas Longworth. A movement has been started in Ore gon for a popular subscription as a wedding gift. 1t Is proposed to raise $500, 0,000, the subscriptions to be limited to 10 cents. Word was received from Rome that the pope will send a nagnif- icent mosaic to Miss Roosevelt.
 A-report that w. Ellis Corey. head of the steel trust, and his wife were to be reconciled proved unfounded The re- port contained statement to the ef- feet that Corey was to turn over to his wife $1,O00,000. John A. Topping. pres ident of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, has lost his position. 1t Is said that his removal was caused by his criticism of Corey.
 Final returns to the bureau of statis- tics of the department of agriculture for 1905 give corn an acreage of 94,- oil ,369 and a production of 2.70T, ,993.- 540 bushels; winter wheat, 29,S64 .01S acres, S,4B2. .S34 bushels; spring wheat, 17,990,061 acres, 264, ,T18, ,655 bushels; hay, 39,301, ,960 acres. 60,531.- ell tons, and potatoes, 2,996, 757 acres, 2G0, 741. .294 bushels.
 Charles K. Ehler, now in the county hospital at Bakersfield. Cal, suffering from a wound said to be self inflicted, said that he had information as to the killing of Governor William Goebel of Kentucky which would clear Caleb Powers, formerly secretary of state of Kentucky. now under sentence of death for complicity in the murder of Goebel.
 Lloyd c. Griscom, minister to Japan, is to be appointed minister to Brazil. Minister Leishman, now representing the United States at Constantinople Is to fill the Japanese legation, soon to be raised to an embassy, and Herbert H. D. Peirce, third assistant secretary of state, Is to be the first American 1 minister to the new kingdom of Nor way.
 The steamer Satsuma, reaching New York from Yokohama. brought a re- markaDle tale of surgery at sea. The captain, using tin shears as operating knife, soldering iron as cauterizer and a potato sack to to~envelop the pa- tient's head in lieu of an anaesthetic, removed Chlnaman's vermiform ap- pendix. The man recovered. As a reward for defending the post | office at Emma, N. C., four years ago against four burglars President Roose- welt has waived the civil service regu- lations upon the recommendation of Postmaster General Cortelyou, and &. H. Alexander's Christmas gift was a promotion from a laborer to q clerk ship.
 The Philadelphia Press says that President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers union has communicat- ed with the presidents of the anthracite coal producing companies in regard to holding conference. The miners will ask for an eight hour day and complete recognition of the union. E. Woods, superintendent of the ! Washington capitol, has appealed to the house of representatives to save the Greenough statue of George Wash lngton, now on the esplanade east of the capitol, from further destruction | by the weather. Mir, Woods asks that the statue be taken indoors.
 "Aristocrat." the most aristocratic of all carnations, was sold by Richard Witterstaetter to the Chicago Carna- ton association of Joliet, III. The price is said to have been $40,O00. It is de- clared by experts to be the most mag nificent specimen of carnation ever i grown.
 F. E. Andrews, attorney for the Ma tional Farmers exchange, announced that the amalgamation of the National Farmers exchange and the American Farmers union is about perfected. The new organization will be the greatest society of farmers in the United States. The bureau of entomology of the de- ! partment of agriculture in Its annual ! report on its work in fighting insects