Connecticut western news., 1906-07-19

presidents secretary. says MT. Roose- velt's decision not to De candidate is irreyocable.
 Delegates from thir,y-three locals of the United Mine Workers of America, representing 10000 employees. in con. vention in Mshanoy City, Pa.. adopted a political platform which demands the enactment of laws to prohibit pri- vate detectives, coal and iron and state police from taking possession of the mines during strikes and lockouts.
 Chester E. Gillette of Cortland. \. Y- was arrested. charged with the mur- der of Grace Brown of South Otselic Gillette is alleged to have beaten the girl on the head with an oar from a rowhoat in which they had been riding on Big Moose lake and of throwing her into the water. He says the bout cap- sized.
 The Peabody management of the Mutual Life Insurance company has brought suit against former President AcCurdy for an accounting of sums aggregatlng between S2,ooo.ooo and ! $S,Ooo.ouo. expended under his direc- ton.
 R. R. 0dell. Jr.. has promised, it Is said. not to be a candidate for re election to the chairmanship of the New York Republican state commit tee when that h,dy meets to reorganixe at the Republican state convention.
 When President Roosevelt goes to the lsthmus of Panama this fall he will travel on the battleship Louisiana. one of the latest additions to our battleship fleet. Two other hattleships will ac- , company the Louisiana.
 At the New Jersey legislative inyes- tigation of banks and insurance. begun in Trenton. sensational feature of the testimony was an attack by insur- ance men upon the new laws of New York as too drastic.
 proving fatal to the West Indian nc groes employed on the Panama canal. Sanitary precautions make them sus- ceptible to pneumonia and other throat and lung troubles.
 The gross losses In San Francisco of thirty-nve fire insurance companies alone were fI5.00o.O00. The net losses are only S4ao00. GOO. More than loo Are insurance companies were losers in San Francisco.
 The trial of several ice dealers in Jacksonville, Fla. on the charge of combining to raise the price of Ice con- trary to law resulted in verdict of not guilty of criminal Intent to de fraud.
 The laundrymen of Cincinnati raised the price of doing up collars and cuffs half a cent. Thirty nine laundry con- cerns and their proprietors have been Indicted under the Ohio antitrust law.
 Mount Vernon. N. Y.. is to build .s municipal ice plant Yonkers. \. l.. is preparing 10 take steps to erect storehouses and sell Ice at cost and supply it free to those uLsble to pay.
 The report that Governor Stokes of New Jersey Is engaged to marry Miss Annie Green of Newboro. \. c. and that the wedding will occur soon has been denied by the governor.
 The attorney generals departments of Texas and Arkansas will cooperate in the prosecution of trusts alleged to be doing business In violation of the laws in those two states
 ThorSas n. Nicholis president of Dis trIct No. l. United Mine Workers. has been nonina .ed for congress from the Eleventh Pennsylvania district by the Democrats.
 The state department red book says that the department paid S1.5oo to China on an unjust indemnity claim simply to keep on good terms with that empire.
 The National BillFosters' associa ton decided to eliminate illustrations of devils in all forms from advertising matter distributed by the association.
 Miss Annie Ide. daughter of Govern or General Tde of the Philippines, Is to be married to Congressman Bourke Cochran in Washington next fall.
 The sum of Si5.o00 was appropriated by the Reformed Hungarian church to erect monument 10 1eOTSe VI NdsuluS ton in Budapest. Hungary.
 The New England Insurance Ex- change has decided to advance by 25 per cent rates on all classes of risks throughout New England. Secretary Taft has received an invi- tation from the Filipinos to be pres ent at the opening of the first native assembly next June.
 Eben NJ. Byers of Pittsburg won the national amateur golf championship al Engiewood. '. J.. by defeating George F. Lyon of Toronto.
 The National Hickory association was organized in Niagara Falls, x. '. Its object Is the preservation of the American forest.
 Mrs. Carrie Sation was arrested al Cleburne. Tex. on charge of sending improper matter through the malls.
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