Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-06
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 Tn spite of the fact that Thomas A. Edison has been working for the last half dozen years to perfect storage battery that would guarantee the supremacy of the electric automo- bile, it is observed that the wizard uses steam cars in his touring. - Meriden Journal.
 It is under an old law passed by the Ohio legislature in 1898 that John D. Rockefeller is being prose- cuted. The act is known as the Val entine, Stewart antitrust law and proceedings under 1t instituted against some coal companies were desisted from because the circuit court declared the law to be. uncon- stitutional. Last March the supreme court of the state affirmed the consti- nationality of the law, and 1t was for violations of it the Toledo ice- dealers were fined and sentenced to jail.-Bridgeport Farmer.
 It is the reported policy of the Har- riman railroads to order only steel passenger cars hereafter. The steel freight car is already coming into extended use. and by good rights the steel passenger car should precede and not follow. The Hartman roads are setting a good example, which some of their competitors would do well to follow. Steel passenger coaches mean a material reduction in the casualty list of railroad disaster, as practical experience has amply dem- onstrated. They pay for their in- creased cost by increased safety for their passengers.-New Britain Her ald
 The lieutenant-governor of Virgin ia, F. Taylor Ellyson, in a recent speech, declared for "a southern man for president on the democratic ticket, shutting out both Hearst and Bryan without consideration. Mir Ellyson does not believe that MT Hearst could land the democratic presidential nomination, even if he won the New York governorship. He puts Bryan to one side and says that the south should have a man for the place. He believes that the south could name a candidate who would run as we'll ''as any man did in 1904" He'd have to do much better to win.-Bridgepor Standard.
 If the Missouri river persists in following an old bed of the stream, which it is now threatening to do, Nebraska may find herself with three senators and Senator Gamble of South Dakota may be retired from politics by becoming resident of Nebraska instead of South Dakota. The Missouri is cutting into an old channel to the east of Yankton, S. D., and if the water succeeds in getting into the old bed, Yankton will be thrown on the west side of the river and therefore into Nebraska Sem ator Gamble is a resident of Yank- ton and if the city is thrown into Nebraska he must move to some other town or get out of politics. ted Citizen.
 The latest step in President Mel lens plan for flat 2-cent-a-mile fare on all parts of the New Haven rail- road system is the application of this rate to the Providence division. The one, and in a few months anybody may ride mile for two cents on any part of this great railroad system. Discussing the reduced rate between Providence and Boston, the Provi- dence Journal says: There no long CT is occasion for investing 20 dollars in mileage book except for the pur- pose of having ticket good between any stations; and the traveller who has only the price of one ride may find satisfaction in knowing that he can buy transportation as cheaply as a millionaire. The new policy of treating all passengers alike is cer- tain to be popular. ."-Hartford Times.