Connecticut western news., 1906-09-06
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Methodist church in the United States and member of the International Policy Holders committee, sent n let ter to Alton B. Parker of the policy holders committee urging the policy holders to vote for the reelection of the present managements of the Mu- tual and New York Life companies. The appellate division of the supreme court affirmed the judgment of the lower courts In the Mutual Life cases. This means that the names of the four policy holders committeeman must re- main on the Mutuars ticket unless the court of appeals reverses the decision. The directors of the Equitable Life ac- cepted the resignations of George J. Gould and Judge D. Cady Herrick. There Is now no man identified with Wall street on the Equitable board.
 Union labor was dealt blow by Cir cult Court Judge Chester A. Fowler of Fond du Lac. Wis, in the boycott suit for $25.000 damages brought by Otto R. Schultz, a Racine baker, against the trades labor council. The decision holds illegal the contract exacted from the boss bakers in an effort to enforce the closed shop. The boycott Is called an actionable conspiracy. Schultz is allowed damages of S2,500. The rights of labor unions and their sympathiZers to call on their friends to withhold patronage from a nonunion tradesman was recognized as not being illegal by Justice Stafford In the District of Co lumbia supreme court.
 At Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt reviewed the greatest fleet of war ves seis ever gathered in American waters. Forty-five ships, from battleships to submarine torpedo boats, made the spectacle one long to be remembered by the thousands of spectators from New York city and elsewhere. At night the ships were brilliantly illn- minated. Rear Admiral c'Fightine Bob'D Evans, on board the Maine. commanded the fleet.
 The first suits for damages for all legged discrimination and giving of re- bates to favored coal corporations by railroad companies following the re cent investigation by the interstate commerce commission were filed in Philadelphia by nine retail coal deal. CTS. The damages asked aggregate more than $500,000, and the Pennsyl- vania Railroad company Is the sole de- fendant in the concerted legal actions.
 The open shop idea will govern in the postal service, according to high post. office officials. However, so long as the postal clerks or other postoffice em- ployees conform to the rules and regu. lations of the office and do not at. tempt to modest those who do not en. ter the union there will be no objection to the employees affiliating with labor organizations.
 At Ellenville, N. T., Miss Roper of Brooklyn, a summer visitor, was caught by the guide rope of balloon and carried 800 feet into the air before the attention of the aeronaut, Maggie Daley, was attracted to her. When the balloon was lowered Miss Roper struck against fence and received severe injuries.
 Cotton is king in the export record of the United States" says state ment issued by the department of com. merce and labor The total value of the raw cotton exported in the fiscal year recently ended exceeded $400. 100000, more than double the value of breadstuffs sent abroad.
 Mrs. Mary A. Dixon, who recently sued Senator Patrick Henry McCarren, the Brooklyn politician, for $200,00Q. has withdrawn her suit and has taken back everything she said against Nc. Carren, including the charge that he is the father of her one-year-old child, r. H. McCarren, Jr.
 In letter to Charles A. Stillings, the public printer, President Roosevelt wrote that if the changes in spelling advocated by the simpllfied spelling board and put into use in official doc, uments meet popular approval they will be made permanent. If not they will be dropped.
 In q speech before the American Bal association in St. Paul, Minn., former Judge Alton B. Parker of New York denounced the usurpation of the legis. lative power by executives-city, state or national He was elected president of the assocla ton.
 News dispatches sent out from Scot land, where MT. and Mrs. Carnegie and their young daughter Margaret are staying. deny the rumor that the child Is suffering from hip disease. She has only slightly sprained ankle.
 An investigation of the International Harvester company has been instituted | by c. c. Coleman, attorney general of Kansas, to determine whether the con. cern Is operating in violation of the state antitrust laws.
 Emerson McMillin. the New York banker, has resigned from the Civic federation. MT. McMillin intimated that his action was due to differences with Ralph NJ. Paisley, the secretary of the federation.
 President Roosevelt will leave Oyster Bay for Washington on Oct. l. 1t Is an. nounced. Three days later he will make flying trip to Harrisburg and York. Pa, where he will deliver speeches.
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