Connecticut western news., 1906-08-30
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| to be added to its treasury from the | proceeds of its new stock. The reIl stake, which is of far greater imp IT. tance. however, is the Pacific coast | trade. The opposing forces consist of J. Pierpont Morgan. James !. Hill and their friends. the foreign capitalists, or the one side and l.. R. Hartman, p-lc l tical owner of the Union-Southern Pa l citic roads With Sir William Van 1 Horne, Sir Thomas Shaughnessey, as sthe comptroller of the vast Canadian l Pacific system, with their friends, on the other
 The United States census bureau re ports that the manufacturing industries of Pennsylvania in the past five years increased from 23. 4G2 to 3,495, with ID aggregate capitalization of $1,9a5, ,S3G,- 9SS. an increase of SIT per cent. Tl!e number of salar;ed officials and clerks employed by these establishments is | given as 660S1 and the number of wage earners at T63. .2S2. the former re- ceiving $T&.269,O07 and the latter $3GT.- 960S90 in wages. The total product Of the industries for 1905 was S1. .995 551 . 332, an increase over 1900 of 1S.5 per cent
 l President Roosevelt has indorsed the Carnegie spelling reform movement. He has issued orders to Public Printe' Stillings that hereafter all messages from the president and all other docu. ments emanating from the White House shall be printed In accordance with tho tion of tho snnll. ing reform committee headed by Bran der Matthews, professor of English iD Columbia university.
 The Chicago federal grand jury re- turned ten indictments against the Standard oil company before Judgt Bethea in the United States circuit court. The indictments, which contai: 6,420 counts, are all in connection wit! the granting of rebates. Under the law fines aggregating $131. .0So,o00 may be imposed if conviction follows indict- ment. No railroad was mentioned iD the indictments.
 Another recruit has joined the ranks of the sons of wealthy men who have put on overalls to work as labo-ers Or apprentices In the trades. His name Is B. l.. Winchell, Jr., and he is the sor of the president of the Rock Island anC Frisco railroad systems and a graduate of Yale university. The young collegi an will become an apprentice in tht Baldwin Locomotive works, Philadef phia.
 Thomas J. Richards, member of the executive committee of the Unitet Mine Workers of America in the Nintl district, brought joy to his family anC friends, who feared he had been mur dered, when he returned to his hom' at Minersville, Pa. When he disap peared early in June, he said, he went to the Pacific coast and after shorl stay went to Wales on visit.
 We are leading an awfully fast If. in this country" said John D. Rocke feller in an interview in Cleveland Tt is simply rush. rush along. Tlr newspapers, for the most part. kea' apace of the times. They show the lift of their readers. People live too fast Their life is. accelerated by the head lines, the concentrated excitement al bound up In a few words"
 We will install additional presses ir the bureau of printing and engravin@ in October and will increase the ca pacity of the plant for printing pape' money 40 per cent. We hope in thl way somewhat to relieve the famine iI paper currency in small denominations which now exists" This statement was made by Charles H. Treat. United States treasurer.
 The cause of an epidemic of typhoi,' fever In Three Oaks, Mich, was dis. covered when q member of the boartI of health climbed to the top of the waterworks standpipe and. found the dead bodies of several thousand young sparrows covering the surface of tht water.
 Mill owners and farmers generally | throughout New England are anxious. | ly looking for abundant rain to fil their depleted springs and waterways | particularly in the interior portions | Crops have been suffering for the past four or five weeks for lack of showers
 The meat packers are said to bt | worried because or I1e quiet way II! which Secretary Wilson Is visiting the l packing establishments. Under tn
 law which goes into effect Oct. 1 h. l has power to force any improvement, he may deem wise.
 By the will of Daniel E. Wesson. til, revolver maker, $650,000 is given to the Wesson Memorial and Maternity hos pitals of Springfield, Mass, and the remainder of his fortune of $15.0O000t or more is divided among forty reia tives.
 Representative postoftice clerks from
 six western cities met in Chicago all, I formed d national union under the aus 1 pices of the American Federation oi
 Labor. This is the first labor union ot government employees.
 That Russell Sage was insane wher he made the will over which so many
 of his relatives are disputing is the claim that is to be made in a new court
 action by his grandnephew, Revel c
 Sage of Albany. N. Y.
 The new railway rate law has gone into effect. Unless the railroads hurry 1 to comply with the regulations many