Connecticut western news., 1906-08-23
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 dreds of saloons in Chicago Is largely composed of meat in a condition abso- lutely unfit for use was discovered by | Food Inspector Murray when his force of assistants raided a barn at 124 Illi- nois street, owned by William David son. The place contained thirty stoves. i over which six men were working in an endeavor to prepare decayed pork and beef into a semblance of its origi- nal form and thereafter manufacture" ! 1t into free lunch for the saloon trade.
 At Minneapolis, on Thursday, R. R. Brown of Zanesville, O., was elected by exclamation commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic Other officers elected were: Senior vice commander, William H. Armstrong. Indianapolis; junior vice commander. E. B. Fenton, Detroit; chaplain in 1 chief. Archbishop John Ireland, St 1 Paul; surgeon general, W. H. Johnson, Lincoln, Neb.
 President Roosevelt has appointed James S. Harlan of Chicago a mem Der of the interstate commerce com
 
 NJ. Harlan, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. He is a lawyer of extensive practice and held for some time the position of attorney general of Porto Rico. David Belasco and Mrs. Leslie Car ter-Payne finally have parted. This sequel to the romantic marriage of the 1 Aa i,, f4y- .nI announcement by Charles Dillingham; that a contract had been signed for Mrs. Carter-Payne to appear under his management for the next five years. l William J. Bryan confirmed the re- port from Melbourne that he intends to visit Australia. He says he will start immediately after the November cleo ton, sailing from San Francisco and making a tour of New Zealand as well as Australia. He will be gone ten weeks and travel alone.
 The First National bank of Chelsea, Mass. has been closed by the comp troller of the currency. It is reported that the banks failure was caused by unsecured loans of S5OO.OOO to Presi-
 
 in his home in Brookline.
 Axtell, the stallion that in 1SS9 made the worlds trOtting record of that time, died at the Warren Park stock farm at Terre Haute, Ind, of spas modic colic The night after the rec ord race Axtell was bought by a syn dicate for S105,0OO.
 | | lnf Monday on the North German Lloyd steamer Princess Irene for New Yorks MT. Bryan expressed himself as being delighted with his tour, which closed with visits to places of interest in and about the rock.
 Fred o. Murray of Buffalo was ac- quilted of the charge of grand larceny in connection with what has been known as the graveyard scandal. Mur- ray was tried on an indictment charg- ing the larceny of $29.304 on June Il, 1901.
 Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew's health is so improved that he is seen almost daily driving or motoring on the roads of Westchester county, N. |. The sen ator is living in the old Patton place, between Dobbs Ferry and Irvington.
 l.. l.. Whitman and C.. s. Carris. in q thirty-six horsepower machine, estab- lished a new cross continent automo- bile record of 15 days, 1 hour and 50 minutes. The former record. 32 days and 23 hours, they made in 1904.
 The twelve Japanese poachers cap- | fY,Va NI,- Il, while raiding the seal rookeries. have been indicted for violation of the Unit ed States law enacted to protect the fur bearing seals.
 Miss Mildred Fredericks. daughter of farmer of Legrangeville, N. l., was married at Asbury Park, N. l., to Frank Fourhorns, Sioux chief, who West show.
 Owing to the lateness of the season Walter Wellman, the chief of the Chi cago Record-Herald arctic expedition, has abandoned the project of balloon ing to the north pole this year. The New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad has transferred all ! association known as the New England Security Investment company. A report issued by the department of commerce and labor showed that the purchasing power of wages in the United States was 1 per cent higher in 1905 than in 1904.
 The Santa Fe railroad has voluntar- fly granted its thousand telegraphers from Chicago to Fl Paso an increase of wages. averaging about S4 d man. eff fective at once.
 The isthminn canal commission on Monday invited bids for furnishing 1 2,500 Chinese coGiies, to be delivered on the isthmus of Panama on or before Jan. 9. 1907.
 | The London Morning Post says that 1t is rumored on the Stock Exchange that King Leopold and John Rockefel- Ter will jointly finance the railways of Tanganyika.
 The board appointed to make an ex- animation of the treasury of Summit county, O., charges Mir. Smith. former