Connecticut western news., 1906-12-27

! [ is ready to enter the ring again. Hs will fight any white man thought worthy of his prowess, provided the stake Is big enough. He still draws the color line. however. and refuses to meet Jack Johnson, the negro fighter. The president announced the accept ance by John Mitchell. as a representa- tive of labor, and Marvin HughItt, president of the Chicago and North. western railroad. as a representative of capital as members of the board of trustees to whom the president win convey the Nobel peace prize.
 Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. the British ambassador at Washington, re. fused to give reasons for his recall fur | Townlcy. who has been blamed by some for the impending change. was In ! no way responsible for his recall
 The annual report of the isthmian ca- nal commission states that the prepara- ! tory stage of canal construction has been passed and that the commission Is now about to make the dirt fly" in
 
 | five foot level lock canal ]. c. Phelps Stokes, millionaire so- cialist of New York, who was married to a working girl. has withdrawn his support from the West Side Y. M. c. A. because that organization has estab- lished classes in real estate and stock 1 Investments.
 Making many charges against the American Ice company. the so called | Ice trust, Attorney General Julius May CT of the state of New York, began an action in the supreme court in New York city for the dissolution of the company.
 John n. Rockefeller has assured the ! Rev. Charles F. Aked of Liverpool, who has accepted a call to Mir. Rocke- | feller's New York church. that neither ' he nor any member of his family Is ln- terested in the Kongo concessions ! The American board of missions now has 29.3S0 stations and outstations, 1 6,15o men and 6.oSa women mission. aries. To.T35 native laborers, 12.34a. .ao9 eommunlcants. 1.12o.s02 under instruc- ton and an income of S1Sooa, 74S. IT the official count In the Mutual | Life Insurance company election re elects the present board of trustees it was said in New York that Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will succeed Charles A. Peabody as president.
 Insurance company election re-elec,s the present board of trustees 1t was said in New York that Secretary of the | Treasury Shaw will succeed Charles l A. Peabody as president. The will of former United States Senator Arthur Brown of Utah d~- clares that the two children of Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley. who shot him to death in Washington, are not his and leaves nothing to them.
 Aroused by the action oS France h confiscating Catholic church property. Long Island chapter of the Knights of ' Columbus, representing 10000 mem bcrs, Is to boycott French merchan- disc.
 The yard conductors and brakemen of the Long Island and the staten Island railroads, through their adjustment committee, reachel agreements with the companies, thus averting strikes | From a moving railroad train tele- ' phone conversations were held with Louisville. Cincinnati and other points by means of an appliance invented by ] Dr. Ava r. Jones of Louisville.
 Ten million pounds of oleomargarine or butterine has been forced into New York city from New Jersey during the past year. contrary Co the law, said the New NriS Herald.
 Secretary Straps of the department of commerce and labor has decided that a state may encourage immlUra- tioa even ny paying the expenses of immigrants.
 The purchase of the Connecticut Rail- way and Lighting company by tho New Haven railroad is one of the larg- est transactions ever made In New England.
 The new Fairbanks theater in Spring field, O., built by syndicate controlled by Vice President Fairbanks and his brother, N. H. Fairbanks, has been opened.
 Reports from many of the cities of the United States indicate that the amount of money spent for Christmas gifts far surpassed all previous records.
 Charles II. Keep of Buffalo, assistant secretary of the United States treas. ury, is to be the new head of the New York state department of banks.
 The coal famine In the west and northwest has been relieved by the railroads, although shortages still exist in some places.
 The Yale Scientific school is to give series of evening courses for work ingmen. either free or for nominal fees
 The school authorities of Washing ton have been called upon to decide whether q Filipino is white ar colored
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