Connecticut western news., 1906-02-01

 ton was shown to him announcing that Dr. Richard Hodgson had sent d com. munication to pr. Funk regarding the latter's wife from the spirit world through the mediumship of Rev. Fred erick A. Wiggln. pastor of Unity . church, in the Hub.
 The bulk of Marshall Fields fortune, estimated at S150,0O0,0O0. is to be held in trust for the three children of the late Marshall Field, Jr. The latter's only sister, Mrs. David Beattie of Eng. land, Is to receive SS.0O0,oo0 Mrs. Mar. shall Field, Sr., is not to get a large be quest, it Is reported, as she is said to have received S2.ooO,o0O as q wedding gift last September.
 Senator Armstrong and Assembly. man Cox of the joint special commit. tee of the New York legislature which has been Investigating life insurance methods declared that the Brandow Printing company of Albany, the state legislative printers, were holding up the report of the committee. The head of the printing company denied the charge.
 A remarkable complaint against the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance compa- ny has been made by John Williams of New York, who has been paying premiums to the company for twenty. two years. In all Mir. Williams has paid in $3,0O0 on $2,O00 policy. The company now offers him S15.13 in set. tlement.
 Judge Hazel in Buffalo handed down a decision in a suit that was started In 1876 against Jay Gould, who was accused of stealing telegraph inven. tions patented by Thomas A. Edison. The decision is adverse to the Gould interests. The amount involved Is prob lematical. An accounting has been or. dered.
 Mrs. Harry c. Taylor of Derby. Conn, who has just been granted a divorce on the ground of cruelty, swore that when her husband beat her 1t was his custom to turn the horn of his talking machine out of the window and set the machine going in order that the neighbors might not hear her outcries.
 Before the senate canal committed Theodore F. Shonts, chairman of the isthmian canal commission, testified that he retains hls presidency of the Toledo, St. Louis and Western railroad, the Glover Leaf route" receiving a salary of $12,00O. The government pays Mir. Shonts S30,0O0 year.
 Stephen Decatur, great-grandson of Commodore Decatur, first class United States Naval academy, was dismissed from the navy for hazing. Midship. man Chester A. J. Bloebaum is to be dismissed, and Nldshinman- Richard R. Mann has been acquitted. Two oth. CT cases are being considered.
 Senator Raines introduced in the New York senate bill providing for . recount of ballots cast in the recent municipal election in New York city and empowering the supreme court to open the ballot boxes and make the re count. The bill was referred to the ju dietary committee. @
 Senators Morgan and Pettus of Ali bama announce that they will be can. didates for the United States senate to succeed themselves. Senator Pettus, who Is eighty-four, and Senator Nor. gan, who is eighty-one, are the oldest members of the senate.
 Washington physicians say they do not think Heinard, the rabbit eye man." will recover his sight. The oper. ation by which it was attempted tC graft the corneas of rabbits eyes upon the blind eyes of Heinard has proved unsatisfactory.
 Governor General Ide of the Philippine Islands cabled to Secretary Taft re. questing denial of the report that the islands are to be sold by the Unit ed States to Japan. Mir. Taft said the report was not only untrue, but ab- surdly so."
 John D. Rockefeller has not been in Cleveland since September. Inquirers are unable to learn his whereabouts. George Rudd, Mir. Rockefeller's broth. er-in-law, says he does not believe the rumor that Mir. Rockefeller is in Eu. rope.
 During the past six months taps have been sounded over the graves of 2S,0oe pensioners of the civil war, according to statement of Pension Commis. sioner Warner. The total number of pensioners on Dec. 31 was 679.234.
 An increase in the price of shoes has been agreed upon by the New England manufacturers. It Is asserted that an increase of B per cent in the cost of staples in the industry had taken place during the last few years.
 The New York State Bar associa. tion's investigation of David R. Hills connection with the Equitable Life was postponed until MT. Hilrs return from the south in April. Mir. Hill has gone south for his health.
 That science may create living or ganism through artificial means was stated by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of the University of Leipsic, famous scientist, in a lecture at Columbia uni verslty.
 Burke Hall of Lincoln, Neb., for two attempt to color the reports of the Chicago beef trust case in the press.
 District Attorney Jerome of New York is said to be preparing to act against the officers of the Mutual Re. serve Life Insurance company.
 During the warm wave in the north the weather in the south was exception. ally cold. Three negroes were frozen to death in New Orleans.
 A joint conference of the Republican state legislators of New York city de- clared itself in favor of the repeal of the mortgage tax law.
 Jan. es B. Dill was confirmed as judge of the New Jersey court of ar- rears and appeals by the senate in ex. ecutive session.
 Mrs. Jane Sage a cousin of Russell Sage. has been found in Toledo, O., in q destitute condition.
 Will Fight Beef Trust.
 New York. Jan. 31.-Western farmers and cattle raisers cooperating with uuioD butchprs and the American Fed.