Connecticut western news., 1906-12-20
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ident ambassador to France. being pro- C. Griscom was named for the Italian embassy, being promoted from Brazil; John w. Riddle. formerly minister to Roumania and Servia. was named for the Russian embassy; Irving B. Dud- ley, former minister to Peru. was named for ambassador to Brazil, and Leslie Combs was named for minister to Peru. The promotion of MT. Rid dle. it Is believed. comes as a reward for his diplomacy when he was secre- tary of the embassy at St. Petersburg in getting into the hands of Count Lamsdorff the petition of the United States in behalf of the Kishineff vic tims after the Russian government had refused to receive it.
 With the cold wave signal raised the coal shortage in the northwest became not only a cause of severe suffering. but an absolute menace to human life. Appeals were made to the governors of North Dakota and Minnesota to em- ploy the state military in forcing the moving of coal trains. The situation is considered the worst in the history of the northwest and Is attributed by some railroad men to a shortage in cars and by others to a shortage in motive power. Other states besides North Dakota and Minnesota are re- ported to be in need of coal. Heavy snowStorms added to the prevailing distress. Missouri and Kansas reports indicate that there are many empty freight cars on the railroad tracks of those two states.
 Denver reports say investigation of the Union Pacific coal land frauds in Wyoming will be a fiuke, the company will be permitted to retain the S60.000,- 900 of coal lands it is said to have gained illegally, and no officials of the Union Pacific will suffer. This, says a Denver man interested in the unearth- ing of the frauds. is the programme prepared by the Hartman railroads.
 As the result of n conference in the White House between the president and Attorney General Hadley of Mis- souri the Standard oil will be prose cuted to the limit under the Sherman antitrust act whatever may be the out come of the Chicago suit based on the Elkins act, which suit may be thrown out Of court on the immunity plea" raised by the Standard oil counsel
 There was much agitation in Sweden in favor of awarding the Nobel peace prize to the so called Carlstad commis- sion, the group of Swedish and Norwe- gian statesmen who negotiated the peaceful separation of the two coun tries, instead of President Roosevelt. It is thought that the commission pre- vented war between Norway and Swe- den.
 'The right to strike for any or no cause is clearly and fully sustained by authority. Even a conspiracy to strike followed by legal damage. is not un. lawful if formed to better labor condl. tions" This is an extract from a de cision of Judge A. l.. Sanborn of the United States district court in Afadi. son, Wis.
 The closing of the Farmers and Drovers' National bank of Waynes- burg, Pa. and the arrest of Cashier ]. B. F. Rinehart, charged with makina false reports to the comptroller of the currency, caused the discovery of an alleged discrepancy amounting to $95O,000.
 In an address in Washington Secre tary Shaw said: We who pray should ask God to save us from any increas. ed prosperity. We have all we can stand. We are growing more crops than we can harvest and harvesting more than we can haul to market"
 "The dream of the pessimist who sees the phantom of the struggle fol supremacy between Japan and the United States for the control of the Pacific is too ridiculous to be made the subject of serious comment" says Wis. count Aoki, Japanese ambassador.
 Adolph Busch, the millionaire St Louis brewer, declared himself in fa vor of an income tax. saying. If there were not so many stingy rich men in the United States every man with a decent income would he paying his fair proportion of government taxes"
 The Delaware. Lackawanna and Western railroad will give 10 pei cent increase in wages to all employ ees in the transportation department Jan. l. It was announced that there will be no trouble between the Reading system and its engineers.
 The simplified spelling will be con tinued at the White House in all cor. respondence emanating from there de spite the action taken by congress in the matter of the spelling of public documents according to the old stand ! ards.
 Major Penrose and Captain Macklin, ! white officers of the negro soldiers discharged without honor" by Presi | dent Roosevelt. were ordered to trial by court martial for their failure to prevent the race riots in Brownsville, Tex.
 Cardinal Gibbons issued a statement declaring that the attacks on King Leopold's administration of the Kongo l,aF h,a