Connecticut western news., 1907-06-20
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(Neb.) assessor show the assessment or w. J. Bryan to be about S55,000. His farm is assessed at about $25,000. His personal schedule follows: Notes and secured paper, S1,000; firearms, five, S150; typewriters, one, $25; pictures and engravings, S1,000; billiard table, $35; piano, $500; agricultural imple- ments, $100; diamonds, $500; household effects, furniture and library, $3,500; scales, $5; corn sheller, $5; three dogs, S25; harness and saddles, S200; watch es and clocks, $500; carriage and wag- ons, six, $500; horses, six, $TO0; cattle, eighteen, $1,000; hogs, five, S125; bees, two stands, $5; corn, 400 bushels, S120; poultry, $100; jewelry and gold and silver plated ware, $500; value of oth- CT property not listed, $5; total, $1o,- 100. The Commoner plant is assessed at $20,000.
 A solemn commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the estab- lishment in Connecticut of the Church of England was held In the Ivy covered Christ church in Stratford in the pres ence of one of the most distinguished bodies of churchmen that has been seen in the state since the consecration of Bishop Brewster ten years ago. This was the first parish in the state, and its history is closely interwoven with the story of the English church in all New England. The parish records show that n spiritual warfare existed in 1709 owing to the dangers of the Episcopacy" as set forth by the Con gregationalistss and parishioners were not only fined for holding service, but were forbidden to vote or to hold office.
 Mrs. George F. Bronson Howard, who recently was parted from her husband while on her bridal tour. reached New York on the Etruria and announced that she would sue for divorce She characterized the state ments made concerning her by MT. Howard on his arrival from abroad as "the falsehoods of coward" The truth was, she said, that he had treat ed her so cruelty she was compelled to leave him. He had slapped her face in public, she said; pinched and bruised her, told her to go out and earn her own living and even threatened to shoot her and then kill himself.
 In approving an important child labor bill by Assemblyman Prentice Govern or Hughes of New York took cogni- zance of the decision by the court of appeals recently declaring unconstitu- tional the provision of law limiting the hours of labor of adult women. The law declared unconstitutional restrict ing the hours of employment of adult women before a. m. and after Q D. m. The governor in his memorandum says that the provisions declared unconsti- tutional are clearly separable, so that the remainder of the law will not be affected.
 More than S1O0,0o0 was spent illegal ly by the New Jersey legislature in 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907, and thou sands of dollars of state money went for toothbrushes, nailbrushes, combs, feather dusters, snow shovels, fountain pens, knives and other articles included In the so called legislative supplisg, but few of which, it is said, ever were used for the benefit of the state. Those facts were revealed at the final session of the Hahn Investigating committee hlllIll DSGh plopihS ihlO NhN Noll- ous state departments.
 President Roosevelt has referred to Commissioner of Labor Charles F. Neill, without comment, the various ap- peals which have been made to him by wire and mail to intervene to prevent the threatened telegraphers' strike. The position is taken that no emergency ex- ;cts cunb oc obtained ot tho lima fha president intervened in the anthracite coal strike; but, on the contrary, the situation presented is one where action by the government, if taken at all, may properly be initiated and directed by the bureau of labor.
 The United States Military academy at West Point, N. Y., graduated III cadets The ten who led in order of general merit were James G. Steese Mount Holly Springs, Pa; Roger c. Alexander, Paris, Mo-; Thomas l.. Coles, Huntsville, Ala; John A. Hola- bird, Evanston, H.; Gilbert E. Hum phrey, Fl Reno, Okla; James A. O'Con- nor, Seney, Mich; Richard Park, Wellesley, Mass; Richard H. Somers, Monroeville, N. J.; Daniel I. Sultan, Oxford, Miss; Lewis H. Watkins, Franklin, Tenn.
 Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco was formally removed from office by the supervisors of that city. Supervisor James Gallagher was named as acting mayor in his place. This is the first step taken by the graft prosecution in the execution of the plan to restore good government in San Francisco. The ground on which Mayor Schmitz was removed is that owing to his in- carceration in the county jail follow ing his conviction on a felony charge he is no longer able to perform his off cial duties.
 Joseph NJ. Huston's dream of state capitol and other buildings, contem- plating expenditures exceeding S32,- 100000 and rivaling ancient Babylon in gaudiness, gold and extravaganza, was revealed to the Pennsylvania cap- itol investigation commission. Of the difference between the $32, 100000 and | 0<an I.,x. t,.