Connecticut western news., 1907-02-14
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OsloCu IhC HI lhC pAo1SSoihS5 begun Dec. 20, 1906, to dissolve the American Ice company under the anti trust law has mysteriously disappear ed from the files of the New York at torney generals office. Wesley M. Oler, president of the company, denied that it was trust and said that all danger of an ice famine this year was past. The company has denied Attor- ney General Jackson's request to be allowed to go over the books and con- tracts of the concern in order to recov- CT the missing data.
 The largest sum of money ever given by a man to charity or philanthropy in the history of the world has been pre- scented by John D. Rockefeller to the general education board. The amount of the gift is $32OO0,000. With this unprecedented donation MT. Rockefel- Ter surges to the front as the greatest giYer to the cause of education the world has ever known. His nearest competitor is Andrew Carnegie. Only one condition Is imposed by MT. Rocke feller, that none of the money shall be devoted to aiding theological educa- tion.
 There is said to be unassailable au- thority for the announcement that the giant Gatun dam at Panama has been abandoned by the government. With the collapse of this project comes to an end the plan for three great locks in f1ight-a ladder-like arrangement for lifting steamships eighty-fi feet from the channel of the canal to the huge Gatun lake. The president has learned that no engineer of national reputation would indorse the monster dam and its independent locks.
 John Wanamaker, whose beautiful country home near Jenkintown, Pa, was destroyed by fire, said that. while he had no inventory of the property which the house contained, he thought that S1,5GO,000 is a fair estimate of the damage done. 'It is almost impossible to place a valuation on the property destroyed, including as it did priceless books, statuary and paintings which can never be replaced" he said.
 A fourteen foot channel for the Mis- sissippi river, Chicago to St. Louis and to the gulf, met defeat when the house committee of the whole, having under consideration the river and harbor ap- propriation bill. voted to stand by the recommendations of the committee In opposition to the project. The bill was passed by the house. It carries appro- priations of $83,O00.O0O.
 That the citizens of Brownsville dis guised themselves and shot up their own town in order to obtain the re- moval of negro troops from that place was the opinion expressed by Sergeant Jacob D. Fraser, formerly of Company D, Twenty-hfth infantry, while being examined In Washington before the senate military affairs committee.
 T have not sent my resignation to the governor, and I have no intention of doing SO The reports that there is friction between Governor Hughes and myself are untrue" said New York State Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey, who has been requested by the governor to resign.
 There Is no trace of $5,611, ,658 worth of stock tax stamps which disappeared from the New York state comptroller's office a few days before Governor Hughes assumed office So far there is only the word of S2,500 year clerk, not under bond, to prove that they were destroyed.
 In a letter to the Pennsylvania leg islature President Baer of the Phila- delphia and Reading Railway compa- ny, writing on the subject of railroad legislation, declares there is no neces- sity for government regulation other than to prevent unreasonable discrim- nations.
 The house committee on the judi ciary, which was directed to investi- gate the Jurisdiction of congress over woman and child labor abuses, has completed its report and finds that the federal government has absolutely nc authority in the matter.
 Sensational and circumstantial sto- ries of alleged grafting by Captain Louis Wendell, commander of the First battery, First artillery, national guard of New York, were told to the court of inquiry convened in New York city.
 The break in the Colorado river, Wnlcn was the SuDJect or Speclal message to congress by the president, was shut off after a long, hard strug- gle by the Southern Pacific company.
 The differences between the Pennsyl- vania railroad and its firemen have been adjusted. The firemen are not to get an advance in wages, but the work ing schedule will be rearranged
 The house of representatives amend ed the denatured alcohol legislation of the last session so that any one may manufacture alcohol in any quantity even down to gallon a day.
 Mrs. L. NJ. Gillette, mother of Ches ter Gillette, now awaiting death in the electric chair in Auburn, N. Y, for the murder of Grace Brown, has aban- doned her sons cause.
 1t was stated officially that begin ming next June, the whole passenger service on the New Haven road be- tween Stamford and New York will be equipped electrically.
 Representative William R. Hearst in- troduced a bill to prevent corrupt prac-