Connecticut western news., 1907-10-31

Britain has often conducted maneuvers with q larger fleet and Is doing so at this time, but heretofore the American navy has never assembled a single fleet of the proportions indicated.
 The Cudahy Packing company of Omaha, Neh., announced cut In the prices of all meats of 10 per cent The reduction was to the retailers. who have promised the entire reduction will apply to all of their sales. The Cudahy company Is one Of the big five" constituent concerns of the pack ing trust. The inference is that the cut has been made at the direction of the trust managers and will imme- diately be announced by all of the packing companies in the combine.
 Governor Stokes has received the resignation of George A. Squire of Elizabeth, president of the New Jersey reformatory commission. III health was given as the cause of his retire ment. The assembly Investigating committee which has been investigat- ing state institutions has for several months been attempting to secure the presence of MT. Squire as a witness. He was wanted to give testimony con- cerning certain contracts at the Rah- way reformatory.
 Months of work by nearly 5000 clerks and special agents of the United States census bureau has resulted in the information that approximately 1,300,000 married couples asked for legal separation during the ten years from 1897 to 1906, or at the rate of 13o,000 year. Publication will be made In few months of the reasons given In the complaints on which these divorces were asked. 1t is estimated that two-thirds of the cases were sue cessful.
 Charles Fl. Rogers was convicted of murder in tho first degree for killing Fred k. Olney near Middletown, N. '. Rogers Is also indicted for the murder of Willis Olney and Alice Ingerick at the same time. The jury only deliber- ated fifteen minutes before an agree ment was reached. The prisoner smll. ed when the verdict was announced. He will be sentenced on Thursday.
 William ]. Bryan declared at Kings ton, N. r., that his decision whether to announce himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for presi dent will not depend upon the choice of the Republicans. "The question:" he said, will be considered entirely from the standpoint of Democratic principles and Democratic advance ment."
 The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company has just decided on a sweeping policy of econo. mics. It is announced that immediate ly more than 2,0O0 hands on the steam system will be laid off, besides several hundred more in the Rhode Island trol. ley service.
 War department officials discussed the subject of fortifying the Philip. pines. Admiral Dewey Is in favor of making Subig bay the naval base, while other experts favor Manila bay.
 Through the secretary of state Pres ident Roosevelt issued his annual Thanksgiving proclamation. Thurs. day, Nov. 2S, Is designated as Thanks. giving day.
 Judge Grosscup fin speech at In- | lles, Sdid hle bhtiiiuh dNh had failed as preventive of trusts. -o,.,o, The Washington gov.
 ernment is not alone
 Tn it's preparations OF lNIEHesE abroad for possible eventualties in the Pacific. Several Japanese agents are engaged in char terlng British ships for the transporta- ton of coal from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Japan's coal base.
 Seventy-four cabin passengers nar- rowly escaped death when the Red Star steamship Finland smashed on the southern breakwater off Dover in an attempt to enter that port without accepting the assistance from tugs usually welcomed by ocean liners. The steamships crash was so terrific that 1t stove in her bows for twenty feet and broke the thigh of a man who was at work on the breakwater. In re- sponse to rockets tugs and life savers went to the rescue of the liner and landed all the passengers.
 An alleged plot to kill King Edward was thwarted by the police in the ar rest of man wandering in the royal hunting grounds at Windsor.
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