Connecticut western news., 1907-04-04
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Senator Foraker announces his pur- pose of asking the Ohio Republican state committee to issue a call for pri. maries to select delegates to the na- tional convention. This will give the opportunity for choice between Secre. tary Taft and Senator Foraker as Ohio's choice for the Republican pres idential nomination at the hands of the Republican national committee in 1908. Soon afterward Charles Phelps Taft, brother of Secretary Taft, issued n reply, in which he said: Senator Foraker's statement indicates that he is running for the presidency and for the senatorship. The friends of Secretary Taft are urging him for the presidency As the senator has included the twS offices in this primary contest, Secra tary Taft's friends accept the proposh tion and will make 1t distinct contest Taft for the presidency or senator ship or Foraker for the presidency or senatorship."
 Manufacturing typhoid bacilli at the rate of million day, the health au- thoritles assert, Mary Ilverson, the hu. man germ factory, who cooked in six families in New York in which twenty five persons have been affected with the dread disease in the last five years, may be the defendant in an injunction suit. The health authorities say there is n link between Mary's cooking and the cases Of fever and that she must have been the source of infection. They have had her in the Willard Parker Re. rA.. days and as Mary is fighting for re. lease on the ground that she is per. fectly healthy they may be forced to take legal action. inasmuch as she may try to gain freedom by writ of In. beas corpus. In that event 1t is feared this celebrated cook may invade anoth. CT kitchen with her germs. .
 Governor Hughes in an address be- fore the Utica chamber of commerce. at its banquet replied to the public service corporations that seek to amend the public utilities bill by limiting tho powers of the proposed pubic service commission. He declared in straight. forward, lawyerlike address that fel. eral regulation Is not a substitute for state regulation and that if the citizeni of the state are to be protected froGi the abuse of corporate privileges in dD' nestle commerce they must look fot their remedy to the state and to th. state alone. Continuing. Governo. Hughes said that corporations must bc supervised so that the will of the peo' pie cannot be permanently disregarded and that no fundamental rights of property will be injured by the pend. ing public utilities measure.
 Superintendent Otto Kelsey of the New York state insurance department finished his personal statement to the judiciary committee of the senate, which has under consideration the spe. cial message of Governor Hughes rec. ommending Mir. Kelsey's removal from office on the grounds of unfitness and incompetency. Then the committee adjourned the hearing until Friday, April .. Mir. Kelsey testified that Gov. ernor Higgins had full knowledge of his policy in the insurance department, knew of his retention in office of First Deputy Robert Hunter and Chief Ex- aminer Isaac Vanderpoel and that he sanctioned both.
 Victor l.. Berger founder of the So- cial Democratic party, announced tho plans of the national executive board, of which he is n member, for spreading socialism into twenty-six states of the Union. In statement Mir. Berger said: All this recent agitation and unrest and the showing up of how cor porations run things is making votes for us and swelling our membership. Why, look at President Roosevelt. His agitatlons and exposures are helping us immensely. He is convincing tho people that we know what we are talk ing about. Why, he has even stolen some of our ideas"
 John H. Brislin, the blind inventor whose genius revolutionized methods in rolling mills throughout the world and whose fight with the great Carne- gie interests for the last decade has ex- cited interest throughout the country, was buried in the little lot in Calvary cemetery, near Pittsburg, Pa, where
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