Connecticut western news., 1907-08-08
News of
 A Week

The annual report of the Pennsylva- mia state department of mines shows that there were fifty-two employees killed between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years and seventy-four em- ployees between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years In the anthra- cite and bitumlnous regions of that state during the year 1906. In addi- tion to these fatalities there were killed outside of the anthracite mines sixteen boys between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years and twenty-one between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years. In the bltuminous mines twen- ty-six boys were killed whose ages ranged from fourteen to eighteen years and thirty-seven killed or fatally inJur- cd between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one. The report states that 1t Is a regrettable fact that three of the so called miners killed were boys four teen. fifteen and sixteen years of age respectively and that the foreman who hired these boys to do miners work should be sentenced to d term of im- prisonment.
 After Jan. 1 next 1t will not be so easy to get married in New York as 1t is now nor so cheap. The Cobb mar riage license law will 20 into opera ton. and this requires that contracting parties must have Il license issued by town or city clerk in the place where the bride lives which will give such facts concerning couple about to marry as will make the way clenr for all who may ofliciate at marriage cere- monies. Divorces will be stated on the licenses. where these exist. and clergymen who object to celebrating the marriages of divorced persons have only to glance at license Tn order to find ground for such objections.
 Without writing m opinion the ap- pellate division of the New York su- preme court affirmed the decision of Justice Pitts. declaring that no scna- tors need be elected this fall and that tho present senate holds for a full term of two years The court also refused to permit the secretary of state to in- clude senators in his notices sent to county clerks containing a list of off cers to be elected in November The attorney general will now endeavor to have a special session of the court of appeals convened at once In order to pass upon an appeal from the decision of the appellate division.
 The surveys for the proposed canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio river have been completed land for the right of way is being acquired and digging will begin early next spring. When the canal is finished 1t will be possible for lake vessels to carry iron ore direct from Lake Superior to furnaces In tile Pittsburg district and bring back coal from the western Pennsylvania mines. It will require about six years to com plete the canal, and the cost will be not less than $75,000,0oo It will be 133 miles long, TIT feet wide and 13 feet deep.
 Incited by story that Henry Spill kIns. an itinerant Portuguese evangel- ist who has been holding Pentecostal revival meetings composed largely of white people in the vicinity of Pember- wick, Conn, was practicing mesmer- ism on white woman, a mob burst into the house of Alvah Wood, a white man, where Spilkins was discoursing, and threw a bomb containing n dan gerous liquid, dispensing the meeting and wounding Spilllins. Though no one else was seriously injured, many were shaken up, burned and lacerated.
 Until the votes cast in the Demo cratic primary of Mississippi are can vassed the result of the contest for nomination for United States senator will to n certain extent remain In doubt Complete unofficial returns show n plurality of more than thou sand votes in favor of Congressman John Sharp Williams over Governor vardaman, but neither Governor Var daman nor his managers will concede defeat, declaring that the official re- view of the vote will show the govern ors nomination. ..a#
 "rhere is absolutely no truth in the widely published story that l came east to settle or compromise my suit. On the contrary, I am here to press that suit with all the energy I possess. I am fighting to rescue my demented mother from the designing persons who hold her helpless in their power. Talk of compromise Is, an insult to my manhood" said George w. Glover, only child of Mary Baker G. Eddy, the aged founder of Christian Science, with convincing emphasis.