Connecticut western news., 1907-01-24
News of
 A Week
Paragraphic Photographs of the
 Worlds Doings


 aldermen convened to vote for a re- corder to take the place of John W. Golf, elected to the supreme court bench, eleven Municipal Ownership members, who hold the balance of power and have heretofore voted solid iy for ex-Judge Palmieri, cast their votes for ex-Judge Rufus B. Cowing. They were led by Alderman William s. Clifford of Queens and offered no explanation of their change of front Within two hours after the vote was cast Clifford was arrested charg- ed with having accepted bribe of $6,- 900 for the purpose of influencing his and his colleagues votes.
 At dinner in New York Chancellor Day of Syracuse university referred to what he called "millionairephobia," praised corporations and declared that they had not grown to half the propor- tions they should reach, praised rail- roads, attacked labor unions and de- clared the poorer classes, as a rule, to be indolent and shiftless and overpaid. | Hampton l.. Carson, whose term as attorney general of Pennsylvania has | just expired, has reported to the state legislature that upon the evidence sub- mitted he does not hesitate to say that in his judgment there Is no trace of crime In the expenditure of the S9,- 100000 for the decorations and fur nishings for the new capitol building. Philadelphia, that while he Himself was ready for death at any time An drew Carnegie had remarked that he would give $200,OO0,0 900 for assurance of ten years more of life, Colonel A. K. Mcclure old time editor and dean of the club, delivered preachment | against fear of old age.
 The report of the interoceanic canal commission on the borings at the Ga tun dam site shows that 127 holes have been bored at the Gatun site. and all show that the lock walls will rest on firm and suitable soft rock. Much matter has been published to show 1 that the proposed dam Is to rest on an unstable foundation.
 George B. Cortelyou was confirmed | by the senate as secretary of the treas ury to take effect March 4. At the same time James R. Garfield was con- | firmed to be secretary of the interior, | George von l.. Meyer to be postmaster general and Herbert Knox Smith to be commissioner of corporations to suc- ceed MT. Garfield.
 | With elaborate exercises the one hun | dredth anniversary of the birth of | General Robert E. Lee, the soldier pa | triot of the Confederacy, was commem- orated in Washington and elsewhere. The feature of the Washington celebra- ton was the reading of letter from the president lauding General Lee. Traffic on the Canadian Pacific near | Winnipeg Is at a standstill owing to severe weather. 1t has been impossible to get coal to send relief on the Cana dian Northern. From Davidson, Sas- katchewan, reports have been received of the freezing to death of sixteen per sons and thousands of cattle.
 President Roosevelt has written to | Chairman Toss of the house naval af- fairs committee urging that an appro- two first class battleships of the maxi mum size. The president also urges the building of torpedo boat destroy CTS.
 President Roosevelt's action In dis | banding the negro soldiers for rloting at Brownsville, Tex, was upheld by the National Industrial Order of Ameri- ca, in session at Baton Rouge, La. Eff | ty thousand negroes comprise the or der.
 | Colder weather increased the suffer | ing of thousands of persons who had been made homeless by the Ohio river | flood in Ohio and neighboring states | The lower portions of Cincinnati and other cities and towns suffered greatly. | MT. and Mrs Edward Pringle of Red Bank, N. J., celebrated the seventy | fifth anniversary of their wedding MT. Pringle Is In his ninety year, and his wife is only a few years | younger.
 More than 100000 Americans are available for military service, accord ing to the report of the military secre tary of the army. Of this number 112,- 300 men are organized in state militia. Fifty white soldiers raided Bad Lands," a negro section of Columbus. | O., and almost wrecked 1t before thirty | of them were arrested. The trouble was the result of row in which white soldier was stabbed by negro. | The trial in Chicago of President Shea of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and thirteen other de- | fendants, charged with causing riots, has ended In the jury falling to agree.
 The New York state treasury receiv- ed $625, 5,000, the inheritance tax due on the estate of Russell Sage. The value of the estate has been placed at $60,- 100000, but that amount is not final O. T. Kukita, Japanese steward on | the cruiser Brooklyn, was denied cer- | tificate of naturalization in Philadel- | phia on the ground that the law ex- dudes Mongolians from citizenship. Among the reelected senators are | Crane of Massachusetts and Cullom of | Illinois. Clark of Montana, the sen | ofa'S riahoSt rmambpr will bp succped-