Connecticut western news., 1907-01-10
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lO dl BTedl lenSlH Dy Ine 1nleTsldte commerce commission, which began in New York an inquiry into the so call ed Hartman lines." It was brought out in evidence and admitted that the Union Pacific Railroad company, the Southern Pacific company. the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company are practical ly under the same administration, MT. Hartman appearing as president of each company, with only slight va riations in the lists of other officers. 1t was also shown that the Hartman roads own stock in many railroads in all parts of the country and that MT. Hartman has authority by resolution to borrow money for the uses of the Union Pacific railroad without restric- ton as to amounts or terms.
 After living burial for thirty hours under tons of paper and broken beams, John Siefert, New York fireman, was found by his comrades alive and hearty after they had supposed he had gone to death in the ruins of a paper stock warehouse in Roosevelt street, which fell on him and two other fire men when they were fighting a fire The others were taken out dead.
 The Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Twenty-fifth infantry, including all the negro soldiers in the regular army, have been ordered to prepare for serv- ice in the Philippines and will sail be- tween March and June 5. The negro regiments are being sent to the Phil ippines because it Is their turn to go and not because of any desire to get them out of the United States.
 William Cosvertek, farmer of New Hartford, Conn; his wife and son and hired man, Carl Lockhardt, victims of hydrophobia, entered Pasteur insti- tute, New York. They were bitten by mad COW. The farmer, his wife and son are in serious condition. Lock- hardt, who was not so badly bitten, will recover. The COW had been bitten by rabid dog.
 James McCrea, the successor of the late A. J. Cassatt as president of the Pennsylvania railroad, has gone into office, it is declared, with an antigraft record He was put there to sweep out grafters and end grating. Those in position to know declare that no corporation executive was ever con fronted with a task so colossal as MT. McCrea's.
 James R. Duke, president of the to- bacco trust, went on the witness stand in the United States circuit court in New York and sought to save fellow officers, indicted for monopoliZing the licorice paste industry, by throwing the whole blame upon the sultan of Turkey, who, he says, controls the worlds supply of the paste.
 With a total number of cases of about 1000 and the deaths increasing every hour the typhoid epidemic which has been raging in Scranton, Pa, for the past three weeks aroused the au- thorities to drastic action. The infec- tion has been definitely traced to the water supply It is believed that the epidemic has been checked.
 For thirteen years a patient in n home at Amityville, N. Y., Eugene An derson has come into a fortune esti- mated to be more than S500.000 Had it not been for his love of liquor he would have come into his own some time ago. A long period of total absti- hence won the fortune for him.
 Under the new pure food law the de- pertinent of agriculture will immedi- ately send out special inspectors and others to buy articles of food and have them tested. If found impure or not properly labeled proceedings will im- mediately be instituted against the manufacturer and seller.
 Alexander Berkman. the shooter of 1T. c. Prick, and his consort Emma | Goldman, were arrested in New York at a meeting of anarchists. They were locked up, charged with publicly ad. vocating criminal anarchy, which Is punishable by ten years in prison or S5000 fine. or both. | Trial divorce is the latest matrimo- nial adventure announced by Mir. and Mrs. Corinne Rider-Kelsey of Spokane, Wash. They say they have been hap py, but might have been happier. They will therefore separate for year and then either reunite or seek a divorce through the courts.
 That the action of the secretary of the treasury in paying out $50,000,000 on account of the purchase of the Panama canal property to the new Panama Canal company of France, as directed by the act of congress of 1902, was valid was decided by the supreme court
 Statistics of the department of com merce and labor are evidence that this country now ranks third in the value of manufactures entering the worlds international commerce, the amount of its exports for the past year having aggregated more than $700,000,000.
 Chairman Shonts of the isthmian ca- nal commission when asked about dis patches from Panama announcing that Chinese labor would not be used on the canal said, No decision has been reach ed as to what sort of labor will be employed in the canal zone."
 Interrupting her pastor in the middle of his sermon, Mrs. A. B. Sims of Des %l,1 xal