Connecticut western news., 1908-09-10
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against the further confinement in the Duchess county jail at Poughkeepsie of Harry K. Thaw, acquitted on the charge of murder, on the ground of insanity. The report says, among oth- CT things, that Thaw's presence in the jail 'demoralizes the discipline of the institution" Judge Morschauser re- fused to grant an order transferring Harry K. Thaw from the Duchess county jail to some other institution. Judicial comity restraining him from interfering with the order of the judge who committed Thaw to the jail was the reason given by Judge Morschau- ser. Thaw was ordered to appear be- fore the bankruptcy referee in Pitts burg.
 In 1907 the loss by death in the Grand Army of the Republic was 10,- 242, which was partly offset by 5,461 members added to the rolls by muster in or reinstatement. Colonel Henry NJ. Nevius of Red Bank, N. J., was elected commander in chief by the an- nual encampment in Toledo, O. The election occurred on the first ballot, which gave Mir. Nevius 454 compared with 254 for former Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and 90 for l.. T. Dickason of Illinois. The 1909 en- campment will be held in Salt Lake City.
 Sidelights on the bitter war that has been waged for many years between the Standard Oil company and Thom- as l.. Hisgan of Springfield, Mass, h. dependence party candidate for presi- dent of the United States, and his three brothers, in the firm of Hisgen Bros, came out when the taking of testimony in the governments suit against the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was resumed in New York city.
 Directors of the Cosmopolitan Ma tional bank of Pittsburg, which was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency, under instructions from Bank Examiner John B. Cunningham while, it is alleged, the latter was un- der the influence of liquor, planned an appeal to the comptroller of the cur rency for permission to reopen the bank, on the grounds that there was no cause for its being closed.
 Dean Liberty H. Bailey of the New York State College of agriculture an- nounced that he had reconsidered his declination of the appointment of President Roosevelt as the head of the commission of five which is to investi- gate the condition of the farmers and report recommendations for the better ment of rural life.
 Provisions for a permanent endow- ment fund for the University of Wis consin to be used for additional pro fessorships and in research work, which fund must reach the sum of $30,00O,000 before it's income can be applied for these purposes, are con tained in the will of the late William F. Villas. .-.
 B. H. Hartman said in Portland, Ore: "We find ourselves in far better shape after the senseless money panic of last fall than might have been ex- pected, and the past year leaves us with hardly a scratch. We are in 8 position now to go ahead and complete the work laid out and will do so."
 That even as astute a financier as Russell Sage does not always display infallible judgment in the selection of investment securities is shownlin the schedules fled by his executors, in which stocks and bonds having a par value of $1,071 ,0OO proved to be actu- ally worthless.
 Miss Annie S. Peck, the American mountain climber, succeeded on her second attempt within a month to reach the summit of Mount Huas- caran, in the Andes, breaking all noun tain climbing records. She calculates the height of the summit at 26000 feet.
 The American battleship fleet sailed from Melbourne for Albany, West Aus tralia, where it will remain for a week taking coal. The weeks stay in Melbourne was marked by the extreme cordiality displayed toward our sailors by the popu!ace and the officials.
 An intimate acquaintance of the Vanderbilt family in New York re- ceived a cable message from Mrs. Cor nelius Vanderbilt denying absolutely the recent sensational report of the Illness of the Countess SZechenyi, who vas Miss Gladys Vanderbilt.
 Mark Twain Samuel l.. Clemens has forsaken New York as a place of resi- dence ,and Renceforth will live in his Italiaff villa at Bedding, Conn. Ow- ing to his recent illness MT. Clemens physicians have advised him to rest.
 A pension was granted to John R. Early, a supposed victim of leprosy. who is being maintained by the au- thorities Of the District of Columbia. Early was for a considerable time q soldier in the United States army.
 The executive board of the Amalga- mated Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway Employees of America declared itself in favor of a general strike of the 32,000 members of the association in New England.
 John D. Rockefeller is the offspring of line of French barons of a noble race, according to an announcement made at the annual reunion of the