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Hartford hallIoau mas SlooSu toN'
00O,0 contract TO electrify its INES
from Rochelle to One Hundred anu
Twenty-ninth Street, New YORK;
thence by tunnel under the East
River to Astoria; then on to Long
Island city. with another East River
tunnel and subway to a huge pas
senger station, to be constructed az
Fourth and Lexington Avenues ana
Thirty second and Thirty third
Streets, New York.
In A stirring speech to the dele
gates of the Federal Council OF the
Churches OF Christ in America the
Rev. Charles Stelzle, of New YORK,
declared that the churches must look
after the religious and moral wei
fare OF immigrants in order TO pre-
vent the onward march of socialism,
Freed from Spindle Rock, at the
western entrance of Buzzards Bay,
where she had been impaled for 10
weeks. the United States cruiser
Yankee again sank in six fathoms
near what is known as the Sand SPIT
while being towed to port for re-
pairs.
Formal notice of a contest before
the Congressional Committee on
Elections of the Sixty-hrst Congress
in the Tenth Massachusetts district
has been served on Congressman
Joseph f. O'ConneU, Democrat
Discouraged, it is said, over tinan-
cIal troubles former Mayor Adolphus
seebohn. of Pomeroy, o., shot HIM
self in the head at a hotel in GAIN
polls, and died instantly.
After three days effort at Toledo
a iurv is still lacking in the case
of Harvey Hazel the 17-year-old
matricide, under indictment for muir
der in the first degree.
Cant. John C. Mclean, 81 years
old. who saved a ferryboat laden Win
scores of passengers during tne ot'
Louis tornado of 1895, died IN Eas'
st. Louis.
While the official count OF the
vote of Oklahoma was being mace
an error Of ] 500 votes was dlscoE-
cred the revision reducing Bryan
plurality to 11,S4S.
]. ]. Juesserand, ambassador OF
France to the United States, unVellee
a bronze memorial tablet at NeWarf
to the memory Of Andre Marie All
pere.
Henry Bose, a salesman, employed
by an electric company, died IN M
room at San Francisco under clrcuin
stances that indicate he was the VIC
tim of poison.
Roy Van Housen, formerly BOOK
keeper of the wrecked People, Ma
tional Bank of Franklinville, \.
was sentenced by Judge Hazel IN IN
United States District Court to nv
years in the Federal prison at Al
lanta, Ga.
John d. Archbold testified tina
after the Standard Oil Company wa
ordered dissolved by the courts g
Ohio is moved to New Jersey as th
state having the "lnost reasonable
corporation laws.
John T. jenkins, Jr., formerl
president of the jenkins Trust Con
pany, of Brooklyn, \. Y, was toun
not guilty of appropriating TO h
own use $4,000 OF the funds or IN
institution.
Robert F. Maddox was electe
mayor of Atlanta, Ca, over Jane
G.. Woodward, after an exciting can
paign in which the character
Woodward was an issue.
A jewelry store in Pittsburg wi
robbed while hundreds of persol
were IN the street. me lObpSl
pursued and captured. and the Jewe
ry recovered.
The Federal Council of q
Churches of Christ in America W
opened in Philadelphia with hu
dreds OF delegates from 80 religl'
bodies present.
The American Mining Congre
will urge the establishment OF
bureau of mines in connection wi
the Department OF the Interior
Burglars blew oben the vault
the First National Bank of Pepperi
Mass, secured $4,000 and escap
in an automobile
Margaret Ellington, who has be
appearing in THE Thief Is oblig
T. retire from the stage owing
III health.