Connecticut western news., 1908-03-26
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ports was received with great gratifi- cation when communicated to the Jap anese foreign office and naval depart ment. Foreign Minister Hayashi said, Tt affords me and the entire people of Japan intense satisfaction to know that our invitation has been accepted so promptly" Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry is to command the fleet on the homeward voyage, Admiral Evans being in Ill health and retiring in Au' gust.
 Declaring that the recent financial stringency in the country was brought about by the influence of Standard oil and J. Pierpont Morgan, Senator La | Toilette of Wisconsin in a speech, prac- tically closing the debate on the Aid rich currency bill, entered upon a de nunciation of men high in the f1nanci U world. There were no commercial rea- sons for panic" said Mir La Toilette. 'There were speculative, legislative and political reasons why a panic might serve special interests"
 The appellate division, third depart ment of the New York supreme court, handed down a decision sharply criti- cising, as against public policy, the 'ap- pointment of attaches of the attorney generals office as receivers or counsel to receivers of corporations. This de- cision is aimed at Attorney General William S. Jackson, who is also the subject of an investigation resolution introduced into the Albany legislature,
 The ship subsidy bill was passed by the senate. It pays to sixteen knot vessels plying between this country and South Africa. the Philippines, Japan, China and Australia $4 per mile, the amount awarded by the act of 1891 to vessels of 20 knots only. The bill was amended i'll the senate so that twelve knot vessels will receive $2 per mile, which is the allowance under existing law to sixteen knot vessels.
 Oberlin M Carter, formerly captain in the, United States engineer corps, convicted some years ago of embezzle- ment, will seek restoration to the army and to his rank as q result of the win dication he received in the recent de cision of Judge Kohlsaat, which re- leased $45, 900 worth of securities. He is confident of obtaining from the pres ident this recognition of the justice of the courts decision. #.
 In San Francisco, I. W. Chang, Ko-' rean, shot and severely wounded Dur ham w. Stevens, formerly counselor to the Japanese embassy at Washington and now diplomatic adviser to the Ko- rean government, which Is under Japa- nese control Stevens was about to leave for Washington. The shooting is a result of Korean efforts to free their country from Japanese control
 In response to the request of Presi- dent Gompers of the American Fedora tion of Labor and other labor leaders and in reiteration of recommendations contained in the annual message to congress President Roosevelt Is to send to the two houses special message on the proposed amendment of the Sher- man antitrust law and other matters of interest to union men.
 The Duke of the Abruzzi, cousin to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, who is reported engaged to Miss Katherine Elkins, daughter of Senator Elkins of West Virginia, sailed for home to ob- tain, 1t is said, the kings consent to the marriage Much mystery sur rounded his last days in America, the report of an engagement being neither confirmed nor denied.
 The American Federation of Labor and President Gompers and others of that organization were permanently enjoined from "conspiring, agreeing or ,1af, feN oh, q stroy'' the business of the Bucks Stove and Range company in a decision rem dered by Chief Justice Clabough of the supreme court of the District of Columbia.
 The Journal Courier of New Haven, Conn.,, said it was learned that i'm portant changes were to take place in the general offices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad and also that there was to be effected a re organization in the general offices of the Connecticut company. It is under stood that the changes will occur about April 1. ft
 While temporarily insane August Hudlebrink, twenty-one years old, of Geneva, O., committed suicide in a tragic manner. He set fire to some straw in his fathers barn on a farm and then shot himself. His body was burned to a crisp, and the barn, with its contents, including four head of cattle, were destroyed.
 Representative Charles F. Littlefield of Maine, who has resigned from the house of representatives, said that his resignation was for family and finan- cial reasons, but some speculation was caused by the knowledge that the American Federation of Labor has been preparing to make another fight on him.
 The New York senate by vote of B to 10 passed the bill designed to equal ize the salaries of men and women schoolteachers in New York city. Last year the bill passed by vote of 4o to l. and 1t was later passed over Mayor McClellan's veto by the vote of 3T to 9 and was vetoed by Governor Hughes