Connecticut western news., 1908-08-20

EdTu tHlS dS one or the important Ieh~ 1 lures of the campaign. Governor ! Hughes is to be one of the speakers at l the opening of the campaign in Ohio. He is to speak at Youngstown on Sept. 5. That engagement he made directly with the Ohio state committee. After
 that he will make number of speech
 es in the middle west under the aus 1 pices of the national committee" 1 Although it is quite common for Mir. Taft to receive letters from the Philip 1 pine Islands expressing a desire for his ! success in his presidential campaign he was somewhat surprised to get one from Admiral Cervera of Spanish war i fame. II pray for the election of Senor ! Taft for president" writes the adml- ral. "I should have written you q let [ ter, but have not had time. I know very little personally about the United States and cannot for that reason give
 an opinion of my own concerning the election, but there is no doubt from ! what I hear about his election, because l he Is a very distinguished man. In a ten minute session the New | York Democratic state committee adopted a resolution indorsing the can didacy of William J. Bryan and John w. Kern and commenting the plat
 form adopted at Denver and voted to call the Democratic state convention. at which a state ticket will be placed
 in nomination, to meet at Rochester at
 noon on Sept. 15. Saratoga put in a bid for the convention, but Rochester
 mustered majority vote, and the de- cision was finally made unanimous. Following Is Governor Hughes itin- erary on his trip to county fairs in northern New York: Sept. 2. Boonville, arriving in Watertown that night; Sept 3. Gouverneur fair in the morn ing, returning to Watertown. where he will attend the Jefferson county fair in the afternoon. He is scheduled to make addresses at each of these fairs.
 John A. Johnson, governor of Minne- sota. placed an absolute veto upon the third term boom which was reported to have reached great proportions.
 Governor Johnson declared that he would not under any circumstances be candidate and declared positively that he would not accept the nomina- tion if 1t were given him.
 Ex-State Senator w. ]. Fully of Steuben county, N. Y., while in Ithaca declared that Governor Hughes ought to be renominated. He said that Steu- ben county would stand heartily be- hind MT. Hughes if he ran again. Chairman Mack of the Democratic national committee authorized de- nial of a report that the national con- mittee had received a fund of S300,- 900 left over from the last Democratic
 national campaign.
 Information reached Hot Springs, Ark, to the effect that the Cincinnati Enquirer had declared editorially that Bryan could not carry the west, as he was weaker there now than he was two months ago.
 EoREIcN It Is estimated that NoTre the welcome to be ac-
 ,-r,-- corded the American UT LIN fleet By Japan will cost $500,000. Every officer and man of the visitors will receive a silver souvenir of the occasion.
 Count Okuma, the Japanese states man, in an interview published in To- kyo, attributed the present naval ex- pansion policy of the United States to the sudden rise of the Japanese to the importance of a world power.
 Six persons were killed and eighteen injured in d gun explosion aboard the French gunnery schoolship Couronne off Les Salins d'Hyeres. This. was the third fatal accident on the Cou- rome in sixteen months.
 Another cloud has arisen between China and Japan owing to the reported seizure at Chinchou by the Chinese authorities of steamship having on board 10000 rifles and 100000 car tridges
 It is announced in Apeldoorn. Hol- land, that an interesting event is ex- pected in the Dutch royal family Queen Wilhelmina Is now staying at the royal castle, Het Loo.
 CRIMES George Nagle, twenty
 AMT, two years of age, car ~ rying his left arm.
 CHSoNIIiE which had been sev- cred by Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul train, staggered up to a Chicago policeman and then tainted. He swoon- ed after telling the officer of carrying the dismembered arm for two blocks in an effort to find physicians office. Nagle had attempted to board freight train, but had fallen beneath the trucks.
 Detectives are hard at work trying to solve the mystery surrounding the finding of mans body securely tied in an old trunk after the victim had been shot and strang,ed. The body was found by party of picnickers near Bel,uar in the lower mart of