Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
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| senator hayner or Maryland mas tax en up the cause of Colonel William F. Stewart of the coast artillery, who has been ordered to command an aban- doned army post in Arizona owing, 1t is said, to differences with other army officers. Colonel Stewart was recently ordered to Florida, only to find on his arrival there orders sending him to Arizona. 1t Is alleged that the war department and the president are de termined to force his retirement. The president wrote letters to three sena- tors defending his course in the Brownsville and Stewart matters.
 President Charles W. Dabney of the | University of Cincinnati has asked Professor of Philosophy H. Heath Bawden to resign because of the pri- vate views he holds on the problems of sex and the duties of matrimony and ] because of his domestic difficulties 1 which his peculiar views have caused Professor Bawden, who is thirty-seven years old, believes in a free, ideal state, in which shall exist an associa- ton of the sexes based only on con- radeship.
 During the exercises at the laying of the cornerstone of the building of the l bureau of American republics in Wash ington, frequently referred to as a temple of peace," President Roosevelt 1 expressed his desire for peace among 1 the republics of the three Americas. President Roosevelt told his hearers he believed in peace and arbitration, but | hn s,1e TxlSs I-rA s.. n. trim that it shall be q temptation to nobody to wrong us.
 The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked. preaching in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York, deplored the de cline of church attendance and de clared that the church is not in touch with the times. This, he said, was worldwide His appeal for more SUD- port of every kind, financial included, was heard by John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Rockefeller and John D. Rocke- feller, Jr.
 The case of the government against the Standard Oil company, in which the latter is charged with receiving rebates from railroads, was put on trial in the federal court in Rochester, N. Y. Judge John R. Hanzel of Buff falo is presiding, and S. Wallace Demp- sey, special assistant to the United States attorney general, is conducting the case for the government
 The Republican caucus of the house of representatives committed itself by vote of 115 to 21 to the principle of commercial paper as an asset on which to issue extra circulation in time of emergency. This is in accordance with the Vreeland bill, but by a separate action the resolution was amended so as to eliminate MT. Vreeland's name from the measure. .-@ #.-
 The house committee appointed to investigate the legislative methods of the Electric Boat company has decided to insist that Representative Lilley of Connecticut, under whose resolution the investigation was made, produce the letters, press letter books and ste nographers' notebooks demanded of him despite his desire to drop the mat ter.
 Ohio troops have been called out by the operations in the tobacco growing counties of Night Riders who want to destroy the tobacco beds and ware houses of those who do not agree with their ideas of holding the crop for high CT prices. It is reported that Ken lucky sympathizers may cross the ohio in aid of the Ohio Night Riders. al
 After they had sailed their new war aeroplane a thousand feet under per "fact coptrnI unar Manfao tho fa- nous Wright brothers let it be known that in another aeroplane they flew ten miles out to sea and back. This was the first voluntary over-marine cruise ever successfully made by any aerial navigators.
 Blackie, a famous cat of Wilkes barre, Pa. one of the two pets to which the late Benjamin F. Dilley left S40,- GOO in 1905, is dead, having been chlor- oformed to put 1t out of its pain, it be- ing hopelessly i'll. The other cat, Pinl1ie, died two years ago. Blackie was sixteen years old. The money will go to charity.
 A sensation was occasioned in Pitts burg when William Montgomery, cash Ter of the Allegheny National bank of Pittsburg, was placed under arrest charged with embedding $469,000 from his bank. In the days of United States Senator NJ. s. Quay MT. Montgomery was his financial packer and adviser.
 The six men called as defendants in the second Pennsylvania capitol con- tract cases to come to trial reported themselves ready at. Harrisburg for the opening of the trial. The defend ants are charged with conspiracy to de- fraud the state out of about 5000 in bill of $17,000 for metallic furniture.
 Appointed by Governor Fort as New Jersey delegates to the North Carolina arbitration and peace conference, Judge James R. Dill, Justice Francis J. Swayze and ex-Judge Howard Carrow went to Wilmington, N. O. On their arrival they learned that the conven- ton is to be held next year.
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