Connecticut western news., 1908-07-09

with perjury and forgery were return ed by the New York grand jury.
 Henri Farman, French aeroplane builder and navigator, is expected to fly his fastest aeroplanes in New York and St. Louis soon.
 Cortland, N. Y, at a special election voted to buy the water works plant from the Cortland Water Works con- pany for $300,O00.
 eo.r,en For the first time in
 o--. history reigning king
 and queen made an as- VT TN tension in a steerable balloon. The royal personages were King Wilhelm of Wurttemberg and Queen Charlotte, who sailed with Count Zeppelin.
 The daylight bill,' a measure by which the United Kingdom is to be lured into starting the days work one hour ahead of the time indicated by the sun, has received the approval of the select committee of the house of commons, and all indications now point to its becoming effective next April. The bill proposes to advance the clock one hour in April in order to promote the greater use of daylight and to give the masses one hour more playtime by light of day.
 An extraordinary demonstration be- fore the house of parliament made by the suffra gettes in their effort to se- cure votes for women had startling sequel when one of them. Mrs. Mary Leigh, arrested for breaking windows in the house of Premier Asquith, de- clared in the Bow street police court that 4'the next time we come out you can expect bombs" Miss Edith New and Mrs. Leigh were sentenced to two months at hard labor.
 Henry Farman won in Paris the prize of 5000 offered by NJ. Armen- gaud for the first aeroplanist who re- mained in the air for fifteen minutes. NJ. Farman succeeded in remaining In the air for twenty minutes twenty sec onds, covering a distance of eighteen kilometers in that time
 America, Great Britain, Canada, Newfoundland, Gibraltar, LuXemburg and Holland were removed from the jurisdiction of the congregation of. the propaganda, and those countries cease to be considered missionary lands by the Roman Catholic church.
 Mime. Anna Gould and Prince Helie de Sagan were married quietly in Lon don, the prince renouncing the Roman Catholic church for the sake of the Co nf In Sta1- lane.
 The Japanese cabinet has resigned.
 DEaTHS Joel Chandler Harris,
 OF NOTED familiarity known as
 1ro1,r Uncle Remus" and an
 author of note, died at Atlanta, Ga. He was born in Eaton ton, Ga, Dec. 9, 1S4S. In 1876 he joined the staff of the Atlanta Consti- tuition. It was while he was connected with the Constitution that his tales, Stories by Uncle Remus," first at tracted attention.
 Rear Admiral Charles M> Thomas. retired, U. s. N, -died at Del Monte. Cal, from a stroke of heart failure. Rear Admiral Thomas was second in command of the Atlantic battleship fleet on the cruise from Hampton Roads to San Francisco. On the ar rival of the fleet at San Francisco Ad- miral Thomas succeeded to the com mand upon the retirement of Admiral Evans. He was in command of the fleet for five days at San Francisco hn nd I.y-i Rear Admiral Sperry. Murat Halstead, the veteran editor, died in Cincinnati, following a cerebral hemorrhage. Mir Halstead had been in poor health for some months, but his family had held hopes of his recovery. For years Murat Halstead was regard ed as one of the country's foremost authorities and writers on political sub jects. MT. Halstead was born on Pad dy's Run, Ross township, Butler cOun- ty, O., Sept. 2, 1929. George H. Daniels, for many years prominently identified with the New York Central railroad, died at Lake Placid, N. Y. MT. Daniels retired from active service in the New York Central on May 1, 1907, at which time he was head of the advertising department of the road. He had pre- viously been general passenger agent |
 cnIMEs Seven persons were
 killed, at least two
 others were fatally in- | GASoAIi'Es' jured and fully thirty 1 nya xvara bI1rt tho rpSult :