Connecticut western news., 1908-04-16
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| oilo"luS tue dcIlOn OI h. n. Idl- riman in providing $5,500000 for the payment of maturing notes, 1t was said in Wall street that the Erie road will shortly pass under the absolute control of MT. Hartman and his asso- clates, who stand ready to spend un- der certain conditions from $30,000,0 900 | to $iO,OOO,000 for improvements in terminals, tunnels, trackage and rolling stock. If these plans are completed, Mir. Harriman's dream of a perfectly equipped complete transcontinental road, with the Erie as the eastern out let, will have come true.
 The New Jersey senate passed con- | current resolutions for constitutional amendments making the term of the governor four years and the senators and assemblymen two years, beginning with the election of 1910; providing for the election of county and municin1' officers in odd numbered years; provid- ing for the division of counties into as- sembly districts and making the salary of senators and assemblymen $1,000 year. The Trenton legislature has ad- l journed.
 Referring to the anarchist as the l most dangerous of criminals, President 1 Roosevelt In a short message to con- gress urged further legislation that would enable the authorities to stamp out anarchism. The president asked ! stricter immigration laws to bar an- archists effectually and more rigid postal laws under which all anarchistic l{Sh oh ,l be excluded from the mails.
 In an important divorce case decision 1 in New York Justice Bowling said the | courts of New York state refused to recognize divorce obtained in another state where the papers in the case were not served personally within the l jurisdiction of the court in which the suit was brought or where If substi- tuted service was had the defendant was not represented at the trial
 Fete days for the American battle ship fleet began when the sixteen bat l tleships of the Atlantic squadron cast anchor in the waters of the Pacific off 1 Coronado Beach, two miles from San Diego, Cal San Diego was crowded with visitors and slghtseers, and never before in the history of the city was there such an elaborate decoration of streets and buildings.
 The naval appropriation bill author izing the construction of two instead of four battleships and eight instead of four submarine torpedo boats and carrying total appropriation of $103,- 967, ,51S for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, was l reported to the house by Chairman Floss of the committee on naval affairs.
 Water poisoning" as he terms the almost universal practice of dumping raw sewage into the streams of the country, will be, made q national issue if President Roosevelt acts upon the suggestion of Edward Hatch, Jr of New York, chairman of the Merchants association pollution committee.
 "All contracts between the United Mine Workers and operators, with the possible exception of Illinois, will be signed by the 1st of May" said Pres ident Lewis of the miners union. More than 100000 miners will return to work pending district settlements afterward."
 The suit of William R. Hearst to oust George B. Mcclellan from the mayors chair was begun before Jus tice Lambert in part eighteen of the supreme court in New York city. At torney General Jackson appeared for the people and Clarence I. Shearn for MT. Hearst.
 
 Smith, an architect, the endowment fund of St. Lukes hospital, New York city, is increased by the revenue on nearly S300O,000 worth of property which will become the property of the hospital upon the death of Mrs. Smith
 In charging the grand jury at Hack. ensack. N. J.. Justice Parker did not refer in any way to the death of Wal ter F. Baker last fall in Bogota, which was the subject recently of a coroners inquest. It is believed the case will not be presented to the grand jury.
 A canvass published in Chicago of the national banks of the country showed practically every one opposed to the Aldrich currency bill. In Il total of 421 banks in thirty-seven cities eleven declared in favor of the bill while 40 voted against it.
 After being divorced in Paris by the wife he deserted, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the artist, returned from Eu rope to his home at Monroe, N. T.. bringing back as his bride Miss Julia Kuttner, the affinity" whom he mar ried in Rome.
 Senator Elkins of West Virginia de, clared in public statement that when ever there will be an announcement tc be made about the reported engage ment of his daughter Katherine to the , royal Italian Duke of the AbruzZi he will make it.
 Declaring that he was not married tC Mme Anna Gould, but intimating that he might be soon on the other side . Prince Helie de Sagan sailed for Flu rope Mme. Gould also sailed, with her three little sons, on another ship.