Connecticut western news., 1908-06-18
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 betting on races by the New York leg islature, in special session, was fol- lowed by their strict enforcement at the Gravesend track, although racing continued. At first some of the book makers attempted to evade the law, but the arrest of several of them quick ly brought the cessation of wagering. It is believed that the law will be at tackled in court on the ground that the election of Senator Wallace, whose vote helped to pass the bill, was ille gal under the present appordonment of the state. Senator Foelker of Brook lyn, through whose appearance in the senate chamber at Albany the anti betting bills were passed, although he was seriously i'll after an operation for appendicitis, is cony alescing at Staats- burg. LA.
 New York city was reported in a state of war. While 5000 regulars, a brigade of Massachusetts militia and "a regiment and several troops of bat tery of the New York national guard struggled with the rules and rigors of mimic war on Pine Plains, in north ern New York, ships classed as foreign fleets were ordered to try to capture New York city, defended by regulars and New York national guard regi- ments of coast artillery.
 Clipping seven minutes off the fast est transatlantic record, the Cunarder Lusitania now has all the laurels of the ocean to her credit She made the trip from Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook in 4 days 20 hours 8 minutes. In one day she made 641 knots, the fastest twenty-four hours run ever made by a steamship. The Lusitania kept mp an average gait of 24.88 knots, which is O2 better than the Mauretania's rec ord.
 To increase the supply of beef and thereby lessen its cost is one of the principal objects underlying the efforts of the department of agriculture to se- cure proteid plant that will thrive i1 the semiarid regions of the northwest. The department has sent Neils F. Han sen of Brookings, s. D., to make thor ough Investigation of the plant life of northern Russia and Siberia.
 Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the new noiseless firearm, gave the first public demonstration of this weapon in New York, firing shot from 32 caliber rifle through two heavy books. Only a slight hiss from the burning smokeless powder and the click of the were heard
 Henry Phipps, the millionaire of Pittsburg and New York, who five years ago founded the Phipps Insti- tute For Tuberculosis Research in Philadelphia with an endowment of $1,300,O00, has given a sum said to ex-. ceed $5O0,000 to Johns Hopkins hos pital and university for the study of insanity.
 The withdrawal from service of the freight ships of the White Star line and the complaint of the company that the railroads have so discriminat- ed against New York that the grain of the country is being sent abroad by way of Montreal is being investigated by the New York Produce Exchange.
 After week of hope and uncertain ty Senator Thomas P. Gore of Okla homa, who has been totally blind for more than twenty-seven years, learned that he could never see again, al- though every possible effort was made by Washington oculists to restore the sight of one of his eyes.
 AS a result of inroads on business of the great steel and iron manufacturing companies by independent concerns, followed in turn by a cut of 50 cents a ton in iron ore, the leading steel con- cerns of the United States have been forced to abandon their policy of main taining last years prices.
 By announcing the pardon of Caleb Powers and James Howard, Governor Wilson of Kentucky closed the last chapter of one of the states noted criminal cases. Powers and Howard were convicted of complicity in the murder of William Goebel eight years ago.
 District Attorney Moran of Boston, we'll known as a political fighter, is afflicted with tuberculosis and was obliged to leave Boston, for the Adiron- udChS 1OI du luueuull6 p0TlOu. ION- ernor Dawson of West Virginia has also been attacked by the disease.
 The test by torpedo of the monitor Florida took place in Hampton Roads, and naval officials declared it was sat isfactory. The vessel was seriously, though not vitally, injured, and if she were a battleship she would be in a condition to keep in fight.
 With a gavel made from a rafter in the old home of Dr. William J. Clark, who founded the worlds first temper ance society in Saratoga county 100 years ago, the worlds temperance con- gress held to commemorate that event was opened in Saratoga, N. Y.
 Mrs. Frank Jay Gould filed papers in the New York supreme court in suit for separation from her husband, the youngest son of the late Jay Gould, to whom she was welded in 1901.