Connecticut western news., 1910-06-30
FORM NEW PARTY . IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Guthrie May Re 'U7IItt" C2n-
 Gidate FlT G3Y3r1OT.

The birth of a new party, which, it is promised, will put in nomination a reform candidate for governor of Pennsylvania within the next four weeks, was announced by former May or Charles W. Guthrie and kindred spirits among the "uplift' element of the Ptttsburg chamber of commerce at the close of a two weeks series of con- ferences. The founders of the new party organized a political vigilance committed" which they propose to make the nucleus of the reform organi- zation in Pennsylvania. Appeals were sent out to every county in the state to organize. U. .A
 A caucus is to be held at Philadel- phia by the leaders to lay plans for a state organization and call a nominat- ing convention to put a state ticket in the field. It is understood that Pittsburgers propose to urge Guthrie as the candidate for governor.
 Guthrie was the predecessor of the present mayor of Pittsburg and was a Democrat elected on an anti ring platform. He is vice president of the National Municipal league and other civic bodies. The chairman of the new county organization is pr. G.. A. Dillinger. prominent in recent re- form campaigns. The secretary, Cornelius D. Scully, is philanthro- pist.
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 .,a--a ~- costly furnishings in
 the luxurious home of
 T. Charles w. Morse in New York are to be sold at public auc- tion under the sanction of Mrs. Morse in order to realize money to enable her to continue the determined fight she has been waging for months to secure the liberation of her husband. who is serving a fifteen year sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.
 Developments in the freight rate sit uation indicated that the big carriers, both in the eastern and western ship ping zones, have anticipated the deci- sion of the interstate commerce com mission to the extent of considering the fight swon. The New York Central was given out by high authority in railroad circles that this advance will be followed by the Lehigh Valley, St. Louis and San Francisco and the Southern Pacific, among others, which expect to file their new schedules within the next ninety days.
 One of the first woman juries in a court of record in the United States was assembled in the county court at Hahn's Peak, Colo, to pass on the sanity of Elizabeth Hutchinson. Hahn's Peak was almost wiped out by 8 recent fire, and the court could not locate enough eligible men in the town to make up the necessary jury of six. The women were duly sworn, heard the evidence and adjudged Miss Hutchinson insane
 Howard T. Mosher, ex-chairman of the Democratic general committee of Monroe, N T., believes that Congress- man James s. Ravens is the strong est man the Democrats could name for governor of New York in this fall's campaign. MT. Mosher has been tray cling about the state, and he says he has found strong sentiment for the nomination of MT. Ravens in many sections. '..
 Awards for four submarine boats of about 460 tons each have been decided upon by Secretary of the Navy Meyer Owing to the present distribution of submarines Secretary Meyer is consid- ering the question of having three of these boats constructed on the Pacific coast and the fourth on the Atlantic coast. ...@ .#
 At the election of international off, cers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen in St. Paul, W. s. Garter was reelected president and c. A Wilson assistant president. Both were chosen by exclamation, there being no contest for the places.
 By vote of A to 25 the senate at Washington concurred in the house postal savings bank bill, thus sending 1t to the president without a confer ence.
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 cp,MEe Harry B. N ol a n d,
 nM1 eighteen years old, ~ has confessed to the SAooN- murder of Alice Brown Litten, the seventeen-year-old wife of Frank Litten, in a clump of trees near