Connecticut western news., 1910-05-12
GEN ERAL
 EWS HAPPENINGS

u.,n-s',. the Seventy-frst regi- ment armory, in New 1ork. When the president stepped from his special train he was greeted py delegation of twenty prominent actresses, Who were detailed by the fair to act as an honor guard to the chief executive. .r.#..
 Negroes of Dallas, Tex, sent a ca- blegram to former President sRoose- welt, addressed to Copenhagen, Den mark, asking him to intercede with Governor Campbell of Texas to com mute the death penalty of Rubber Robinson, who is under sentence to be hanged for the murder of Frank Wool ford, farmer, who resisted highway robbery by three negroes and was shot to death, to life Imprisonment.
 Mrs. Edna Valentine Hein, daughter of Washington Valentine, million aire importer known in commercial circles as the "Honduran king" was granted an interlocutory decree of di- vorce by Supreme Court Justice OGorman in New York from Isa Will lard Hein, formerly secretary of the Honduran consulate in New York.
 Herbert Booth of London, youngest son of General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, announced in his address before the Detroit Pastors union of Detroit, Mich, that he was no longer officially connected with the Salvation Army on account of a per sonal family matter, which he did not wish to discuss.
 The house of representatives at Washington passed the administra- tion's railroad bill without additional amendment by vote of POO to 126. Most of the insurgents on final pas sage voted with the regulars in behalf of the measure, and, according to the vote, the total Republican strength in the house Is 225.
 The three wives of Count" Royal von Helden, who is serving a term of three years and three months in Sing Sing prison for bigamy, have all se- cured divorces from him, and when he Is released from prison he will again start life anew as a "bachelor."
 Governor Fort of New Jersey de- cided that he had no authority to issue an eXtradition warrant for the person of J. Ogden Armour, one of the beef trust magnates who were indicted by the Hudson county grand jury some weeks ago.
 The Wesleyan college body of Mid dletown, Conn.,, acting upon its own initiative adopted a resolution abol- ishing hazing. The action grew out of the rough handling of freshmen by the sophomore class society.
 Enrico Caruso, the famous opera singer, testified in the county court, Brooklyn, at the trial of Antonio Mi siani, who was one of the men arrest ed and indicted for trying to extort $15,000 from him.
 A coroner's jury in San Francisco on the case of Tommy Mccarthy, prize fighter, who was killed in fight with Moran, the English lightweight cham pion, returned a verdict of death from accidental causes.
 St. Paul, which has not had a Re- publican mayor for fourteen years, elected Herbert F. Keller, a Repub- lican for mayor. His plurality over the Democratic candidate was 5000.
 Mayor Gaynor of New York ordered the closing of the New York theater after receiving complaints that the play "The Girl With the Whooping Cough was salacious.
 The senate at Washington after forty minutes consideration passed the postoffice appropriation bill, carry ing an aggregate appropriation of $241. 100000.
 The Agnew-P Perkins bill, prohibiting ora! bookmaking or bookmaking with or without writing, was passed ill the senate at Albany by vote of 31 to 15.
 The senate committee on naval af- fairs, in Washington, decided to accept the provision of the house bill which provides for two new battleships.