Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03

cENEpn Fountain l.. Thomp- 'I NEue son, recently appCii!,- ,,1a= ed senator from North Dakota, resign } cd at the request of Governor Burke, who appointed w. E. Purcell in his } stead. Senator Purcell took the oath at Washington after presenting Thomp- } sons resignation.
 Captain Joseph r. Shipp. former sheriff of Chattanooga, Tenn. was re- leased from prison in Washington aft
 CT serving months sentence for con
 tempt of the federal supreme court in allowing lyncherS to take Il negro priS- oner from his jail and had an enthu- siastic popular reception in Chatta-
 nooga.
 The Rev. pr. w. w. Paige. rector of St. Johns Episcopal church, Cornwall. N. l., was arrested on the charge that he had ignored the order of the board of health requiring him to close his , church because of all epidemic of scar let fever and diphtheria. The supreme court at Washington reversed the decision of the Kansas } supreme court ousting the Pullman company from doing domestic busi- ness in that state for failure to pay the. license tax based on it's entire capital stock.
 Mrs. D. Willis James of New York gave $1S0,O0O to complete the endOw-
 ment found of the old First Presby- terian church of that city, thus insur-
 ing its perpetuation on lower Fifth avenue. The church was founded in I'll.
 , President Taft refused to pardon Henry c. Coll, cashier of the First , National bank of Milwaukee, who was convicted of embeZzlement of the , banks funds and sentenced to ten years in the LeavenwOrth penitentialy. The Mann white slave bill prohibit,
 ing the transportation of immoral wo-
 men between the states and providing drastic punishment for violation of the proposed law was passed by the house of representatives at Washington. Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy lost
 her habeas corpus proceedings at CO lumbus, O., to regain possession from
 her husband, the artist, of their daugh-
 ter Natalie. The child is to continue
 under the custody of the father. pr. William II. Maxwell, for twelve
 years city superintendent of schools ill New York, was reelected for an-
 other six year term. He received thir-
 ty-two of the forty-two votes of the
 board members present. Harry Bruno and Bernard H. Ma
 hon, boys seventeen years old, of
 Montclair, N. J., constructed the small
 est practical aiIship of the monoplane
 type in the world and will soon give
 their design test.
 Countess Szechenyi, who was for merly Gladys Vanderbilt, with her husband and little daughter, arrived in New York from Hungary on visit to the countess mother, Mrs. Corne- lius Vanderbilt.
 } Miss Lyda B. COnley, the Wyandotte Indian woman who made plea before } the supreme court at Washington for the preservation of the burying ground of her ancestors in Kansas City, Kan, lost her case.
 Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who , since his retirement has been on duty in Washington in connection with the work of the general navy board, was relieved of that duty and ordered to his home.
 Thomas NJ. Osborne of Auburn. N. Y., resigned his $15,OO0 year posi- tion on the public service commission } of New York state in order to take the chairmanship of the Democratic } league.
 The United States Motor company, } with offices ill Jersey City, filed an amended. certificate with the secretary } of state at Trenton increasing its cap ital stock from $2.OOO to $1G.OOO,OOO. Lloyd c. Griscom, former ambassa- dor to Italy, was unanimously elected chairman of the New York Republican, county committee in succession to Her bert Parsons, who resigned. } C. C. Dickinson, d Democrat, was elected to congress from the Sixth } Missouri district to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman } De ArmOnd.
 Daniel Voorhees, of Morristown, N. J., was reelected state treasurer of New Jersey by the legislature, sitting in joint session. The term of office is three years.
 Governor Hughes of New York ap- pointed John N. Carlisle of Watertown member of the public service com mission.
 The Baltimore and Ohio railroad re- fused the demands of the committee
 of trairmen and conductors for higher
 wages.