Connecticut western news., 1910-07-07
GEN ERAL
 NOT ES OF INTEREST.

A,o--a ment to prevent mov-
 ing picture shows from IN IL exhibiting the reels of the Johnson-Jeffries fight at Reno has been started in Washington. Major Richard Sylvester, chief of police of Washington and president of the h. ternational Association of Police Chiefs, is behind it. Major Sylvester takes the position that public exhibi- tions of the Johnson-J effries fight pic lures would in all probability provoke race hatred and stir up trouble in many large cities of the country. I-. A Chinese secret service agent from Washington declares that he knows where Leon Ling, the suspected mur- derer of Elsie Sigel in New York city, is hiding. Ling, he says, escaped to Canada before the girls death was discovered. There he was concealed for time by other Chinamen and was finally smuggled to China, where he is now working on a farm. t 4c- It was reported in New York that J. F. Morgan is bending all his ener- gies to obtain the services of Theodore Roosevelt in place of Grover Cleve- land in the Equitable Life at a salary said to be $5O,OOO. MT. Morgan is anxious to continue the policy of hav- ing three big men run the huge insur- ance machine in the interest of the policy holders. ... Official announcement was made at Washington by the mediators that an amicable adjustment of the contro- versy between the railroads in the southwestern territory and their con- ductors and trainmen had been reach. ed. The agreement signed provides for a substantial wage increase and improved conditions and hours of la bor.
 The upper branch of the Louisiana | legislature has gone on record as not only opposed to woman suffrage, but as refusing to allow women to act as members of educational or charitable boards. Senator Geuyedan's bill al. lowing women members on such boards was defeated by a large ma. | jority.
 Fifty thousand cloakmakers, men and women, may join the strike just declared by vote of 1S,771 to 615 Unless employers concede the, workers demands 1t is said that 5O,000 mer and women will be called out, and twenty factories have closed in an ticipation of the general walkout
 The ratification by China of the $3O,. OOO,OOO Hankow railroad loan is sought l by the state department Instructions were sent to Minister Cauhoun al Pekin to join with representatives o1 the other governments interested in urging China to conclude the matter l soon.
 Senator Joseph L. Bristow and Rep. resentattves Victor Murdock and E. H Madison, three redhot insurgents of Kansas, called upon Theodore Roose welt at Oyster Bay and held a long confab with the former president re garding the work of congress.
 Dr. B. c. Hyde, convicted of having poisoned Colonel Thomas Fl. Swope was sentenced to life Imprisonment al hard labor by Judge Ralph S. Lat shaw in the criminal court in Kansas City, Mo.
 
 oruu=e Following Johnson's
 victory over Jeffries ~ disquieting reports NNo have been received from numerous cities of clashes be tween whites and blacks bordering upon race riots. Twelve persons have been killed and scores of others wounded, most of them being negroes In various parts of the United States The greatest number of killed in one place was three, that being in Uvaldia