Connecticut western news., 1910-07-28
GEN E RAJ
 NOTES OF INTEREST.

to be established for the regular army. One school Is to be at the presidio, SNn Fraucisco; the other at Washing tom barracks, District of Columbia. The term extends over four months. allowing for the graduation in three Ooatbs of those especially qualified.
 Representatives of the Buck Stove and Range company of St. Louis, Pres iaeSsa Samuel Gompers of the Ameri. can Federation of Labor and represep- tafives of the several unions having wovkmen at that company's plant, have reached an agreement on the case which was up in the United States court at Washington a few months ago snd which resulted in the sen. tence to Jail of President Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison foi contempt
 The Roosevelt in 1912" movemen, was begun in the middle west by the organization in Kansas City, Mo, oa the first Roosevelt Republican league, pledged to maintain compact Re publican party on the Roosevelt prin,. ciples and to be led by MT. Roosevelt, himself. There are 100 charter mem. bers. and the organizer is 10. Mont Kelly, the original Roosevelt man, wht organized the first Roosevelt club in 1899. s..N.
 Whitefeld McKinlay, a negro, veal estate agent of Washington, has been appointed by President Taft collector of customs, the technical designation of the office being the port of George. town, D. 0. McKinlay was strongly recommended to the president by ne groes throughout the country, and tue appointment signifies the recognition of negroes in important federal posi- tions.
 Commissioner Driscoll of the New York bureau of weights and measurea startled the bakers and grocers of that city by announcing that under the new ordinance governing the sale of food commodities in New York eggs and bread will have to be sold by weight The commissioner stated that the law was to be enforced to the letter and the penalty for each violation is S100
 After eloping in an automobile Billy Papke, the famous middleweighi boxer and the man who was for o time champion of the world in tha, class until defeated by Stanley Ketch el was married in Buffalo to Miss Edna F. Pulver of Hamilton, Ont. Misi Purxers family is wealthy and op posed her engagement and marriage tc the bower.
 The scientists latest estimate of the age of the earth says mot above 70, 0OuaGO years or below 55,000,00e yeam." This estimate, which has re co4yed official sanction through puhlt cation by the Smithsonian institution is tha result of studies by Frank Wig ellsworth Clarke and George F. Beck CT of the Emitted States geological sur yey.
 William r. White, who as mayor or Lawrence, Mass, was tried and con. vIctsd in connection with the graft cases some time ago, has resigned He was unsuccessful in his attempt te condact the affairs of the city in hi prison cell
 n,,,tre Two men were killed
 ..'n and six others serious
 ,'-o iy Surt in battle be SNSS tween whites and blacks at Ashland, w. Na., in the Cumberland mountains. The negroes invaded the part of the town in whicl he whites live, and a fight with knives and stones started. Most of the nc groes used stones, for they are toe poor in this territory to buy razors a-d the white men had knives.
 Because they wanted to be Dad .hen'' and needed money to treat theh sweethearts, John Warner and Ray Metcalf. each eleven. of Canton, 0.