Connecticut western news., 1910-10-20
BALLOON RAGE FOR
 BENNETT CUP STARTS
Four Countries Represented,
 Start From St. Louis.

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 Ten monster racing balloons, repre- senting four countries, have started from St. Louis in the annual interna donal race for which the prizes art the James Gordon Bennett cup and $4,750.
 There were so many delays in start ing, due to the pilots inability to in fate their balloons promptly and st have time to hook up, weigh and pre- pare for the getaway, that the sched uled starting time was abandoned ant the balloons sent away in order as promptly as possible.
 Three of the foremost pilots in tht race were ready to start when theil turn came and went off within pc riod of three and one-half minutes They were Leblanc, in the Isle dt France, balloon No. 5; Honeywell, 1T the St. Louis ", balloon No. 6, ane Schaeck, ill the Helvetia, balloon No. !. cENEpA Better to encourae
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 Rockefeller Institute tHArrE ENiNSS. For Medical Research of New York and to maintain and de velop it's new hospital, which is free to all and is designed to observe anJ treat rare and selected diseases, JohE D. Rockefeller has made an additiona, gift of $3,820,000 in securities to tht endowment of the institute.
 President Taft has finally approved plans for raising the wreck of the bal tleship Maine from Havana harDvl which call for the completion of iilt work on or before the thirteenth anna versary of the destruction of the N :, vessel, Feb. 15 next. The work is v be done according to plans made b. army engineers and to be under direc tions of an engineer officer. By direc ton of the president Spain has beel invited to send a representative te Havana to be present during the work of exposing and removing the wreck.
 Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer under going life sentence in Sing Sing pris on, Ossining, N. r., for the murder ol William Marsh Rice, is to make new fight for liberty. George Francis O'Neill of New York city, who is 2 lawyer and also medical expert, has taken up Patrick's case and has fol many days been examining records iD the office of the county clerk in ordel to again present the matter to the court of appeals next month.
 7 A worldwide crusade against perni cious moving picture films was launch ed by the international humane con. ference at its session in the new Ma tional museum, in Washington. It is the suggestion of. the congress that a censorial authority be established tc eliminate vicious and immoral pic. lures. Violations, it is recommended, should be punishable by fine or i'm prisonment.
 Not in any previous census, accord ing to federal officials, was there ever disclosed such glaring instances of fraud as have marked the counting oi noses in the United States this year According to the authorities, the pad. ding was confined to western cities and an emphatic denial is given to the report that the figures of some of the big western cities are now under scru. tiny.
 Giving the sanction of the Protest ant Episcopal church to the healing ot the sick by prayer was proposed to the convention at Cincinnati in report oi a commission of which the Right Rev William Crane Gray, bishop of south ern California, is chairman. It was brought out in the discussion that the belief ill the supernatural power o1 healing is widespread in the church.
 Dr. Alexius Carrel of Baltimore has made one of the most important med icaf discoveries of the age. His dis covery involves a method for remova from the human body of portions o1 the stomach, blood vessels, skin, bone and practically every other tissue and making them grow at as lively rate as they did in the human form tt which they belonged.
 Philander c. Knox, secretary o1 state, is to get an increase of salary if congress adopts the estimates tha have been prepared for the legisla ture, executive and judicial appropria ton bill He now receives $8,000, bu it is proposed to make his pay $12,00O that of the other cabinet officers.
 Brigadier General Arthur Murray chief of coast artillery, in his annua report to the war department on tht efficiency and personnel of the service strongly advocates an increased detai of artillery troops to man the coas defenses.
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 south of Tampa ant SASoA- St. Augustine is GU nff from the world this hicr torri