Connecticut western news., 1910-06-02
GEN ERAL
 W EWS lAPPE ENINGS

HAPPENINGS. or of Tboodoro Roosa. welt at New York on June IS, as on the day the former president sails into New York harbor President Taft will be at Villa Nova, Pa, receiving the de gree of doctor of jurisprudence from St. Thomas college, the noted Catholic institution at that place.
 A boycott of American goods that is to extend all over China was formulat- ed at a meeting held at the headquar- ters of the Chinese chamber of com merce in San Francisco, and cable dis patches are to be sent to the merchant societies of China asking their aid and cooperation. The boycott is to be un- dertaken by an organization entitled ''The League of Justice," formed at the meeting in the Chinese chamber of commerce rooms.
 The senate at Albany by a vote of 2S to 15 passed the Perkins bill mak- ing officers and directors of race track associations criminally liable for gam bling occurring on their property, and the assembly approved, 92 to 45, the ASAAC" Dlll1 "hlSu pOOl with or without writing, misdemean- or, with a penalty of not more than one years imprisonment
 The Western Fish company and twenty individual fish dealers of San Francisco were indicted for violating the Cartwright law. These indictments mark the close of weeks investiga- tion of the methods of the fish trust, which had kept up the price of fish, although there is limitless supply not more than ten miles from the city. A new worlds record for big gun shooting, which incidentally empha- sizes the superiority of United States naval craftsmanship, was made by the new battleship South Carolina at Hampton Roads. With her forward turret twelve inch guns she made six teen bullseye target hits out of sixteen shots in minutes 51 seconds.
 President Taft appointed his secre- tary, Fred Warner Carpenter of Sauk Center, Minn., as United States minis ter to Morocco, to succeed H. Percival Dodge. No successor has been chosen bhC PACoAOCAI lO OhISSCu MI. SdI- penter, but it is likely that he will ap- point Rudolph Foster, the present as sistant secretary. The submission of a constitutional amendment for the election of senators by direct vote of the people was urged by Senator Owen of Oklahoma in a speech in the senate at Washington, who claimed, among other things, that the ratification of the proposed amend ment will prevent the corruption of legislatures. l..
 The. McGrath Sunday baseball bill was defeated in the senate at Albany | by a vote of IT yeas to 2S nays. The measure, which passed the assembly. would have permitted baseball on Sun day by amateurs between 3:30 and 6:3O o'clock, provided no admission were charged.
 f W. A. Jacobs was elected as the stand i ard bearer of the Social Democratic i party in the contest for governor of ] Wisconsin next fall at the closing ses- { sion of the state convention, and Emil ! Seidel, mayor of Milwaukee, was nom- mated for United States senator. |
 The body. of Alma
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 AND year-old c h il q w h o oASoA- mysteriously dis a D. peared from her home in Louisville, Ky, last December, was found in a endorsement of St. Johns school in that city. The body was lying in three feet of water, and the condition of the body indicated that it had been in the hiding place for several months and that a crude attempt to bury it had been made.
 Brooding over the belief that his wife was unduly friendly with the