Connecticut western news., 1910-11-17
EXPRESS STRIKERS
 RETURN TO WORK,
Companies Allow Men to Dis.
 play Union Buttons.

pldy UnlOll BullOllS,
 Four thousand express drivers, help CTS and platform men employed by the five big express companies have formally ended their strike and return ed to work here and in Jersey City.
 Some objection was made to a con- spicuous display of union buttons, but the men were enrolled none the less as fast as they showed up. Wagons were sent out as soon as manned, and the full thousand affected by the express strike are expected to resume deliv- cries before night.
 The chauffeurs and cabmen are still pn strike.
 crnEpAt Mrs. Taft has issued
 .-.,. cards for tea on
 Thursday afternoon HAPPENINGS. Dec. 1, at which her daughter, Miss Helen Taft, will be presented to society. Although the tea will mark Miss Taft's formal presenta- tion, she will between now and Dec. be the guest of honor at numerous luncheons and other informal affairs. Several large parties in honor of this much feted young woman have already been announced. "
 With the return to New York of Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, the leader of ha ir, 4hn of Christ Scientist, which came very near splitting that institution about a year ago, 1t became known that the Stetson adherents in the local Christian Science church have been quietly lin ing up their forces for a renewal of the old battle with the forces headed by Virgil O. Strickler, the first reader of the church, who is backed by all the power of Mrs. Eddy's mother church in Boston. r
 In an experiment to test the effect of an unconfined explosion of high explo- sive nitroglycerin the monitor Puritan was badly damaged in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after two charges of } 200 pounds each had been exploded against her aft turret and side. In the first test the armor of the aft turret was cracked badly. In the second ex- plosion the armor plate was badly stove in, and bad leaks in the ship be- low the water line flooded at least one big compartment of the vessel.
 Henry H, Rogers, son of the late Standard Oil financier, fresh from the military centers of France and Ger. many, brought to, New York the un. pleasant prediction that Japan will provoke war with the United States some time before the Panama canal is open for business. This is not. only the belief of MT. Rogers, but the con- census of opinion of the military men he associated with during his visit of seven months abroad.
 The appointment of Editor Lafayette Young of the Des Moines Capital by Governor Carroll of Iowa to occupy the seat in the United States senate made vacant by the death of Senator J. F. Deliver is the interesting feature of current Iowa politics. It opens ur the possibility of one of the warmest fights before the Iowa legislature this winter which the state has ever known. ...r ...
 If each person in the United States were to have his proportion of the money in circulation he would be 1; cents richer this month than he was last. The circulation per capita Is nov $35.01, cents better than at the same time last year. This year the money ] in circulation already shows an in crease of more than $55,OO0O00 ovel last. Gold coin shows a decrease o more than $3,OOO,OOO for the year.
 Allan A.. Ryan has been chosen pres ident of the Aero Club of America tC succeed Cortlandt Field Bishop. MT Bishop received 24 votes as agains Ryan's 205, although he refused to ru1 for office again. The other officer elected were: First vice president James c. Mccoy; second vice presi dent, Dave H. Morris; third vice presi dent, James A.. Blair, Jr
 CRIMES A Main street trolle!
 .nr car of Kalamazoo ~ Mich, filled with peo S'-0 '-' oT.- -.. " "'0 pie on their wa. home, was struck by a westbount freight train engine, killing four anC