Connecticut western news., 1910-08-11
GEN E RAJ NEWS

'Nr ENiNSS. and Democratic par. ties were made at the convention of the National Independent Political league held in Atlantic City, N. J. The organization consists of negroes and has branches in twenty-three states, twenty of which were represented at the convention. The most bitter de- nunciation was that of the Brownsville affair, which they lay at the door of Theodore Roosevelt. The Republicans, they say, have been absolutely uAjust to the negro
 It will be about the middle of Octo. Der before the people of the United States learn their true number as re- vealed by the official county of the thirteenth census. 1t is generally be- lieved that the number will be about 90,000,0O0, and census officials are known to share in this general belief, although officially they know nothing about 1t. This belief is based on the fact that an increase slightly in excess of the 13,000,000 increase during the previous decade would bring the popu- lation in 1910 to the 90,0O0,000 mark.
 Freedom and its opposite will be strikingly compared when three avia- tors fly above Brunot's island, in the Ohio river, so close to the western pen itentiary that the 600 prisoners will hear the purring motors and possibly have q glimpse of the machines. War den John Fraacis has even assured the aviator welcome if he cares to land in the prison yard. Many of the prisoners may not only get their first view of an aeroplane, but also their life sentences.
 That we are closely approaching a reproduction of the age of extrava- gance and inordinate pleasure in which the Romans lived just before their city was destroyed is the belief of Cardinal Gibbons, who is spending few weeks with Father James F. O'Hara of Southampton, N. Y "I think we are very closely approaching the age of extravaganza and inordinate pleasure enjoyed by Rome just before the fall" said the cardinal.
 hC OAnSC VI POAtNC"OhAuAfi hk$h was created by recent ordinance in Los Angeles, Cal, will be filled at once by the police commission Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, formerly of Chicago, whose earnest and persistent work, backed by ministers and club women of Los Angeles, caused the creation of the office, will receive the appoint xysII hn hn a,.1N fn hold a position of this kind in south ern California. ...#f
 Asserting that he kas made mathe- nautical discoveries which will have a sweeping influence on that science, Michael Angelo McGinnis, serving a ten year sentence for forgery in the Missouri penitentiary, has offered to demonstrate his discovery to any com mittee of mathematicians Governor Herbert s. Hadley may designate if a pardon will be considered his just re- ward for success.
 Rank treachery, has been shown | Theodore Roosevelt and the people of the United States by the administra- ton of Mr. Taft. It is an administra- ton wholly governed by the grca& in- terests,and will not stand the strain to which 1t will be placed" asserted Ru- dolph spreckels of California at an In- | terview in Chicago.
 Theodore Roosevelt for governor of New York by acclamation and quick adjournment before he can refuse the nomination is said to be the pro- | gramme that the Republican bosses l in New York have up their sleeve for I the state convention, which will meet | in Saratoga on Sept 27.