Connecticut western news., 1910-04-14
GEN ERAL
 NEWS ENINGS.

,.z1r,,,, RidOut, pastor of WeS-
 ley M. D. church of Trenton, N. J., who was the first min ister to condemn the New Jersey as- semblymen for their closing hour rev elry with whisky and women, the Methodist ministers of Trenton and vii cinity passed resolutions demanding an investigation of the debauchery and cOndemning the entire legislature as being under the domination of the liq uor interests of the state.
 Jewels valued at $2O,0O0 which were stolen in Washington from Mrs. Fred erick Bugher, wife of the deputy po- lice commissioner of New York, were recovered when Clarence Hewlett, one of the most notorious gem thieves, was arrested in Baltimore. Hewlett had worked as butler in Admiral Ludlow's house when Mrs. Bugher was a guest. The court of inquiry at Washington which investigated the cause of the premature discharge of a gun on the cruiser Charleston i'll Subig bay, Phil ippines, on March 2S, through which eight sailors lost their lives decided that it was due to the firing pin, which was broken and bent outside the vent. The collection of pictures of the late Charles T. Yerkes was sold at auction in New York for $2,034,45 Franz Hals' Portrait of Woman" brought $137,OO0, Turner's Rockets and Blue Lights" $129,OOO and Corot's "Fisher- man" $8O,5OO.
 Justice Walter H. Jaycox of the su- preme court in New York annulled the marriage of Rufus W. Gaynor, son of Mayor Gaynor of New York, to Maria Odo on the ground that she had been married before, her real name being Mary Cuff.
 The Borough bank of Brooklyn, which failed in the panic of 1907 and which was reorganized, closed it's doors because of great mass of un- wieldy assets inherited from the for mer management.
 The Sulzberger & Sons company, meat packers of New York, was incor- porated at Albany with a capital ot $32,O00,000 after 1t had taken over the plant and capital stock of the
 
 Major General George M. Randall, U. $. A., retired, veteran of the civil war, who entered the army as a pri- vate and worked his way up, was ap- pointed by President Taft as governor of the Soldiers home in Washington. Harry Gissing, the New York Ath- letic club middle distance star, was 4, Of n Twenty-second regiment, engineers, because he failed to appear for the regiments annual inspection.
 Dissatisfied with the present admin istration of the Aero Club of America, many of the members held a confer ence in New York and sent letter to President Cortlandt F. Bishop demand ing his resignation.
 Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania presented a gold medal in behalf of the Geographical society of Philadel phia to Commander Robert E. Peary discoverer of the north ploe.
 The house of representatives al Washington passed the naval appro priation bill, which provides for two
 
 ment to cost $6,OO0,OO0 each.
 President Taft who joined the Ma sons before he became chief executive attended meeting of Naval lodge No 4 of Washington and was presented with Masonic apron.
 c1,mEe The Rev. Frank Skala
 XIX prominent mission
 worker and associate SN@oN- 'o' editor of the Christian Journal, was shot and instantly killed as he was leaving the Congregations church in Woods Run, suburb o. Pittsburg, by Jan Rodovitch, a reli gious fanatic, who also shot and dan gerously wounded John Gay, another mission worker, who was walking with Skala. In his sermon just before he was shot Skala declared that h' was ready to lay down his life at any moment God should want it.
 A jury in the criminal court at Wat seka, H., returned a verdict in thC