Connecticut western news., 1910-04-28
NEWS ABOUT THE STATE
Personals and Other Items of Interest Clipped from Exchanges.


 Twenty-two nationalities are repre- sented among the employees of the Cheney Bros. mills, South Manchester.
 Over 4,0O0 have been treated at the Litchfield County Hospital in Wlnsted since it's opening in 1892. Thirty-four patients arc there at the present time. The House at Washington has passed Representative Tilson's bill to remove the charge of desertion from the mili- tary record of Edwin D. Gilbert. post. master at Higganum, Conn, and Civil War Veteran.
 William M. Newton, 72 years old. committed suicide at Orange Sunday by drinking paris green. III health and despondency are believed to have been the cause. He is survived by his wife and five daughters.
 Quinebaug Pomona Grange will hold meeting with Woodstock Grange at North Woodstock next Saturday, April 30, morning session to begin at l0:30 1 U be conferred. A dinner will be served at l pm and the lecturers hour will begin at 2:15.
 A driving wheel on one of two loco- motives. attached to a freight train which passed through Norfolk early Saturday morning. broke in two when the train was little east of Summit. Luckily the -train was kept under con- trol; the disabled engine got on a siding and the train proceeded after delay of about two hours.
 East Hartford Council. Royal Ar canum, has been awarded the grand regents cup for the best degree work of any of the councils of that order in Connecticut. This cup is contested for each year and until some council has secured it three times. This is the second time for East Hartford Council.
 The Standard Electric Time Con- pany of Waterbury will get a contract for equipping the public buildings at Colorado Springs, Col, East St. Louis and Peoria, H., Tacoma, Wash, and Tuscaloosa, Ala. with standard clock systems. The Waterbury concern sub mitted the lowest bid received for this work, the amount being $2.985.
 Edward Leslie Randall committed suicide by shooting in the head with revolver in his barn at Washington last Wednesday, No cause is assigned. He was 47 years old and leaves a wife and several children. Just 26 years ago the same day Randall's father killed himself by cutting his throat.
 A meeting will be held on the evening of May IA at Unity Hall. Hartford, by. the Political Equality League, at which the speakers will be MT. and Mrs. Edwin Slosson of Wyoming and Max Eastman of New York, secretary of the Mems League for Woman Suffrage, of which George Foster Pea body, the banker, is president. Mrs. Slosson has had experience as voter in the West.
 Representative Hill of Connecticut favors Presidents Taft's plan to make the tariff board authorized under the Payne law a real tariff commission. As member of the ways and means committee, MT. Hill will work for the proposition. He says he will vote for it and believes Congress will provide an appropriation of $250, ,000 to enable the tariff board to continue work on a larger scale.
 At the convention of the Connecticut State Dental Association held Ill New Haven last week. the following officers were elected: President, Dr. F. T. Murlless, jr.. of Hartford vice-pres- ident, Dr. Robert II, Strang of Bridge port; treasurer, Dr. Henry A. Spang of New Haven; secretary. Dr. E. J. Abbott of Waterbury. The sum of SlQO was voted to fund for establIshment of memorial to the late Dr. w. D. Miller, dentist and scientist.
 At the State assembly of Rebekahs held in New Haven last week the fol lowing officers were elected; President, Miss Clara B. M. Douglas of Forestville; vice-president, Mrs. Blakeman, Shelton; secretary, Mrs. Johnson, Torrington. Mrs. Jennie Sparks of New Haven, who had served as secretary for eleven years, declined reelection. Mrs. Anna Hunting of Meriden was chosen treas urer and Mrs. Catherine Lannerhurt of Bridgeport, warden.
 All of the Connecticut river and harbor items in the waterway bill were passed by the Senate last week. There was fight over the Bridgeport harbor item. Senator Burton of Ohio thought the cost of this improvement should be divided between the federal government aud the local authorities. Senator Bulke- ley offered an amendment striking out the divisional provision, which was