Connecticut western news., 1911-04-13

nr,.. for the termination of ~ the treaty of 1892 be- HAPPENINGS tween the United States and Russia on the ground that Russia discriminated against Ameri- cans of the Jewish faith has been in- troduced in the house by Representa- tive Sulzer of New York, chairman of the Committee on foreign affairs.
 An antigambling league is to be formed in southern Indiana. The fact that gambling cannot be suppressed through the local offices or by the gov ernment has caused a call for help to be issued and tho members of the league will cooperate with each other for its suppression. TT .#r J. A. Farrell of Missouri, who was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment at Zacatecas, Mexico, for alleged com plicity in the death of a Mexican, has been liberated. This information was conveyed to the state department in dispatch from Ambassador Wilson at the City of Mexico.
 The discovery of valuable coal de- posits in an unclaimed section of northwestern New Mexico is an nounced by the interior department. The fields, comprising 1,576,064 acres near the Colorado border line, have been withdrawn from public entry.
 It has been officially announced that Charles D. Norton, formerly President Taft's secretary, has been elected vice president of the First National bank, succeeding Thomas W. Lamont, who resigned to become member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Go. r-r.e
 The largest locomotive in the world has just been turned out of the Santa Fe shops in Topeka, Kan. It Is 122 feet long and has ten pairs of driving wheels in two sets of five each. It is one of the Mallet or double type and cost $50,OO0. ,r.
 It is reported from Picking that Wu Ting Fang, the former Chinese minis ter to the United States, is slated either to return to his old post at Washington or become president of the wal wu pu, the Chinese foreign board.
 Following the visit of the second di- vision of the Atlantic fleet to the Bal- tic sea next summer all four divisions will make cruise to the Mediterra- mean, according to present plans of the navy department
 Horace !G, Knowles, United States minister to Bolivia, has left for this country, bringing home the body of his son, who was killed in a trolley ear ac- cident at the Bolivian capital several weeks ago
 Governor Dix of New York has call ed meeting of the state trustees of | public buildings to discuss the cause and damage resulting from the capi- l tol fire.
 co,ure One man was killed
 and three were badly injured in an explo- | CASUAL IlGS' sion in the metal cap works of the Dupont Powder company at Pompton Lake. Henry Chadwick was practically blown to pieces. Dan iel Wyble is not expected to survive The other injured men will recover. Tony Muscato, leader of the Tarry- town (N. Y) Black Hand, was shot and killed by Fred Eannacea. Mus cato's brother was shot through both arms and Eannacea has four bullets In his body. Eannacea went to Mus cato's place and slapped both him and his brother in the face. All three had revolvers, and they emptied the cham bers, the bullets flying in all directions
 L. H. Hilton, president of the Scree- ven County bank of Georgia, armed with his shotgun, approached c. E.. Lee, a farmer, and began firing. Friends disarmed Hilton and held him after he had fired three times. Then