Putnam patriot., 1911-04-28
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Congress leaders recognize the RfaNl- fy of the situation in Mexico Dat re- eognize the fact .that President Taft Is doing everything possible and there is no disposition to interfere with the program The President does not for the present at least, contemplate send ing to congress any special message dealing with Mexican affairs.
 Under orders of President Melen of the \. |. \. H. < II railroad a bureau of industrial development of New Eng land will be opened in Boston the first Of May. IL will be under the control of the New Haven, Boston k Main5 and Maine Central railroad systems and its object is the promotion Of every form pf industrial development m New Eng land,
 Ninety thousand citizens of the Gni- ted States petitioned congress Friday To withdraw the troops from the Mexi- can border.
 It required three men to carry to the speakers platform, huge bundles of petitions submitted by Victor Berger, the socialist member from Wisconsin. Petitions had been received from resi- dents Of every state except Delaware and from every territory except Alaska. The weather bureaus crop review shows that the weather has been gen orally unfavorable over most agricul. tural and fruit growing districts. It too wet and cloudy in the southern districts.
 Miss Elizabeth Woodbridge Thomp- son, native of New London, celebra- led her tooth birthday at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., last week.
 She is a descendant of Gurdon Salt, onstall, colonial governor of Gonnecti cut In 170S, and a granddaughter O Captain William Thompson, who wa killed al Ridgedeld, Conn, in TIT, 1T the Danbury raid during the Revolu iionaGy War She is also a direct des cendant of William Brewster, the "rul. ing elder and spiritual guidep of the Pilgrim Fathers.
 The Colonial Express from Boston to Washington made record time last week between Boston and New Haven. The l75 miles was covered in three hours and two minutes, the average speed being nearly sixty miles an hour In becoming mayor of Chicago for the fifth time Friday evening, Carter Harrison left even Jetiersonian sim- plicity far behind. He delivered no address whatever, merely taking the mayors chair, naming few new otii- cials and-yours truly, Carter Harri. son. He's off
 pr. Holmes, the head of the feder al bureau of mines, after Investigating the recent colliery fires in which terri ble losses of life among the miners oc- cured, surprises no one in saying that the fires might easily have been put out at an early moment had the mine management been decent
 One of the reforms carried by the Ca. lifornla Legislature at it's recent session was a law providing that when wife proves that her husband is guilty of wilfui nonsuppoft, he shall be put in jail and made to work, His labor k to be paid lof, bul the money wilt be giy. ea to the wife.
 Rochester \. Y., is preparing Co eN- tend its best brand Of hospitality to the national Grand Army eneampment lo meet there tfom August q ta Il AZ ready committees ha1e been chosen and are at work The state Is expect ed to appropriate oW0, and a fund i. 10 be raised ia the city.
 A significant movement for the higher education of women in th, south k that relating to the establish ment al Charlottesville of state coll ego for women in "co-ordiuation" will the university of Virginia, It is no proposed by the promoters that coedu cation be introduced. The new colleg is to be simply an affiliated one-an in stitution of learning allied to the uni versity of Virginia under the same cor trol, and having its work directed b the same faculty.
 The greed of men Is very certain i lime to exterminate the shad general as they have been removed from th Connecticut liver in Massaehuset, and pretty much all the way down [ the Sound.
 That the wreck ol the battleshi Maine, which is now being raised i Havana hsrbor, will probably be take into deep water and sunk in midocea is indicated In s statement made b Secretary of War Dickinson regardin tha progress of the work The drlvin of the steel sheet piling of the cotie dam has been completed and the filhn of the cotierdsm with dredged materis is in progress and may be complete during the coming month.