Connecticut western news., 1911-07-06
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GENERAL The Tyler county (W.
 Nrvue Va.) grand jury. inves ,,n.= hgating conditions in "''ao' Sisterviile relative to the sale of liquor, gambling and ir regularities tn city elections, has re turned 343 indictments
 Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor of Hume well, Kan, announces that she intends to hold council meeting, at which she expects all members of her coun. ell to be present. She says Governor Stubbs has instructed her to have any councilman who refuses to attend the meeting arrested and placed under heavy bond to insure his attendance at any meetings she may call.
 Seven senators voted in the censuS committee to report favorably the house bill authorizing q reapportiou. ment by the states for congressional granted a week in which to prepare d minority report. The house bill con templates house of 433 members. and no state will lose in the number of representatives.
 Senator Cummins, insurgent leader and ardent foe of reciprocity, admitted that the Canadian agreement would pass the senate about Aug. l. He pre- dicted also that i've important tariff bills would follow i'll short order, in cluding revision of the wool, cotton, steel and sugar schedules, and then enactment of the farmers free list bill
 The illinois house of representatives Is running wild Waterways obstruc- tionists aud anti-Dineen leaders have tied 1t up in deadlock when, by mu- tual agreement, the belligerents gave up for a rest and the house stood "at ease" until such time as the speaker could get quorum to answer roll calls.
 Twenty tons of relics from the wreck of the battleship Maine have been brought to New York. The material consists of the Maine's big bronze bell, which weighs 300 pounds; a funnel. broken in many pieces, and fifteen barrels of old copper. The stuff will be sod for souvenirs and curiosities.
 Justice Gerard in special term of the New York supreme court signed an in- terlocutory decree of absolute divorce in flavor of Julie N. Le Gallienne and against her husband, Richard Le Gal lienne, poet and writer. Mrs. Le Gal lienne asserted her husband was guilty of improper conduct.
 Schoolteachers and others engaged in different phases of educational en. deavor have met in Providence, R. l.. where the eighty-hrst annual conven, tion of the American Institute of h. struction Is being h,rd. The institute is the oldest educ. Lonal association in America.
 c: E. Loose made a flight in Il Lord Baltimore hydroplane at Brooklyn, Md Loose went five miles on the water, rising from time to time when his speed approached a mile minute The experiment was regarded as sue. cessful.
 Mary Ellen Powers, for years Bar nuns tallest woman, Is to be married to Maurice T. Stapleton of Lockport. N. Y Miss Powers is seven feet In height Stapleton is more than six feet
 Three prisoners, one q murderer, es- caped from the jail in Uniontown, Pa They were in the hospital department and made a key out of a spoon, opened several doors and walked out.
 Aviator Atwood made flight around the statue of Liberty in New York hur- bor with a passenger. The feat had never before been accomplished.
 The army has proved a new three l inch field piece which eliminates the noise of discharge. reduces the recoil and makes the flash invisible. Joseph B. Reichmann of New York has been found guilty of making fraudulent report on the Carnegie Trust company.
 Gifts to the amount of $1.3OO,0Oo re- ceived by Harvard university during the past year are announced by the board.
 Judge Newman of Atlanta. Ga, has denied Charles W. Morse's application for writ of habeas corpus.