Connecticut western news., 1911-02-23
Charley Boston, the Chinese leader and merchant. who recent.
GEN ERAL- EWS

.,-,.. CnlneSe leaueT dnu NEWS merchant, who recent.
 HAPPENINGS. Iy was arrested in
 New York fn connection with the opi-
 um raids, was indicted by the federal
 grand jury in that city on the charge
 of having smuggled opium in his pos
 session. The accused man was ar
 ra1gned before Judge Holt in the crim-
 fnal branch of the United States cir
 cult court. He pleaded not guilty and
 was released on $2,5OO bail, which was furnished.
 The Democrats of the house of rep, resentatives secured the adoption of
 an amendment to the naval appropria- tion bill which renders impossible the
 expenditure of a dollar of the many
 millions carried by that measure for
 the purchase of a pound of steel for | use in battleship construction until the l attorney general has decided whether
 or not the United States Steel corpora tion is or is not a trust, a monopoly or
 combination in restraint of trade. This action is continuation of fight on the steel trust conducted for years by Representative Stanley of Ken lucky.
 Taking the country as a whole, it is 1 probable that the population is slightly underStated by the census bureau" declares Director of the Census Dur and in his annual report, "but whether the margin of error is a fraction of l 1 per cent or amounts to as much as 2
 per cent no one can positively know" | This statement, which indicates that
 more than 100000 persons may have been missed in the count, is made in
 the course of MT. Durand's discussions of the twenty-three cities which were overcounted.
 Harry Pemberton, thirteen years old,
 and Esther Kachele, fourteen years
 old, children of wealthy farmers living
 near Wharton, O., are missing Their parents believe they have eloped and
 are married. The, couple were seen to
 board train at the Wharton station.
 and to friends they said they were
 bound for Windsor, Canada, to wed. Pemberton and the Kachele girl were schOolmates. One day recently the | young people told their parents they
 wanted to marry. This brought about | strenuous objections.
 President Taft sent to the senate an important new treaty of commerce 1 and navigation between the United States and Japan to supersede the ex- | isting convention, which has been in force since July IT, 1899. The new treaty affords impressive evidence of the cOrdiality of this government to- ! ord hn shown its good will by emitting from
 the new treaty a paragraph of the old
 relating to immigration which had al- ways been distasteful to the Japanese. A floating body which bore a resem- blance to Richard L. Ashurst, post
 master of Philadelphia, who disap- peared from Atlantic City several weeks ago, was sighted at sea Sunday l by the fruit steamer Admiral Schley. ] The body was sighted about 120 miles south of Atlantic City. The northeast
 storm which was sweeping the coast
 on the day the postmaster disappeared
 might have carried the body in this
 direction had MT. Ashurst fallen from
 the pier into the sea, as many believe. That Lima Cavalieri will accept S5O.-
 900, sue for divorce and waive all ] claims under the famous antenuptial contract was reported following the
 announcement of a secret visit to this ! country by Oreste Cavalieri, brother ! of the grand opera singer. The money
 will be paid by Sheriff Bob Chanler
 and his relatives. The Chanler family and attorneys in the various suits
 which followed announcement of the
 separation were reluctant to discuss
 the settlement.
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