Connecticut western news., 1911-06-08
LID OFF IN OHIO
 BRIBERY CHARGE.
Evans Confession May ImpIL
 cate Men Higher Up.

The lid is off in the Ohio legisla- tive bribery investigation. The ques- 1 tion now is where the inquiry will stop. The confession of Representa- 1 tive Owen J. Evans of Stark county was a big victory for Prosecuting At torney k. c. Turner and Attorney l General Hogan. Evans admitted that he ''unlawfully and corruptly" accept ed $1O0 from L. c. Miller, Akron loan agent to keep Senator Haas loan shark bill from coming to a vote In the house. Evans was a member of the steering committee. He escaped with $500 fine.
 l A new man to be involved in the in- l qutry, 1t has become known, is a form CT mayor of large city.
 Evans followed his confession by go- ing to the grand jury room with the promise to tell all he knows about legislative bribery. After being on the stand all day he was placed in the custody of a detective. He will re- sume his testimony later. 1 Evans confession followed the re- turning of two new indictments against him. He had already been charged with soliciting a bribe of $650 from John +. Weiss, Canton brewer, for his vote on the Dean local option bill. One of the new indictments charges that he solicited bribe of $40O from J. c. Sharer of Alliance on April 12. | hax all wanted to conduct this mans defense" said Attorney Clark, who represented Evans, but we could not afford to do so on what we considered perjured testimony and advised our client to plead guilty and remedy the wrong he had done to society by aiding the state in the inquiry 1t is now making by going before the grand jury and telling what he knows" '
 By his plea Evans forfeits his seat 1 in the legislature. He Is thirty-sIx years of age and has wife and two children. He has been merchant.
 GENERn In nearly 10000 cases
 nr,,a of smallpox reported . in the United States GN'NSS' during 1909 there were only ninety-two deaths, making the average mortality rate less than one half of per cent Public health serv- ice statistics announced recently show even this diminished number of cases by comparison with last year was ex- cessive.
 + A fnk4 Erie, Oswego and Champlain barge canal construction work and $2.o00,O00 for improving the Cayuga and Seneca canal are provided for in two bills of Senator Frawley just signed by Gov ernor Dix of New York. The governor also has signed the bill of Assembly. man A. E. Smith appropriating $50,000 for fighting forest fires.
 According to the latest estimates of the treasury department, there is a little more than $3,237 100000 in cir culation. Since the taking of the cen sus 1t is estimated the population of the United States has increased to 93, ,S44, ,000. The computations show each citizen on the average should have $3470. H.
 Supplementary estimates of the gov ernment's receipts from the corpora. ton tax, payable all this month, indi- cate the first predictions. The assess ments for the first four months of the present calendar year are more than $2S, S,500, ,000, which is considerably more than for the first six months of 1910.
 The famous Harvard class day elm. under which for years underclassmen celebrated when bidding farewell to their alma mater and from which they were wont to throw punches of flowers to their sweethearts, has been attacked by the elm tree beetle and is to be chopped down.
 Two powerful centrifugal pumps are at work removing the water from the main cofferdam that surrounds the wreck of the Maine in Havana har- Dor. Already the Nater level has been lowered more than yard. Two more feet will expose most of the after deck.
 4 A new pest has made its appearance in the last few days throughout the big onion fields near Canastota, N. Y.. and with a possible half crop or larger loss in prospect as result of the rav- ages of the insect the onion growers of northern Madison county are dis couraged.
 Postal savings banks have met with such cordial reception that Postmaster General Hitchcock has decided to in- crease the extension of the system from 100 to 15O offices a week. This will mean the establishment of about ] 1000 savings banks by July 1.
 The senate Judiciary committee will report favorably the nomination of Will liam H. Lewis, the Boston negro, to be assistant United States attorney l .-or,nrnI in thn diuisinn of Indiana dan-