Connecticut western news., 1911-04-06
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 partment at Washington, has resigned to become secretary of the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. Efforts are being made to effect a combination of the two exchanges which control the large cranberry out put of New Jersey and which have been opposed to one another, cutting prices and making a fight to obtain preference in New York and Philadel- phia markets.
 A resident of Vancouver has re- ceived a patent for an aeroplane which, he says, cannot turn over when In flight. A model three feet long. propelled by strong spring, flies half a block with one winding, and If it is started when upside down it rights it. self in few yards
 It is reported that a tornado has struck Tuscaloosa and Anniston, Ala. Wires are down in that locality, and few details can be obtained. A tor nado struck Rigoletto, doing consider able damage, and the wind at Gulf port, Miss, reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour.
 At a meeting of the National Asso- citation For the Celebration of the One Hhndredth Anniversary of Peace Among English Speaking Peoples, in New York, a resolution was passed ap- proving the new arbitration treaty be- tween the United States and Great Britain.
 Arthur M. Travers, former chief clerk to the third assistant postmaster general and for a time acting third assistant, has been indicted by the grand jury in Washington for the aI- legged embezzlement and sale of rare stamps.
 The supreme court of the United States has declined to enjoin the fed eral judges in Oklahoma from enforc- ing decrees they had issued in liquor cases, involving questions of jurisdic- ton over liquor in interstate com merce.
 The Rev. E. B. Sutton. a Presbyte- rian minister of Seattle, who served as a registration clerk for the recall cleo. tion, has been found guilty of illegally entering names. He asserted he did not know he was violating the law.
 The United States transport Buford bearing to the starving people of China the supplies collected under the auspi ces of the American National Red Cross and the Seattle Commercial club has arrived at Shanghai
 It is reported at Wheeling, w. Va. that the miners strike in that district and throughout eastern Ohio Is collaps ing, and the men are holding meetings to decide whether they will return to work under the old rule.
 The total coinage at the United States hints in March consisted of SIT. Of this amount $15, ,191 POO was in gold, $54, ,162 in silver and $652. 615 in minor coinage.
 The customs court of appeals has elected Frank H. Briggs of Maine, q son-in-law of Senator Frye of that state, marshal of the court to succeed John Elder of Ohio, who recently re- signed.
 Governor Wilson of New Jersey has
  iting the keeping of bees with conta gious diseases. It appropFiates $2.0O0 1 yearly for examination of the diseases.
 The total amount of national bank notes outstanding on April was $729. 152,916. This is an increase of $217.- | S75 since March l last and an increase of $11, ,893, 1920 since April 1 of last year.
 The American Red Cross society has contributed an additional amount of $5,OOO to the relief of the famine suf- ferers in China.
 The Socialists have swept Butte, electing mayor, city treasurer, police judge and five out of nine aldermen.
 The Republican state ticket has been elected in Michigan by safe major ity.