Connecticut western news., 1911-08-03
GEN ERAL- N EWS

So and the tariff board in HAPPENINGS checking up the infor- nation gathered by special agents of the government on wool and sheep in- dustries, says sheep can be raised, wool clipped and marketed and lambs disposed of at a cost of $1.50 head. the annual revenue from which, with wool at 13 cents, totals $3.31, leaving a profit of $1.S1 a head.
 Small fortunes are being swallowed by the negroes of South Carolina i'll the form of terrapin, says Representa- tive Vincent of Beaufort county. He said he hoped both to preserve the sup, ply aud to increase the states revenue by a tax on the turtles which com mand such fancy prices in northern restaurants. In a day or two a ne gro can collect terrapin enough to equal in value a bale of cotton.
 Miss Harriet Quimby has been awarded q pilots license by the Aero Club of America, the governing body of aeronautics in this country. This IS the first license that has ever been awarded woman aviator in America. Miss Quimby flew i'll a Moisant mono plane, entirely an American product. This is also the first time the Aero club has awarded a license to an American built monoplane.,
 Women of New Jersey must here after forego as hat trimmings rare and choice plumage of wild birds because the new law, one of the most drastic ever enacted in this state against the wearing of aigrets and other fine feathers, has become effective. Under its provisions women wearing the for, bidden plumage may be arrested and fined.
 President Taft has the unique dis. tinction of having a pardon granted by him rejected by a prisoner. Fred D. Warren, a Socialist editor of Kan sas, now serving a six months term for depositing in the mails a nonmail-. able envelope, declined to accept 1t, saying he had done nothing for which he ought to be pardoned.
 Stating he could not support his fam fly in comfort on his salary of $500 paid him, the Rev. H. L. Geering, pas tor of the First Baptist church at Mantle, Conn, has sent in his resigna- tion and will hire a farm in a, nearby town. MT. Geering has a wife and daughter, both of whom will assist him in the farm work.
 The federal grand jury of Boston has begun Its investigation of the United Shoe Machinery company to determine whether 1t is a monopoly. United States District Attorney French and Special Assistant Attorney Genera Gregg will present the evidence to the grand jury. A large number of wit. nesses will appear.
 The fight which Governor Wilson is making to clean up Atlantic City bore further fruit when William H. Harris, a politician, was arrested charged with being implicated 4n giving a bribe t, obtain a liquor license. Harris gave $500 bail for his appearance before ths grand jury.
 George W. Carmany, president of the city council and acting chief exec utive of Atlantic City, N. J.. while su- II |. Stoy, late mayor of Atlantic City, was arrested on a warrant charging him with compLcity in a sensational brib- cry scandal.
 Eugene Ely Lincoln Beachey and Hugh Robinson have agreed to partici pate in an aeriaI race between New York and Philadelphia. The announce ment was made by Glenn H. Curtiss under whose directions the three avi ators have been exhibiting.
 Designs for distinctive ten cen, registry stamp and three cent postal card. the latter to be used exclusively for foreign correspondence, have been approved by Postmaster General Hitchcock They will be placed on sale Jan 1.
 After sleeping almost continuously for 1O5 days Miss Hazel Schmidt of Nandana. the eighteen-year-old girl whose strange case has puzzled phy.