Connecticut western news., 1911-08-24
GEN ERAL- NEWS

- der of William Fl. HAPPENINGS. Jackson in the Hotel loquois in New York on July 26 last, came before Judge Crane for trial in part 2 of general sessions. Geidel when led to the defendants seat was wreck. His eyes were red with planted his elbows on the counseps table and buried his face in hand kerchief His mother assisted counsel for the defense in the selection of jurors.
 When Oliver Locke, a negro wife murderer, was paying the penalty for his crime at the penitendary in Eddy vile, Ky.I the condemned man, through whose body 2.OO0 volts of electricity was coursing, struggled twenty eight minutes with supethu, man strength and finally broke the leather straps that bound his arms and legs to the death chair. After breaking the straps the negro toppled to the floor and apparently succumbed, but an examination by the prison phy- sicians revealed the fact that he was slowly reviving. His body was again strapped to the chair and 2,5OO volts of electricity was turned on Several minutes elapsed before life was ex- tinct. -f .e t..
 Congress has turned its attention to the abuses that arise from the wide difference ln the laws of divorce and murf'.; p throughout the states. Rep ress--,>,..I :. George W. Norris and w. H. Howard have introduced resolu- tions requesting President Taft to ask the governors of the states to send representatives to a congress of dele gates to be held in Washington to formulate uniform law of marriage and divorce and to submit the same to the legislatures.
 Mrs Roberta Corwin Hill, the daugh. ter of Morris c. Menges, 'horseman and real estate operator of Sheepshead Bay left this country on the White star liner Olympic and, according to her friends, will never return to her native land. Mrs. Hill was impris- oned for three days in the Tombs last February after her conviction for smuggling a S8.OO0 sable coat into this country.
 George Brown, ranchman of Ra doka, 8. D., fell from a horse three days ago and was pronounced dead During the funeral services he sat uu in the coffin and without assistance k climbed out, to the horror of his sor. rowing friends. Brown says he was in a trance and knew all that was going on. He feared being buried alive and succeeoed in breaking tht trance.
 In the next few days persons i1 various parts of the country will re sceive letters addressed to themselves years ago. Several mail sacks that were lost during the flood of 1905 hay. just been found In the bed of the Peco4 river. near Albuquerque, N M. ThsiI contents were in such a good state o preservation that they were mailed tt their various destinations.
 The dirigble balloon in which Mel win Vaniman will undertake to eros. the Atlantic has just been completed at Akron. O.. and within a few day. 1t will be shipped to Atlantic City, N J., where Vaniman will start for Eng land. Francis A. Sieberling who gay, S15O,OO0 to finance the trip. broke . bottle of wine over the airship anC named 1t the Akron.
 The house of representatives. by vote of 1S3 to 27. agreed to the con ference report on the campaign pub licity bill. The report was adopted b. the senate. The bill now goes to th president for approval Although tn measure was passed by the house b. an overwhelming vote. the debate ol it was q lively one.
 Miss Hazel Laugenour, nineteen years old. a graduate of the University of California, is the first woman wht