Connecticut western news., 1911-01-26
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 will be built for the HAPPENINGS. Trni+od Sto+os tf oor. gress follows the recommendation of the house committee on naval affairs. The committee will report a bill au- thOrizing q total expenditure of $36,- 100000 for new ships. Of this amount $12,S00,0OO is asked for two battle. ships of not less than 27.000 tons each. According to information received by b the committee, it Is the purpose of the secretary of the navy under this au- thorization to let contracts for two bat tleships of approximately 30,0oO tons each.
 Charles D. Norton. who has been sec. retary to the president for about six months, will soon retire This was an. nounced from the White House, and it is believed he will return to private business. Several names are suggested as possibilities for MT. Norton's sue. cessor One that is being mentioned Is James A. Tawney, the veteran chair. man of the house appropriations. com mittee. He has held frequent caucuses at the White House recently, and ii has been known that he Is slated for some important job under the admin istration. -.., Surgeons in Boston are interested 1T the operation performed by Dr. Fred erick J. Cotton at the City hospital up on William Favor of Maiden, in which he removed a portion of Favor's shin bone and grafted 1t into his arm. Sc far as known this operation has never been performed in this country though 1t has several times been dont successfully in Europe. Favor had one of his arms crushed under a car at Somervtlle. It was found necessary to take out about two and a hah inches of the bone of the upper arm.
 pr. Nicholas Murray Butler wa. elected chairman of the board of trus tees of the National Educational so ciety at a meeting of the executive committee in New York, against tht opposition of Dr. Etta Flagg Young superintendent of Chicago's public schools. Four members of the commit tee attended the meeting. The only vote against pr. Butler was cast by Carroll G. Pearse superintendent oi schools of Milwaukee and a friend oi Mrs. Young.
 The principal express companies O: the United States have completed ap arrangement which will effect man! reductions in rates. Previously when. ever a package was shipped over lines of two or more companies the gros, rate has been the sum of the loca, rates of all the companies. Hereafter the charge will be the same as If one company carried the package iron. shipping point to destination.
 Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette O, Madison was reelected United State. senator by the Wisconsin legislature for a six year term. Inasmuch as he was renominated as the Republican candidate at the primary election helC last September, the leaders did nOl consider it necessary formally to nom mate him.
 Walter A. Dipley and Goldie Smit were sentenced to life imprisonment q. Marshfield, Mo-, for the murder ol Stanley Ketchel, middleweight pugil. istic champion. The jury deliberatec all night before bringing in a verdict of guilty of murder.
 CRIMES Mrs. Caroline R. Mar Auo tin was sentenced tt ' seven, years in tht New Jersey state prs on at Trenton by Judge Ten Eyck The old woman is accused of having | killed her daughter, Ocey w. Snead the victim of the "bathtub case" ali East Orange year ago. Through hel attorneys Mrs. Martin had pleaded non vult-which is equivalent to the plea of mo defense''- to the charge of manslaughter alleged in the indict ment
 William Dawson, an animal trainer came near being crushed to death by an elephant that forced him up agains the wall of a building in New York Dawson yelled for help, and severa men who were near rushed to his as