Connecticut western news., 1911-02-09
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Dy ldph NOubd- HAPPENINGS. nies of horse racing in. telligence will be reported favorably from the house committee on inter state commerce. The effect of the bill if passed, will be to strike at racing ir seven states where it is allowed-Mon- tana, Maryland, Florida. Nevada. Ok iahoma, Virginia and Kentucky. More over, it will affect poolrooms the coun try over.
 When Senator McCumber of North Dakota was forced to part with 2s cents for a red ripe tomato in the senate restaurant at Washington he uttered cry of rage. He immediately proceeded to the senate chamber where he delivered speech on sthe high cost of living. He told the sen ators about the outrage that had been perpetrated on him. Senator Me Cumber expects to prove when the tariff comes up in the future that most of the profit goes to the commission men, the retailer and the railroad and not to the farmer.
 Every one in Livingstone, N. J., feels certain that to Gottlieb Oches belongs credit for averting a disaster which they feel might have equaled, the calamity at Communipaw following the explosion of tons of dynamite. MT Oches saw six boys, armed with hatch cts and crowbars, prying boards from the big shed that Bamberger X Shipman, contractors, use as a storage place for dynamite. Mir. Oches, fear. ful that the next blow of the hammer or bar would cause an explosion charged on the boys with loud whoop. The lads dropped their tools and fled.
 Charles W. Dabney, head of the Uni versity of Cincinnati and former sec, retary of agriculture, is being consid cred seriously for the presidency o1 Princeton university. While the offer has not yet been made to him, it Is ex. pected momentarily. Benjamin Ida Wheeler, head of the University of Cal. ifornia, and John Finley, president of the College of the City of New York. also are being considered, according to a member of the board of trustees of Princeton university, but President Dabney will receive the first offer.
 A bill authorizing the war depart ment to loan a supply of tents to the Confederate veterans on the occasion of their annual reunion in Little Rock, Ark, next May passed the senate Sen. ator Clarke of Arkansas, the author of the measure. had explained the need of the tents and was asking for a vote on the resolution when Senator Hey burn of Idaho, who feels so strongly on the Confederate question that he cannot bear to hear Dixie" appeared on the floor and was the only one to oppose 1t.
 Sarah Bernhardt expects to come to America ill 1915 to help celebrate the opening of the Panama canal. Mime. Bernhardt made this announcement in a little speech at a reception given in her honor at the National Press club in Washington. The fact that she was with Count de Lesseps, her compatriOt, when the first sod was turned at Pan- anna had led to the conclusion that she must come back to this country once more when the canal is opened.
 Under the new three year contract. which goes into effect next season. Enrico Caruso has agreed to sing un der the management of the Metropoli- tan only at the Metropolitan Opera House in its allied opera houses in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago and wherever else the companies from these theaters may appear. He will receive $2,20O a performance and prob ably will sing sixty or seventy times ! in this country.
 1 Because the people were attending revival meetings instead of patronizing