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Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
CANAL BILL SIGNED
 AND DEFENDED BY TAFT
Tells Why Hs Doesn't Consider x It Violates the Treaty.

President Taft signed the Panama canal bill, afterward sending to con gress a memorandum suggesting the advisabillty of the passage of a reso lution which would declare that this measure was not considered by. this government a violation of the treaty provisions regarding the canal
 In discussing the British protest against the exemption of American shipping from the payment of tolls for the use of the canal MT. Taft says the irresistible conclusion to be drawn from it Is that although the United States owns, controls and has paid for the canal 1t is restricted from aiding its own commerce in the way that all other nations of the world may freely do.
 "In view of the fact" MT. Taft con ! tirues, that the Panama canal Is be- Ing constructed by the United States wholly at its own cost, upon territory ceded to it by the republic of Panama for that purpose and that unless it has restricted Itself the United States en- joys absolute rights of ownership and control, including the right to allow its own commerce the use of the canal upon such terms as it sees 1t, the sole question Is, Has the United States Cby the terms of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. deprived itself of the exercise of the right to pass its own commerce free or to remit tolls collected for the use of the canalT'
 The president points out that the rules specified in the article of the treaty which Is made the basis for the British protest were adopted by the United States as the basis of the neu- tralizlng of the canal and for no other purpose.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
General Markets.

BUTTER-Firm: receipts. ue6s pack ages. creamery. extras, b.. 26Aa261Sc. . firsts. Ba25lkc: seconds. 24a24itc.: thirds. 22a2sc. state dairy, tubs finest. 25r.; Ecod to prime, 3a24c.; common to fair. ua221hc- . process. extras. 24a2lhc.; irsts, lSa2Srsc.s seconds, 2lazSe. imitation creamery. first@ Z3c.: factory. June make, nrsta, 221te. cur rent make. flrsts. nha22c.. seconds. 2O'ta 21c.: thirds, lsa2oc. packing stock, current make, No, q i91ha20c.: No. a. fSniec.
 CHEESE-Firm: receipts, s,6ss pox~Hs state whole milk, new, specials. wht1- lb.. 16al6Ac,; colored, l6Ac; average fam cy, white l5%c: colored. ieo. under grades. l4al5hc.; daisies, l6Nc.: state skins. new. specials, white, l2hai3e.; coI- ored i2ihal3c; fair to choice. l0aiiAc . undergrades. 4a91kc
 EGGS-Irregular; receipts. ls.ss4 cases. fresh gathered. extras, dox., 25a26c, extrn firsts 23a24c.; firsts, 211ha22hc.s seconds. 20a2lc.; dirties. 14al9c.; checks. i2aI7o.: re- frigerator, firsts, storage paid for sen son 22Iaa281kc.: seconds, 2Oa2ic.: thirds. lsaisc. 2 state, Pennsylvania and nearby, hennery whites, fancy, large. slaS2c.; fair to good 25aSoc.; hennery browns, Aaz7c; gathered brown and mixed colors, 22a26c.
 POTATOES-Weak; Long Island. hbL- or bag. Sl.75a2.3; Jersey round, St 9Sa2= long. $1.25a1.40: sweets. Jersey yellow basket. Nai.l5; southern. yellow. bbL. s2@ 275.
 LIVE PoULTRY-steady; prices pOE settled.
 DRESSED POULTRY - Fresh killed weak; chickens, dry picked. Philadelphia broilers. lb., 24a25c.; Pennsylvania, na22c. western, 17a2ic.; fowls. dry packed. west ern. boxes. 4Iha17c.; bbls., iced. Ibalsc. : old roosters, 12c.; spring ducks, nearby Isa1s1lc.; squabs. white, doz., SaaA: dark a.75; frozen turkeys. No. l. 1ia2sc.; No. 2- l4a16c.; chickens, roasters. corn fed, isa 21c.: fowls, to 5 lbs. each, i6a17o.
 HAY AND STRAW - Steady: timothy. old S1.l0a1.40 new, Sal2; shipping. um Los: clover. mixed. slal.25; long rye straw. pa95c. oat, 4Sab0c,; small bales bc leSA
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
NEWS OF OUR NEI6HBORS

Some Things That Are Happening tn
 Other American Countries
 Word has been received at New Or- leans that nearly the entire detarK ment of 800 Nicaraguan troops, maA ing up the garrison of Leon, NicaraEilas have been massacred by force of ll1f surgents. After the rebels had eaptuH- ed the town, the report runs. they maS- sacred 430 prisoners out of the eptIrp force of the garrison. amounting to. 600
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
NOTES FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
What Folks Are Doing on the Other
 Side of the Globe.

1 What Folks Are Doing on the Other l Side of the Globe.
 The municipal council at Il special session held at Le Mans, France, de cided on the erection of a monument to the late Wilbur Wright, the Ameri can aviator, on the Plain of Avours, tU the east of the city, where Wright made his first flights In France. The ! Plain of Avours was the scene of one of the most terrible battles of the Franco-German war iH January, 1871 The town council of Nagv Perkata in Hungary, has resolved by 15 votes to to levy a special rate on bachelors the proceeds of which are to be devot- ed to a children's hospital The one opponent of the proposal was also the only bachelor on the council, and be has appealed to the county authorities to quash the resolution as ultra wires. | Two hundred and twenty eight Rus sian noBcommissioned officers and sol diers were tried by court martial In the sappers' camp at Tashkent on the
 
 were sentenced to be hanged, seven were acquitted and 2O6 sent to jail for varying terms.
 Emperor William is suffering from the attack of muscular rheumatism which has affected him for several days. The doctors in attendance have advised his majesty that if is necessary to avoid as much as possible exposure during the prevailing bad weather.
 Because or the removal of their par ish priest by the bishop, and the In stallment of a new rector, congrega tionists at Madrid endeavored to lynch the new pastor. The police arrested eighteen rioters, who are to be court martialed,
 News reached San Francisco that
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

the army maneuvers of the central al. vision began the last march of the war" which will end with the battle near Lansing, Kan.
 It was announced in New York that Japan's building at the Panama Pacific exposition to be held In San Francisco in 1915. will cost $1.0O0.O00.
 The result of the primaries in Georgia was that United States Senator Au- gustus O. Bacon was chosen for the senate.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

All first and second class postoffices will be closed on Sundays as a result of one provision of the new postal ap- propriation bill passed by congress and signed by President Taft Every i'm portant city In the United States is af- fected. Hereafter only special delivery letters will pass through on that day and no mail will be placed in lock boxes.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
FROM THE SPORTING WORLD.
This and That In Amateur and PFofss-
 aional Athletics

siona1 Athletics
 Baby Reliance II, was officially de- clared the winner of the S22.5O0 wrtE- ley cup, a water carnivGS trophy, nffer that boat had circled tie tweaty.Hve mile course at Chicago at a feisurely pace. Disturber III. did not appear. The judges decided that Baby Reliance had won three heats and was entitled to the trophy, J. Stuart BlacktOn. owner of Baby Reliance, will be award cd the cup unless restrained by court proceedings, which have been threat ened following tho claims of unfair methods fin the sailing of the second heat
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTY
The Record of the Week on Accidents
 and Tragic Events.

and Tragic Events-
 Three Philadelphia young women were injured when q motor car, owned and driven by Lawrence Stevens, son of Edwin Stevens. state road commits sioner of New Jersey, skidded on the road between Petersburg and Marmora, N. J., and struck a pile of logs and telegraph pole. Young MT. Stevens may die as a result of his injuries.
 George Thompson of Denver, an avi- ator, was killed when his aeroplane turner turtle at the race track at La mar, Cal, and plunged 200 feet to the ground. The aeroplane was tipped over by a light breeze just as it had gone over the crowded grand stand Thompson jumped, but the machine fell on him.
 In sight of hundreds of persons going to work, Frank Motis shot twice and probably fatally wounded Vlasta Mu- sek as she was entering a store in Chi cago. Mods then attempted to com init suicide, but police wrestled the'gun away from him. Jealousy Is given as the cause of the shooting.
 Officers were called to a barn in Ro- chester, N. l., and found there Thomas Burke of Haverhill, Mass, who said' he had been run down by an autOmo- bile and carried into the barn by the occupants of the car, who then drove swiftly away. The man Is said to be fatally injured.
 Playing in their grandmother's yard, Donald Moore, aged six years, of Dresbach, Minn., was shot by Rupert Baker, aged twelve, a cousin, and died two hours later. The boys had been playing for hours with shot gun without realizing that it was loaded.
 While defending his mother and him. self from a murderous attack twenty year-old Henry Carton stabbed and killeo his father, E. k. Carton, pros porous Hveryman of Vineland, N. J. Nothing was known of the tragedy until young Carton surrendered to the police.
 Arthur Johnson, a negro, shot and killed Ruth Powers, a white girl, at the home of O. B. Caldwell in Spring field, H., where both were employed, and then killed himself. The body of the negro was found in a shed at the rear of the Caldwell residence.
 Thomas Guffy, president of the Min CTS union at Colpville, and his sister in-law, Mrs. Anna Floher, shot each other to death at Herrin. ILL, when the latter tried to save the life of Mrs. Guffy, who had been attacked by her husband.
 Three boys are dead, one Is believed to be fatally injured and three more are badly cut as a result of a South ern Indiana passenger train running down a party of lads near Terre Haute, Ind.
 Seven persons were killed and one seriously injured near St Louis by lightning bolts.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Kid Mccoy was discharged by Magis- istrate Curtiss Bennett in Bow street police court in London when rearraign- ed on accusation of complicity I'm n jewel theft from the Princess of Thurn and Dhxis at ostend. There Is ab~o- lutely no evidence against the pris- oner," said the magistrate in freeing the American ex-pugilist
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

James Bryce, the British ambassador to the United States. who has been travelling fin Australasia, sailed for America.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

The health department reported q total of 160 cases of infantile paralysis in Buffalo. Nine deaths have occurred since the disease reached a mild cpl demic stage last month. Between for ty and fifty of the victims of the dis ease will be partially paralyzed or crip- pied for life, according to Dr. Prone zac, the health commissioner.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Joseph G. Robin, one time president of the Northern bank of New York and the states principal witness against Charles H. Hyde, has made more than $250,OO0 in the last six months in stock speculation despite the fact that during all of this time he has been a prisoner in the New York Tombs awaiting sentence on a conviction of grand larceny.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

r. II. Tenterr bowling at Los An geles, achieved the remarkable feas of making seventeen st-aight strikes, SCOT Ing 300 in one game and having i've strikes to start his second game, which he finished with score of PTS. All of his strikes were pockets" none hay ing the ear mark of a luke. .a
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Flung Bue, pioneer Chfuese Nvhstor-- was killed when his bipIane fell 2HO feet while he s giving an exhthlthn In his native city, Canton.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Maurice E. Mclaughlin of California won the national singles championship defeating Wallace F. Johnson of Phila- delphia, after the latter had taken tho first two sets, at the casino In New port, R. l., before a crowd of 6,0O0. The scores were 3--e, 2-8 Ga, 0--A- 6-2. .
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

The United States transport Liscum sank at Shanghai in forty feet of wa ter at the wharf where she was lying
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

The Jack Johnson-Joe JeannCtte bout, scheduled to take place at St Nicholas club, in New York, is called off by the state boxing commission
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Thomas O. Moves, president of tfIs Washington American League Base ball club and news manager of the Washington Star died suddenly in Washington at hospital. 4 ..a
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

William A. Pew. a former chairman of the Republican national committee. died at Gloucester. Mass. aged eighty years. w..
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPlE.

Men and Women Who Have Died lD
 the Last Week Word was received of the death at Lake Sunapee, N. H., of Thomas Flynn, who years ago was the starter at the Gloucester and other New Jer- sey race tracks. MT. Flynn was man ager for the August Belmont associH- ton, which also conducted a race track At the time of his death he was tax receiver. Mir. Flynn was a member of the house of assembly for seven terms and in 1893 was the speaker of the assembly. 8.#." "
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

The secretary of the navy, George von L. Meyer, who arrived at his home in Hamilton, Mass, is indisposed, ow- ing to an attack of indigestion suffer ed before be left Washington. At his home it was stated that the secretary had not been seriously Ill, but that he had felt the effects of the extreme heat In the capital.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Three boys are dead. one Is believed to be fatally injured and three more are badly cut as a result of a South ern Indiana passenger train running down a party of lads near Terre Haute, Ind.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings of interest In Various Parts of Our Country.

Parts of Our Country.
 A prayer meeting came to a sudden stop at the Methodist church near Guthrie, Okla, when a man rushed in to announce that all the men were needed to rescue James Yates, a farm CT, from we'll. Yates was descend ing by a rope to save a pig when the rope broke and he fell in too. Yates was rescued, the pig drowned and the party returned for the benediction.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

News reached San Francisco that
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Seven persons were killed and one seriously injured near St Louis by lightning bolts.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Thomas Guffy, president of the Min CTS union at Colpville, and his sister in-law, Mrs. Anna Floher, shot each other to death at Herrin. Ill.,, when the latter tried to save the life of Mrs. Guffy, who had been attacked by her husband.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Claiming that the change from monthly wage to an eight hour day basis was in effect a reduction, the hoisting engineers of the G.>B. Markle & Co. collieries at Hazleton, Pa. struck. Their walkout tied up mining machin. cry, and 4,0O0 miners were thrown into enforced idleness.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Seven thousand soldiers engaged In
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Arthur Johnson, a negro, shot and killed Ruth Powers, a white girl at the home of O. B. Caldwell In Spring field, H., where both were employed, and then killed himself. The body of the negro was found in a shed at the rear of the Caldwell residence.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

In sight of hundreds of persons going to work, Frank Motis shot twice and probably fatally wounded Vlasta Mu- sek as she was entering a store in Chi cago. Mods then attempted to com. init suicide, but police wrestled the gun away from him. Jealousy Is given as the cause of the shooting.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

The interstate commerce commission rendered a decision fixing the responsi. bility for the train wreck on the Lacka. wanna road at Corning, N. T., on July 4, when thirty-nine persons were killed and eighty eight seriously injured. 6n Engineman Schroeder.
 The United States fuel ship Jupiter. the first electrically driven sea going vessel ever built und the largest ship of any description ever laid down on the Pacific coast, was launched at the Mare island navy yard in Vallejo, Cal
 Walter F. Brown of Toledo, O., who resigned a week ago as chairman of the Republican state central commit tee, was elected chairman of the pro visional Progressive committee at a meeting in Columbus.
 President Taft arrived at his sum- mer home at Beverly, Mass. He lost no time in preparing for the first recreation of his belated vacation and was soon. or f. the golf links at the Myopia Hunt cub.
 Seven thousand soldiers engaged In
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Officers were called to barn in Ro- chester, N. T., and found there Thomas Burke of HaverhilL Mass, who said he had been run down by an autOmo- bile and carried into the barn by the occupants of the car, who then drove swiftly away. The man Is said to be fatally injured.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

While defending his mother and him. self from a murderous attack twenty year-old Henry Carton stabbed and killeo his father, E. k. Carton, pros porous liveryman of Vineland, N. J.. Nothing was known of the trfgedy until young Carton surrendered to the police.
Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29

Playing in their grandmother's yard, Donald Moore, aged six years, of Dresbach, Minn., was shot by Rupert Baker, aged twelve, a cousin, and died two hours later. The boys had been playing for hours with shot gun without realizing that 1t was loaded
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-28
Dr. Dennis Shed

An action to recover $1O,OO0 damages has been entered against Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Dennis, of New York city, who have summer residence ill Nor folk, by Charles Koselik, whose 5-year- old son was struck and killed by an automobile owned by them. The con- plaint charges that the machine was be- ing driven through narrow highway at rate of speed greater than reasona- ble, and without proper regard for other traffic and use of the road. Dr. Dennis and his wife were exonerated from blame by the coroner in his findings. Attach have been put on property in Norfolk.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-28
Hewitt Hit.

Manager Hewitt, of the Mahaiwe Theatre, did an appreciable thing when he engaged Henry W. Savage's "Little Boy Blue" operetta, to give perfor- nance in his popular playhouse, Tues day evening. It was a rare treat for the music lovers and theatregoers gener- ally. The house was filled, many Can aan patrons were among the number, and all were enthusiastic over the high class production.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-28
MISSION CIRCLE SALE
Pilgrim Ladies Score a Big Success and
 Make S2OO.

Pilgrim Ladies Score a Big Success and
 Make S2OO.
 The annual Mission Circle Sale of Pilgrim church was held in the church parlors, Friday, and was the greatest financial success in the history of the Circle The sale realized about $200 for the treasury.
 The parlors were apportioned for diff ferent booths, where general fancy artl- cles, rugs, candy, dolls. aprons, etc, were sold, and the attendants at these booths were kept busy waiting on the ladies, who attended in considerable numbers and purchased generously.
 The rooms had been elaborately and artisticalIy decorated with palms. and presented an attractive appearance.
 Mrs. H. E. Lyles, president of the Cir cle. had charge of the sale of fancy arti- cles. and was assisted by Miss Charlotte Beckley, Mrs, Charles S. Adam, Mrs. Charles Laffargue and Mrs. George M. Bullock
 Mrs. Florence Humphrey presided at the rug booth.
 At the apron booth Mrs. Bragg and Mrs. Collin.
 Doll booth, Mrs. Gillette, Mrs. J. G. Adam.
 At the old fashioned flower garden, which was an attractive feature, Miss MariOrio NicO1l nroSidnd A bountiful supper was provided and 1855 persons were fed. The dining room service was in charge of Miss May Smith, while Mrs. B. A. Pierce presided oyer the kitchen department.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-28
CHORAL UNION
Benefit of Local Choruses in Country
 Towns.

Benefit of Local Choruses in Country
 Towns.
 The Providence Tribune musical writer has the following in a recent issue, which will be read with interest by l.lany of The News readers:
 1.-Two well known and socially i'm, portant institutions in Connecticut are the Norfolk musical festival and the Litchfield County Choral union. The latter has more than TOO members, from whom a chorus of 400 select voices par ticlpates in three fine concerts given yearly at Norfolk. The union is com posed of five federated choirs, located in as many nearby towns. Very likely the performances of the chorus at the musical fe>tly al arc excellent. But tnat is 8 matter of minor importance. The vital thing, the big thing, is the annual preparation, which means five months of steady work, with regular weekly re- hearsals in each of the towns.
 'The great proplem which vexes most rural communities is what to do even- ings.' These Connecticut communities have solved it with song. The deepest interest is said to have been created in the meetings. The young people look forward to them as the great event of the week. Storms and snowdrifts can- not deter the members from driving or walking miles to attend them. Clergy men have come to regard them as of sur passing social benefit. Moreover. they are of an absolutely democratic char acter, the old time singing school revived on somewhat larger Sca&. Writing of them, Edwin Bjorkman relates:
 Everyone wholhas good voice and decent behavior can belong to the union if he or she will only give the desired amount of attention. Easing my state ments on facts actually ascertained-on cases particularized for my information Il can say that, for instance, the school board president and the school janitor, the storekeeper and hls clerk, the local politician and the plain workman, the daughter of the bank president and the woman taking in washing for a living are found singing side by side. More than this, master and man, mistress and maid are here brought into contact on terms of absolute equaliy.'
 'Surely this is an admirable state of affairs-the tedium and monorony of winter months in tke country relieved, while at the same time there are pro- noted an intelligent interest and at least some proficiency in musical art"
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-28
Deer in Norfolk.

Says the Courant's Norfolk correspon- dent: The frequent presence of a large buck deer near the residence of Seth G. Brown in South Norfolk, is causing him some apprehension. On several oc- casiOns the deer has followed the team and on recent evening followed them to within a few rods of MT. Brown's s yard. More than once he has almost disputed the right of way and threaten ed to attack the horse. The animal is one of the largest deer ever seen about here and has heavy antlers. MT. Brown says that he is fearful that it may some time attack his young children, who frequently have occasion to cross the meadows on errands or on the way to and from school.