Connecticut western news., 1912-02-08
ENGLAND UPSET
 OVER "SPY" TRIAL
Angry Over GGrmany's Sentence
 of Bertrand Stewart.

There is a rising tide of anger throughout England over the sentence to three and a half years confinement in a fortress passed by the German imperial court at Leipsic upon Bert rand Stewart, a prominent London lawyer, on a charge of espionage.
 The feeling aroused promises to give the affair an importance second only to that of the Dreyfus case in France
 Newspapers representing both of the great political parties are clamoring for the government to act in Stewards behalf. The matter will be brought up in the house of commons in a very energetic manner as soon as parlia- ment meets unless something should be done by the government in the meantime
 British feeling has been unframed about the, affair because the trial took place mostly in secret. The only wit ness against Stewart was a Belgian, who is reputed to Joe professional spy and is known to have served several terms in prison. The theory here is that the Belgian entrapped Stewart for the purpose of getting paid for turning informer.
 Bertrand Stewart is a lawyer of the highest standing and of the best fam fly connections.
 The Pail Mall Gazette makes a pas sionate appeal to the British people never to rest until justice has been done. Other papers contrast the trial of Stewart with the open procedure of the English courts of justice against German charged with a similar offense
 An equal division of '~-''~ all the money in the United States would HAPPENINGS result in each man, woman and child possessing $34.61. That amount is the per capita circula- tion, according to the treasury depart ment, which estimates that the popula- tion of the country has grown from 91, ,972, ,266, as determined by the census of 1910, to 94,958,OOO on Feb. 1, 1912 Mrs. Hattie E. Ames claims the dis, tinction of being the youngest grand mother in Michigan, and as proof she turns to the newly born daughter of Adelbert Ames. Mrs. Ames is thirty six years of age. Mrs Ames was If teen years old when she was married. Mrs. Nelson Atwell, mother of Mrs. Ames, is now a great-grandmother at the age of fifty-five years. ....z .e
 After having been within one-thou- sandth part of an inch of death, Mrs. Adele Collins of New York is at the Johns Hopkins University hospital in Baltimore gradually recovering after delicate operation by pr. Harvey Cush- ing of the hospital staff. At times 1t was necessary for Dr. Cushing to cut within a thousandth part of an inch from the brain. e sa Society women of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Pasadena are planning submarine fete to be held on the bottom of the ocean off Cataline island early in March. Walter Howison Pritchard, marine artist, is arranging the details, and according to him the guests are to be attired in diving suits, each provided with an oxygen tank or air tubes.
 Chicago fresh air tiends have called d convention of outdoor sleepers for an exchange of experiences and ideas Weary Willie of the park bench will be welcome and as a veteran in the fad will be expected to add to the knowledge of the more recent sleepers. l It is the purpose to form a society to encourage outdoor sleeping.
 The largest amount of life insurance held by any woman in the world is now carried by Mrs. Charles Netcher. head of the Boston store and an ex- tensive owner of real estate. She has 1 just taken out policy for $2O000O. which raises her total insurance to $1,2OO,OOO, more than that of any per son in Chicago.
 John Roberts, the Porto Rican negro | convicted of the murder, on Dec. 5, of Isaac Vogel, a jewelry salesman, whose body was found Dec. in the base ment of 125 Canal street, New York. ] was condemned to the death chair by Judge Foster. The prisoner will be electrocuted during the week of March | II.
 Joseph Garafalo of Bellport, N. Y, 1 who was convicted last week in the Suffolk county supreme court at Riv- erhead, N. T., of murder in the first degree for having killed his wife with a hatchet last July, was sentenced to die in the electric chair. at Sing Sing in the week beginning March IS next
 The long fight for the passage of the
 bill creating a children's bureau in the department of commerce and labor for the investigation of conditions and the gathering of information relating to