Connecticut western news., 1913-10-16
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings eS Interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.

FNhPPoHin9m " interest tU N@Ftob@
 Parts Of Our Country.
 Samuel A. Debs, who wrested the walking championship from Edward Payson Weston last July, left city hall in New York carrying a message from Mayor Kline to the mayor of San Francisco. He expects to make the trip In about ninety-five days and says he will make record that will stand for many years, as he will travel from forty to fifty miles each day of the trip.
 Coastwise traffic was resumed along the New England coast after a fog em- bargo of more than a week. Nearly two score schooners. tugs and barges sailed from Boston. while at Vineyard Haven one of the largest fleets that have foated in that port in years left for individual destinations.
 Like wounded bird. 1uttering a bit, then dropping straight almost as plummet, biplane in which was Charles Wald, an aviator, fell into iO"CA ANS" 1OI Doy 1IOhl dh hlIllduG of 2,200 feet. Wald's own courage and head work In the face of danger saved him from death.
 An increase of 15 cents a ton in the freight rate on anthracite from the Wyoming district in Pennsylvania to tidewater at Perth -Amboy, N. J., pro- posed by tue Lehigh Valley railroad. was suspended by the interstate com merce commission until Feb. 14.
 Harry von Hagerdorn of Sioux City, Ia.. d fireman on the Chicago. St Paul and Omaha railroad, received a cable gram from Germany announcing that by the death of Count Heinrich von Hagerdorn of Strassburg he inherits S45O.00O and the title.
 Charles Fl Murray. the 1agman of the New Haven railroads Bar Harbor express. which was wrecked Sept. 2 pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the superior court of New Haven and was released in $5.OOO bonds.
 The roller towel, which has been a feature many years in government buildings, was abolished by President Wilson "in the interests of the public health" Hundreds of thousands of individual towels will replace the rol- ! lers.
 Roland P. Kelley, Harvard junior. Is to lead an expedition to South Amer ican waters In search of two uncharted islands which, according to the will of T. L. Kelley, his grandfather, abound in gold dust and pearls.
 There are 3,S59 fewer horses in Chi cago this year than last, according to City Collector Cohen. To offset this decrease is an increase of 3,239 auto mobiles and SIP motor wagons. A central federal system to control the Ohio river and its tributaries is necessary if floods are to be prevented in the future. according to a geological 1 survey report.
 President Wilson remained in the White House, as he was suffering from slight attack of indigestion. He was attended by pr. Cary T. Grayson of the navy.
 Sophomores at the fashionable Gou cher college, Baltimore, made girl "freshies" doff shoes and stockings and dance the tango on fly paper. 1 Governor Dunne, father of ten chil. tren, was elected president of the Fathers club of Illinois, composed ot ! fathers of ten or more children.
 Russell Baker, schoolboy, of Hunt ! ington, w. Va, has what doctors call
 inverted mentality" He writes fig 1 ures and letters upside down.
 A remarkable band of burglars of eight boys, led by three girls, fourteen ! to eighteen, Was captured in South 1 Bend, Ind.