Connecticut western news., 1913-09-11

Twenty boathouses containing motor bouts and skiffs.. at Thousand Island park. in New York state, were burned at n loss estimated at $12, 900. with lit tie insurance. The fire Is supposed tu have been started by the careless drop ping of a match or cigarette by late revelers. As most of the cottagers have left. little information as to own ership is available.
 The hope that the new department Of lnboE may become a department of industrial diplomacy" which shall induce employers and employees to settle their differences around the council table, was expressed by Secre tarEe of, Labor Wilson, who was the principal speaker St special labor ser vice at the Fifth Baptist church in Washington.
 Rev. H. T. Walsh of the Catholic church of Our Lady of Mercy, at New Britain. Conn.,. has announced that he will not give communion to any w0- man who approaches the altar railing in a slashed skirt or in diaphanous garb. Moreover, he will not receive at his parochial residence any woman who wears such gowns. 4 President Wilson sent the following nominations to the senate: Charles l. Vopica of Illinois, minister to Rou. mania, Servia and Bulgaria; Thomas H. Birch of New Jersey, minister to Portugal; John H. Gleason. United States attorney. northern district Of New York
 Immediate investigation by the inter state commerce commission of the ne cessity for block signals on all rail roads was authorized when the house adopted the Mann amendment to the urgent deficiency bill appropriating S25.000 for the expense of the inquiry
 total of $150,Ooo was distributed among the 150 employees of George Wyman & Co.,, in South Bend. Ind. and several close friends as an appreci. ation of their worth from the late George Wyman. Individual amounts ranged from $50 to several thousand
 James w. Gerard former justice of the supreme court of New York, took the oath as ambassador from the Unit. ed States to Germany. After being sworn in Ambassador Gerard left for New York, whence he will sail for his post in Berlin.
 John b. Rockefeller, at the Euclid Avenue Baptist church in Cleveland. tenderly escorted Mrs. James Adams. a cripple. who walks with crutches. to his automobile, assisted her to enter the car and afterward drove her to her home.
 Alice Sing. former Kansas City mis- sionary and daughter of a Missouri farmer. was formally charged with the murder of her Chinese husband Charles Sing, restaurant owner of Chi cago, who was hacked to death in his bed.
 Mir and Mrs. Herman Fl. Harjes made hurried trip from Paris to New York so that their son. born in New York. might be beyond any shadow of doubt an American citizen. They arrived with just six hours to spare
 By a vote of 78 to 1S1 the house not only decreed the abolition of the com merce court, but adopted the Bartlett amendment to the urgency deficiency bill legislating the judges of that court out of office.
 Resolutions introduced by the high school committee of Hartford. Conn.,. will abolish fraternities and sororities. Vigorous protests are. expected. Mayor Gaynor of New York sailed for Europe on the steamship Baltic He will go to Liverpool, returning on the same ship Sept. 20.
 United States exports to Japan last year were S5T,741 ,0T5. which was greater than to all other Asiatic coun tries combined.