Connecticut western news., 1913-04-24
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.

Happenings of Interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.
 An attempt was made to blow up with bomb the headquarters of the Pocasset club, the Democratic organl- zation in the Twenty assembly district in New York It is believed the explosion was intended to kill Nicholas !. Hayes. the leader of tho i organization. The building was badly wrecked, but no one was hurt. The trial of Dr. Arthur R. Smith for the alleged murder of his wife by poisoning has been begun in the com mon pleas court at Springfield. O. The social connection of the dead woman and the formation of prejudices and opinions against capital punishment make 1t difficult to obtain jury. Holding out for recognition of the union. 1000 mems garment workers of Boston. who are on strike, rejected an offer of settlement by the manu- facturers which carried with 1t n re- duction in hours and an increase in wages of s1 a week. The men have been out more than a month.
 An investigation of the white slave traffic fin Boston by a committee of five members of the legislature with sweep ing powers is provided for by bill which became law when Governor Floss attached his signature. The sum of $10,000 is appropriated to pay the expense of the investigation.
 l.. T. HILL a student at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. has been charged by federal authorities with interference with radio messages sent out by naval and commercial sta tions. This is the first case in New England since the enactment of the new federal wireless law
 Governor Hatfield of West Virginia gave out statements which verified the strike settlement fin Paint. Cabin Greeks and the New River district The statement from the operators Iauds the efforts of Governor Hatfield to bring about peace.
 Edmund Guenkel. on trial at Philn. delphia for murder fin the first degree for alleged complicity in the slaying of William Frost, was acquitted by jury in Judge Ralston's court. Mrs. Frost was convicted 'a short time ago of mur- dering her husband
 Using his bare hands to fight the flames at Lacrosse. Wis. Lieutenant Governor Thomas Morris herolcaliy saved his daughter Cassie, seventeen years old. from burning to death. His hands and arms were severely blis. tered.
 Fire practically destroyed the plant of the Canton Iron and Steel company at Canton. a suburb of Baltimore. caus- ing loss of from ST5.000 to S1Oo.o0o and throwing about 400 men out of work. The works were fully insured
 c. N Johnson of Seattle. Wash. an engineer. has been convicted of mur. der in the first degree for holding his six-year-old boy in front of passenger train last December The train struck the child and killed him
 Directors of the Fairgrounds Asso. ciation of Philadelphia will ask per mission from churches to use ceme- teries in the congested districts as rec reation parks for children. Ralph Hoover, a farmer, nineteen years old, of Van Vert. O.. who was convicted of staying his wife, Helen, sixteen, has been sentenced to the pen- itentiary for life.
 By burning the lock from his cell vnd jail door Edloe Hutchins. negro snrebug," escaped. He was in jail charged with setting fire to a Peters. burg (Vnl store.
 One hundred Industrial Workers of the World jailed as vagrants last week were released after promising to leave Denver at once.
 Herman Coppes. sixteen, mentally deficient. confessed he was slayer of Mrs. Nanny Sleep anc her two chil. dren at Elgin. III.