Connecticut western news., 1913-09-04


 Parts of Our Country.
 Veterinary surgeons to the number of 2,0O0 from all parts of the country assembled in New York for the fiftieth annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical association, which will continue four days. The honorary president, Dr. Alexander Laantard of Paris has sent an address to be read and others will be delivered by the president of the association.
 The Erie canal at Cohoes, N. T.. overfowed its banks and flooded sew eral streets and a number of buildings in that vicinity. More than 100 fam lilies suffered losses which will amount to several thousand dollars, which the state will have to pay. The canal au- thortties at Cohoes are at 6 loss to ac- count for the flood and an investiga- tior1 is being made.
 The convention of the National AS. sociaton of Deaf in Cleveland closed. San Francisco won the next biennial convention and the next business ses- sion will be held in Hartford, Conn. Jay Cooke Hodward, Duluth, Minn.. was elected president; A L. Roberts. Kansas City, Kan, secretary, and H. D. Drake, Washington. treasurer. A resolution to investigate charges against Judge Emory o. Speer of the southern district of Georgia was pass ed by the house after Chairman Clay made the charges public. They in- clude felonious allegations in his court administration and the charge that he used drugs.
 Motorcycle Policeman Brown of | Sacramento, Gal, chased a couple on another motorcycle eighteen miles. When Brown overlook them and be gan lecture on the evils of speeding one of the men pulled out a pad and wrote, we are deaf mutes and thought you were a robber."
 "It is a fine how do you do when they begin stealing tombstones," was the parting comment of Joseph Cast. head of a monument works, to the Chicago police. Four grave markers weighing 5000 pounds were stolen from his yard. It was the first re- corded theft of the kind.
 Secretary of War Lindley NJ. Garri- son made the last inspection of mil itary barracks of this present trip when he visited Fort Thomas, Ky. The visit of Lr. Garrison is expected to settle the question as to whether the post Is to be abandoned. The secretary left for Washington.
 Milk dealers of Albany, N. T., pre- dicted that the retail price of milk in the east will be advanced this fall and winter because of the drought. Water is scarce and the feed crop has been cut down considerably by the dry weather.
 Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, who was hurt when thrown from her horse while out rid fig with her fiance, Francis B. Sayre, at Cornish, N. H., was reported to be suffering from no serious injuries.
 Delegates to the eleventh general as- .sembly of the Brotherhood of Paint CTS. Decorators and Paperhangers of America were welcomed to Rochester, N. Y., by city officials and will be in session for fifteen days.
 Suits to recover $600,000 in back taxes will be begun by the state of Minnesota against the Great Northern and Northern Pacific roads.
 Seven hundred of the 900 employees at the A. w. Creighton shoe factory at Lynn, Mass. quit work in sympathy with twenty-five ironers.
 Representative John W. Davis of West Virginia was sworn in as solicitor general of the United States. He re- signed from the house.
 Two Paterson (N. J.) thieves, caught stealing copper, plunged into the Pas safe river when pursued by policemen md swan to safety.
 Walter Winans of Baltimore during A recent shooting trip in the Austrian Alps killed ten chamois in ten days.