Connecticut western news., 1913-08-28
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings of Interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.


 kiappenings of Interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.
 In small tin tube the ashes of Carl MI. Wolff, son of MT and Mrs. Herman Wolff, who died on March 8, were sent to his parents in Germany. The lad died at the home of a brother near Dover, N. J., and in accordance with a request made shortly before his death his body was cremated and the ashes were sent to the father and mother The National Associa ton of Retail Druggists opened their convention in Cincinnati. Legislation involving the sale of narcotics, certain drugs and patent medicines will be among the important matters brought before the convention. It will be in session for several days
 Senator Penrose introduced a resolu- tion requesting President Wilson to take the necessary steps to place Unit ed States troops in Mexico to protect American lives and property, such step to be decreed by the senate as in no way an unfriendly act toward Mex leo.
 Efforts of a large number Of the 5000 striking miners of St. Francois county, Mo-, to buy firearms were frus- trated by the sheriff, who notified all hardware dealers in the county not to sell arms or ammunition. The request was compiled with
 ~People shouldn't go visiting their relatives when the living cost is so' high," said Ralph Perry, manager of the Kansas City municipal pawnshop. Many persons are pawning their goods to support visitors
 The first Salvation army corps to be formed among prisoners east of Chi. cago was organized in the state prison at Windsor, Vt. Fifty men were. sworn as soldiers and promised to live up to the articles of war"
 Judge Beall of Yonkers, N. T., order ed chicken placed at nightfall mid
 
 ants. ''The coop it enters will decide ownership" he said. The chicken roosted on a fence.
 ". s. Boschen of New York caught off Catalina island, in California, 355 pound swordfish after fight last ing ninetytwo minutes. The fish was twelve feet in length, with sword four feet long.
 President Wilson has received m of fer from ninety-three-year-o James Cunningham of the Washington Sol dfers' home to recruit a regiment from the home in the event of war with Mexico.
 Vincenzo Gillie, an Italian, and Anna Csinadia, an Austrian, were married in Clarksville, W. Va. He proposed through an interpreter. Neither un derstands the language of the other.
 Thomas Waterbury was discharged on the charge of having stolen a cat at Darien, Conn.,, because no fleas could be found on Tabby. Charles Peterson said the cat he had lost had feas.
 Sixteen persons, among them Hans Bauder, who is accused of swindling immigrants out of $6O0,OOO in fake mining operations, left Chicago for New York to be deported.
 Judge Roan of Atlanta, Ga.. sen- fenced Leo M Frank, convicted of the murder of little Mary Phagan, to be hanged Oct 10. Frank received his sentence stoically.
 Every business building and seven residences were destroyed in a fire that caused loss of $11O,OOO in North Anson, Mo. Thirty buildings were burned.
 In spite of handcuffed wrists August Smith jumped from a window of a rapidly moving Lake Shore train at Goshen, Ind, but was recaptured.
 Mrs. W. H. Fowler of Brooklyn re covered anonymously through the mails a valuable diamond brooch which was stolen nine years ago.
 And I want to lead the boys my self" declared Cunningham. q know Mexico like book-fought in the last Mexican war and the civil war;"