Connecticut western news., 1913-09-18
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings of Interest in Various
 Parts Of Our Country.

Happenings of Interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.
 Fire that destroyed n department store in New Rochelle. N. Y.. of the Howard k. Ware corporation was ex- tingulshed after it had caused loss of about S300.O00. The burned area covered an entire block in Main street, practically the same site that was burned over by the great fire of twen- ty years ago. Several stores and tene- ments were destroyed, but no lives were lost.
 A bomb explosion fin the Italian qunr. ters in Chicago wrecked the fronts of four buildings and sent nearly l.Wn residents of Little Italy fleeing to the street In their nightclothes The hnmb was set or In front Of the bunk of A. Comforti. blowing out the front nf the building. I.oucino Genigo. sleep Ing in an adjoining building. was slightly hurt.
 Charged with the murder of his first wife, Florence Cavileer Smith. of Springfield, O., by poisoning, Dr. Ar thur R. Smith was placed on trial for the second time. The first trial result. cd in a failure of the jury to reach A verdict Dr. Smith has been in jail since last November.
 Miss Susie Miller. thirty-eight. of Ale bany Is lying in Vassar hospital. Poughkeepsie. N Y.. suffering from concussion of the brain as the result of leaping from the platform of a fast express on the New York Central near Poughkeepsie m a it of insanity.
 Miss Bessie Friedman of New York won the national typewriting cham. pionship in a contest In Chicago She averaged l16 words per minute for thirty minutes Miss Bessie LInsitz of Kansas City was second, with an average of 109.
 That S50.O00 was stolen from a trunk being shipped by the Southern Express company from the Chase National bank in New York to the Savannah (Ga.j Bank and Trust company beramr known No trace of the money has been found.
 A severe frost caused considerable damage to late crops in Orange county. N. Y.. and some of the counties adlu,n. ing. Frost in Monroe and Livingston counties did thousands of dollars dan- age to fruit and vegetables.
 By vote Of 7s to 1sl the house not only decreed the abolition of the com. merce cou.t. hut adopted the Bnrtlet amendment to the urgency dehciency bill legisluting the judges of that court out of office.
 John R Jony and George A. Wilcox, wreclers of the Genesee Banking cnm. pnny of Genesee. Pa. were sentenced to not less than nine months nor more than two years at Corning. N. Y.
 Religious services marked the begin. ming of the centennial celebration of the supreme council. Scottish Rite. northern Masonic jurisdiction of the United States. in Philadelphia.
 Edmund Billings is to be nominated for collector of customs for the port of Boston. according to m unofficial statement at the United States treas. ury department
 Parcel post carrier delivered ashes Of Mary Flacke, cremated at Sacramento. to the New York Bay cemetery, where. they were inferred.
 Work of revising the constitution was taken up at the second session of the International Brotherhood of Elec- trical workers, in session at Denver. Col.
 New Jersey reports her cranberry crop as better than ordinary this sen son. estimating the total will reach 10000 bushels at S1.75.
 Taxes on married women without children and on bachelors is advocated by the Woman Taxpayers league of Cincinnati.
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