Connecticut western news., 1913-09-25
GENERAL NEWS tfNTS.
Happenings Of Interest in Var'ess
 Parts sf Our Country.

Happenings ef Interest in Var'oss
 Parts sf Our Country.
 The cost of rearing children has ad- vanced 40 per cent within the last ten years, according to the annual report of the Chicago Nursery and Half Or phan asylum. The statement shows s101 would maintain a child for year during the period of 1894 to 1903. From TeO4 to the present this cost in- creased to $40. From 1874 to 1883 the institution kept children at the annual cost of $50.
 Champ Clark. speaker of the house, introduced to President Wilson a con stituent. William Pollock of Mexico. Mo-. said to be the oldest miller in the United States. MT. Pollock. who is eighty-three years old and has been In the milling business sixty-nine years. talked to the president in favor of duty on wheat flour.
 Guarded by a sheriff. who sat in the front row of the large church gather ing. Rev. Roy Hudson, evangelist and former pugilist. held farewell revival been arrested on a charge of wife abandonment at the request of the au- thorities at Terre Haute. Ind
 The Rev. W. E. Pippin. a Baptist minister. after pleading guilty at Ben. tonville. Ark. to passing q worthless check on a member of his congregation was sentenced to three years in prison The minister was arrested by his wife's brother. a constable. after Il chase through a dozen states.
 George Stumpf of Winsted. Conn.,. moved his house. 10 by 30 foot frame affair of three rooms. from North Hart. land to Hall Meadow, a distance Of anything in the dwelling.
 Oliver Kemp, the artist and illustra- tor. has been granted a divorce from Edith W. Kemp of Trenton by Judge Cornish in the supreme court, sitting in Dover. Del. on the ground of cruel and abusive treatment
 Laughing at their reflections in a barrel of rainwater, two small daugh- ters of Mrs. Herman Ostrander lost their balance. Heads down and arms entwined. the bodies were found by the mother.
 President Wilson will withdraw the nomination of Bernard Nj. Cannon of New Jersey to be internal revenue col. lector for the Fifths New Jersey dis trict. He does not want the job.
 Scores made by the battleships and destroyers of the Atlantic fleet in the elementary target practice, just com pleted, were much higher than last years in spite of more rigid rules.
 'I got what was coming to me and will make no charge against her." said her husband after stating that Mrs Mary Lamey of Brooklyn beat him in- sensible with a stove litter.
 For trying to kiss Mena Capenari on a public street in Montclair. N. J., Berendetto de Falco. was sent to the penitentiary for two months by Re corder Henry l.. Yost.
 Governor Fielder of New Jersey re- fused to approve the extension of con tract of the Crescent Garment com. pany for the employment of convicts at the state prison.
 John A. Peters. recently elected to the house. of representatives from the Third Maine district, was sworn in to the accompaniment of Republican cheers.
 A naval court was ordered convened to try D. NJ. Hauser, assistant paymas- ter of the cruiser Buffalo, on a charge of being $1 300 short
 Uncle Joe Cannon, former speaker of the house or representatives, has start ed the ball rolling for the 1914 cam paign.