Connecticut western news., 1913-11-20

Superintendent Peck of the depart ment of public works announced that the canals of New York state would be closed for the season on Nov. 30. Canal officials at terminals have been in- structed to issue no through ciearances on the Erie canal after Nov. q or on the Champlain canal after Nov. 20.
 The civil service commission an nounced that examinations for posi- tions of fourth class postmasters in the states of Vermont. New Hump. shire, Florida. New Mexico, Virginia and North Carolina will be held within the next thirty days
 Revolvers take the place of powder puffs in the hand bags carried by Chi cago's ten policewomen. It had been generally supposed that the police women were unarmed until Officer Clara Olsen was discovered carefully oiling her firearm. ,
 Ortie E. McNanigal. dynamiter. whose confession aided in sending the Me Namara brothers to San Quentin pris- on and thirty-three other union labor officials to Leavenworth penitentiary. is said to be on his way to London. via Canada.
 The Boston an, New York police are seeking a gang # confidence men who feeced Rober1 Fl. Kemp of Brockton of 5000 with a wireless trace ticker" installed in Boston hotel. Kemp Is In New York searching for the men. William Heady. who escaped from the Denitentiary at Nashville. Tenn. while quarrying rock for the walls of the present building. will be brought back to serve out an unexpired term after eighteen years of freedom. The senate's wedding gift to Miss Jessie Wilson. the fund for which has reached $600 and is hourly going up. will be silver tea set. Senator Mar tine, head of the committee collecting the fund, so announced
 A dispatch from Hazleton. B. C., says that five masked men robbed the Union bank of New Hazleton. four miles east of HaZleton. shot the cashier and es. capped with $1O,OOO after a rife battle with citizens.
 A verdict Of guilty was returned in the superior criminal court against James NJ. Caldwell. who was one of the strike leaders during the labor troubles at Worcester, Mass. Frank E. Howart, lawyer of Willi- mantle, Conn.,, pleaded guilty on charges of arson and was sentenced to from eight to fourteen years in state prison of Connecticut.
 John F. Eysoldt of Essex Falls has sued the Mountainside hospital at Montclair for $1O,OO0. He charges they virtually said he poisoned his wife.
 Professor O. A. Peterson, paleontolo. | gist at Carnegie institute, Pittsburgh. declared that the theory of mans de. scent from the ape is entirely wrong. The Boston city council asked the
 legislature for a constitutional amend. ment to allow the city to buy and sell coal and manufacture and sell ice. The board of health has closed churches, schools. libraries and motion picture shows in Merchantville, N. J.. because of a diphtheria epidemic.
 Ralph F. Jossman, defaulting cashier of the F. Jossman State bank of Clarkston, Mich, was sentenced tu seven to twenty years in prison.
 Mayor Harrison appointed "cost of living" commission to find out how much Chicago housekeepers would profit from municipa' markets. Two new liquor statutes with su called "blue law clauses became ef. | fective in Texas. curtailing the already restricted sale of intoXicants. l Rear Admiral Austin NJ. Knight as. sumed command of the Narragansett bay naval station, succeeding Rear Ad- miral William B. CapertOn.