Connecticut western news., 1913-07-10
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.

Happenings of interest in Various
 Parts Of Our Country.
 A strike of cooks and walters in the most fashionable hotels and cafes of St Louis. Mo-. opened with a riot between striking white walters and strike breaking negroes. Three men were slashed with razors and a score of others less seriously injured The strikers demanded s1 a week increase in pay, shorter hours and better food for the cooks.
 Mayor Gaynor of New York received a letter from K. Buenr, general repre sentative. of the Hamburg-Americnn line, saying that the company has de cided to devote to charity the ticket sales for public admission to the big new Imperator on June 22 and 23 and inclosing 5000 of the receipts for dis trtbution from the city hall.
 Theodore Roosevelt and bis sons. Archie and Quentin. unexpectedly left New York, to be gone two months In the west. From Chicago MT. Roose welt and his sons will go to the Grand canyon, and after a stay of three or four days there they will go. with Il guide, across the Arizona desert
 Seventeen saloon licenses in what formerly was the segregated district of the south side have been revoked by Mayor Harrison of Chicago. This was the result of an unannounced stroll taken by the mayor through the district The police repeatedly had reported the locality cleaned up.
 The corn crop in Dodge City, Kan. is threatened with destruction by grasshoppers, according to statements by leading farmers. The hot weather of the last week has matched millions of the insects, and as most of the wheat has been harvested they are attacking the corn.
 Announcement has been made of the resignation as receiver of the St Louis and San Francisco railroad of Benja min L. Winchell. president of the roai before 1t went into the hands of re ceiver. He has given up the receiver ship 1t is said. to- accept a position with another line.
 While the family were asleep on the second floor thieves entered through side window of the summer resi dence at Red Bank, N. J.. of John Y Lamarche of New York and escaped with a chest of silverware valued al $35o, which was near the dining room buffet
 Judge Risinger in the common pleas court at Dayton. O., has made per manent the injunction restraining the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks., a negro organization from using the name of Elks or em blems of the B. F. O. E.
 For two weeks longer Dehad Hsain u Syrian leper, will be a guest of the city of Cleveland, the warrant for his deportation arriving from Washington just few hours later than the dc portation car bound from Chicago lc New York.
 Dr. Wilfred Hamilton Manwaring formerly assistant in pathology and bacteriology in the Rockefeller insti ute. has been appointed professor of bacteriology and immunity at Leland Stanford Junior university. California
 Fire that originated in a box car loaded with sugar at Kokoma. Ind. ,tI damage estimated at S25.o00 before brought under control. The Lake Erie and Western depot and eighteen small buildings were burned
 Jamming on his brakes to avoid running her down, Walter Shea. chauf seur. was amazed when Agnes Olsen Swedish giantess. of Worcester, Mass. calmly grasped the car and pushed back.
 A cigarette. ii is believed, caused th, fire which destroyed the Gaiety theatci at Albany. N. Y- landmark of tha city
 r. c. penfield has been nominated ,n Trnft.1 Gfata.s op, aSSodnr tn Ana