Connecticut western news., 1914-05-14

Parta of our Country.
 1t is understood that James Fl. Illus tis, president of the New Haven rail- road, has been decided on to head the Boston and Maine, but his transfer may await a more definite outcome of the plan looking to a formal assump- ton of control over the Boston and Maine by the trustees under the New Haven dissolution agreement.
 A fire which partly destroyed the home of Edward Kreger at Pearl Riv- CT, N. r., caused the death of Freger's wife Laura and their two children. Clifford. uged four. and Elizabeth, aged ten. The body of the mother was In Il kneeling position by bed in q room on the second foo. and her arms were about her so.,
 Efforts are being taken by officials of the department of justice to locate the First National bank of Yates Gen. ter, Kan, which failed last December. It is alleged that Kicker was guilty of frauds in connection with the banks failure.
 Leo M. Frank. charged with murder Ing Mary Phagan,. factory girl. was de nied a new trial by Judge HIll In At. lanta. Ga. A second appeal to the state supreme court was immediately acted by Franks counsel. Judge Hill will sign the bill of exceptions granting the appeal.
 Salt Lake City has requested Senator Shoot of Utah to ask Secretary Lane to give special consideration to that city as a site for the government own. ed and operated plant for the reduction of radium ores and the manufacture of radium salts used in treating cancer.
 The house has passed the senate bill to authorize the president to appoint Gordon K. Nelson of New York. for. merly of Snydenham. England, ensign in the navy upon graduation at the Naval academy, conditioned upon Nel. sons becoming a citizen by Jan. 1.
 The funeral in New York of General Daniel E. Sickles was a military dis play befitting the career and fame of the bluff old hero of Gettysburg. The body was taken to Washington, where the general was buried In Arlington cemetery.
 Workingmen and working women held a mass meeting in the business district of San Francisco as a memo. rial to the women and children killed recently at Ludlow, Colo, in the min. CTS strike. The names of the dead were read.
 Nearly as many Chicagoans suffered death last year by taking poisons acci- dentally as by taking them with sui cidal intent, according to a report made by Peter M. Hoffman, coroner of Cook county.
 The jury returned verdict of not guilty in the trial of Mayor Dom Rob erts of Terre Haute, Ind. indicted for election frauds, at the end of twenty minutes. One ballot was taken.
 In response to a cablegram urging uim to become a candidate for United States senator in Ohio Ambassador Myron T. Herrick cabled ae would not enter the race.
 The senate by a vote of 8 to 31 killed the annual appropriation for the free distribution of garden and flower seeds and shrubs, plants and bulbs
 TIncle Joe Cannon celebrated his reventy-eighth birthday. He received lcores of telegrams and letters of con. graduation.
 Charged with killing three other youths with shotgun, Preston Will liams. sixteen years old, is in jail at Ocilla, Ga.
 The United States pension office will drop 40 clerks. AS far as possible the commissioner will .rrotect old soldiers