Connecticut western news., 1914-01-08
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings sf interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.

Happenings sf interest In Various
 Parts of Our Country.
 There are 75O.OOO men and women in New York under thirty-tive. most. or them under thirty. who are not ma-. rted and. so far as appearances 20. do not intend to get married. Such Is the opinion of the Rev. pr. George K. Van de Water of St. Andrews Episcopai church in that city. who advocates SO cial centers. by the city if need be to bring these young people together Charles Fl. Mover Is credited with the statement that Samuel Gompers and other officials Of the American Federation of Labor will meet in Wash. ington in a few days to consider the adviSability of calling nation wide strike of labor organizations in sym pathy with the copper miners of Mich isan. ,
 Hans Schmidt. slayer of Anna Au- muller. will be tried again at m early date in New York for the murder. When the jury ilI the case failed to agree after wranGlinE nearly thirty three hours and was discharged As Sistant District Attorney Delehunty declared that the second trial would not be long telaved
 Jewels valued at S15.OOO were stolen from the apartments of Mir. and Mrs T. De Witt Cuyler in Philadelphia while the Cuylers were absent. One of the jewels was a pearl necklace set with siXty-nine graduated pearls and valued at S1O.0O0.
 Faithful unto death" was the dog which Thomas Hickey owned. Hickey was burned to death while in his bed Firemen could not get near the body until an officer had killed the dog Hickey. aged fifty, lived alone with the dog.
 GeorNe 0. Cranston, representative from North Kingston. R. l.. has re turned to the state treasurer his S1.2UO salary for the last session of the legis. ature. writing that he felt that he had not earned the money.
 The entire executive force of the house of correction on Deer island. near Boston. assisted by all the "trus. ties." fought fire in the laundry and calmed the excitement among I.OW prisoners.
 James E. Foye. former clerk in tn employ of the Farmers Loan and Trust company, New York. was sen tenced to iron five to ten years for forgery of $2o.oYO in Philadelphia He confessed.
 A bomb blew away the rear of the ltalian-American bank in Chicago. throwing thirty. persons out of theil beds in the upper section of the struc- ture. No one was seriously injured.
 A joke said to have been started at Johnsonburg. that the Ridgway Pa.I National bank was unsafe caused a run on that institution. and it is esti mated $50Q00 was withdrawn.
 John M. MaaS. Frank F. Dolan and John J. O'Nei were appointed apprais CTS to select site for a new state park by Governor Glynn of New York
 Professor Ernest L. Merritt of Glov- ersville. N r.. was elected president of the Associated Academic Principals of New York State.
 Mayor E. H. Crump of Memphis. Tenn. and workmen tore up railroad tracks at the grade crossing where five were killed.
 Gold hali. a dormitory of the Con necticut Agricultural college in Storrs. Conn., was burned; loss about $10.OOO
 Allegheny county, Pa. offered $500 reward for the arrest of Henry Ro. koYski. the fugitive slayer of three
 Francis McMillan. violinist. played in q penitentiary in Pittsburgh to oblige a convict friend of boyhood
 Twenty masked citizens of Roches- ter, N. Y., thrashed Edward Davidson for wife beating.
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