Connecticut western news., 1914-04-09
GENERAL NEWS EVENTS.
Happenings es Interest In various Parts of Our Country.

Happenings es interest In varieus Parts of Our Country.
 Charles W. Morse. who was released from Atlanta in January. 1912. because boasted year later that he had beat en the doctors. has purchased the Holder estate, fine property in Bay shore, N. Y. The transfer was made ir the name of Mrs. Morse. and every effort was made to conceal the trans action. .
 Joel M. Foster. the wealthy poultry man of Browns Mills, N. J.. failed to appear for trial on the charge of living at Mobile (Ala.) hotel with Delilah Bradley of Pemberton. x. J., his eight een-year-old stenographer. and intro ducing her as his wife. Fosters S50O bail bond was declared forfeited and an alias writ of arrest issued. ...-
 Twelve hundred New Haven employ ees at the car shops in Readvile. Mass. who were laid off three weeks ago. returned to work. The shops which employ about 2.500 men. have been operating on part time nearly the entire winter. Railroad officers say full operation will be resumed.
 A shoe company, acting for the Kan sas Retail Shoe Dealers association filed an injunction suit at Topeka to prevent the enforcement of the pure shoe law, enacted by the Kansas legis- lature. The law requires all shoes that contain substitutes for leather to be stamped with a notice.
 Knocking one watchman senseless and binding and gagging another at the point of revolver. three burglars blew open the safe in the store of Tim othy Smith in the suburb of Roxbury. Mass, and escaped with its contents. including several thousand dollars In money.
 The gymnasium of St. Joseph's col lege. Rensselaer,. Ind, was burned with a loss of S75,OOO. The gymna sium equipment. the instruments used by the student brass band, seven pi amos and the college pipe organ were consumed
 William H. Taft will be the principa. speaker at the dedication at Augusta Ga. of a memorial bridge to Major Archibald Butt on April IA, the second anniversary of Major Butts death in the Titanic disaster.
 A national commission to administer the water power, coal oil, phosphate. grazing and other natural resources on the public domain will be asked of con gress by Secretary Lane. it was learned
 The state industrial welfare com mission of Washington fixed the mini. mum wages to be paid working wo- men at $10 per week, said to be the highest minimum In the Union. . v-.
 A half million. dollars worth of claims agaiast the state of New York was thrown out through Governor Glynn's omnibus veto. The governor vetoed seventeen bills.
 Miss Helen Cudahy, daughter of Pat. rick Cudahy, the wealthy Milwaukee packer. entered the training school for nurses at the Massachusetts General hospital In Boston.
 Attaining an altitude of 14,20O feet. Glenn Martin broke American airship- altitude record of 12,575 feet before 5000 persons at Pomona. Cal
 Felix M. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Go. of New York Is to be appointed a member of the federal reserve board. it is reported in Washington.
 President Wilson has declined to at- tend the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held In Detroit.
 Former Governor B. s. Draper of Massachusetts was stricken with paral- ysis in Greenville S. c. His condition is critical.
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