Connecticut western news., 1915-02-04

pubiiN StiNiSc COlpoIdtiOlS dllN dS d result subordinate employees of the commission have been ordered to tone down or modify their insistence on corporations complying with orders.
 No names were mentioned as yet. but there were significant hints that specific cases would be cited and dOcu- mentary evidence of this produced later.
 GENERAL NEWS EVENIS. Happenings Of Interest In Various
 Parts ot Our Country.
 An equal suffrage bill was reported favorably to the lower house of the Texas legislature.
 The barracks at Fort Standish. on Lovelrs island. in Boston harhor. was destroyed by fire. The post Is garri soned by twenty-five men.
 Germany protested to the state de partmenf against the manufacture of hydroaeropIanes in the United States for use of England and Russia. The directors of the United States Steel corporation passed the dividend upon common stock. The regular quarterly 1% per cent dividend was voted on preferred stock
 Assemblyman Kramer introduced in the New York assembly a bill to tux all organized baseball'' games in the state 5 per cent on the gross receipts for the week. A penalty of $50 day Is provided in case the tax remains unpaid.
 The highest wheat prices. with four exceptions. since the civil war were reached in the Chicago pit. Options on May deliveries sold for s1.5OH a bushel During the war of 1861 wheat was around $3 a bushel and remained at about $2.S5 for two years after.
 Another step toward making abso
 
 by the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange when the ban against sales of stock for future delir- cry was raised. and stocks now can be sold for delivery in from anywhere from three.to ninety days. &>'~b
 A group of Michigan Central railroad .Ixl 1II .,. AI, United States district court in Detroit. Mich. for the appointment of re cevership for the Michigan Central lines. It was alleged that business is being diverted from the Michigan Cen. tral by the New York Central railroad for the benefit of other roads controlled by the New York Central.
 In objections to the discharge from bankruptcy of Miss Fritzi Scheff. the actress, filed in New York city with the clerk of the United States district court. it is charged that she transferred property valued at $4O,0O0 for the pur- pose of defrauding creditors. The Ob- jections were filed by counsel for Joseph, Inc. millners, at 632 Fifth avenue, a creditor concern.
 Affidavits submitted to Supreme Court Justice Cohalan in opposition to the application of Mollie Schweller, a money lender, for writ of mandamus against Comptroller Prendergast re veal the fact that there are on file in the city comptroIlers office more than 2,7OO salary garnishee executions against judges and other high Otfi cials in the employ of the city"
 The Italian steamship Angelo Parodi Captain Benvenuto, given up as lost after being thirty-three days out from Maddelina, Italy, was lowed into New York harbor by the Greek steamship Cribs. Captain Chiswell of the revenue cutter Itasca, which stood by the Pa rodi for two days, unable to launch lifeboats because of the heavy seas. re- ported the Parodi as foundered.
 Rental for the flower stand in Park row, New York. at the end of the Brooklyn bridge, jumped from $50 to S1 .O1O a month when bids were opened by the park department. Anna Papa dametri got the concession from Mayor Gaynor when the stand was cut down in size three years ago and since has