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Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
RlacLflah Crunhera.

"T have watched the blackfish feeding on shrimp and young rock crabs among the stones of the cribwork of the old pier that formerly stood at Hollands Landing, Jamaica bay" says Henry Brand in Rod and Gun. ''They ap- proach their prey very slowly and without showing any motion of their fins and body, and after succeeding in catching shrimp they would not dart away the same as other fish do after securing food. but would remain still for awhile and begin to chew. and then slowly swim away, looking for more.
 "The blackfish Is provided with a pair of crushers situated in the back part of It's mouth and consisting of two fat groups of ball shaped teeth, be- tween which they crush small crusta- ceans and mussels before swallowing them. The crushing apparatus of a four pound blackf1sh Is about as large as a dime. The blackfish seemingly uses its teeth for loosening mussels from their fastenings and to draw small crustaceans from their hiding places. After the food Is secured 1t Is passed to the crushers. When 1t takes an anglers bait and passes 1t to the crusher, peculiar succession of bites Is felt by the fisherman, and many a fine one Is missed by the angler being too hasty to hook 1t after the first indi- cation of fish taking the bait"
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Why It |. Called Dutch Gap.

When Ben Butler was endeavorfng tn get the Union gunboats up the James, he found the water in the bend at Dutch Gap too shallow to let them pass, to say nothing of the fact that the Confederates had erected two or three batteries along the bend in order to give him warm reception. So he went ahead and cut a canal across the neck and suddenly, instead of being 13 miles from Richmond, he was only six. Ever since that time the canal has been used, and the government now considers 1t the channel of the river and keeps it in shape. The plan tations along the land were thus sud denly drained of their very lifeblood and have naturally fallen into decay. The place Is called Dutch Gap be- cause at this spot, in early colonial days, Dutchman worked a very smooth game upon the unsuspecting Indian. The Dutchman wagered the
 Indian that he could beat him padding
 a canoe around the bend. The Indian
 took him up on the instant and gave him a mile the start. They started just above the bend, the Indian a mile behind. and when the Dutchman reach cd the neck he jumped on shore, grab bed his canoe out of the water. ran across to the other side with 1t, drop | ped it into the water again and calmly
 awaited the arrival of the astonished | Indian, who had padded frantically
 around the bend in the endeavor to ' catch up with him. What the wager
 was Is not recorded. but the Dutchman
 doubtless got possession of 100000 or
 30O,000 acres of land as a result of the trick.-Cor. Chicago Record.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
ELMIRA's MAYOR ARRESTED.
pr. Flood Charged With Forgery In
 First Degree.

Elmira, N. Y., Nov. 14.-Dr. Frank H. Flood, mayor of this city, has been placed under arrest by virtue of a war rant issued by Recorder Michael Dana her upon complaint sworn to by Alder man Francis McCann of the Fourth ward. The warrant charges forgery In the first degree.
 The action was not surprising, as 1t had been rumored ever since the arrest of Miss Catherine Loonie that she had in an affidavit implicated the mayor in her crime, that of offering for record forged deeds of property belonging to Miss Mar garet G. Kennedy of Binghamton, as told in these dispatches at the time of Miss Loonies arrest.
 Miss Loonie. who Is under sentence of four years and nine months to Auburn prison, was taken before the recorder on Monday and reiterated the statement that she had previously made in the affidavit which is in possession of District Attor- ney +. F. Aldrich.
 Upon waiving examination the mayor was held to ball in the sum of S10,000 to await the action of the next grand jury. His bondsmen are his cousin, for mer Congressman Thomas s. Flood; Jud- son Clark, capitalist, and Fire Commis- sioner Everett La France. Flood is 49 years of age, has a wife and two daugh- ters and is one of the most competent and successful physicians in the city.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Cashiers Iune.. Cause. .Ryn.

Absence from his post of duty vn the part of D. s. McGrath, cashier of the Calumet National bank at South Chica- go, started false rumors as to the insti- tution's solvency and eliminated in a run on the bank. The run lasted three hours. It began at a. m., but by noon nearly every one of the 500 or 600 anx- ious depositors who had formed in line in front of the bank had been paid. At the close of the days business Cashier McGrath said nearly $30,000 had been paid out, most of 1t going to holders of demand certificates. Mir. McGrath was compelled to remain at his home because of illness, and the report became current that he had absconded and then that he had committed suicide. He first became informed of the rumors by the arrival of a deputy coroner, who came to hold an inquest upon him. The bank is solvent.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Alderman Frank Green has been forms ally installed lord mayor of London. Among the Boers who were killed In the recent fighting near Belfast were General Fourie and Commsndant Prinss loo.
 The British parliament will assembls Dec. 8 to vote the expenses of the was In South Africa. which are now expected to amount to fully f10o, 100000.
 The steam collier City of Vienna sank in the English channel Thursday while bound from Swansea for Rotterdam after a collision with an unknown vessel, and l9 of her crew were drowned.
 The booming of cannon from the first story of the Eiffel tower on Monday announced that the Paris exposition of 1900 had ceased to exist. Ii ended in blaze of illumination, the Anal evening being celebrated by night fets. A fierce gale swept over the English channel Monday, causing a number of wrecks, including the Hildegarda, bound | for Shields. near Weymouth. There were no fatalities. The ketch Gsorgina wss | lost of Hayling island. All on board were drowned.
 A British column under General Rich ardson left Pao-ting-fu on Oct. 2S, march | ing in the direction of Picking. At TunE- my-ing the troops tried three Boxer chiefs, dsstroyers of a chapel and killers of native Christians, found them guilty and shot them and burned their houses.
 The government of Germany has ofss cially notified the colonial council thas h will gladly grant permission to 1h,0Vo Transvaal Boers to trek through the Kalasari desert to territory In 9srmas southwest Africa. Arrangements, there. | fore, are now being made to welcome the vanquished Boers as a now and vnlus. ble element for the colony. The Loksl | Anxeigcr points out that Bismarck Is 1898 spoke encouragingly of Bosrs ss an acquisition for that part of GsrmRny's colonial empire.
 The results of Wednesdays election In | Canada show that the government has been sustained by majority of from 60 to 60 members, on the basis of returns received and with five constituencies to be heard from. The elections were In POS | of the 2i3 constituencies of the Dominion. and the remaining i've will hold theif elections at later dates. This, of course. makes 1t entirely possible that when the elections are completed and the later re- turns are in the apparent majority may be reduced somewhat.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15

New York, Nov. 14.-With the appoint ment of receiver yesterday the first step was taken toward winding up the affairs of William l.. Strong & Co.,, dry goods commission merchants of 75 Worth street, of which the late William l.. Strong, former mayor of New York, was the head. The extreme reticence of all those concerned serves only to shroud the matter with mystery, and it was i'm possible last night to obtain any com prehensive estimate of the financial con dition of the firm, though the opinion generally expressed was that the balance will be found on the right side of the ledger when the receiver concludes his labors. Three attachments against the firm for claims aggregating $162, ,0S0 were entered in Philadelphia yesterday.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
cent or the prouucrron.

cent or the prouueuom Lieutenant Colonel Russell B. Hsrri- son, Inspector general United States vol- untesrs. has been honorably discharged
 from the service of the United States. to take effect Dec. next. his services being no longer required. Colonel Harrison is
 . son of er-Presidsnt Harrison, and he has served in the volunteer establishment since the outbreak of the Spanish war.
 The Saratoga race track has bssp sold to a syndicate of men, of which W. O. Whitney, Arthur Featherstone, Philip J. Dwyer, J. H. Alexander, F. R. and n.
 Hitchcock. K. 1T. Wilson snd John Sam ford are the most prominent. The pur-
 chase price was not made public, but 10 was close to $3o0. 900. The transfer of the property takes place on the Tth inst. According to Admiral Crowninshield'r | report there were 2,462 assertions from | the navy and S6 deaths during the paas | fiscal year. The enlistments number SIPS from total number of applicants
 of 40.S54 Over BS per cent of the men | in the navy are native born. 10 per cent
 are naturaliEed, and per cent have de- clared intentions. Ninety-two per ccnt of the laudsmen now under training arc | native born.
 Governor Voorhees, has appointed Colo
 mel Alexander c. oliphant adjutant gem eral of New Jersey 10 succeed the late | General Stryker. Colonel Oliphant is a personal friend of the governor and has been connected with the national guard for years. He was assistant adjutant
 general and thoroughly familiar with the
 duties of his new office He Is also n grad uate of the United States Naval acade-
 my. but Is now engaged in business In | Trenton.
 The order placing Porto Rico on ~ peace basis has been issued by the war
 department. It abolishes the military de- pertinent of Porto Rico and attaches the
 island to the department of the east as a
 district. Brigadier General Davis, fory merly military governor and now com- manding the forces in the island, Is re- called and ordered to Manila. About | 1000 soldiers are withdrawn, leaving
 1,5o0. including 100 natives, to do duty.
 on the island.
 | Hon. John R. stanchheld, who was the
 candidate for governor of New York | state on the Democratic ticket hled his | certificate of election expenses with thw
 secretary of state. Mir. Stanchheld sxs pended In all Ss.95o. Of this amount
 5000 went 10 the Chemung county com-
 mittee, S1.bo0 to the Schuyler county
 committee. $500 Co the Tioga county
 committee and S15o to the Tompkinm
 county committee. The balance, I,S0of
 was used for campaign literature, clerk
 hire printing and postage.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
rhtrtx-two Live. Io.t

The steamer City of Monticello foun- dered Saturday morning on the coast of Nova Scotia near Yarmouth. Thirty two lives are believed to have been lost. Thirty bodies have been recovered. Some difficulty has been encountered in 6gur- ing the total loss of life. as number of passengers joined the Montcillo at St. John without first registering at the book ing office. They bought tickets on board. A revised list of the members of the crew prepared at the head office of the Var mouth Steamship company shows that the officers and crew numbered 2S. The total number of persons on board is plac- ed at 36 The four survivors are Cap tain Smith, passenger; Third Officer Fleming. Quartermaster Wilson and Stewardess Smith.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
General MarL~s..

New fork, Nov, As TLoUR-siate snd western lees active snd not % Arm, hut without being Quotahly lowsrs hins nesota pstents tss4sb, winter EtfsiEhts ~. boa too. winter extras. q 2coss winter patents. a 70 nA
 wHEAT-wesk and heavy all the mornina uus der besrish Liverpool cables and local unlos ding !. December 70 s.ias5pAc.; March, s2has3&o. RYE-stesdy, state. bisb2o,, ss l. L, New York 1. No. western. Bbc.. f. Q. b., shoat.
 coRN-opened steady on small receipts. but later eased on with whcst December, sshsssNo. 1. May. sfNe
 oATs-outvt snd s,esdy. track. white. state. r7tsassc track. white, western, S5Nsssc PoRK--Duil, mcss. stasia.fs, family, iAbosiN LARD-Easy; prime western utssm, 7.eoo. BuTTER-Fimi state dairy, issfsc.l creamery, lstss2sc
 CHEEsE-Dull; large white, iostaioSei small white iossalic.
 Eoos-Firm; state and Pennylysni.. sO.s7s. : western. loss on, 2oe suGAR-Raw quiet, fair rsanina. Syto.I csn- trifussl e6 tsst .so, refined dulil crushed. e. ! powdered. b7oc. .. TuRPENTiNE-Stesdy st tss.stso. TALLow-ouietl city, tNo, ceontry. ssssHs HAY Quiet; shipping. 7ssffAo; sooe = choice. s2lsapaifn
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Largest Casting Ever Made.

Milwaukee, Nov. 14.-Probably the lar gest casting ever made in this country was run into the molds yesterday at a local foundry. The casting is to be the bed plate for blowing engine for a Pittsburg concern, and 1t weighs 110.0 pounds, all in one piece. In making it the workmen were required to pour 126.- 900 pounds of metal. The plate will be g feet 10 inches long, feet 9l5 inches wide and , feet deep in the center. The cylinders of the engine will be two of 40 inches, one of 7S inches and the other of 7R inches. with Q stroke of 60 inches.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
RUSSIANS KILL CHINESE.
Capture an Arsenal Near YaaG-tsun.
 French Burn Many yillaass.

London, Nov. IA dispatch from Tien-tsin, dated Saturday, says the Rus sians have captured an arsenal northsast of Yang-tsun. Two hundred Chinese were killed.
 It is reported from Shanghai that the Chinese court Is proceeding to Chentu. in the province of Sxe-chuen.
 A French force has engaged the Box CTS south of Pao-ting-fu. Many villages were burned. The French had three killed.
 A dispatch to The Standard from Shanghai says that Sir Robert Hart, di- rector of the Chinese imperial maritime customs, has been appointed to arrange with the ministers at Peking the amount of the indemnity to be paid by China and the method of payment.
 An imperial edict has been issued ap- pointing u Hung Chang generalissime of the grand northern army, vice Yung Lu.
 A dispatch to The Times from Shang- hai says there Is considerable interest in Ten-tsin concerning the whereabouts of the Japanese forces, which, although not leaving the country, are disappear ing from Tien-tsin and Picking. It Is not known where they have gone.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
CANAAN, CONN. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1900

suppose th.s young woman did admire you and that l told you l thought l could help you and make things easy for you, why should you not begin by making love to her and end by falling in love with her-before or after mar riage? I don't think 1t matters very much, but on the whole fancy it had better begin after than before"
 You are in chaffing humor today" he said moodily.
 "I? Not the least in the world. I am thinking only of your good"
 ''Then please don't think of 1t any more-in that way"
 'In that way? Why, what harm could 1t do you to marry a rich young woman who would be very fond of you"
 But don't care about her. I don't want her. Who Is sheI"
 "Oh. come now. as If could tell you her name after the wny in which you have taken my offerw
 Your offer! You have no right to make any offer of the kind. You are not The Matrimonial News or what ever 1t Is called"
 But. now. seriously" she said, lis 1t fair that my friend should be cut of from all chance of marrying the man she admires and very likely loves or would come to love merely because she has lot of money? Is she to be left to the delicate attentions of the mere for tune hunterw
 Mfrs Maynard, I don't know any thing about the young woman, and, without being rude. I hope, to her or to you, must say that can't get myself to take any interest in her or to believe in her existence"
 "Oh, yes. she exists, and l am sure she loves you"
 You are chaffing me again." he said sternly.
 Indeed I am not"
 "Well, let the young woman be, at all events. I know nothing about her, and I don't believe she cares twopence about me-"
 "Is that all you have to say"
 "Well, If you press me, I can say tbat don't care twopence about her."
 "Oh, why?"
 "You are Tn teasing mood today. and had much better go away. What CT seen herY'
 But you can see her"
 "I don't want to see her"
 But why|
 "Well, if you will have 1t, because am In love with another woman! Good byr'
 No; I must hear more about this. You never told me you were In love with another woman. l thought you told me everything" 'I didn't know 1t until today" She had guessed at all this, yet a flush came into her cheeks and for a moment she was silent. Then she said, "I think now you had better go." "Pl not go until have told you all. I am In love with you. and l did not know 1t until this very day-until just now, when you talked so complacently of my marrying some other woman" But I didn't" she said quietly. Didn't? Why, what do you mean Didn't you urge me to marry young woman with money2 Didn't you urge 1t on me and say the young woman was In love with meY' "Why, of course did, and stand to l 1t. But I didn't say 1t was any other young woman" "Ohr' he exclaimed. and his delight found no other word. "Sit down beside me. Lewis" she said. Don't you know that 1t is leap yearT
 So he sat beside her.-St. Louis Star.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
No Change In ,h. oasi-ss.

Washington, Nov. 14.-President Me Kinlsy has announced clearly and force fully 10 the members of hln cabinet his desire that they should all remain with him during the four years of his coming administration. His wishes were made known in an extended speech st the cabinet meeting ln the White House yes. terday. Responses were made by all of the members present, and while there were no definite pledges from any of them that they would accept the port folios thus rendered there was. on xhs ether hand, nc dsAatss dsskknssxsn.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
The Fore.tport Feeder Case,

Rome, N. T., Nov. 14.-In county court here three men indicted for complicity in the Forestport feeder breaks changed their former pleas of not guilty and pleaded guilty. They are John Conley, charged with being connected with the 1S9S and 1899 breaks, and Charles O'Connor and Cornelius Breen, charged with complicity in the 1899 break. Dis trict Attorney Curtin recommended that Conley be sentenced to one year in Au- burn prison, that O'Connor be fined $500 and that Breen be fined $500.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Murdered and Body Mutiiated.

Boston, Nov. 14.-Laborers at Stone ham discovered the body of H. F. Burr, a Boston architect. who disappeared from home some time ago and for whom search was being made in New York. The head was completely severed from the body, and both were hidden in some underbrush in a wooded lot. Burr's son, a teacher in the State Normal school at New Britain. Conn.,. arrived and made positive the identification. He can give no clew to the mystery. Burr had not lived with his wife for some time. She lived with his son in Connecticut.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
MYSTERY IN BIG FAILURE
Firm of Grant Bros, Stock
 brokers, Goes Under.
RUMoRs OF LARGE DEFALoATIoN
Embe.xIement Credited to Trusted Clerk, Who Is Said to Have Been In League With one of the Partners In the Firm.

EmbesxIement Credited to Trusted
 Clerk, Who I. Said to Have Been In
 League With one of the Partners
 In the Firm.
 t. New York. Nov. 14.-Grant Bros, stockholders at 45 Broadway, made an assignment yesterday to Ernest G. Sted- man. lawyer at 12S Broadway, and the general belief was that a dedication of S190. 900 was the cause of the assign ment. This was attributed to John K. Van Sickle, a member of the firm, who, according to one report, had operated in collusion with a former employee.
 Mir. Van Sickle has not been at his of flee for a week. At his home, 3b7 South Broad street, Elizabeth, N. J., his wife said yesterday afternoon that her hus- band had told her five days ago that the other members of the firm had accused him of irregularities in the business of the house and that she had advised him to engage counsel and fight.
 Relatives of Mir. Van Sickle at his home admitted, after 10 o'clock last night, that he was In Elizabeth and that Mrs. Van Sickle was with him at the house of a friend. but that where they were would not be told. Frank Bergen, attorney for Mir. Van Sickle, says that all that will be said about the entire Grant Bros. affair, so far as his client Is con cerned, will be given out through him.
 Detective Vallely and another detective from headquarters reached Elizabeth late last night, but would not tell the object of their mission.
 One of the most remarkable circum stances in connection with the alleged de falcation was that the other members of the firm would neither affirm nor deny that MT. Van Sickle was to blame for their financial collapse.
 No Appeal to Police
 Neither the assignee. Ernest c. Sted- man, nor any member of the firm of Grant Bros. has called upon the police department to apprehend any person. On the Stock Exchange the idea of defal cation was ridiculed, and very few mem bers believed that there was any truth In 1t, the assignment being generally attrib uted to the ordinary entanglements of q bear" house In strong "bull' market It was said In Wall street yesterday that the firm of Grant Bros. had been persist ent bears for several months.
 The assignment became known through a peculiar channel, the county clerks of flee. and 1t Is the first for several year at least that has become public in tha way.
 The firm of Grant Bros. is composed of Charles F. Grant and Frederic Grant who live at 196 Columbia Heights, Dor ough of Brooklyn, and of John K. yaI Sickle. It was organized on May II 1895, when Charles F. Grant became , member of the Stock Exchange. Var Sickle's interest in the firm was believe, l to be S40,000.
 One noteworthy fact yesterday wni that to the assignment papers the namei of Charles F. and Frederic Grant alon' were signed, Van Sickle's signature be | ing missing. The firm had no outstandinl accounts on the Exchange. and when tn announcement was made there was onl. a momentary astonishment, the marke not being affected.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Suing For Two Millions.

Denver, Nov. IA suit for g, 900 900 against the Portland Gold Mining com pany has been brought in the United States district court by the heirs of Eugene Doherty, one of the original patentees of the Black Diamond mine, which was acquired by purchase in 1895 by the Portland. In 1896 Doherty was killed in shaft of the Black Diamond mine, and the shit is brought by his heirs, all of whom live in Ireland, to recover
 le amount alleged to be due his estate.
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Not MaximiIian'. Jewels.

City of Mexico, Nov. 14.-The report of the arrest in New York of PreSa and Marchuchi charged with having snug gled Into the United States diamonds and other jewels belonging to Emperor Maximilian's crown and to Empress Car lotta. excited much interest here. It Is not believed that the jewels we're part of the regalia of the former sovereign of Mexico, aud old imperialists consider il quite impossible that such valuable dia. monds could have fallen into the hands of prfyate parties
Connecticut western news., 1900-11-15
Auuinsf R~~E.Inn

By a majority of one vote, that of the moderator, Dr. David G. Wylie, the New York presbytery at its regular meeting in
 -The Old First" church decided that the Westminster confession of faith. with Its doctrine of predestination, Is good enough to remain as the creed of the Presbyterian church of today and the fu- ture. Although the total vote of the presbytery numbers 224, there were only l42 cast, 109 by clergymen and 33 by lay