Connecticut workman., 1901-10-24
CONDENSED
 NEWS ITEMS
Last Weeks Review of the
 Many Happenings.

slope Of the AuirOnu3ckS IDurSuay.
 The production of anthracite coal for 1901 is said to be the greateSs on rec
 ord.
 Mrs. Witwcr. charged at Eaytor, O.. with the murder of her sister, is he'd without bail.
 Miss Eastvic,1 of Philadelphia has pleaded guilty in London of forging railroad certificate.
 Saturday night fire destroyed the New England building at the Pan American exposition. Mayor Harrison ci Chicago has suG- gestad law for7.i ,ding private wi:!e- rooms in city s>:luons.
 The Pennsylvania supreme court has decided that the Philadelphia ripper" law is unconstit utional.
 Sir Thomas I-ipton has offered Sham rock II. for sale, and two bids have been made for her purchase It is an1.ounced that Richard Croker
 of New York has sent $500 to the Cork International exhibition fund. Census, Director Merriam estimates the total population of the United States and new possessions in 1910 at !. 100, COG. 900.
 ! Anoper worlds record was broken at Billings park, Memphis, Tenn, Wednes- day, when Audubon Boy paced half mile in 1:0OH.
 E. Darwin Colvin, one of the wealth jest circus managers in the country. dieG Wednesday in the Sturtevant House, New York.
 The Northern Pacific railroad Tues | o+ n,1l, $2O, 900, ,OOO fire insurance policy cover ing it's whole system.
 The Illinois supreme court has or
 dered capital stock, including fran |: chises, of Chicago corpora tions to be
 assessed for taxation. Rev. Dr. Lorimer has resigned as pas tor of the Fremont Temple Baptist church, Boston, to go to the Madison Avenue Baptist church. New York city.
 Miss Kate Livingstone, sister of Dr.
 Livingstone, the explorer, who has just
 celebrated her birthday at her home on
 the Isle of Null, is said to be 1O6 years
 old. !. The new battleship Retvizan, built in Philadelphia for Russia, has made an average of 1S.S knots in run of twelve hours, breaking the battleship , record.
 The president has appointed George
 E. Rooster, Gold Democrat, collector
 of internal revenue for the district of
 South Carolina to succeed w. l.. Web ster. deceased. ; The state department SS~ the Siamese minister to tn States left Bangkok SeptI !
 haraj Oradhara.
 Dr. George Stockton Burroughs, prSl lessor of Old Testament literature in Oberlin college and from 1892 to 1899 , president of Wabash college, is dead at
 Clifton Springs, N. '.
 The differences between the employ , ees and proprietors of the Macbeth r Evans lamp chimney factory in Ell
 wood, Ind, have been settled, and the
 plant has resumed in all departments. Captain James c. Michie. commissary of the National SoldieA,' home for
 many years and brother of the late : General NIichie of West Point, died : suddenly Sunday, aged sixty years, in Dayton, O.
 The heroic bronze statue of General
 Albert Pike. for many years the grand
 commander of the Ancient and Accept } ed Order of Scottish Rite Masons for
 the southern jurisdiction, was unveiled
 in Washington Thursday. Among interesting incidents of the
 Yale bicentennial was the action of the class of TT, Sheffield Scientific school,
 at their reunion and banquet in raising fund of $6,OOO to found scholarship in the scientific department. , The police of Chicago received word r early Wednesday morning of the arrest
 of three men at Corning, N. Y., who
 are believed to be the gang who robbed
 the posteffice of Chicago. A satche, full of postage stamps was in their pos session.
 President Roosevelt's action in enter taining Booker T. Washington at the
 White House was upheld by the Amer 1 ican Missionary society, which opened f it's fifty-fifth annual meeting Tuesday at the First Congregational church at 3 Oak Park, Ill.
 3 The New York Central railroad ticket 2 office at OsWego, N. r., was broken into Wednesday night while the agent and
 other employees were temporarily ab- . sent and from $i50 to $500 stolen from 3 the cash drawer. The burglars have not been caught.
 At Buffalo, Sunday, John Sondberg,
 thirteen years old, and Joseph Stack,
 six years old, were killed on the Lehigh g Valley tracks near Smith street. They
 were playing on the tracks when a \ yard engine ran them dowc The bod ies were badly mangled.
 President Roosevelt was unanimously l elected a comrade of the Union Veteran ! union Tuesday at the opening session in Chicago of the sixth annual encamp-
 ment of the organization. This action Q was taken immediately after a message