Connecticut western news., 1901-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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The United States has taken first place from Great Britain as an ex. porting nation.
 Sir Thomas Lipton has offered sham. rock II. for sale. and two bids have been made for her purchase.
 Henry B. Harrison. governor of Con. necticut from 1SS5 to 1887, Is dead ai his home in New Haven. Conn.
 Census Director Merriam estimates the total population of the United States and new possessions In 1910 nt 1oo.O0O.oo0.
 Two persons lost their lives. three were injured and score were over. come by smoke in fire in a Chicago flat Tuesday.
 The condition of Mrs. Julia ID. Grant. the widow of General Grant. who has been III for several days, is considera bly improved.
 k. Darwin Colvin, one of the wealth. fest circus managers in the country, died Wednesday In the Sturtevant House, New York.
 The Illinois supreme court has or. dered capital stock, including fran. chises, of Chicago corporations to be assessed for taxation.
 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 100 years old.
 Mrs. Asenath Burnett Is dead at her home at Cape Vincent. N. Y., aged 1o2 years. She was one of the few surviv. ing ''orIginar' Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution.
 pr. George Stockton Burroughs, pro lessor of old Testament literature In 0berlin college and from 1892 to 1890 president of Wabash college, Is dead at Clifton Springs, N. Y.
 The Hartman Steel company of New. castle, ra., has closed negotiations for the purchase of the plant of the Cuya. hoga Steel and Wire company at cuya. hoga Falls. O. The price was $5o0.oo0
 By an explosion of Colts automat- ic gun at Fort Leavenworth Monday Captain Charles T. Menoher and five men of the Twenty-eighth battery of field artillery were wounded. three se- yerely.
 Ernest n-Thompson, the we'll known writer about wild animals, has received permission from Justice His choff in the New York supreme court to change his name to Ernest Thomp. son Seton.
 The New York State library has out. grown its present quarters in the state capitol and has been compelled to lease for term of years a building near the capitol for the storing of 100000 dupli. cate volumes.
 Mrs. wu Ting Fang. wife of the Chl- nese minister to the United States, ar rived at San Francisco on Tuesday on the steamer Gaelic from China. She is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Wu Su Ching.
 Delmar. town of about 1000 inhab. itants in the extreme southern end of Maryland. has been almost wiped out by fire. Nearly 25o people are home less, and the property loss Is estimated at about S100.oo0.
 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.
 James McGarry. known in Chicago as the original of MT. Dooley." from whom Finley Peter Dunne gathered his inspiration for this famous char acter in humor and philosophy. died in the Cook county ulll hospital.
 In aid of the Mckinley memorial fund Governor Yates of Illinois has issued proclamation to the people of the state urging them to contribute both as mark Of esteem to the late president and as rebuke against an. archy.
 Henry Schroeder. an employee of a St. Louis stove company, on Tuesday Kirst. aged seven, made an unsuecess- full attempt to shoot her brother, aged eleven, and then killed himself with his pistol after swallowing dose of car bollc acid.
 washburn college. at Topeka. Kan, has received a gift of S50.0o0 from a Boston man, who gave the money on condition that his name be absolutely He specifics that the money shall be used for building an astronom- lcal observatory.
 The New York Central railroad ticket office at oswego. N. Y.. was broken into night while the agent and other employees were temporarily ab- sent and from S150 to $500 stolen from the cash drawer. The burglars have not been caught
 Warren Cannon of Des Moines. la, breeder of registered cattle. has secured eleven of the seventeen known mulley Hereford cattle In the United States for the purpose of establishing a distinct new breed of cattle to be known as the Rolled Herefords.
 By way of adjusting the claims of q number of Americans who were de- ported from South Africa and the rransvaal as a military necessity the British government has offered to pay he lump sum of S30.0O0 over to the state department.
 President Roosevelt and party occu. pied two boxes at the New National theater in Washington on Tuesday night This is the first time the president has attended any theater since his elevation, and his entrance was warmly greeted by an audience hat packed the theater.
 Justice Herrick of the supreme court of Albany has denied the application of the American Ice company and Charles W. Morse. It's president, for wrlts of ab- solute prohibition to restrain Attorney Davies from continuing the against the American lee to ascertain If 1t has violated the state antitrust law.
 A dispatch from Pretoria. dated Tuesday, says that Remington's col umn has surprised the laager of Gen. eral Botha. the Boer commander In chief. General Betha succeeded in