Connecticut workman., 1901-10-24
Items of Interest.

Iiancners near Albuquerque, N- M-, are killing wild horses oD neighboring | r;inSus.
 The United States supreme court as s:t mbled in Washington at F o'clock Monday.
 l The Republicans ot Rhode Island have nominated William Gregory for EoVerhor.
 1 President Roosevelt has changed the official title of his residence from the l executive mansion to the White House. Kingston, N. Y., on Wednesday cele- brated the one hundred and twenty l fourth anniversary of it's burning by the British.
 The transport Thomas has sailed for Manila with large number of passen- gers, among them being several officers and about fifty teachers.
 1 A fall of roof coal caused the death of four men in the Klondike mine of the Delaware and Hudson company at Archibald. Pa, Wednesday.
 David NJ. Wolf, bookkeeper of the First National bank of Tyrone, Pa., has confessed to the embezzlement of S12, ,OOO of the banks funds.
 | IAA CApAOSlOA, A0A1o"Co oS hASs o~AA ously damaged the extensive plant of the Bulls Ferry Chemical company, near Shadyside, N. J., Wednesday.
 The official registration figures at | Yale show an increase of over POO over last year. The total number of stu dents this year will be about 2,75O. Edgewood Inn, a summer hotel on Lower Saranac lake. in the Adiron- dacks. has been completely destroyed by fire; loss, $10,00o, partly insured
 The St. Louis Worlds fair national commission has selected Miss Helen Gould of New York as a member at large of the board of lady managers.
 The postoffice department is arrang-
 ing for q sea post mail service on the
 steamers of the Oceanic line running
 between San Francisco and Honolulu.
 The gross postal receipts for Sep
 tember at fifty of the largest post
 offices were $4, ,225, ,752 a net increase
 of S323, ,S22, or S.2 per cent, over last
 year.
 It is believed in Catholic circles that
 the next consistory at Rome will be
 held in February, when the pope at
 tains the twenty fifth year of his pon-
 tificate.
 Assistant Postmaster General Brfs
 tow has ordered the establishment of 2
 postoffice to be named Mckinley ill Franklin county, Wash, thirteen miles
 west of Eureka.
 A contract for automobile mail serv
 ice in Minneapolis, Minn., an expert
 ment which may result in the extension
 of the service, has just been made by the postoffice department. Miss Alice Roosevelt will make. he.
 formal debut before society at the New years evening reception at the White House The most elaborate prepara
 t.ons are making for the event.
 While in Buffalo Major Bird nm
 ernor OdelTs military secretary ed Friday through a telegram thai
 his home in New York had been entered t;v burglars and that articles valued a1
 S5, GOO had been taken.
 Il Lansing Warren, editor of the, Mil
 waukee Sentinel, is dead from an at F tack of typhoid fever. Mir. Warrer
 was taken i'll about three weeks ago having contracted cold in the cas- while on business trip.
 The company of Macabebes and de
 tachment of the Twenty-first infantry who were forced to retire when attack , ed by 300 rebels at Batangas for wan
 of ammunition made another attack , on the rebels and routed them. aa. E. Briggs, one of the last survivor. , of family famous for it's suicides has been found in the woods a mile from his home in Sherman, Conn. hanging from tree by halter. Eff } teen members of :he Briggs famil. have committed suicide.
 Superintendent Collins had tall with CzoIgosz at Auburn some days ago, and at that time he said he knew | that he had to die. He expressed ne fear as to the electrocution, but sait .. that he would not care to go outside o1 the prison, for he believed the people l. . would kill him.. The monthly report of the depart ment of agriculture shows the averag g'
 condition of corn on Oct. to have beer ,2.1 per cent as compared with 51.? las t month 7a2 on Oct. 1. 1900, S2.7 at tn corresponding date in 1899 and SIS thu
 mean of the October averages of tn, . last ten years.
 Aguinaldo has written to a lawye in Manila who is trying to obtain 3 a writ of habeas corpus in his hehal
 obiecting to the course taken bJ- tn l lawyer, saying that he preferred to re main d prisoner while there was on compatriot languishing in jail suffer ing for the Filipino cause and the in tinity of the Fi1ipinos.''
 ! The wife of Dr. Owens of Steuben = N. Y. former member of assembly ant l at present assistant state dairy commis t sioner and her nephew. Clark Jones q were struck by a milk train on th = 1 Raraa WafnrfaNn and Qodan Shr1l.