Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28

Christian Cook. eighty years old, ono of the largest real estate owners of Syracuse, x. Y.. has divided his real estate. valued at S600,o00, equally be. tween his four children. reserving his personal property. estimated at moro than s1o0,oo0, for himself
 Yale's receipts for the football sea son, it is announced. are likely to prove the largest ever taken In. From the big games with Harvard and Prince. ton about S50.000 was realized. Re- ceipts from the minor games will bring the total up to about ST0,0o0.
 The temperance restaurant proprietor A. w. Dennett. who once conducted a chain of restaurants across the cont. nent from New York to San Francisco. has failed for S92. GOO, with no aynila. ble assets. Most of his creditors are women and missionary societies.
 Robert J. Schoonmaker, aged fifty, proprietor of the Hunters Home. a re. sort for New York sportsmen on the shores of Black lake. New York, com. mitted suicide on Saturday. Schoon. maker was one of the best known guides and hunters in the state.
 The Pan-American exposition build. ings at Buffalo have been sold to the Chicago House Wrecking company for $92, ,O00. The buildings are to be remov- ed and the grounds restored to their former condition by the company. The steel in the electrical tower alone is valued at s25,0oo.
 Colonel Abraham K. Arnold. U. S. A..
 retired, died on Saturday at Cold. spring on the Hudson, N. Y. Colonel Arnold graduated from the West Point Military academy in 1859. He was twice brevetted for gallantry during the civil war and was voted n medal of honor by congress for conspicuous bravery in battle.
 Representative Nieholas Muller Of the Seventh New York district has ten. dered his resignation as member oi congress. Mir Muller. who Is the Dem ocratic leader In Richmond borough and who was defeated for the office oi president of the borough of RlchmunC at the city election. says his step 1, the result of III health.
 
 fee, the military governor of the Philip pines, asking the latter's permission tt | go before congress and express the de
 sires of the Filipino people. Aguinald, l further requests to be accompanied b, | eight friends, whom he designates, foul | of whom are prisoners at Guam, whil, | the others are prominent in Manila. William volkmar. for nineteen years past chief steward on the Graf Walder see of the Hamburg American line was arrested in Hoboken on Saturday charged with smuggling. A prominent | perfume manufacturer of New Iorl | city Is said by customs officials to bC implicated with vollkmar and will. 1t is stated, be proceeded against by civil suit.
 Governor General Wood has bought | for the government the principal DOT | ton of the San Juan battlefield. in cluding San Juan hIll, the site of tn, blockhouse and Bloody Bend. Tn, tract comprises 200 acres and cost st5, | GOO It will be considered United | States reservation. md the government intends to lay out beautiful parl | upon it.
 Four employees of the Grand pacln, hotel, Rose Mallln, Fredrlcka weisse Phoebe Williams and Walter Johnson | were arrested in Chicago on Tuesday | charged with the theft of S1.i0o wortl | of silver and other hotel materials Detectives claim to have evidence of [
 large conspiracy of hotel employees whereby the big hostelrics of Chicag,
 have been robbed of $l2,000 10 Sl5.00t worth of pronerty