Connecticut western news., 1901-10-17
NEWS C. TIE WEEK.

next spring has sailed from Seattle.
 The hattlcship Wisconsin sailed from Seattle for Samoa under sealed orders.
 President Roosevelt will receive the degree of I.L. D. from Yale college Oct. a3.
 The convention of the American Bankers association began in Milwan- kee.
 Ranchers near Albuquerque. N. M., gre killing wild horses on neighborlng ranges.
 The United States supreme court as sembled in Washington at t2 o'clock Monday.
 The S2.oG0 GOO contract to dredge Ma nila harbor was awarded to Seattle company.
 Burglars robbed the house of Samuel Coykendall of Kingston, x. F.. of booty worth S1o,O00
 Dr. Donald K. Iinckley of North ampton. Mass. accidentally shot and killed himself
 Nov. 15 is tho date for the JefIrles. Ruhlin light in san Francisco. Jef- ries has posted S2.5o0 forfeit
 The Farmers and Citizens bank of riro, O., was robbed by six men, who kept people at bay with rifles.
 The pocahonras Coal and Coke com. pany was incorporated in Trenton, N. l.. with capital of Sl0,00o,0o0.
 Mrs. Graeme Harrison had jewels valued at S15.Ca0 stolen from her on a New Haven train to New York city.
 President Roosevelt has changed the official title of his residence from the executive mansion 10 the White House
 Four tralnmen were killed and three others slightly injured in a collision of freight trains on the Chicago Great Western near LoEihard. III.
 The official reg.s tration figures at Yale show an increase of over 200 over last year. The total number of stu. dents this year will he about 2,TJ0.
 The postofice department Is arrang Ing for 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 S1.225.II2. net increase of $333. SD, or s.2 per cent, over last year.
 Philip A. Stewart of Colorado Springs. with whom President Roose- welt hunted in Colorado last summer. k guest at the White House for several days.
 In New York Mir. and Mrs. II. NJ. Rice were sentenced to ten days in prls. on for tying their little daughter to n table while they weGt on pleasure jaunt.
 The pestofiice department has dceid. ed to place the late President Mck,n. ley's head on the new Issue of postal cards which will appear shortly after Dec. l.
 IL Is believed in Catholic circles that the next consistory nj Rome will be held in February. when the pope at. tains the twenty year of his pom tificate.
 While in Buffalo Major Bird Gov ernor 0dpl's military secretary, learn ed Friday through telegram that ! his home in New York had been entered by burglars and that articles valued at 5000 had been taken.
 Lansing Warren. editor of the Mil waukee sentinel Is dead from an at tack of typhoid fever. Mir. Warren was taken iii about three weeks ago. having contracted n cold In the east while on business trip. The company of Macabebes and dc. tachment of the Twenty-first infantry who were forced to retire when attack. ed by 300 rebels at Ratangas for want of ammunition made another attack on the rebels and routed them. i Lorenzo Snow. fifth president of the , Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. better known as the Mormon church. died unexpectedly in his home, the historic Beehive House, in Salt Lake City Thursday afternoon. In the supreme court in Rome. x. r., Thursday verdict for S1o.000 was awarded against the Central Rallroad company for the death of Felix Ise. necker of that city, who was killed by the Empire State express June 2S, 1901.
 The balloon contest Wednesday from the stadium of the Pan-Amerlcan eN- position grounds between Professor Charles Litcbiicld of Boston and Leo Stevens of New York for n purse of S3.OO0 was won by the Boston aero. naut.
 On the authority of Mme. von Andre, sister of Miss May Palmer. who is to wed Senator Chauncey M Depew, the date and place of the wedding have been fixed. The senator and Miss Pal mer will be married in Paris early In December.
 E. J. Briggs. one of the last survivors of a family famous for it's suicides, has been found in the woods a mile from his home in sherman, Conn. hanging from a tree by halter. Eff teen members of the Briggs family have committed suicide.
 A rich find of gold has been located seventy miles north of Tucson, Ariz. It is asserted that from the bottom Of the canyon to the surface the outcroppinPs of ore will run from S5 to S1 900 to the ton. The amount of gold in sight Is es timated at the enormous sum of S7,. oo0. 900.
 Sir Thomas Lipton, undismayed, will not permit the America's cup to rest in peace for want of challenge. He told the men of the Shamrock II. Thursday that he did not care to monopolize the tifort to retrieve the trophy, but If none .ther shouu come forward he would " again. a
 The monthly report of the depart ment of agriculture shows the average conuiuon or corn on uct. 10 nave been 52.1 per cent as compared with ot.T last month. 7S.a on Oct. l, HOO, S2.7 at the corresponding date in lSE and SIS the mean of thc October averages of the last ten years.
 Harper's nitruglyc"rln factory al Ridge Farm. four miles from oil City. Pa, was blown ID Thursday. The only persons 1hout thc place were killed. They were Clarence Ward. aged | n |. .l..