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Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
A Cat as a Retriever.

A very high idea of human patience is given by the account of a correspond ent of Forest and Stream, who has, he says, tanned a common cat to retrieve. Patience, gentleness, entire absence of force, were his maXims.
 Whenever game had been killed the cat was led to 1t, and the game was given to him. Next the cat sought the game on his own account. Next he was taught to stay close to his master, at first perched on his shoulder. He was then taught not to fear the sound of the gun, beginning with a little car bine. then proceeding to the fowling piece. When the gun was fired, com mon ball was pitched forward by the master, and the connection between the report of the piece and retrieving was established. Then dead bird was substituted for the ball. and 1t was at first thrown from the hand and after ward dropped from the branch of a distant tree. The education of this particular cat Is now complete. He re- trieves perfectly, points sometimes and in general conducts himself like hunt ing dog.
 The biologists deny the inheritance of acquired characteristics. If 1t were not for their doctrine, this learned animal might become the progenitor of long line of useful hunting cats. AS 1t Is, he stands as living monument to human patience and as q proof that even the cat may be educated.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
General Markets.

New torht becs ln FLouR-statc and western unsettled and mors or less nominal At old prices; Minnesota patents ss poas 25 winter sttaights. xSbsassbi winter eH. tras, &2. s0as IS, winter patenta sa.7haatO WHEAT Suffered a violent setback this morn ing through larger northwest receipts, unnalisfnc tory cables and fair unloading, March, s5Ns ssAc.; May so54asTNc
 RYE-Quict. state, e7ansc., c. l. l., New York, cariotA. No. western. F2Asc., f. O. b. anoat. CoRN-Aiso weakened by cables. general m. loading and the drop in wheat, May. flytaf2ko oATs~Sold of with other marketsl tack, white. state. bia5Se. track white. western. bss bsc.
 PORK Steady; mea, sie7Ssi'.asi family nsSO ali
 LARp-Firm; prime western steam. io.2se. BuTTER-stcady, state dairy iSa2shcl cream cry i6a25lho
 CHEEsE-Firmi fancy. large, September, ioa i0Ac. fancy. small. September, ioNaiic.t late made, best, large. phci late msde' beet, small, ioaiohc, EgGs-ouie,, state and rennsylysnis, 2oas7c ! western, at mark, 2ec,
 suoAR-Raw steady, fair rehnlnR spsacE centrifugal. oe test sxo, refined steady, crushed. ksoc. powdered, ee, TuRrRNT1NE-Fin at asnasitc MoLAssEs- Steady. New orloans sfat2c. RlCE-stcady, domestic. sagAcl Japan sNs bAc.
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Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Striking a Light with n Popsun.

The inhabitants of the countries bor- dering on India have their own meth- ods of making fire. A Burmese mes- senger recently brought a note to an, English official, and the latter observed something resembling a boys popgun hanging by the messengers side. Gu riosity prompted him to ask the native what 1t was. and he was surprised to find that It was a machine for making fire.
 The native exhibited the apparatus and explained the working. concluding with practical demonstration. It was a tube. closed at one end and fitted with piston. At the end of the piston was a groove or cavity, smeared with wax, which was used for making thread or infiammable material adhere to it. The finder, to keep the old name, Is pressed on the wax when a light Is required and Is not kept there always.
 Placing the wisp of cotton on the wax, the native Inserted the tightly fitting piston in the tube, then forced It along the latter by giving 1t sharp blow. On withdrawing the piston the cotton was found to be nlight. having been ignited by the concussion with the compressed nlr.-pearson's Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Girl. Nerve Save. Many Lives.

Chicago, Dec. 11.-White clouds of smoke filled the railways from a fierce fire which ragged in the basement of the Lincoln school. Ethel Barker. thir- teen years old, sat at a piano in the main corridor up stairs and played a lively two step for the 300 children to keep time by while marching out of the burning building. Miss Barker did not cease playing until the last child had left the building, and when she tried to escape she was twice driven back by clouds of dense smoke which by that time rolled through the corri- dors. She finally reached a door and went to the first floor by groping along the walls and stair banisters. When the girl volunteered to play the march, she was the only pupil who knew the building was on fire.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12

IE5 gear passed Dy and Indian sum- mer again threw her shimmering blue mantle over the distant mountains, and the leaves became golden and red and brown. One night the colonel sat late at his study table. He was writing to his lawyer. He was tired, and somehow 1t seemed a task to him tonight. Sud denly he heard soft footsteps In the hall
 Who could 1t be? His wife had re- tired and Rob, the only son at home had gone with his young wife to a country ball and would not be home for hours. The door was gently pushed open, and there appeared the woolly head and ebony face of Uncle Eph.
 "I'ze ready, sah," he said in sepul- chral whisper.
 "ReadyY inquired the colonel in amazement. For a moment he had for gotten the compact of year ago, but only for moment. He pushed aside the tedious letter and looked up at Eph expectantly. 'Yes, we's ready, sah," said Eph again. "It's a mighty fine night, sah. Tze got de guns, sah, an some meal an coffee an bacon, an I lay we ken be a right smaht ways off by mawnin' iE we step lively, Marse rhil."
 "Yes," said the colonel, and he step- ped out on the veranda. How beauti- full everything looked In the moonlight! The balmy October air of the south was like a caress. The woods seemed to beckon them. Philip Randolph, the boy, could not withstand the tempta- ton. Grasping his hat, he looked at Eph, as he had done years before, when he waited for him to tell him when to shoot.
 Eph looked back at him, picked up sack that was lying on the steps, then took up the guns. ...
 'De Parker woods is mighty 'ticin', sah," he said.
 "Yes." repeated the colonel and fol lowed him down the avenue. A few moments later and their figures were lost to view in the dense shade of the woods.
 Both the colonel and Eph had run away.-New York Times.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12

me second operation His recovery IS fully expected by the time San Fran. cisco Is reached"
 General Alban of Colombia, wear Ing his uniform md accompanied by n bodyguard of soldiers, left Panama Wednesday morning to receive the sur render of the Liberal general Domingo Dlaz. The two generals met at Gorgo- ua Station. on the railroad, and return cd to Empire station, where peace pa. pers were signed.
 Lewis A. Riley, vice president of the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad company and president of the Jehigh Coal and Navigation company and of the Lehigh and Lackawanna Railroad company, has been chosen president of the Lehigh and Hudson River Rail. road company to succeed the late Grinnell Burt of Warwick. N. \.
 The hearing In the case of City Treas urer Philip Gerst of Buffalo, charged with misapplication of the public funds intrusted to his care, was begun before Mayor Diehl on Saturday. Mra Gerst was suspended by Mayor Diehl on Nov. 10. He Is charged with having unlawfully appropriated to his own use $43,0S0 of the city's money.
 Frank A. Munsey. magazine and newspaper publisher. has gone Into groceries. The Mohican Grocery com. pany of New London. Conn, of which Mir Munsey Is large stockholder and president. Is planning the establish ment of branch stores throughout New England. It k hoped that in time Mohi- can grocery stores will dot the country.
 The president on Monday made thes following important appointments in the navy; Medical Director William K. Van Reypen to he surgeon general and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, Captain Royal B. Bradford, U. s. N, chief of the bureau Of equip ment, with rank of rear admiral, and Captain Charles o'Neil. |. s. N, chief of the bureau of ordnance, with rank of rear admiral.
 The following appointments on the stan of the commander In chief of the Grand Army of the Republic have been announced: Adjutant gener- al, Silas II. Fowler, Minneapolis; guar termnster general. Charles Burrows, Rutherford, x. d.; inspector general, Wllfred A. We.hcrbec, Boston; judge advocate. Henry NJ. Duhleld. Detroit: chief of stan. A. Noel Blakeman, Mount Vernon. N. Y.
 Herbert Marx, young New York lawyer, was assailed In his country house in Westmorennd county, Va, on Wednesday by four mon who sought Co chastise him for an alleged insult to woman relative of one of the four. Marx shot and killed two and serious. ly wounded another. He gave himself up to the sheriff and was exoncrntcd by coroner's Jury. Tie then left for New York, fearing m attempt at lynch ing him,
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
NICARAGUA SIGNS TREATY.
to Lease Is Strip on Canal Route
 Six Miles Wide.

Washington, Dec. ll.-A dispatch rom Managua, Nicaragua. says:
 "A protocol was signed yesterday between the secretary for foreign re- lations, Dr. Fernando Sanchez. and William l.. Merry. United States min ister, providing for ample concessions along the route of the proposed inter- oceanic canal with view 10 it's con- structiop by the United States. A perpetual lease of n strip of land six miles wide. which includes the route of the Nicaragua canal, is agreed to by Nicaragua"
 State department officials decline to discuss the exact provisions of the protocol
 Protocols were negotiated year ago by Secretary Hay with the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican ministers, but as those agreements were based upon the original Hay-Pauncefote treaty 1t is presumed the administration deemed 1t expedient to renew them.
 The protocols made at that time gave a lease for POO years of n strip of land, including the route of the project cd canal. Cession of the territory Is prohibited by the constitutions of the two Central American republics.
 It is believed here that the protocol just signed at Managua contains prac- tically the same provisions as were comprised in the old agreement.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Scranton Street Chr Strike.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. 11.-Once more the officials of the Scranton Railway company have refused to recede from the position taken the day following the inauguration of the strike eleven weeks ago. National President Mahou of the street car men and National President John Mitchell of the miners called on General Manager Silliman to see if they could do anything toward effecting a settlement. Mir. Silliman told them what he told the mediation committees of the city council, the board of trade, the business men and the strikers executive committee when each in turn waited on him with medi- ation propositions. The company, he said, would not take the men back in a body, and, while not opposing union of its employees, 1t would have no dealings with union.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
skunk. of the Genu. chinca.

The skunk first appears in history in the year 1886, when he was described In Theodat's History of Canada" He had been a long time on the earth be- fore that time, however, for there are species of fossil skunks. The skunks of the genus Chinca range over the great CT part of North America and as far south as Mexico. Other skunks are found in Central and South America They live in burrows either of other animals or made by themselves. Their habits are chiefly nocturnal, and they hibernate only in the severest part of the winter. Their food consists of small animals, of insects and birds eggs. Grasshoppers are eaten by hum dreds. They have been trapped for their fur for many years.
 The young are born In filters of four to ten. The adults occasionally rob the poultry yard, but such depreda- tions as they commit are more than off, set by their destruction of noxious ani- mals and insects, especially the white grub, the pest of lawns and meadows. They are easily trapped in box traps and can be killed by putting them. trap and all, in a trough of water.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Collins Elected Mayor of Bostou.

Boston, Dec. 1.-The Democrats completely overwhelmed the Republic ans in the city election, General Pat rick A. Collins being elected over May or Thomas N. Hart by the largest plu- rality in quarter of a century. The Democrats also obtained control of both branches of the city government, elect cd their street commissioner, Salem D. Charles, and practically all their can didates for the school commission. As usual, the city voted strongly in favor of license. The result of the contest was fully as much surprise to the Democrats as to their opponents. The most sanguine Democratic prophet on- ly claimed 1000, yet this plurality was nearly tripled.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Work of schIey Court Finished,

Secretary Long will receive the find ings of the Schley court this week. The court has concluded its work, and all that now remains Is for the findings to be signed by Captain Lemly, the judge advocate. He will review the findings after they are submitted to Secretary Long to see that they are in strict legal form. The findings are written in long hand by one of the members of the court. The members were so fearful that they might be- come public prematurely that they did not have them typewriter. Every note or part of the finding written in the rough draft has been carefully de- stroyed
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
NEW PROTOCOL SIGNED
Nicaragua Agrees to Perpetual
 Lease of Canal Route.
IS A VIRTUAL PROTEOTORATE.
United States In Return For Use of Six Mile Strip of Territory Across Isthmus Guarantees Independence of Central American State.

or Central American state.
 Managua, Nicaragua, via Galveston, Tex, Dec. 11.--A protocol signed by United States Minister Merry and Dr. Fernando Sanchez, the Nicaraguan secretary of foreign affairs, grants the United States three miles on each side Df the proposed canal, the median line being the center of the waterway. The lease of the canal route is perpetual.
 Nicaragua will have full sovereignty over the canal route. but the United States will have control over it, can maintain a permanent police vigilance and can land troops if 1t is necessary.
 In return the United States govern ment guarantees the sovereignty, in- tegrity and independence of Nicara- qua.
 President Zelaya and Secretary San chez are strong advocates of the canal. The entire republic Is contented over the situation. Confidence is inspired now that the Nicaraguan government Is dealing directly with the United States instead of with speculative com panies.
 President Zelaya has issued decree by which the government of Nicaragua donates about 100000 square yards of land in one or more lots situated on Ometepe island, in Lake Nicaragua, to the UEted States for use as a sanita- rum for the benefit of laborers on the canal. The United States may appoint a surgeon to select the actual locality of the donated land.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Enlfnn Sinks nf Wharf.

Cutchogue, N. Y, Dec. 1.-The sub marine boat Fulton of the Holland company, which is the type of the boats the company Is now building for the United States government, lies at the bottom of the bay. She Is twelve feet below the surface. Her dive was taken unexpectedly. She Is unharmed and will be raised by her own power, it is thought. The boat was at the Hol- land company's dock undergoing some minor repairs to her exhaust pipe at the stern and under water. To effect this the stern was tilted upward to al- low the workmen to get at the sea- ward end of the pipe. The raising of the Fulton's stern caused the depres- sion of the Fulton's bow and brought the forward hatch level with the wa ter. The hatch had been left open, and the boat filled with water and sank. The engineer who had started below was met by a rush of water and had to leap into the bay to avoid being carried down i'll the Fulton. He escaped in- iiry
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
To Hear Evidence Against Knox.

Washington, Dec. 1.-The clerk of the judiciary committee, by direction of Chairman Hoar, has informed Messrs. H. B. Martin and William l.. Dewart, representing the Antitrust league and District Assembly 66, Knights of Labor, that the senator would receive any evidence or offer of evidence in writing which they might desire to lay before the committee in opposition to the confirmation of Mir. Knox as attorney general on or before Saturday of this week and would lay the same before the committee. The letter was sent in response to letter from the gentlemen named opposing confirmation on the ground, as alleged, that Mir. Knox had been counsel for the 'armor plate trust.' .. ..
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Flood In New York City.

New York, Dec. 11.-By the bursting of an immense water supply pipe late age was done in the residence section Of the city between Fifty-fifth and Eff ty-ninth streets and Madison and Park avenues. One estimate places 1t at thousands of dollars, but in reality all estimates are at present merely guess es. Cellars and basements were food ed, cars blocked. several buildings, in- cluding the First Reformed Protestant Episcopal church, were undermined, and there is danger of their collapse, and the wall of the New York Central railroad tunnel was weakened.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Clergyman Murders His Family

Calumet, Mich, Dec. 11.-Rev. John Kinnunen, minister of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran church at Cop per Falls, Keweenaw county, killed mitted suicide. Kinnunen was forty years old and was universally respect ed. One son, d deaf mute, was recently sent to the State School For the Deaf at Flint. Mich, and was killed on his arrival there by passing train.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Thirty Mnrion Dollar. to Stanford.

Mrs. Jane l.. Stanford on Monday at San Francisco transferred to Stanford university by deed bonds, stocks and real estate valued at $30,000000, mucl of which pays large revenue. Includ ed in the property transferred is Mrs Stanford's home on the summit of Noh hill. which. 1t Is said, will eventually be converted Into an art gallery and museum. The gift places Stanford uni versity in the first financial rank among the great universities of the world. Mrs. Stanford retains property worth several million dollars.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Miss Toppnn Indicted,

The grand jury at Barnstable, Mass, on Friday found three indictments for murder against Miss Jane Toppan, the nurse who has been accused Of poison ing her patients. She pleaded not guilty to all three charges and was committed to jail without bail. Mor- phine and atrophine were discovered by Professor Wood of Harvard in the autopsles on the bodies of three of the alleged victims, and 1t Is charged that the woman administered them in large quantities.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
EnunI Dead In QxxaInn

Poughkeepsie, N. r., Dec. 11.-James M. Wilkin, aged seventy-three, was found dead at the edge of swamp near New Paltz. He had been missing from his home in this city since Satur- day, when he went away, leaving note expressing regret he could not see before he died his daughter, who Is travelling in Europe. He had been de- spondent for some time over his Ill health. Whether he committed suicide or lay down in the swamp and died of exposure is not known.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Widespread Ignorance About Clock.


 There Is good deal of popular ig norance on the subject of managing watches and clocks. Many people manage never to have the right time and expend good deal of money on repairs of their timepieces that could be saved by rudimentary instruction. Pendulum clocks are especially liable to give much trouble to the careless or the ignorant, or to those who will not take the trouble to learn how to use them properly. There are many costly pendulum clocks that never tell the time, because the owners have given them up In despair. although there may be nothing the matter with the clocks except that they are not level or that the delicate pendulum has got dis arranged by some ignorant twist.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
CrOssed Continent on Wheel

Middletown. N. r., Dec. 11.-Mrs. Frank Sparks of this city, who has been making bicycle tour across the continent to San Francisco, wheeling d distance of about 4,200 miles, has just returned here. She says she endured many privations and thinks she walk ed over a thousand miles of the dis tance on account of bad roads. She was accompanied on the trip from Philadelphia by MT. and Mrs. William Davis of Dayton, o.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
T,t,L y.u cropsex De,d

Elizabeth City, N. C., Dec. 1.-The family of Nell Cropsey, who heretofore have clung to the belief that she was alive, are now of opinion that she Is dead, but do not state the basis for this change in their opinion. A member of the committee of five in charge of the search for the missing girl said, We believe we will produce the body of Nell Cropsey within twelve hours"
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
England to ca,l A,, ne.erve..

It is said in London that additional drafts for the militia, yeomanry and the regulars are being prepared for transportation to South Africa. The British government has decided to call out for the South African service all reservists who have not completed their twelve years of service. The fed eral government of Australia Is also considering the sending of further con- tingents to South Africa.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
An IndInn Relief

There is a belief prevalent in India that If man be sleeping, no matter where, and Shesh Nag come and sit beside him, with hood spread over the sleeper's face. the latter Is sure to be a son of fortune. Popular tradition assigns the same reason to the rise of Halda Ali of Mysore from a common soldier
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Mrs. DnIe Icxoneratcd.

Elizabeth II. Dale, accused of poison. ing her child, was exonerated Monday night by the coroner's jury. which ex. amined eleven witnesses In Coyle's hall Hoboken, N. !. The Jury brought in n verdict that Emmellne H. Dale came 10 her death in Busch's hotel on the morning of Nov. 10 by taking strych- nine tablets accidentally"
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
Killed WIfe,n AdmIrer

Hayerhill, Mass, Dec. II. A self confessed murderer, John Mutch, Is locked up in the local jail, having shot and killed James Oakes, a shoemaker. with revolver. The tragedy occurred on the street, and Mrs. Mutch, wife of the prisoner, was the only witness. The act is supposed to have been com mitted in a fit of jealous frenzy caused by Oakes' attentions to Mrs. Mutch.
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
uoIln.aN Must stand rrlaI.

Roland E. MolincuN's motion to llnvo quashed the indictment under which hc stands accused of having murdered Mrs. Kate ] Adams was denied on Friday by Judge Nrwburger in part |, general sessions. New York city. The judge held thai if the judges of the court Of appeals had considered the in. dlc,ment fnultg they would have said 50 and ordered the liberation of the ac- cnscd
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12

Elmira, N. Y., Dec. 11.-A fine monu- ment erected by the citizens of Elmira to the memory of the Rev. Thomas Kennicut Beecher, pastor of the Park church here for forty-six years, was unveiled in Wisner park in the pres ence of 5000 people. Rev. w. T. Hen ", D. D., presented the monument to the city, and Mayor F. H. Flood ac- cepted 1t on behalf of the municipality. The monument was designed by Jona- than Scott Hartley of New York. It cost Sa 6OQ
Connecticut western news., 1901-12-12
warcs ot Ten rhousand Raised.

More than 10000 employees of Armour < Co. received notice on Saturday that they would have an increase in their salaries the first of the yonr Many Of the older employees of the big packing plant nre to receive bonuses ln addition to Increased pay.