Connecticut western news., 1902-03-27
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 NEWS OF THE WEEK


 taken recess until Monday. April [.
 Four men were killed and three in- jured in a freight wreck in Ohio on Monday.
 A census report shows the annual egg production of the United States to
 be 1,293. .s19, 1s6 dozen.
 Marian M. Faversham has been granted an absolute divorce from wil. liam Faversham, the matinee idol.
 Judge Russell Smith Taft. chief jus tice of the supreme court of Vermont,
 died on Saturday, aged sixty-seven years.
 The Jeffries- es-Fitzsimmons champion ship fight will take place at the Gen. tury Athletic club of Los Angeles, Cal, during the week ending May 10. Messrs. c. A. Vessels, A. D. wolma- rans and J. NJ. de Bruyn. Boer dele gates to this country, sailed for Europe on the French liner La Gascogne on
 Thursday.
 At Canandaigua, N. r., person known for years as William c. Howard died suddenly on Saturday, and an au- topsy showed that the supposed man was a woman.
 The monthly statement of the collec- tions of internal revenue show that the
 total receipts for February, 1902, were SIS, ,659, Q decrease as compared
 with February, 1901, of S3,942,77s. The Law and Order league of To- peka. Kan, has asked Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon of Tn His Steps" fame to run | for mayor. Mir. Sheldon says he will make the race if he deems it his duty | to do so.
 Gus Ruhlin and Peter Maher met at the Industrial Athletic club in Phila. | delpbia Friday night for a six round go, and in the latter part of the second round Maher went down and out on a
 hard left on the jaw.
 The complete statistics of dairy mat | ters just announced show that of the | 5, 739, ,657 farms in the country 4,514, ,210 report dairy cows and dairy product
 and that in 1899 the total dairy product had a valuation of $472, ,369. .255. Lieutenant William s. Sinclair of the
 Twenty-eighth infantry, recently tried by court martial in Manila on the | charge of causing the death of a soldier l prisoner by gagging him and pouring water on his head, has been acquitted. Henry J. Baker, the former paying
 teller in the Buffalo city treasurer's of. flee, has been sentenced to serve one | year and ten months in Auburn prison | Baker was sentenced on his plea of | guilty to a charge of stealing $5,200 in. | trusted to his care.
 l Thousands of Porto Ricans have con. trfbuted to the Mckinley national me,
 morial. Governor William H. Hunt in
 letter just received by Ryerson Ritch | ie, national secretary, reports that $1, 497 AZ has been raised fin the island
 and the number of contributors runs
 far up into the thousands. The Barry. the third of a series of
 torpedo boat destroyers which has
 been built for the United States gov. | ernment by Neatie & Levi of Philadel | phia, was launched on Saturday. Miss Charlotte Barnes. a descendant of | Commodore Barry, after whom the
 craft is name, christened the boat. General Greedy, chief of the United States signal service, has invited bids
 for supplying a system of wireless te.
 legraphy between Nome City and St Michael, Alaska, 104 miles distant across Norton sound. Bidders must
 prove the capacity of their apparatus
 by sixty mile tests along the Atlantic | coast.
 Solomon V. Lattimer died at Addison | NrtI ,4z a.. years. He was one of the early settlers of that section, having been a resident | of Steuben county continuously for | about seventy years. He was a sherifi | of the county and at the time of his
 death was president of the First Ma, i tional bank.
 The new Colombian minister MT | Concha, has about completed the propo
 sition his government is to make to the l United States in respect to the build | ing of the Panama canal. The propo. | sition Is stated authoritatively to be
 most liberal in every detail. It gives the United States everything it desires
 in the shape of concessions. | Coroner Laird of Auburn. N. Y, has announced his verdict in the Aurelius wreck on the New York Central, in which six lives were lost. He finds that
 the accident was due to recklessness
 and carelessness of Engineer Durand | and Conductor Butler of the wrecking train, which was running without or. ders and had no right of way. James H. Fairchild died on Thursday Y | at Oberlin, O. Professor Fairchild had | been connected with Oberlin college for siXty-three years. He was born in l Stockbridge, Mass, in 1877. In 1886
 he became president of the college. He | resigned in 1889 at the age of seventy two, but continued to teach in the col | lege and theological seminary until 1897.
 Brigadier General George W. Davis, | stationed at Zamboanga, island of Min | danao, reports that detachment of the signal corps consisting of seven | teen men has been attacked by POO Mo
 tos near Paran-Paran, Mindanao. One of the signal corps men was killed.
 The Moros captured the transportation of the detachment including four pack mules.
 The jury in the Cropsey case at Eliz. abeth City, N. C., late Saturday night
 found James Wilcox guilty of the mur-
 der of his sweetheart Ella Cropsey. with whom she left the parlor of her parents home on the night of Nov. 12 last and was never again seen until her body was given up by the river that flows close to her home several weeks | nfter.
 The three-wceks-old daughter of a
 resident of Atlantic City, N. J., has
 fallen heir to s60.OO0. The lucky in.
 fant is Margaret Armstrong, whose
 grandmother, Mrs. Joseph Armstrong
 of Philadelphia, died a month ago
 leaving that sum to her little grand.
 daughter. There was also left $50. .OOC