Connecticut western news., 1902-04-24

proceedings lands needed for changes in terminal facilities and has also dis. approved the Apgar bin compelling a change of motive power in the Park avenue tunnel. New York city.
 The will of the late Rev IT. De Witt Talmage has been filed in Washington. 1t leaves an estate valued at more than S3O0. .oOO. of which about S250. GOO is in personal property. The will leaves the widows third" to Mrs. Talmage and the remainder share and share alike to all of his children and their lineal descendants.
 Details of the earthquake shocks which were general throughout Guate- mala Friday, Saturday and Sunday show that Solola. Nahualn, Amatitlan. santa Lucia and San Juan were badly damaged and that Queszaltenango was partly obliterated. Two hundred per sons W, Q killed. mostly women, and many were injured.
 Charles T. Adams. a legatee under the Rice win of 1900. proved In the Patrick murder trial to have been forR- ed, has caused sensation by asking | hNs elaring that he believed Mir. Rice left Q later win than that of lsgo. as he had letter dated 1897. in which Rice sx. .ressed his intention to make new one.
 Major octavius l.. Pruden, one of the assistant secretaries tu the president, died at Garfield hospital. Washington, on Friday from an affection of the heart The deceased was we'll known to public men throughout the United States and had occupied n confidential position at the White House for many years. He was about sixty years of age.
 The bin to repeal the war revenue taxes has been signed by President Roosevelt. The law repeals taxes to the amount of S73,oo0,00o year, it is estimated. All the taxes imposed un. der the war revenue act of 1898 are now repealed, including that upon bucket shops. the senate having yield ed to the house on this point last week
 | A fire at Union Hill. N. l., on Tues day evening destroyed property valued at $50oo0. The business houses burn ed were occupied by F, Luccnte tailor; Frank Ritterbeck. saloon; Edelstein, five and ten cent store; ]. Arnemann, music store. and O. Selingcr's restau- rant. A number of families living in the houses lost their all There is par. tial insurance.
 An official dispatch received from Port Arthur announces that serious fighting has occurred in the vicinity of the boundary of the provinces of Mukden and Kirin, Manchuria, be- tween Russian frontier guards and Chinese robbers who had been raidinR railroad stations. The Russians sur. rounded 800 Chinese at Kiangtungtai. and only thirty of them escaped.
 In a crowded tenement quarter in, State street. Chicago, the bodies of m entire colored family numbering seven persons were found Sunday night guawed by rats and fin an advanced state of decomposition. The police fin. cline to a theory of murder and suicide by poison. The family Is that of Jones Butler, an upholsterer, and consisted of Butler. his wife and five children. | ftNNIN ol NtiohtA NANNhNAE NA& investigated the shipment of horses and mules to South Africa from the port of Chalmette, La, was laid before the cabinet on Tuesday by the president. While the report is incomplete, it devel- oped that the conclusion was reached by the president from what he had seen of it that there Is not sufficient evi- dence to show past or present violation of neutrality, and consequently there is no warrant for intervention.
 It Is reported that M. santos-Du- mont, who circled the Eifrel tower in Paris, will attempt to sail his airship over and around the statue of Liberty, in New York harbor, early fin the sum mer. A syndicate of $00,0o0 has been formed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials and prominent New Workers to defray the expenses of the daring Brazilian aeronaut's demonstrations. The exhibitions will open at Brighton Beach and continue for a month. |