Connecticut western news., 1902-04-17

Robert ]. wynne, the Washington correspondent of the New York Press, has been offered and has accepted the office of first assistant postmaster gen eral. The change will take effect May 1 or earlier as W. NJ. Johnson of New Jersey, whom he succeeds, is anxious to retire as soon as possible.
 Amid an immense throng Of soldiers, civilians and natives the body of Cecil Rhodes was committed to its rock tomb in the Matoppo hills in Matabele- land on Thursday. The coffin was shrouded in union jack, and the wreath sent by Queen Alexandra was laid upon it as it was lowered into the grave.
 After months of silence United States Senator Quay on Friday announced that he Is opposed to the nomination of Attorney General John F Elkins for governor of Pennsylvania. This an- nouncement came as a great shock to the friends of Mir. Elkins and has caused a tremendous stir in political circles
 The Rev. Dr. Samuel NJ. Scoville, as- sistant pastor of Plymouth church. Brooklyn. died on Tuesday in the Pres. byterian hospital Philadelphia. Dr. | Scoville was admitted to the hospital March 23, suffering from a complica. ton of diseases. Dr. Scoville was a sonin-law of the late Henry Ward Beecher.
 Comnlandant Kritzinger, who was captured by General French nt Han- over road, Cape Colony. Dec. 1T last | and who has been tried by court mar tial on the charge of having committed four murders in addition to train wrecking and cruelty to prisoners, has been acquitted and Is being we'll treat ed as an ordinary prisoner of war.
 The bill to repeal. the war revenue taxes has been signed by President Roosevelt The law repeals taxes to the amount of $T3,000,000 a year, 1t 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 All the taxes imposed un- der the war revenue act of 1898 are now repealed.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.
 Seventy.two hours after Professor Joseph NJ. Miller murdered Miss Car rie NJ. Jennett in Detroit, Mich, with a hatchet he was In Jackson prison, sentenced to spend the rest of his life | there at hard labor. He made a full confession. Mrs. Miller. his wife, who has been an invalid for several years, Is prostrated at her home, and she is in-a dangerous condition.
 The following official statement was made at the White House on Monday; "The president, after most careful fin. vestigation and seeing as many men as possible and hearing from others, has come to the conclusion that Governor | Dole's course has been such as to war. rant his continuance as governor of Ha. wall and entitle him to the respect and hearty support of the administration" The president has decided to appoint James s. Clarkson surveyor of the port of New York in place of Silas c. Croft, deceased. The president has reap. pointed in office Robert Sharkey, the present naval officer of the port. Mir. | Clarkson was formerly a citizen or Iowa, but now lives in New York. He was formerly postmaster general and chairman of the Republican national l committee.
 Eugene F. Ware of Kansas has been selected by the president to succeed H. Clay Evans as commissioner of pen sions. Mir. Ware is from Topeka and is a member of the law firm of Gleed, Ware X Gleed. He served in the civil war in the Iowa volunteer infantry and was wounded in battle. Mir. Ware has some reputation as an author. having written several books under the nom de plume of Ironquill.
 Mrs. A E. Tower, the wife of a mil lionaire resident of Poughkeepsie and daughter of B. Platt Carpenter, for a | generation a leader in the Republican | party of New York state. shot and kill ed her nineteen-year-old son and her self at the family residence on Thurs day night 1t is believed that the mur. der and suicide resulted from a it of temporary alteration of mind, for Mrs. Tower was wrapped up in her boy. Il ---~--~