Connecticut western news., 1903-07-30

At ms nome III NHkeSDarTe, fd., SdI- urday, Charles A. Miner, former presi- dent of the State Millers' association and one of the best known citizens of northeastern Pennsylvania. He was seventy three years of age.
 At Albany, N. Y, Saturday, aged six 1ty years, Dwight A. Lawrence. the H. brarian of the New York state senate, who for more than thirty years had been we'll known in Republican politics.
 On Monday, after a lingering illness, I F. J. Kimball president of the Norfolk and Western railroad company, at his home in Radnor, Pa, aged fifty-nine years.
 IN THE Lawrence Murphy, for
 EEtn mer treasurer of the NS-Yo-k- Sfnnoas.t- l ters' union, has been found guilty in general sessions court ] of grand larceny in the first degree. I He was accused of having taken $12,- l 47O.41 from the treasury of that or l ganization. Part of the money, 1t was shown, was the proceeds of ''collec- ton" of $10O00 made by secret com I mittee" from the associated boss stone | cutters of Brooklyn.
 The operators and miners in the New river coal fields in West Virginia have settled their differences, and the min CTS resumed work after an eighteen months strike. The cause of the strike was the refusal of the operators to recognize the union organized there. | .<fa lished.
 The miners and operators at Pitts burg, Kan, have reached wage agree ment for one year. The settlement, which grants an advance of 2 cents on the ton, run of mine, affects 3O,000 miners, and directly and indirectly, all the miners in Kansas, Missouri Ar kansas and Indian lTerritOry are bene- | fited
 The Bookbindelx union, which has been fighting the reiubtatotQelt of W. I A. Miller, the assistaTi fldn in the government printing ofl&2 at Washing | ton, who was dismissed because Of his expulsion from the union and later or-s dered reinstated under s.dn execHtive order, has decided to remain at work under protest pending an investigation.
 The board of conciliation has decided that the laborers employed by contract coal miners are entitled to receive the l 10 per cent increase awarded by the commission to the contract miners and shall also participate in the advance in wages on the sliding scale.
 Under the agreements signed be- tween the Chicago Hotel Keepers as sociation and the Walters unions 6.00O employees are given q 10 per cent ad l vance in wages and improved working conditions. The agreements run until sGaag 1, 1905. -.s Every bdiass p1a,ssr sI1asler nl4k- 6fss apprentice in the employ of the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road has struck for the pay ment of the Chicago scale of wages. epoprtnc All records, both as to Arrnpe crowds $ and speed,
 were broken on Sat urday at the automobile meet at the Empire City track, New York. Barney Oldfield did the greatest record smash ing. At 3 o'clock he shot around the mile track in 5 4-5 seconds, electrify- ] ing the crowd and breaking the worlds mile record for automobiles.
 pr. H. Nelson Jackson of Burlington, Vt, and Sewall R. Crocker, his ehauf- feur, have completed an automobile trip across the continent which began in San Francisco May 9. It is the first time that an automobile has made the trip from ocean to ocean. The trip of over 6000 miles took sixty-three days, including nineteen days when no run was made.
 l At the conclusion of the trial race between the Reliance Constitution and | Columbia on Monday it was officially announced that the Reliance had been chosen to meet the Shamrock III. in defense of the America's cup, and no more trial races will be held. Robert Fitzsimmons, former cham pion heavy weight pugilist of the ], world and Miss Julia May Clifford, the actress, were married Saturday after noon at the Palace hotel, San Fran cisco.
 The Abbot and Major Delmar have been matched for a special purse of $2.5OO in connection with the harness races at Poughkeepsie and Albany, NY
 Betting in Wall street, New York city, on the result of the international cup races is at 10 to z in favor of the American boat.
 At Philadelphia Champion Young Corbett knocked out Billy Maynard after two minutes fighting in the first round.
 ACCIDENTS A score of prisoners
 AMI broke jail at Folsom,
 c.e,,n,rre Cal, on Monday, talk ing with them Ward an Wilkinson, his grandson, Harry Wilkinson, Captain of the Guard Mur- phy and two other officers. Guard Cotter was stabbed and fatally injured by one of the prisoners. State troops were ordered out to search for the pris- oners, who secured a number of rifles from the prison armory before they left.
 At Port Bowkley, Pa, on Sunday, Joshua Butler. a farmer, his wife and infant child were struck by the Black Diamond express on the Lehigh VaHey railroad while driving across the tracks, and all three were killed. The horse was also killed and the carriage ] demolished.
 By the bursting of an eight inch ann monia pipe. in Jacob Ruppert's River side Ice plant New York city. on Mon day morning five workmen lost their