Connecticut western news., 1903-07-02

| Injured by being run down by pas Senger train while at work on the track of the Boston and Maine rail road at Derby bridge, near North Leo minister, Mass, Thursday. Lightning struck the Presbyterian church at New Concord, O.. Sunday, killing A. H. Alexander, prostrating his young daughter in the same seat beside him and also Miss Rose Paden, the organiSt.
 Albert. the ten-year-old son of Wes- 1 ley Blauvelt, is dead at Nyack, N. r., | of lockjaw, caused by the accidental | discharge of a toy pistol which injured his hand. AntitoXin was tried in vain. At Coshocton. O., Tuesday, Newton Van Horn. aged seventeen. while play ing baseball was instantly killed by be- ing hit by a foul tip. His skull was fractured.
 Three negroes accused of the murder of a white man were taken from the jail at Newton, Ga. early Friday morn ing by a mob of fifty citizens and hanged.
 At a lawn party in Dorchester, Mass, Saturday night. gasoline lamp used to light a tent exploded, and eight per sons were severely burned.
 Two railroad wrecks occurred in Vir- ginia Friday night, engineers and fire men being killed and several persons severely hurt.
 Four men are dead and one badly in- jured as the result of head on colli- sion on the Seaboard Air Line at Mag ara, s. c.
 Two persons were killed and two in- jured in d crossing accident in Newark, N. J., Saturday.
 IN THE According to the re-
 rrno- port of the New York
 state labor bureau, the
 total number of un- ions in the state at the end of March was 2,365, having an aggregate mem bership of 357, ,234. This is an increase of 2S0O0 since September. Of the H. 941 idle working people 57.2 per cent were unable to find work, 21.T per cent were idle on account of the weather or lack of materials and 10.7 per cent on account of strikes and lockouts.
 After three months of unwavering fight, during which the entire building operations of New York city have been practically at a standstill and millions of dollars lost to- both sides. the first break has come in the war between building employers and their en- pIoyees. A plan of arbitration has been agreed to. and it is expected sav- eral thousand men will return to work at once,
 The big smelter of the Amalgamated Copper company at Anaconda, Mont, has been shut down for an indefinite period, throwing 1,50O men idle. The men allege, that it is done to forestall | probable strike for higher wages on July |. The mines of the company at Butte have also closed, affecting more tlian 2.0O0 other men.
 Fifteen thousand garment workers of Chicago have been served by the National Association of Wholesale Clothing Merchants with an uItimatum which almost amounts to notice of lockout.
 TUE EIDE In Milwaukee Friday
 ,rco,n night the Davidson
 hotel on Third street and the Boston store on Grand avenue and another large building were de- stroyed. The total loss is estimated at about $250,O0o, partially covered by insurance.
 At Baltimore. Tuesday, a gasoline tank exploded In the basement of &. Kirk x Sons jewclry store causing a fire, with damage estimated at $7J,OU0. covered by insurance.
 Almost the entire plant of the Gin cinnati Abattoir Company was destroy ed Friday. The loss is estimated at $2O0,0O0. The insurance is $125,O0O.
 The extensive creosote works at West Pascagoula, Ala, said to have been the largest in the south, are in ashes. Loss estimated at $200000.
 The extensive plant of the Riddle Coach and Hearse company at Raven na, O., was practically wiped out Sun day; loss $25O.OOO.
 Destruction of the plants of the Rid dle Coach and Hearse company at Ra- yenna, O., Sunday caused loss of $25O,OO0.
 At Decatur Ind, Sunday Kern. Bee Ter x Co.'S department store was burn ed to the ground. The loss was $8S,- 900.
 The paint shop of the Brooks Oil company at Cleveland, O., was burned Sunday. Loss, $5O,0OO; fully insured
 A blaze of unknown origin destroyed property in Williamsburg, a suburb of Pittsburg, Monday, valued at $75,OOO. spoRTJNc Cornell university .rrn,pc oarsmen cove cred themselves with glory at the intercollegiate regatta on the l Hudson river on Friday, winning all three events. Records were broken ,, in the freshman race, and splendid time was made in both of the other events. In the varsity race over the four mile course CornelTS crew slipped away with ridiculous ease. leaving the other five crews far in the rear The times at the finish in the varsity race of four miles were: Cornell. first, time Ism. 57s.; Georgetown, second, 10m PTS; Wisconsin, third 19m. % 2-5s.; Penn sylvania, fourth, 19m. 35 2-5s.; Syra= cuse, fifth, 19m. 36 Pos; Columbia. sixth, 19m. 54 1-5s.
 In the annual dual rowing contest at New London, Conn.,, Thursday, Yale not only won the eight pared varsity racp hv three and a half ilUthS hut