Connecticut western news., 1903-09-17

Alabama and Louisiana. leveling tele- graph lines and doing extensive dam age.
 Killed by gas Mrs. Louise Buxton. the young wife of barrel manufac- turer Of Worcester, Mass. h;0 been found in bed in B West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, New York. The windows and doors were closed. and locked. She wss alone in the house. She had gone there for the purpose of having an operation performed. Dread of the operation is believed to have led to her death
 In an attempt to steal quantity of alcohol from the cruiser Olympia, in dry dock at the Norfolk tVa.l navy yard, barrel of the fluid exploded Two men were killed outright and a master at arms is missing.
 William and Ward Nelson. brothers and prominent lumbermen Of Rogers City. Mich. have been drowned in a gale on Lake Michigan.
 NENus oE Steamship advices of
 oup the destruction by
 ,,,. hurricane of San Mi-
 "e'e7eons' guel. a town on the east coast of Yucatan, have been re- ceiyed at New Orleans Not build ing was left standing. The steamer Breakwater, which passed San Miguel on her way from New Orleans to Ba- lize, found the place in ruins, not liv- ing creature being in sight.
 The Colombian senate. in session at Bogota. has approved the bill author izing the government to negotiate a new Panama canal treaty with the United States on its first reading.
 .,o,-,o At Rockville, Mass, on
 ,no Monday, Major Del
 mar failed to break Lou Dillon's worlds trotting record of 2 minutes i1 his trial against time. The game son of Delmar. however, trotted a very remarkable mile, covering the distance In 20034. only three-quarters of a second slower than Lou Dillon's record and a half second outside of his own mark
 At the races of the Doncaster CEng- land) September meeting Wavelets Pride. ridden by Danny Maher, the American jockey, won the Doncaster cup, of 1000 sovereigns, a cup of the value of 200 sovereigns and the remain der in specie, added to sweepstakes of 10 sovereigns each, for three-year- olds and upward. two miles.
 The Monk and Equity, driven to pole by their owner, C. K. G. Billings, have broken the worlds mile wagon record of 2:l2L at the Glenvilis cetvvrranul track, going the distance in 2osA.
 Miss Bessie Anthony has won for the fourth time the title of western woman golf champion by defeating Miss Ma bel Higgins, the runner up, 3 up, 2 to play, at Chicago.
 EopEIcN It is semiofficially an
 Norre nounced that the cZar oEInrEeEsr will arrive in Rome on
 Oct 24 and will re- main there three days, during which time he will attend a military review and a gala performance at the Opera House Signor Morgari, the Socialist leader, has declared in the chamber of deputies that if the cZar comes to Italy the Socialists will hiss him. They will not abstain from hostile demon strations as in the case of visits from other sovereigns, said Signor Morgari as the latter were constitutional mon archs, while the czar had not yet grant ed a constitution to the people of Rus sia.
 Paris papers announce that the strange legacy of M. de Pierrecourt, who left his money to the city of Rou- cn for the purpose of founding a fam l fly of giants, with a view to the phys ical regeneration of the human race, has been before the council of state in Paris. An arrangement has been ar rived at by which the city of Rouen un- francs out of the testator's estate to i the foundation Of a useful institution l and to pay over some millions of francs to MT. de Pierrecourt's lawful heirs. The British home squadron. which is commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Ar thur K. Wilson. has just returned from a successful participation in the naval maneuvers and will sail Sept 16 for six weeks cruise around Scotland. Shortly afterward, according to the announcement, the squadron will sail for America. It is generally believed that the squadron will act as an escort to the Prince of Wales. who is said to be about to visit the United States It is said that Andrew Carnegie Is negotiating for the purchase of the fa- nous battle field of Bannockhurn. near Stirling. Scotland, in order to save 1t from falling into the hands of builders. At Bannockburn on June 24, 1914, the Scots under Bruce, defeated the Eng fish. led by King Edward II. The site of the battle is marked by block of granite called the Bored Stane." One hundred men of the Hampshire | regiment and loo of the Bombay in- fantry, British troops, who, with two guns, were escorting a party into Shai- bi, in Somaliland, were treacherously
 fired on while passing small village. One person was killed and one injured. The troops blew up the village and killed several of the villagers. The states general reassembled at The Hague on Monday. The queens speech dealt largely with the excel lence of the services rendered by the l navy and army during the recent rail road styikes.
 Fourteen persons were either killed or wounded on Monday during street | fights in Athens growing out of politi-