Connecticut western news., 1903-08-20

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 IN THE Wage scales for the M EfEin window glass work or Ano. men have been agreed
 to by the various groups into which the manufacturers are divided on the highest basis ever paid in the United States. It is stated that the 1903-04 fire will begin Oct. 15 and continue until May IA. 1904. s. A serious clash between striking em- ployees of-the Riverside steel plant and nonunion men who came to i'll their places occurred Sunday morning at Wheeling, W. Va. A thousand shots were exchanged, but no one was killed.
 W. S. Stone of Eldon Qa.) division, No. 181. has been elected to fill the un- expired term as grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, made vacant by the death of F. M. Arthur and A. B. Youngson.
 It is estimated that between 5000 and 1000 Philadelphia textile strikers, principally operatives in the rug branch, resumed work Monday. The manufacturers made no concessions.
 TIE FIRE The Masonic temple in pr~op1 Cleveland. O., was de-
 stroyed Monday night. The building was occupied by a num- Der of Masonic lodges and command cries on the three upper floors, while the lower floors were occupied by stores.
 At Camden, Ark, Sunday, the large congresses and warehouses of Ritchie q Go. and Reeves & Son and other houses were destroyed; loss, $100,O00
 At Ripping. N. H.. Tuesday morning, three business blocks were destroyed and others damaged.
 eonEtnN The fighting continues
 NOTES in Macedonia. The i'm
 cupied Krushevo. twen- ty-three miles north of Monastir, which was recently seized by the insurgents. A force of 4,OO0 troops besieged the place and bombarded 1t with artillery. The whole Christian population are re ported to have been massacred. The in- surgents have killed many Wallachians at Kutza because they acted as Turk ish spies. Albanians in revenge for the destruction of the Albanian villages of Salo and Zaitsha by the insurgents have burned the Christian village of Karbonstza and have slaughtered its inhabitants. An. imperial trade has been issued at Constantinople calling out fifty-two additional battalions of troops about 52,OOO) from the European prov Efoes of Turkey in consequence of the spread oi tae insurrection-
 A squadron of tke Russian Black sea heet has been ordere.I to sail for Turk lsh waters. Notifeati61- of this move hes been telegraphed from Sevastopol to the Russian ambassador at Constan- tinople. The dispatch of the squadron is intended to emphasize Russia's in tention of exacting complete compli- ance with her demands as to satisfac- ton for the murder by Turkish gen darme of her consul at Monastir, M. Rostkovski.
 It is now announced that a new vice royalty, comprising the Amur district and the Kwangtung province (created August, 1899) has been established in Manchuria Heretofore the Amur dis trict has been controlled by governor general A ukase signed by the czar and promulgated Aug. 12 appoints Vice Admiral Alexiefr, aid-de-camp general to the czar, as viceroy of this far east ern territory.
 Disturbances among the dissa tisfied workingmen in Russia continue At Kisv sixty persons were killed in the riots on Thursday. Forty, including women and children, were shot dead and 100 wounded in a collision with the troops.
 The Hungarian cabinet has resigned owing to the failure of Premier Heder vary's programme to meet the approval of the emperor and the decision of a number of Kossuthists. hitherto neu- tral to join the obstructlonists.
 Minister Conger at Picking has SC cured written promise from Prince Ching to sign on Oct. 8 a treaty with the United States which will include a guarantee that Mukden and Tatungtao shall be open ports.
 A terrible accident has occurred on Lake Tykojarvi, in Finland. The upper deck of vessel conveying people from church collapsed, and forty persons were drowned or killed. and many oth- CTS were injured.
 Vice Admiral Cervera, who surren- dered tothe American fleet of Santiago, Cuba, has resigned the post of chief of staff of the Spanish navy, to which he was appointed in December, 1902.
 An earthquake having the region of Mount Etna as a center was felt throughout Sicily and southern Italy and to lesser degree in central Italy Tuesday. Little damage was done.
 Seven Alpine tourists have been killed while attempting to climb the Aiguelles Crises. The party was behind Mont Blanc, on the Courmayeur side of the mountain.
 The consecration of the Rev. J. I. Harty of St. Louis as archbishop of Manila took place in the Franciscan Church of St. Anthony at Rome Satur- day.
 The people at Naples are in an all most continual state of panic over the activity of Mount Vesuvius. The flow of lava has been heavy
 The famine in Kwangsi province, China, is reported to be abating. woolgatherinE.
 "For ones wits to go wooigather- aa.-N T.