Connecticut western news., 1903-07-02
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Four indictments have been found 1 against ex-Congressman Driggs of l Brooklyn. Each charges that Driggs 1 unlawfuHy agreed to receive and did | receive a $500 check from the Brandt | Dent company for procuring a contract i from the United States government for making and delivering 250 auto matic cashiers for the post office de l pertinent.
 It is reported that George w. Wander ! bilt has acquired large tract of land between Hendersonville and Brevard, l N. C., about thirty miles from Ashe- vile, and will shortly commence the
 construction of model manufacturing city, all of which wills,be completed
 and ready for occupancy before any one will be permitted to settle in it. Argument on the motion for a change of venue in the case of James H. Till man, indicted for the murder of Edi- tor Gonzales. has been concluded at Co lumbia, s. C., and Judge Townsend at
 once announced his decision that the change should be granted. Lexington county was designated and the time fixed September.
 The village of Scottsburg, in Living Ston county, N. Y. is under strict quar- antine, as smallpox has broken out there. and the entire community has been exposed. The disease was spread by the bridegroom at wedding cere- mony, whose body was covered with pustules at the time.
 During Sunday night robbers broke into farmhouse two miles from Lime stone, N. Y, and robbed James and
 Patrick Quinton, who lived there alone of $4,000. The Quintons, who are
 bachelors, were known to be suspicious of banks. President Roosevelt arrived at his home in Oyster Bay, N. r., Saturday
 afternoon, where he received a warm
 welcome from his townsmen. A trophy
 cannon was unveiled by the president At the close of the ceremony he spoke briefly. ..- ...-> Holmes Conrad of New York city,
 who was solicitor general of the United States under President Cleveland. and Charles Joseph Bonaparte of Baltimore have been retained by the government to take charge of the postal fraud
 cases.
 The new headquarters for the Salva-
 ton Army in Cleveland, O.. was dedi-
 cated Sunday. Senator Hanna presid-
 ed at the ceremonies The property is
 worth $100,00O, of which Mir Hanna
 contributed nearly $4.000.
 Mrs. F. F. Adams, IT,, wife of the
 vice president of the F.#F-+Adams To
 bacco company. in Nilwaukee Wis :,
 was sandbagged -andtrobbed of $1S.500
 on train en route to that city from
 Chicago Monday night.
 Trachoma, commonly called pink eye,
 is an epidemic in Buffalo. yeterinari=
 ans say the number of horses suffering
 from the malady is unusually large.
 Hundreds of people are also afflicted.
 New Yorlx's real estate assessments
 this year amount to $4, 730,000,0 ,000, an
 increase of $1,400,000,000 over last
 year. The personnel is 100000, an
 increase of $153. 3.0O0,0O0.
 In Canton, O., Wednesday, occurred the marriage of Luther Day, son of Judge William R. Day of the supreme court, and Miss Ida Barber, niece of Mrs. Mckinley.
 Charles Botteiger, the Lykens Valley baggage master who was arrested at Lykens, Pa, charged with rifling mail pouches, has confessed to the postal authorities.
 At the annual convention of the al. o,,1 .,4 | Nyack Heights, N. r., a collection talk en for foreign missions amounted to | $7.OOO.
 President Stryker of Hamilton col lege has announced among the recent | donations to that college gift of | $10O,0OO from Andrew Carnegie. The steamer Oregon, the first vessel to reach Seattle, Wash, this season l from Nome, brought seventy-five pas, | sengers and $14O,000 in gold. l The actual construction of the Penn: i sylvania railroad tunnel under the
 North river began Friday at Thirty l second street, New York.
 l The first of the wheat crop of 1903 arrived In Cincinnati Wednesday, ten | days in advance of the usual time. It came from Missouri.
 Secretary of the Navy Moody receiv- l ed his first cable message from the | Midway islands, in the Pacific, on | Wednesday.
 l A plague of lice has visited the apple | orchards in Orleans county, N. Y,, and | threatens to destroy the promising fruit | crop. | The flood of the Rio Grande, in New | Mexico has driven hundreds of fami- | lies from their homes to the foothills.
 The Kansas legislature has convened
 in extra session to relieve the flood sit
 uation in the Raw valley.
 There are now seventeen murderers | awaiting execution in New York state
 prisons.
 ACCIDENTS By the breaking of [ | .nn shaft on the first floor | .,r, of the H. J. Heinz
 CASUALTIES. company's plant in
 Allegheny, Pa, Monday, the ropes
 supporting a large freight elevator on
 which twenty-three persons were
 crowded were suddenly released. The
 cage fell from the fifth floor into the
 cellar, distance of forty-five feet, and
 every one on the elevator was injured
 Two at least will die.
 Two men were killed and two wer,