Connecticut western news., 1903-04-30
NEWS OF l..u WEEK
Happenings of the " de World
 nrIeaN nnh TetSrtx Told.

 ! Lieutenant Governor Leo of Missouri voluntarily resigned his office Satur- , lay.
 !. Picrpont Morgan and Andrew Car. ncgie have sailed from New York for Southampton.
 Twenty seven packages of registered mail were stolen at Knoxville, Tenn, Sunday evening.
 The two ton baby hippopotamus in Central park. New York. has been sold to Il circus company.
 The Florida East Coast railway. through its land department. Is prcpar. ing to drain the Everglades. Fire in Columbus. O.. destroyed scv. eral buildings Sunday night. entailhg loss of $Gnu,oo0. X fire captain was killed
 Three men were killed and fourth probably fatally injured hy an explo sion of giant powder in mine near Dedrick. Cal. General MaNimo Gomez has accepted the craftsmanship of committee foI the erection of a Cuban building at the St. Louis exposition.
 The magnificent new Stock Exchange on Broad street. New York city. was dedicated on "Wednesday, with brief but impressive ceremonies. One man was killed and three others were fatally injured in a wreck on the | Spring Valley branch of the Chicago. | St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha rail. road on Thursday.
 By the explosion of some chemicals in the New Jersey state laboratory, which is n part of Rutgers college. q | fire was started on Thursday which destroyed the building. | The Gloucester schooners Talisman and Goldenrod. imprisoned all winter in the ice at Bay of Islands, Ncwfound. land, have arrived in port with car goes of frozen herring.
 Dr. William Thomas Councilman. the Shattuck professor of pathological ana tony in the Harvard Medical school. announces that he has dtscov- cred the germ that causes smallpox.
 The monthly statement of the collec- l tions of internal revenue show that for The month of March. 1903, the total collections were SlS,G24.ooS, a decrease ss compared with March, 1902, of $2,- | 6n2. .6sG
 II is reported that Judge Carluck of the court of first instance Is dead at | Cehu of cholera. He contracted the discuse in Bohol. The deceased was q native of Illinois and valued member of the judiciary.
 X band of seven counterfelters who initiated various coins and the coupons or government bonds and also counter fcitcd foreign coins. including those of the United States, has been arrested at Posen, Germany.
 The pope has surpassed the pOntifi- cate of St. Peter. His holiness was elected pope twrnty-five years two months and seven dnys ago. He has already received many telegraphic con 1 gratulations on the event.
 At Salt Lake City Bessie Knecht has awakened from her sleep of tifty-seveu days The doctors attribute her trouble to an abeess on the brain. When she went to sleep she weighed i2T pounds, Now she weighe only seventy-six.
 The carpenters strike. which has to considerable extent tied up building operations in Schenectady, \. r., for Il month. has been settled. The men ob- 1 tained their demand for an increase of wages from 35 to 40 cents an hour.
 Professor W. r. Durand. faculty ath- lctic adviser. announces that Charles F. Courtney has signed contract 10 coach Cornell crews for five years from this spring. IL Is stipulated that Mir. Courtney Is to give the crews his exclusive services.
 Presidant Loubct ended his visit to | Algeria Sunday with banquet at the municipality of Eona, after which he embarked on the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc amid the enthusiastic Ovations of the populace and steamed away in the direction of Tunis.
 The Welsh bicycle champion. Mi chael. had bad fall while training in Friedenau. suburb of Berlin. While he was making terrific speed tire burst. and he was hurled n great dis tance. landing on his head. He suf' fired from concussion of the brain
 Governor Murphy of New Jersey has ! appointed David R. Mcclellan of Mor' ristawn to succeed Howard r. Froth ingham as Il member of the New Jel sey fish and game commission Nh Frothiugham. who was president of the 1 commission. resigned few weeks ago
 According to latest dispatches from Central America. Ronilla is now presi. dent of Honduras. Arias Is in prison at Tcgucigalpa, and Sierra is fugitive iu Nicaragua. having lied to that coun try for safety when tue handful or government troops deserted him at Ne. Cnome.
 Roland l.. Morgan of Elgin, ILL. has died suddenly at his country home in Florida. He received package of prepared food hy mail and within if teen minutes after eating was dead His mother and wife miraculously es, capped. They only tasted the contents of the package.
 The steamer Charles NJ. Warmer built for the United States TranspOrta. lion company of Syracuse. N. I., by the Chicago Shipbuildiag company at a cost of S2jO.OO0. was launched at Chi cago Saturday. The Warner is one of twelve steel freight steamers, six of which have been built.
 The elections in spain on Sunday proved severe struggle. The vote boiled was unprecedented and was es. pecially large in the towns. The Social iSts everywhere made a miserable showing. The Republicans received q largely increased vote. but it Is esNi- mated that complete returns will give the government majority of consider | Rlly over 100.