Connecticut western news., 1903-05-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

nica, is ill at Guantanamo, Cuba.
 Fire at Kennebunk. Me. on Sunday destroyed business blocks worth $1oo,. 900.
 The loss from recent forest fires in Potter county, Pa, is estimated at t1,OOO.0O0.
 Luigi Arditi the well known musical conductor. died Friday at his home in Hove, England.
 Bishop Randolph S. Foster of the Methodist Episcopal church died Satur- day at Newton, Mass.
 Only five out of the 160 laundries in Chicago are open for business. Thirty five hundred laundry workers are idle.
 People are moving away from Low ell, Mass, and business is paralyzed owing to the protracted cotton mill strike
 A passenger train on the Little Mia mi railroad was ditched at Columbus, O., to prevent a collision. Five train men were hurt.
 The workshops of the Russian Loco motive and Gun works at Kharkoff, Russia. have been burned down. The loss is S5OO,O00.
 King Edward left Paris Monday aft CT a three days visit made remarks- ble because of the extremely friendly reception accorded him.
 The Deering branch of the Interna- tional Harvesting company at Chicago has closed down because of a strike. Over 5000 men are idle.
 The New York court of appeals in a decision handed down declared uncon- stitutional the eight hour law affecting work on public contracts.
 Harvard university is planning to es- tablish a school of education and peda- gogy. with separate faculty and an endowment of $2,OO0,OOO
 The Kohl torpedo factory in Cleve- land, O., blew up Saturday, resulting in the loss of five lives. A large num- Der of persons were hurt.
 Wintry weather and freezing temper atures, with heavy falls of snow, oc- cured in Kansas, Wyoming, Nebras- ka and the Dakotas Wednesday.
 Governor Cailles of Laguna province and party of volunteers have cap tured Rios, the fanatical Filipino lead CT in that part of the island of Luzon.
 The Rev. George Dana Boardman, D. D., one of the best known Baptist preachers in the country, died in At lantic City, N. l., after a long illness.
 Commander Edward Hooker of the United States navy, retired, is dead at his home in Brooklyn after long ill., ness. He was over eighty years of age.
 A fire Sunday destroyed the building on Wabash avenue, Chicago, occupied by the Waterbury Clock company and the Spalding company, causing q loss of $150,000.
 Thirteen cows and seven horses have died within two weeks on the farm of Hiram Seely in Washington, \. Y., from a mysterious disease which pug. Zles veterinarians.
 The grand commandery of the Knights Templars of California has decided by unanimous vote that here after no wine shall be served at the Templar banquets.
 Princess Louise, who deserted her family at Salzburg last December and eloped with NJ. Giron, the tutor of her children, has given birth to a daughter at Lindau. Bavaria.
 Hon. James B. Macrum was shot and killed on the steps of the courthouse at Jackson, Ky, Monday by an unknown person. He had received repeated warnings from political enemies.
 Paul B. Du Chaillu. the American author and explorer, who was stricken with partial paralysis on Wednesday, is dead in St. Petersburg. He was born in New Orleans July 31, 1885.
 The cold wave of Friday and Satur- day did great damage to early vegeta. ton and fruit blossoms in New York and New England. In some places ice formed to the thickness of half an inch.
 Ten persons, eight men and two wo. men, are now known to have been killed by the explosion at the plant of the Northwestern Star oil company at the foot of Sixth avenue, Minneapolis, on Thursday.
 Liquor tax returns at the New York excise department to date show little if any falling off in the number of appli- cations for liquor licenses due to the increase in the tax by the law passed at the recent session of the legislature.
 Maine has a gold mine. The place where gold has been discovered Is on the Keith farm, near Bretton's Mills. The vein is fifty feet wide and shows for nearly two miles. There is every evidence that this is a true Assure vein.
 Ten Chinese boys of good family will sail on the Nippon Maru May 15 for the United States to be placed in col leges. They are in charge of Mir. Sac Ko Alfred Sze, formerly a Washing ton high school boy and who afterward graduated from Cornell.
 The plant of the International Salt company, located at South Chicago. with three boats lying in the Calumet river, was destroyed by fire on Tues day. The loss is estimated at S1,250.- 900, that of the International Salt com pany being placed at SS00,O00.
 The plant of the Crescent Powder company, ten miles south of Holidays burg, Pa, on Thursday was complete ly wrecked by four explosions. Of the thirty employees nine were killed out right. and all the others were badly in jured. Of the dead seven were Ameri- cans and two Italians.
 Denman Thompson. the well known actor, was stricken with neuralgia of the heart at Claremont. N. H.. on Thursday, and as a result all dates for his "Old Homestead" company have been cancelled, including four weeks engagement in New York and one or two weeks in Brooklyn.
 To Shorten Lacknwanna Line.
 Surveys have been made for q rail road which it was announced would bt built soon from Nichols. Tioga county southeast into Pennsylvania. It is now understood that the Delaware Lacka. wanna and Western cOmDany is hack