Connecticut western news., 1903-08-20

All difficulties existing between Bra gil and Bolivia have been overcome. The base of the amicable arrangement is as follows: Bolivia will acknowledge Brazirs sovereignty over great part of Acre territory, while Brazil will pay an indemnity for military expenditures made by Bolivia and will build a har- bor on the river Madeira and a railway from Mamore to Madeira.
 Senator Cochrane, one of the leading Shorthern breeders on this side of the Atlantic. is dead at his home in Hill hurst, Que. His cattle have won in7 numerable prizes at all the big shows during the last thirty years.
 A terrific storm along the line of the National railway from SaItillo to Mon terey, Mexico, did great damage Sun day. sza- Owing to political crisis the minis try of Chile has resigned. Important political changes are expected
 spoRT,Nc At San Francisco. Fri
 ArrA,pe day night, James J. Jef-
 ~ fries, champion heavy weight of the world, played with Jim Corbett for nine rounds and half, and then Corbett's seconds motioned to Referee Graney to stop the fight in order to save their man from need less punishment. The fight demon strated that Jeffries stands alone in his class. The attendance, 10000, was the largest ever assembled at a ringside in this country and the receipts $62, ,84O.
 In San Francisco, Thursday night, Frank c. Neil of that city won the ban tam weight championship of the world over Harry Forbes in the second round of a scheduled twenty round fight. Forbes by virtue of holding the cham pionship was 2 to favorite in the betting.
 On Thursday, at Toronto, the Ironde- quoit, the American cb enger, beat the Strathcona, the Ca allan defend CT, in the fifth race for .he Canada cup by one minute, giving her the cup. The Strathcona won the first two races and the Irondequoit the last three.
 At the United States fishery at Baird, Cal, on the St. Cloud river, 10000, 900 salmon eggs have been taken from the early run of fish. The largest number ever before taken at Baird was 17.000,- 900 in 1898. Fifty millions. 1t is expect ed, will be the total this year.
 At the Brighton Beach (N. Y.) track on Monday Lou Dillon, Billings cham pion trotting mare, failed to break the record of 2:02A made by Cresceus, but trotted the fastest quarter, half and three-quarters ever made on the turf.
 An international exhibition of Afneri- can horses has been decided on for the week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, 1908, in Louisville, Ky.
 nEATHa In Pasadena. Cal, on
 oe MorEn Monday, Noah Brooks,
 -aa,- a we'll known author
 and journalist and a warm personal friend of Abraham Lin- coin. He had lived there several years as a recluse. He was native of Gas tine, Me, and was seventy years of age. Mir Brooks from 1885 to 1896 was editor of the New York Times. He was the author of several books among them "A Life of Lincoln" and First Across the Continent.''
 Tn Bristol Pa. Thursday, B. Frank Gilkeson, former banking commission er of paralysis, with which he was stricken recently at Lake George, N. Y. Mir Gilkeson was born at Bristol in 1S42. He was admitted to the bar in 1865. During President Harrison's ad. ministration he was appointed second comptroller of the treasury.
 At Chicago on Sunday, following an operation, Dr. F. NJ. Powell, aged fifty five. He was for twenty-two years su- perintendent of the State Institution For Feeble Minded Children at Glen wood, la, Many medical textbooks were written by Dr. Powell.
 In Hartford, Conn, Thursday, of Bright's disease, Colonel William H Stratton, prominent in insurance and manufacturing circles in New England and New York. He was taken i'll while in England in July.
 At Cincinnati, O., on Saturday Colo mel William E. Bundy, United States attorney for the southern district of Ohio. He was a cousin of Senator Jo- seph B. Foraker.
 At Trinidad on Sunday, suddenly Captain Malcolm Rafferty of New York city, one of the heroes of the Spanish, American war.
 ACCIDENTS At Winfield, Kan, on
 AND Thursday evening Gil, cAsuAIr,es bert Twigg, aged thir.
 ty years, supposed to be insane, appeared on the principal street of the town with double bar. reled shotgun and fired both charged deliberately into crowd of 5000 ped. pie who were listening to band con cert. He killed three persons, fatally injured seven and shot twenty others Twigg was himself killed by police man.
 Fourteen masked men, supposed fo be cattlemen, took a herder from 6 sheep camp at Dupuyer. Mont, and carrying him ten miles into the noun. tains, tied him to a tree and whipped him to death. They shot also many of the herder's sheep and drove the re mainder away.
 Charles Chollett, professor of French at the West Virginia university, was found dead in a field two miles from Morgantown on Thursday with gun shot wound in his abdomen. He was out hunting, and in climbing fence his gun was accidentally discharged
 On Thursday John Bisnette, a farm CT residing at Three Mile Bay, N. Y. was killed in q peculiar manner. While ~epairing a moving machine the team started, and the knives severed the old Sick Headache ]? Food doesn't digest we'll :?