Connecticut western news., 1903-08-20
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Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World has given to Columbia university $1. 100000 to found school of journal ism Half of this sum is to be expend- ed in the erection of a building on the university grounds on Morningside heights, the remainder to be used as founding the school is decided to be success after three years MT. Pulitzer will give 1t another million.
 Postmaster General Payne has re ceived9 scablegram from Charles I Glidden, who is making an extensive automobile tour of Europe, saying that he had so far covered 3,59O miles and that he had crossed the arctic circle on his machine. He also stated that he had officially deposited with the Swed- ish government an American flag which he had carried across the arctic circle.
 Monday, Aug. r, marked the one hundredth anniversary of the perma- nent settlement of Chicago. Aug II, 1903, Lieutenant Swearingen of the United States army landed with com pany of troops on the lake front and began the construction of Fort Dear borg Chicago will celebrate the ami versary by jubilee Sept. 26 to Oct. 1.
 A most unusual convention held it's session in Rochester last week, a con vention at which not word was spo- ken and silence reigned. It was a gath ering of the Empire State Association of Deaf Mutes. and Alexander l.. Pach of New York, the president, made an opening address in the sign language. It is now thought that the special session of congress which had been proposed for Monday, Nov 9, will be called several weeks earlier. This i'm portant change in the programme is a result of the conference between the senate subfnancial committee and the president.
 Grasshoppers are so thick in the vi cinity of Red Lodge, Mont, that they are interfering with the operation of trains. Locomotive wheels are made so slippery that when the engines stop 1t is difficult to start them again. The grasshoppers have eaten the range bare
 The steamer El Dorado, which ar rived in New York from Galveston, Tex, had on board a twelve-year-old boy who was found adrift in an open boat about 100 miles off the coast of Georgia on Aug. 10. He was naked and almost dead from exposure.
 The American fishing tug Silver Spray, claimed to have been fishing in Canadian waters, was repeatedly fired Petrel on Lake Erie, Wednesday. The matter will be reported to the state de partment at Washington.
 It is officially announced that Elihu Root will resign as secretary of war. the resignation to take effect about the 1st of next January. He will be sue ceeded unless present plans miscarry by Judge William H. Taft, now gov ernor of the Philippines.
 A tribal war is said to be in progress among the Chilkoot Indians of the Klukwan tribe in Alaska. For several days reign of terror was in progress in the valley of the Chilkoot. Witch craft is at the bottom of the trouble. A cure for lockjaw has been discov- cred and successfully tested by Dr. S. A. Mathews of the University of Chicago. Dr.. Mathews method of treatment is the injection of solution of calcium and potassium salts.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Murton, wealthy residents of Montreal, were robbed of jewels worth $2,0OO and $4OO in money while on a train which was passing through Nevada, the thief entering the Pullman car in the night. Curtis Jett and Thomas White, charged with the assassination of J. B. Marcum at Jackson, Ky, have been found guilty at the second trial at Gym, I thiana and sentenced to life imprison- ment.
 l! The bridges between the two Kansas Cities were swept away by flood Mon day, and boats are the only means of transportation between the Kansas and Missouri shores.
 The general staff control of the army , went into effect Saturday. General Young is chief and General Corbin ad. | jutant general.
 Spring wheat sold for $1 per bushel in Minneapolis on Friday, the highest point ever reached under legitimate conditions.
 Three men charged with making spu- rious coins were arrested in Springfield Mass, Thursday