Connecticut western news., 1903-09-17
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 A Week Paragraphic Photographs of the
 Worlds Doings

The annual report of Commissioner of Pensions Ware places the totafnum- Der of pensioners now on the rolls at 996.545, of which 729, ,356 are soldiers and 267, ,1S9 are widows and depend ents. MT. Ware announces that it Is not probable that the pension roll will again cross the million line, the high water mark having been reached a year ago. Five of the pensioners are on the roll on account of the war of the Revolution. l.116 on account of the war of 1872, 1,116 on account of the Indian wars and 13,S74 on account of the Mex ican war.
 General John c. Black, recently elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. has ap-' pointed his personal staff as follows: Adjutant general, Charles A. Partridge of the department of Illinois; quarter master general, Charles Burrows of the department of New Jersey; inspector general, Edwin R. Messer of the de partmeat of Iowa; judge advocate gen eral, James Tanner of the department of New York.
 With two long, deep furrows extend ing along the port and starboard sides of her underbody and a powerful stream of water gushing from a crush ed plate beneath her engine room the cruiser Olympia was put into the wood dry dock at the Norfolk navy yard on Thursday. New plates probably will have to be placed all along the dam aged part of the Olympia on both sides of her bottom.
 The District government has granted the formal permit to the Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore railroad, as the Pennsylvania road ie known in Washington, to construct the twin tun- mel under the United States capitol building and the adjacent blocks and streets. The total cost of the work will be approximately $S00,O00. The mo- tive power will be electricity.
 Professor Langley's air ship was dis abled again on Wednesday by the wreck of the starboard propeller, which broke under pressure of its own veloc- ity about the middle, one of the blades dashing against the framework and doing considerable damage. The blade whirled through the air at a fast rate, barely missing several men on the deck of tugboat-
 According to announcements made by M N Let's for his brother, F. c. Let's of Chicago. who for some time has been working to secure a combina. I ton of wholesale grocers in Ohio, all reliminarr- fs...<sss have been completed in Columbus. O., for the organization of $10.000,0O0 company with char. ter authorized under New Jersey laws.
 After mature consideration and con sultation in person and by mail with senators and representatives. President Roosevelt has abandoned the plan to call congress into extraordinary session in October. This session, which he an nounced many months ago would be held this fall. will be called under the present plan for Monday, Nov. Q.
 Miss Hulda B. Todd, postmaster at Greenwood, Del, whose removal from office by the postmaster general be- cause she was obnoxious to United States Senator Alice attracted the at tention of the entire country, has given up the disputed office to Jacob L. Houseman, who was appointed her successor.
 Bishop Richard Scannel of the Oma ha diocese of the Catholic church has taken definite stand in the matter oI Catholics becoming members of the In ternational Typographical union ano makes the plain statement that Cath ollie cannot belong to the union and re ceive dissolution from a priest. Hon. James w. Houghton of Saratogs Springs, N. Y., as associate justice of the appellate division of the suprem. court in and for the Third judicial de 1 partment for the term of five years il the place of the Hon. S. Alonzo Kel ' logg, who has resigned.
 A three cent fare ordinance wa,
 passed by the city council of Cleve
 land, O., on Wednesday, the first oI
 its kind in the city. Mayor Johnson
 is said to be interested in the new line 1 which, according to the conditions oI
 grant, must be in operation by the 1S
 of April. 1904.
 The transport Fitzpatrick arrived in 1 New York Sunday with the bodies of BOP soldiers who lost their lives in the Philippines. Many were claimed by ! friends; others were taken to the Ma
 tional cemetery at Arlington for inter
 ment.
 Professors Parker of Harvard and ] Eggers of Yale, accompanied by Hans and Christian Kaufman, two celebrat
 ed Swiss guides, have succeeded in as
 cending Mount Deltaform, the highest peak in the Rocky mountains. Dr. Shinkishi Hatai. professor of neurology at the University of Chicago, has discovered a new food, known as
 lecithin, which he declares has quail ties that will make men and animals grow to giant size.
 The grand jury at Cynthiana, Ky,
 has indicted Tricky Jim Back, George
 Bollinger and c. c. Adams for perjury l They testified in the recent Jett-Whitt 1 trials, attempting to prove an alibi fol 1 Jett.
 By the aid of a diver from St. Johns,
 Thomas Burns, fisherman of Sea
 wall. \. &. has recovered nearly SIS
 GOO in gold from the hull of wrecked
 vessel for which he paid 21 shilIings.
 The first use of cavalry in the Salva-
 tion Army Is being made in a march just undertaken through the feud dis