Connecticut western news., 1903-07-23

at the banquet closing tLe annual un- ion convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, which has been in session there for nearly week.
 In Kalamazoo. Mich, on Friday, Al exander J. Shakespeare, siXty-nine years old, a pioneer newspaper man of Michigan. He was editor and publish CT of the Kalamazoo Gazette, the oldest paper in Michigan, for more than thir- ty-ive years.
 At Pasadena. Cal, on Friday, Luther Stieringer. one of the most eminent electrical engineers of the world, of consumption, aged fifty-eight years. He had charge of the electric lighting of the Pan-American exposition.
 At her home in Epping, N. H., on Friday. Mrs. GeOrgianna Witham, at the age of 105 years and 10 months, Within the last year she had travelled on railroads and was able to walk un- assisted.
 At his home in Sharpsburg, Pa, Mon day, William libby. one of the best known glass manufacturers in the country and a pioneer in the flint glass trade, in his seyenty-second year.
 At Fond du Lack, Wis, on Monday, Rev. Frederick Xavier Katzer, arch bishop of Milwaukee. The cause of death was cancer of the liver.
 In Washington, on Monday, Elizabeth M., wife of Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, treas urer of the United States. She was born in 1928 in Utica, N Y.
 In Philadelphia, Monday, suddenly, Frederick Jordan, head of the Amer ican Type Founders company, aged fifty-three years.
 Justice Samnel Lumpkin of the su- preme court of Georgia in Washington, Ga, on Thursday.
 NE,ue oE A severe and bloody
 o,t1 battle has taken place , at Ciudad Bolivar, in
 Venezuela. between the -revolutionists occupying the city and the government forces under General Gomez, and the city has been captured. The revolutionists opened the battle. The government troops, after a terri ble fight in which they lost more than 100 men, captured the cemetery. The spectacle furnished by the streets of Ciudad Bolivar when the smoke cleared away was heartrending. There were over 800 dead revolutionists in the streets, not counting the wounded.
 The Cuban congress has adjourned sine die after an almost continuous ses- sion since the time of the inauguration of the republic on May 20, 1902. One of the final acts of the senate was the ratification of the postal treaty with the United States, and an act was passed also providing for the adher- ence of the republic to the universal postal union.
 An English tramp steamer has land ed 1,4O0 Chinese at Guaymas, Mexico. The steamer came direct from Chinese ports. During the last thirty days fully 3,669 Chinese have landed there. Tie large immigration Is due to favor able Mexican immigration laws.
 The Venezuelan government has paid to the representatives of the allied powers the last installments of the in- demnity as stipulated by the protocol.
 Twelve people were killed in coal mine explosion at Comox, B. C., on Thursday.
 M THE A New York city grand
 rr,n jury has filed seven in
 dictments against la
 Dor leaders with Judge McMahon in the court of general ses- sionS. All were for extortion, and four were against Samuel ]. Parks, walk ing delegate of the Housesmiths' Bridgemen's and Structural Iron Work erS' union.
 President Wood of the Bridgeport Comp Trolley Mems union has off cially declared the strike of the em- ployees of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company off which was inau- gurated two months ago. The strike was q failure.
 After an idleness of two and a half months over 1000 boiler makers em- ployed in the shops of the Manufac- turers' Association of Pittsburg have settled their differences and returned to work.
 Nearly 1000 miners employed at the mines of the Robey Coal works at Ade- ma, O., have declared a strike because of the difficulties with the foreigners , who work there.
 ACCIDENTS A tornado which b
 AMI struck the towns of cAeIAIr,re of Streator and Men dota, H., on Friday afternoon killed nine persons, injured score of others. four fatally, and caused a property loss of $2,OOO,OOO The path of the storm was eight miles in length, and great damage was done to farm property.
 A million dollars Is the estimated | damage done by severe hailstorm which passed over the east portion of Rock county, Minn., on Monday night. Besides being most destructive the area covered by the storm is the l largest ever known in the northwest 1 It reached into three states and did | damage yet impossible to estimate. New England is having a remarkable | record of cases of tetanus, or lock jaw 1 of late, resulting from toy pistol acci l dents, thirty deaths having been re | ported within the last few days. There are now twenty-one cases within few miles of Boston, the oldest averaging fifteen years.
 Jack Nixon, seventy years old, { negro who has played at nearly every 1 country dance in the vicinity of Som