Connecticut western news., 1903-07-30

lives and a dozen others were badly overcome by the fumes of the escaping ammonia.
 During race riots in Danville, H., on Saturday night two were killed and twenty-two wounded, the police sta ton wrecked, and the county jail had nearly all of it's windows shattered. Four companies of militia were placed Sn guard.
 Owing to a misunderstanding of or ders two trains met in a head on col hsion on the Chicago Great Western railroad at vlasoty, Minn., Sunday, and four men were killed and about twen- ty-five or thirty passengers injured.
 Two people were killed and seven in jured in a rear end collision between the southwestern vestibule limited of the Southern railway and a work train at Springfield, Va, seven miles below Alexandria, on Tuesday.
 One passenger killed and forty -eightt injured was the result of head on coYi- ision on the Boston and Woreestfr
 
 boro, Mass, Saturday.
 Near East St Louis, H., on Sunday an accommodation train ran into we'll filled electric car, killing three persons and injuring a score.
 At Washington, N. J., Monday after noon, lightning from a clear sky killed Nelson Anderson while he was walk ing with his wife and sister. s
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 oup pay the soldiers Co- nE,cueo,e lombian government
 troops seized the house of Governor Mutis of Panama on Sat; urday night. The governor escaped, but several officials were arrested. The office of El Lapiz, organ of the Liberal party, was also entered and an edition of the paper destroyed.
 Great damage resulted from high tides and the storm of Monday night on the western shore of Nova Scotia. The three masted schooner Aroma, 532 tons, is ashore near Clementsport and half full of water. Thirteen large fish, ing boats were lost at Digby and vicin- ity and thousands of dollars worth of property destroyed 9 The most extensive and richest bed of copper ore in the world has just been discovered near the town of Tins guindon. Mexico. The ore bed has been examined by mining experta, and 1t is said to cover an area of l25, GOO acres Fourteen veins have been io- cated
 The Southern Central Pacific railway has been incorporated at Vancouver, B. 0.
 RnnEtcM The remains of Pope
 MoTEo Leo XIII were buried o-,.--s.-i in St. Peter's, in Rome, on Saturday, the ceremony being imposing and mournful.4 All of the cardinals anG members of the diplomatic corps and the nobility were present Tradition was followed in almost every detaiI3 Purses eantsiiiing coins snelisz were placed In the coffin. with parchs ment record of. the pontific1fe The majordomo drew a silk scarf over the face and hands of the dead, and the coffin was sealed by six great function aries.
 London is to lose another of her show places. X building in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, which is. said to have been the original of the old curi- osity shop immortalized by Dickens, has been sold to an American, who will eventually take it to pieces and re-erect 1t in the United States.
 A specialist in the treatment of back ward children at the command of the served Prince George, the eldest son of King Peter Karageorgevitch of Servia, who is now sixteen years of age, and has reported to the emperor that the boy is n degenerate.
 The labor situation in Austria Is greatly depressed, many factories run ming on short time and the families of the industrial classes suffering. The most capable workmen, particularly the machinists and metal workers, are emi- grating to England and America.
 King Edward and Queen Alexandra closed their visit to Dublin on Satur. day The visit was most successful and devoid of single untoward incl dent. Everywhere the greatest loyalty, devotion and enthusiasm were shown. - The new British battle ship King Ed ward VII, the largest in the world, has been successfully launched by the Princess of Wales at Davenport. King Edward laid the keel plate March 8, 1902. The vessel will cost $7,5O0,0OO.
 A train bringing holiday makers from the Isle of Man to Glasgow on Monday morning ran into the station platform head on and two cars were telescoped. Thirteen persons were kill ed and fifteen seriously injured.
 Mount Vesuvius, which for some time has been moderately eruptive, has grown more active recently and at night presents a magnificent spectacle, as burning showers are emitted which rise to a great height.
 Torrential rains over the southSof England have caused serious floods and great damage in London. The heavy rains coincident with high tide of the Thames inundated several low lying districts.
 The Russian administration of New chwang has stopped the exportation of wheat to Japan. The export of grain from Chinese ports is illegal, but the Russians heretofore have ignored the law. s,
 B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, has died suddenly at his residence at Hamp- stead, England. He married, in 1877, Margaret, daughter of Joseph Jefrer- son, the. American actor.
 In march of Hungarian regiment on Friday nearly half its men were sun struck. Fifteen were reported dead and seventy others ina dangerous con- dition.
 A general strike involving 10000 peo-