Connecticut western news., 1904-03-24

THE FIRE At Elizabethport, N. J.,
 prcopn Friday night, the plant
 of the Bayway Retin- ing company was destroyed, causing a loss of about $200.O00. Tue flames spread to the plant of the Pennsylya- mia and Delaware Oil company, and the warehouse and part of the dock were burned. About 200 feet of the dock of the Pennsylvania and Della ware company was destroyed.
 On Sunday night the Chicago Union Traction company s ear barns at Di- vision street and Western avenue were destroyed. causing a loss of $150,000. Five of the compeay's employees, who were fighting the flames before the fire men arrived, were imprisoned in the burning structure by falling roof, and all were painfully burned before they could be rescued. More than fifty street cars were burned.
 A second fire on Friday wiped out a portion of the Batson oil field which escaped the flames few days earlier. The Moonshine gusher caught fire, throwing a stream of boiling oil across the field, but the big storage tanks, containing many thousands of barrels of oil, escaped injury. The loss is placed at S10OO0O.
 Prairie fires have burned over 10000 acres of splendid range land north and south of Henningford, Neb., besides destroying some buildings and range horses and cattle. Many small ranch men are completely burned out.
 In Milwaukee, Wis, Sunday, fire gut ted the box factory owned by NJ. Moli- tor and J. r. Hummel and the Greye Show Print company's plant. The to- tai loss is estimated at about $100,000, partly covered by insurance.
 On Friday the No. 1 mill of the Fitehburg Mass) Paper company was gutted by fire, and many expensive machines used to make high grade wall papers were ruined, entailing a loss estimated at $60,000.
 At San Angelo, Tex, Thursday, fire destroyed business property valued at $200,000. The buildings consumed in clude the San Angelo hotel and the First National bank.
 One life was lost and property val ued at $25,000 was destroyed in a fire in the center of the business district of Geneva, N. T., Friday.
 The shafthouse and machinery plant at the Cornell mine at Central City, Colo, has been destroyed by fire; loss. $50,000.
 MEMS oE Canada is planning to on, provide an army of ... 100000 men. The idea is to take such steps, by means of central depots and train ing schools, as to have always 46OOO volunteers on hand. This number can be easily increased in time of war by calling out country reserves to the number of 100000. In addition to this there is to be nucleus for second line of defense of another 100000.
 Havana newspapers are expressing alarm at the number and quantity of revolutionary soldiers claims which, they say, are being sold to American and other spectators, who are buying them at from 15 to 20 per cent of their face value. One paper says that S250,. 600 worth of these claims have been bought by some Americans at Santiago for $50,0O0. The business. it is alleged is being done all over the island, and it is described as a disgrace to the Cuban nation
 Isaac NJ. Hutchinson has been elect. ed president and Pablo Martinez del Rio vice president of the new car and foundry company organized in Mexico City with q capitalization of $1 100000 in gold. The bond issue is $500,000 gold. Among the directors are some ot the wealthiest railroad contractors and railway experts in the country. The erection of shops is already in progress.
 Sir Cavendish Boyle, governor of Newfoundland, has been promoted to the governSrship of Mauritius. This is one of the most important of the British colonial goyernOrships and car ries a salary of $25000 a year as against $10,0O0 paid to the governor of Newfoundland.
 roprIcN The British submarine
 o-r, boat No. Al was run
 down and sunk of UT TN The Nab lightship, in Portsmouth harbor, Friday night, by a Donal Currie liner, and eleven persons, composing the crew, were drowned. The liner passed on and reported that she had struck torpedo. At the time she was struck the vessel was off the and was lying in seven fathoms of Wa ter waiting the approach of a battle ship.
 Lightning struck a powder magazine at Diego Suarez, Madagascar, on Feb. 19, causing an explosion which killed twenty persons in the neighborhood The magazine contained 5000 shells and $2OO,00O worth of stores and am. munition. Seven more persons were killed in a village about two miles away, where the houses were riddled by falling stones from the magazine.
 The German bark Mona ran down the English ship Lady Cairns off Dub lin bay e7trly Sunday morning.. The Lady Cairns sank in a few minutes. Her crew of twenty-two was drowned The Mona, which was much damaged was assisted into Dublin harbor.
 The palaces of Emperor Joseph and the Archduchess Clothilde in Budapest were stoned on Wednesday by a mob. resulting in tls windows being broken. because the buildings were not dee orated in honor of the anniversary of the revolution of 1S4S.
 A daughter was born in London on Sunday to Lady Curzon. wife of Lord CurZon of EedlestOn. viceroy and gov