Connecticut western news., 1904-09-01
News of
 A Week Paragraphic Photographs of the
 Worlds DoingS

According to facts brought out be- l fore the Chicago board of review of tax assessments Marshall Field is the
 heaviest individual taxpayer in the | United States. The assessed value of | MT. Fields taxable property, real and | personal, in Chicago and Cook county | is $40,000,00 and his personal prop
 erty assessment $1O,OOO,000. All of this property is in Chicago. The annual report of Pension Com
 missioner Ware, covering the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904, shows that during the year the cost of maintain ing the pension system of the govern
 ment has been $144.712,787. The to- tai number of pensioners on the rolls
 as covered by the report is 720,315 sol diers, 273,841 widows and dependents
 and 606 army nurses.
 The subway tunnel under the Harlem river in New York was completed on | Saturday. Within few days it will | be turned over to John B. McDonald's | Subway Construction company, which will immediately go ahead and lay | tracks therein. Trains will be run
 ming through it in two weeks. John E. Redmond, the leader of the | Irish party in parliament, in an ad- dress to over 1000 Irishmen in New
 York Sunday night made a glowing ap | peal for funds with which to carry on the campaign for home rule in Ireland | in the next elections. Over $10,000 was subscribed.
 The Right Rev. Randall Davidson,
 archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife, accompanied by the Rev. J. H. J. FL | lison, vicar of Windsor, and the Rev.
 Hyla Holden, arrived in New York on | Saturday on the White Star liner Celtic | from Liverpool. He was en route to | Quebec
 | Herman Bussman, aged eighty years,
 resident of Syracuse, N. T., admits | that he recently dug up 5000 or more | from the garden of his house. He says | he dug hole in the grot.nd four feet | deep a quarter of century ago and
 buried the money, havieg no faith in | banks.
 A chemical laboratory for the exam | ination of imported food products will | be opened in the appraisers stores | building of the treasury department in | New York by the department of agri- culture Sept. 5. Five expert chemists | will be installed.
 The United States Steel corporation
 and the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
 pany are said to have entered into a efr i,, oh
 be spent if need be to gain supremacy
 In the markets of the west.
 The final splicing of the Seattle-Sitka government cable was made Sunday | in the harbor ten miles out of Seattle, | thus completing the work of months
 on the part of the signal corps of the
 United States army.
 The attendance at the worlds fair at | St. Louis last week was more than
 125,000 in excess of any week since the
 exposition opened. Saturdays attend
 ance, 152,69S, was the largest for any
 single day save one.
 The city of Binang, in Laguna prov | ince, island of Luzon, has been de-
 stroyed by fire. One hundred persons | pCiiShtb III LllC c,OOV NCtC
 rendered homeless. The loss is esti-
 mated at $200,000.
 According to reports gathered by the | Hartford Courant the yield of tobacco
 now being harvested in Connecticut is
 phenomenally large and the quality the
 best in twelve years. a..-.. The latest bulletin issued by the
 health department of Chicago says | that mo such healthful summer as
 this of 1904 appears on record in the
 history of the city"
 | A big bull snake, which had been ter
 rorizing the Poplar creek section of
 Knox county, Ky, was killed on Fri
 day by William Pope. It was sixteen | feet long.
 1 According to a statement by Presi- | dent Francis the cost of maintaining
 the Louisiana Purchase exposition is | approximately $31 ,000 a day. | During the nine months ended March | last the total commerce of the Philip | pine Islands shows an increased value
 of more than $1,00O,000.
 Several passenger trains on the Santa
 Fe railway were stalled nearly alT of
 last week in Arizona by washouts and
 loss of bridges by flood.