Connecticut western news., 1904-04-07

| afternoon.
 By the premature explosion of blast at tie Southern Quarry company at Fabers. Va, on Friday four men | were blown to atoms aud two were | injured.
 THE FIRE At Lyons, Ga, Sun a-oa day, the railroad de- pot and two whole blocks were destroyed by flames start ed by stroke of lightning. Besides the Seaboard Air Line depot, several loaded freight cars, the Lyons Progress presses and fixtures, hotel and the furniture and the dwelling of Mrs. L.. NJ. Brown were wiped out. In Jersey City, N. J., Monday night, for hours firemen battled with a fierce fire, fed by gallons of oil, which start cd it the branch supply station of the Standard Oil company. Three 400 gal lonf tanks exploded, and the ware houses and stables were destroyed.
 A fire on Monday swept West Tam pa;S Fla, and caused q loss to cigar making firms which will exceed $300,- GOO. The only death loss so far as known is that of a Cuban baby, which was burned in one of the cigar fac tories.
 At Easton, Me, Tuesday, two of the largest potato houses in this country were destroyed, together with 5000 barrels of potatoes. The total loss is estimated at $20,000.
 The nail department of the American Steel and Wire company's plant at Rankin, Pa. was on Monday burned down, causing a loss of from $175,000 to $20O,000.
 The graded school building at Middle bury, Vt, was destroyed by fire Sun day. Tie property carried an insur- ance of $35,000; loss about $60,000.
 The paper mill of the Hollingsworth G Vose company at East Walpole, Mass, was destroyed on Tuesday. The loss is $100,O00, fully insured.
 In Pittsburg, Friday, the warehouse oI the Keystone Commercial company, on the south side, was destroyed, caus- ing loss of about $50,000.
 
 pEArue At Washington Court
 or ,o-ra house, O., Sunday, S.
 Stacker Williams, one
 of the most widely known F'reemasons in the United States. Mir. Williams was grand mas ter of the Ohio grand lodge of Maso1s from 1885 to 1888. He possessed the largest private library on Masonic top ics known.
 At his home in St. Louis on Tuesday, Isaac G. Baker, aged eighty-four, who for many years had been d director in the Continental bank of that city. MT. Baker was born in Connecticut and was one of the first pioneers to es- tablish fur trading posts in Iowa, Kan sas and Montana.
 In New York, Thursday, Dr. Stephen Paul Truex. a noted surgeon, was fa- tally stricken with heart failure just at the crisis of a difficult operation he was performing in the Bushwick Cen tral hospital and died almost immedi ately. He was native of Owego, x. Y.
 At the Cook County hospital in Chi cago, Sunday, Carol Norton, the noted New York Christian Science lecturer and member of the Christian Science board of lectureship, as the result ot the injuries sustained in a street car accident.
 At Lakewood, N. J., Tuesday, Thom- as Sears Young, one of the oldest di- rectors of the Equitable Life Insur aHce company of New York. He was born in Brewster, N. T., June 23, 1913.
 Colonel John H. Savage died on Tuesday at his home in McKinnville, Tenn. He was in his eighty-ninth year and was a veteran of the Florida, Mexican and civil wars.
 At Nashville, Tenn, Sunday. Fred erick Augustus Chase, for over thirty one years professor of science in Fiske university. He was born in North vile, N. Y., in 1883.
 Henri Ott, proprietor of the Silver Spring hotel in Catskill, N. Y, and at one time well known brewer of New York city, died on Tuesday, aged fifty four.