Connecticut western news., 1904-09-08
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 good authority that
 the tentative slate of OF POLITICS. the Republicans of New York is Francis w. Higgins for governor, Nj. Linn Bruce for lieutenant governor and Frank S. Black for tenn porary chairman of the state conven- ton.
 The Wisconsin Democratic state con vention on Thursday nominated g state ticket headed by former Govern or George w. Peck of Milwaukee for governor. James P. Nolan of Mani towoc was nominated for secretary of state, Andrew Jensen of Edgerton for state treasurer and William F. Wolfe of Lacrosse for attorney general.
 The New York Democratic state con vsntion will meet at Saratoga on Tues day, Sept. %, at IF o'clock, that time having been fixed at the meeting of the state committee.
 Caleb 8. Pennewill of Dover was on Tuesday nominated by the Democrats of Delaware for governor on the fifth ballot.
 The guests of Judge Parker at ESQ pus on Tuesday included Richard Ol- Miles.
 Returns from Mondays state election in Arkansas give Davis, Democrat, for governor plurality of 10000.
 NEws oE Venezuela is doing
 better than was ex- - pected in the settle NI'eneone' ment of the judg- ments rendered against her by the mixed commissions, and instead of taking ten years to dispose of the claims of the allied powers - Great Britain, Germany and Italy-it appears that these will now be settled in full in about two years.
 The Paraguayan revolutionists have captured Villa Conception and 400 men, with arms and ammunition. The revolutionists now refuse all the terms offered them by the government, and the success of the rebellion seems cer- tain.
 Fire at Juarez, Mexico, has destroy ed fully half of the business houses of the city, including the Banco de Mi nera and Piccard Bros dry goods house, one of the largest in northern Mexico. Loss, $130,000.
 Five people were killed on the west bound Imperial limited at Sintaluta, Man., Sept 2 Lord Minto, governor general of Canada, and his suit were on the train, but none of the vice re- gal party was injured.
 Three adults and three children were burned to death in a fire which de- stroyed the house in which they were sleeping near Fredericton, N. B., on Sunday morning. .--. Charles Hoskins, an American, has been murdered in lumber camp near Tenosique, Mexico. The local authori- ties are Investigating the matter.
 Forest fires have destroyed the ham, let of Little Bay, N. F., and 300 fam lilies are homeless. Two men have been drowned.
 roprten Princess Louise of Co-
 a-ra burg, daughter of the
 0 king of the Belgians, UT TN whose relations with Keglevich Mattasitch, a former lieu tenant in the Austrian army, caused a great scandal in European royal cir cles seven years ago and who has since been kept under the closest re- straint, has vanished from Bad Blister, where she has been taking the cure. It is alleged that the princess Is in the company of Mattasitch and is seeking to gain an asylum where she will be safe from recapture.
 Mount Vesuvius is again in activity. Flames, ashes and stones are rising from it to a considerable height, and a wide stream of lava is issuing from the crater.
 THE FIRE Fire on Front street
 in the heart of the
 wholesale district of Memphis, Tenn, on Saturday, destroy ed property approximating in value $800,000. The fire originated in the Oliver-Finnie company's grocery from an unknown cause.
 The stables of Colgate Hoyt on Gen. ter island, in Long Island sound, said fO ho HYa i,, fI,o and containing number of valuable automobiles and many horses and car riages, were destroyed on Sunday night. The loss is S75,oO0.
 The Klondike City sawmill, owned by the North American Trading and Transportation company, at Dawson has been completely destroyed by fire. The loss is $75.o0O, with no insurance.
 A fire which ssged for three hours on Friday In the chair factory of P. Derby & Co. in Charlestown, Mass, caused the ruin of all the stock and finished product of the company. The loss is estimated at $1O0,000.
 The plant of the Mitchell & Row. land Lumber company at Toledo, O., has been completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,0O0. The plant occupied about sixty acres abut- ting on the river front.
 The Griffin Lumber company's yards in Sandy Hill, N. Y., were destroyed on Sunday, including 100000 feet of sea- soned lumber, 2,000 tons of coal and several of the company's sheds. The loss will exceed $50.0O0.
 iN ruE What is considered as
 the end of the stock
 .a yards strike came on
 UT lAeon' Tuesday in Chicago when, according to the packers, more than thousand of the strikers applied for their old jobs and were taken back. Men began to seek work few hours before the time set for a meeting of the allied trades conference board, which represented twenty-two trades involved in the strike. The allied trades convention later decided to sub-