Connecticut western news., 1905-01-05
DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPLE.


 partner of Henry Siegel and one of the founders of the Siegel-Cooper stores in New York and Chicago. Mir. Cooper came to this country in 1866 and start ed to work in a retail dry goods store in Buffalo at a salary of $S week. He saved ST 500 and went to Toledo. O., where he opened a retail dry goods store on Summit street After being in business in Toledo for five years he went to Peoria, H., and thence to Chi. cago.
 William Henry Baldwin, IT,, since 1896 president of the Long Island Rail road company and one of the most notable citizens of New York, died at his home at Locust Valley, on Long Island, Tuesday, in his forty-second year. He was a native of Boston and a graduate of Harvard and had been a high officer in many different railway systems.
 In New York, Saturday, suddenly, John Mollenhauer, a leading American sugar refiner famous for the opposl. ton which he made to the American Sugar Refining company, or sugar trust. MT. Mollenhauer was born in Germany seventy-seven years ago and came to this country when about twen- ty-seven years old.
 In Washington, on Monday, Sanders W. Johnston, aged eighty-four years. He was veteran of the Mexican war. He was elected q member of the Ohio state senate in 1851 and in 1854 was appointed associate justice of the su. preme court of the territory of Kansas. In Milwaukee. Wis, Saturday, ex. Congressman F. V. Deuster, after a lingering illness He was seventy. three years old and had served three terms in congress and was consul to Crefeld, Germany, under President Cleveland.
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 uo-re ment was dissolved on
 Tuesday by Emperor OF INTEREST. Francis Joseph after a stormy and fruitless session. Its eXpir. ing struggles were continued for near. ly three hours, with two intermissions, and and came ia an end amld scenes of dis. -order aTd jcers from the Opposition. \ eitfer 9aAAti.nY
 Intense cold was experienced on Saf urday and Sunday throughout Europe accompanied by gales and blizzards. In Switzerland twenty hour blizzard isolated many Alpine villages and in. terrupted all preparations for merry making. Austria suffered from heavy gales and snowstorms.
 The British war office has placed or ders with Vickers' Sons X Maxim com pany, Armstrong, Whitworth X Go. and other ordnance manufacturers for sufti. cient eighteen and half pounder field guns to practically rearm the whole of the British army.
 The porte has at length replied to the notes of the American legation and British embassy regarding the sales of Bibles in Turkey, and, notwithstand ing previous assurances, the porte re. fuses to authorize street sales.
 In Catania, Sicily, owing to a general strike of compositors, no newspapers appeared there on Monday. The police have taken steps to prevent disorders
 On Monday all the longshoremen of Venice went out on strike. Steamships and other vessels find 1t impossible to load or to discharge their cargoes.
 The estimated wheat yield in South Australia this year is 14,575,000 bush els. an increase of 1,360,000 compared with last year.
 Great Britain has assumed control of the legal and financial administration of the Tonga islands, the native chiefs consenting.
 The whole Roumanian cabinet has resigned in consequence of the resig- nations of the ministers of finance and of domains.
 The Shanghai customs revenue for the fiscal year amounts to over f1 ,500,- 900.