Connecticut western news., 1909-11-11
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 officers ard m"n Hf NEIGHBoRS. Irns;dau+ zaIav,,s f rec were killed ill battle W hen they attacked the rebel force at Paso Las LajaS, Nicaragua. The victory of the insurgents was largely due to a body of 600 American sharpshooters organ iZed by Colonel Matute.
 After five hours battle a force of fifty special police and all the male in- habitants of Hazelton, on the Skeena river in British Columbia, captured the Indian village of KiSpiox and made prisoners seven chiefs of the tribes who had been melting the related na- tiCnS of the Skeena to war upon the whites, obstructing railway cOnstruc tion, SeiZing supplies and stopping pro- vincial road work.
 Seven persons were killed and many others were wounded in a riot at Lima, Peru, between the police and a crowd of people whom they were en- dcavOring to eject from a bull ring when a fight turned out to be a fiasco. Colonel George k. Colton, the new governor of Porto Rico, arrived at San Juan on the steamer Morro Castle. His inauguration took place in the Municipal theater there.
 The government of Chile decided upon a naval expenditure of $2O,0O0,- 900 for a 10000 ton battleship, two ocean going destroyers and several submarines.
 The Porto Rican police seized 2,7OO lottery tickets which were received at San Juan, Porto Rico, by steamer from SantO Domingo.
 Panay, an island in the Philippines, was visited by a typhOn, which de stroyed crops and made 5000 people homeless.
 roae,on T h e government O
 Holland called upon
 Herr Van Leeuwen to UT TN GnE0 '' resign the mayorship of Amsterdam because of a speech he made in New York in which he of tended the members of the Dutch cab inet by expressing the conviction that the United States would interfere in the event of Holland being menaced by Germany.
 The disqualification of three horses in a trOtting race at Vienna led to great riot. The crowd was infuriated by the decision, which made the fourth horse, a rank outsider, the winner and f,.;, f, al, hn S,,1r -I,1 aAI from bombardment of beer glasses. stones, etc.
 The General Transatlantic line steamer La Lorraine returned to Havrc after being struck by an unknown steamer off La Hague. Some of her forward plates were damaged, but mo- body was hurt. Her passengers were transferred to La Gascogne, for New York
 After many unsuccessful attempts to deliver chilled beef to London from Australia and New Zealand in good condition a consignment arrived there from Queensland by the steamer Mar athOn, which bore the voyage well.
 Sven Hedin, the Tibetan explorer, was made a knight companion of the Order of the Indian Empire by King Edward of England. Lieutenant EI nest H. ShackletOn, the antarctic eX- plOrer, was made a knight.
 Henry Farman, the English aviator, won the Michelin cup at Mourmelon. France, beating all aerOplane records for duration and distance. He covered 232 kilometers CA miles, in hours 6 minutes p seconds.
 The French Academy of Sciences in Paris awarded gold medals to twenty one aviat0rs. including RleriOt, Far man. SantOs-DumOnt. VOisin and Or. vile and Wilbur Wright.
 John D. Rockefeller purchased 35.OO0 pine trees, costing over $20.0O0, from nurserymen of GOuda. in Holland. MT. Rockefeller intends to plant these trees in q park.
 Lieutenant Tybaldos. leader of the recent revolt by Grecian naval forces at Salamis, and companion, Lieuten- ant DemOulis. were arrested at Att. ems.
 The maSble statue of NOmmsen. the