Connecticut western news., 1910-08-11

O1 . NFI&H. tlG uclllE Asttullteu 0n ITlal for t's life three times. J. E. Allison has q last been convicted of the kill. ing of his fourth victim, Lloyd McGee, a young white man, in Buncombe county, N. O., and will be sen fenced to death. Allison will be the first white man to die in the electric chair in that state. The new method of execution in North Carolina was es- abolished seven months ago, and two negroes have been the only. victims so far.
 Three men were killed in one of the worst wrecks the Erie and Jersey rail- road ever had. The wreck occurred in a deep cut a mile and a half west of Howells, N. Y. A fast train, consisting of seventeen cars of perishable fruit, was running about fifty miles an hour when 1t struck mass of rock that had slid down the side of the cut. The loco motive and ten cars were thrown to the opposite side of the cut and de molished against the rocks, killing the engineer, fireman and brakeman.
 Seven persons, two of them women. lost their lives and two men were fatally injured in fire which destroy ed three story frame hotel patroniz- ed by immigrants on Rockaway road, Jamaica, N. Y. Seventy-five men, twenty-five women and a dozen chill dren were asleep in the building at the time. Physicians declared that all the persons who perished were suffocated. The two fatally injured were burned and maimed in jumping from the top floor of the building.
 A duel with knives took place in Union county, N. O., as the result of an insult alleged to have been offered by Wilson Curran to the daughter of Henry Thomas, both farmers of some prominence in that section. When Thomas met Curran he attacked him with a murderous looking knife. Cur ran got out long bladed pocket knife and the men literally carved each other to pieces, both dying.
 At Grooms, Saratoga county, N. Y.s Spencer Lockrow, aged thirty, farm CT, and his two harvest helpers were killed by lightning. The three men were in the field after a load of hay and, seeing shower approaching, hastened toward the barn. When a short distance from shelter they were killed. The team they were driving was also shocked to death.
 A train on the Northwestern Pacific railroad crashed into a heavy engine near Ignacio, twelve miles from San Rafael, Cal The engine plowed through two smoking cars, telescop- ing them. Thirteen passengers were killed and eleven injured.
 ropr,en More than 100 Chris
 No-Ee o- tians and MussuImans
 in the villages in the
 Hauran district of Syria were massaered by Druses The Turkish government is Sending pow erful military expedition to restore or der, as this Is not the first time that such thing has occurred, there hav- ing been uprisings in the Hauran dis trict ever since the constitution was established.
 Prince Henry of Prussia, who Is a member of the Zeppelin preliminary arctic exploration party now headed fer Spitzbergen to study conditions for the proposed Zeppelin dirigible balloon expedition to the north pole. states In message from Tromso, Norway, that 1t is not the intention of the promoters to attempt to reach the pole before a full preliminary investigation has been made.
 Six men were killed and fourteen in- 1ured, several of them fatally, in one of the worst torpedo boat disasters on record, according to navy reports re- ceived in St. Petersburg. The acci- dent occurred at Kronstadt A defec. tive boiler tube was first said to have caused the accident. Later it was re- ported semiofficially that a torpedo had exploded.
 Portugal, like Spain, is almost on the verge of an open rupture with the Vatican, due to friction over the gov ernment's censure of the Roman Cath ollie archbishop of Braga for suppress ing Portuguese Franciscan news paper without submitting the order to the Portuguese government for ap- proval and other incidents.
 The antl-American boycott move ment has been revived at Canton. The movement is reported to be vigorous, and telegrams have been sent urging Chinese abroad to join the movement:
 Two hundred fishermen were drowned on the river Amur when q number of fishing boats were capsized by Il typhoon. The drownings oc- cured near Nikolaieysk, Russia. .-,,,o In the last stages of tuberculosis Joe Cans, rrF>''0' the former lightweight champion pugilist, reached Baltimore in his race against death, his desire be-