Connecticut western news., 1910-10-20

doors of the parlor they found the father, his son George, twenty three years old, and twelve-year-old daugh- ter Clara dead, and the wife-mother Mary and the ten-year-old son Willie unconscious and in such a condition as to render their recovery doubtful.
 A quarrel of many years standing eliminated in Baltimore in the murder of Harry Scherr, twenty-five years old, by his brother, Louis Scherr, twenty two years old. of New York city. Louis. 1 who was arrested, told the police that ] he and his brother had been enemies for years but he would say nothing as to the immediate cause of the murder. l The bodies of five members of a bridge repair gang were found under and near trestle at Bay Ridge, west of Sandusky, O. They are supposed to have been struck by a westbound Lake Shore train. Nobody saw the ac- cident A life saving crew picked two bodies out of the water under the tres | tie.
 While returning home from Titus | vile MT. and Mrs. Samuel B. Winton ! were killed on the Pennsylvania rail road crossing at Tyronville, Pa. Some body signaled Winton that he had time to cross ahead of the fast special bearing officials of the road, and he made the attempt.
 | Engineer Lyman Shaul and Fireman J. J. Hickey of Binghamton, N. Y. were killed when a fast freight on the Delaware and Hudson was derailed at I Richmond Hill Twenty cars of coal and wood pulp followed the engine down fifty foot embankment.
 Mrs. Clara Dolbeer, aged sixty-two, and her daughter Mary, aged twenty nine, died from asphyxiation in their home in Rochester, N. Y. It was a double suicide as result of pact between the two due to their being in- l valids
 l Four men were killed or died of in- 1 juries and many persons hurt as the l result of the derailment and capsizing l of an inward bound Watertown trol- ley car on the Boston side of the new 1 West Boston bridge over the Charles river.
 l The sinking of the steamship Meca- Tor of the Vacarro line, carrying sixty l passengers and crew, off Yucatan, is reported in shipping circles in New ] Orleans.
 SPORTING A Detroit afternoon ~ paper prints special
 dispatch from Phila- delphia saying that Ty Cobb, the cham pion slugger of the world, wants to 1 get away from Detroit and that the l great ball player admitted to a friend that he would welcome a change '1 am beginning to feel that they do not appreciate me in the City of the ] Straits" said Cobb, who was in Phila- delphia to see the first two games of the championship series.
 Leach Cross came back when he won decided advantages over Jack Dor man of the Bronx in the fastest, wild est and most exciting ten round bout ever put on at the Fairmount Athletic 1 club in New York. It was a whirlwind l affair from start to finish, and in sev- 1 eral rounds the milling was so lively that the great crowd of spectators were in state of excitement border l ing on panic. Dorman made a great l fight and showed an unusual amount of strength and gameness. but he lacked the cleverness with which his opponent was plentifully supplied.
 Tyrus Cobb by official verdict of l President Johnson was the leading batsman of the American league dur l ing the last season, with a winning | percentage over Larry Lajoie of Cleve- land of .0O086O. The automobile, over which there has been so much excite ment and not little criticism, goes to the Detroiter, but the Cleveland cap tain by permission of Mr. Johnson will be allowed to accept duplicate. In one of the most sensational meets in the history of the Amateur Athletic union held in New Orleans the Irish American Athletic club of New York won the annual track and field cham pionships, defeating the New York Athletic club by a single point. The final score was 49 to AS None of the other teams entered came anywhere near these figures.
 Barney Oldfeld put one over on the American Automobile association when although under suspension, he drove his Benz Blitzen car around the Read vile (Mass.) track in fifty seconds flat breaking all records for the distance J on a circular track. The record fol the Readville track is fifty-four sec. onds and for the world ifty-two sec. onds.
 Mrs. Julia Ward -z Howe, who was near
 ing her ninety-seconG
 rEorLE birthday, died at hel home in Portsmouth, R. I. Pneumonis caused the death of the author o1 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic