Connecticut western news., 1910-09-22

the superiority of the straight punch over the swing.
 It was announced that arrangements have been practically completed for an automobile race between Barney Old field, holder of the worlds record for mile on a circular track, and Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight pu- gflist. The race is to be held at the Empire City track. New York, during the latter part of September.
 z--ue Colonel James Thayer ~ Vandeventer died at
 UT NO ELI his home in Knoxville,
 PEOPLE. Tenn, aged eighty. He was a colleague of Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson in the Ohio legis- | lature and moved to Tennessee twenty two years ago. He was appointed major in the federal army during the | civil war, rose to the rank of colonel | and was member of the guard Of honor for the body of President Lin | coin. l The Rev. William D. Maclagan, for mer archbishop of York, died in Lon- | don from pneumonia. He was eighty | four years old, and at one point of his 1 career he served five years in the In dian army, retiring with the rank Of second lieutenant Dr. Maclagan re- tired last year after eighteen years service as archbishop of York.
 James Clark McGrew, who was cred | ited with the distinction of being the | oldest ex-congressman In the United | States, died at his home in Kingwood, | W. Va, in his ninety eighth year. | Death came unexpectedly from heart | failure, following the celebration of his ninety-seventh birthday.
 William Holman Hunt. the painter. who, with Rosetti and Millaisl. found ed the Raphaelite movement, died in London He was eighty-thre years old and exhibited his first pictures at the Royal academy in 1S46 when he l was only twenty-three e | Francis Emory Trowbridge, retired banker and broker, for many years a business associate of Edward H. Har- riman, died at his home in New York. He was sixty-f1ve years old and was l we'll known as a writer on financial | subjects.
 l Viscount Arasuke Sone, privy coun- cilor, former resident general in Ko- req and minister to France during the war with Russia, died in Tokyo. He was sixty-one years old.
 .-,a President DiaZ, in the
 presence of a large
 VT OOn crowd in the City of NElGHBoHS. Mexico dedicated a great marble monument to the memory of Benito Juarez, the man who separat- ed the state and church in Mexico when he held the office of chief executive and known as the Washington of Mex leo. The monument stands in the Ala meda, fronting Juarez avenue, and is one of the most imposing and costly in the capital.
 The son of Governor Gautret oi Guadaloupe and the general secretary of the court of appeals were slightly wounded by shots fired at the gov ernor's carriage by some one who es- caped before he could be recognized, The president of the court and the councillor, who were also in the car. riage, were not injured. It is supposed that the attempt was directed against the president, who is unpopular in Guadaloupe.
 A band of brigands have been oper- ating upon the ranches in the vicinity of Chihuahua, Mexico. Its members robbed and murdered Maximo Para, an aged ranchman, and a government officer in the outskirts of the city. On their retreat toward the mountains the bandits were interposed by posse of twenty ranchmen, and in the battle between the two forces two ranchmen were killed ..
 A manifesto bearing 1,5O0 signatures and accusing former President Castro of Venezuela of organizing plot in the Canaries against the life of the present Venezuelan executive, Juan ". Gomez, is being circulated in Tenerife, Canary islands.
 Another revolution is imminent in Honduras, and President Davilla is fortifying points where attacks are expected according to information re- ceived at New Orleans.