Connecticut western news., 1911-12-28

cEMrpn, Dawson City Is almost
 .,-~.a deserted, and every
 man and boy who HAPPENINGS could hire dogs and an outfit is racing overland toward, the head of the Sixty Mile river. Yukon territory, gold glittering before the eyes of all John Matson reached Dawson with $40 in gold dust he took from forty feet of bedrock on the south fork of Sixty Mile river, and a report Is that the gravel is similar to that of famous Bonanza creek s..... .-,
 One hundred thousand persons join ed in singing "Adeste Fideles' at the conclusion of San Francisco's open air celebration of Christmas. It followed a program of music by a trained chorus and members of a French opera company, which is holding Its winter season in San Francisco. The singers and chorus occupied a stand against big building in the business center. Street traffic was suspended.
 Vandals invaded the capitol building at Washington and mutilated one of the largest and most valuable paint ings, "The Battle of Lake Erie" by Powell A strip three inches wide and two feet long was cut from the center The damage can be repaired. but the original beauty can hardly be restored The picture cost $4o,OO0 and is regard cd as the finest naval painting in the country
 With crash like the discharge of IoA Ir5o odCidn folInxun1 hx, a prolonged roar, the crest of Lizard peak. one of the highest mountains in Colorado. tumbled into the canyons at its base. Advices from points sur rounding the peak, which is eighteen miles from Telluride, indicate that 1000 feet of the rest have crumbled away.
 Adrian c. (''Cap'O Anson won honors as life saver when he leaped into the ice coated lagoon in Jackson park Chicago, and rescued two boys from drowning MT. Anson went into the icy water with his clothes on and grabbed one of the boys after he had sunk a second time. He swan ashore with the lad and then returned for the other.
 After receiving word recently that a long lost brother vas dead Mrs. John Doyle of East Boston saw him stalk out on the canvas screen of a moving picture theater The figure stepped out from a crowd in a naval scene. looked toward the audience, waved hand and disappeared The source of the film may be looked into.
 In payment for the devoted service of nurse during the epidemic of vel low fever after the Spanish- American war, Mrs. Charles W. Levy, wife of a machinist of Michigan City. Ind. finds herself the owner of property worth $1O0,OOO through the will of Mrs. S. l. Bullock. wealthy widow of New Or leans
 The Potter county Pa.) grand jury re- turned indictments against George c. Bayless, president. and Fred N. Ham lin. superintendent of the Bayless Pulp and Paper company of Austin, aIleg- ing involuntary manslaughter and that gross negligence resulted in the Austin dam disaster of Sept. 30.
 It is reported that Harry K. Thaw will make another move to obtain parole before spring. His friends point to the quick action in the case of Mrs. O'Shaughnessy. the New York woman who killed her husband to save his soul from perdition and who was paroled as sane.
 Roy Edwards. a resident of Merrill, Wis, was set on by a pack of timber wolves. He says there were four or five, but there might have been more.