Connecticut western news., 1898-11-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 Briefly and Tersely Told.
 Seven people were injured by the de- railing of an electric street car near Tacoma Thursday.
 A number of cattle have mysteriously died near Macon, Mo. An expert says they had Texas fever. .a... a .
 Fire almost totally destroyed the business portion of Perry, Ia., Monday, doing s250,0O0 damage. Former Judge Sage of the United States district court died at his home in Lebanon, O., Tuesday.
 A committee of Vermonters at Otta- wa presented an American flag to the Carlton Rifles of that city. -s.-
 Three thousand operators in cotton mills in Augusta, Ga, have quit work because of reduction in wages.
 A fire from an unknown cause did over $100,000 damage to the business section of Greenport, N. Y., Friday. 3a The transatlantic lines of steamships have agreed upon two outward and two homeward bound ocean tracks.
 Heavy rains have quenched two weeks forest fire in the Indian Terri tory. It has done about s250,000 dam age. .tar .e-rt s.#.a..-....- H
 The people of Olympia, Wash, will present a commemorative tablet to the flagship Olympia of Admiral Dewey's fleet.
 Prairie fires which have done damage to the amount of s250, 900 in the Indian Territory have been stopped by heavy rains.
 The Harvard football team defeated the Yale team in the championship game at New Haven on Saturday by score of 1T to 0. .
 The Middle Village Methodist Episco pal church in Queens, N. Y, celebrated it's one hundred and thirtieth anniyersa- ry Sunday.
 Eighteen men, the crew of the Dutch bark Johanna, were rescued by the steamer Peconic and brought to New York Friday.
 The national quarantine convention to consider the best means for preventing the spread of yellow fever was opened in Memphis Thursday.
 Rafael Iglesias, president of Costa Rica, arrived in New York Tuesday en route to Washington. where he will call on President Mckinley.
 Somewhere between New York and Lexington, Ky, registered letter con- taining s1,000 has been stolen. It's send CT was J. Madden, the horseman. The British-American corporation has acquired 205, 900 shares of the Leroi Mining company at SIPS a share from Senator Turner and his associates.
 The clipper ship Atlanta, bound from Tacoma to Cape Town, went ashore on the Oregon coast on Friday. Only two of her crew of 30 men got ashore alive.
 Mrs. Henry Ledyard, a daughter ot the late General Lewis Cass and moth- CT of Lewis Cass Ledyard of New York, died suddenly in London on Wednesday. Captain Johnson of the steamer Pros- per, which arrived at Spokane, Wash, Tuesday, thinks he sighted the overdue steamer Laurel Bank in a storm on Oct. 2S. ann
 The AngIo-American joint high com mission held an important meeting in Washington Thursday, at which the fisheries and reciprocity questions were considered.
 J. A. Brandreth, who claimed to be a nephew of the millionaire pillmaker of that name, was found dead in a cell in the county jail at Fresno. Cal, Friday. He had been arrested as vagrant.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance union, at it's national convention in St. Paul, last week elected Mrs. Lillian M. N Stevens of Maine as president. This was effected on the first ballot, Mrs. Stevens receiving SIT of the 356 votes cast.aa9l @
 c. M. Atherton, law student in Wis consin university, Friday received tel egram from his girl wife. who is daughter of Captain A. T. Andreas, say ing she had escaped from her parents in New York and would join him in Chicago.
 The United States steel tug Paw tucket was launched at the Mare Island navy yard Thursday afternoon. She was christened by Miss Heather Baxter, the little daughter of Naval Constructor Baxter, in the presence of thousands of spectators. sagu
 Paul Phillipe, purser of the French line steamship Champagne, was arrest ed in New York Thursday. charged with smuggling package of dress goods ad- dressed to MT. Lucchetti, French consul at St. Thomas. who Is temporarily in New York.
 An enthusiastic mass meeting of col ored people was held in Cooper Union, New York, Thursday night to protest
  South Carolina. Resolutions were adopt ed appealing to the government for aid in the matter.
 pr. Nancy A. Guilford, who was brought from London upon the charge of numbering Emma Gill last Septem- Der. was arraigned before a special ses- sion of the criminal superior court in Bridgeport, Conn.,, Tuesday and bail fixed at $1O.000.
 Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, president of the American Chamber of Commerce, died in Paris Thursday. He was for merly we'll known Protestant Episco- pal clergyman in New York, but left the ministry on account of dissensions in the church of which he was pastor.
 The eighth annual meeting of the New York State Association of Railway Surgeons was held in the Academy of Medicine building, in New York, Thurs day. Several papers were read on Sur gicai Service on Railways" Dr. T. D. Mills of Middletown was elected presi- dent.
 The workmen of the Libby Glass com pany of Toledo have just completed the largest cut glass bowl ever made in the world for presentation to, President Mo
 TESTS PATIENCE.