Connecticut western news., 1898-12-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 Snow in the vicinity of Buffalo delay ed trains for 3e hours last week. General Lord Kitchener of Khartum has left London on his return to the Sudan.
 Admiral Schley Is suffering from m attack of grip and was obliged to re- main indoors Sunday.
 Four persons lost their lives In an apartment house fire in Prospect place, Brooklyn. Sunday night.
 The Kentucky State League of To- bacco Growers has taken legal steps against the Tobacco trust.
 The government has increased the force of inspectors on duty at the Car negie mills fin Homestead, Pa. Samoan chiefs have lodged a caveat. which was upheld by the chief justice. against the election of Mataafa as king. Frank Dean, an escaped bank bur glar from the state prison at Jackson. Mich, has been captured at Newark, N. Y.
 Antonio Faraquisl. banker was murdered on his own doorstep In Broome street, New York. Sunday night
 A company with s,oOo. 900 capital Is being formed In New York to manufac- ture automobiles. The factory is to be in Orange. N. J.
 Rev. pr. De Costa declared in his pull pit in New York Sunday that Protes- tnntism is passing away because of the multiplication of sects. Thomas Sharkey and Kid" Mccoy were matched Thursday to meet Tn a 20 round bout on Jan. 10 before the Lenox Athletic club. New York.
 The purchase of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley railroad stock by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad company has been completed. Rufus l.. Perry, a colored lawyer of Brooklyn, has obtained an option on a big tract of land on Long Island with the design of forming negro settle ment.
 The Yerkes street railway franchise extension ordinances were killed in the Chicago city council Monday night by vote of a to 25. No violence oc- cured.
 Two bulldogs fought in a classroom in Princeton university and terrified the students, who imagined the beasts were mad. They were separated after a big rumpus. -a
 The United States brewers conven- ton met in New York Wednesday and decided to present a memorial to con- gress praying for repeal of the war tax on beer.
 It has been decided in Boston that divers will be employed to remove bod ies and personal effects from the wreck ed steamer Portland If the vessel can be located.
 James Mcdonald, a we'll known horse man. while driving on the Speedway in New York Sunday chose to throw his runaway animal to avoid inJuring oth- CTS and was killed.
 Forty-five of the crew of the aban- doned steamship Londonian were land ed at Baltimore by the steamer Veda- more Friday. The remaining 25 were lost with the ship.
 Russell A. Alger IT,, son of the secre- tary of war and manager of his fathers pulp company at Grand Mere. Que, was seriously injured there by being thrown from his toboggan. .-.
 The Paris exposition commission has received letter stating that French of ffcials decided upon the garden of the Tuileries as a site for the Lafayette memorial monument,
 The main building of the Kutztown (Pa) Foundry and Machine company was totally destroyed by fire Saturday. entailing loss of s70.00O. The building was 80 by 100 feet and contained vslua- ble patterns.
 William H. Lynn, brother-in-law of President Iglesias of Costa Rica, was arrested in New York and gave S2. 500 cash bail. suit having been entered asainA him in connection with a rail- way scheme. ..
 The hat factory of John W. Green & Co. one of the largest in Danbury, Conn. was completely destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss. s5O.o00; insur- ance. s10I. .o0o. Four hundred men are thrown out of employment.
 The will of Edwin F. Knowlton. whs committed suicide at West Upton. Mass, has been admitted to probate in Kings county. N. Y. It bequeaths over s1.000. 900. the largest sum Of which goes to his daughter, a German countess.
 A break in a big water main at Cen trsl avenue and Covert street, Brook lyn, yesterday flooded the cellars Of hundreds of houses, caused the street to cave in and rendered two buildings SO unsafe that they had to be evacuated and shored up.
 The jury in the case of Mrs. Cody, on trial in Albany for alleged blackmail of the heirs of Jay Gould. failed to reach a verdict after being out 24 hours and was discharged Thursday night. Mrs. Cody was remanded to jail, and a second trial will be held soon.
 Mrs. Samuel Colgate of New York is now the bride of the Earl of Strafford. The marriage. which was celebrated in the chantry of Grace church, New York, Tuesday, was exceedingly simple fax Nf ha hrlA AaFs relatives were present. Rev. pr. Hunt ington officiated.
 Four men were killed by an explosion in the Dupont powder works, near Will mington Del. Friday. Five mills in the lower yard of the Dupont works explod- ed at l0:05 Robert Ilihanny. John Moore John Wright and another man | named Stewart were killed Several oth- l CTS were badly burned. Riotous members of the French | chamber of deputies led a mob Monday | to the Jail in which Colonel Picduart is confined and made demonsA ation | theN They bitterly denounced the | Dreyfusites. There were wild scenes | in the chamber of deputies concerning | the Picquart and Dreyfus affairs.
 The residence of Miss Jane Morgan. | at De Kay and Bard avenues, West | Brighton, on Staten Island, locally | known as the "old Maids House." was | robbed Saturday of $500 worth of jew | elry and relics which Miss Morgan vaI- | ued highly for their associations. The | thief entered the one unbarred window | by means of a long ladder.
 John Andersen. the condemned mur- | derer of Mate Saunders of the schooner | Olive Pecker. was hanged at Norfolk | Friday afternoon. Andersen was cook | aboard the schooner Olive Pecker from Boston to Buenos Ayres. Captain J. w. Whitman was shot to death in his cab in and Mate Saunders at his post of du- ty. The ship was set afire. and Adder