Connecticut western news., 1898-11-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 The mining difficulties at virdsn. uls.. have been settled. Work Is to bs re sumed at once.
 The command of the European sasad- ron has. it is said in Washington. bssn promised to Admiral Schiey.
 T. Mcwinters of Holyoke. Mass. was killed by falling from A freight train near East Norfolk, Conn. Monday.
 The transatlantic lines of steamships have agreed upon two outward and | two homeward bound ocean tracks~
 Colonel James Gilliss. assistant quar- termaster general, died suddenly Sum day at his home on Governors island.
 Claude Vautin, n metaliurgist. well known on the Pacific coast. was arrest ed at Florence for passing worthless notes
 The Philadelphia bark John BaIaIey was wrecked In the China sea. Her crew was saved and has been landed at Singapore.
 The president and Attorney General Griggs have decided that there Ia no necessity for federal intervention In tho South Carolina race troubles.
 The joint high commission appointed to settle questions at issue between the United States and Canada has resum- ed its sessions in Washington.
 A mass meeting of coiored citirens is to be held in Cooper Union. New York sn Thursday evening Co discuss the race riots in North and South Carolina.
 The postoffice department has dis- covered and has interdicted a scheme to avoid the payment of about slee. .ooe in war taxes on bids for mall contracts. A statement prepared by Commodore Hichborn shows that BB war vessels of various kinds. including eight battls- ships, are under construction for our navy.
 II was announced in New York on Friday that the old site of Columbla college, valued at about q .ooo, GOO, had been sold to the head master of Berks- ley school
 A riot over politics at Rehobeth, s. C.. resulted in the death of ten negroes and the woundng of four others. The riot was precipitated by the shooting of a white man.
 k. C. Bruice. a telegraph operator at Little Rock, fired at his landlady. Mrs. Wallace, and her daughter, Mrs. Day, and wounded the latter In the face. He then committed suicide. ... Several hundred dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the apart ments of MT. and Mrs. l. A. Singer and their son, Mortimer w. Singer. in ths Hotel Savoy, in New York.
 A colored man who says he is nearly 100 years old has turned up In Plain field, N. J. He says he has two hearts and two sets of ribs. and this claim is upheld by local physician.
 The American commissioners at Parix expressed themselves as gratined with the result of the elections and the Lon. don press comment was generally ia. vorable to Colonel Roosevelt
 Lieutenant Herman c. Dressed of the United States navy committed suicide in Baltimore Monday because. it ia as- serted. he had been ordered to ManiH to join the United States ship zafiro.
 Mrs Susan Anderson, an eccentris old woman, Is believed to have bees murdered by her farmland. Fred Hah- nan, In New Canaan. Conn. Her farm. house was burned down. and Hahnas was found dead. hanging from q trte.
 Governor Elect Roosevelt of New York state has selected W. J. YounEs former district attorney of Queens county. as his private secretary. Mr. Youngs conducted the details of Colonel Roosevelt's speaking tours through ths state. H&
 Eight negroes were killed and three white men were wounded in race riots in Wilmington, N. C. A complete new municipal government was established by n citizens committee, and the office of n negro newspaper was sacked and burned.
 The Turney and Jones Coal company of Columbus O., and the Psnnnylvmnis and Ohio Fuel company of St Paul. with offices also in Chicago. have been put irto the hands of the Security and T!de company of Chicago as recsfvers by the federal court.
 Princeton won the football game wim Yale on Brokaw field at Princeton, N J., Saturday by a score of to O. The one touchdown was made by Arthur Poe, who ran nearly 100 yards with the ball. Both teams played a strong game The attendance was 1b.oo0.
 A Grand Trunk express train bound for Toronto crashed into a movins freight train at Murray Hil crossing, near Trenton. Ont. Tuesday. and sew eral cars were smashed almost to splinters. Twelve people were killed and dozen or more seriously injured A misplaced switch was the cause of the accident f William Hickley Gross, archbishop of Oregon, Roman Catholic church, died mf st. Joseph's hospital, in Baltimore, Mon. day of heart disease. Archbishop Gro@s came to this city to attend a celebrs- ton at St. Charles college. Ellicott City, Md. and was taken sick on Nov. 6. minos which time he has been confined 10 his bed in St. Joseph's hospital.
 An explosion in the grocery store of C.. A. Stearns at Hanover. Mass, Fri. day wrecked the building. caused the death of four men and severely fnjur- ed ten others. one of whom it is feared will die. The dead are; M. R. syivcm- ter, leaves wife and six children; e. T. Tolman, leaves a wife and tive chil. dren; c. A. Peterson. leaves a wife and one child, and Edgar Adams. leaves a wife md two children.
 The results of last weeks elections in the various states indicate that the Re- puhlcans will have a majority in the Fifty-sixth congress of not less than IS votes. The Democrats will have ct least 20 more representatives than they had in the Fifty-hfth congress. They gained 13 in New York. in Pennsyiva- mia, 2 in Massachusetts. 2 in Illinois and few in other quarters, bnt the Republicans made some counter gains in the west.
 | AdNiccs rom Skhkusy, Aihs1m, VIZ | Victoria, B. C., state that returning Klondikers arriving in that city bring the news that the city of Dawson has been visited with s5o0. 900 fire. in which 10 buildings were burned, including the new postoffice building and some of the best buildings in the city. The lire took 1 place on the morning of Oct. Ie IL staIx- ed in the Green Tree saloon ar the re- suit of a row between two women. Belle Mitchell threw a lighted lamp at anoth- CT woman. The lamp broke. the oil spread, and in a few seconds the buiia- ing was on fire. The flames were com- municated to the postofioe ad1oasinw. and from there 10 other struotnrsa xr though nearly all the mall wss sewS&. 1t Is in great confusion. All tkAt pw mains to show where formerly e huaxN lngs stood are a few blaoksnsd foxaA