Connecticut western news., 1899-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

aged over 100 years.
 The cruiser Raleigh, from Manila for
 New York has left Bombay. Sharkey and his sparring partner have
 been fined in Boston for boxing.
 Governor Roosevelt has signed the
 Pan-American exposition bill.
 Captain Richard P. Leary of the navy
 has been appointed governor of Guam.
 George W. Dent, brother-in-law of
 General U. s. Grant, died at Oakland,
 Cal.
 The navy department decided to blow
 up the Merrimac in Santiago harbor
 channel
 nati, was accompanied with many mar
 row escapes of guests. | The transport Ohio has arrived from | the Philippines with 250 soldiers re- | turned for various reasons.
 It has been decided to christen the big
 freight steamer building in Cleveland
 after Senator M. A. Hanna. | The officers and members of the Sixth
 Massachusetts have been mustered out
 of the United States service.
 The Ohio supreme court has refused | to oust Master Commissioner Brins-
 made in the Standard oil case.
 The excitement in the New York
 Stock Exchange keeps up, and a record
 breaking business is still being done. | A platform in the Coliseum at Den | yer. where Colonel Bryan spoke, broke down, and many persons were injured. The president has nominated Colonel | Eugene Griffin, First United States vol
 unteer engineers, to be brigadier gen. eral.
 | The president has nominated William | Barnes, Jr., proprietor of the Albany Journal, to be surveyor of customs at | Albany.
 1 Walter Watts and Miss Mary Sinclair of Newburg were drowned while skat-
 ing on the Hudson river near New | Windsor.
 | The Illinois senate has passed the house joint resolution of thanks to Miss Helen Gould for her devotion to Ameri- can soldiers.
 | Long distance telephones will connect banquets of the Massachusetts Insti-
 tute of Technology in five different cities on Feb. 3.
 | Alfred Jackson, who robbed Mir Ly- ] man J. Cages First National bank of | Chicago, told of seven fruitless at- | tempts at suicide.
 The Maine house of representatives
 has adopted a resolution indorsing ex- i pansion and inviting President McKin- | ley to visit Augusta.
 1 Lieutenant B. F. Waite, who claims to
 be one of Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders, was arrested in Fall River for
 alleged horse stealing.
 ! Ex-Governor c. A. Culberson of Tex | as has been elected by exclamation by
 the legislature as United States senator | to succeed Roger c. Mills. ] Daniel Maloney of Buffalo, while
 crazed by cold and hunger. attempted
 to pass a check for S7S6, ,342.63 on the Union bank of South Chicago. | w. J. Fransioli has resigned as gen. | eral manager of the Manhattan Elevat- | ed railroad to accept a position with
 the American Air Power company.
 Members of the Reorganized Church
 of Latter Day Saints of St. Louis have adopted resolution against seating I Congressman Elect Roberts of Utah. In an old safe in the Havana post
 office two packages containing 19, 900 pe-
 setas were found addressed to the cap tain of the Spanish cruiser Alfonso | XIII. Ex-Mayor Mcgowan of Trenton caus- ed the arrest of Simon Buttner, proprie- | tor of the Hotel Winslow, in New York,
 on a charge of robbing him of s260o in
 money and also of valuables. There are rumors of a gigantic rail- | road combination, giving the Wander bilts through transcontinental line, to
 include ths Chicago and Northwestern,
 the Union Pacific and the Oregon Short | Line.
 | Secretary Alger has been invited by | the war Investigating commission to | appear before it and make a statement
 concerning the conduct of the war The secretary han not yet replied to the ! commission, but it is believed he will | gro on the stand.
 | The west bound limited express on the | Southern Pacific railroad collided with | ah engine near Lacosta, 20 miles west | of San Antonio, Tex. Alonzo Miller, | fireman, of San Antonio was killed and | Robert Nicholas, engineer, was fatally | injured. The passengers were badly | shaken up, but sustained no serious in- | jury.
 J. Alfred Bodine, president of the Bo- | dine Glass company of Williamstown, | | tory at Millville, N. J. His death is believed to have been due to excite | ment over the threatened strike of 5000 glass workers and 5000 other employees ! at Millville. Bridgeton, Clayton, Glass
 boro, Salem, Williamstown and other points in New Jersey. The war department has issued an ] invitation for bids from responsible l-I,s 1f .Il transportation of the Spanish prisoners | in the Philippines from Manila to Spain. | The treaty requires the United States to transport these prisoners home with out awaiting ratification of the peace treaty. Bids will be opened Feb. in New York and San Francisco. Judge Spencer, in the circuit court at | St. Louis, has rendered his decision in
 the case of the Mississippi Trust com pany versus Sportsman's park and club in favor of the plaintiff. This decision Is against Chris von der Ahe's interests; as Judge Spencer declares the National league baseball franchise a part of the property covered by the mortgage which the trust company seeks to foreclose.
 Official announcement is made in
 Wall street that an arrangement has
 been made for the sale of the Edison Electric Illuminating company of New
 York to the New York Gas and Elec- tric Light, Heat and Power company. The last named company is the recent ly organized s25, 900 concern, in
 which are interested W. c. Whitney and his friends, including W. L. Elkins, T. A. B. Widener, Thomas Dolan and Thomas F. Ryan.
 On Feb. Is the transport Yosemite will sail from New York with 200 ma rines aboard for Guam. Lieutenant Colonel Percival E. Pope will be in com mand. He and his officers under him will carry with them on the ship their families, and in Guam there will be
 started a little American colony. Guan.
 will be garrisoned to preve3t uprisings.
 The trip of the Yosemite will be by way