Connecticut western news., 1899-05-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of thc Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

ized in New York city. Rioters tried to blow up a street car with dynamite at Duluth. Illinois coal operators have decided to raise sl, 900 900 to fight strikes. Thousands of sheep were killed by the ,tecent cold snap on Utah ranches.
 President Mckinley has begun the l bath treatment at Hot Springs, Va.
 The Memorial day parade in New York city will have 20. 900 men in line. General Menocal, 1t is said, will be made secretary of public works in Ha- vana.
 The village of spencerport, N. r., has been flooded by break fin the Erie canal.
 In the annual athletic games Satur- day Harvard won a decided victory over Yale.
 The Rev. John Watson Clan MscLar- en) arrived in New York city from his western trip.
 Fire in the business section of Man chester, N. H.. destroyed property val ued at s100.000.
 It is announced that the Columbia, the new America's cup defender, will be launched June 8.
 The United States cruiser New Or leans has sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for New Orleans.
 Hon. J. A. Hunter was killed at Los tine, Or, by Mrs. c. R. Elliott on ac- count of family feud. The Columbia university crew won the boat race with the naval cadets at Annapolis by half a length. The transport Meade was damaged by striking a sunken wreck while leaving the harbor of Ponce, Porto Rico. William Armstrong. whop Lincoln once defended successfully on a charge of murder. has just died at Ashland. Ills. Peter Hegelman won the 72 hour go as you please race at the Grand Gem tral Palace, New York. He made 407 miles. .. President Mckinley has practically promised to make a visit to Minneapolis and St. Paul this summer or fall in con nection with a western trip.
 Two Chicago physicians claimed to have discovered how to postpone the effects of old age by hypodermic inJec- tions of the lymphatic fluid of animals.
 It now seems probable that the schooner Loyal, which sailed from Seat tie one year ago for Klondike sound, Alaska, with Il persons on board. Is lost.
 The cruiser Raleigh. Captain Cogh- Ian, has sailed for Portsmouth. N. H., where she goes out of commission. She will be thoroughly overhauled and re- modelled.
 A construction train on the Pittshurg and Western railroad near Wampum, Pa, went through a trestle to Span gler's run, 80 feet below. Two men were killed and six injured.
 William N. Boggs, the defaulting tel Ter of the Dover (Del.) National bank. has been sentenced in the United States district court to five years in the Tren- ton penitentlary and to pay fine of | s6, ,500.
 General Lawton has established the first native municipal government in | the Philippines at Balinag. A Filipino mayor, who is authorized to select a council was elected Monday st a public meeting of the natives Colonel vifquain has rendered to the president the services of the Third Nebraska regiment, which has been mustered out, but is willing to re-enlist and take the place of the First Ne braska now in Luzon, but soon to re- turn to this country.
 Governor Roosevelt has granted a communication releasing Joseph Jourdan, convicted of murder in the second de- gree in New York city in April. 1875, and sentenced to Imprisonment for life. The communication is granted on the rec ommendation of Judge Barrett, who imposed the sentence.
 Dr. Charles Augustus Briggs. who was suspended for heresy by the Pres byterian church, was ordained a priest of the Episcopal church Sunday in the Pro- Cathedral, in stanton street, New York, bS Bishop Potter There was no protest of any kind presented in answer to the bishops formal challenge.
 Cornelius Linehan has begun suit for s2, POO damages against the Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham Railroad company on account of the death of his son. The son was one of Torrey's Rough Riders and was killed in the wreck of the military train at Tupelo, Miss, last spring while the regiment was on It's way to Cuba.
 E. F. Bogert, former postmaster of wtlkesbarre, Pa, who was arrested and suspended from office three months
 
 mails, has been arrested again. this time on the charge of embedding mon ey belonging to the government. He was held in s1 800 ball by United States Commissioner Hahn.
 The remaiSs of Colonel H. c. Egbert, who was killed at Caloocan. Philippine Islands, were inferred at Arlington cem- etery with full military honors. All the available troops in the vicinity of Washington were ordered out by the war department, and many distinguish ed army officers were in attendance up- on the funeral exercises.
 The new gold discoveries at Point Nomo, in Alaska, are said to exceed in richness those of the Klondike, The strike is on the Snake river and it's tributaries, about 20 miles back from Cape Nomo and 120 miles from St. Mi- chaeIs, just outside the St. Michaers military reservation of the United States government. The mines are all in American territory.
 The Baldwin Locomotive works of Philadelphia has received an order from the Reading Railway company for 20 consolidated freight locomotives. Other recent orders received by the firm are three passenger locomotives of the Atlantic type for the St. Paul and Du- luth and IS ton saddle tank locomo- tive and one 70 ton 10 wheeled engine for the Hilo railroad in Hawaii.
 The American sculptor, Daniel Ches- ter French. has been elected member of the Accademia of San Luca, Rome. The Accademia of San Luca is the old est art institution In Rome and Is com posed of a limited number of associates chosen from the famous sculptors, painters and architects and called tho 'svlrtuosi." MT. French Is the first American to receive this honor.
 The engineer detachment from Wil- lets Point, N. r., the so members of which volunteered two weeks ago to 20 to re-enforce Company A of the en- gineer battalion at Manila, has started on its long journey under command of Lieutenant Chase Doster of the Twen- ty-first infantry, who is also on his way to join his regiment there. They will sail from San Francisco May 22.