Connecticut western news., 1899-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide Worl'
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

| Briefly and TerseIy Told. In Cleveland 1.500 carpenters are on | strike.
 Former United States Senator Tabor | died at Denver. George R. Howell, state archivist, | died in Albany. A reduction of Pullman sleeping car | rates is announced. Vice President Hobart is reported to | be a little improved. The divorce colonies in North Dakota | are unusually large. Three thousand bricklayers are on strike in Philadelphia. Assistant Postmaster General Heath has arrived in Porto Rico. Two men were badly hurt in a freight | train wreck near Arcade. N. r. Dr. James B. Gibson, a we'll known I oculist, died at Colorado Springs. Peter Hegelinan won the "A hour foot ace in New York, covering 120 miles. The United States industrial commits 1 sion has decided to investigate trusts. The auxiliary cruiser Yosemite has arrived at New York to fit out for Ma ] nila.
 f hotels in Michigan, was burned at AL pena.
 Many carEoes of salt are being ship ped from Sen Francisco to Russia and ! Siberia.
 New industries are to be introduced in Sing Sing prison to employ the idle convicts.
 Floods in Montana have done great | aov ot Glendive.
 Miss Helen Gould presented ,1.ooo to ahe relief fund of the New York fire de- 1artment.
 Moses W. Dodd. founder of the puh-
 fishing house of Dodd, Mead & Co.,, is dead at s6.
 kis wife and children and then commit ted suicide. The story that Admiral Sampson's fleet was to go to England Is denied in Washington. The president has been urged to ap- point ex-Representative Fischer a gen. eral appraiser. An immense vein of gold and copper hearing ore has been discovered in North Carolina. Two fine Sevres vases have been pre- rented to President Mckinley by the president of France. Municipal elections were held in Illi-
 nois. Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado. Mis- sourf and Wisconsin. General George L. Andrews, retired,
 died ut his home In Brookline, Mass, on Tuesday, aged 70 years. The United States treasury received
  stricken person. unknown. Richard Derrick, clerk in the New York assembly, was stricken at his desk and died in few moments. Sixteen unidentified bodies victims of the Windsor hotel fire, have been buried in Mount Kensico cemetery. A crazy barber in East Haddam, Conn.,, shot a farmer and was pursued and slain by posse of citizens. Cowboys held up the cashier of the Alamo Gordo (New Mexico) lumber works and escaped with $50, 900 in scrip. The trial of Mrs. George for the mur- der of Mrs. McKinley's brother, George D. Saxton, has been begun in Canton, O. Two thousand suits are being prepar- ed in Chicago against owners of build inss who failed to provide proper fire escapes.
 The New England cotton mills ad- vanced wages an average of 10 per cent,
 between 130,o00 and 14o 900 hands being affected.
 The Jefferson day banquet of the
 Monticello club of Chicago has been
 abandoned because of Democratic dis sensions.
 The Yale bicentennial committee has
 appealed to all graduates for s2, 900, 900
 to be used in carrying out plans for the
 1901 celebration.
 The supreme court of the United
 States decided that war revenue taxes
 on boards of trade and stockyard trans-
 actions were legal.
 The funeral of the six members of the
 Andrews and St. John families who lost
 their lives in Friday mornings fire was
 held in New York city.
 The Neptune Wrecking company of
 Sweden has reported to the navy de-
 partment that it Is not possible to raise
 and repair the sunken Cervera fleet
 near Santiago.
 A cable dispatch from London states
 that the United States ambassador, Mir
 Joseph H. Choate, has almost recovered
 from his recent indisposition and has
 gone to Bournemouth with his family.
 Aguinaldo has issued a decree direct
 ing that Spanish shall be the official
 language throughout the archipelago
 and protesting against the American
 pretension to force the use of English on the natives, who do not know it.
 Lily Post, the opera singer, is dead
 from heart failure. She was taken to an insane asylum in San Francisco. On
 Tuesday she was stricken with heart
 trouble and died peacefully. She had
 been the prima donna of several operar-
 ic organizations.
 The Illinois house has passed a bill providing for the erection in Springfield of new Lincoln monument at a cost of $l,OOO,O0O. The bill appropriates s100,- 900 and provides that s400, 900 be raised
 by popular subscription. Congress will be asked to appropriate the balance.
 Judge Ross. in the United States dis trict court of California has handed down a decision In favor of the United States in case against the Southern Pacific company involving title to 1,S10,- 900 acres of land in the overlapping land grants to the Southern Pacific and oth- CT railways in Southern California.
 The iron ore mines at Smiths Station, Pa, have been put into operation by the Leahy G Denny company after an idlsness of ten years. The ore will be converted ints sif st thsL AxxsrA fxrs