Connecticut western news., 1899-04-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
HappeninEs of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 A gun to cost s15o, 900 has been order ed for the Sandy Hook Notifications.
 Lily Post, the opera singer has been adtudged insane by a California court.
 The administration building at Fort slocum was partially destroyed by fire.
 President Mckinley has returned to
 Washington from his vacation trip in the south.
 Vermont will place memorial to Ad- miral Dewey at the entrance 10 her statehouse
 The Two Hundred and First New York regiment has been mustered out at | Greenville, s. c.
 s. B. Armour. head of the Kansas City packing house of Armour & Go. of Chicago is dead.
 Senator Depew signed a lease for the | W. W. Corcoran house on Lafayette square. Washington.
 | Municipal elections were held In Illi- nois, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Mis- souri and Wisconsin.
 General George l.. Andrews, retired, died at his home in Brookline, Mass, on | Tuesday, aged 70 years
 Sixty-three fire insurance companies | have ordered their agents in Arkansas 10 suspend underwriting.
 The British ship Honolulu. which was at Manila when Dewey won his victory, has arrived at New York.
 | The United States treasury received three S1,000 bills from some conscience stricken person. unknown. | Admiral Sampson has cabled the sail | ing of his fleet from Kingston, Jamaica, for La Guayra, Venezuela. | The Reaches will build two c~ the lar- sest freighters ever launched in Ameri- | ca for the Hawaiian trade. .. . The steamer City of Seattle, from skaguay, Alaska, brings news of a s2o.- poo fire at Dawson March 9. | The battleship Massachusetts was taken out of drydock, the repairs to her keel having been completed. Frederick D. Kilburn of Malone has been reappointed state superintendent of banks at a salary of s1.o00. The bill to fix the legal rate of inter est in New York state at per cent has been defeated in the assembly. Former Senator George Gray of Del aware has been appointed United States circuit judge for the Third district | Nearly 300 Spanish merchants of Cuba | have sailed for Spain from Montserrat to avoid outrages by Cuban soldiers.
 The trial of Mrs. George for the mur- | der of Mrs. McKinley's brother. George | D. Saxton. has been begun in Canton, O. A bulletin issued In Washington says that ex-Seoretary Sherman has recov- cred from pneumonia and is convalss- cling. The United States revenue cutter The tis is to be fitted out for a cruise in the okhotsk sea and along the coast of si- beria-
 E. Bates Soper was hanged in Harri- sonvilie. Mo. for the murder of his wife and two children. He also killed his father.
 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 1so,ooo and 14o.ooo hands being | affected. ...r.. Mrs Howard Gould gave an Easter party in New York city with sb little girls from Mulberry bend and vicinity as her guests.
 The supreme court of the United States decided that war revenue taxes on boards of trade and stockyard trans actions were legal. The Zealandia, with several companies or the Ninth infantry and 6 large cargo of supplies on board. has sailed for Ma nila via Honolulu.
 Prominent radicals of Porto Rico have organized a Republican party and pre- pared a platform embracing American ideas of government, -.--a ... Irving Taylor a Brooklyn youth, con fsssed to 12 fires that he had started, and the police believe that he was re- sponsible for 70 others. -
 The bodies of Miss Dora Hoffman. Mrs. M. AuEs and H. W. Loree. taken from the Windsor hotel ruins. have been identihed by relatives.
 Union college has sold a large tract of land at Schenectady to the General Electric company, to be used in building residences for Its oficers
 The wholesale hardware house of Mill Ter. Schloss & Scott. San Francisco. has been almost entirely destroyed by Ire, the total loss being sfoo. 900.
 W. F. Roberts of the Pencoyd Iron works of Philadelphia has been award cd the contract to build . bridge over the Atbara river, in the Sudan.
 Asssmblyman Fallows' Amsterdam avenue relief bill, az amended to suit the Metropolitan Traction Company, has passed the New York senate.
 Richard olney, John BaEsett Moore and Archbishop Ireland have been suG- Eested as possible American delegates to the czar's disarmament congress.
 The Neptune wrsckins company of Sweden has reported 10 the navy de- partment that 1t is not possible to raise and repair the sunken Csrvera fleet near Santiago.
 The transport Charles Nelson has sailed for Manila with 500 tons of freight. which Is to be equally divided between the commissary and quarter masters departments.
 A cable dispatch from London states | that the United States embassador, Mir. Joseph H. Choate. has almost recovered from his recent indisposition and has gone to Bournemouth with his family.
 The United States transport Meade, Il formerly the Berlin, has sailed for Ma tanzas. Cuba, to transport the Eighth Massachusetts from that place to Bos- ton, where they are to be mustered out.
 pr. Samuel J. Kennedy, the Staten Island dentist convicted of the murder of Dolly Reynolds in the Grand hotel last summer has been sentenced to be elsctrocuted at Sing Sing in the week beginning May 72.
 It is reported that IS gold seekers have been murdered by Indians near the mouth of the Kuskokwim, one of | the largest rivers of Alaska, which empties into Boring sec about 100 miles southeast of Etolin straits.
 The battleship Iowa, at present at the Union Iron works undergoing repairs, has been ordered to proceed to Manila to relieve the oregon. The oreron has been ordered to proceed to San Fran cisco as soon as the Iowa appears
 A syndicate of anthracite coal op- orators from Lugerne and Lackawsnna counties, Pa, has arranged to take 2os.- 900 acres of coal lands along the line of the Western New York and Pennsylva- mia railroad, in the northwestern part of Pennsylvania.