Connecticut western news., 1899-09-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerHely Told.

Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.
 Three lion cubs recently born in Cen tral park managerie have been named Dewey, Olympia and Manila.
 Irwin Bush of Joliet, Ills, was said to have been cured of insanity by the injec. ton of lymph from the glands of goat.
 The assembly grounds of the New Eng land Chautauqua society at Montwait, Birmingham, have been sold for taxes
 Two hundred Roman Catholics of Wa tervflle, Me, have begun a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre, Que bee.
 The Swift packing house interests in Chicago have purchased valuable cattle ranches in Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas.
 The Chickasaw Indian legislature at Tishomingo, I. T., has passed bill fixing $1 900 as the price of marriage licenses to shut out white men.
 Subscriptions in New York city for the relief of Porto Rico have reached $oO,- 395. 16. The subscriptions for the Cuban orphan fund have reached $30, ,676.S9.
 The supreme court of the state of Ne vada has rendered a decision in the gov ernorship contest by which Sadler wins by GO plurality, an increase of 40 votes over the original count.
 Colonel Denby has sailed from Manila with Mrs. Denby, his son and daughter and Professor Worcester of the Philip pine commission, expecting to arrive in the United States about Oct. 23.
 General Bates has returned to Manila from Sulu. He reports everything quiet and conditions very satisfactory. Several military posts have been established at different points in the archipelago.
 The navy department has directed that the converted yachts Eagle and Yankton be completed at the Portsmouth navy yard by Oct. 15. as they are needed for survey work about Cuba and Porto Rico.
 The Lexon Athletic club of New York has secured the 9 round bout between Terry McGovern and George Dixon, for which the club offers a purse of SIG, 1000. The contest is to take place before Feb. 6, 1900.
 The Continental Type Bar company, to manufacture typesetting machines, has been incorporated at Trenton with an. authorized capital of $1,00O.000. The incorporators are Edward T. Singer, Eugene Koenig, Walter McDermott, all of Jersey City.
 J. K. Tryon. formerly surgeon general of the navy and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, has been placed on the retired list of the navy. Dr. Tryon entered the navy in 1863 and did good service with Admiral Farragut and In epidemics in Yokohama and Pensacola.
 Miss Elenor Sigsbee, youngest daughter of Captain Sigsbee, late of the ill fated battleship Maine and now commander of the Texas, has died of heart failure at the cottage of Mrs. Rittenhouse, Reho- both, Del, where she had been spending the summer.
 Hon. Martin Heermance of Pough- keepsie has resigned as a member of the New York state board of tax commis- sioners. He was appointed Jan. 20, 1896, by former Governor Morton. The appointment of his successor will be an- nounced shortly by the governor in the person of Lester Stern of Dunkirk.
 Secretary Root has sent out circulars requesting photographs of every com missioned officer of the army to file with the efficiency records in the war depart ment. These photographs are to be all of one size, mounted and to have the name of the officer, his rank and date the photograph was taken inscribed upon the back
 William Darling, formerly of Plain field, N. J., has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in state prison by Justice Colli.ls in the Middlesex court of oyer and terfniner on pleading non vult to the indictment of murdering Harry Dunham at Newmarket four years ago. By good behavior Darling will be able to get out of prison in 1914.
 The Massachusetts Democratic state convention adopted George Fred Will Hams slate for state officers, indorsed Bryan and the Chicago platform almost unanimously and elected 30 delegates to the national convention of 1900, pledged to vote for she Nebraskan as candidate for president. Robert Treat Paine, Jr., of Boston is the candidate for governor. and John H. Mack of North Adams is the candidate for lieutenant governor.
 The deposits of gold dust at the gov ernment assay office at Seattle from Dawson and other Yukon diggings amount to $46O, 900. Skaguay experienced third shock of earthquake on Sept. IS, but it did no damage. The area shaken on Sept. 10 is estimated at 10000 square miles. Boats arriving all bear evidence of contact with icebergs set adrift by the earthquake, the ships coming in with battered bows,
 Consul Wiltshire Butterfeid, brother of the wife of Pere Hyacinthe Lay son, whose marriage created such sensation in Catholic circles some years ago, is dead at his home in South Omaha, Neb. ButterfeId was the author of several widely read historical works, principally relating to Revolutionary times and the years immediately succeeding. He was born in Oswego county, N. Y., and most of his life was spent in the east.
 Judge Alfred s. Hartwell has been chosen by the Dole government to repre- sent the territory of Hawaii unofficially in Washington during the coming con gress. The appointee will leave for his post in time for the opening of congress in December. President Dole stated that the action of the Hawaiian government in sending representative to Washing ton was not only with the knowledge but with the hearty approval of Presi- dent Mckinley.
 The Mariposa brings the following news from Samoa, dated Sept. 8: Another month has passed, and all is quiet in Sa- moa. The natives are at their homes, and copra making has been in full swing, consequently business is brisk and copra is in plenty. Major Mair, after investi- gating claims by Britishers for losses during the recent disturbances, amount ing in all to about $85,000, left by the Moana. Ex-yice King Tamasese has been married to q reputed daughter of Axi. one of Malietoa's right hand men. The bride is really daughter of Laula, Axis brother"
 Chief Constructor Hichborn of the navy, has compiled a list of the vessels on which Admiral Dewey served since his entrance into the naval service, with statement showing the length of time he was attached to each. The statement shows that his first service was on the Wabash as midshipman in 1858. He was on the Pawnee up to the beginning of the civil war, during which he served successively on the Mississippi. the Brooklyn, the Agawan, the Colorado and the Kearsarge. After the war he return ed to the Colorado His first command