Connecticut western news., 1899-10-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.


 Admiral Dewey has returned to Wash ington.
 The cruiser Brooklyn has left Hampton Roads bound for Manila through the Suez canal.
 President George Harris has been formally inaugursted as head of Amherst college.
 Admiral Dewey on Friday laid the cornerstone of Bewey hall at Northfeld university, Northheld, Vt.
 The Dismal Swamp canal, in Virginia, surveyed by Washington and abandoned for 100 years, has just been reopened.
 Captain NJ. B. Stafford of the Thir- teenth infantry, who was wounded last week near Malabon, Luzon, is dead.
 The government has planned n notable exhibition of colonial products for the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo.
 Rear Admiral Sampson has retired from command of the north Atlantic squadron. He Is succeeded by Rear Ad- miral Farquhar.
 The New York state court of appeals has handed down a decision which grants a new trial to Howard c. Benham, the Batavia banker convicted and under sen tence of death for the murder of his wife. Benham has been confined in Auburn prison over two years.
 Emory r. Close, United States attor- ney for the northern district of New York, has been committed to tho Buffalo State Hospital For the Insane. It is be- lieved that financial worry and overwork have made him inctSably mad. His symptoms are of paresis.
 Major George O. Webster, U. s. A., retired, has died in the post hospital at Fort Sheridan from the effects of a fever contracted in the Philippines a few months ago while commanding n bat talion of the Fourth infantry. Major Webster was an old Indian fighter and saw active service with the Fourth both in Cuba and in Luzon.
 The president has ordered the promo ton to grade of hrigadier general in the regular army of the following colonels: Colonel A. c. NJ. Pennington, Second ar tillery; Colonel Royal T. Frank, First artillery; Colonel Louis Fl. Carpenter, Fifth cavalry. Colonel Samuel Oven shine, Twenty-third infantry; Colonel Daniel W. Burke, Seventeenth infantry.
 By direction of President Mckinley General William R. Shafter Is retired from active service Oct. IS as brtgadier general, U. s. A., under the provisions of the act of congress approved June 8, 1882. He will remain in command of the departments of California and of the Columbia under his commission as major general, United States volunteers, until further orders. .... ..-
 The woman's National Industrial league is going to raise fund with which to purchase home in Washington for Admiral Schley. An executive com mittee, with Mrs. Charlotte Smith as its head, was appointed to push the move ment, and the Citizens National bank of Washington was designated as the insti- tuition to which subscribers should send their subscriptions.
 The Manila newspaper Patria has been suppressed and its editor, Senor Utor, a Spaniard, placed under arrest on charge of printing and publishing seditious doc uments. For some time the Patria has been hostile to the Americans. Recently pamphlets attacking the Americans and the friendly Filipinos have been circu- lated, and the police believe that Utor wrote and printed them.
 The retirement of Admiral Howison has resulted in the promotion of the fol- lowing officers: Captain A. s. Barker, commandant of the Norfolk navy yard, to be rear admiral; Commander Edward F. Strong to be captain, Lieutenant Com mander J. D. Briggs to be commander, Lieutenant R. T. Mulligan to be lieuten- ant commander and Lieutenant junior grade) J. H. Rowen to be lieutenant.
 Mail adyices from 1loilo state that there Is great tension between the Visa vans and Tagalos growing out of the Tagalos holding Araneta, a leader of the Visayans, prisoner since the threatened Visayan revolt against Tagalo domina- tion a month ago. The Visayans are in- censed to the point of rebellion. While the Tagalos nominally control cnly the military organization of the so called Fill ipino republic, they have crowded out the Visayans from the civil branch, whereat there is great discontent
 In a private letter to General Corbin from Manila one of the officers of the commissary department there makes the important statement that with the open ing of the present campaign 1t will be possible to secure all of the live cattle necessary to send forward with the va rious columns operating from Manila. He says that cattle can be secured from slukhpOIt huu lltuNniu Mtlhlu hun dhIh of cabling and that there is an sbun- dance of native beef of very satisfactory quality to be found in the islands south of Luzon.
 The war department has been noti- fed that the transport Columbia, carry ing the first of the new United States volunteers, reached Manila Wednesday evening. There were no casualties on the voyage General Otis said that the trans port Warren would start for the United States on Oct. IS and the Columbia as soon as possible. The Columbia left San Francisco on Sept. 3, with the headqusr- ters and five companies of the Thirty fourth volunteer infantry, Colonel l.. ". w. Kennon commanding, total of IS officers and 566 enlisted men.
 The German societies in Chicago have started a movement to show their appre- citation of the successful efforts of Elm bassador Andrew D. White to preserve the entente cordiale between this country and the German government. All the German societies in the United States are expected to join in contributing money for the purpose of a present to Mir. White to cost not less than S3,o00. "Embassa- dor White has done more than any other man." said representative German, "to maintain the pleasant relations existing between the United States and Germany, and some mark of recognition is due him from the former subjects of the kaiser now residing In the United States"
 Texas is having trouble with labor or ganiEations and capital. So serious Is the situation growing in some sections that the state officials have had to take cogpi- zance of the situation and place the rangers In charge. At Orange the law. less element has during the past ten days burned several large lumber mills and laid waste thousands of dollars worth of property. The rangers have been sent to that place to do police duty and will be kept there for m indefinite period. Governor Savers offered n large reward for the apprehension of number of dynamiters who recently blew up the house of a negro in Cherokee county. In addition to these troubles the biggest labor dispute known in Texas Is the strike which has been inauRurated against the Cameron fiouring min indus try in Texas. This corporation operates
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