Connecticut western news., 1899-01-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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 The three masted schooner Fsstina was burned near South Norwalk. Conn. Tuesday.
 The supply steamer Glacier has .sr- rived at New York from San Juan, Porto Rico.
 John c. Lammerts. who is charged with being short in his accounts. has filed his resignation as treasurer Of Niagara county.
 The Anglo-American joint high conn mission resumed its sessions in Wash inEton on Thursday.
 Governor smith of Vermont has ofrsr- ed Morrill's seat in the United states senate to B. F. Fiheld.
 A telegraph operator at a station near Bethlehem, Pa, was murdered while on duty and the office robbed Saturday night.
 The Electric Company of America nied articles of incorporation Thursday at Trenton. lt has an authorized capital of s25, 900.
 Governor Roosevelt has desisnated Justice Alfred Spring as a justice of the appellate division for the Fourth de- pertinent, New York.
 General Ludlow asked General Julio Sanguily to keep out of Havana or not to wear his uniform in public, but sam gully ostentatiously dered him.
 Four miners were killed in Jumper mine at Jamestown. Cal. Monday by the dropping of a skip, which fell iso feet to the bottom of the shaft.
 Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore. a well known American woman and friend and ha af Iy hm t~- ventor, died in London Thursday.
 A meeting of Cuban officers held near Havana expressed n willingness to dis- band provided the Cuban army re- osived money for new start in life.
 Secretary Alger Issued general or der on Saturday covering the collection of taxes in Cuba by the spanish bank until the military can take charge of the matter.
 Miss Sophia Dallas. daughter of George M. Dallas. who was vice presi- dent of the United States under Pres ident Polk. died Sunday in Philadelphia in her seventy-sixth year.
 Announcement was made in New York Saturday of the formation of the American Steel and Wire company of New Jersey. to include the various steel and wire interests of the country.
 Archibald Alexander of St. Louis, for merly of New York. and his wife. after a separation of nine years, met Sunday in Bellevue hospital, where the latter Is a patient, and made up past diner~nce..
 A pension of s30 a month has been granted to Mrs. Ida B. Haskell. widow of Brlgadier General Joseph T. Mssksil who was wounded at the battle. of Ei Caney in July and died thsrsfrom in this country on Sept. 16
 The secretary of war has issued au order for the mastering out of about 1e.- 0~o volunteer soldiers The list includes the Sixty-ninth New York. now as Huntsville, Ala, and the Third New Jersey and Fifteenth Pennsylvania, now at Athens, Ga.
 William Endicott, aged 100 years lack ing two months. died Sunday In Bsver> ly, Mass. He was an eyewitness of the engagement between the frtgatee Ches. apeake and shannon, June 1. 1sfs. and was of the sixth generation froin Gov. ernor Endioott of the Massachusetts Hay colony.
 The state department at Washington is informed that Minister straus has wen a signal diplomatic victory In Tur. key, the sublime porte having given as, 
 States for injuries to American mis. sionary property during the Armenian troubles will be adjusted.
 John B. Bertholf. manager of the ter sey City office of the Western Uniop Telegraph company. was arrested Fri. day under an indictment charging hin with aiding green goodR'' nwindisrs. The ofrense consisted in the transmrs. sion of a message to supposed ''coms on" He was held in s2.ooo ball.
 Four deaths and injuries to Pevsr people were caused by the wreck oy the Union Pacific st svnai. i5 rAIfsl east of sydney. Heb., Monday. Int dead are Engineer Dell Bennsh Fife. man John C. Coleman of Crsstsh, Is.; young woman, supposed to be Mias Myrtle Armstrong of Paxton. Nee. ano an unknown old man.
 Four dead. two injured, one c< these perhaps fatally. and the loss of property o< the Southern railway to the amount of about sloo 900 is the result of a wreck which occurred Sunday on the Knox vile and Ohio branch Of the southern railway, one and a half miles west of Dix Valley, Tenn. The killed and in- jured were all trainmen.
 Richard croker, the New York Dem oeratic leader, gave out for publloatiou on Saturday a signed statement in which he declared in favor of the policy of expansion. and says that the gove~n. ment should retain whatever territosv it has acquired as the result of the late war with Spain. He also says that the silver question Is dead issue.