Connecticut western news., 1899-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerHeIy Told.

pehffH Johh ID. Alapp uieu III iAait= ford Friday. ..
 American tin plate has advanced from k3.ST to S4.37 per box.
 Admiral Dewey reached Suez on the Olympia Wednesday morning.
 Five persons were injured in cable car accidents in New York on Friday.
 Robert Harper of Minneapolis cele- brated his one hundredth birthday Ju- ly 14.
 Six robbers held up New York Belt line car and stole jewelry from passen. | gers.
 The war department has chartered the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry horses to Manila.
 Burglars blew open the safe In hotel office at Demarest, N. l., and carried away S700 worth of plunder. The annual convention of New York State Bankers association opened at All | exandria Bay. N. Y., Friday.
 The federal government has sent agents to several points in Texas to se- cure horses for service in Cuba.
 The president appointed Colonel Alfred E. Bates paymnster general of the army, to succeed General Asa R. Carey. The salvors of the steamer Paris will get S375, 900 for the job. Their expenses are said to have been about $20,000.
 The Chicago Platform Democrats, at a meeting, decided to hold . big silver meeting in New York or at one of the nearby summer resorts on Labor day.
 Surrogate Narnum of New York admit. ted to probate the will of Mary Johnson, | giving S5,0O0,oO0 to religious societies.
 The Yale and Harvard athletic teams reached Southampton on the St. Louis | Wednesday evening in excellent condi. ton.
 Horatio Alger, the famous writer of boys stories, has died at the home of his sister. Mrs. Amos Cheney, in Natick, Mass. The engineers of the battleship Iowa, now in drydock at Seattle, Wash, have discovered serious injuries to her fur | naces.
 The wife of Thomas McGuinness of Jersey City is suing him for divorce on the ground of cruelty. She claims he is wealthy.
 Colonel Leonard of the Twelfth rcgi- ment heads q long list of New York men named for officers in the new volunteer regiments.
 The president announced further ap. | pointments In the volunteer army, includ. ing that of Webb c. Hayes as lieuten. | ant colonel. Herr Rose, formerly German consul at Apia, arrived in Washington, and a con ference on Samoan affairs was held al the state department.
 The steamer Queen arrived at Victoria, B. C., with gold from Alaska variously estimated to be worth anywhere from $350.000 to S1,000,000. The president issued an order extend | ing the protection of the American flag | to vessels owned by residents of Porto Rico and the Philippines. Contributions to the Dewey home fund Friday amounted to $411, all but $50 of | which came from the Brooklyn Eagle. making total of $14, ,120. A committee of the Grand Army of the | Republic had a conference with Presi- dent Mckinley in regard to the pension | policy of the administration. It was reported at Victoria, B. C.. that | the steamers Roanoke and Garonne would bring to Seattle and San Fran cisco ST,o0o,0o0 in Klondike gold. Mrs. Mary Austin lngerson, nged 60 years, one of the most prominent women of Saratoga county, N. Y., died suddenly at her Ballston Spa home Friday. Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis, who formerly commanded a brigade of American soldiers on the island of Luzon. said the Filipinos were incapable of self government.
 There is hitch in the reciprocity Urea. | ty negotiations with France owing to the | fact that the concessions made by the | United States do not meet with much fa- vor in Paris.
 Members of the United States civil service commission began a hearing in Concord, N. H., of charges against Sena- tor Gallinger for alleged violations of the civil service laws.
 The American government declined to arbitrate claims for damages for the death of Austro- Hungarian subjects at Hazleton. Pa. who were killed during the coal miners strike.
 Twelve discharged sailors of the battle ship Iowa, who have started for Brook lyn, say they will lay before Secretary Long a complaint regarding the rations issued on board the Iowa.
 Ex-Congressman Nathan Frank of St. Louis in an interview declares that he does not agree with Attorney General Griggs in the statement that the remedy for dissolving trusts rests with the state legislatures.
 Admiral Cervera has written the Ports mouth (N. H. Chronicle denying the sto- ry that he was about to come to Ports mouth to take back to Spain the bodies of the Spanish prisoners who died at Seavey's island.
 At Princeton, N. l., Moses Taylor Pyne. multimillionaire and trustee of Princeton university, was kicked several s.x of to hs.Ixs h,, a spirited horse. receiving painful though not dangerous injuries. A masked man, armed with a revolver, entered the house of Sylvester Faulkner at wanaaua, N. l., when no one was Tn but Mrs. Faulkner. He tied her to a chair and then took S362 in cash and a pension check for S36
 On q rush order from the war depart. men POO horses and mules and 60 escort wagons were shipped from the Chicka- mauga quartermaster's department to San Francisco by special train to be for warded at once to Manila.
 The navy department is considering the advisability of erecting shore barracks for sailors, and Rear Admiral Crownin- shield has sailed for Europe on the Cam pania to study the foreign system of the housing of sailors in barracks.
 The state department and the presi. dent have decided that Mrs. Rich must be surrendered to Mexico for trial for the murder of her husband. This was done to establish n precedent in order that the United States should be able to demand the return of border thieves.
 Train robbers storped passenger train of the Colorado and Southern rail way near Folsom. N. M., and broke the sides of the express car with dynamite. Officers of the Wells-Fargo Express com pany say that nothing was secured by the robbers. who escaped on horses which were tethercd near by.
 Among the passengers on the Empress of India, from the orient, was CaDtain A. F. Barker. T. s. N.. former commander of the battlcshp Oregon. He is accom- panied hy Lieutenant IT. B. Eberle and Lieutenant Commander Suiger. Other passengers were Baron yon Heysing, the