Connecticut western news., 1899-12-21
NEWS UF THE WEEK.

Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.
 The census of Porto Rico is practically completed.
 Appendicitis has carried off it's tenth victim in the three years at Yale.
 Jones & Laughlin, the Pittsburg steel manufacturers, will raise wages Jan. l.
 A proposition to buy the Danish West Indies is under consideration by the cab inet
 The work of disinterring the bodies of the Maine victims has been begun at Ha- vana.
 The senate has confirmed the nomina- I tion of George A. Hubbard to be postmas. ter of Boston.
 Secretary of the Treasury Gage has or dered the payment of the January bond interest at once. The Pennsylvania Railroad company's plan for pensioning aged employees will go into effect Jan. l.
 United States Senator Thomas S. Mar tin has been reelected for the term be- ginning March 4, 1901.
 Mayor Van Wyck of New York city signed the ordinance appropriating S250,- 900 for the Dewey arch.
 Avery D. Andrews, adjutant general of New York state, has resigned owing to pressure of other business.
 The Illinois supreme court has held the antidepartment store law passed by the last legislature to be unconstitutional.
 Admiral Sampson has been mustered into membership in James A. Garfield post, No. 193, G. A. R., of Palmyra, N. Y.
 Colorado will bring suit against the federal government to test constitutional ity of refusal to coin silver bullion on de- mand.
 The transport Rio de Janeiro has arriv- ed at San Francisco from Manila with about 250 officers and convalescent troops.
 The transports City of Sydney and Pa than, with the Forty-sixth infantry, have arrived at Manila. No casualties are re- ported.
 An advance in wages has gone into eff feet in many cotton mills of New Hamp- shire. Twenty thousand operatives are affected.
 Five persons perished in fire in a Harlem apartment house and two in a west side tenement in New York on Tuesday.
 The strike at the Girard (Pa.) colliery has ended, the $50 men and boys resum- ing work following a conference between the officials.
 James McClusky of Newburg, N. r., has died of dementia and insanity due to breeding over the destruction of the bat tleship Maine.
 A sensation has been caused in Ar monk, N. Y., by an attempt to poison the family of Hobart Cox by filling a we'll with paris green.
 Two electricians in Chicago, E. P. and c. s. Caroly, are heirs to an estate in Hungary worth 9,00O,000 forins, or about S4,32O,OO0.
 Governor Poynter of Nebraska has ap- pointed ex-Senator Allen to fill the sena- torial vacancy caused by the death of Senator Hayward.
 The New York presbytery, by strong vote, has decided against a trial for her esy of Professor McGiffert of the Union Theological seminary.
 The transports Hancock and City of Pueblo have arrived at Manila with the Forty-four and a portion of the Forty third infantry aboard.
 Annie Parker of New Haven has pass ed 20 years of her life in jail. She is now under arrest for the one hundred
 
 c. F. Lockey, a white Republican law yer and local politician, has been perma- nently exiled from Wilmington, N. O., by the committee of safety.
 It is reported in navy circles that Lieu tenant Theodore G. Dewey will be ap- pointed as flag lieutenant upon the staff of his uncle, the admiral.
 Louis A. Goldsmith, the defaulting as- sistant cashier of the National Bank of Port Jeryis, has disappeared, and his whereabout is unknown.
 Andrew Ferrall, 12 years old, of Wa terbury, Conn.,, died in a dentists office while having tooth pulled. The shock caused by the pain killed him.
 Secretary Root contemplates sending some 400 or 500 soldiers to the Cape Nome district early next spring to main tain order there next summer.
 The cruiser Albany, which was pur- chased by the United States of the Arm strongs, in England, at the outbreak of the Spanish war, is now completed.
 NJ. A. Connolly, who was at one time private secretary of Captain Oberlin M Carter, has been placed under arrest in Havana by order of Secretary Root.
 MT. Spencer Eddy, second secretary of the American embassy in Paris, is going to Egypt. It is stated that his visit is connected with government business.
 John F. Squire x Co.,, corporation and allied companies, engaged in the meat business in Boston, have assigned. The liabilities are estimated at $3,0OO0OO.
 Three people were burned to death and one seriously injured at a fire in a dilapi- dated tenement at 300 South First street, iu the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn. The sale of 10000 acres of coal and timber lands in Cumberland and Fenness counties, Tenn, to syndicate of St. Louis and London capitalists is re- ported.
 But two soldier votes" in the last cleo tion are credited to Erie county and were those of marines on the Texas. The cost to the city of canvassing these votes will be $40
 Colonel John F. Gaynor of New York has been held under heavy bonds, togeth- CT with a number of other contractors, In connsetiop with the Captain Oberlin