Connecticut western news., 1899-02-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings ef the Wide Werls
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

hrtefsY ana Terneiy Toia.
 It is reported in Washington that Germany furnished Aguinaldo with 500. 900 marks.
 The State Insane asylum at Tank ton. s. D.. was burned Monday, causing the death of r. Of the inmates.
 The Mexican senate has confirmed the appointment of Manuel Axpirox as em- basssdor to the United States. MT. Az piroz will leave for Washington at the end of February.
 The residence of George A. Lewis at Ballston Spa, N. Y, has been burned. It was a colonial building erected 100 years ago and was of historical note. The loss was 5000.
 Mrs. Ethan Allen, wife of Colonel Ethan Allen, grandson of the Revolu- tionary hero of that name died at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York Wednesday night of heart disease.
 A. J. Fowler shot and killed Tom Dar- nell at Silver City. N. M. Darnell went to Tampa as a rough rider. He was one of the champion horsemen of the world. It is said the killing was in self de- tense.
 Major General Wood has recommend ed the appointment of Demetrio Castillo for the position of acting civil governor of Santiago, believing that Castillo rep reSents the highest type of the Cuban people.
 City and county consolidation in Cook county and the abolition of 1s of the II government bodies in Chicago has been lndorsed by the Civic Federation joint committee on constitutional revision at Chicago.
 General Kennedy and Major Wat kins, the advisers of the war depart ment on insular affairs. are going over a mass of papers bearing on Cuban and Porto Rican affairs coming within their scope of investigation.
 The l.. A. W. has voted to control rac- ing and to eliminate professionals from membership in the league. The vote on admitting professionals to the league was defeated-114 yeas 70 1o5 naysta two-thirds vote being necessary.
 The corporation of Brown university has ratified the choice of Rev. Dr. James Monroe Taylor, now president of vassar college. as president of the university. He will assume at the opening of the next college year the place left by Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews.
 Very Rev. John Finnen, pastor of St. Johns Catholic church. PfttsburE, and vicar general of the Scranton (Pa.) dio- cese. is dead. He was 71 years of age, He was educated in St. Charles Bor- romeo college. near Philadelphia, and Pittston. He built up a great church property in his parish.
 The reservoir at the Big Dipper mine. in the Iowa hill mining district. near Auburn, Colo, broke and carried away the entire mill. blacksmith shop and drying house. Five Chinese and one white man. Joseph Farber. were killed, and their bodies were found several miles down the canyon.
 W. L. Hope. grand worthy chief tenn plar of the Good Templars of New Jer- sey. died Tuesday in Shrewsbury. N. J. He was T5 years of age. He was born in New York and engaged in the mercantile business and then went to Red Bank. N. J.. and engaged in farm ing. He spoke on the stump for Lin coin and Grant when they were run ming for the presidency.
 Oliver Hazard Perry Champlin of Buff falo died on Tuesday. MT. Cham plin was the oldest son of Commodore stephen Champlin, U. s. N. who tock part in the battle of Lake Erie as a sail ing master. He was born in Lebanon, Conn, in ISIS. Mir Champlin was . member of the Old Union Continental and with them stood guard over the body of Abraham Lincoln when 1t lay in state here.
 Hon. Jeremiah Dingley of Auburn, Me, Is dead. aged IT years. Mir. Dingley had served several terms in both branches of the legislature as we'll as Tn the city government. At the time of his death he was president of the First National bank and a member of the Dingley-Foss Shoe company. MT. Dingley was an uncle of the late Con- gressman Dingley. A widow and two daughters survive him.
 The first plate of the keel of the bat tleship Maine was laid at Cramps on the first anniversary of the destruction of her famous namesake in Havana harbor. There was little formality att tending the work. It is the intention of her builders to have the hull of the great vessel ready for launching on Feb. 15 next year and the battleship and equipped ready for serv- ice on the third anniversary of the old destruction.
 Reports from Shacktown, near the mouth of Rat river, say miners who went up the Peel river are returning very much discouraged. The same is true of those who went up the Laird riv- CT. The rich strikes reported to have been made upon the Buffalo. Hay, Laird, Nahanna. Gravel and Peel rivers exist only in imagination. All these rivers have been thoroughly prospected this year, and the only metal of value found was copper ore on the Gravel river.
 Carl Norcross, a we'll known and we'll to do young man of Union, Pa, is in jail on charge of trying to murder his brother Allen, aged 10 years. A few hours after his arrest Norcross swal- lowed poison, and little hope of his re- covery is entertained. Norcross and his brother inherited fortune of sz5,- 900, and a large part of the formers share, it Is said. has been dissipated. The arrest was made upon the confes- sion of John Devlin and Sylvester Het- terman. who said that they were hired by Norcross to give poisoned candy to the boy. The men say they were to re- ceive s500 for delivering the package to the lad.
 President Mckinley has appointed George M. Curtis of Iowa in place of Colonel Guild as one of the three experts to act as examiners in the war depart ment and having to do with insular af- fairs. It was stated at the department after Colonel Guild had declined the po- sition that no other appointment would be made, but Mir. Curtis was appointed on the recommendation of Senator Ali son IS thoroughly competent and we'll versed individual for the place The three gentlemen in question will start at once for Santiago. Cuba, to report on the franchises and concessions in that part of the island which have been tenn at least held up by the procla- nation of General Brooke
 Colonel Thomas Moonlight, aged CT years. died in Leavenworth, Kan. He was colonel of an artillery regiment during the civil war and was brevetted brigadier general Colonel Moonlight was appointed governor of Wyoming by President Cleveland during the latter's first term. During Clevelands second