Connecticut western news., 1899-08-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Ters~ly Told.


 LiIzie MacNichol, the noted contralto opera singer, died at her summer home in New Hampshire of peritonitis.
 The ground assigned to the United States at the Paris exposition has been formally handed over to the commission.
 Over $50 marines have started from Jersey City for the Philippines. They will be stationed at the Cayite navy yard.
 Admiral Dewey has arrived at Leg horn, Italy. where he Is confined on board the Olympia by a slight attack of fever.
 Universal sorrow has been caused throughout Georgia by the death of Hon. William \. Atkinson, former governor of the state. He had been ill for about l5 days.
 IL is reported that United States Sen. ator Hayward has been stricken with apoplexy at Brownville. Neb. He was delivering an address at Grand Army reunion.
 The Anti-imperialist league of Boston has received from Andrew Carnegie n check for sl,Oo0 with which to press further their opposition to the sdminis- tration's foreign policy.
 Telegrams have been received announc- lng the death of Rev. Dr. Walter Man ming Barrows of Greenwich. Conn. who performed the marriage ceremony of Mir. Perry Belmont and Mrs. Sloane.
 Fire destroyed large part of the busi- ness section of Berea, a village Il miles southwest of Cleveland. Twenty-one business places were burned. The loss will be about Slo0,0o0. with no insur- ance.
 A historic old church at Evanston, Ills. sold for $50. has been marked for conversion into a floating saloon and dance hall on raft. In this church Frances E. Willard read her schoolgirl essays.
 William T. Somerville. a brother-in- law of Senator James k. Jones of Ar kansas, who is in Geneva, has received a letter from the senator in which he says, "I think am much better, and hope to go home entirely we'll"
 Robert l.. Walker of Poland, O., with whom President Mckinley was once con nected in business. has filed a petition In bankruptcy. It was through a previous failure of Walkers that Mir Mckinley was forced into bankruptcy in 1898.
 The Unised States cruisers Newark. which arrived at Csllao, Peru, July 25 on her way to San Francisco to receive Admiral kautx, and Marblehead, which arrived at Callao Aug on her way to Mare Island, left Callao Wednesday night.
 Small amounts of money are beQueath- ed by the will of Mrs. Margaret Auxe to employees of the Windsor hotel. some of whom may have perished with the tests. tor in the fire on St. Patrick's day. Mrs. AuEe was a southern woman who lived in the hotel.
 The following cable was received from General Otis: Captured letters, high insurgent authority exhorting inhabitants to hold out a little longer: that European recognition will be granted by Aug. S1 and that present United States adminis- tration will be overthrown."
 Rev. l. Hughes Parry. pastor of the Morish Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church of Utica, N. Y.. died Thursday al Lake St. Catherine's, six miles from Poultney. Vt, of exhaustion following q fast of 47 days. undertaken In the hope of securing relief from chronic ailment
 At the Christian Alliance convention at Old Orchard, Me-, on Sunday Rev. A. B. Simpson raised $55. .0c0 for foreign missions. The greater part of the sum was raised during the forenoon service. but a second collection was taken in the afternoon. and pledges continued to come in at the evening meeting.
 James Tow, native of California. born of Chinese parents, has enlisted In the service of the United States in the Phil ippines with the Thirty fifth regiment. United States volunteers. Tow has lived all his life in California and was educat- ed in the public schools of the state. Before entering the service he parted with his cue.
 The total number of pensioners on the roll June 30 was 991 ,nla. a decrease of 2.195. There were 40.9e1 names added to the roll and @3. 1S6 dropped The re- port shows the pension roll Is decreasing. Of those dropped 3I.346 were because of death and S.s4l because of remarriage. minors attaining their majority, failure to claim pension and other causes.
 Smallpox has broken out again in various parts of New York state, and Dr. Smelrer. secretary of the state board of health, says it Is in . great measure due to the persistency Of physi- clans in diagnosing gases of smallpox as chicken pox. The latest cases reported are at Cato, Csyuga county, and Seneca Falls, Seneca county.
 No new cases of fever have been off eially reported in Santiago, and none has developed among the American troops within the last ten days. The local Gu ban physicians praise the effective meth ods of the military governor. General wl sxx AuA k. They say the Spaniards could have done as well if they had tried, put that the latter were too lazy.
 The Nyack Rural cemetery at Nyack. N. Y., has just been purchased by E. V. Prentiss of New York city. repre- senting a large syndicate of that city. including the stephen Merritt Burial A crematory is to be built on the ground. and liquid air will be used in cremation. The cemetery com prises 23 acres. and many lots have pre- viously been sold, and large number of interments have been made.
 The bureau of construction of the navy has ordered the work of out. fitting the converted yachts Wasp, Frolic and Dorothea to proceed to the Norfolk navy yard. The bureau of navigation believes that these small vessels can be employed in survey and coast work which has heretofore been done by vessels of a much larger type. and it is in response to the recommenda- ton of that bureau that they are to be fitted.
 The Mazet legislative committee has ad. ,ourned until Sept. 12. Attorney Frank Moss will spend the next four weeks pre- pairing a statement of the work of the committee and framing reports of i'm provements or supposed improvements in matters pertaining to municipal legisls- ton which will be presented to the next Assemblyman Hoffman, the Democratic member of the committee in objected to the adjournment, but he was outvoted four 10 one by the members of the committee.
 The decree of Bisaop Jansen of the Roman Catholic diocese of Bellevillv. Ills. excommunicating the members of St. PatnGTs congregation or East St. Louis, who are in rebellion against his in the matter of appointing German born priest to succeed an Irish American rector, went into effect when AaIl Ia. a