Connecticut western news., 1899-06-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide wort
 Briefly and TcrseIy Told.

 felt throughout north and central Cali fornia.
 Yale defeated Princeton by score of s to o in the first intercollegiate baseball championship.
 Indian Agent Clifford, at the Chey- rnne reservation, in Montana, has called for more troops.
 The Rev. Dr. W. H. P. Faunce of New York has been elected president of Brown university.
 The property deeded to Stanford uni yersity by Mrs. Stanford is said to be worth $3S,000,000.
 The president has signed the com mission of John A. Merritt of New York as postmaster at Washington.
 At Yonkers John Flanagan, worlds champion hammer thrower, has thrown a hammer 164 feet 10 inches, making a new record.
 A Union Pacific train was held up at Wilcox, Wy. The express car was blown open with dynamite and the contents of the safe taken.
 Oxford and Cambridge have received a cable from Yale and Harvard accepting the challenge for an international contest in track athletics.
 Colonel Hyde, quartermaster of the Boston army depot, has advertised for $1 100000 worth of supplies with which to stock his station for the coming sum mer. -H ...
 Jacob M. Patterson, quarantine com missioner, who for years has been a pow CT in New York state politics, was found dead in bed at his home in Fordham, N. Y.
 Johann Strauss of Vienna, known as "The Waltz King" the composer of the Gypsy Baron," "The Beautiful Blue Danube" and many other popular waltz melodies, is dead.
 General Otis advises the war depart ment that the Oregon regiment will leave for the United States this week. 1t will be sent direct to Portland, Or, for mus ter out at Vancouver barracks.
 President Henry Morton of Stevens in- stitute of Hoboken, N. J., has received q letter from Andrew Carnegie in which the multimillionaire donates to Stevens institute S50,000 for the erection of m engineering laboratory.
 The postoffice at Elizabeth City, N. O., was broken into by safe crackers Sunday night The burglars secured S130 in money order funds, several registered letters and small amount of money be- longing 10 Ine pOsImlstTebs.
 John P. Altgeld will resign from the ways and means and the advisory com mittees of the Democratic national com mittee. His resignation will be pre- sented to the national committee at its meeting in Chicago on July 20.
 Charles Bertram Walker of Richfeld Springs, N. Y., senior in Syracuse uni versity, has been awarded the Hiram Gee fellowship in painting, which pro- vides expenses for years study at Par is or any other art center of Europe.
 The Duke of Devonshire, chancellor of Cambridge university, has conferred a degree on Professor Nicholson of Chi cago. The public orator in presenting Professor Michelson's candidature for the degree of doctor in science described him as "one of the most brilliant inyesti. gators in the domain of light and radia- tion."
 The state department has received in formation from the Marquis of Tweedale, chairman of the cable company operat. ing in the Philippines, that the arrange ment made by General Otis with the company for establishing direct commu. nication between Iloilo and Cebu has been successful, and the line is now open for business.
 The New York state board of health bulletin for the month of May shows 10,3S3 deaths, representing daily mortality of 846, which IS II less daily than in March. The daily rate for the first three months of the year was 3S0 showing a saving this month of l,U0C deaths from the rate of mortality of the preceding quarter.
 The board of construction of the navy has approved the report upon the Span ish gunboats Sandoval and Alyarado, now at Portsmouth, N. H., and they will be repaired at cost of $1S,000 each. The board has also finally approved the plans for the six new cruisers of the Denver class, and the construction bp- reau will proceed to publish the adver- tisement as soon as possible.
 Every man in Pripcetop, Ky, has been fined for contempt Of court A petition had been signed by all of them asking the grand jury not to indict the insurance companies, and no indictments were found. The commonwealth's attorney moved to proceed against the signers for contempt of court. After considerable argument the judge fined every man l cent, and the decision was applauded by the defendants. ...
 The schooner rigged boat Coke, 30 feet long and five tons displacement, has sailed for Manila. Captain Freitche, the sole occupant of the vessel, pro poses to make tour of the world in the frail cockleshell. He claims to have crossed the Atlantic in a vessel of even smaller dimensions. His only companion on the voyage will be cat, to which he is much attached and which he calls his mascot, as it has been with him before on long and lonely cruises.
 The United States army transport Ze- landia has arrived at San Francisco from Manila. She was 26 days making the trip from the islands and IS days from Nngasaki The vessel brought sew eral army and navy officers from the Philippines. besdes score of discharged soldiers Among the naval officers were Chief Engineer John D. Ford of the cruiser Olympia and Chief Engineer Stevenson of the Monterey.
 At the close of the electrical show at Madison Square Garden, New York the ballot was counted in the voting contest for an automobile to be given to the most popular actress. There were more than 75, 900 ballots cast. Maude Adams was the winner, with a vote of 14, ,764. The others that were clOse up were Lll- Han Russell, 18,615; Mrs. Leslie Carter, S,994 Viola Allen, 5,640; Edna May, 3,974 May Irwin, 2.129; Julia Marlowe, 1,565, and Ada Rehan, 949.
 William Hazelden Ellerbee, governor of South Carolina, is dead. About two weeks ago he went, in the last stages of consumption, from the governors resi- dence at Columbia, where he had been an invalid for months, to his plantation home in Marion county. He was a de- scendant of Captain Thomas Ellerbee of Marion brigade, who came to this state from Virginia in 1773. He was born In 1862 and educated at Wofford college and Vanderbilt university. He was a planter and merchant at the inception of the Tillman movement in 1886 and was elected comptroller in 1890. In 1896 he was elected governor, carrying every county in the state except one, and was reelected in 1898 after n hot campaign. Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn has received a letter from Captain Glenn, | Twenty-ffth infantry, commanding q re. connoisance in Alaska, dated May IT, in