Connecticut western news., 1899-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Terxely Told.

The United States cruiser Newark has
 arrived at Manila. Citizens of St. Louis sent a solid silver
 loving cup to Admiral Schley.
 Charles Coghlan, the actor, has died in Galveston of acute gastritis. Dr. Daniel McMurtrie, medical director
 in the navy, retired, is dead. The Fortieth infantry sailed on Friday | for Manila from San Francisco. Liquor men will petition congress to re- duce the tax on distilled spirits. Richard Croker has sailed for Europe
 on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
 Rear Admiral Schley has sailed on the | Chicago for his new South American post.
 Princeton defeated Yale at football in New Haven Saturday by a score of II | to 10.
 William L. Elkins of Philadelphia has decided to establish college for girls In that city.
 Daniel s. Kidder of Florida has been | appointed consul st Algiers, Africa, vice | c. T. Grellet.
 A Lake Shore train has made the run of 1SS miles between Cleveland and Buff | falo in 1S6 minutes. Admiral Dewey's acceptance of the in' vitation to visit Chicago May l next has
 been received by the Dewey day commit | tee.
 Rev. Nathan Leighton, the clergyman who is alleged to have performed n mar riage between Jay Gould and Mrs. An | gell is dead.
 Miss Eliza Works, known as the old. est resident of Monroe county, N. Y., has | died at her home in Henrietta, aged 105 | years 10 months and 13 days. The returns to date of the bond pur- | chases at the several subtrensuries un- | der the recent offer of the secretary of the treasury make total of So, 137 ,450. The United States transport George | w. Elder has made the round trip be- | tween San Francisco and Manila in dl | days, making a new record for the voy | age.
 The Culgoa, which was sent out by Ad- | miral Watson to ascertain If the wrecked
 cruiser Charleston could be rescued, rec
 ports that the Charleston has disap- | peared.
 | Aguinaldo's youngest child, who was | recently christened at Tarlac with great | ceremony, died during the flight of the insurgent leader and was buried at Day | amban.
 Hon. Thomas W. Tipton, who repre-
 scented the state of Nebraska in the Unit | ed States senate for eight years, has
 died in Washington in the sighty-third | year of his age.
 Major Guy Howard, son of General O. | O. Howard, who was killed in the Phil | ippines last October, has been buried with military honors in Prospect Hill
 cemetery, Omaha.
 Mir. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and chairman of the board of directors | of the White Star Steamship company, | has died suddenly in Liverpool. He was
 born Jan. '. 1887.
 T. F. Lansing has been appointed min ! ister of finance of Hawaii, to succeed $. | M. Damon, whose resignation was nent | from Rome. The appointment was made | by President Dole. Rev. Samuel May, the famous aboli. | tionist, has died at his home in Leicester.
 Mass. He would have been % years old next April. He was a graduate of liar
 yard, class of 1929. Archbishop Chapelle has received offi- cial notice that Mgr. Donate Sbarretti,
 auditor of the apostolic delegation in Washington. has been appointed by the | pope bishop of Havana. | The University of Pennsylvania am nounces a subscription of S250,000 for
 the erection of laboratory of physics. | The name of the donor, Philadelphian.
 is for the present withheld. Two persons were burned to death,
 several were injured and n score or more
 had narrow escape in fire in four
 story brick building at 140 Houston | street, New York, on Tuesday. Articles of incorporation have been | filed with the secretary of state of New
 Jersey of the Marconi Wireless Tele. | graph company of America, with an au.
 thorized capital of $10,000,000
 The battieship Kentucky has had her first official speed trial over the govern ment course or Cape Ann. She develop | ed a speed of nearly IT knots under ad verse conditions of tide and wind. Joe Ellis, "the hermit of Marvin hol. | low" has just died near Walton, N. Y. I He was at one time associated with Hor- | ace Greeley In literary work, but years ago renounced the world and lived alone in a hut.
 Andrew Carnegie's offer of $25, 900 for \ a public library building in Tucson, A. | T., has been accepted, the city council voting a site on the Military plaza and | S2,000 per annum for the maintenance of the library.
 Reports to the immigration bureau show that the total immigration to the | United States during the last four
 months was 115,276, an increase over
 that of the corresponding period of last
 year of 3O,544.
 Bert Repine of Nashville won the IS | hour bicycle race in Kansas City. The | final score was; Repine, 061 miles laps:
 Julius, 961 miles laps; Miller, 961 miles | 2 laps; Lawson, 9G0 miles 10 laps; Wal. | Ter, 960 miles laps. General Robert V. Vance, brother of | the late Senator z. E. Vance and for 13 years representative in congress from | the Asheville district of North Caro. | lima has died at his home in Alexander
 near Asheville, aged 72. By the explosion of a gas main in the | excavation under the tracks of the Met
 ropolitan Street Railway company on Broadway, in New York, one man was
 instantly killed and 15 others were in- jured more or less seriously. Commissioner Wilson of the internal
 revenue bureau in his report for the fiscal
 year ended June 30, 1899, shows that the
 receipts from all sources aggregated | S273, ASA, ,573, an increase over the pre-
 ceding year of S102,617,000. John c. Lammerts, ex-county treasurer of Niagara county, N. Y., convicted of kIhuh iuiNshst hAoN NNraNNf aNs "FP'NPhA ating $2,549.50 of public money to his own use, has been sentenced 10 seven years at hard labor in Auburn prison.
 Colonel George R. Davis, former di-
 rector general of the Worlds fair, has died at his home in Chicago after q short
 illness. Colonel Davis had been a suf-
 ferer from heart disease for years, and
 death was due primarily 10 this cause. Governor Roosevelt has announced that
 se will appoint Mir. Ansley Wilcox of
 Buffalo as a commissioner to take testi-
 mony on the charges filed against Dis
 trict Attorney Gardiner of New York
 county by the City club of New York.
 Robbers wrecked with dynamite the
 safe and the front end of the bank In
 Bluff City, Neb. and escaped with Sl,000
 in gold, besides some silver and bills.
 This is the eighth Kansas bank to be