Connecticut western news., 1899-02-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Extreme cold weather was reported in Chicago and the northwest.
 The streets of Salem. Ark, are said to be filled with smallpox patients.
 Captain Richard P. Leary of the navy has been appointed governor of Guam.
 Fire in woburn, Mass. destroyed a civil engineering library valued at S2o.- 0oO
 The new gold strike at Cripple Creek, Colo, will, it was stated. run $500 900 per ton.
 Nathan Day Scott has been elected United States senator from West Vir- ginia.
 Mayor Harrison of Chicago has vetoed the Illinois telephone and telegraph or finance.
 The Ninth Ohio battalion, colored, Ma jor Young commanding. has been mus tered out.
 The carpet factory of William Judge S Fro, Philadelphia, has been burned. Loss, Sl00.U00.
 The Miners Copper company, with sio000.OO0 capital, has been incorporat- cd in Trenton.
 The situation in the senatorial con tests in Pennsylvania and Delaware re- mained unchanged.
 big tin plate company has filed ar tieles of incorporation at Trenton, with a capital of $20. .625. 900.
 Mir. Joseph H. Choate, United States ambassador to Great Britain, has re- ceived his final instructions.
 Commandant Cromwell. at Havana, has recommended that the naval station and yard there be abandoned.
  to oust Master Commissioner Brlns- made in the Standard oil case.
 The Rubber Goods Manufacturing company has been incorporated at Trenton. with a capital of s56. .000. .0o0
 A resolution has been introduced in the house directing that one of the new battleships be named The American Boy"
 Mountain towns in Colorado are threatened with destruction by snow slides. Provisions are reported to be scarce.
 A resolution has been introduced in the New Jersey senate providing for the presentation of a sword to Admiral Sampson.
 The Filipino junta at Hongkong has protested against the American Philip pine commission because there was no native representation.
 Ex-Governor c. A. Culberson of Tex as has been elected by exclamation by the legislature as United States senator to succeed Roger e. Mills.
 Louis J. Snure of New York, who stole s20,000 from his employers, Mandel. Pursch & weiner, has been sentenced to Sing Sing prison for seven years.
 Robert T. Rink, Jr., swallowed poison and shut himself up in a trunk In Phil adelphia, following the example of Mrs. Ayres in Penn Yan. N. Y., last week.
 Former Attorney General Garland was stricken with apoplexy while address ing the United States supreme court Thursday afternoon and died within ten minutes.
 William A. Clark (Dem.) was elected United States senator from Montana by a combination of Republican votes with those of Democratic members of the legislature.
 Chicago will supply Europe with l0,- 900 coach and bus horses. They are to come from different parts of Illinois and Iowa and will be shipped at the rate of POO head a week under contract. United States Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota. the American commis- sioner to the Bergen exhibition and Mir. O. A. Thorp of Chicago have been ga- zetted Knights of St. Olaf by the Swed- ish government.
 Grant c. Gillett, the Kansas cattle trader who recently failed with liabIli- ties aggregating over $l,0o00 has turned all his property over to his cred itors. and it is stated that the latter
  will be instituted against him if he re- turns from Mexico.
 In joint assembly at Madison, Wis. Joseph ouarles. Republican. of Milwau- kee was formally elected United States senator to succeed John I. Mitchell. whose term expires on March {. receiv- ing the solid Republican vote. The Dem- ocratic vote was cast for Timothy E. Ryan of waukesha.
 President Mckinley has announced the appointment of Representative Be- reno F. Payne of New York on the joint high commission to All the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Nelson A. Dlngiey. Mir. Payne also sue ceeded MT. Dingley as chairman of the ways and means committee of the house.
 Rev. Myron winslow Reed, pastor of the Broadway. Temple and at different times pastor of the olivet Congregation al church. Milwaukee. the First Presby- terian church of Indianapolis and other churches in the east and south. is dead in Denver. Mir. Reed was prominent in Coloitt5 politics. having been twice n candidate for congress once as Dem perat and once as Popullst.
 Acting President T. F. Crane of Cor nell has announced that at their last meeting the executive committee of the trustees of Cornell university, aet- ing upon the suggestion of Major Gen. eral Joseph Wheeler. adopted the fol- lowing: Resolved. That free tuition be granted to two Cuban students for four years provided they be able 10 meet the university's requirements for admission and upon the general plan outlined by the Cuban Educational as- sociation of the United States"
 Secretary of War Alger appeared be- fore the war investigation commission on Wednesday, He explained that the larger part of the war fund had been used for coast defenses. He said the chiefs of bureaus often reported to him several times a day. He admitted some defects were apparent in the early days of the war. because it was impossible to handle such a large body of men on short notice. He did not recall having received complaints during the war in regard to the army food. There was a shortness at Santiago because the food could not be landed.
 Mrs Drunner wife of the United States sanitary Inspector with other American ladies, among them Mesdames Fitz- Hugh Lee. Ketcham, Shallenberger, Mc- Donald and Gorgas. has Issued call to all American women in Havana to join them in arranging for the observ- ance of Feb. 15 as Maine day" They also urge a monument to the memory of the Maine dead in Colon cemetery. in which project they will ask the help of their countrywomen at home. They are hopeful of getting former Chaplain Chadwick of the Maine to attend the "AIaine day" ceremony.