Connecticut western news., 1899-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

the linotype typesetting machine, mas died in Baltimore.
 Andrew Carnegie has sent S1T,ooo to pay a debt on the first women's club erected in Texas, at Denison.
 The Hackettstown lN. Jl seminary has been burned. The loss will be S3o0, ,oo0. on which there is S150.O00 insurance.
 Presiden, Mckinley has issued proc lamation setting the date of Thanksgiy- Ing day this year on Thursday, Nov. 30.
 Captain Nicoll Ludlow has been retired with the rank of rear admiral in the navy on his own application after 30 years service.
 Word has been received in Washington of the death of Chief Yeoman Charles K, D. Warlow of the cruiser Baltimore In the Philippines.
 The Alaska territorial convention at Juneau adopted memorial to congress asking for a delegate to congress and other privileges.
 Attorney General Davies of New York state has appointed John E. Mason of Rome a deputy attorney general in his office at salary of S4,oo0 per nnnum.
 The Richmond Locomotive and Ma. chine works have received an order by cable for three ten wheeled locomotives for one of the private railroads of Swe- den.
 The report of the commissioner general of immigration, T. ". Powderly, shows that the total arrivals for the year ex- ceeded those of the preceding year 36 per cent.
 President Patton Q Of Princeton universi- ty has announced that Edwin Henry Kellogg of Landor, India, has been awarded the Steinnecke prize, which yields to the winner l,500.
 Columbia university defeated Yale at football on Saturday by a score of 6 to 0. This was the first time in history that Yale had been beaten at football by col lege outside the Big Four"
 Telegraphic advices received at Ska quay from Dawson City and intermediate points announce that river navigation of the Yukon has ceased, floating ice rem dering it unsafe for steamers.
 The affidavit of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, former speaker of the house of represent atives. which entities him to practice as an attorney in New York state, has been filed with the court of appeals.
 The Twenty-sixth infantry arrived at Manila on the transport Grant and sailed for Iloilo without disembarking. General Otis will re-enforce the Iloilo garrison as strongly as possible in view of the con tinued attacks of the natives.
 Admiral Watson at Manila has inform ed the navy department that the Spanish gunboat Arayat, sunk in May, 1898, in the Pasig river, has been raised. Her hull, boiler and machinery are in fair con dition. and she will be repaired.
 Colonel Ray, in charge of the United States post at Eagle City, Alaska, has sent a party over the Naldez trail to meet another party coming from the east. He expects to receive mail over this route this winter and to prove it an American route suitable for railroad.
 The Rev. Francis c. Lobdell, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, Buffalo, and archdeacon of western New York, has died suddenly, apparently from the ef- fleets of an overdose of laudanum. For a long time Mir. Lobdell had been troubled with insomnia and used a narcotic to ob- tain sleep.
 A delegation of citizens from Nashville visited the president and the heads of the various executive departments and invit- ed them to visit Nashville on the occasion of the reception to be given the First Tennessee volunteer infantry, which regi- ment is now on its way home from the Philippines.
 A scramble between the supporters of General Patrick A. Collins and John R. Murphy, candidates for mayor of Boston, to obtain places of advantage for filing nomination papers at the Democratic city committees headquarters developed into a hot battle between the factions. Sew eral persons were hurt, and the rooms of the committee were badly damaged.
 Admiral Dewey has been obliged to cancel his proposed trip to Chicago. He had accepted an invitation to be the guest of the city between Nov. 15 and 30. but on account of the meeting of the Philippine commission, which will hold sessions in Washington today or Monday, be has written a letter explaining that 1t will be impossible for him to keep his en- gagement.
 General FitZ-Hugh Lee, now in Wash ington, in an interview, said that the people of Cuba are steadily improving under the existing protectorate of tbe United States and are slowly but surely rebuilding their war wasted homes and repairing their crippled fortunes. Life and property are secure in Cuba owing largely, he said, to the salutary restraint exercised by American military authori- ty. He thinks the time not ripe yet, how ever, for purely Cuban government.
 It is said negotiations will be opened soon at Madrid for new treaty between the United States and Spain. This will be the last step toward completely re- storing the friendly relations between the two countries. Both sides expect that the new treaty will be a great improve ment on the old one. which was an anti Quated document, dating back to 1TS5, with many of its provisions devoted to the boundary between Florida, then a possession of Spain, and the United States. Save for the Cushing protocol it had been impossible to frame a new treaty satisfactory to both sides, and 1t remained for the war to dispose of it and thus open the way for a modern treaty.
 The trial of Roland B. Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Katherine ]. Adams will. according to the district attorney, begin Nov. 13. Assistant District Attor- ucy Osborne. who has charge of the case. will apply to the appellate division of the supreme court for a special panel of jurors under the special jury act. MT. Osborne desired to try the case before Recorder Golf tn the court of general ses- sions. hut by direction of his chief, Dis trict Attorney Gardiner, he will today ask Justice Fursman Co transfer it from the court of general sessions to the crimi- nal branch of the supreme court. lt is believed that Justice Fursman will sign the order of transfer. It Is expected that the trial will occupy about four weeks.
 A report to the navy department from Captain Leary, the naval governor Of the island of Guam. in the Ladroncs, has ex- cited good deal of interest among the officials to whom 1t has been exhibited. Captain Leary soon learned that his au- thority as governor was being subyerted. and every one of the measures of the re- form which he proposed was being de- fcated by the hostile influence of the friars. After exhnusting all other means to overcome this influence Captain Leary reports that he was obliged to notify half a dozen of the friars that they might have free transportation away from Guam. and he should expect them to avail themselves of the offer. That left h,,, ann ftIar am fb., fSlauH uua hs Ura4 n