Connecticut western news., 1899-05-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Terse1y Told.

arrived at Honolulu on his way home from Manila.
 Cable communication between Iloilo and Bacalod, in the Philippine Islands has been re-established.
 Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has re. signed the pastorate of the South Con. gregational church in Boston after service of 43 years.
 Two hundred war recruits of the Fifth United States infantry have left Santi- ago on the transport Mcclellan, theit time having expired.
 The Rev. Dr. A. c. McGiffert In a let. ter to the Presbyterian general assem. bly, has refused to withdraw from the Presbyterian ministry.
 David J. Field, retired capitalist of St. Louis, who shot and killed his negro man servant in self defense, was exon. erated by coroner's jury.
 The Don Juan de Austria has been added to the list of captured Spanish gunboats being repaired for use in tho American navy at Hongkong.
 Judge Baker of the federal court al Indianapolis has decided that the heirs of a man who was lynched may bring suit against the sheriff for damages.
 William H. Young. chief of scouts in General Lawton's division, has died from the result of wounds he received on Monday at the attack of San Nil guel.
 President Mckinley has decided to leave 10 General Brooke the acceptance or rejection of the Cubans' proposition to surrender their arms to the mayors of the towns.
 While watching a ball game on the hillside by the West Shore railroad, be- tween Hoboken and Jersey City, John Moretta murdered his wife, Gavlnna, g. years old. by stabbing her.
 Benjamin Franklin Clark. United States consul at Pernambuco, died on board the Lamport and Holt line steam. CT Havelius on May 1s of Brights dis ease and was buried at sea the same evening.
 The Gorge trolley railway. running from Niagara Falls to Lewiston. has been sold by the sheriff to Herbert F Bissell of Buffalo for ss.1s4, subject to a mortgage of s1,000.000 held by the Knickerbocker Trust company.
 Brigadier General Christian D. wolff a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars is dead aged 77 In both wars he serv. ed with distinction. and before the close of the civil war President Lincoln ap. pointed him brigadier general of volun. teers.
 James A. Clemmer was hanged in the Montgomery county (Pa.) jail for the murder in 1se6 of Mrs. Emma Kaiser. He went to his death bravely and made no statement on the gallows Neither Clemmer's wife nor any of his relatives were present.
 John E. Potter. the famous abolition ist and a former congressman from Wisconsin, is dead from a paralytie stroke. aged s2 years. Mir. Potter wal one of the founders of the Republican party, He served three terms in con gress from 1857 to 1883.
 A warrant for s16.544 has been drawn in favor of the governor of Maine in payment of the first installment of the amount due the state of Maine for ex- penses incurred and paid in aiding the United States to raise the volunteer ar. my in the war with Spain.
 The state assembly of Rhode Island has passed a bill which appropriates sS,000 for the reception of Admiral Sampson and his fleet at Newport on May 30. Governor Dyer recommended an appropriation of s2.oOo. but the com. mittee on finance raised the appropria. ton to s3.o0o
 A large portion of the Greenpoint sec. ton of Brooklyn has been destroyed by fire. Three lives were lost. The fnan. cial loss probably exceeds $500, 900 and may approximate $1 000. 900. Fully 6C families were rendered homeless and large number of workmen thrown out of employment
 Chief wilkie of the secret service has announced the arrest in Chicago of VII. liam Coleman. a silver teller in the sub. treasury there, on charge of having abstracted silver from bags received from the banks. It is said that Cole man has been engaged in tamperinR with the coin bags since last Novem. Der.
 w. T. w. Ball. a we'll known Boston newspaper man, and his wife were found dead in bed in a room filled with the fumes of Illuminating gas. Letters written by Mir. Ball. which were lying open on a table. disclosed the fact that 1t was a case of suicide. Dependency on account of i'll health was given as the reason for the act.
 The governor of Missouri has signed the department store bill It applies only to stores in St. Louis Kansas City and St. Joseph which employ 16 persons or more and taxes heavily all classes of goods handled except one of the 73 class es. It is contended to be law of class legislation and will be resisted, and the supreme court may pass on its consti- tutionality.
 Proposals for furnishing the war de- partment with more than 5,000.0 pounds of beef for the troops in Cuba
 14.a \. ming July i have been received by Colo mel s. G. Sharpe. in charge of the Chi eago subsistence station. The bids were tabulated and forwarded to Lieutenant Colonel F. E. Nyem of the commissary department
 The American sculptor, Daniel Ches- ter French. has been elected a member of the Accademia of San Luca, Rome. The Accademia of San Luca is the old est art institution in Rome and Is com posed of a limited number of associates chosen from the famous sculptors, painters and architects and called the 'virtuosi." Mir. French Is the first American to receive this honor.
 At Pana, Ills, as the result of . meeting of coal mine operators with the state board of arbitration and the United Mine Workers officials an agreement has been signed formally settling the long drawn out struggle there between union miners and opera tors. The agreement gives the union recognition and declares that all ne- groes shall leave the city and only union men be employed.
 The will of the late ex-Governor Ros- we'll P. Flower has been filed for pro- bate with the surrogate of Jefferson county. He left bequests of s4o, 900 to each of his brothers and sisters or their heirs, s25,000 to Frederick s. Flower, s10,000 to his former cashier, Ransom B. Pattison; 10,0o0 in trust to St. Thomas parish. New York. for the bsn- eft of the parish house erected in mem. ory of his son, who died in 1880; flo,ooo to Trinity parish, Watertown, N. Y.' for the benefit of the poor; Sb.CoO each to his namesakes, Roswell Flower George and Roswell Flower Mundy. The residue Is left to his wife and