Connecticut western news., 1899-08-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Terse1y Told.

The converted yacht Scorpion has been placed in commission at the Brooklyn navy yard.
 General Daniel Butterheld, chairman of the Dewey reception committee, has been stricken with aphasia.
 A convention will be held at Peoria, Ills, in October to agitate for q deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf.
 The transport Garrone has sailed for Manila from Seattle with 100 horses be- longing to the Third cavalry on board.
 Carrie Snedecker, the little Princeton (N. J.) child supposed to have been kid naped, has been found dead in n pool in a quarry.
 The business portion of the city of Vic tor, Colo, was entirely destroyed by fire on Monday. The loss Is estimated at g., 100000.
 The resignation of Hon. Thomas R. Reed as congressman from the First Maine district has been received by Gov ernor Powers. ...- .-..
 Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett of Boston has announced her intention of going south to carry on in person her campaign against lynching.
 The Walter Wellman polar expedition has arrived at Tromso, Norway, having completed explorations in Franz Josef Land Many new lands and islands were discovered.
 Monday afternoon the president re- viewed the Twenty-sixth infantry at Plattsburg Barracks, and Mrs. McKin- ley presented the regiment with q hand some silk flag.
 The American three ton cutter Great Western, from Gloucester, Mass, June IT, has arrived at Bristol, and her sol- tary occupant, Howard Blackburn of Gloucester, reported all well.
 Admiral Dewey has completely recov- cred from his recent illness and has re- ceived visits from MT. James A. Smith, the United States consul at Leghorn, and members of the American colony.
 A pacing race for $3,O00 between John R. Gentry, Searchlight and Joe Patchen was pulled off at Rochester Wednesday. Gentry was first in both heats. Search light won second place. The time was 2:031s. 2.04A.
 It is expected that another battalion of 350 marines will be sent to Manila in a few weeks. At present there are 125 marines nt the barracks in the navy yard, Brooklyn. Recruiting stations have been opened in the principal towns along the Hudson.
 Mrs. William Y. Perot charged with having abducted her daughter Gladys from Baltimore and for whom extradi- ton papers were sent from the United States, has been formally freed from GUS tody in London. She has agreed to give up the child to its grandfather.
 The transport Siam has sailed for Ma nila with $50 mules, which will be used for military service in the Philippines. The vessel will stop at Honolulu for several days, and the mules will be given a run ashore as a rest from their steamer voyage. Fifty experienced drivers ac- companied the animals.
 At the Christian Alliance convention at Old Orchard. Me, on Sunday Rev. A. B. Simpson raised $55,0c0 for foreign missions. The greater part of the sum was raised during the forenoon service, but second collection was taken in the afternoon, and pledges continued to come in at the evening meeting.
 The will of Joseph Benoist, who died last week in Kansas City, proves to be a most remarkable document. Although he was an infidel Benoist left all but | S4,000 of his fortune of S150lOOO to re- ligious and charitable organizations. The
 
 is- the principal legatee, getting about SS0,0OO.
 A check for S156, 2S2, signed by Dor man R. Ream and Robert IT. Lincoln as executors of the estate of the late George M. Pullman, has been paid into the Cook county court to cancel the lien against the estate under the inherit ance tax law. This is the largest pay ment ever made under the Illinois in- heritance tax law. A strong legal light was made against the tax by the heirs.
 An order has been issued directing that ten additional regiments of infantry vol unteers be organized for service in the Philippines. The regiments will be num- bered from to 47 and will be organized at the following places in the order named: Fort Smelling, Minn.; Fort Crook, Neb.; Fort Riley, Kan; Camp Meade, Pa; Fort Niagara, N. Y.; Fort Leaven- worth, Kan: Jefferson Barracks, Mo; South Framingham. Mass.
 George C. Starck, president of the Stone Hill Wine company of Hermann, Mo, one of the largest winemaking con cerns east of California, has been ar rested on the charge of defraudins the government by making and disposing of brandy on which the revenue tax had not been paid. Starck's dstillery, wine cellars and plant valued at S250, 900, have been seized by a representative of the United States internal revenue de- partment
 General Cassius Nj. Clay of Kentucky is growing blind, and his physicians fear that his sight will soon be gone forever. His mind also is giving way. and, under the delusion that a vendetta has been de- clared against him, he has himself watch. ed all the time by faithful servants. His friends say that his condition is due chiefly to the action of Dora Richardson, the girl whom he married when she was only 15 years old and who recently got n divorce and married young man.
 With a view to expediting the move ment of the Philippine re-enforcements, Secretary Root has directed that four ad- ditional transports be chartered. They are the Pueblo, Belgian King, Columbia and Charles K. Nelson. These four ships have a capacity of 2.550 men. The Pueblo is now at San Francisco and the Columbia at Portland, Or. The other two vessels are expected to arrive at San Francisco fin about ten days, and it is expected that all of them will be ready to sail for Manila by Sept. 10.
 aCCOfuiUk io AHt VIII bi AHt ihtt George w. Mallory of New Haven, which was offered for probate upon the death of his widow, his estate, valued at S6O 900. will be distributed as follows: To the General Hospital society of Con- necticut. S50O0: $5.O00 to Yale universi- ty. to be applied to the perpetual fund for educating poor students in the divinity school; S5.ooo to the Congregational church of which he was a member, and the residue to be equally divided between the American board of commissioners for foreign missions and the American Home Missionary society.
 Adjutant General Corbin has received letter from General Joseph Wheeler, who is en route to the Philippines on the transport Tartar. giving some data of his trip as far as Honolulu and also concern ing affairs in Hawaii. General Wheeler says; "The people generally seem pros porous and contented. inquired of very many people about the feeling of the roynlists, and the general opinion ex.