Connecticut western news., 1899-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

ine Inilkat lnuluns Tn AlaSka are re- ported on the warpath.
 A negro has been lynohed at osceoia, Ark, for burning a barn.
 A Protestant Episcopal church has been established at San Juan.
 Five men were killed by powder ex- plosion at Carney's Point. N. J.
 The United States revenue cutter fleet has left San Francisco for Alaska.
 A race war is feared at Fort smith, Ark, arising out of a strike of miners.
 Nearly 4oOo immigrants arrived at the port of New York In one day last week.
 Secretary Gage has gone to Hot Springs, Va. for two weeks vacation.
 Traction stocks have dropped in New York because of the passage of the franchise tax bill.
 The first biennial convention of the National Federation of Musical Clubs opened in St. Louis.
 The United Laundries company. with an authorized capital of q. .000 900, has been incorporated at Trenton.
 Senator Kyle of South Dakota resign cd the chairmanship of the industrial commission owing to Ill health.
 Governor Stevens of Missouri has ap- pSdItu TUT hlu Ant toIHduo HtIlChtn villages of Kirksville and Newton.
 Eighty acres of rich mineral land near Aurora, Mo. including the Futile mine, have been sold to a Boston syndicate.
 Masked strikers blew up mining prop erty valued at s2b0.00 at wardner. Ida, killing one man and mortally wounding another.
 silas L.. Baker. s6 years old. a pros porous farmer of Serbia, N. T., commit ted suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun.
 In order to reduce the destruction of fish along the California coast many seals from the San Francisco herd have been killed.
 The New York senate has confirmed the nomination of William c. osborn to be lunscy commissioner in place of Goodwin Brown.
 Addison Johnson of Portohester. westchester county. is now the warden of Sing Sing prison. He succeeded Warden Omar V. Sage on Monday.
 warrant was drawn at Washington for s191.372 in favor of the governor of New York for expenses incurred by the state in raising the volunteer army for the war with Spain. .......
 An advance in wages at the Whitten- ton (Mass) Manufacturing company cotton mills has zone Into effect. The increase places all hands on practically the same schedule as that in force be- fore the reduction of February, 1898.
 Sheridan Shook. the old time theat- rical manager. died at Red Hook. N. r.. on Thursday. aged 77 years. He was the former husband of Mrs. A. M. Pal mer. Mir. Shook was for many years prominent in the political and theat- rical world.
 The jury In the trial of Margaret An derson of Ansonia, Conn, charged with murdering her husband by poison, re- turned verdict of manslaughter. Mrs. Anderson was sentenced by Judge El- mer to ten years in the state prison at Wethersheld.
 The famous asbestus mine at Sall mountain. White county. Ga, has been sold for s20oo00 to Bancroft & Kennick. mining engineers of London. The sale. on the basis of s2oo. 900, is the greatest amount ever paid for a mine in the state of Georgia.
 Ore assaying 1000 gold to the ton has been taken out of the side of Blowout mountain, in Cook county, Ark, and every Nidltl MllDiU VI fAuluN 0l II NI1lt of the discovery has been staked. Farmers have quit their field work and gone prospecting.
 Captain Coghlan has notified the navy department from Philadelphia that he had left that place on the Raleigh for Wilmington, N. c. This efrectualiy dis poses of the story that Captain Cosh- Ian was to be relieved of his command as soon as the Raleigh arrives at Ports mouth.
 Secretary of State Hay has delivered to Ambassador Cambon of France four treasury warrants. each for s5. 5.o00, 900. representing the indemnity of s20, 900 900 for the Philippines. Nj. Cambon signed a receipt stating he had received the money. The warrants are payable at the subtreasury in New York In either gold coin or bullion.
 The Confederate Decoration day cer- emonies at Vicksburg. Miss. were the most notable ever held there. A de- tachment of 75 marines and sailors from the United States gunboat Nash vile took part in the ceremonies. The bluejackets were heartily cheered by the Confederate veterans. Several offi- cers of the gunboat also took part in the exercises.
 The New York state legislature has adjourned. The assembly before ad- journment by vote of l04 to Ss passed the Ford bill providing for the taxation of franchises as real estate. The bill has already been passed by the senate. and Governor Roosevelt win sign it at once, as it was his most earnest wish that the measure should be passed be- fore the legislature adjourned.
 Juan Cabailero, chief of the bandits in the Hoiguin district. has been ex- ecuted at Mayari. An attempt was made to rescue the convicted man by his friends, but the rural guards prevented it and shot two of the would be rescu- CTS. Two others were arrested. Cabal- lero's men are gradually realizing that under the new order of things here the Americans will severely punish bri- gandage and that a safer living can be made in following peaceful pursuits.
 Alfred E. Hunt. captain of Battery B. Pennsylvania national guard, and son of Mrs. Mary H. Hunt of Boston, the well known temperance advocate, died in Philadelphia Tuesday of compll- cation of diseases. Captain Hunt first became ill while at Chlckamauga with his command last summer. He was sent home sick. but before he re- covered the battery was ordered to Por- to Rico. and he went with it. There he was attacked with malsrial fevsr and heart disease.
 Hugh Bonner. chief of the New York fire department. retired from the po- sition he has held for nearly ten years on May 1. Chief Bonner has been connected with New York's paid fire department since September, 1865. For five years prior to that time he wss a member of the old volunteer fire de- partment. He will retire from his posi- ton on a pension which amounts 10 half the salary he now receives He has been succeeded by Edward croker, nephew of the Tammany leader, late deputy chief.
 Six troops of the Fourth cavalry have been ordered 10 the Philippines. The troops are 10 be assembled. mounted, at San Francisco immediately and there prepared for duty at their new station.