Connecticut western news., 1899-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Tersely Told.

Secretary Alger has abandoned his proposed trip to Cuba and Porto Rico.
 Messrs. Rios and Rivera, Filipino com missioners. have sailed from Halifax for Liverpool.
 The trial of Jesse James. Jr., for com plicity in the Leeds train robbery is now on at Kansas City.
 There Is corner in eggs at Pitts burg and prices have advanced from 2l to 70 cents e dozen.
 Two boys named Islip and Fahr were killed by an Erie express train at the Hackensack river bridge.
 Congressman Denis NJ. Hurly is dead in Brooklyn of paralysis. brought on by overwork in the last election.
 The extradition treaty with Mexico has been agreed upon and forwarded to Washington for action by the senate.
 The gunboat Princeton has sailed from Suez for Alden. She is bound to Manila, where she should arrive in about three weeks.
 New York state officers have decided that the canal contractors shall receive only what is due for work done and no damages.
 The president has nominated John B. McPherson of Pennsylvania to be Unit ed States district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
 William Reid has been hanged at ter sey City for the murder of Andrew Hen ry in Hoboken on May IA. 1898. Efforts to save him by a stay of execution were futile.
 The Rome correspondent of the Lon don Daily News says that he has learn ed on reliable authority that Archblsh- op Ireland will be created a cardinal at the next consistory.
 The board of trustees of Sinai congre- gation, Chicago, has decided to refuse consent to permit Dr. Emil G. Hirsch to accept the call from the congregation of Emanu-El. New York
 Benjamin J. Haywood. ex-treasurer of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and one of the joint defendants with United States Senator Quay in the Peoples bank conspiracy. is dead.
 Concerns controlling 90 per cent of the paper bag industry of the country have formed trust, with s27. 900 capital Another combination is designed to con- trol the silk thread trade.
 . Colonel Amos c. Ba.bcock. an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln and a prom inent figure in the abolition movement in the early fifties, is dead. He was born in New York in 1928
 The wage conference at Fall River. Mass. has resulted in the manufac- turers promising to restore the II 1-9 per cent cut of a year ago. beginning April 3. The decision affects the whole city.
 Rear Admiral Dewey has informed the navy department that he has depos- ited lS,000 tons of coal at Cavite, Manila. making that point a first class coaling station for the use of the United States sbips.
 The Japanese liner America Maru. which has sailed from San Francisco for the orient. carried nearly $500. 900 in freight and treasures. Among her pas sengers was Charles Denby of the Unit ed States Philippine commission.
 Robert A. Beale. second officer of the steamer William Lawrence, which was wrecked on the South Carolina coast during the blizzard of last week has become insane from his intense suffer ings in an open boat during the storm.
 General Ludlow has ordered the de- struction and disinfection of the Span ish forts at San Diego. near Regla in order to make room for the camps of the Eighth and Tenth regiments. which will move from the Havana parks in a few days.
 Company l.. First New York volun- teers, has been mustered out at New burg. Each man received from s70 to s135. nearly three months back pay. The aggregate amount paid out was nearly S11. 900. All were paid but one man, James B. Fisher. who Is sick at Honolu- lu. The company lost one man by death.
 General Nelson A. Miles has filed an exception to the commissioners report of the sale of the property of the Wer- ner Printing company. General Miles had a claim against the Werner com pany for S25.0o0, which the commission CTS refused to allow. The Werner com pany published General Miles book, and he alleges the work was not done according to contract.
 1t has been reported in Madrid though there is no official confirmation of the rumor. that Senor Don J. Bru- netti, Due d'Arcos. former Spanish min ister to Mexico. will be designated min ister to the United States on the re- sumption of diplomatic relations. The report that Senor Polo Y Bernabe, late Spanish minister at Washington, will so to Lisbon Is officially confirmed.
 The American Car company has been incorporated at Trenton with a capital stock of s60. 0.000.0 900. The company will manufacture and sell steel cars and trucks and appliances. The capital stock is divided into 600. 900 shares at s1o0 each. one-half is preferred, bear ing a yearly noncumulative dividend of per cent. The incorporators are Adrian H. Larkin. F. L. Patton. Jr, and liar Eoi all nf
 Levi P. Maish of Pennsylvania is dead. Mir. Maish was in his sixty-sec- ond year. was a Democrat in politics, had served in the Pennsylvania legisla- ture and as a member of the Forty fourth, Forty-fifth. Fiftieth and Fffty- first congresses. He also had cretiita- ble war record and was wounded sew eral times. Since his service in con gress he had lived in Washington, en- gagged in the practice of law.
 George Hitler. a student of Peddie in- stitute, at Hightstown. N. J., whose home is in Harlem, was accidentally shot Wednesday by Arthur Bertolett of Philadelphia. The boys were in the gymnasium. where were stored the guns of the cadet company of the institution, and they began pointing the guns at one another. The guns were supposed to be unloaded. The one handled by Bertelett was loaded with shot and went off. Tit Ter was shot in the forehead and had both eyes put out. Warren Cook, anoth- CT student from New York. received some of the shot in the face.
 Captain Corkum of the fishing schoon- CT Mondego, which has just arrived at Gloucester. Mass. from fishing trip, brought news that the overdue Sloman line steamer Moravia. Captain Fergu- sen. which sailed from Hamburg for Boston Jan. IS with a crew of 35, was wrecked on the northeast bar of Sable island about Feb. F. Captain Corkum states that it was the opinion of himself as we'll as of the captains of the Arbi- trator and the Hickman, that the