Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Ter.~Iy Told

flIteen hundred cases Of typhoid fever
 gre reported from Cape Nome.
 Melvil Dewey. secretary of the New
 York state board of regents. has resign | Rd.
 The Salvation Army, in New York.
 gave Christmas dinners to 24.OO0 poor
 people.
 | The Louisiana Democratic state con
 vsntion has nominated w. w. Heard for Il governor.
 Unknown donors have made a Christ
 mas gift of S2J0,0O0 to the University of Pennsylvania.
 \ Former Secretary of War AIger gave
 S250 to the Detroit newsboys' fund as a
 Christmas present. Dr. Edward H. Williams. senior part
 ner of the Baldwin Locomotive works of
 Philadelphia. is dead.
 Colonel S. W. Stockton. a prominent
 resident of Princeton. N. l.. dropped
 dead on Christmas day. | Three men were shot, one receiving probably fatal injuries. in a free fight on
 a trolley car in New York. Harry Haffner. Is years old. killed his
 father with a carving knife at the Christ
 mas dinner table in Brooklyn Mrs. Louis F. Payn, wife of the New | York state superintendent of insurance,
 has died at her home in Chatham. Oscar $. Straus, United States minister | to Turkey, has left Constantinople for
 the United States on leave of absence. An appeal for funds to pay of the | mortgage on General Lawton's Califor-
 mia home was issued from Washington. Manning Smith of Binghamton, N. Y.. was killed by a switch engine on Tuesday
 while saving a friend from being run | over. Robert J. Lane, quarterback of the Carlisle football team, has died from in- ternal injuries received in a football | game.
 John E Gardner of Binghamton. N. Y., attempted to kill his wife and then killed himself in order to have his picture pub lished.
 Mrs. Sanderson, the Marshall CAiich.l woman accused of poisoning her husband | by feeding him ground glass, has been acquitted.
 Professor Elliott Coues of Washington. | the world famed ornithologist and scien-
 tist. has died at Johns Hopkins hospital, | Baltimore. Nearly 25,0O0 applications for pensions | on account of service in Cuba, Porto Ri-
 co and the Philippines have been filed in | Washington.
 A marvellous quartz find is reported | from Dawson. Assays run as high as | $500 ton, it Is said, and the ledge is a | mile in width.
 An earthquake shock did considerable damage at San Jacinto and Hemet, Riv-
 erside county. Cal, on Monday. Six squaws were killed. Charles H. Schiller. a prominent e,weI. CT of Utica, N. Y.. has committed suicide. Financial embarrassment is believed to have been the cause. The transports Hancock and City of Pueblo have arrived at Manila with the Forty-fourth and a portion of the Forty third infantry aboard. Every employee of the American Ex- press company throughout the country received a check for S5 as a Christmas | gift from the company. The transport Thomas, with the Forty seventh volunteer infantry on board, ar- rived at Manila on Dec. 21. There were no casualties on the voyage. Burglars entered the postoffice at Nun | da, N. Y., opened the safe with dynamite and stole $500 in stamps and money. All of the money order blanks were taken. For the third time since the strike was declared against the Springfield nllSl Consolidated railway Nov. 10 a street ear
 has been dynnmited. No one was hurt. The transports Senator and Benmohr have arrived at Manila with the Forty | fifth infantry and two batteries of the \ Sixth artillery. No casualties are re. ported. ... The Seigel- Hillman Dry Goods com. pany of St. Louis has filed a deed of | trust to secure all its creditors. The lia-
 bilities of the firm are placed at about | S225, 900.
 Mayor Proctor of Someryille, suburb of Boston. has refused to allow his sala- | ry to be raised. He is now getting $2, 800 I year, and the aldermen wanted to make | it S3,500.
 The Vigilance Mining company has struck a vein of copper ore in its mine near Custer. $. D., that exceeds in value 1 anything that has ever been found in the | Black hills.
 The .S00 men employed by the Lehigh | and Wilkesbarre Coal company and the Silver Brook Coal company have been notified of an increase of per cent in their wages.
 ". R. Hill, chief engineer of the Syra-
 cuse water department, has been np- | pointed chief engineer of the aqueduct
 commission of New York city. to take | office Jan. 1. John Larkin. recently convicted of mur- | der in the second degree for killing sam | uel Crusen in a brawl at Princeton on | July 1, has been sentenced to state prison | for 12 years.
 The Montana supreme court has dis | barred Attorney John R. Welcome. | charged with bribery in connection with | the election of w. A. Clark to the United | States senate.
 A wreck on the New Jersey Central | railroad at High Bridge. N. J., Friday resulted in ono death and five persons in- jured. Christopher V. Hulsider. a gro cer, was killed.
 The Alhambra, the famous convention | hall of Syracuse, where the Democrats
 of New York state have regularly con
 vened in state convention, has been de- stroyed by fire.
 Mrs. Henrietta Fingerhut, on trial at | Somerville, N. l., for the murder of Paul
 Roehricht. has been found guilty of man
 slaughter and sentenced to six months
 and $500 fine.
 While girls In a parochial school ht | Quincy, Ills, were practicing for n | Christmas entertainment gas jet set ire
 to a fancy costume, and 12 girls were
 burned to death. General Rulings, commander in chief of the Spanish-American War Veterans. | has appointed Colonel Quincy O'M. Gill
 more of Trenton commander of the de- partment of New Jersey.
 Yale university has received a gift of
 s5O0000 from the Misses Olivia and | Carrie Stokes of New York. sisters of the
 millionaire banker, A. F. Stokes. This
 money will be devoted to erecting new
 administration building.
 The report of the Charleston court of | inquiry, just rendered, is favorable to the
 officers of the stranded warship. It shows
 that due vigilance was exercised. | The main building of Buchtel college,
 at Akron, O., including all the laborpto. Il MA