Connecticut western news., 1899-03-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide worl
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and Ter.ely Told.
 Senator Platt has returned to Wash ington from Florida.
 A floating island on the Illinois river caused much damage.
 Ex-Senator Patrick Walsh is dead at his home in Augusta, Ga.
 s. Davies Warfield has been appoint ed postmaster at Baltimore.
 The British steamship Brator strand ed off Cape Henry life saving station.
 The Ohio Steel company has advanced the wages of its employees 10 per cent.
 Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis has begun his pastorate of Plymouth church, Brook lyn.
 Mrs. Emily Maria Fish, wife of Ham, ilton Fish of New York, died in Wash ington.
 President Booth of Auburn (N. Y) Theological seminary died suddenly on Sunday
 bA calls for s1.251, ,146. against s1,7ss, ,5s0 last year.
 MT. c. .. shayne of New York has sued The Evening Post for s1oo.000 for alleged libel.
 The transport Meade. bringing the s3,0oo, 900 to pay the Cuban troops, has arrived at Havana.
 The Republicans of Rhode Island have renominated Governor Elisha Dyer and the other state officers.
 American and Canadian miners on the Porcupine river, on the Alaska bor- der, have had collision.
 The Two Hundred and Second New York volunteers have embarked from Havana en route for home.
 The Democratic city convention of Chicago has nominated Mayor Carter Harrison to succeed himself.
 The oil trust hearing in New York has been concluded, and Attorney Gen. eral Monnett has returned to Ohio.
 Englishmen have organized a corpo- ration with s250, ,000. 900 capital to com pete with the Standard Oil company.
 The death of Professor O. c. Marsh, the famous geologist and curator of the Peabody museum at Yale. is announced. The rates on postoffice money orders drawn on Cuba will hereafter be the same as rates on domestic money or ders. -'irt A dispatch to the London Evening News from Brussels revives the rumor that Cardinal Gibbons may be the next pope.
 United States Senator Albert J. Rev. eridge of Illinois, accompanied by his wife, has started for the Philippine Is- lands.
 Word has been received from San An tonic, Tex, that Joseph Medill, proprie- tor of the Chicago Tribune. is dead at that place.
 The legislature of California has ad- journed sine die without electing a United States senator to succeed Sem ator White.
 The New York state assembly has passed a bill for an East river bridge from Fulton street. New York, to Brooklyn.
 Governor Roosevelt will go to Chicago on April as a guest of the Hamilton club and will stop at Ann Arbor. Mich, to deliver an address.
 Articles of incorporation of the Ma tional Salt company, with capital of SIP, ,000. 900, have been filed with the sec retary of state of New Jersey.
 Frank A. Vanderlip. assistant secre- tary of the treasury, after several weeks serious illness at his home in Chicago, has returned to Washington.
 Governor Candler of Georgia declares that the troubles in that state were due to the quartering In and passing through the state of regiments of insolent, drunken negro soldiers
 Winfield s. Sehley has successfully passed the physical examination for promotion to the rank of rear admiral in the navy before a medical board con- vened at the Washington navy yard.
 John M. Downey is dead at Sugar Lake. Mo-. of brain fever, aged 50 years. He was known as the Apple King and was one of the proprietors of the Reece & Downey orchard, one of the largest in the country.
 The United States supply ship Relief has arrived at Port Said on her way to Manila. The Relief passed out at San dy Hook on March 3. She carries a hos pital corp of 150 men, women and doc tors and medical supplies for 25,o00 men for a year.
 Benjamin P. Hutchinson, the former Chicago board of trade operator and packer, died of heart failure Thursday at the Lakeside sanitarium, Lake Ge- neva, Wis. He was 70 years old. The remains will be brought to Chicago for interment.
 Important negotiations have been closed whereby the Henry oil company, the Fearless Oil company and the Mc- Donald oil company become one corpo- ration, which will be one of the largest oil companies independent of the Stand ard in the world.
 The British ship Bridstonhill has been chartered by the government to carry merchandise for the troops at Manila She Is to be paid the lump sum of s2o.- 5O0. The Bridstonhill can carry a cargo of about $500 tons and should make the run in about 45 days.
 Thrasher Meade, the notorious negro train robber, safe blower and bandit, has been sentenced in Mississippi to the federal penitentiary for 20 years. In passing sentence Judge Niles expressed regret that he could not under the law sentence Meade to death.
 The war department has ordered a battalion of the Sixth United States ar tillery. consisting of Batteries A, K, and N, to duty in the department of California, with station at Honolulu. Major Samuel M. Mills has been assign ed to command the battalion.
 Papers have been filed with the sec retary of state of New Jersey increasing the caplthl StOch or the havana Elec- tric Railway company from s5, 000. 900 to s10,000, 900. Articles were also filed in- creasing the capital stock of the Inter- national Traction company from $s5,- 900 to s15, ,0O0,0 900.
 The Union Iron works of San Fran cisco has been awarded the contract for two of the largest freight steamers ever built in the United States. The vessels are for the American-Hawaiia Steam Navigation company, with headquar- ters at New York, in which Dearborn & Co. are interested.
 Major General Ludlow, military gov ernor of the department of Havana, de. sires to be relieved of his duties and to go to the Philippines. It is understood that he has applied to the war depart ment for transfer and has strenuously urged that 1t be made. Captain John- ston of General Ludlows stan has sail