Connecticut western news., 1899-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

bridge. Neither side scored.
 The president has issued a proclama- tion extending the benefit of the copy right act to the Netherlands.
 The transports Senator and Ben Mohr have sailed from San Francisco for Ma nila with the Forty-fifth infantry on board.
 State Banking Commissioner Brienden- thai has warned bankers that m organ ized gang of bank robbers Is abroad in Kansas.
 Mrs. Eliza Lasher, the oldest inhabit- ant of Wayne county, N. Y., Is dead. She was born in Duchess county June I3, 1799.
 The Cambria Steel company's plate mill at Johnstown, Pa, has closed down in- definitely, owing, it is said, to lack of raw material.
 Rev. Nathan Leighton, the clergyman who is alleged to have performed a mar riage between Jay Gould and Mrs. An gell, is dead.
 Troop c, Sixth cavalry, which has been in the C9ur d'Alene mining district of Idaho for several months, has left for San Francisco.
 A trolley ear dropped from a ten foot trestle near Paterson, N. J., Thursday. Twelve passengers were injured, all of whom will recover.
 Dr. Richard s. Storrs, for b3 years pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims In Brooklyn, has resigned his pastorate on account of i'll health.
 The president has appointed H. w. Hart of Alliance. O., to be United States consul at Dusseldorf. Germany, to sue ceed Petit, deceased.
 The San Francisco Chamber of Com merce has petitioned Secretary Hay to make no concessions to Canada in the Alaska boundary dispute.
 Major William Dickey of Lewiston, Me, is dead. He was 80 years of age and had served B terms. or 86 years, continuously in the legislature.
 Senator John NJ. Thurston of Nebras. ka and Miss Lola Purmah, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. w. ]. Purman of Wash ington, were married Saturday.
 A report is current that the Carnegie company Is to erect great iron works on the shore of Lake Michigan north of Waukegan, Ills, and build & new town.
 Howard Curtis Benham, convicted of the murder of his wife in Batavia, N. Y., on Jan. 4, 1897, will be electrocuted at Auburn In the week beginning Jan. 2. 1900.
 Dwight L. Moody. the evangelist, was taken i'll while preaching in Kansas City. He is suffering from an affection of the heart and will probably have to give up public speaking.
 Hon. Weston F. Milliken, collector of customs for Portland. Me, is dead. He was born at Minot, Me, in 1929. Mir. Milliken was for many years a prominent member of congress.
 Colonel Lawrence Kip, soldier, horse man and social leader, died Friday night at his residence. 462 Fifth avenue, New York, after an illness of two weeks. He was about 64 years old.
 The Lafayette memorial commission announces that the United States mint al Philadelphia will soon begin striking the Lafayette dollar authorized by congress in aid of the monument.
 A committee representing all branches of service on the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway met President Blickensdorfer An agreement was reached whereby wages will be increased on Dec. 1.
 Otto Blumer, one of the seven surviv. ors of the Greedy expedition to the arctic region rescued by relief party under command of Rear Admiral w. s. Schley in June. 1888, has died in San Antonio, Tex.
 Hydrophobia has caused the death at Newark, N. J., of Albert Merklin, aged II. The case is of interest principally from the fact that the boy was bitten last March, and no III effects resulted until last week.
 The San Francisco Examiner says Collis F. Huntington Is now in full con trol of three-fourths of the property of the Southern Pacific company and Ns allied corporation, the Pacific Improve ment company.
 James Jennings McComb of New York, one of tho founders of the South. western Presbyterian university al Clarksville, Tenn., has given S70,0O0 to the endowment fund, making S100,00O that he has contributed.
 The United States gunboat Helena has arrived at Cavite with the crew of the United States cruiser Charleston, which was wrecked early in the month on a reef of the northwest coast of Lu. zon. All the men are we'll.
 A formal deed of conveyance has been placed on file, transferring from Admiral George Dewey to Mrs. Mildred Dewey, his wife, the property, 1747 Rhode Island avenue, Washington, which was present ed to the admiral by popular subscrip- tion.
 The transport Logan, with the Forty first infantry, has sailed from New York for Manila. The Forty-fourth and Thir- ty-eighth regiments have sailed from San Francisco on the transports Hancock. City of Pueblo, St. Paul and Duke of Fife.
 General Frederick Funston has started on his way to the Philippines, accompa- nisd by his wife. Mrs. Funston will re- main at her parents home in Oakland. Cal. Several hundred people were at the depot to give General Funston a hearty goodby.
 The president has appointed First Lieutenant Thomas H. Slavens. Fourth cavalry, a captain and assistant quarter master, vice Captain Howard, recently killed in the Philippines. Lieutenant Slavens was graduated from the Military academy in 1887.
 Mrs. William Hart Dexter of Nyack. N. r., has received letter which told her of the whereabouts of her husband. who has been missing for nearly two weeks. According 10 the information she has received. Dr. Dexter is alive in the home of n friend in Asheyille, N. C.
 The total internal revenue receipts for the month of October, 1899, were S26,- If, ,446, an increase as compared with October, 1898, of S4,411,65S. The total receipts from all sources during the last four months were $103, ,103, ,4S5, an in crease over the corresponding period last year of S9,37S,3oT.
 Special Treasury Agent Theobald and customs inspectors at New York have seized jewelry worth S50.0O0 brought in on the steamer Etruria, charging that the jewels were smuggled
 The damage 10 Fort Caswell in North Carolina, at the mouth of Cape Fear river, by the hurricane of Oct. 31 was SO serious that the government will have to spend S250.000 to restore the work and provide protection again further storms. The damage Is estimated at S50o.Ooo.
 Six million dollars is reported to have heen nad by an English syp1ica;c for