Connecticut western news., 1899-01-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

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 The Astor battery has arrived at San Francisco from Manila. The first piles for the United States pier at Triscornia. Cuba. have been driven.
 The three masted schooner Festina was burned near South Norwalk, Conn.,. Tuesday.
 The nonarrival of 2.OOO bales of raw cotton caused the Exeter mills, New Hampshire to close.
 The opponents of Senator Quay are said to be discouraged by the develop ments of the situation.
 The transport Ohio has arrived from the Philippines with 250 soldiers re- turned for various reasons.
 The American schooner Harry and Grace Reynolds Is a total wreck near St. Croix, Danish West Indies.
 The censorship at Manila has been ex- tended to all outward and homeward telegrams containing political news.
 General Brooke will soon create a su- preme court for Cuba, consisting of chief justice and six associate justices. Four persons were run down and kill ed at Larimer Station, Pa, by express
  road.
 Brigadier General Clous, the last member of the evacuation commission to leave Cuba, has returned from Ha- vana.
 Rev. Henry G, Perry. grand chaplain of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and we'll known in Masonic cir cles, is dead.
 
 be one of Colonel Roosevelt's Rough Riders. was arrested in Fall River for alleged horse stealing.
 The war department has received a dispatch from General Otis denying alarming reports regarding the situa- tion in the Philippines,
 The United States cruiser Albany, which was purchased from the Brazil ian government last March, has been launched at Newcastle.
 Two employees of the Lorillard To- bacco works in Jersey City were killed by the bursting of a great wheel, and two others were injured.
 The New York state senate has adopt ed the house resolution extending vote of thanks to Miss Helen Gould for her services during the war.
  Colonel John R. Partridge of Brooklyn superintendent of public works to suc- ceed George W. Aldridge.
 W. J. Fransioli has resigned as gen. eral manager of the Manhattan Elevat- ed railroad to accept a position with the American Air Power company.
 General Joseph R. Hawley has been renominated for United States senator hxy fnn Dor 1fnnV in hn nntI legislature after hotly contested fight. The president has sent the nomination to the senate of Joseph H. Choate of New York to be ambassador extraor- dinary and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain.
 Hon. Chauncey M. Depew was nomi- mated by a unanimous vote for United States senator at a joint caucus held in the assembly chamber at Albany on Thursday night.
 Official announcement has been made of the consummation of a deal by which Roswell P. Flowers syndicate obtains control of practically all the trolley lines intBrooklyn.
 Hon. Jonathan Ross of St. Johnsbury. Vt, has accepted the appointment as United States senator, vice Morrill,, de-
  tice of the supreme court of Vermont.
 Richard Gowing, secretary of the Cob den club. London, and the journalist who for the last ten years had usually united with Lord Farrer in the prep aration of the Golden clubs manifes- toes, Is dead.
 Father Chiniquy. the apostle of tenn perance," died al Montreal in the Prot testant faith. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood, and in 1858, with the entire village of St. Anne, withdrew from the church of Rome.
 The senate has confirmed Addison c. Harris of Indiana as minister to Aus, Hungary and Charlemagne Tower of Pennsylvania as ambassador to Rus sia; also, Colonel William M. wherry, Seventeenth infantry, to be brigadier general.
 Henry Cabot Lodge has been renomi- mated by the Massachusetts Republic ans, and as the party majority is over whelming this insures his election. The Democrats may not make any nomina- tion, as Congressman Fitzgerald, who had been selected as a candidate re- fuses to run.
 The new Cuban local officials in Ha- vana have been formally installed in office. The North American syndicate which has obtained control of the street railways of Havana has paid over the purchase price, $293, 900, for Regla ferry and will expend $25O. 900 in changing the motive power to electricity.
 The steamship City of Macon has brought into port Captain Kennerley and the crew, nine men all told, of the schooner Aloha of Bath, Me, abandoned Saturday night 25 miles southeast of Georgetown light in a sinking condition. The Aloha left Fernandina week ago with a cargo of phosphate rock bound for New York.
 Articles of incorporation of the Amer ican Steel and Wire company, with an authorized capital of s90, 900, ,00O have been filed with the secretary of state of New Jersey. The company is au- thorized to manufacture and trade in steel, iron and other metals and to man. ufacture and trade in articles made from metals of any kind.
 The majority of the city council of San Juan have resigned owing to the fact that they are incapable of raising sufficient funds under the present tar ifs, because they are not satisfied with the so called abrupt commands of the military government and because, it is alleged. they have insufficient liberty. But there is no i'll feeling.
 Charles C. Bellamy of Kittering, Me, is dead, aged SS years. He was a mem Der of the state senate 46 years and was the oldest living ex-senator in the state. He was appointed by Governor Fair child of Maine in 1842 to select commits soners to meet Lord Ashburton, com missioner from England, to settle the northeastern boundary question
 The National Carbon company, with an authorized capital of S1O,000, 900, has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J. i The incorporators are w. H. Law renee, Myron T. Herrick, James Parm- lee and Webb C. Hayes, all of Clevs- land; J. C. Van Blarcum of St. Louis. \. M. Young of Brooklyn. J. M. Hurn-