Connecticut western news., 1899-07-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
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Bxeay and TerseIy Told.
 Mrs. Catherine Dillon, aged 106, has died at Bristol. Pa.
 The 3 cent fare on the Detroit street railways has been abrogated.
 Firebugs have burned several farm buildings near Trenton, N. J.
 Scenes of great disorder marked the anti-Goebel Democratic convention at Bowling Green, Ky.
 Lloyd Tevis, former president of the Wells Fargo Express company, died at San Francisco, worth $20,000,000.
 Between 5000 and 1000 New York coatmakers have quit work on a demand for a ten hour work day and an increased wage scale.
 The Second battalion of the Nineteenth United States regulars has started from Camp Meade for Manila via San Fran cisco. The First and Third battalions left camp .on Monday for service in the Phil ippines.
 An explosion of gas and fire damp oc- cured in the mine of the Redstone Coal, Oil and Gas company at Grindstone, Pa, in which 70 men were entombed. Two were killed and four injured. The others were finally rescued.
 Colonel Ray and three companies of the famous Seventh regiment, which dis tinguished itself in Cuba during the late war with Spain, have arrived at Fort St. Michaers, Alaska, on the steamer St. Paul from San Francisco.
 Captain Birkhimer of the Third artil- lery and Captain Lyman Kennon of the Sixth infantry have been named colonels of volunteers. This completes the list of commanders for the new regiments designed for the Philippine campaign.
 Abbie Phillips, aged 17 years, niece of Warren w. Phillips of Swampscott, Mass, has been married to Bernard B. Kennedy, who is employed by the family as coachman. The girls parents died when she was about 12 years old, leaving her a fortune or $2,000,000.
 The federal government has begun pre- liminary surveys at Nahant, Mass, with a view to the erection of permanent for tifications on Bailey's hill, the highest land on the peninsula. Negotiations are also pending for the hill land now occu- pied by the Trimountain House.
 Advices received by the war depart ment from Manila show an increase in the customs receipts at the port of Iloilo for the month of May over every other month since American occupation. The receipts for May were $S2, ,994, or within $3,024.19 as much as the total receipts of the three previous months.
 Five Italians, accused of shooting Dr. William Hodges, were lynched Thursday night in Tallulah, La. The men were not naturalized. The Italian consul is Investigating, and international compli- cations are anticipated similar to those caused by the Italian lynchings at New Orleans in 1891.
 The North American Trading and Transportation company's steamer Roam oke has arrived at Seattle from St. Mi chael's with between 500 and 600 pas sengers and S2,000,000 or S3,000,0 900 in gold dust. The highest estimate is S3,- 100000. The largest individual amount, $500, 900, was said to belong to the Me Donald brothers.
 The transport Tartar has sailed for the Philippines, having on board the Nineteenth infantry, the largest regiment in the United States, numbering 1,S00 men. It is the first to be completely re- cruited under the new organization of FPS men to company. Brigadier Gen eral Joseph Wheeler and Miss Annie Wheeler were also on board.
 The war department is in receipt of a brief report from Captain Abercrombie, commanding the Copper river exploring expedition, to the effect that two pack trains and small herd of cattle passed over the transalaskan military road through the coast range of mountains from Port Valdes into the Copper river valley, en route to the Forty Mile coun- try. This report was dated at Port Val des, Alaska, on July 10.
 Among the passengers on the Empress of India, from the orient, was Captain A. +. Barker, U. s. N., former commander of the battleship Oregon. He is accom- panied by Lieutenant H. B. Eberle and Lieutenant Commander Suiger. Other passengers were Baron von Heyking, the late representative of Germany at Pe- king; Commander Luzzau of the Italian navy and T. H. Ridcheth, s member of a large Picking railway syndicate. Professor D. A. Kent, late of the Iowa State Agricultural college, has been se- lected as an instructor in farming to the Turkish empire. The sultan needed a man versed in the cultivation of wheat, corn and fruits and requested the Turk ish representative at Washington to pro- cure such a person. The Turkish embas- sador appealed to Secretary Wilson, who recommended Professor Kent, and the Iowa man has signifed his willingness to accept the mission.
 One hundred dollars is what it costs Norman to violate the law against unlaw- ful cohabitation. That was the fine as- sessed by Judge Norrell against Angus NJ. Cannon, who pleaded guilty to the offense of cohabitation with more than one wife. Cannon did not appear ip court, but was represented by his lawyer, Barlow Ferguson, who made a statement to the court in behalf of his client. He said that the defendant had married his plural wife in 1882.
 General Thomas F. Mccoy has died at Lewiston, Pa, aged 90 years. He enter ed the Mexican war as lieutenant of the Eleventh United States infantry and was brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious conduct. At the outbreak of the civil war Mccoy was appointed depu- ty quartermaster of Pennsylvania and in 1862 was made colonel of the One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania vol unteers, remaining in active service until the close of the war.
 Our total army In the Philippines as now planned for renewal of action will be approximately 42,000 men, and 1t is believed that the president will gradually tdd volunteer organizations until 50000 ,r 60,000 men are in the field against Aguinaldo. It is intended to send volun- eers over as fast as transports can be ent back and forth, so that there will be fully organized force at Manila by the end of the rainy season, and there will be 10 delay in opening the campaign.
 The executive committee of the Pan- American exposition at Buffalo has de- sided upon the architects who shall design the different buildings for the pro- posed exposition. Messrs. Shepley, Rou- rain and Cooleylidge of Boston are 10 de- sign the liberal arts and agricultural buildings, Howard Caldwell and Nor gan of New York the electric tower, Bab- sock and Willard of New York the stadi- nm, administration, north restaurant, sta- ion and cloister buildings, Peabody and Stearns of Boston the horticulture, for estry and graphic art buildings and Messrs. CarreIe and Hastings of New York take care of the landscape work. Several buildings are allotted to Buffalo