Connecticut western news., 1899-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Happenings of the Wide World
 Briefly and TerseIy Told.

flfe on sunday caused Al,VOO,Vuu dam | age in Atlanta.
 Hon. Tom l.. Johnson will build trol- | ley road in Honolulu. Charles Frohman has signed contract | to star W. H. Crane as David Harnm. A proposition to buy the Danish West | Indies Is under consideration by the cab | inet.
 The estimated crop of cotton in the | United States this year is S,900,o0O | bales.
 Henry sienckiewicz's novel. Quo Va. \ dis" has been dramatized and presented in Chicaga,
 Nine large cotton mills in Connecticut have advanced wages of employees 6 to | 10 per cent.
 The trouble between the Chicago build. ing contractors and the trades unions has been settled.
 Thirty-two miners were killed on Sat. urday by an explosion in a Carbonate | (Wash.l mine.
 Pains Fireworks company, whose headquarters are in New York, has made an assignment.
 Two Mexicans have been killed and | two wounded in fight with negro min
 CTS at Rockdale, Tex. A seat in the New York Stock Ex. | change recently sold for S40,000. This Is
 the highest price ever paid. The S100.0O0 guarantee fund to be of | fered by New York city for the national
 conventions has been pledged. The transport sherman, carrying the remaining battalions of the Forty-ninth
 infantry, has sailed for Manila. The bonds purchased under the recent | offer of the secretary of the treasury so
 far reported amount to S1s,9s1 ,650. President Gompers of the Federation | of Labor, who was injured in n bicycle accident several days ago, Is better. Commander c. r. Howell, chief eng. neer of the Maine when that vessel was blown up in Havana harbor, Is dead. Thus far the subscriptions to the fund
 for perpetuating in marble the navy arch
 in New York city aggregate Sf60.0O0. Libby, McNeil x Libby of Chicago
 have shipped 100000 pounds of canned
 beef to the British army in South Africa. The big miners strike at Nanticoke, Pa, Is ended The strikers have accept cd the Susquehanna Coal company's terms
 It is stated that all the big cotton man.
 ufacturing concerns of the country will form combination or have already formed one.
 The American Steel and Wire compa.
 ny has begun work on its immense $8.. 100000 plant on Neville Island, suburb
 of Pittsburg.
 Two hotels and several other buildings
 were destroyed by fire at Gloucester N. J., Sunday morning. Two persons were burned to death.
 The people of Bermidji in Beltraml county, Minn., will send Admiral Dewey n big black bear, recently captured, for Il Christmas present. Many cotton mills in ssachusetts
 have advanced the wages of their em.
 ployees 10 per cent. Over 3o,00o em- ployees are affected. The office of the Pacific Express com
 pany at Cheyenne. Wy, has been robbed
 of several thousand dollars in money. No
 clew has been discovered.
 The governor of New Mexico in his an
 nual report estimates the population of
 the territory at 260,5o0. The report re.
 news the plea for statehood.
 Edward Marshall of Forestport, N. r.,
 is in jail on n charge of causing a break
 in the Forestport feeder of the Black
 River canal on May 22, 1898 Captain ]. c. Ayres of the ordnance department of the army has been killed
 in Washington by fall from his bicycle
 and being run over by a team. In Maysville, ky, negro who had
 murdered his employers wife was burned
 at the stake after suffering terrible tor-
 ture by mob of 2,000 persons. It is reported that 200 of the Thirty autn txsAts
 route to Manila by eating fresh beef sup piled at Honolulu. One private died. Herbert D. Fellows, postmaster at Scarsdale, N. Y., was murdered and rob
 bed by Edgar Bunz, 10 years old. Burnz
 has been captured and has confessed. A street car of the Consolidated Street
 Railway company in Springfield, Ills, has been destroyed by dynamite by riot CTS. One passenger was slightly hurt. Records of the treasury of the so called Filipino government, with quantity of paper money and another Nordenfeldt gun, have been found at Mangatarem. Commander E. r. Wood, U. s. N. has died of typhoid fever at his residence in Washington. He was in command of the gunboat petrel at the battle of Manila Bay.
 A. E. Widener, the millionaire traction magnate, has purchased 36 acres of land at Logan, a suburb of Philadelphia. on which to erect a home for crippled chil- dren
 The sale of 10000 acres ut coal and timber lands in Cumberland and Fenness counties, Tenn, to Il syndicate of St
 Louis and London capitalists k re- ported.
 James r. Reed, the famous checker player, formerly champion of the world, has died at the Homeopathic hospital in Pittsburg from an epileptic fit. Reed was 40 years old.
 Ernest Meyers, who was drum major of Gilmore's band of New York during the civil war, is dead. He was nearly 70 years old and was prominent in Grand Army circles.
 Dr. H. Baxter Wilson, formerly sur. geon of the Rough Riders, has been sent to the Chester Ulls.) Asylum For Insane Criminals. Dr. Wilson was recently con. yicted of burglary.
 General Otis reports to the war de. partment the arrival at Manila of the transports Conemaugh and Leelanaw with officers, 10 enlisted men, IS civil. ians and 492 horses.
 General Otis has been instructed to throw open the ports of the Philippines to commence as rapidly as he can garri- son them with troops no longer needed for active field operations.
 A mortgage for S12, ,2S2, 900 by the Guayaqui and Quito Railway company to the United States Mortgage and Trust company of New York has been filed with the clerk of Hudson county, N. ].
 Harry Walker, ii years old, and Wal. ,or HuSharl aged 10 both of Rophpsfar have been arrested, charged with arson in the third degree in h",tng sut hrc 70 six buildings during the past year.
 Commodore Henry H. Lockwood, for merly professor of mathematics at the Annapolis Naval academy and father-in- law of Captain Sigsbee, has died in Washington in his eighty-sixth year.